David Graham - "Liberace" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle.

Mike Gonzalez 0:13

Then it's it wasn't just the American tour.

David Graham 0:16

You were playing all over. Well you had to. I mean, um uh, you know, uh tournaments like uh, you know, the South African Open, you know, Gary player would solicit people to come and play in their tournaments. The Japanese PGA and the golf association would solicit players to come and play, and and you you were in those days considered an international player. And um and so you played internationally and uh and I think in those days it uh it was fun to do. You know, and uh yeah, I liked it. I mean I went to South Africa twice as Gary Player's guest and uh I played I think I played in either the first or the second million dollar tournament that was down there, and that was a very controversial scenario because of the apartheid. I mean I got I got ridiculed for doing that. And you know, they canceled um you know, the Australians going to the Olympics and all that was a mess in those days. And um the guy that sold Kersner that that built Sun City he couldn't get any entertainers to go because the unions would threaten if like Frank Sinatra went or Dean Martin went, the unions would go on strike and and they would come back to California and not get employment and stuff like that. And Gary Play was insistent on breaking those barriers and he he asked people to go and I I said one day, yeah, I'm in, I'm gonna and and my wife and I went and as it turns out we left out of Miami and we sat up in the front cabin and right next to us was Liberace and his companion, and we finished up going to a beautiful black tide dinner and we watched him perform and and it was great. And it was absolutely turned out to be my wife's birthday, so liberace called my wife up on the stage and she sat down on the piano and he played a few tunes and he said, I'll I'll give you this signed copy of my book if you just give me a little peck on the cheek. And and he said, I'll give you my scarf, you know, my Chanel scarf if you just give me another little peck on the cheek, and and uh then they danced together, and it was really cool.

Intro Music 2:35

That's when my lost sight of it.

Mike Gonzalez 2:38

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Intro Music 3:00

Then it started to slice, just smitch off lines. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddy says long as you're still in the state, you're okay. Yes, it went straight down the middle, twice away.