Bill Haley and His Comets rehearsing at London’s Dominion Theater, February 6, 1957. Credit: Image donated by Corbis-Bettmann
he wrote. Herman would write the lyrics, and a friend of his, a television weatherman would write the music. I think Herman sometimes wished he was selling his songs in New York rather than running a restaurant. He was good enough and ambitious enough to have been success- ful at it. Joe Pyne and his wife, Sammy, were also good friends of ours in those days. Herman and Joe were friends from high school. Joe had a call-in radio show called “It’s Your Nickel.” People would call in to argue about anything with Joe. Later Joe’s radio show would become nationally famous. He had one of the first talk shows. A NIGHT OFF IS A NIGHT OUT Herman and Harry alternated their evenings
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