Funny, I recently found an old paycheck stub from those days. I would draw a crowd to hear me play, and the salesmen would sidle up to a potential customer and say "Hey - if this kid can do it, so can you!" Sold a lot of organs for them! I was told that I was the youngest employee ever for Wurlitzer. They would have me demonstrate organs, and moved me around the different North/Central Jersey malls and stores. Since you had to be 13 to work in New Jersey, I started work the day after my birthday, and continued working for them for almost 3 years, until my family moved to Florida. When I was trying it out at the store, the manager heard me playing and offered me a job on the spot. When I was 12 years old, my folks brought me to the Wurlitzer store in the mall, where they bought that organ for me to replace my Hammond M100. That was the Wurlitzer 4573, which I played throughout my teen years:
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