[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 110 (Monday, July 10, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1400]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


        BOBBY JOHNSON, JR.--80 YEARS OLD AND ``BEYOND CATEGORY''

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                        HON. MAURICE D. HINCHEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, July 10, 1995
  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Speaker, I want to invite you and my colleagues to 
join me in celebrating the 80th birthday of Bobby Johnson, Jr., a 
constituent and friend of mine who truly is ``beyond category''.
  Bobby is a trumpet player, vocalist, and band leader in the style of 
the great Louis Armstrong. He is a man who literally is a walking, 
talking history of that great indigenous American art, jazz. Bobby has 
been a member of the orchestras of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Benny 
Carter, Claude Hopkins, and Erskine Hawkins. He has shared the 
limelight with Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Red Norvo, and Ray 
Coniff. Bobby Johnson has indeed walked with giants and in the process 
became one himself, a man of immense passion and humanity.
  Mr. Speaker, please join me in wishing Bobby Johnson, Jr., a very 
happy 80th birthday.


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