Speaker 1: Hi, this is done.
Speaker 2: Most you remember me from Happy Days, I still get
Speaker 2: on it and you're listening to the Cali D Show.
Speaker 3: Don Most born in Brooklyn, New York, on the eighth
Speaker 3: of August nineteen fifty three is an esteemed actor, singer,
Speaker 3: and director, but more importantly husband to Morgan and father
Speaker 3: to Madison and McKenzie. His new single, Oh Baby Baby
Speaker 3: is due to be released on the twenty sixth of
Speaker 3: March on the Plateau Record label. Hello Darn and thank
Speaker 3: you so much for joining me today on the Collie
Speaker 3: D Show.
Speaker 1: Oh so nice to be with you, Coller, Thank you
Speaker 1: for inviting me.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Oh Baby Baby is a classic nineteen sixty five hit
Speaker 3: single by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Written by Smokey
Speaker 3: Robinson and Pete Moore, the song is one of the
Speaker 3: miracles most covered tunes. The song is a little different
Speaker 3: from your jazz music. Why is the song so special
Speaker 3: to you?
Speaker 2: It's a good question the process in which we picked
Speaker 2: the song. That are we meaning myself and the producer
Speaker 2: Tony Mantor. You're right, it's different. In the past, I've
Speaker 2: been concentrating more on my music that I've always loved
Speaker 2: There's been the Great Jazz Standards and Swing and Blues
Speaker 2: and the Great American Songbook. When I started working with Tony,
Speaker 2: he liked my last CD that I did, which was
Speaker 2: had a big band format, and he said, I think
Speaker 2: we should try something with a more contemporary jazz setting,
Speaker 2: you know, not that big band sound, which is you know,
Speaker 2: I mean it's not like it's only from the forties
Speaker 2: and fifties.
Speaker 1: I mean people still use it.
Speaker 2: But he thought the contemporary jets sound might be a
Speaker 2: nice change, and I liked the idea of trying it.
Speaker 2: And then as we started talking, we also thought the
Speaker 2: idea of introducing some songs from the sixties and seventies
Speaker 2: might be good too, because I was a teenager.
Speaker 1: And young adult in.
Speaker 2: The sixties and seventies and that's the music that I
Speaker 2: also loved. So we said, yeah, it might be nice
Speaker 2: to try to integrate some of those songs. And waiting
Speaker 2: for somebody somewhere at I can't remember, over the music
Speaker 2: system they had on, I heard Smokey's version of Oh Baby, Baby,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh man, what a great song.
Speaker 1: I forget.
Speaker 2: I hadn't heard it in a while, and it was
Speaker 2: perfect timing, and I said, and this might be really
Speaker 2: interesting to do. And I played it for Tony and
Speaker 2: he always loved the song, and so we.
Speaker 1: Decided to do it and came up with a really
Speaker 1: nice you know, with one of his musicians that he
Speaker 1: works with on the arrangements and approach to it that
Speaker 1: was a little different.
Speaker 2: And then as I got into the studio and started
Speaker 2: working with the musicians, it took on a life of
Speaker 2: its own and I'm really happy with the way it
Speaker 2: came out.
Speaker 1: It's really nice.
Speaker 3: It's an absolutely beautiful song, and you just sing it
Speaker 3: so well, and I think it's certainly a tuned to
Speaker 3: your voice because of the jazz.
Speaker 2: It has a little bit of the original R and
Speaker 2: B field, but mixed in with a little bit of jazz.
Speaker 1: So it's an interesting mix. So who knows, you know,
Speaker 1: and maybe it'll lead to me doing more of that style.
Speaker 1: I don't know, We'll see, yeah, of course.
Speaker 4: And let's go back to the early days.
Speaker 3: At a very young age, you wanted to be an
Speaker 3: enter taina and you saw the Jolson story. What was
Speaker 3: it about the film that captured your imagination.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I wish I knew the answer
Speaker 1: to that. I was nine years old when I saw the.
Speaker 2: Movie The Jolson Story, which was a you know, biopic
Speaker 2: of great Al Jolson, who was considered the greatest entertainer
Speaker 2: in the world at the time when he was famous
Speaker 2: in the twenties and thirties.
Speaker 1: He actually did the Original Jazz Singer, the first talking picture.
Speaker 1: He starred in that.
Speaker 2: But when I saw the movie about his life, Like
Speaker 2: I said, it was nine and I just loved it,
Speaker 2: and it had a much bigger impact.
Speaker 1: Than almost anything I had seen.
Speaker 2: And it was something about, you know, the music and
Speaker 2: Jolson's talent, and even though it was played by Larry Parks,
Speaker 2: it was Jolson's singing, yes, and Parks did a great
Speaker 2: job of bringing Jolson to life. I was just really
Speaker 2: captured by the story, but mainly his talent and that music,
Speaker 2: and it led me to start researching and finding out
Speaker 2: more of that kind of music, even.
Speaker 1: Though I was pretty young.
Speaker 2: I started listening to a radio station in New York
Speaker 2: where I grew up. Every night it was a guy
Speaker 2: called William B. Williams, and he would.
Speaker 5: Play all of the great standards and all those great
Speaker 5: classic singers and Sinatra and Nat King, Cole and Ella
Speaker 5: Fitzgerald and doing all the great jazz standards and balads whatever.
Speaker 1: I got an education listening.
Speaker 2: To him on that radio show, and I developed a
Speaker 2: huge love for that music.
Speaker 4: Oh wonderful.
Speaker 3: And did it influence her to become a singer and
Speaker 3: an actor at that time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's funny because it influenced me in the beginning,
Speaker 2: mainly to pursue singing.
Speaker 1: Yes, and that's what I would call my first love.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed acting, you know when I did it and
Speaker 2: plays at school or here and there, but it was
Speaker 2: singing at that age, at the age of thirteen.
Speaker 1: My school in Manhattan take the subway from Brooklyn into Manhattan.
Speaker 2: And it was a school where they taught It was
Speaker 2: mainly for young teenagers and kids singing and acting and dancing.
Speaker 1: Yes, isn't really interested in dancing, but they made me.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: It was this thing that I really wanted to pursue.
Speaker 1: And then as a.
Speaker 2: Matter of fact, I got picked from that school to
Speaker 2: be part of a troop a nightclub review comprised of
Speaker 2: seven teenagers ages fourteen to sixteen, to be in this
Speaker 2: nightclub act, and I performed in it during the summer
Speaker 2: that I was turning fifteen years old up in the
Speaker 2: hotels that were in the cats Still Mountains, famous resort
Speaker 2: area of State New York. So I spent that summer
Speaker 2: singing in the nightclubs and I loved it, you know.
Speaker 1: So I was so excited.
Speaker 2: But then the funny thing is, after that summer, after discussions,
Speaker 2: but I don't know, let I decided after talking to
Speaker 2: my father.
Speaker 1: You know, he wasn't pushing me at all.
Speaker 2: I was the one who really wanted to do it,
Speaker 2: but he was supportive. It was his suggestion that I
Speaker 2: maybe take a serious acting class, yes, and I thought,
Speaker 2: oh okay. I was starting to really get into film
Speaker 2: cinema at that point and watching some great movies, and
Speaker 2: so I liked the idea. And I got into this
Speaker 2: really good acting workshop and I loved it. And that's
Speaker 2: when I put the music aside and I just shifted
Speaker 2: my focus towards acting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one day the music would come back in some way.
Speaker 1: I don't know why we did this long better late
Speaker 1: than that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I was researching the Busch Bels in the
Speaker 3: New York Catskills Mountains between the fifties and the seventies,
Speaker 3: and it was an amazing vacation destination. The resort closed
Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty six, but the comedians who came out
Speaker 3: of Bousch Belt was amazing. I've just been watching it
Speaker 3: a little bit earlier. Absolutely fantastic, brilliant place.
Speaker 2: You were able to find this a line or something,
Speaker 2: you found some info on it, found.
Speaker 4: All about the Bousch Belts.
Speaker 3: The Concord Resort hotel closed in nineteen ninety eight, and
Speaker 3: it tells you all about Joan Rivers was there, Jerry
Speaker 3: Lewis was there.
Speaker 2: The stars were performing up there in the fifth Jerry
Speaker 2: Lewis's mention, Yeah, probably being Martin and a lot of
Speaker 2: the big comic You're.
Speaker 1: Right, a lot of almost all of those, the.
Speaker 2: Ones that became famous that we know of in the sixties,
Speaker 2: seventies and eighties, they performed in the borschh Bell Yeah,
Speaker 2: and some singers too, probably.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It has quite a legacy and history. That was
Speaker 1: the one hotel I didn't get to perform at the Court.
Speaker 1: It was the big one. There were probably thirty other ones,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was able to perform at all of them,
Speaker 2: but I never got to play the Concord That was
Speaker 2: That was a little bit of a disappointing thing, but
Speaker 2: you know, now I'm doing it in all kinds of
Speaker 2: other places, so.
Speaker 1: That's all right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your first TV screen credit came in the TV
Speaker 3: show Emergency.
Speaker 2: Was actually Room to twenty two was right before Emergency.
Speaker 2: Yeah they were close together, but yes, Emergency was the
Speaker 2: second one. When I came out to LA when I
Speaker 2: was twenty years old, i'd been doing a lot of
Speaker 2: commercials in New York. I did about forty commercials, and
Speaker 2: a lot of them were big national commercials. But my
Speaker 2: first real TV job first too was Room to twenty
Speaker 2: two and an Emergency, and I was more interested in drama, yes,
Speaker 2: and not comedy. An Emergency I played a guy who
Speaker 2: became paralyzed in a car accident, and I did a
Speaker 2: police story was the name of the show, where I
Speaker 2: played a psychopath, a mad bomber.
Speaker 1: So I was really into doing drama. Yeah, that just
Speaker 1: so happened, you know. Then when I.
Speaker 2: Landed Happy Days in comedy, and that's when I became
Speaker 2: known for that. I was a big Jack Nicholson fan,
Speaker 2: and so I wanted to do films like he was doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, something similar. Because the character Ralph was not initially
Speaker 3: there because of your charisma and natural comedic timing. They
Speaker 3: reworked the part and transformed Ralph Mouth into the beloved
Speaker 3: class comedian. So you actually went for the role of Potsy.
Speaker 3: But I think what you did in the role of
Speaker 3: Ralph was fantastic and your comedy time and as they say,
Speaker 3: was amazing.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Did originally auditioned for Potsy and but they wanted Anson
Speaker 2: and Ron. Anson Williams had originally done Potzi and Ritchie
Speaker 2: and it did well two years prior. It didn't make
Speaker 2: it onto the air, but then fifties became popular with
Speaker 2: American graffiti and Greece on Broadway, so then they decided, oh,
Speaker 2: we should do this show. The network told Gary Marshall
Speaker 2: that they were concerned Ron and Anson would be too
Speaker 2: old now, and Gary said no, he had to screen
Speaker 2: test Ron and Anson even though they had already done
Speaker 2: it along with about seven other popeful actors. I was
Speaker 2: one of them auditioned from Potzi. So they called my
Speaker 2: agent and said, no, they're going to go with Anson
Speaker 2: Williams again. But they liked Don's donnies at the time
Speaker 2: screen tests so much they wanted to create a role
Speaker 2: for him. And there was a small part in the
Speaker 2: pilot script and they said, well, we'll make that into
Speaker 2: a regular role, and so that's how that happened.
Speaker 3: Do you have any fond memories of your time in
Speaker 3: Happy Days?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, it was an incredible experience.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, the greatest thing about it was the people
Speaker 2: that I got to work with, Yes, was fantastic. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not only professionally but personally. We got along like family,
Speaker 2: and we really did. And then we had wonderful people
Speaker 2: producer directors like Gary Marshall as the creator of the
Speaker 2: show and the executive producer and a mentor to us,
Speaker 2: and our director Jerry Parris, who was fantastic. So it
Speaker 2: was a wonderful, wonderful experience, as I feel very grateful
Speaker 2: that I got to have that at that age and
Speaker 2: learn so much and grow with great people around me.
Speaker 3: The directors let Cass be very creative, so you put
Speaker 3: your own individual stamp on each character, and that's when
Speaker 3: all your catchphrases came in with the fons hey, and
Speaker 3: then yours was I still got it, which is a
Speaker 3: great catchphrase in itself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was in the script and I actually put
Speaker 2: it in because our director Jerry Paris used to say
Speaker 2: that he was much more.
Speaker 1: Like Ralph than I was. I was really the guy
Speaker 1: that was.
Speaker 2: Always trying to be funny, you know. I was a
Speaker 2: good audience for the other people who liked to do that.
Speaker 2: I was that kind of a guy. But Jerry was
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: He loved to crack everybody up, and when he.
Speaker 2: Did a particularly good reaction, he would sit. I still
Speaker 2: got it like that. So I decided one day I
Speaker 2: didn't tell anybody we were shooting in front of an audience,
Speaker 2: and I told Ryan, I said, be prepared, I'm going
Speaker 2: to do something that's not in the script and right
Speaker 2: about here.
Speaker 1: So he said, okay, I'll be ready for it.
Speaker 2: And then I did the line and everyone loved it,
Speaker 2: and then they started writing it in more and more.
Speaker 4: And something beautiful happened.
Speaker 3: You met your lovely wife on the set of Happy Days,
Speaker 3: and you married actress Morgan Hart in nineteen eighty two,
Speaker 3: and you have two beautiful children from that lovely Yes, yes.
Speaker 1: Thank god I met Morgan. It turned out to be
Speaker 1: the last season that I did on Happy Days, because
Speaker 1: I wound up doing seven of the eleven seasons. After
Speaker 1: the seventh, my contract was up, and for different reasons,
Speaker 1: I decided it was time to move on.
Speaker 2: Luckily Morgan, I was cast as in a guest role
Speaker 2: in that last season, so we hit it off right
Speaker 2: away and started dating and two years later got married
Speaker 2: and now we've been married thirty nine years.
Speaker 4: Absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: I have two wonderful daughters. Yeah, thank god. That was
Speaker 1: another reason I'm so thankful for halfy days, the biggest one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 3: And in nineteen seventy six you chopped the Billboard charts with.
Speaker 4: All Roads Lead Back to You and that's a really
Speaker 4: nice track. I listened to that a little bit earlier.
Speaker 2: Oh well, yeah, that was much more of a pop
Speaker 2: It was, you know, pop kind of thing, which I
Speaker 2: was looking to do rock kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But when I had the opportunity to be.
Speaker 2: Signed to a label United Artists, they wouldn't let me
Speaker 2: do the music that I loved because in the seventies
Speaker 2: seventy six, you know, the Great American Songbook and those
Speaker 2: jazz standards were not considered commercial at all.
Speaker 1: Of course, it was as like my parents, so Grandpa music.
Speaker 1: So I had to do something a little bit more
Speaker 1: of in the pop vein, and I figured Okay, you know,
Speaker 1: let's let's try it.
Speaker 2: Give me an opportunity to get in the recording studio
Speaker 2: and see what happens.
Speaker 1: And yeah, some of this stuff came out pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's not it's not my favorite.
Speaker 2: I'm much more, you know, I have much more of
Speaker 2: an affinity if you listen to my not only Ubaby Baby,
Speaker 2: but the CD before that was three years ago, d
Speaker 2: most mostly swinging, and it's with a big band and
Speaker 2: arrangements and all the wonderful songs from that year of
Speaker 2: the twenties, thirties and forties, and it cooks, you know,
Speaker 2: And so I love that's more my wheelhouse and what
Speaker 2: I did with you know, ooh Baby Baby, because it's
Speaker 2: kind of a nice blend of jazz and R and B.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but seventy six it's another great experience that
Speaker 2: I learned a lot being in that studio.
Speaker 1: Wonderful musicians on those tracks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 3: And then you went into TV and you've got some
Speaker 3: incredible film credits, Crazy Mama, The Yankees, the Great Book
Speaker 3: Howard starring John Malkovich, and you're in Glee Star Trek
Speaker 3: and you played Korren.
Speaker 2: Yah it was doctor Kayden was I was the villain
Speaker 2: a two part star Trek Voyager.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Lee.
Speaker 2: I had a nice recurring role as the father of
Speaker 2: one of the Lee characters, Emma by Jay James, and Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then a lot of Buck Howard that was fun
Speaker 2: to do with to work with John Malkovich.
Speaker 1: I worked with Ron Howard in one.
Speaker 2: Of his movies at TV, so that was a great
Speaker 2: joy to work with Ron again a big film. Recently,
Speaker 2: I've done some really interesting you know, it was a
Speaker 2: little difficult after Happy Days breaking away from Ralph and
Speaker 2: that kind of comedy. So it took a while to
Speaker 2: keep but I kept plugging away, and you know, opening
Speaker 2: up the door a little bit further and further. And
Speaker 2: I think because I'm older, it's getting easier because yeah,
Speaker 2: obviously I can't play a teenager in high school or
Speaker 2: college anymore.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm getting more.
Speaker 2: Roles offered to me different kinds of genre and content.
Speaker 2: So there's a film called Lost Heart that is out
Speaker 2: on Amazon Prime now that just came a few months ago.
Speaker 2: It's a really lovely film, that comedy drama. I play
Speaker 2: a small town pastor in it. And another film called
Speaker 2: Man's Best Friend, very powerful dramatic piece where I play
Speaker 2: a defense.
Speaker 1: Attorney representing a wounded VET, and that's on Amazon Prime too,
Speaker 1: So I'm loving the fact that I'm starting to really
Speaker 1: get a wider variety of roles that are coming my way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course TV.
Speaker 3: And then what pivotal moment after working in the front
Speaker 3: of the camera you realize that you had a lifelong
Speaker 3: ambition to direct because he did not first, did you?
Speaker 2: I don't think you know what it happened for me
Speaker 2: as a result of there was a period when I
Speaker 2: was getting frustrated that I wasn't getting the opportunities.
Speaker 1: It was even hard for me to get the.
Speaker 2: Auditions for the movies that I wanted to be up
Speaker 2: for and the kinds of roles.
Speaker 1: So somewhere in the early.
Speaker 2: Nineties, I think it was I had an opportunity to
Speaker 2: wrecked a play at a small theater in Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: and I said, you know, I knew i'd want to
Speaker 2: direct at.
Speaker 1: Some point, not this soon, but let's try it. So
Speaker 1: I directed this play that a play that I was
Speaker 1: familiar with, and it turned out great. You know, I
Speaker 1: had a great response and reviews and all that. So
Speaker 1: I did more. I did several more plays and one act.
Speaker 2: Plays, and then I knew I'd like to now take
Speaker 2: that to film because I always was into photography and
Speaker 2: into the visual and the composition, so I thought doing
Speaker 2: a film I wanted to try as well. And I
Speaker 2: found a script that I really liked and it could
Speaker 2: be done low budget without sacrificing because it was the
Speaker 2: way the structure of the film, where it took place,
Speaker 2: the locations, you could do it on a low budget.
Speaker 2: I met a producer that had experience that was really
Speaker 2: like the script too. We were lucky, we were able
Speaker 2: to raise money from his friends, family, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And I got to make the Last Best Sundays in
Speaker 1: the name of It.
Speaker 3: And I know that at premiered at the Seattle International
Speaker 3: Film Festival, and you won the Best Feature at the
Speaker 3: Tell You Ride IndieFest.
Speaker 4: Congratulations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that was great.
Speaker 2: It was great, and people can see that it's on well,
Speaker 2: I don't know, there's a platform called.
Speaker 1: To B to UBI here.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you have that there, but it's
Speaker 2: showing there and it's going to be expanding to some
Speaker 2: other places. And then the next film I directed is
Speaker 2: on Amazon Crime right now called Mulah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really fun project, comedy that has some real heart
Speaker 2: to it and a little bit of drama, but it's
Speaker 2: more in a comedy. Great cast. Yeah, people could check
Speaker 2: that out on Amazon Prime. You'll recognize most of the
Speaker 2: actors in it.
Speaker 1: Yes, they're pretty well.
Speaker 3: Known because you won the Outstanding Achievement in Directing award
Speaker 3: and premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival in two
Speaker 3: thousand and seven.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was so proud of that, winning that award for
Speaker 2: directing at that festival.
Speaker 1: It meant a lot to me.
Speaker 2: We had a great reaction when it played at one
Speaker 2: of the screenings at the festival.
Speaker 1: It had a fabulous reaction. So that was a pretty
Speaker 1: you know, it was a very meaningful weekend.
Speaker 2: I remember getting that ward and the reaction, and this
Speaker 2: project I developed from scratch with the executive producer, from
Speaker 2: real events that had happened. We developed the story together,
Speaker 2: and then I brought in a writer and worked with
Speaker 2: him very close to write the script. So it was
Speaker 2: even more taking someone else's script and directing it. This
Speaker 2: was something that I kind of created from the very beginning.
Speaker 1: It was meant a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And in twenty eleven, you directed your first family film,
Speaker 3: Harley's Hill, which premiered on Showtime at Stars and on care.
Speaker 1: That was a great experience too. It was tough. That
Speaker 1: was a tough one because I was It was a
Speaker 1: fanly film, as you mentioned, and I was working.
Speaker 2: My lead character was a girl that was twelve years old,
Speaker 2: so I only had her for so so many hours
Speaker 2: a day because it's very strict regulations on how much
Speaker 2: time they were allowed to work, so it's tough when
Speaker 2: and it was a very low budget, very low And
Speaker 2: then her the other character, her younger brother, was only
Speaker 2: eight years old, so I had him for even less time.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of animals involved. I would say
Speaker 1: I had great animals. That's you know, that's the tough thing,
Speaker 1: and especially on a low budget.
Speaker 2: And I have lots of animals, you know, equestrian stuff,
Speaker 2: cattle and not just dogs and cats, you know horses
Speaker 2: and cattle. And the girl had to you know, do
Speaker 2: jumping and she was supposed to be a great rider
Speaker 2: and then find out the first day of shooting she
Speaker 2: wasn't a.
Speaker 4: Great Oh gosh.
Speaker 1: Now, so then I had that. I think I lost
Speaker 1: twenty pounds during the shooting of.
Speaker 2: That because it was crazy, but it came Thank god
Speaker 2: the movie came out.
Speaker 1: It's really a sweet film. It's really nice, wonderful.
Speaker 3: And as you were talking a little bit earlier, since
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen, you've been busy performing sings and swings in
Speaker 3: the USA, and your show debuted in Los Angeles and
Speaker 3: the Catalina's Jazz Club in Hollywood and also Vitello's Jazz
Speaker 3: Club in Studio to great acclaim I love the.
Speaker 4: Rap pack, I love that era.
Speaker 3: You showcase covers from Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole.
Speaker 4: And didn't you go to see Bobby Darren live?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What was that like?
Speaker 1: Oh? Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: You know, I love Golf, Sinatra and Uno and Nat
Speaker 2: and all those great singers.
Speaker 1: I love them. But I was a huge Bobby Barren fan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I got to see him at the Copla Cabana
Speaker 1: Nightclub in New York City when I was eighteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: twice that year.
Speaker 2: He was there twice and I saw both times, and
Speaker 2: then a third time at an outdoor concert in Central
Speaker 2: Park in New York. Bobby could do that kind of
Speaker 2: music as good as just about any of them.
Speaker 1: He could swing with the best of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of people no more for his early
Speaker 2: rock and roll stuff, but that's not what he was about.
Speaker 1: That was a means to an end.
Speaker 2: He was really he could sing jazz and blues and
Speaker 2: swing and folk gospel, just about anything. And I saw
Speaker 2: him with that big band at the Copa. It was magic.
Speaker 2: So and I always close my shows with Mac the Knife.
Speaker 4: Oh I love it.
Speaker 2: People could go and see go on YouTube and put
Speaker 2: in Donnie Most full sale, you know, like a full
Speaker 2: sale ull Sail, because that was the venue that I
Speaker 2: did a concert, and so if they put Donnimo's full sale.
Speaker 1: There's some video up there, little snippets from the show.
Speaker 2: And I'm performing with the Orlando Jazz Orchestra, so a
Speaker 2: great big band, and you'll see me do some Mac
Speaker 2: the Knife in it as the ending.
Speaker 1: It was cooking. It was really cooking. Keep us check
Speaker 1: that out.
Speaker 3: I actually watched it last night and the reviews that
Speaker 3: you got at the Hoffpost said, what a singing voice
Speaker 3: who knew move over Michael Buble, And then the theater
Speaker 3: pizzaz said easeful and elegant, the cabaret scenes most nailed
Speaker 3: it to the roof, and then the Jersey Jazz said
Speaker 3: the man can sing and swing.
Speaker 4: And I loved the album.
Speaker 3: I've listened to it two days on the run, and
Speaker 3: you know what I got from it. The actual orchestra,
Speaker 3: the Orlando Jazz Orchestra is out of this world. The
Speaker 3: sound from that is fantastic. Your voice is perfectly matched.
Speaker 3: And I've just been listening to it for the past
Speaker 3: couple of days.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, are you talking about the video or the
Speaker 1: CD both? Oh, I've been watching both.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the CD two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, great, wonderful that. I love hearing that. I'm
Speaker 2: so happy, thank you for hearing that with me. I
Speaker 2: appreciate that more than you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I've been watching all things all about you
Speaker 3: on YouTube and download. J Jerial Berma've been listening to
Speaker 3: that because I love that era to me, but you know,
Speaker 3: the quality of the production of the jazz band, it's
Speaker 3: fantastic and your voice is perfectly with it. And also
Speaker 3: listened to it to the Christmas album Swinging down the
Speaker 3: Chimney Tonight.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know what we favorite one is Becky
Speaker 1: Moore And then we said, good baby.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, I absolutely love it. Fantastic, brilliant, I.
Speaker 2: Know it was a real when Willie Mario who produced
Speaker 2: that CD and played trumpet on it because he's an
Speaker 2: amazing musician and he did all the arrangements.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I talked to him about him
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 2: We worked on him, but he wrote him. And that's
Speaker 2: his wife, Becky, who's a wonderful singer. And he said,
Speaker 2: when we were thinking about what Christmas songs to do,
Speaker 2: and he said, he brought up, how about doing Santa
Speaker 2: Baby as a duet?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I said, wow, I've never and he said
Speaker 1: Becky could sing, and I knew how good she was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So yeah, I think it's a cool idea and
Speaker 2: it came out really really it's different but really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fantastic album. But you're single releasing on
Speaker 3: the twenty sixth of March. Ooh Baby Baby. Can you
Speaker 3: pre order it now?
Speaker 1: It's on iTunes and Amazona it is. People can get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Baby Baby album and on the label as Plateau Music.
Speaker 2: It is. And I can't wait to, you know, get
Speaker 2: the feedback and hear the reactions from the general public,
Speaker 2: if you will. Tony and I mentor and I are
Speaker 2: talking about I'd love to do a tour in the UK.
Speaker 2: By getting this out there and maybe another single, maybe
Speaker 2: it'll help pave the.
Speaker 1: Way to do a tour.
Speaker 3: You're on social media and it's done most Musician, isn't
Speaker 3: it on Facebook? And you've got a website www dot
Speaker 3: Donnimos dot com. On Twitter at most underscore Don, So
Speaker 3: I've been checking you out on the last day of
Speaker 3: so so you might find something from the Collide show
Speaker 3: on there.
Speaker 2: Good good come on Facebook under Don Most and then
Speaker 2: as you said, Twitter and Instagram done most won.
Speaker 3: I would just like to say it's been an absolute
Speaker 3: honor and a pleasure to speak to you today.
Speaker 4: And it's my birthday today.
Speaker 1: Oh, happy birthday. How nice that we get to do
Speaker 1: this on your birthday.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I love hearing that.
Speaker 2: I thank you very much and I hope to talk
Speaker 2: to you if we get to tour we'll get to
Speaker 2: mean personal absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Indeed, it's been the best birthday
Speaker 4: present I've ever had.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Oh is a lovely speaking with you. You're really a
Speaker 1: delight to talk.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Ahi.
Speaker 1: This is Don Most.
Speaker 2: You might remember me as Ralph from Happy Days and
Speaker 2: this is my new single originally done by Smokey.
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