Speaker 1: Pussy around.
Speaker 2: This is the seventy seven w ABC Mini cast. So
Speaker 2: guess who we have on my liveline. My good friend
Speaker 2: Tony Oh, Tony Orlando.
Speaker 3: Hello, Brucy. You want to know something about that record
Speaker 3: that most people may not know. I had the good
Speaker 3: fortune of singing background on that record.
Speaker 2: No wait, whoa whoa hold it, hold on, bring that
Speaker 2: to me again. You were singing background on that yep.
Speaker 3: Jack Keller, dal Evans David. Of course, Donnie Curser were
Speaker 3: the producers of that, right right, and Howard Grippel were
Speaker 3: the lyricist, and we all were in the same office
Speaker 3: in Donnie Curson's office. So when Neil cut that, I
Speaker 3: was I had a half for the Paradise just coming out,
Speaker 3: and I remember going to his sessions with Jack all
Speaker 3: the time, and so as it, what's about you know,
Speaker 3: September januaryy I'll be done.
Speaker 2: That's fab Tony. I never knew that, and Neil never
Speaker 2: told me that. That is so, that's wild, that is great,
Speaker 2: That's one.
Speaker 3: For my It was very tough to see me all go.
Speaker 2: I went, what is that all about? I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: you know's it's one thing, Tony. When somebody's ill, and
Speaker 2: you know you're unfortunately watching them, you know, sort of
Speaker 2: fade into the sunset. But when something like that happened, suddenly,
Speaker 2: it's happening too often lately.
Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, he was talking to friends a couple
Speaker 3: of days before. It was a shocking event for all
Speaker 3: of us who knew and loved Neil. And I don't
Speaker 3: think there was a greater voice I'd love to see.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he was in the rock and
Speaker 3: roll Hall of Fame, but if he is.
Speaker 2: Not, no, he's not, which was which is a crime
Speaker 2: that is That's a shame that these people don't have
Speaker 2: Neil Sedeka and that's something I've always sort of sort
Speaker 2: of held them really to the bar with. That is
Speaker 2: so ridiculous of a few others too, But Nil Sendaka
Speaker 2: belongs belonged. I wish he was there when he was alive,
Speaker 2: but at least now put him in the rock and
Speaker 2: hole of him, it's disgraceful.
Speaker 3: You know. He inspired Elton John, he inspired Billy Joel.
Speaker 3: He was that guy at the piano, he was that
Speaker 3: singer songwriter. He was all of those things that they became.
Speaker 3: And if anything, he should be recognized as a pioneer.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Are you aware that he well he went to Juilliard,
Speaker 2: the Juilliard School of Music and New York. And are
Speaker 2: you aware that he won a Tchaikowsky Piano Medal. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he won a big medal on that an award. What
Speaker 2: a talented guy.
Speaker 3: As a matter of facted to go to YouTube. It
Speaker 3: was a wonderful little video of him being on a
Speaker 3: show called I've Got a Secret. Remember that show I've
Speaker 3: Got a Secret? And he was on that show and
Speaker 3: that's what he announced to the world. But he won
Speaker 3: that and his incredible talent as a classical musician, Neilsa.
Speaker 3: Daco was a literal genius. He really was.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: You know, there were so many songs that we you
Speaker 2: and I can mention they away, you know, aside from
Speaker 2: the Doobie Does and and you know the real great
Speaker 2: big commercial hits, the Calendar Girls and everything.
Speaker 1: But you can hear his.
Speaker 2: Classic you know talent in a lot of this music.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he is so talented. All right, now,
Speaker 2: let's skip to you. Huh what is to Where are
Speaker 2: you tonight? Tonyolanda, the man who's taking it easy in
Speaker 2: his life?
Speaker 1: You'll bollow me?
Speaker 3: Oh you know only God will retire me from doing
Speaker 3: charity work, okay, And the truth of the matter is
Speaker 3: that is worth everything to me. And right now I
Speaker 3: got a call from Billy Gilmano from Billy from the
Speaker 3: NBA telethon. But he was a young, young country singer
Speaker 3: and Jerry Lewis loved him. And Jerry's daughter, Danny l
Speaker 3: Lewis called me and said would you help him with
Speaker 3: his chardy And Rhode Island that's where I am going
Speaker 3: to be. Not I'm here tonight, but tomorrow night is
Speaker 3: there event and they've asked to come out and speak
Speaker 3: and sing a couple of songs. And so that's why
Speaker 3: I'm here.
Speaker 1: So you're in wait to me, Tony, you're in Rhode
Speaker 1: Island now, yeah?
Speaker 2: All right? Let me as a test, what was the
Speaker 2: song they wrote about Rhode Island, Tony Orlando, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: see if I get you this one? They wrote a
Speaker 2: song about it, Road Road, You're both no already ready
Speaker 2: for this, Tody, You're gonna love this.
Speaker 1: And I don't even ask me the year. I mean
Speaker 1: we're talking maybe thirties forties. Here we go, poor little
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, smallert of the forty eight. How's that?
Speaker 2: My poor little Rhode Island small of the forty eight
Speaker 2: said that alone tells you we had forty eight states?
Speaker 2: Is that that's an actual song? I'm not kidding you. No,
Speaker 2: no bologna, that's it.
Speaker 3: You're doing radio done too.
Speaker 1: Don't be a wise cat.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something. Nobody, nobody has done radio
Speaker 3: better longer. You know. I've had the opportunity, because you
Speaker 3: know of that station, that you are right the WABC
Speaker 3: for five years learning what it is to do what
Speaker 3: you do. It is an art form that people really
Speaker 3: don't get, Lucy, because you have to connect with people
Speaker 3: who don't even see you. You're connecting because of your
Speaker 3: soul and your heart, your knowledge. It is really an
Speaker 3: extraordinary art form. The thing that you've done this since
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty is insane. It's just crazy.
Speaker 1: What am I doing? I should have been a surgeon.
Speaker 3: No, really, really, you don't realize it because you've been
Speaker 3: doing it all your life. Man, oh man, When you
Speaker 3: get behind that microphone guys at home and you try
Speaker 3: what cousin Boosey's doing for four hours and every week
Speaker 3: to find a playlist to hit everybody the right way,
Speaker 3: I'm not kidding. That's genius.
Speaker 2: Seriously, Yeah, yeah, listen, I guess that's your front. What's
Speaker 2: on your show? What's the new name of the new
Speaker 2: name of the new show. What's that's called It's the.
Speaker 1: It's called rock.
Speaker 3: In the decades we've been on out for the last
Speaker 3: year on the on the Red Apple Network. In fact,
Speaker 3: Kevin who's working with you tonight, has been very responsible
Speaker 3: help helping all of us get through that, and I
Speaker 3: want to thank him on the air. By the way,
Speaker 3: He's a great addition to the to the organization. But
Speaker 3: like tonight, I get a chance to do things, so
Speaker 3: I'm doing it. You know all From August eighth to
Speaker 3: August sixteenth, Grace Clan celebrates Elvis Presley Week. I know
Speaker 3: you know that, and I'm going to be there on
Speaker 3: the thirteenth. They asked me to come and share stories
Speaker 3: about my relationship and friendship with Elvis, and so I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be there. So tonight on our show, I played
Speaker 3: all of Elvis music and all of the music that
Speaker 3: Elvis inspired others to do, and some of the songs
Speaker 3: that were written by friends like Chips Moment who produced him.
Speaker 3: I was that the session when we do Suspicious mind
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of information I had and I
Speaker 3: have a great time. I had Priscilla Presley on the
Speaker 3: show tonight and d Z who was the host. He's
Speaker 3: an Elvis tribute artist, was a host of that event
Speaker 3: every year, and an event that brings people from all
Speaker 3: over the world. It's really unbelievable.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have such a good time because I know
Speaker 2: you are such a music historian.
Speaker 1: That's good. So what am I playing tonight?
Speaker 3: Well, I thought, you know, I was that the session
Speaker 3: when this record was made, Chips moment. It was a
Speaker 3: good friend of mine because at the time I was
Speaker 3: working for Clyde Davis and running his music division for me,
Speaker 3: and I was in the studio and he goes in
Speaker 3: and records I think one of Elvis's greatest songs called
Speaker 3: Suspicious Minds.
Speaker 2: Now, you have so many wonderful, wonderful stories. You are amazing.
Speaker 2: You are my amazing friend.
Speaker 3: I'm blessed.
Speaker 1: Yes, you have all right, introduce it.
Speaker 2: Tony Orlando introduced it here on our show, Suspicious Minds.
Speaker 3: Well, everybody right now, I want to play a song that,
Speaker 3: without a doubt, was part of Elvis's major comeback. Well,
Speaker 3: even though he had a comeback in the early seventies.
Speaker 3: And here it is the great Elvis with suspicious minds.
Speaker 2: Can you come back with Ain't no woman, you cousin, Regie, everybody,
Speaker 2: Elvis Presley and that great That was nice stories and nice,
Speaker 2: nice hearing from Tony. And you give Tony a listen,
Speaker 2: will you on the network? And he's quite something. Tony
Speaker 2: Orlando through the decades eight hundred and eight, four, eight
Speaker 2: ninety two, twenty two. In a couple moments, I'm going
Speaker 2: to come back with the four tops of the boat
Speaker 2: town in your town, my town, our town, stand by
Speaker 2: for the cause.