Anyone who’s ever been to Battista’s Hole in the Wall in Las Vegas knows Gordy, the wise-cracking accordionist who roams the old Italian restaurant belting out tunes at every table. We ate at Battista’s earlier this year and, true to form, Gordy asked where we were from and launched right into a geographically-appropriate tune (“California, Here I Come”).
After trying in vain to describe him, I found a great video profile of Gordy from KTNV-TV in Las Vegas, recorded last summer after he had recovered from hip surgery: