You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It`s part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that.
Yeah. I`m amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don`t play well at all. I wouldn`t even attempt for a second to play in public.
When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.