Bob Mora and the Third Degree

Bob grew up in Chicago and started playing music at an early age. His mother and three older sisters played classical violin and piano, and Bob followed, taking piano and viola lessons. It was fortunate that friends of the family lived across the street and the mother and father couple both played in the Chicago symphony orchestra. Music being their life, lessons and recitals and performances at the local school happened several times a year. At school Bob would also sing Elvis Presley songs and others he heard on the radio for his school mates for nickels dimes and quarters, his first gig.

By the time he was in the seventh grade one of his friends turned him on to WVON radio, the black radio station in Chicago that played Blues, Soul, R&B and Motown. Late at night Bob could pick-up WLAC out of Nashville, TN that was also playing…