Gary writes:
Sonny played Golden Melody's throughout his career, many years before I was
with him in the late 70's. <snip>
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Hi Gary,
I don't mean to nitpick here (and I also respect the fact that you
knew Sonny a helluva lot better than I did,) but the wording of the
above sentence may be misinterpreted. Golden Melodys were not
introduced until after Sonny had been playing for at least 3 decades.
Not sure what year GM's were intro'd (Rick?), but for the majority of
his career, Sonny was a player of Marine Bands. It's true of course
that he changed to GMs once they became available.