It’s no secret I miss my grandfather, who died in 1999 a day before I left for college. Since it was 1999 and before the internet was as popular as it is today, he didn’t have much of a presence, despite his relative fame in harmonica circles. Every now and then I search online for pieces of my grandfather, as I never saw him perform and only heard him play once every other year or so when he would visit when I was a child.

I’m not entirely certain if he’s in this videos, as they are fromt he 40’s and now are posted on YouTube, but this was the man (Borrah Minevitch) and his school/vaudeville group that took my grandfather out of the Hebrew Orphans Asylum.

I’ll have to re-read his autobiography to double check if he was in the group at this point. More later.

UPDATE: I found this quote online about my grandfather: “Lou was a part of Borrah Minevitch’s first band as well as working in vaudeville as a one-legged, tap-dancing harmonica player.”

My grandfather was a ONE LEGGED TAP DANCING HARMONICA PLAYER?

Now, I know that he had two legs, but I really wish that I could see him perform as a one legged tap dancing harmonica player.