One incident that I always remember at the Apex [club] had to do with Rhapsody in Blue.  I had been playing it in the Sunset because they had a show built on it, and because I had played it so long I really knew it backwards.  We used to get some very prominent musicians and theatrical people in the Apex, and I used to sit up there on its very small bandstand and play this piece with quite a lot of success.  One night, after I finished playing it, I went to the men's room.

"You play Rhapsody in Blue very well," a gentleman said.

"Thank you," I said.

When I went out, the attendant asked if I knew who he was.

"No."

"That was George Gershwin."

You know, that really upset me.  You never know who's listening to you.