The Rick & Dorothy Piano Sing-Along Hour ...a 15 min. sample from 2018

Click on Dorothy's  photo below to go to the Archive.org page to download an Mp4 or other format for 15 minutes of old-fashioned sing-along fun. Tunes include My Blue Heaven, I'm Looking Over a Four Leave Clover, When You Word a Tulip, You Are My Sunshine, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling and My Wild Irish Rose. Dorothy Motto is 83 here and leading an enthusiastic retirement residence crowd after lunch at 1:30 one fine day in March 2018. I'm co-leading. The songbooks are from a previous gig at LuLu Belles in Scottsdale that Dorothy played in the late 1980's.

Clicking on the photo below will take you to a website that describes the history of Lulu Belle's in Scottsdale. I think Dorothy must have played there in the late 1980's since she moved to Phoenix in 1987 after gigs in New Orleans and Vegas, both of those gigs after she regretfully, she told me, left the Bay Area where she played at the "Top of the Mark" Mark Hopkins Hotel, famous in the area, among other Bay Area famous venues. As a piano player / vocalist/ salesperson myself, I found her travelling piano musician history fascinating. It was the inspiration, actually, behind my concept of the Rick and Dorothy Piano-Keyboard Hour that we took "on the road" around the valley, here in Phoenix, from 2013 to 2019.  The Sing-Along-Show always came in handy from Sun City down to Chandler. -Rick