This was a boy who had lost everything. Finally we persuaded him to take a basketball. We told him he was going to a gym and his eyes lit up.

This lady had left behind her little black book and it had everything in it. Her phone numbers, Social Security information, FEMA numbers, everything.

I know this was obviously before your time but, way back when, recordings were done on these things called vinyl records. We, in the industry, use to call these recordings '45's'.

Don't know about that. I'd love to see The Senders make it to fifty years.

I was ready to get back into music and classic rock and roll was then making a big comeback. It was perfect timing. I felt rejuvenated.

We actually started in 1962 under the name 'Johnny and the Sting Rays'. It was me on guitar, Bob Thomsen on bass; Oral Van Sickle on drums, and my sister Colleen on the organ.