I am a 44-year-old who has a memory of a "famous" singer laying carpet in our home in San Diego in approximately 1967-68. I remember this vividly because he gave us one of his recordings. I was only 4 or 5 years old at the time and none of my family remembers this. I've carried this memory all these years, thinking fondly of Freddy whenever his name came up in the news or with a new song. And in researching now, I was sorry to learn of his passing. If anyone could verify that he actually did work as a carpet layer in that era, it would mean a lot to me. Alas, the record he gave us has long since disappeared.