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All this time Ruth and I had been corresponding frantically. We usually wrote twice a day to each other. Of course there were long distance calls galore. Eventually our hopes got to the crystallization point. Gene started for the coast to make a picture and to fill an engagement at the Palladium in Hollywood. We played onenight stands all the way out and, miracuously enough, Salt Lake City was one.
Ruth and I had a few hours together in Salt Lake City, but five minutes would have been enough. We knew then that our interest in each other was permanent and that our love was real.
When I got back to New York with Krupa and the band three months later I made the big decision and sent for Ruth. It was Christmas week and I was singing at the Paramount with Krupa. We were doing seven shows a day — hardly time enough left for one to even think of getting married. But on the first of January, 1942 — in between shows — we got a cab and a license. I just signed the license and dashed back for my next show.
Ruth and I were married in Yonkers, January 3rd, after the last show at the Paramount. We had planned on being married January 2nd, and told the reluctant Justice of the Peace that we would surely be in his study before midnight. The J. P. was cold about a midnight wedding, but he was even colder when we got there at 1 :30 A.M. None of us knew where Yonkers was and we got lost several times. We rang the bell and the Justice came down. Ruth almost burst into tears. She told me later that she had never seen anyone so angry in her life. A very inauspicious beginning for a marriage, she thought. After that, for a good many months, we lived the typical orchestra man's life. And that was followed by a typical Army enlisted man's life.
Then, of course, for fifteen months Ruth and I were separated completely. That was during the time when I was in Europe with Glen Miller's band.
When the band got back to the States I felt I'd better look around. Ruth and I wanted to have a baby, and for that we needed money. I was discharged on November 23, 1945, and on November 24, I started on my first job. The Teen-Timers Saturday morning show on NBC, heard from coast to coast. On December 7th. I started a three weeks' run at the Strand Theatre in New York, and at the same time I got my first contract with a major record company. On the last day of my stay at the Strand, I was signed for the Philip Morris Frolics show which went on the air January 22, 1946. This was followed by scores of successful theatre, club and radio appearances.
Currently I have a very happy schedule with Don McNeill's Breakfast Club on ABC every morning five days a week and on Don McNeill's TV Club weekly as well. My "C'est Si Bon", "Picnic Song", "Just Say I Love Her" and other MGM Records have helped my career tremendously.
Ruth now finds herself quite busy at home with Diane and Patty, ages four and two, at our Chicago apartment. But her hand still plays an important part in my career, for Ruth and I still learn constantly from each other.
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