Songs From The Year Of My Birth
1950 was a very good year, for me anyway

I was born in 1950. I don’t remember any of that year or the next two. My mother had pleurisy.
I was born two months premature, weighing just over three pounds. I spent six weeks in an incubator. I was lucky. My parents told me a Dr. Barnard, a very young doctor, saved my life.