last visited more than 15 years ago, New York composer, entertainer and journalist Mr. Irving Fields said he was looking forward to seeing old friends "and taking in Gene's (Steede) show at the Princess''.

The man who wrote such hits as `Take her to Jamaica where the rum comes from', `Miami Beach Rumba' and provided Dinah Shore with one of her first hits with his `Chantez-Chantez', spent several seasons as concert artist on the Doric and the Oceania , travelling back and forth between New York and Bermuda, as well as playing a three-month season at the Inverurie Hotel with Johnny MacAteer and his band.

"I loved Bermuda so much, I not only came here on my honeymoon, I wrote a song about it! It was called `Honeymoon in Bermuda' and brought back some very happy memories. I've been longing to come back, so when a New York magazine asked me to write a story called `Gotta Get Away', I decided to write about Bermuda. Fortunately, I was able to take a week's vacation from my job as pianist-in-residence at the New York Sheraton. It's wonderful to be back again!'' As he played the `Honeymoon' tape and another song, entitled simply, `Bermuda' ("dedicated to one of the loveliest islands in the world''), Mr. Fields said the very sound of his piano made him feel restless -- "I haven't played for a whole week!'' For years, Irving Fields has been No. 1 choice as pianist when stars decide to entertain: he counts Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Taylor, Anthony Quinn, Donald Trump and Barbra Streisand among his fans, and is an old friend of Larry King "back in the Miami days, when we were both starting out!'' With more than 80 albums to his name, the showman extraordinaire who has headlined at such top spots as The Stork Club, The Copacabana, Caesar's Palace, performed numerous concerts at Carnegie Hall and voted as one of the ten top pianists by `Record World', reveals he did not like music, especially practising, when he first began.

But soon, there was no stopping him. By the age of 15, he had decided that show business would be his life, a decision that was helped along when he won a major talent contest which gave him his first chance to play on the radio.

When he was only 19, he was playing at Coconut Grove.

`Take Her to Jamaica' was first recorded by RCA Victor Records in New York.

"I had written it as a fun thing when I was on a cruise to Jamaica, and I rang up and sang it to them over the phone. They said `Record it next week!' Then, when I was at the London Palladium, I went to Decca Records and told the president I wanted him to hear this song. So he called in his board of directors and there was no piano, so I had to sing it a capella ! "Anyway, they liked it and got Edmundo Ros to record it the next week and it turned out to be a huge hit. They're still singing it in Jamaica!''