Before American Idol

I first met Harry Connick in the seventies. He and his wife, Anita were lawyers around the corner from my office. We both were neophyte lawyers, struggling to pay our bills and taking whatever case walked in the door. Harry and I both supported a man for governor, Gillis Long, and when Harry ran for the first time for DA, he picked up considerable political support from those people who supported Gillis and they became the mainstays of his future political team. He had a son, we all called Boomer, because a friend gave him a set of drums and he banged on them every time I was at Harry's home. Fortunately, one day he got a piano.