Vance: The Show Really Did Go On
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WRC anchor and avid music fan Jim Vance remembers a sold-out concert at Carter Barron Amphitheatre by the O'Jays in 1975, when pal Ed Bradley had just come back from Vietnam and begun covering the White House.
"Bradley and I go way back to 1959, and he was staying at my house at 10th and C [streets] Northeast," Vance recalls. "I had three of my daughters; the youngest was 4. I had a station wagon, and we threw everybody in -- a couple of other guys were living in the house, so there were 10 of us. We got up to Carter Barron, and it was one of those idyllic summer evenings in Washington, D.C., where the humidity was relatively low, the temperature just right. Then it started thundering and lightning, and the sky opened up -- it just poured -- and nobody, nobody, walked out -- we all sat there. Because the stage is covered, the O'Jays kept right on playing because they noticed the audience was with them. We were absolutely soaked! I remember walking back to the parking lot, and everybody, including my little 4-year-old daughter, we were all rocking and rolling with hilarious laughter, thinking how absolutely ridiculous we are -- and let's be that way again sometime soon."
