The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 281, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 28, 1976 Page: 9 of 32
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Sunday, November 28, 1976. THE DAILY NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas —Sec. 1, 9
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IT ALL STARTED the night Fatboy Johnson happened to read
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man band-playing with no breaks,” said Johnson, 29, known to
his mother as Lonnie. “I said, I can do that, and when I woke up
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field of Salem, Ore., did it on
Nov. 10, 1974 with no breaks.
“That was the hardest part,”
Johnson grinned. “No breaks.”
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played the harmonica and
guitar the entire time he was in
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went with him to make sure he
kept playing.
“The rest of the time he
played at least three instru-
ments and up to five simul-
taneously. It 'was good music,
too. It wasn’t Just noise.”
Now, Ms. Duncan has to
finish putting together her
notarized list of witnesses,
photographs, press coverage
and an affidavit for mailing to
Guinness in England. Then they
wait.
“We wanted to get a
urinalysis test to prove he
wasn’t on drugs,” said Ms.
Duncan, “put we couldn’t find
anybody to do it”
Johnson’s already reaping
some benefits, though.
“My tips are up about 50 per
cent.”
And he’s drawn a moral from
his experience.
“Don’t drink out of Guinness
Book of World Record cups."
By BRUCE NICHOLS
HOUSTON (UPI) - It all
started the night Fatboy
Johnson read the printing on a
paper cup from which he was
drinking beer.
“It had Guinness World
Records on it and it said a man
did 16 hours of one-man band-
playing with no breaks,” said
Johnson, 29, known to his
mother as Lonnie.
“I said, ‘Hell, I can do that,’
and when I woke up the next
morning, everybody started
reminding me.”
To save face, Johnson, a
“freelance musician” who
plays nightclubs, started get-
ting ready.
“I played nine hours a day. I
walked 10 miles several days a
week. I had to plan the music I
was going to play. It took me
two months to get ready.”
Dorothy Schwarz, operator of
Prufrock’s, an inner-city pub
and scene of the attempt, and
Billie Duncan, entertainment
director, went to the public
library to determine exactly
what would have to be done to
win Guinness certification.
On Nov. 10, Johnson did it at
the dub in front of witnesses.
Starting at 7:06 a.m., he
played classical, rock, Jazz and
other kinds of music on a
varying combination of guitar,
banjo, piano, kazoo, harmonica,
drums and cymhals for 18 hours
and two minutes.
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Keys, Clarke & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 281, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 28, 1976, newspaper, November 28, 1976; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824509/m1/9/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.