Being born in Bougalusa, Louisiana and raised in Pascagoula, Mississippi is a fact of life. Playing happily on the sawdust floor next to the jukebox listening to country music while my daddy drank beer till the wee hours of the morning with all his buddy's, is also a true story.

          I composed my first song at the age of twelve and was preforming on stage at fourteen. At twenty one, I was one half of a singing duo "PARRISH and WILDE", headlining at the Galaxy nightclub on Broadway Street in San Francisco. Blue eyed soul was our specialty. As Jerry Wilde, I played the Tahoe-Vegas circuit and hundreds of nightclubs all up and down the coast of California.

          Life to me is just one long melody where the lyrics change every now and then to reflect the world around me. But the refarin is always the same- God, family and home!        

                                                                                                      YOURS TRULY                                                                                                                                                                                                                 JERRY WHITTOM