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I would be going back to New York, or Hollywood, or somewhere. I could hardly wait for the weekends, to get back to the family in the East. But, through all of that period, Don put up with me, gave me encouragement in what I was doing and a back-pat every now and then. One day, after a show, he said something to me that stuck: "Johnny, try to enjoy your work. If you don't, it shows." All of a sudden it hit me that I was working with a swell guy, and a swell crew, that I had been having a lot of fun and that my career was just as much here as anywhere else. I took Don's advice. I started to enjoy my work. Funny thing about it — my fan mail took an immediate jump! You can't fool an audience. New York and Hollywood are easy to get to from Chicago. I do it with a fair amount of frequency. I had to commute all last summer by plane for the Jack Paar show on CBS, but the recording dates have probably given me the most travel. A hit recording is pretty necessary in this business, and I've been rather lucky along that line. I had a hit in "Guilty," which I made for RCA; "C'Est Si Bon" for M-G-M was another big seller; "Heart of My Heart" and "Woman" were successes on the Coral label, as was "The High and the Mighty." I did a duet in Hollywood with Jane Russell in "Backward, Turn Backward," and of course there have been many others with reasonable success. But, of all the things I do, the one I enjoy most is fooling around with the family. Diane was eight on August 30 this year, and her sister Patti was five last May 19 — same birthday as her mother, which makes it handy. Both our girls are in Chicago Latin School. But, when school is not in session, we go biking all over the lot — and oil-painting whenever we get the chance. Sometimes I take them for rides on the motorcycle. I haven't been able to get together with the family on vacations because of being too busy with singing, but we'll figure that one out one of these days, too. Once in a while, we all get a chance to visit Mother and my family in Detroit, and of course that's a great event. Funny thing, my brother Harry and I have all the girls — he has two and so have I. My sister Antoinette has two boys and my sister Joanne has two. I don't know how that distribution was figured out. rvuth keeps up a strong interest in music and plays the Hammond organ at our apartment for her own and the family's entertainment. Probably as an inheritance from Pop, I make heavy onslaughts on the kitchen every now and then, particularly in the salad department. It seems to me I never make a salad the same way twice, although all of them seem to have wine vinegar, olive oil and oregano somewhere in the dressing. Oh, yes — and garlic! I really got interested in golf just recently and I think I'm doing pretty well to be playing in the low 90's. That's not too hot by some other Breakfast Club standards, but it suits me for now and I figure that I'm going to get better. I'm a pretty happy guy these days — certainly a lot happier than I was back there in 1947 when I thought I could swallow all the success there was in one gulp. If I've learned anything from experience, I've learned that there's no substitute for sound training or for an internship at the lowest level of the business. Everything I have always wanted has been coming my way because there seem to be an awful lot of people who have liked Johnny Desmond on something more than a "ten-day wonder" basis. I'm grateful to them for that, and I hope they keep feeling that way for a long, long time. 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