One thing I remember, and, and you'll have to tell me this, and I was a little boy, but were you in the, uh, the Kingston Christmas Parade? 'Cause the marching band always brought Santa Claus in, and Ackee and Bam was like always the last one.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, well, that's just, just, you know, became part of how it's, how, how it's done, you know? And maybe that's somebody tell you, "Well, we had...

Hopefully we saved the best, best for last." [laughs] But, uh, [laughs] but that's how, how it was done.

Um, it, it... and it was a great pride because growin'- growin' up in, in a family where, you know, you have like the little gig bands and whatever, we, we just tried to imitate, you know, m- my, our, our uncle.

In fact, they were called The Blue Notes, and we were called The Junior Blue Notes.

... have that, did Dad have that Kingston hand where if something got wrong, well, we, he used the switch or, or it's the belt? Which one was it?

I mean, this is crazy stuff, man.

You know, I've received that question several times.

And for the first few years that people would ask me that, I would have to really think, because to us, he was dad.

He was the person that made sure we did our homework.

He was the person that made sure we stayed out of trouble.

He was the person that made sure that we listened to mom.

You gotta do right, because that's dad.

Why did you