One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

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1976: Sunday Street
1980: Somebody Else Not Me
1985: Going Back To Brooklyn
1990: Hummin' to Myself
1990: Peter and the Wolf
1992: Let No One Deceive You: Songs of Bertolt Brecht (Frankie Armstrong & Dave Van Ronk)
1994: To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places
1995: From. His guitar arrangements of such ragtime hits as "St.

He died in a New York hospital of cardiopulmonary failure while undergoing postoperative treatment for colon cancer. He was also known for performing instrumental ragtime guitar music especially his transcription of St. Louis Tickle and Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag.