Speaker 1: Hi'stle Anthony, Little Anthony in the Imperials, and you're listening
Speaker 1: to the Doctor Sky Show.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to our show today. Always
Speaker 2: special guests here on our radio show as we now
Speaker 2: go back into the history of rock and roll. It's
Speaker 2: a real privilege and honor to welcome a very special
Speaker 2: man with a very special group of the nineteen fifties,
Speaker 2: Little Anthony in the Imperials, as we talk on the
Speaker 2: phone today with Little Anthony Gordian himself, the namesake of
Speaker 2: this very fascinating band of the nineteen fifties and sixties.
Speaker 2: And before we introduce our very special guest, just a
Speaker 2: brief read and history of Little Anthony and the Imperials.
Speaker 2: Little Anthey in the Imperials is an American rhythm and
Speaker 2: blues soul vocal group from New York City, first active
Speaker 2: in the nineteen fifties. Lead singer Jerome Anthony Little Anthony
Speaker 2: Gordian was noted for his high pitched falsetto voice, influenced
Speaker 2: by none other than Jimmy Scott. The other original members
Speaker 2: were Clarence Collins, the group founder, Ernest Wright, Nate Rogers,
Speaker 2: and Tracy Lord. The last two of whom were replaced
Speaker 2: by Sammy Strain. The group was one of the very
Speaker 2: few groups to maintain success on the rhythm and blues
Speaker 2: and pop charts throughout the nineteen sixties, and they were
Speaker 2: inducted into rightfully so, the Rock and Roll Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame on April ninth, two thousand and nine, twenty three
Speaker 2: years after the group's first year of eligibility for induction.
Speaker 2: And with that, it's a real privilege and honor to
Speaker 2: welcome to our radio show today none other than Little
Speaker 2: Anthony Gordine of Little Anthony in the Imperials. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for joining us today as we talk about
Speaker 2: the history of rock and roll.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing fine, and I'm just so excited here A
Speaker 2: big fan of the fifties. I grew up in New
Speaker 2: York City, and I want to hear a little bit
Speaker 2: about the story of how your career group, of course,
Speaker 2: started in New York City, and tell us a little
Speaker 2: bit about that, because well, I remember, being born in
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty six, I got the sound of many of
Speaker 2: the New York Street corner harmony groups.
Speaker 3: But how did you guys get started.
Speaker 1: That was the same way you did those kind of groups.
Speaker 1: I mean as a kid, I listened to all of them,
Speaker 1: the Dells, the Flamingos, the Orioles when I was like ten, nine,
Speaker 1: eleven years old. So I was influenced and actually lovestip.
Speaker 1: You was in the fifties, you know. Actually it was
Speaker 1: a tail end of the fifties that our life became.
Speaker 1: Even though I was with other groups, and I know
Speaker 1: a lot of interviewers loved to talk about something that
Speaker 1: happened with another group that I was with because it's
Speaker 1: me yes or whatever, but I'd never relate to it
Speaker 1: because I was a baby. I was fourteen, and you
Speaker 1: really can't use that fourteen year old as a as
Speaker 1: a measuring stick to what my career became. It just
Speaker 1: was the beginning of a kid singing like a lot
Speaker 1: of kids in those days. Actually, the most important part
Speaker 1: of that time and in the fifties late fifties was
Speaker 1: really fifty eight Wow, when we when we met, when
Speaker 1: we met George Goldner and and Richard, that was the
Speaker 1: beginning of a real career. And prior to that was
Speaker 1: just flowning around like everybody else, taking on the radio.
Speaker 1: So you know, but I don't. It's very difficult for
Speaker 1: me relate. And I know fans tend to be more
Speaker 1: deeper into that sort of thing, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: almost like fantasy football. They go deeper than the people
Speaker 1: that actually play the game. Sure it, we don't really care.
Speaker 1: Right in my mind, it's it's really when when that
Speaker 1: began in nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Great story here, I'm reading from one of the album
Speaker 2: jagged covers here, and I'm reading this my friend calling
Speaker 2: themselves the Chesters. They visited that, as Richard Barrett is reminiscing,
Speaker 2: you visited Richard Barrett on the twelfth floor of sixteen
Speaker 2: fifty Broadway in Manhattan. Tell us that story, because this
Speaker 2: is the story that we want to hear, the beginnings
Speaker 2: of this most amazing life legacy here in rock and
Speaker 2: roll history with little Anthony in the Imperials.
Speaker 1: Okay, we were a bunch of kids out of Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: out of fourteen project like all a bunch of thousands
Speaker 1: of the little groups kind of get a deal in
Speaker 1: those days. I was very fortunate to live in your
Speaker 1: see where the independent record companies were all located in
Speaker 1: sixteen fifty Broadway, and so it's easy to know where
Speaker 1: they were. And in those days you got to understand
Speaker 1: the technology did not exist. It exists today. You literally
Speaker 1: didn't have to do a demo and go and hey,
Speaker 1: listen to my demo. You actually walked in and asked
Speaker 1: for an audition. Can you imagine that? Yeah, they talked,
Speaker 1: all of them. Man, that's the way it was in
Speaker 1: those days. So we just happened to be fortunate enough.
Speaker 1: I wasn't me Class Collins and knew Richard Barrett isn't directly.
Speaker 1: I don't know where he met him and what, but
Speaker 1: he knew him, and he kept saying, Hey, I got
Speaker 1: this guy. It just came with my group and his
Speaker 1: name is Anthony Goudene, and man, I think you should
Speaker 1: listen to us because he's got a really, really good voice.
Speaker 1: And that's how that started. And then when we actually
Speaker 1: went in and I was that was let me see
Speaker 1: what was that? There was a winter of fifty eight.
Speaker 1: We walked into the Uh, Richard Barrett heard us had
Speaker 1: an audition, and then promptu audition and we sang the
Speaker 1: song that Ernest wrote or just the kinds of People
Speaker 1: in the world, and that was it. That was it.
Speaker 4: He called it.
Speaker 1: George Golden was the president of Going and then Records,
Speaker 1: and you know, she said, gott listen to this, and
Speaker 1: that was the beginning of my career. Even though prior
Speaker 1: to that, I'm just like everybody else, be hitting this,
Speaker 1: hitting this. You know, there was no real uh Korea
Speaker 1: at that point. I was just a kid on a
Speaker 1: high school, West High School of Brooklyn and just trying
Speaker 1: to make it like kids.
Speaker 3: In today, you better believe it.
Speaker 2: And you know something I was in that same well
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say the same error. But later on in
Speaker 2: the seventies, we used to be part of a track
Speaker 2: team and we'd run against the good folks at the
Speaker 2: Boys High School and they always won. I mean, that
Speaker 2: was a powerhouse school.
Speaker 1: Get two things. They were really at the top of
Speaker 1: the games track team, in the basketball.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, my friend, just an amazing story. My mother hails
Speaker 2: from the benson Hurst in that area and also Flatbush
Speaker 2: area in Brooklyn, so we have a lot in common.
Speaker 2: And that's why as we talk to you today, this
Speaker 2: is so fascinating. Again, I'm grateful for your time. As
Speaker 2: we reminisce about the history of rock and roll, the
Speaker 2: early days. Anthony Gordeen, Little Anthony Gordeen of Little Anthony
Speaker 2: in the Imperials. He's our special guest on our radio
Speaker 2: show today and all throughout this radio show folks, or
Speaker 2: in the extended version that you can hear on our website,
Speaker 2: we'll give you that information. At the end of the
Speaker 2: radio show, you can hear select pieces of music from
Speaker 2: the best of Little Anthony and the Imperials. You know,
Speaker 2: this is so fascinating as we talk with you today.
Speaker 2: You've been doing music and performing for how many years now?
Speaker 2: This is amazing.
Speaker 1: Sixty years.
Speaker 2: Wow, well, God, God bless that's an amazing time. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sixty years young and you've been doing this for
Speaker 2: as long as I've been on the planet. So that's
Speaker 2: a tribute.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Actually I was fifteen years old and I was nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty six.
Speaker 3: That's incredible.
Speaker 1: Sixty years prior to that, even when I was fourteen,
Speaker 1: I was singing and then recording in very local stuff
Speaker 1: that was doing. You know, like every kid in those
Speaker 1: days wanted to be a star because they all those
Speaker 1: different records on radio, Doctor Jib you know, WWRL, Tommy
Speaker 1: Smalls for the Ball, you know, on and on and
Speaker 1: on and on and Alan Freed Wims Wins and every
Speaker 1: kid'll be saying, you wanted to be you if you
Speaker 1: could you imagine and mine? Well what if? Well if
Speaker 1: I can, I'm good enough to just saying. People say
Speaker 1: they like the way I sound, and then they like
Speaker 1: the guys that I'm singing with, you know what they sound?
Speaker 5: What if?
Speaker 1: And that's all show Busness is is what if?
Speaker 3: You better believe it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's amazing to hear these stories. And I
Speaker 2: want to remind our listeners as we go to the break.
Speaker 2: Each time we're going to be promoting an individual song
Speaker 2: from Little Anthony and the Imperials in which you may
Speaker 2: be hearing the entirety of from our website, but again
Speaker 2: excerpts here for the radio show today. And this is
Speaker 2: amazing because you know, I must say this from the
Speaker 2: bottom of my heart, sir, I really feel your music
Speaker 2: is absolutely beautiful. It brings back happy times and happy
Speaker 2: memories for me. And I'm sure that's the same with people.
Speaker 2: What not only here in America, but around the world
Speaker 2: too well.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that every generation had that. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: people in the forties and in the beginnings of like
Speaker 1: nineteen forty one thirty nine, before the World War Two
Speaker 1: and the big bands and Elephant Joe. Every everybody, every
Speaker 1: generation has that where we latched on into that particular
Speaker 1: sound that represents where we're living at that time. And
Speaker 1: so we were no different. We came up to the
Speaker 1: Patty Page area era. You know, how much is that
Speaker 1: dog get in the window? You know, you know Tony Bennett,
Speaker 1: you know, I go to rags to riches, and we
Speaker 1: came into that sort of it was sort of a
Speaker 1: row between World War two and every World War to
Speaker 1: the big bands kind of disappeared and Patty Page all
Speaker 1: these great you know singers and you know, and then
Speaker 1: it went into the fifties, which was sort of a
Speaker 1: the early fifties fifty fifty, fifty one fifty and had
Speaker 1: this really uh kind of milky white ray type down
Speaker 1: you know, the four aces, you know, three goardings of
Speaker 1: the fountain and this and that and that, and so
Speaker 1: that was it. Here comes in music that comes out
Speaker 1: of Nowhere, which was played being played at black stations,
Speaker 1: R and B Rhythm yes and both did lea who
Speaker 1: is that guy? You know? And Schuck Berry and the
Speaker 1: mingos and the slip Mingos and elder Roddalds, and people say, whoa.
Speaker 3: Whoa, you know, it's so incredible.
Speaker 2: We're coming up on the first break here in our
Speaker 2: radio show today, a very special guest here as we
Speaker 2: talk and reminisce with none other than our special guest,
Speaker 2: Little Anthony, Anthony Gordine of the namesake of that very
Speaker 2: famous still to this day, a most amazing time in
Speaker 2: rock and roll history, Little Anthony in the Imperials, and folks,
Speaker 2: as we continue to do our radio show, in this
Speaker 2: particular excerpt, we'd like to have you listen to in
Speaker 2: most of its entirety or its entirety, depending on where
Speaker 2: you're listening to this interview one of my favorite here
Speaker 2: from one of their albums. I'm on the outside looking
Speaker 2: in this, of course, going back to August of nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty four, our very special Anthony Gordine, Little Anthony of
Speaker 2: Little Anthony and the Imperials, joins us here on our
Speaker 2: radio show today and we're celebrating, of course there splendid
Speaker 2: time and continuing here throughout the whole time and space
Speaker 2: in rock and roll history.
Speaker 6: We'll be right there time on the outside looking him.
Speaker 7: I don't want to be I don't want to be
Speaker 7: back inside with you. You are with somebody new. Hell.
Speaker 8: I don't know what to do because I'm still in
Speaker 8: alone with.
Speaker 6: You on the outside looking him.
Speaker 5: I don't want to be I don't want to.
Speaker 9: Be Annie outside all alone.
Speaker 8: Well, I guessed I've had my daid. Can you let
Speaker 8: me go my way?
Speaker 6: Now it's me who has to pay.
Speaker 7: I never should have gone away.
Speaker 10: I've never shooting away like.
Speaker 7: I did with teas.
Speaker 11: Your I've thought you take me back, but down to
Speaker 11: my surprise, on the outside looking in, gotta.
Speaker 9: Right away, gotta right away, back to your.
Speaker 7: Once again. Won't you take me back again?
Speaker 6: I'll be waiting here then, on the outside looking in.
Speaker 6: Won't you take it go back again? I'll be waiting
Speaker 6: here to then, on the outside looking in, on the outside.
Speaker 7: How the wall be cut?
Speaker 2: And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to our very special
Speaker 2: radio show today as we continue to celebrate the history
Speaker 2: of rock and roll on the line giving us this
Speaker 2: exclusive interview today, and we're grateful for his time. Little
Speaker 2: Anthony Anthony Gordene of the namesake of the band Little
Speaker 2: Anthony in the Imperials. He joins us throughout the entirety
Speaker 2: of our radio show reminiscing about old times, at present
Speaker 2: times and times.
Speaker 3: Of the future. In the Story of rock and Roll.
Speaker 2: I got to start off this way nineteen sixty four,
Speaker 2: and I'm reading this from one of the excerpts here
Speaker 2: in the jacket of one of the albums I have.
Speaker 2: The year of the British Invasion. It was a time
Speaker 2: when musicians who weren't from England had a lot of
Speaker 2: trouble getting airplay. Even Elvis Presy, the King of rock
Speaker 2: and roll, couldn't make it into the top ten. If
Speaker 2: you were an American act, you had to be in
Speaker 2: the top of your class to survive. And you did
Speaker 2: the Beach Boys, as you know, the Four Seasons, and yes,
Speaker 2: little Anthony in.
Speaker 1: The Imperial Wow. It was some of us that's held
Speaker 1: our own well, we didn't know what was happening. We're
Speaker 1: just doing It was on rush music coming out of
Speaker 1: the out of the England, and obviously it was led
Speaker 1: by the Beatles. And then you went from there because
Speaker 1: z and acts came out of there, man, you know,
Speaker 1: and and they all were trying to get that kind
Speaker 1: of whatever the Beatles were doing. And but on the
Speaker 1: other hand, the contemporary R and B or contemporary pop
Speaker 1: still hold us all if there was talent, and you know,
Speaker 1: dal Walk had them this mount of time, and you
Speaker 1: noticed Stan Applebaum, the Drifters, Lib and Stroller who wrote
Speaker 1: all those great songs Coasters, you know, they hunted it.
Speaker 1: They were just unique. Each act was so different from
Speaker 1: the other. That's a different in the day because it's
Speaker 1: very hard to differentiate between zoom because basically, if you listen,
Speaker 1: it's hard. You know, great you said that because I
Speaker 1: was just sitting in a car in my car on
Speaker 1: serious radio that I got in the car and I'm listening,
Speaker 1: and they have some really nice thingers today. See you
Speaker 1: sure she's a dell. Most of them are women.
Speaker 5: Yes, they are Sam Smith.
Speaker 1: Sam Smith. But and when we came up, it was similar,
Speaker 1: and they're sort of in another category because basically everything
Speaker 1: else starts to sound the same and it loses whatever
Speaker 1: it is that we had there was. There was only
Speaker 1: one Elvis, there was only one uh uh Bo Diddley.
Speaker 1: There was only they are one different. The founds were different.
Speaker 1: Their whole approach and and creativity was different. And we
Speaker 1: were living in and Arrow when everybody was excited about
Speaker 1: the new technology. Okay, oh you know new technology was
Speaker 1: forty five.
Speaker 5: Yeah, don'tnuts.
Speaker 1: Or those big gickets give those big old tapesmen, like
Speaker 1: he was amazing and everything cool Man colored TV was
Speaker 1: just coming out, you know, so it was excited. I
Speaker 1: didn't time Spot came on TV.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And I remember this Anthony. I remember going
Speaker 2: on Saturdays with my parents down to the Woolworth. I
Speaker 2: was in New Jersey at the time, and they would
Speaker 2: be looking at me funny because I wanted to buy
Speaker 2: the latest forty five. And that was so amazing because
Speaker 2: you bought your forty five maybe it was what sixty
Speaker 2: nine cents or whatever, And then I.
Speaker 5: Think and then you went over to the counter where
Speaker 5: they had the little cafe there, and my mother and
Speaker 5: father would say, okay, you might as well get an
Speaker 5: egg cream.
Speaker 2: Unless you're not from New Jersey or New York. Most
Speaker 2: people don't even know what that is, right right, And I.
Speaker 1: Remember when when to seventy eight, people don't remember that sure,
Speaker 1: And and then they had to figure out, wait, how
Speaker 1: do you pay the forty five? So they got the
Speaker 1: little up to playing it. That's so cool, it's amarsible.
Speaker 1: It was analogue sound that can't be duplicated today. I've
Speaker 1: talked to some of the top performances. Ove all said, man,
Speaker 1: when you came up, man, it was we missed something, Yes,
Speaker 1: all of it. Of the technology today, it's it's almost
Speaker 1: like it's sanitized.
Speaker 3: You got that right.
Speaker 1: Listening to the those seventy eighth and albums and analog
Speaker 1: vo you know, you can even hear a horn sometimes
Speaker 1: it was it was it was leakage everywhere you got it.
Speaker 3: It was real, it was real, It was real. You know.
Speaker 2: I got to ask, on a serious note, the story
Speaker 2: of Jimmy Scott. I've read a little bit of his bio,
Speaker 2: but the importance of Jimmy Scott to you personally, on
Speaker 2: a more emotional level, talk about Jimmy Scott because he
Speaker 2: deserves a lot of recognition.
Speaker 1: Yes, his lovely wife, Mean Scott, I've been friend for years.
Speaker 1: In fact, we just talked to her on Facebook just
Speaker 1: today this morning.
Speaker 3: Awesome.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Jimmy. I knew Jimmy when I was king
Speaker 1: was I I think I've been my first bend in
Speaker 1: I was like nineteen or twenty, Yes, and you know
Speaker 1: I heard his songs on radio. Jimmy was an enigma
Speaker 1: he was this very tall guy with his fety giddy
Speaker 1: by voice. Yeah. And and at that time you're hearing Sinatra,
Speaker 1: you're hearing that Cold, you're hearing Tony Manette. You had
Speaker 1: all these powerful uh melt tomad, do you have any
Speaker 1: powerful voices? They delsa, the fmingos, you know, on and
Speaker 1: on and on and on and and every voice was powerful.
Speaker 1: But here comes this guy that's like almost like a
Speaker 1: woman's voice, not almost you if you didn't know the
Speaker 1: time out he was a guy, you.
Speaker 2: Thought he was a lady or somebody. Right, you never know, right.
Speaker 2: Nancy Wilson Dandy.
Speaker 1: Told me, she said, a whole career.
Speaker 3: Is built on Jimmy amazing.
Speaker 1: She told me, did you listen to their styles and
Speaker 1: simula we go whole notes, not a lot of my bottle,
Speaker 1: they'll hold it. And that's what he did. He made
Speaker 1: it famous and then he was a most honored respected
Speaker 1: singer from Miss Peers. Now he's the guy I've never
Speaker 1: had a gold ricket, never had any platinum, he never
Speaker 1: had easy Franklin not just said he was one of
Speaker 1: the prolistic voices of our time. Tony Bennett talked about him.
Speaker 1: Every major singer keyed in on this guy, and that
Speaker 1: was no different Frankie Lyman. If you listen to Frankie Lemon,
Speaker 1: who are you here?
Speaker 3: You know something you're doing and.
Speaker 1: Let me that's what I was listened to.
Speaker 3: You got that right.
Speaker 2: But let me say this, frank Frankie Lyman is another
Speaker 2: story that I'd like to talk about too. But you're
Speaker 2: so right. That voice of Frankie Lymon.
Speaker 3: You're right.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Scott very similar and all these greats that we're
Speaker 2: talking about today. But here's something that I learned too.
Speaker 2: And I know you know this. Lionel Hampton gave him
Speaker 2: the nickname Little Jimmy Scott.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that. That's quite interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I assume what I heard was this just a
Speaker 1: miss of what His voice was so light that he
Speaker 1: called him little even though he was It's the same
Speaker 1: with me. That name Little Anthony came back Alan free.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't because of my statue on Friday.
Speaker 3: Half Sure.
Speaker 1: It's just a voice are so light. If you didn't
Speaker 1: know what you think, there were little guys and that's
Speaker 1: how we got those names.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why we want to do these interviews because me,
Speaker 2: I like to talk about living history. And I've been
Speaker 2: saying this sincerely sir, you and your organization, your band,
Speaker 2: your group, everyone, and in this particular conversation today, we
Speaker 2: need to share this information. This is from me as
Speaker 2: the host. We need to pass along this torch so
Speaker 2: other generations understand all the great musicians of their time.
Speaker 2: And it's sad because I know and I'm not asking
Speaker 2: you this personally about Little Anthony Imperials, but so many
Speaker 2: young people grow up today with that, you know, cell
Speaker 2: phone in their hand, the smartphone. And maybe I don't
Speaker 2: know what you think, and that's why we have you here.
Speaker 2: Maybe many of them are forgetting about the great periods
Speaker 2: of music history. We need to presume.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're forgetting about it. Our schools are
Speaker 1: not teaching.
Speaker 3: There you go, that's it.
Speaker 1: And I can get on the whole subject this too.
Speaker 1: So I'm a charter school guy.
Speaker 3: Good for you. I love that.
Speaker 1: And and because we don't, there's no time you don't.
Speaker 1: When somebody said to forget one's history, that it is
Speaker 1: condemned to repeat it.
Speaker 3: You're exactly right.
Speaker 1: So when you don't know who where you came from,
Speaker 1: and I mean, it's so sad. I've noticed even back
Speaker 1: in the eighties where they were sampling records all the
Speaker 1: hip hop groups and the rappers, they didn't even know
Speaker 1: the people that they were sambling, but they knew something
Speaker 1: was good about it. So there were certain artists still
Speaker 1: out there was just differently different, and they held their
Speaker 1: own world, like like James Brown. Yes, and he's the most,
Speaker 1: he's the most. He the most. What do they call
Speaker 1: it with the artist? Uh? You know, uh, they use
Speaker 1: your your music and they put it in the record.
Speaker 1: I forgot what they call that, but anyway, Uh, they
Speaker 1: passed my mind right now. But anyway, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: They constantly listened that they don't know what the history
Speaker 1: of what was happening. Now, let's go back a little bit.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I was blessed to have
Speaker 1: a father was a jazz musician also and a saxo man.
Speaker 1: I played with Buddy Johnson and some of the top
Speaker 1: bands of those days in the forties and early fifties,
Speaker 1: so I was exposed to the to that error even
Speaker 1: though I was eight years old. Nine. I remember Illinoi's
Speaker 1: jacket and all the great uh you know, uh uh
Speaker 1: bird and all of them man and and and you know,
Speaker 1: it's like what an experience I all about that I
Speaker 1: knew because my dad jave this history this.
Speaker 3: And what was going on that's so important.
Speaker 1: To tell me. Right, So, even though I was very young,
Speaker 1: I had the great pleasure of Lucid and then blessed
Speaker 1: to have the villainy. I had made a lot of
Speaker 1: them as a kid, became a friend. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was amazing.
Speaker 2: Well, we want to hear about excumy. We want to
Speaker 2: hear about this, but we're coming up on that break
Speaker 2: again here on our radio show. And as we go
Speaker 2: to the break, leads and gentlemen, let's talk about another
Speaker 2: of the great singles here, going out of My Head.
Speaker 2: We're talking, of course, with Little Anthony Gordeen of Little
Speaker 2: Anthony in the Imperials rock and roll history here on
Speaker 2: our radio show today. Here it is, folks, Going out
Speaker 2: of My Head from October of nineteen sixty four, and
Speaker 2: we'll be back in just a few moments with our
Speaker 2: very special guest here. Throughout the entire hour, Little Anthony
Speaker 2: Gordeen of that very famous rock and roll group, as
Speaker 2: it talks about so many wonderful stories about love and
Speaker 2: music of the late nineteen fifties and sixties, Little Anthony
Speaker 2: and the Imperials.
Speaker 6: Well, I think I'm going out of my head.
Speaker 8: Yes, I think I'm going.
Speaker 7: Out of my head.
Speaker 12: Oh for you, Oh, I want you, want me.
Speaker 8: I need you so badly.
Speaker 7: I can't think I'm anything and everything.
Speaker 6: I'm going out of my head because I can't explain
Speaker 6: it to you.
Speaker 12: Is that I shave.
Speaker 6: For you.
Speaker 8: To I'll see each morning, But you just walk past me.
Speaker 7: You don't know that?
Speaker 10: How with you out of mynd my?
Speaker 13: Okay, oh my to you. There's no reason why.
Speaker 6: My being shy should keep us apart. And I think
Speaker 6: I'm going out of mind. Yes, I think I'm going
Speaker 6: out of my head.
Speaker 7: How my, oh my.
Speaker 2: You and welcome back to our show, Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: always great guests. Here today we have the privilege and
Speaker 2: honor of speaking with Little Anthony Anthony Gordeen of none
Speaker 2: other than Little Anthony in the Imperials, reminiscing about rock
Speaker 2: and roll history of the late nineteen fifties and sixties
Speaker 2: musical icons themselves inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame back in April of two thousand and nine,
Speaker 2: twenty three, years after the group's first year of eligibility
Speaker 2: for induction. Welcome back, mister Gordean. A privilege and honor
Speaker 2: to hear your voice and to share this with all
Speaker 2: those folks out there that love your music and your organization.
Speaker 3: Your group.
Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit about this particular time period.
Speaker 2: There's one man that I wanted to highlight here and
Speaker 2: he gets so much coverage, some of it maybe not
Speaker 2: so wonderful, and that is the story of Alan Freed.
Speaker 2: I'm enamored by this guy. Being a broadcaster myself, talk
Speaker 2: about Alan Freed, No, I could do it.
Speaker 1: Briefly, I met Alan freedland I was really young. I
Speaker 1: was fourteen years old and I and I was with
Speaker 1: a local group that didn't in a lot. It was
Speaker 1: called a Ducran and Miguelttle story short, we ended up
Speaker 1: on a record couple of called Royal Roofs, which is
Speaker 1: Teddy Reeg, who was one of the managers of Alan Freed.
Speaker 1: And so they told us, hey, he's gonna have a
Speaker 1: big show with the New York Paramount. Was that nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty five? Yeah, fourteen, Yeah, he was having a big show.
Speaker 1: Because I was in high school, I had to get
Speaker 1: Smith to do the show for a week at the
Speaker 1: New York Paramou and had everybody on there, you know,
Speaker 1: like Laman, teenagers, the Platters.
Speaker 5: On and on and on and on, yes, sir, and.
Speaker 1: So that we got to open the show, you know.
Speaker 1: And that was the first time that I met him.
Speaker 1: And he didn't forget. He didn't forget, you know, he
Speaker 1: would stand by the wings and watch. And also the
Speaker 1: unique thing about this that I met another man by
Speaker 1: the name of Tevye Donzell, who became a prolific in
Speaker 1: my life a few years later because he was with
Speaker 1: a group called the Chuckles, the Three Chuckles of that
Speaker 1: and yeah, and he was his dresser was next to mine,
Speaker 1: and that was it. He said to me one day, says, kid,
Speaker 1: you know, one of these days we would have worked together.
Speaker 1: Who knew that was? It was a prophecy, because ten
Speaker 1: years later, seven years later, whatever it was, in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty four, we ended up hooking up again. And that's
Speaker 1: another story. I have a book out called My Journey,
Speaker 1: My Destiny and then they just won't detailed about it.
Speaker 1: If anybody wants to check it out and can get
Speaker 1: on Amazon or whatever is yeah, and it tell you
Speaker 1: more in depth, because I know we don't have the
Speaker 1: time to get deep, you know, and to work. But
Speaker 1: that's at the same time I met these two people,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people ask me, well, how did
Speaker 1: you get that name? Little Afty? It was It was
Speaker 1: our great because Alan found out that, oh, you used
Speaker 1: to be that kid. And they opened the show in
Speaker 1: the DuPont you know, back in the wind when when
Speaker 1: you know, nineteen fifty five, ninety eight, he he, he,
Speaker 1: there was somebody one of the record promoters came into
Speaker 1: his office to try to promote our record tairs and
Speaker 1: my pillow, and he says, man, that kid's voice is sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's that girl's voice.
Speaker 5: Kids.
Speaker 1: She's got a great book.
Speaker 3: Said she. I gotta laugh today. It's so cool.
Speaker 1: He said, well, what in day Anthony bad? He says,
Speaker 1: he starts a little Anthony. Later on, when I saw
Speaker 1: him and did a show with him, he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: figured it out who he was. You were the kid
Speaker 1: who started with the dust.
Speaker 2: You know, that's an amazing story. But I got to
Speaker 2: go back to this whole thing of the DuPonts. Most
Speaker 2: people don't know this, but the namesake of DuPont you
Speaker 2: can figure it out if you think long enough. You
Speaker 2: named it after what the chemical company? Tell me how
Speaker 2: that came about?
Speaker 1: I do anything. I was inducted, reducted William doy the
Speaker 1: name we got out it right. I don't know why
Speaker 1: where he got it, but yes, he did get it
Speaker 1: from the chemical company DuPonts. I'm sure he was riding
Speaker 1: along or walking along show named Yes.
Speaker 2: You know, I'd be remiss if I didn't ask about
Speaker 2: Tears on my below the Imperial's first million selling hit.
Speaker 2: That's incredible. I mean, a million selling hit in any
Speaker 2: time period, but we're going back into the late fifties
Speaker 2: and sixties. That's incredible. I mean that must have been done.
Speaker 2: A big smile on your face.
Speaker 6: You know what.
Speaker 4: The most incredible thing is what's hit ahover me and
Speaker 4: just because of people roll over the empasize and solo
Speaker 4: me and we're the only.
Speaker 1: Group that did that.
Speaker 3: That's incredible.
Speaker 1: That is the rock Wall of fame. It was our
Speaker 1: body of work that they put together and figured, my gosh,
Speaker 1: we never run at Grammy. They weren't the Grammys where we.
Speaker 3: Were coming up, No such thing, right, so.
Speaker 1: They we would just passed by with us. Take this
Speaker 1: gray area. But they realized people like Paul Shape for
Speaker 1: Paul Simon, Billy Joel, all the catch I knew on
Speaker 1: the committee and they said, this is this is stupid.
Speaker 1: The stupid is I'm figuring. We can't even think about
Speaker 1: Billy Joel said, I was inspired him when he was
Speaker 1: a high school to really, I want to be like you,
Speaker 1: but I want to sound like you.
Speaker 3: Now what an honor is that? Wow? The powerhouse of
Speaker 3: Billy Joel and.
Speaker 1: Look at you quite a long time. In fact, I
Speaker 1: was at his concert here and a half ago in
Speaker 1: New York. But uh, you know he induced me actually
Speaker 1: saying this is my pillow and Madison Square got nineteen
Speaker 1: thousand people.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. You know I remember this. I remember
Speaker 2: something too, and it helped me on this. Back in
Speaker 2: the seventies, I'd go live in New Jersey, would take
Speaker 2: the bus over to Madison Square Garden. Who didn't you
Speaker 2: know or if you lived there you went there by
Speaker 2: subway or bus. And I remember going in the seventies
Speaker 2: to Richard Nader's rock and roll revivals in Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: They called it revivals in.
Speaker 2: Yes, no, And let me say this, I know the
Speaker 2: sensitivity of the term doop and I and I wasn't
Speaker 2: going to bring that name into the conversation, but no,
Speaker 2: I just wanted to say how wonderful it was, Anthony.
Speaker 2: When we would go there as kids in high school.
Speaker 2: We would sit there and see the likes of Chuck
Speaker 2: Berry and Bo Didley on stage, and who knows, maybe I.
Speaker 1: Saw you too, everybody. And it was called those days
Speaker 1: a revival.
Speaker 3: You bet that was amazing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and it was just a bad era and
Speaker 1: it was a big success. And Richard Nada was the
Speaker 1: pop dog. He was the first to really deal with that,
Speaker 1: you know, and figure, I'm doing his revivals, so he
Speaker 1: really he really started that and it was hugely successful.
Speaker 3: You know, I watched it.
Speaker 2: I was watching television about three months ago on PBS
Speaker 2: and it's latest Saturday Night and I'm turning on and
Speaker 2: I see this amazing bunch of fifties and sixties rock
Speaker 2: and roll type acts and there you are on stage.
Speaker 2: And I said to myself, you know what, I'm going
Speaker 2: to give this a try. I'm going to see if
Speaker 2: I'm lucky and see if I can get in touch
Speaker 2: with Anthony Gordine, and you know what, we're doing. It
Speaker 2: my friend, and it was just amazing to watch these concerts.
Speaker 2: So you're going strong, five by five all over the place.
Speaker 2: I mean, your your schedules never end. You just keep
Speaker 2: going and going and going. And that's great.
Speaker 1: Well man, you know, it's just like I said. People
Speaker 1: have asked me, man, how do you how do you
Speaker 1: What do you do for your voice? What do you do?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 1: Obviously take care of it, you know what I tell people,
Speaker 1: it's not my voice. It's it's my father, God's voice.
Speaker 1: He catered to me.
Speaker 3: And it's a beautiful thing. That really is.
Speaker 1: Because it's seventy five years old. I blow my mind.
Speaker 1: I hit a note, it's supposed to sound like that.
Speaker 1: It's seventy five.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 1: So it's not natural, it's supernatural.
Speaker 2: It is it. It's a special talent. It's it's something
Speaker 2: that you're right. It's coming from the divine And I
Speaker 2: believe very strongly on what you're saying. I'm not just
Speaker 2: mincing words.
Speaker 1: It has to I wouldn't have that.
Speaker 3: It has to be.
Speaker 1: I'm living that truth. I mean living it. So I
Speaker 1: was in fact the other day I like to power walk,
Speaker 1: you know, because it builds up my lung power. Idea
Speaker 1: and then I do vocalizations while I'm really running. Try
Speaker 1: that one downtime much for you, but that's not why
Speaker 1: I do it. And and sometimes I'll hit a note
Speaker 1: and go, Nick, do that.
Speaker 2: Well, that's amazing that you maintain that smoke strength. I mean,
Speaker 2: there are many performers and I'm not kissing up here, Anthony.
Speaker 2: I'm just being very honest. There are many performers that
Speaker 2: obviously have retired, you know, they've hung up their coat
Speaker 2: and they you know, they go on the laurels of
Speaker 2: the great things they've done in the past, but you continue,
Speaker 2: the group continues, and I'm thinking I spoke with your son,
Speaker 2: and you know, I can't guarantee anything. I'm not that important.
Speaker 2: I just try to do a good show and people
Speaker 2: say they enjoy it. It'd be awesome to have you
Speaker 2: come out here to the folks in Arizona, and I
Speaker 2: know the perfect place to do it. I mean, we
Speaker 2: could talk about that off air sometime because you're popular
Speaker 2: wherever you guys go, and it's timeless.
Speaker 3: So there you go, right.
Speaker 1: I think I used to be in a Zona a
Speaker 1: lot esis the eighties. In the eighties or some reads,
Speaker 1: the kind of dried up, but show like that coceptive generations.
Speaker 1: You got different pace music and that's expected, Like I'm
Speaker 1: going to where am I going? Oh? I'll be in
Speaker 1: Angling for a week. So we're doing concerts there and
Speaker 1: sols that were not hit here, but songs that we
Speaker 1: big hits in Europe, like better use your head is
Speaker 1: gonna fix you now? And you tell that the people today,
Speaker 1: they go, WHOA, what so huge in Europe?
Speaker 3: That's amazing it.
Speaker 1: So I get these calls sometime and I'm off and
Speaker 1: running the Europe and I'm amazed sometimes how they how
Speaker 1: they reveal that. And I'm going in America knowing, would
Speaker 1: you remember what it was?
Speaker 3: You got that? Right?
Speaker 2: We're coming up out another break here, and I hate
Speaker 2: to catch you short again, brother. One more segment we
Speaker 2: have with a very very special guest here, Anthony Gorden,
Speaker 2: otherwise known as Little Anthony of Little Anthony in the Imperials.
Speaker 2: As we go out with this particular segment, we go
Speaker 2: back in the time tunnel and time capsule and hear
Speaker 2: a rendition of hurt so bad? Can you imagine?
Speaker 3: Folks?
Speaker 2: You were heard in love and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: now you're wondering what the heck's going to happen to me?
Speaker 2: These songs are powerful. You're listening to me. Steve Kate's
Speaker 2: here on a very special edition of our radio show today,
Speaker 2: reminiscing about many of the greats of the rock and
Speaker 2: roll era, and today that honor is bestowed upon us
Speaker 2: by Little Anthony and the Imperials. We'll be right back
Speaker 2: after these short but important commercial announcements that keep our
Speaker 2: radio show going. We'll be right back, and thank you
Speaker 2: for joining us.
Speaker 3: I know you.
Speaker 7: Don't know what I'm going through.
Speaker 11: Standing here looking at you, let me tell.
Speaker 9: You that it's all bad. It makes me feels lot.
Speaker 9: It makes me so bad to see.
Speaker 7: You work.
Speaker 12: Like needles and pins.
Speaker 3: People say.
Speaker 6: I've been making our own cave. She's in loud.
Speaker 7: Don't stand in your way. Let me take you the
Speaker 7: bad bad.
Speaker 9: It makes me feel so sad.
Speaker 7: It's called it so bad.
Speaker 6: If you why don't you can let me make it
Speaker 6: up to you.
Speaker 14: I'll do anything you want me to.
Speaker 6: You love me before, please love me again.
Speaker 7: I can't let you go back.
Speaker 10: You love me.
Speaker 7: Go back?
Speaker 10: It's all bad, don't it's bad?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 2: And welcome back to that has done them into this
Speaker 2: excite radio show that you tell us you like so much.
Speaker 2: Our special show today talks about the history of rock
Speaker 2: and roll with none other than the legend himself, Little
Speaker 2: Anthony Gordeen, the namesake of Little Anthony and the Imperials.
Speaker 2: He's been kind enough to join us throughout this entire
Speaker 2: hour reminiscing about the past and also talking about the future.
Speaker 2: And again, this organization, this group has been inducted into
Speaker 2: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back on April
Speaker 2: fourth of two thousand and nine, a great honor, mister Gordean,
Speaker 2: Welcome back. We were talking a little bit about so
Speaker 2: many of the stories that you came across in this
Speaker 2: life journey in the music world. But this is fascinating.
Speaker 2: Talk a little bit more about this particular time and
Speaker 2: in music history, because we wanted to talk before I
Speaker 2: mentioned a little bit about frank talk about him. I
Speaker 2: always thought Frankie Lymon was an excellent performer, as I'm
Speaker 2: sure you do too well.
Speaker 1: He was. He was one of the greats of his time.
Speaker 1: He was like Jackie Wilson. You know, those kind of
Speaker 1: people come along every hundred years, it seems, Sammy Davis,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing and that's where he was. Unfortunately, Frankie.
Speaker 1: I became his friend when I went when I performed
Speaker 1: for Alan Fie, when I was at the DuPont and
Speaker 1: Drankie Lammon and the Teenager on the same show at
Speaker 1: the Bromin and so I got to know him. Then
Speaker 1: that was the beginning of our relationship and then we
Speaker 1: became best a friend. At the same time we're both
Speaker 1: performing and making records. And he was a unique cat.
Speaker 1: But he had a lot of problems. Yes, you know,
Speaker 1: he got caught up in the drug drug world, which
Speaker 1: all of us did, but in this case it was
Speaker 1: picking his life. I mean, the story about him is
Speaker 1: unbelievable because this guy was really absolutely outstanding, saying him
Speaker 1: performing and I lived in a lot just watching Frankie
Speaker 1: and it is to be his friend and hanging out
Speaker 1: and going to dinner and know all this stuff was
Speaker 1: it was, it was. It was a real blessing to me.
Speaker 1: And in fact, when he I got that in the
Speaker 1: book when I was in Chicago before me and the
Speaker 1: Regal Theater in Chicago, and I got a call my
Speaker 1: wife's Oh, I was coming home. And when I got
Speaker 1: to the airport, my wife picked me up. She had
Speaker 1: that look put her face if something's wrong, And I'm
Speaker 1: thinking that, what is the kid's okay? First she says,
Speaker 1: I got something to tell you. I said, what, thank you?
Speaker 1: That with the city wall. He died the night before
Speaker 1: and I did that. Uh, he called me to meet
Speaker 1: him at a place. We always liked to go over
Speaker 1: the fifty fourth Street and Broadway. It would always hooked
Speaker 1: up and be over there, and and he was I
Speaker 1: was supposed to be in that day.
Speaker 3: Sad.
Speaker 2: See how precious life is. And you know, I don't
Speaker 2: want to get dramatic here, but I thought this quote
Speaker 2: appropriate a good friend of mine. I didn't create this,
Speaker 2: nor do I take credit for it, but people describe
Speaker 2: that this friend of mine describes life as this anthony,
Speaker 2: life is but a short dance in the sun. And
Speaker 2: I thought that's a very appropriate quote, don't you, Because
Speaker 2: it talks about how life is so precious and how.
Speaker 3: Short it is.
Speaker 2: And in this case, when you're talking about the sad
Speaker 2: death and the untimely passing of Frankie Lyman and others,
Speaker 2: we all recognize that.
Speaker 1: I've been touched. I have a believer, and I know
Speaker 1: who my redeemer is. I know who that that's clear
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 3: That's beautiful.
Speaker 1: It doesn't dance, it does not end, It just goes
Speaker 1: for moon station the other week. These were not meant
Speaker 1: to die. But we all know about that and all
Speaker 1: of that stuff, and we're just the said list of that.
Speaker 1: Like you see a cat a cat and a dog's
Speaker 1: a dog. We have the nature of the first man
Speaker 1: a work deserves to do it and so bad of
Speaker 1: life and death. Now whole world is moaning for that
Speaker 1: day when it when it's three days and it's turnal life.
Speaker 1: But that has been turned over for us. Whether you
Speaker 1: believe it or not, it doesn't change the fact that
Speaker 1: it happened. And I say this without any trepidation. That
Speaker 1: looks that when Jesus Christ gave his life, he cadence
Speaker 1: in this earth. God was here to get the only
Speaker 1: thing that can pay for what we did, so that
Speaker 1: we can look there. I don't you know what, I'll
Speaker 1: always say this every day I decor the morment. My
Speaker 1: best years are head to be. You know's going to happen.
Speaker 1: So someday I'm going to leave this earth. I need
Speaker 1: what kind of legacy would I leave? Well, I hope
Speaker 1: it's something that can people can look back on. But
Speaker 1: you can't stay here now because we're under that curse.
Speaker 1: We gotta go. But it's a good news. We can live.
Speaker 1: It's eternal. You don't you leave the body. The body
Speaker 1: is not going to Nurse Twanty have to go back
Speaker 1: to grave. But you yourself, the real person that's spirited
Speaker 1: you is a lie. It will stay left. You could
Speaker 1: be in one place or another.
Speaker 2: Well, I love that you know, you've said so much
Speaker 2: in two and a half minutes here. And I mean this,
Speaker 2: my friend, that you know. I'm a spiritual beating too,
Speaker 2: and I'm a believer in Jesus Christ is my savior.
Speaker 2: And I say this with no trepidation. Nowadays, and I
Speaker 2: don't mean to get political. It seems like many of
Speaker 2: these traditions are being sequestered or stepped on. And that's
Speaker 2: that that's shame.
Speaker 1: It was fore told that these days would come, Yes,
Speaker 1: sir and and so, But that's okay because you know
Speaker 1: the action from the bodies to be the president of
Speaker 1: the Lord. Now, that's for believers, but also for the
Speaker 1: non believe. It says in the Bible says it's a
Speaker 1: point of demand that died once and then the judgment,
Speaker 1: I don't want that part.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: So in other words, thanks to God, man, we'll all here.
Speaker 5: You're here, that's right.
Speaker 1: We're talking into good stuff. Time, beautiful. It's beautiful, all
Speaker 1: the bad, the good, whatever. It is wonderful gift to
Speaker 1: be able to have this physical body. Yeah, and we know,
Speaker 1: I know my day some days I think about one
Speaker 1: when I was seventy five. I've been as gracious you know,
Speaker 1: you know, and I fell so many people, man, Frid
Speaker 1: it's incredible of all the people that are gone that
Speaker 1: I came up with Ruth Brown, this one, that one,
Speaker 1: and it goes on and on and all. Lily got
Speaker 1: hundreds of seams right not here anymore.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It's amazing the way you put it. And I totally
Speaker 2: agree with you, my friend. And in the short four
Speaker 2: minutes that we have with you, I wanted to try
Speaker 2: to cram in as many reminiscing stories as possible. You
Speaker 2: and your entire group are what the first musical group
Speaker 2: to actually play the prestigious Copa Cabana nightclub.
Speaker 3: Talk about that. That's amazing, the first, the.
Speaker 1: First city group of that area. Yes, before TEPS A
Speaker 1: second people second, Yes, Uh, yeah, you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of complicated. Like I said, you get the book, you
Speaker 1: can read it. It's in the book. It's more get
Speaker 1: more detailed. But yeah, we were we were the first
Speaker 1: to go in and mister Juist, who's a trip, that's
Speaker 1: a book in itself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's amazing, my friend.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and many things we did when Weak in
Speaker 1: the Center with the Well in the Philarmonic Orchestra. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've had so many wonderful things over the years, and
Speaker 1: I look back and I have no regrets. Regret was
Speaker 1: if I could go back and do it again, I
Speaker 1: would do it.
Speaker 2: I'd like to be there. I'd like to be there
Speaker 2: with you as the listeners. Because here's a couple of
Speaker 2: cool things. You made two appearances on the Ed Sullivan
Speaker 2: Show That's Big Time. You're also on Soul Train, Dick
Speaker 2: Clark's American Bandstand, the midnight special Tonight's show. Wow, it
Speaker 2: keeps going, Anthony, It's just incredible.
Speaker 1: And that's what the reason is that. Uh, Paul Seiban
Speaker 1: told me saying that when we started looking at this,
Speaker 1: we did your body of work that got you the
Speaker 1: first group. They didn't have any Grammy didn't have anything. It
Speaker 1: was inducted into the Rock Hall day because of your
Speaker 1: body of work. Yes, it's una.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. So let's talk
Speaker 2: about the future here. We're talking about you not stopping great,
Speaker 2: you know, keep going, keep going. So you have concerts.
Speaker 2: People just go to your website and they're going to
Speaker 2: see where you're performing. Not only here, but you're talking
Speaker 2: about going to England. So this is a worldwide sensation,
Speaker 2: as rightfully it should be. So describe some of the
Speaker 2: things coming up for a little Anthony Gardian in the
Speaker 2: next year or so.
Speaker 1: Total, we're all over the place and I'm really going
Speaker 1: that's gonna be rough in October, yeah, you know for me,
Speaker 1: and then I'll go off and then what I'm doing
Speaker 1: in England is just me, little aftery. I do things
Speaker 1: a little affey, I do things lit pissed. But people
Speaker 1: don't understand. This is not what they think. This adopted
Speaker 1: perils fifty years ago. That do something said the eight
Speaker 1: years ago. That's no, people believe they die brand. We
Speaker 1: became a brand like that, the name the Imperials a
Speaker 1: little and the it of the brand. So we had many, many,
Speaker 1: many many members and there's only one cat survive other
Speaker 1: than me, and that's Ernest right with the guys with us,
Speaker 1: But all the rest there's been many many people that
Speaker 1: have some and became an imperial.
Speaker 2: It's amazing, what an amazing, what an amazing journey that
Speaker 2: you've given us here, my friend and I and I
Speaker 2: want to thank you here. We got about a minute
Speaker 2: and a half here before the top of the hour here,
Speaker 2: but I want to thank you so much, and I
Speaker 2: want to stay in touch with you. I mean, I
Speaker 2: appreciate your son Tony giving me the introduction to this
Speaker 2: and you know, folks, I want to say this to
Speaker 2: the audience, Anthony. It's not so simple, you know. You
Speaker 2: just don't pick the phone up and look up in
Speaker 2: the phone directory or the computer. I want to call
Speaker 2: a little anthei.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 1: My wife told me today, she's a she's you got
Speaker 1: thirty messages on your Facebook people back in May.
Speaker 2: See, Well you're a popular guy, and you know how
Speaker 2: to deal with today.
Speaker 1: I say, oh, my guys are gonna answer some of
Speaker 1: these people, you know, and but took out today. It
Speaker 1: was different than it was years ago.
Speaker 2: You know, Well, thank you for your time. I mean,
Speaker 2: I hate to cut it short, but here's what we
Speaker 2: have to tell the audience. First of all, God bless
Speaker 2: you and your family. Thank you for giving us the
Speaker 2: music strong for these years, and thank you for being
Speaker 2: a believer. And your story of life is a great inspiration.
Speaker 2: I'd like to have you back sometime if that's good.
Speaker 2: But stay on the line, I do, sir, I do, sir.
Speaker 2: Stay on the line with us as we go to
Speaker 2: the heartbreak. But I wanted to let the audience we're
Speaker 2: going to go out with this song, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: probably one of the most prolific songs of Little Anthony
Speaker 2: and the Imperials. Of course, would be remiss if we
Speaker 2: didn't play Tears on my pillow. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: to Little Anthony. That is Anthony Gordene of an incredible
Speaker 2: rock and roll legend and a band. Little Anthony and
Speaker 2: the Imperials once again inducted into the Rock and Roll
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame back in April of two thousand and nine.
Speaker 2: He continues strong and has some amazing stories. Thank you
Speaker 2: for being with us today, Little Anthony Gordine of Little
Speaker 2: Anthony and the IMPERI.
Speaker 6: You don't remember me, but I remember you.
Speaker 3: It was not so long.
Speaker 7: Ago you wrote my heart.
Speaker 12: Into tears on my.
Speaker 6: Pain in my heart, call by you. If we could
Speaker 6: start an I wouldn't hesitate. I'd sadly take you back.
Speaker 14: And tempt the hand of faith tears on my pillow,
Speaker 14: pain in my heart, Gobe.
Speaker 7: Love is not a gadget. Love is not at.
Speaker 13: All when you find the one you loved to fill
Speaker 13: your heart with joy.
Speaker 6: If we could start a no, I wouldn't hesitake.
Speaker 7: I'd gladly take you back and.
Speaker 14: Tell the hand of faith DearS on my pillow, pain
Speaker 14: in my heart, for fi.
Speaker 10: Who for fire,