Whistling in the Dark

Whistling in the Dark is the heartwarming story of Fred Lowery, a talented musician whose achievements are all the more remarkable because he is blind. The book recounts his courageous struggle to overcome the handicap of blindness, and describes the ups and downs of his adventurous lifeófrom his sharecropping childhood in the Piney Woods of Texas; to his studies at the Texas School for the Blind, where he first used his talents as a human piccolo; to the triumph of national celebrity with one of the biggest of the big show bands. You will enjoy Fredís stories of his early days in radio, his escapades touring with the bands of Vincent Lopez and Horace Heidt (and rooming with a young impressionist named Art Carney), and his hit recordings of [read more]