Clayton Johnston was excited to join other ninth-graders on a field trip down the QEW to Buffalo, N.Y., the weekend following Victoria Day in 1959. Handsome youth dancing together having a swell time filled TV screens across western New York and the Golden Horseshoe. The camera panned the dance floor, focusing on Clayton Johnston partnered with 15-year-old classmate Patty Banks. In a 1964 review of his performance at The Cellar accompanying Greenwich, John Norris wrote in Coda, “Drummer Clayton Johnston is … a remarkably strong drummer. If it were up to Thompson, the public would be more familiar with the name Clayton Johnston.

Source: thestar February 14, 2021 12:00 UTC