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; Lorine Stanley of Saucier won i raffle and drove away in a 1966 '?ord F-100 pickup truck. And oiks, those were the days when hey made pickups.
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the ever-present smile seems most at home, Fisher talked about his days in music, the ups and downs of running a business, and the brief period of shock his future mother-in-law would encounter when he came to her door in 1973 with ?hair down to there.?
Fisher was born March 1, 1942, sharing the birthday with Roger Daltry of The Who and crooner Harry Belafonte. He grew up in Savannah, Okla.
He fished in the ponds and streams, and recalls his mother waking him and his brother and three sisters in the middle of the night to move to the storm shelter. Tornadoes were common.
By age 4, he was playing piano by ear and joining his father and uncles for what are still fond memories of music, down-home style.
In those days, no one knew of his talent for voice and keyboards. That changed resoundingly in the 1960s, a musical era Fisher still holds in high regard.
In 1971, he joined BST, replacing David Clayton Thomas. He remained with the band through 1975, touring nationally and abroad.
?It was coast-to-coast. We would do shows of one to six weeks,? Fisher said. ?Most of the music had a message back then: the killing.
We lost so many young men.?
Men by the thousands lost their lives in Vietnam. Others, some at the height of their
PHOTOS BY DAVID PURDY/THE SUN HERALD
The smile never leaves his face. Jerry Fisher, musician and ?light bulb changer? at the Dock of the Bay in Bay St. Louis, grew up in the music business, performed with Blood, Sweat and Tears during the early 1970s, and now has his own band ? Jerry Fisher and the Music Company.
Former BST singer dishes out his favorite music, meals at remodeled Dock of the Bay
musical careers, lost theirs to fame and, ultimately, drugs.
Fisher took the fame and popularity in stride. ?It wasn?t hard for me to handle,? he said. ?I didn?t change my attitude about people. They?re equal.?
Fisher left BST to perform solo, but has remained in touch with former band members. One night while playing in his own music
hall at Dock of the Bay, he looked into the audience and saw Tom ?Bones? Malone opening his horn case. Malone was with BST and has played with the David Letterman band for three years. It was like old times but at a different venue.
Fisher has no regrets about leaving the band, holds no ill feelings, and enjoys the slower, easy life of Bay St. Louis.
Bay St. Louis.
?I left Blood, Sweat and Tears to do my album,? he said. ?I started fishing and ended up staying here. I love this area.?
There was more than fishing that kept Fisher from leaving.
On a flight from Paris to Brussels, he was given an offer he couldn?t turn down. ?She was on holiday,? Fisher said of his future fiance, Melva, a native of Bay St. Louis.
?I had finished a Paris concert. We met casually. She said to come and see her and she would fix me some gumbo,? he said. ?I called to check on that gumbo.?
It was several months later that BST played New Orleans, where Melva was living.
?I finished the concert and went to a party in New Orleans,? he said. ?She went to the concert, but I had no idea she was there. I had her address on a piece of paper and I asked the guy at the party where it was. He said about a half a block. I walked over.?
Melva?s reaction: ?I remember him as the nicest man. I didn?t know he was stealing my address from another one of the guys.?
?We were just sitting at the house and Fish knocked,? she said, still dreamy-eyed at the encounter. ?We stayed up the whole night
Please see Fisher, B-2
Restaurateur Jerry Fisher shows off the remodeled kitchen at his Dock of the Bay Restaurant. Fisher?s wife, Melva, and her sister, Prima, serve up food by day, and Jerry serves up a helping of the classics every Saturday night.
With an energetic stage presence and a passion for music, Jerry Fisher, vocalist for his band, Jerry Fisher and the Music Company, never left the music business, even though he dabbled briefly in sheet metal. The group is made up of Fisher, guitarist Johnny Hozey, drummer Harrel Bosarge, keyboardist Derrell Brown, basist Eric Watkins and guitarist Tommy Moran.?;
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