emember buying his ground breaking album, Mixed Bag and then on my way home proudly displaying my latest purchase, having the waitress at the local Horn & Hardart diner in Mount Vernon, thinking that the photo of Richie (with his signature, Gibson d6o guitar) might be me, since I was wearing the same scruffy b

mories: As kids, my brother George and I =erformed on our violins a few times on a Saturday morning radio =how, The Horn & Hardart Children's =our. Horn & Hardart ran the Automat restaurant =hain. The older kids called it Horn & Hard-on. We all had to sing =heir theme song: "Less work for mother, just give her