I credit my Mom with so much of my love of music and she had an interesting way of insuring I received some of my collection of vinyl.

We had a bet about a line from "This Masquerade" off the Carney album, which she lost (I suspicion intentionally), and low and behold, the album showed up under the Christmas tree that year.

In her last year we spent many hours on the road makin the hour each way runs back and forth to Dallas for her chemo treatments and I made lotsa mp3 discs of tunes as accompaniment for those rides.

She'd be sittin there in the passengers seat jammin away, groovin to the tunes as we cruised along. I made sure to include "This Masquerade" on several of those discs.