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From: Roy
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Remote Name: 66.106.121.104
Date: 28-Sep-2002
Time: 01:31 PM
Great story Bill. To add to your story, Jerry was working as a stock clerk at Harris Brothers Super Market on the Mansfield Highway in 1957. I was running a milk route that summer and met Jerry one day in the back room pickin' his guitar. I was so impressed the next weekend I took him to Gainesville and introduced him to Joe Leonard, who owned KGAF and LIN Records. Joe has a hit at that time with Ken Copeland (Yeah the TV Preacher) called "Pledge of Love". Joe signed Jerry and put out a few records on him that did ok in this area. But Jerry wanted to go to LA. I loaned him a little money to make the trip. When "Poor Little Fool", which he wrote, he sent me five hundred bucks, which was five times what I advanced him. "Travlin' Man" came out and one week later he got his draft notice. When he got out, he went back to LA and signed "Gary Pucket and The Union Gap" and wrote "Young Girl" for them and then went on to produce Andy Williams and O.C. Smith. Jerry still maintains offices in LA and Nashville for Fullness Music. I saw him in Nashville last year and he still looks great and is still writing. Small world.
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