Charleroi is the second half of the Pittsburgh story. The Pittsburgh album was about the
grandmother I knew. Charleroi is about the one I never did. My father was returned to the
hospital as an infant ill with whooping cough. He was left there for several months as an
orphan. Finally he was adopted by a kind doctor who became his father. Never knowing his birth
family it was assumed that mystery would always remain. In 2015 after over 60 years of
wondering and waiting the family was finally found. Having been mistakenly told that my father
died in infancy he was never sought out by the remainder of his biological family. Sadly his
mother passed away several years before having a chance to ever see her son again. Her name was
Thelma and she was my grandmother. She was from Charleroi Pennsylvania. These songs are about
her. - William Fitzsimmons Die beiden Minialben Pittsburgh und Charleroi: Pittsburgh Volume 2
erscheinen als The Pittsburgh Collection auch auf Vinyl.
