I was born in February of 1952. My first memory of music was this old 78 rpm record that my parents had. On one side it had Gene Autry singing "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer". On the other side it had Guy Mitchell doing a song called "Singing The Blues", which was actually written by Hank Williams Sr. Oddly enough, I still sing BOTH songs today. I think of it as kind of paying homage to Gene and Guy for teaching me to sing. I was raised Catholic and went to a Catholic school for grades 1 through 8. This was back in the "old days" when you went to church EVERY SINGLE MORNING before school. Also, since back in the old days, Catholics went to church EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY. I guess you could say that I learned to sing because I sang EVERY SINGLE MORNING, except Saturday, from the time I was 6 years old on. In the church I went to, you were required to sing! If you didn't sing, you got your knuckles cracked with a ruler (Ouch!). Isn't it i...