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Mark's journey through life and music had me vora-ciously turning pages! I'm so happy that he has set these fantastic stories down for everyone to know about. --John McDaniel, Grammy & Emmy award winner Mark Carroll's book, like his elegant music, is a wonder of wit, sophistication and heartwarming candor. Best of all, it pulsates with that firm but gentle swing that makes Mark a master storyteller. --David Ritz Mark Carroll's life story is a journey paved with fascinating people, heartwarming humor, poignant moments, and incredible adventures insightfully told. Reaching for the Moon will keep you reaching to turn the pages. --Jill K. Sayre, Author of The Fairies of Turtle Creek Unlike most irrelevant and overwritten memoirs, the book Singer-Pianist Mark Carroll has written about his life is just plain perfect--honest, unpretentious, laugh-out-loud funny, and unexpectedly inspiring. When the crown prince of the Texas music scene drops names, their names are worth dropping. When he reveals personal intimacies about his private life with a refreshing lack of melodrama, he makes you want to know more. From his poignant memories of a turbulent childhood in Little Rock, to his colorful experiences in the Hollywood center spot with legends like Rock Hudson and the brilliant, eccentric and mystifying Peggy Lee, to less legendary but equally fascinating talents like Jeri Southern and Portia Nelson, he's written a breezy intelligent page-turner that, like a dripping novel in bed on a restless night, I devoured in one sitting. After eight decades of ups and downs, triumphs and thuds, he shares his passions for music, song lyrics, people collecting and love with a delightful candor that prunes away the clutter and keeps you glued to the page. As Bart Howard wrote in the verse to Fly Me to the Moon, Poets often use many words to say a simple thing. But it only takes two words to best describe this book--TOTALLY MESMERIZING! --Rex Reed, An American film critic and former co-host of the syndicated television show At the Movies. He currently writes the column On the Town with Rex Reed for The New York Observer.

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