Re: Nick's return to the KT in 1988, it came as a surprise to me, much as my release last year did. I totally supported Nick's return to the group, but I never really knew the details of how it came to be. I always surmised that it was Nick's choice to return to performing, but how that happened, I don't know to this day. The first time I met Nick, he and John cornered me at a gig and asked my feelings about a reunion of Nick and John with Bob, to which I responded with total enthusiasm. I think they were surprised at my reaction, but I've always been a KT fan, so why would I not support such a reunion? The "Pretty Good For A Girl" recording was a manifestation of a project I was involved with for a few years when I lived on Vashon Island. I signed on to manage an up-and-coming fiddler named Tiffany Paulin. She won the national fiddle championship in her age-group for several years starting when she was 8 years old. She and her brother and sister had a band which we called "Tiffany and the Country Club." My son, Graham, came on board as their drummer and we did a few recording projects, among which was "PGFAG". The group had potential, but Mrs. Paulin became obsessed with being a stage mother and wanted to control the direction of the group. Her concept was to age them, while I wanted to keep the cute youthful image that actually was the selling point. I was on the verge of breaking them into the Branson market when the conceptual conflict blew the whole thing apart. Tiffany has now gone on to obscurity, which is too bad. She had a lot of potential. I still own the master tapes to the recordings, but since nobody will ever hear of her in adulthood, they probably have no value other than as family memorabilia. I think I gave all the copies we made to Graham. Maybe he'd sell you one. Another close call I had in the '70's was as manager of a Seattle swing band called The New Deal Rhythm Band. Our lead singer was Cheryl Bentyne, who was stolen from us (foolishly, we didn't have her under contract) by Manhattan Transfer. We did one LP recording with her called "Hep Hep" which I released on my own Crescent Records label. It's a really good recording, but quite obscure. Since Cheryl did go on to some notoriety, though, I imagine that record would have some value. I think I have about 8 copies left. I'll sell them for $10,000 each if you're interested.
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