Pet Sitting Bottom
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JIMMY FROG CHARMS LOCALS
April 23, 2015
 
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In a wonderfully serendipitous appearance, Jimmy Frog arrived at the Island Hotel’s back room and bar well into the evening hours this Tuesday.  He was not allowed to leave until, with the full understanding and approval of the local manatee, he sat upon the piano bench, tinkled the ivories, and exercised his vocal chords, all the while saying, “I can’t sing.”  Somehow he managed the words to “You Are So Beautiful,” with a slight change in wording, imitated Louie Armstrong with “What a Wonderful World,” a great rendition of “Satin Doll,” and conjured up medlies of Carly Simon, Bob Dylan, the Beatles and a few more obscure musicians.
 
The dimly lit, completely unexpected interlude would not be complete without Frog’s rendition of “Mack the Knife.”  Frog closed with Stanley Bair’s request for “Amazing Grace.”
 
As hotel owner Stanley Bair noted, “You’ll never know what or whom you’ll see or hear on any given night at the Island Hotel.”
The intimate crowd whole-heartedly agrees with Stanley.
 
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