Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It is at nine forty five and it's time for one on one with
a fabulous entertainer. Way Tower on the line with it is how you doing,
a young man, I'm good, young man, you're too kind.
Well, you know, I'm sixty three. Everybody's younger than me. Now
you have been setting the place on fire. People have seen you at a
few events other than the Constantine Theater. But you've got a dynamic show and
it spans a good swath of time. But my gosh, is it packed
with entertainment. Tell us a little bit about your show. It's just it's
a show that I created. Honestly, I came up with the concept about
ten years ago, and I'm so quick and efficient that I just got it
on stage this summer. But as I, as I have traveled the country
performing to just doing shows at casinos and corporate events and private events, there
were two things that stood out to me as I sang all these groups.
There were two performers and essentially two categories of songs that were just unbelievably popular
with every crowd that I sang for. And it didn't matter demographic didn't matter,
what part of the country I was in, didn't matter age. And
those were the classic Frank Sinatra songs and all of the classic Elvis songs.
And so I thought, well, you know what, what if I had
a show, And that's what I did. The first half of the show
is essentially all Frank Sinatra music, and it's just all of his biggest hits,
although we certainly don't have time to hit all of them. And then
the second half of the show is all Elvis Wow, and so it's Elvis
hits. And so I had somebody reached out to me earlier this week and
they said, Okay, I'm trying to explain this to my friends because they
came to the show this past Saturday and they said, they're asking me if
you're an impersonator, and I was like, no, not really. And
so the reason she was confused is because when I do the music, I've
got a nine piece band and we've got, you know, charts that I've
had written for the show. That they were charts that were written from the
original charts from Sinatra's band leaders and Elvis's folks. So the music itself,
whenever I sing and perform the songs. We sound very much like the original
entertainers, and that is on purpose because I want them to be able to
close their eyes and go, oh, oh, my gosh, this is
what it maybe felt like a little bit to see Sinatra or see Elvis in
person. But in between the songs, I'm very much myself. So I
dressed the part. I wear a tuxedo, and I've got an Elvis not
a jumpsuit, but an Elvis outfit that I wear that actually I had made
by the same costume company that made all of the Elvis costumes for the movie
that just came out not very long ago. So it looks the part,
it sounds the part, but the show is very much my personality. For
better or worse. Well, I tell you what, it sounds like.
You've got a trifecta going on there. Well, looks pretty good. It's
just it's just it's just fun music. You know. I tell people all
the time, I call I call it happy music. Yeah, because you
just cannot be sad listening to all those horns blaring, and listening to those
songs and all of those fantastic lyrics. And so you know, every time
I start singing those songs, whether it's in this show or doing some events
somewhere, you see people start to sway their shoulders and start to you know,
kind of thing along with me at their table or in their seat.
It's just great music. Now you're doing this at the Constant Constantine Theater,
and that's a beautiful place. I've had the honor of performing there myself a
couple of times. That is one sweet sounding building and it's nice and air
condition especially this time of year. That's really cool. But no plan intended.
Yeah, yeah, no, Actually, they they've done a fantastic job
the last couple of years. Yea. They have spent a lot of time
and money. Um sort of. They put in a new sound system,
they could actually in a new air conditioning system and actually a filtration system.
You know, a lot of historic theaters kind of have that musty smell,
which is just because it's been there for a hundred years. Oh yes,
I'm familiar. Yes, but it doesn't have that, and it's it's very
comfortable and it's you're right, it's a beautiful theater and it was originally built
as an opera house, so the acoustics are absolutely fantastic. So now when
are your shows playing? I know they're on Saturday. Better are they matinees
or are the prime time or are they are matinees? We felt like it
made more sense to do a matinee when folks were out in about and hustling
and bustling around town. And so it's every Saturday three o'clock. We are
not there this weekend because they have our artisans show that was on the calendar
from a year ago, and I've actually got a charity event that it worked
out perfectly nice. So yeah, so every every Saturday starting on the twenty
fourth, will be back starting on June twenty fourth, and then literally every
Saturday for the rest of the year at three o'clock in the afternoon. That's
great because you know why, when you're walking around visiting with the Pioneer Woman
and all her different things going on there. And then of course with the
movie there, they've got some of the places we can kind of go visit
and kind of check out see where the movie was made. Killers with the
Flower Moon, that's gonna be a building once that thing gets fully developed.
And you know, so right there in the heat of the afternoon kind of
take a little break, cool your heels and really be entertained by Wayne Tower.
I gotta you're from what does still want? Still Water America? Sir?
And you know this this is gonna be a fantastic show. I mean
right there, you've already told us you're covering the songs of Frank Sinatra,
Elvis Presley. So the only thing that's missing is that you took us in
the seats, folks, because this is a great show. Now. You
just played bartlesvilt at a special gala. What a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, the Chamber of Commerce had their awards banquet and gala. Um.
I think last week actually left Tuesday Good Day and I got to sing at
that, which was which was always fun. It's always a good group of
folks. I had three hundred hundred, twenty thous people there, so it
was fun. And they're still talking about it, by the way, so
you had a good job of them. That got less them. It's just
it's just fun, you know, sharing the music that I'm sort of an
old soul, so whenever I grew up watching old movies and listening to this
music and just fella love with it, and the thing that I tell everyone
is that it's certainly not the music that everyone listens to every day. You
know, I'm one of the rare people that go to work out and have
Frank Sinatra and my headset. But it's the music that everybody knows. Everybody.
Yeah, it doesn't matter if I do an event. You know,
we've we've been blessed that we've gotten to do some pretty large, very h
bougie weddings, as they say, But you know that those are groups where
the bride and groom are twenty five, twenty six years old, and all
of those kids know all of the words to fly Me to the Moon,
and that's life. And so it's just it doesn't matter if you're eight or
eighty. It's just music that's familiar to everybody, and and we just absolutely
love doing it. I tell people at the beginning of the show, my
my only goal for the audience is I hope that they have as much fun
as we're going to have on stage. Well, I gotta tell you,
that's the music that was the heart of America that at the forties and the
fifties and into the sixties and seventies as well. And you cut across a
lot of generations just with those two artists to begin with. Everybody's familiar with
the songs, whether they've seen it in a movie, heard it on the
radio, or you know, just maybe somebody's a Spotify collection and playing off
field some of them, Yeah and whatever or where everything else. I mean,
that's the song that both both artists actually did with My Way. So
I have to ask you this question. I'm kind of building up to it.
Which version do you do um of which song My Way? Oh?
Oh, well, you know what your question is very afropos, so you
could get away with both, you know, oh no, no, absolutely,
And here's here's how we handle that. Actually, My Way is sort
of the encore song that some audiences don't ask for, but I come back
and sing it anyway. And so when I come back on stage to sing
My Way, I literally let the audience pick which version they want hot Dog.
Now, that's cool. It's the only song that I let them decide.
But both artists made it famous. Both artists have their own style,
and it was interesting on June three, when we opened, we sort of
had a half and half, so I kind of had to a mixture.
And then at the last show last Saturday. It was very Elvis heavy at
the end, and so they wanted the Elvis version, so that's what we
did. Well, there you go, folks. You get a little surprise
ending and this is all kinds of funny. Say, do you have a
social page or a maybe a website so folks can learn just a little bit
about you before they come see you. I'm glad you asked it is.
You can go to Wadetower dot com and that's Wade just like Wade in the
water and tower like a water tower. Wadetower dot com. You go to
Waytower dot com. I am on every social media platform you can think of.
You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Interests. More
importantly, probably if you if you want to sample and you want to hear
some of the music ahead of time and hear what I sound like, you
can find I've got two albums on iTunes, so you can sample me on
iTunes. You can listen to me on Pandora, on Spotify, on Amazon
Music, so just about any place online that you can listen to music,
you can find Wave Tower. Well, there you go, and of course,
folks, on Saturday, with a special deal, we've got a lot
of things going on over in Pahuska that are kind of annual, but after
that, it's virtually every Saturday at three o'clock throughout the entire year, Wave
Tower, the Chairman and the King, and that is at the Constantine.
How can I get that they've been so good to me? They have been
They really are. They treat you. They do treat you like a king,
don't they? No, they absolutely do. And I will throw in,
you know, there's some folks that come to the theater and they're not
sure what to expect because some folks, believe it or not, are not
huge Snatra or Elvis fans. But I will just tell you that we've got
some surprises thrown into the mix because we do a little Neil Diamond, we
do a little George Straight, we do a little Dean Martin, so we
kind of throw in some of their peers along the way just to kind of
mix it up. You're kind of like a one man Vegas All Star show.
That's that's really kind of cool. Well, I appreciate that. It
is a lot of fun, and I absolutely am super thankful to the Constantine
and for them having me and being willing to put this show on because it's
a big commitment on their part obviously to have me every week, and it
allows me to do exactly what I love to do. So I am super
super grateful and super blessed. Well, this is wonderful. And again,
tell the folks where they can find you online, because right now some of
them we're kind of preoccupied because I know how. You can find me online
at wadetower dot com. Wadetower dot com, you can find me on Facebook.
It's all everything's under Wadetower, Facebook, Instagram, Interest, Twitter,
Pandora, Amazon, Music, Spotify, any place that there's music. And
then, of course, probably the most important thing for this conversation is if
you go to Constantine Theater dot com you can buy tickets or any of the
shows that are listed. You can buy them online. You're welcome to buy
them if you just want to walk up that day as long as there's tickets
available. You can buy tickets at the door, which seems to be a
pretty good plan for most folks at decide last minute. And then you know
the other thing that we don't. We're going to do the show all summer
long and off fall. But then in mid November, we're going to switch
the show over and it becomes a holiday show and a Christmas show, so
it'll be the same theme Chairman and the King. It'll be the Chairman and
the King Christmas and we'll see all of the classic Christmas hits for the rest
of the year. Well, son of a Gun, this is really good.
This is gonna be a lot of fun. And you know you hit
this right at the right time, Wade. I mean, the Pioneer Woman
is hotter than ever as far as viewership and people wanting to know a lot
about Ree and then of course there's a lot of interest with the movie that
was shot over there, and of course Bohuska has tons of visitors every Saturday
anyway. The streets are just full and the businesses are too. This is
really a nice little icing on the cake here. And folks, I want
to tell you, if you're looking to be entertained, you're going to be
entertained. And then something that's Saturday's three o'clock Constantine Theater and that is Wade
Teller. Wait, thank you for being our guest today, No, sir,
I appreciate you giving me the time. And it was a pleasure.
I look forward to doing it again sometime. All right, you'll be seeing
me in the audience. I'll be there with about seven. And you can't
miss that. You can't miss that thing coming at you.