I guess it was around the middle of June on a David Letterman Show when it really hit me. They were doing II one of those “Dave’s Record Collection” sketches, where they sample selections from such classic LP’s as Music I Like by David McCallum or It’s Time For Regis, the album Regis Philbin put out in response to Ed MacMahon’s record when Reeg was playing second banana to Joey Bishop who, if memory serves, made a country album which spotlighted his “talents” on the mandolin, this in answer to Johnny Carson showing off on acoustic jazz guitar one night on the Tonight Show when the two talk show hosts’ respective programs were going head to head back in the late ’60s—which reminds me that Joan Rivers, who’ll already be taking on Carson by the time you read this, was once in a folk trio with Jake “Be All That You Can Be” Holmes, Jake being the guy whose August, 1967 Tower Records release, The Above Ground Sound of Jake Holmes, featured the first recorded version of his original composition “Dazed and Confused,” which he apparently sold outright to Jimmy Page right around the time he opened for the Yardbirds at New York’s Anderson Theatre, precursor of the Fillmore East, and the rest, as they say, is history.

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