hey john we had a lot of good times together right and it's been a pleasure working with years and we had a great time together right good luck to you a different neighborhood than john but i did that do a little research on his background and i know the day he was born his dad went to the soon to be rocks at the stork not to say that they were on happy or anything it's a matter of fact he gave  so i can i say john stuff the stuff is still around no matter what happens you'll always have to get the care no matter what else goes fact when he took his wife to the beach has known john probably as long as all of us used to be in his band at one time he's a bit of a curmudgeon just watch him play and you could tell by his face what he looks like he's got two first i got a whole history of john here but most of it was already said but  pretty good come on up here i want you to play for me so funny how we got to be friends he like the way i played you like my hair better i think i had a big afro back then you know he says you're cool you can be  and how i told my mother and dad at that time i was going through a divorce i said i'm quinn mcgraw at assen well they both flip like cheetah i says i want to play with johnny pappy and  you know he's going to pay me a whole lot of money twenty five dollars a night by the way john that's about what i make now and he never gave you a raise either but nonetheless my mother so after he started out my life in his stellar career for thirty six years i've known him i have no credit when i pay cash they want dollars or five hundred a month i have a bill here for you john for one hundred fifty thousand dollars and ninety five cents for all the money my hospital bills and a credit card this next speaker probably knows john better than anybody besides charm and she's not of male origin she's a sister oh we were just talking outside the smokers of the world and how everybody move there is b thirty that b three organ and the guitar they speak everything else and with me and him so that's why i am now five eight instead of five eleven and still be that we moved it and we went up there and he didn't get the job but he got that chandelier very poignant sandy anyway these two men these two gentlemen that i'm going to introduce are not on the list but they're important very important in john's life and just might impose upon them to come up and say something one of them was my ex boss guy that i used to work for you know a big club out on route twenty eight called the great gatsby one of the greatest bosses i've ever had i was it bouncer i was a real b jack pettitte and the rest joel you know but i do all of them and what i have to say about john is the truth so i don't have to make it up to roast young p used to own a gold nugget the great gatsby and several other clubs and john came to me as a young fellow he was twenty one years old and he says i want to play in his place as is why i said i have th pay for me to play i said john i pay one hundred dollars a man he's ok i got five guys in my band countless singer i was the singer he says oh chuck corby's one of the best that's ok chuck's played for me before i just come so the reason i put you on our time my place always drew beautiful women and of course the guys including myself like beautiful women and i married got another jimmy smith here or jack mcduff continue your music he said john i'm going to open a club and make money like you so that's all i can say about john and he did a great job for me he was always innovative he always come up with ideas and he told me about the the golden girls that i brought from vegas he said do you mind if i do a put them up place i said john you're welcome go ahead and do what you gotta do and i haven't seen him for a lot of years because i moved to california that i came back twenty years ago and about i guess about four or five months ago he comes in my club and somebody said johnny pappy said in the back and access johnny pappy i says where ed he said over there and talking about old times which i probably knew about sixteen years at times that i was the one it went to the service all the other guys that families against them they were had to go so i got drafted and we're talking about old times it have saved the very best for the last this is a letter that charm wrote to me for baden she said l b she says i cannot get up there i am so shy and backwards i'm afraid i'd probably faint by the time i got up there so would you please speak for me and i looked over a letter and it's so poignant and i decided i'm not going to substitute a damn word for what she's written because it comes from the heart and it's strictly her words and not mine i'd like to read them for you now it starts out by saying john met his wife charm when she was only twenty years old there were many things she liked about him but many think she couldn't quite understand she couldn't understand why friday nights weren't spent going to football games she couldn't understand why didn't own a pair of tennis shoes instead he wore five inch platforms that she called high heels also liked the fact that he wore a suit to work but it was injured to ditch traditional suit his suit was peach colored with the tide belt at the waist was worn with a floral shirt and of course it was this is the only thing i'm going to substitute and of course it was told to her it was odd to her that it was more stylish to see his chest hair instead of a tie she always thought that that black men are only thing that was outside of his shirt was a black tie it was just cher course that had a few knots in it here and there but she always was so gracious as to comb them but it has it had its trials and tribulations charm has been plagued with many health issues and john has mastered the art of driving to the emergency merges the room of st clair hospital with both eyes shut half nude and in the middle of the night they believe that the lord never gives up trying to get your attention especially when you're in a hospital  have no where to look but that's where the guy resides you know that anyway they've been together ever since and they have a richly blessed and wonderful life together and may they have many many many more years charm you wait like i said john and charm me you have many many more one more years together god bless the two of you and i now would like to have bill george present you with a couple of presents that he and i put together for you he would has a little speech first john actually this is the first shirt i ever wore with you at the holiday inn green cheery i've been saving it all these years i want you to put this in your musical showcase because this is the one john one more surprise john this one's for me and bill so john this masterpiece that i all will always remember was in your house chuck corby's house a few times he says and my house and his house he said after every marriage just go and get same salesman the same furniture that so when i come over your house i want to see it on the wall thank you keith morehouse is in the yeah here he is right here he came up to talk to me before i didn't recognize him because he's got more hair than i got teeth coming up and say a few words about this highly i started but if you look at my picture back there i look about twelve years old with the band my dad said to me said were you working with keith and i said john pappy i never heard of him someone here's their picture and i had this record the john to give me a listen to with one of his prize songs on it it had john buck naked on a b three organ good a giant pizza delivery man you guys still have those cartoons i away johnny then i remember porch furniture i was there the day the light disappeared they never asked my opinion but the swimming pool yeah we were we were playing it i will say where but they fired after what for jobs  challenge for jobs maybe five jobs because we were to jazz each we had this guy that had two saxophone sticking out of his mouth they fired us so john even decided he'd take some furniture to help pay the bills don't that's about all the funny stuff i have that i can repeat anyway my wife's here i just want to say john i was really young when i started with these guys and they took me under their wing i think i was like twenty one twenty two wonders which none of you guys even had a one hit wonder but and i wonder you know you can kind of anyway i do appreciate you happy birthday and i didn't tell you my birthday no you know what's funny is gloria my little girl friend over there and she sang with john for many years my birthday is next month and you know people kind of switch up the deal a little bit i thought she dragged me and here and this was my surprise party i didn't know any different because the lights were shining in my eyes over there everybody singing happy birthday i was quite surprised and i'm looking around like trying to catch somebody that i might know you know i'm looking around and i see nobody i'm  man i have no friends thank god she brought her friends because i have no friends but anyway i did have a great time and god bless john and maybe i'll be at your john and charm i want to tell you folks you know this is but a lot of good memories back to all of us i think more of this kind of thing more of this type of to get together should be part of the community we should do this to each and every one of us that have never done something in our life or maybe you're just a down and out bum you were john me being  put this little poem together for your seventy birthday seventieth birthday and like to resize it for you and then afterwards give you the plaque anyway i'd like to reset this poem for you john and it goes like this comes from my heart john pappy john pappy he's a self made man if he can do it then nobody ca started out a poor man and a pop or now look at him folks he's one hell of a show stopper but you know he wouldn't be this big if it weren't for charm his loving wife and she'll always be there for him for the rest of his life i admire this man and for what he has done so much so please adopt me john so i can become your son want to say i'll always admire and respect this man in a big big way thank god bless you john i like to send us out to my sister sandy and an old friend of hers that we're still looking for big that he spats cart carmen carmen right here my buddy harry's bringing back stories about big daddy spats when we had him big daddy and some letters we wrote him up to see it real quick he did some cooking and and he always wanted to have the girls so we created some girls for him because we wanted more cooking so it was  i'm looking in there he's in the mirror he's in the mirror with the letter saying i'm perfect so what's perfect he said the lips part they line up perfect know i don't i'm not giving you the whole story but there was like seventeen letters that were coming to him and it was like in july and it's so hot back in a kitchen that she said that she was a married woman and she would pass our store and she loved his looks and me and carmen couldn't shine his shoes you know would would you please take this scarf it was a really heavy woollen scarf would you wrap it all no you love me if you july fifth take these got the scarf on his neck you sweat and then he's white so nobody's coming through she's not coming through day after day after day finally he's got every one with customer coming into my restaurant sign in the paper he's trying to analyze and match the handwriting the see which one it is this went on for about fifteen weeks seventeen letters and we had to edit because he was going to this guy you know so i can get the this is this was a complete shock and surprise to me i mean a great feeling now because i see people let me go back forty forty five years and took the list it's so great to see everybody it would be nice if we could do this again tonight be very careful because the wife that you say might be mine could write books thank you for com