Danny Wilson & Mary's Prayer

I hope this works. The song, Mary's Prayer, is very special to me. I met Daryl at the Islands Club, a little bar on Davis Islands twenty years ago. This song was on the jukebox. It was very basic, film noir kind of place. The exterior had a Moorish design with minarets and tile. It must have been built when the Islands were (I think in the 1940's). The entire island was dredged out of Tampa Bay and built into an island community.

I got into the Islands Club the first time, when I was only 17. Don't tell Mom, Dad, Eric or Chris. It was really a basic bar on the inside with only a handfull of pool tables, a big clunky bar, and a ladies' room with graffiti that rivalled that of the Hub in downtown Tampa. I'll probably never share all my adventures at the Islands Club, but I will share that today, it is a retirement home. I hope they kept the jukebox. It had Mario Lanza mixed in with the likes of Danny Wilson.

p.s. As many of you already know, when I finally retire (I mean the BIG sleep, not from work) I want to be crisply fried up and scattered in several places (don't worry, I'll leave the longitude & latitude designations) but for my send-off, I want a little party for my friends. The song, Mary's Prayer, is on my playlist.

Carpe Diem!