Speaker 1: And welcome to Cindy Stumpo Toughest Nails on WBZ. And
Speaker 1: I'm here tonight with Samy, of course, and our guest
Speaker 1: is who want to introduce yourself? And you want me
Speaker 1: to introduce you because you have a beautiful voice.
Speaker 2: My name is Darnelle Alexander.
Speaker 1: And like I said, he's got the beautiful voice, you
Speaker 1: have a yellow Nay.
Speaker 2: No, well it's happened. But I'm very stoic in that
Speaker 2: sense where I don't do a lot of yelling and screaming.
Speaker 1: Darryl, tell my listeners who you are, Darnell, I said, Darnelle,
Speaker 1: I said, Darryl oh Donald.
Speaker 3: She changes everyone's name.
Speaker 1: Michelle get used that that's called that's called metopause. Brain.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: So my name is Darnelle Alexander and I'm an R
Speaker 2: and B singer, but more so a K crooner. So
Speaker 2: I love to sing ballads, love ballads specifically. Was spotted
Speaker 2: on TikTok last year in May for singing in a
Speaker 2: garage singing Luther Vangels covers acapella, and that kind of
Speaker 2: started this whole trajectory of me being kind of like
Speaker 2: a rebirth for an artist to come back out and
Speaker 2: show the world what I really do.
Speaker 1: And then I found you and I said, I need
Speaker 1: you on my radio show. We're in thirty eight states, right,
Speaker 1: And I love when people say, oh, you're a podcast.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no no, I'm still a national radio show. Okay,
Speaker 1: you got the podcast that you're building, right bye.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you something, Cindy, what honey. So I'm looking
Speaker 2: at the stickers in the back that say jam in
Speaker 2: ninety four five, and you know, I have a history
Speaker 2: of doing jingles, and I don't know if you guys
Speaker 2: remember that jingle more Music in the morning, jamm in
Speaker 2: ninety four five.
Speaker 1: Yes, why do I remember that?
Speaker 2: Because I do those?
Speaker 1: You do those? So you do those germ in ninety
Speaker 1: four to five out of what state?
Speaker 2: So the company that does all the jingles for worldwide
Speaker 2: it is called Real World are ee L.
Speaker 1: So you're doing them for Boston Gym in ninety four
Speaker 1: point five.
Speaker 2: So these have all been done years ago, but they
Speaker 2: repeat them, you know, they play them over a certain
Speaker 2: period of time for syndicated radio shows. But I just
Speaker 2: looked at that and I was like, yeah, that I
Speaker 2: remember the jingle I did for them, more Music in
Speaker 2: the morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Germ in ninety four or five. We've been
Speaker 1: here for god how many thirty years. Germ in ninety four,
Speaker 1: Richie balls Will owned your gam and so we got
Speaker 1: to go back at least that far.
Speaker 2: Well, at least in the late nineties when I started
Speaker 2: doing yeah, yeah, that's cool stuff. Goodn to see you.
Speaker 1: Instagram. I don't know how. I don't know how. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you what else you tell her? I don't know. Good.
Speaker 2: So, after I had this whole craziness on TikTok, I
Speaker 2: went I think I got three point whatever million views,
Speaker 2: three million views on the so amazing Acapella. Then it
Speaker 2: somehow migrated over to Instagram, and then Dion Cole the
Speaker 2: comedian posted it on his page, and then all help
Speaker 2: broke loose and all kinds of celebrities and people started
Speaker 2: seeing it, like Julie ol white Ercle. I was like, bro,
Speaker 2: you posted me on your story. This is this is
Speaker 2: real life. Now let me get ready for what else,
Speaker 2: whatever else is coming.
Speaker 1: So you think that's how I saw it through that.
Speaker 2: I think I think that. So basically with social media,
Speaker 2: it's really cool, right. So it's like you remember the
Speaker 2: old commercial and I know you fill me on this one.
Speaker 2: You know that it's that parrel or whatever, that shampoo,
Speaker 2: and you know and so on and so on and
Speaker 2: so on and so on, and she told her friends
Speaker 2: and so on. Yes, yes, herbal essence is more of
Speaker 2: like a romantic, sexy sentual.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, you're right, hair product and so on.
Speaker 2: I do have quite a I do have quite a
Speaker 2: bit of knowledge on commercials and stuff, so I pay
Speaker 2: attention to all these things.
Speaker 1: So random, and then I reached out to you, obviously,
Speaker 1: and I said, yeah, I need you on my show, right,
Speaker 1: And that's how it starts, right, like anything else, which
Speaker 1: I'm stamp my producer do, right, but I don't I
Speaker 1: just go out and say and I screenshot it and
Speaker 1: I say, ross chase this man. I need them. I
Speaker 1: want them on, right, because if I can help give
Speaker 1: somebody that I think me personally has something to offer
Speaker 1: out there and give them free advertising, I'm gonna do that, right.
Speaker 1: So you just blew me away on that that song,
Speaker 1: and then I went I started. Then I started to
Speaker 1: follow you, and I started listening to one after the
Speaker 1: other after the other, and I said, Wow, this guy
Speaker 1: is so talented. What a voice, right, And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was like literally, you know, it was one after
Speaker 1: the other stament. You know how you get addicted to
Speaker 1: something and you're like, okay.
Speaker 2: Going down the rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's like when I watched somebody look at my
Speaker 1: stuff on Instagram. There are people that go absolutely postal, right,
Speaker 1: and you can see that they've looked at twenty two wheels,
Speaker 1: right or whatever, because it shows.
Speaker 2: Up, Cindy. Know, when we're looking at the reels that
Speaker 2: you make, we're just you know, they're either dreaming or
Speaker 2: they're saying this will be a reality, and.
Speaker 1: They look at my reels, right, So that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: It's like I call my you know my mine's kind
Speaker 1: of like pornography for houses, right, like right, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know house porn. Can this be you know, my life
Speaker 1: one day?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping to give something. Absolutely it can be
Speaker 1: anybody's life, right, you just gotta.
Speaker 3: Go now, our algorithm is going to be porn.
Speaker 1: Now our phones try to say point, I'll have point
Speaker 1: on my phone now, right. We didn't really, we didn't
Speaker 1: really just say porn Apple, like we sent house. We
Speaker 1: said houses, show me houses, lots of houses. But it's
Speaker 1: look If you can make a difference in people's lives,
Speaker 1: that's great. If you can't, you can't, that's also what
Speaker 1: it is. But I mean, there's not too many women
Speaker 1: doing what I've been doing for thirty seven years out there.
Speaker 1: Let's just call that what it is. Right, So I
Speaker 1: get all the I get all the terrible young guys
Speaker 1: like that are in their thirties that go, oh that's
Speaker 1: a terrible buddy. What kid? Shut up before I come
Speaker 1: to this phone. I break your face as you have
Speaker 1: a vanity that doesn't look like it came out of
Speaker 1: home depot. I don't even know where it came from, right,
Speaker 1: Like it came from some I don't know.
Speaker 2: But arts and crafts.
Speaker 1: It's just glow with right. And I'm like, but you
Speaker 1: really take a shot at me, like really, like come on,
Speaker 1: don't play, don't play. And the funny part about my
Speaker 1: social media is the white boys come after me hard,
Speaker 1: but the black guys protect me. They're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: see we've got some mummy issues going on here, right.
Speaker 1: And it's so funny because they'll send me messages and say,
Speaker 1: don't listen to these things. You know, they don't they
Speaker 1: don't see your tenacity. Don't see your fire in your eyes.
Speaker 1: I don't know why because they'll say, oh, she's an influencer,
Speaker 1: Oh she she her daddy built the business. No daddy
Speaker 1: built this business. No husband build this business. But there's
Speaker 1: a difference. And we see it completely on my social media,
Speaker 1: completely on my social media. And they're young guys. They're like,
Speaker 1: miss Stumble. Don't listen to those boys like they don't
Speaker 1: know what a hard day's day or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's just because you know, when you see, you know,
Speaker 2: real recognizes real. So when you got these little boys,
Speaker 2: they just have so much more to learn before they
Speaker 2: can get to that real point.
Speaker 1: Well, can we slap them in the back of the head.
Speaker 2: Maybe, Yeah, I think you could.
Speaker 1: Because I'll always say, look, kid, listen, I'm going to
Speaker 1: give you one more opportunity to back it down and
Speaker 1: then I'm going to masculate you. Right. And then one
Speaker 1: guy writes, do you always read your your comments? I go, yes, buddy,
Speaker 1: this is a sport for me. So when I go back,
Speaker 1: it's a sport like I'm bored. It's eleven o'clock. And
Speaker 1: then I'm like, I let me go fight with some
Speaker 1: guys on here, right, Let me put them in their place.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I still do that, but it's
Speaker 1: actually it is fun to me. So tell us what
Speaker 1: else is going on? Well, tell us your story. Who
Speaker 1: you are?
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh my gosh. So my story goes back into
Speaker 2: the the early nineties. You know, I've been doing well.
Speaker 2: I've been singing since I was in middle school, but
Speaker 2: then I started getting into the real stuff, producing my
Speaker 2: own material in the early nineties when Teddy Riley and
Speaker 2: New Jack Swing came out, and you know, Johnny Gill
Speaker 2: and all those cool artists like that, and ever since then,
Speaker 2: I've been going at it. But yeah, I'm from Seattle,
Speaker 2: Washington originally such a beautiful city. Don't know how I
Speaker 2: made it here to Minnesota, but I did. Probably It's
Speaker 2: a lot less rainy and a lot more sun, so
Speaker 2: I'm not going to complain. And you always try to
Speaker 2: find the brightness in everything.
Speaker 3: I have a ton of friends from Minnesota and they
Speaker 3: are all like the nicest, most polite people you've ever met.
Speaker 3: And they all work hard, all of them.
Speaker 2: They all work hard. Everyone hears about their business.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we ut been to Boston. People too much chowder,
Speaker 1: maybe too much legal.
Speaker 3: Childa so my friends that are from the Midwest, they
Speaker 3: say that they like wave to people here in the street,
Speaker 3: people because I'm like, what are you looking at me for?
Speaker 1: What are you waving to me? Why are you staring
Speaker 1: at me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, wait wait no, it's probably like this. They go,
Speaker 1: what are you looking at? It is Boston? What are
Speaker 1: you looking at? What are you looking at?
Speaker 2: That's hilarious. What are you looking at?
Speaker 1: What are you looking at? Darn all? That I thought
Speaker 1: was going to go with a break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: I'm Sin Stumpo, and you listen to Toughest Nails in
Speaker 1: WBZ and We'll be right back. And welcome back to
Speaker 1: Toughest Nails. I'm Cindy Stumpo and you listen to WBZ
Speaker 1: News Radio ten thirty. Sammy Darnell, that's a beautiful song.
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 2: What if?
Speaker 1: What is what is that?
Speaker 2: What if? What if? What if? What if?
Speaker 1: What did you write that?
Speaker 2: No? So there's a kid he's like twenty six years old,
Speaker 2: twenty five years old from here Minneapolis, and his dad
Speaker 2: used to be signed to Flight Time Records, Bob Johnston,
Speaker 2: and so they linked up with me through Instagram and
Speaker 2: we're making music together.
Speaker 1: Amazing what social media can do when it's you, isn't it?
Speaker 2: It really is? You know, really, if you want to
Speaker 2: manifest something, just you know, instead of scroll that word,
Speaker 2: but listen, but listen to this. Look, we're creating reality, right.
Speaker 2: So you know, when I scroll through Instagram, I'm looking
Speaker 2: for bits of inspiration, bits of uh, you know, information
Speaker 2: that I can use to create something new, versus just
Speaker 2: versus the scroll because I'm bored. I want to try
Speaker 2: to use my time as wisely as possible. And so
Speaker 2: then I ran into him and I was like, let
Speaker 2: me messg this guy and say, you know, you're cool,
Speaker 2: your music is unique, what's what's what's cracking? You know?
Speaker 1: So he does the same thing I do. So he's
Speaker 1: looking to move his creative juices, right and when I haven't,
Speaker 1: you know, just some of those days and nights that
Speaker 1: I just can't bring the designs together, Like my brain
Speaker 1: is looking at just like a white wall and nothing's
Speaker 1: coming to it. Because all these houses that we build,
Speaker 1: I don't have an architect that designs them. I'm down
Speaker 1: to the door, not buddy like. So is that times
Speaker 1: that you just need those inspirational photos? It might not
Speaker 1: be something that I like, but there might be something
Speaker 1: in there that then we creates my brain to go.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: You're always trying to make the next best album. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm always trying to do, right.
Speaker 2: I'm always trying to best my best.
Speaker 1: That's just a personality. What's your birthday sign?
Speaker 2: I'm a libra.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm a cancer so and she's an aries.
Speaker 2: See it's all good. It mashes really good.
Speaker 1: Here it matches. So now you're making music together November October.
Speaker 2: I'm in September twenty seventh.
Speaker 3: Why they're different, they.
Speaker 2: Are, they say, you know, depending on how earlier or late.
Speaker 1: He's put a light of virgo all day. He's partly crazy.
Speaker 1: All my virginal friends are crazy. See he knows he's crazy,
Speaker 1: so keep going.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, but you know, gosh, I mean, you know. So,
Speaker 2: I used to be in an R and B group
Speaker 2: back in the nineties called Second Nature right and we
Speaker 2: did Acapella AR and B. So we were touring and
Speaker 2: doing little stuff with Boys to Men and groups like
Speaker 2: that Patty LaBelle and did the BT stage, which was
Speaker 2: scary as heck because you know you're on TV, but
Speaker 2: you don't know who's watching, but you know everybody's watching.
Speaker 1: Bet right absolutely back in the day, yeah, back.
Speaker 2: In the day, right, And it was midnight Love, so
Speaker 2: you know, they kind of featured our song and we
Speaker 2: did a live performance.
Speaker 1: What it sound like?
Speaker 2: It sounded amazing.
Speaker 1: Let me let's see.
Speaker 2: Oh you mean like, can you show me?
Speaker 1: No, yeah, you can show me, and.
Speaker 2: You showe me? Will you show me the way to
Speaker 2: a hot show?
Speaker 6: Baby?
Speaker 2: Can you show me? Will you show me the way
Speaker 2: to your hot I'm singing really soft.
Speaker 1: I know with that Wake the baby, but but he's
Speaker 1: got nothing playing behind him right now. He's just sitting
Speaker 1: here and singing, just singing, just singing.
Speaker 2: But we so that was like our little theme song,
Speaker 2: you know, a slow love song ballad.
Speaker 1: And where are we going from here? Like what what
Speaker 1: you have conscience coming up?
Speaker 2: Oh? This is crazy. So as a result of the
Speaker 2: whole TikTok thing, right, this is like, you know, I've
Speaker 2: kind of been out of the loop for many years.
Speaker 2: And then I said no, I'm just going to go
Speaker 2: in the garage and sing a little bit of a
Speaker 2: cappella posted on TikTok, and then from there people were like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we want to book you. Like, come out here, come
Speaker 2: and sing. I'm like, you guys haven't even seen my
Speaker 2: stage show. You guys just want me to come out.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'll be happy too. So from there, you know,
Speaker 2: it hasn't even been a yet, and I've done a
Speaker 2: few performances in Redondo Beach, Long Island, Vegas, and the
Speaker 2: Apollo Theater in New York and The Grateful. I'm just
Speaker 2: grateful to write the Apollo Theater. I'm like, what is
Speaker 2: this life? This is great. Let me just believe in
Speaker 2: everything that is possible.
Speaker 1: And then if people want to hire you, obviously, Let's
Speaker 1: say somebody's I'm having a wedding for Samantha and I
Speaker 1: can afford to bring you in, and you want to
Speaker 1: come in? Will you do those type of acts?
Speaker 6: Or you?
Speaker 1: Am I manifest Yeah? Am I manifesting that you're going
Speaker 1: to get married soon?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I'm.
Speaker 1: Also manifesting them twenty three and I'm five to eleven
Speaker 1: and I'm just like a supermodel. But that's not happening.
Speaker 1: Hold on, maybe it's gonna happen. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't really understand that word. I can faceto that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can AI can make it for me?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm watching Michael Jackson. All these actors get
Speaker 1: older and old and older, and they're all dead. Like
Speaker 1: this is the greatest thing. Like you take a picture,
Speaker 1: you take a picture of your great great grandfather and
Speaker 1: in war clothes and make them alive. Like it's spooky,
Speaker 1: it's scary, it's weird, it's awesome. Though, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, the thing is with all the greats
Speaker 2: like you mentioned, like Michael Jackson and all these great
Speaker 2: legends that are disappearing, that's really my whole goal and
Speaker 2: drive right now is to kind of insert myself back
Speaker 2: in so you can still have a few left before
Speaker 2: there's no greats and nobody's singing you know, really good
Speaker 2: love ballads and music that really means something to people's
Speaker 2: hearts and souls.
Speaker 1: But do you see, Darnell that these young kids they
Speaker 1: are dancing to seventies and early eighties music. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: just got their own dance to it. But me and
Speaker 1: I'm watching these two kids right and they like act
Speaker 1: like it's the first time they heard Journey or Aerosmith, right,
Speaker 1: like right, whoa, whoa, And they listen to the beats,
Speaker 1: and they're like, we had the best music, and I
Speaker 1: think you might be younger.
Speaker 2: Than me in the eighties and nineties were the best.
Speaker 1: See I didn't like nineties. I'd like, is more like
Speaker 1: dance a lot of So there must be there must
Speaker 1: be ten years. How old are you? So we're five
Speaker 1: years apart? But nineties to me was like the worst
Speaker 1: music because I came out of that as a young
Speaker 1: teenager seventies and then graduating high school in eighty two. Right,
Speaker 1: and then the world changed around eighty four music, right,
Speaker 1: and you have the big herebeans. But when you well,
Speaker 1: you got hip hop came out, and then hip hop
Speaker 1: that's what and then you know then all that you know,
Speaker 1: but every we had soft rock. Think about this. We
Speaker 1: had rock and roll, we had heavy metal, right, we
Speaker 1: had disco, We had from Carol King, James Taylor to
Speaker 1: you know, Ozzy Osbourne, Aeros. I mean, what didn't we have?
Speaker 1: You want to cry? You put this song on, you
Speaker 1: want to get ready to get pumped out? You listen
Speaker 1: to chic freak Out, you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: we're going out, it's a same night. Let's play the
Speaker 1: disco if you want to just listen to you know,
Speaker 1: rock and roll, whatever, Smith, Rolling Stones, whatever it was.
Speaker 1: We had a great variety of lyrics and music. Then
Speaker 1: we went down a avenue that the music got to me.
Speaker 1: Music I wasn't really wanted to listen to my kids
Speaker 1: obviously did I'm like, okay, your mother does your dad
Speaker 1: and yeah, this is not for me.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: And a good friend of mine you might know the
Speaker 1: name Charlie Walk. He was the president of our republican epic. Okay,
Speaker 1: he was right, So he was was Tomy Mattola, Donnie
Speaker 1: Iron or the show that it was Charlie Walk. Then
Speaker 1: Tommy got fired, Then Donnie Isy wentz that position and
Speaker 1: Charlie went that position. Charlie was just in the studio
Speaker 1: last week and he said that music is going underground
Speaker 1: and we'll resurface again. But if you notice, you know,
Speaker 1: the kids playing guitars in garages, that's coming back too,
Speaker 1: and you want to see that come back. I want
Speaker 1: to see that come back. Social media.
Speaker 2: It's the beautif social media, and they want the reality
Speaker 2: to come back. They want to see people bringing it
Speaker 2: literally into their homes.
Speaker 1: But Donald, you watch these kids And I picked this
Speaker 1: up through COVID. The roller skating never came out of
Speaker 1: the urban communities, right, But I grew up roller skating
Speaker 1: right and round, around and around and around and dancing
Speaker 1: and spinning and trill and everything. And now you see
Speaker 1: these kids doing it again and it's not it's great.
Speaker 1: And then you see them collaborating out there, you know,
Speaker 1: on the on the boardwalks down on the west coasts.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable to watch that again. So of
Speaker 1: course I had to order pereer roller skates.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So I'm in the lower level. That's a good idea.
Speaker 1: I'm in the lower part of my office. I'm like,
Speaker 1: let me try this all right, Now, that was a
Speaker 1: really good roller skater, right, Like, okay, this is not
Speaker 1: so good anymore. And I'm like on the rug and
Speaker 1: I'm like, maybe I should try this outside? The rays
Speaker 1: going maybe you should, and I'm like, no, maybe I should.
Speaker 1: Then I went outside. I'm like, okay, I need to
Speaker 1: buy better roller skates. That's the But it's not really me.
Speaker 1: It's the roll skates. I'm going to spot send a
Speaker 1: lot of money on roll skates.
Speaker 2: Now, you know, there's houses that you can roller skate,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure you've been in for you.
Speaker 1: Yes, I can roll scan everyone in my house is
Speaker 1: it'd beautiful. And I can roll skate in the hockey
Speaker 1: rings that I build in my houses right and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do that right now because we're building one right
Speaker 1: now for a client, and I'm gonna take my roll skates.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rolls skate around. But I mean, your your
Speaker 1: voice is just incredibly beautiful. So that's my question. If
Speaker 1: Sammy got married, I can hire you or you don't
Speaker 1: do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can do that.
Speaker 1: So you do do weddings? What else do you do?
Speaker 2: I haven't done any, but I well, you know, before
Speaker 2: I not yet, before I resurfaced into this world, I
Speaker 2: had done weddings in my you know, early twenties, mid twenties.
Speaker 1: All that thought. Again, we gotta go for a break.
Speaker 1: I'm Sidy Stumple. You listen Toughest Nails on WBZ. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back and welcome back to Toughest Nails on WBZ.
Speaker 1: And I'm Cindy and I'm here with Sammy, and I'm
Speaker 1: here with Donell. Donell. That's you again, singing, buddy, that's
Speaker 1: your voice.
Speaker 2: But I know it's so good and I don't wait.
Speaker 1: So when you listen to your own voice like that, yeah,
Speaker 1: you pick it apart? Do you go? I have a
Speaker 1: beautiful voice? Like what is? What do you say? Like?
Speaker 1: I hate my voice? So me too? You hate your voice?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't like listening to it. Okay, I don't like
Speaker 1: to listen to you have voice either.
Speaker 2: When I hear it, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Feel it's so mutual.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people don't like voice.
Speaker 1: We're arguing right now. Don't know if you have a notice. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can't step with mother and daughter arguing. We don't
Speaker 1: like that. I don't like her voice was like mine.
Speaker 1: We'll just go to text each other. Okay, we're never
Speaker 1: gonna call you still sound like a cartoon character. She
Speaker 1: does sound like a cartoon character.
Speaker 2: But literally, people don't like to hear their voices back, right,
Speaker 2: But so when I do recordings, I make sure it's
Speaker 2: great so that when I do hear it back like
Speaker 2: on a showl like this, I'm like, yeah, you know
Speaker 2: I did my job. I did a good job.
Speaker 1: So you know you have a beautiful voice.
Speaker 2: I love the sound of my voice, especially you know,
Speaker 2: if I've got like all.
Speaker 1: My plush your hands, so too, hold on plus plus
Speaker 1: your hands. Do you ever like listen to DJ's through
Speaker 1: your years and they had the most beautiful voices. Then
Speaker 1: you met them in person, you went, yikes, whoa you ugly?
Speaker 3: That's why they were That's why they're Wow.
Speaker 2: Look, I don't have anything to do with this, but
Speaker 2: I know that when they're on the radio and they've
Speaker 2: got that smooth jazz voice said ninety nine point five FM,
Speaker 2: it's a great thing to hear in your ear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we just don't want to see you, okay, Sammy, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe I should do radio then if you if I've
Speaker 2: got both, you.
Speaker 1: Do, and you should because you have a radio voice obviously, right,
Speaker 1: so okay, but go ahead.
Speaker 2: But then that would like be exciting as well, right
Speaker 2: you know, Hey, you know they're like I heard this
Speaker 2: voice on the radio. But wait, there's more we had.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember was named Dave Bouche,
Speaker 1: David Alan. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2: That's really familiar?
Speaker 1: I mean I went to bed every night listening to
Speaker 1: him put me to sleep, like on Magic one of
Speaker 1: six point Saturday, David Alan Bouchet. To this day, no
Speaker 1: one's ever seen his face and by the way, one
Speaker 1: of six point seven isn't here, right, No one of
Speaker 1: six point seven was with when we would CBS radio.
Speaker 1: Still never met him, Like he's the man behind the
Speaker 1: black screen, right, like, no one's Yeah he was tired,
Speaker 1: but you know we only I literally stars hat literally
Speaker 1: went to bed every night bedtime Magic fell asleep. Wait,
Speaker 1: I mean that's when you put a radio on, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean like you literally had your turntable. I had,
Speaker 1: I got my dad was generous. I had the whole setup, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: stack stacked the whole stack, three things right, stacked up.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I went to sleep like that, right.
Speaker 1: So but this generation doesn't understand that they have the
Speaker 1: attention span of a fleet, right. But our music was
Speaker 1: just better and yeah, and that and probably that was
Speaker 1: the attraction. When I heard you sing, I was like,
Speaker 1: that's a good I love that, you know. I was
Speaker 1: just blowing away, So go ahead talk to me.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, and that's my whole thing is I
Speaker 2: want to keep that better music still in the forefront
Speaker 2: of the mainstream world of R and B music and jazz.
Speaker 2: So the new single that I released was produced by
Speaker 2: Dennis Atkinson Junior and Dennis Bettis and they are a manifestation.
Speaker 2: I know you love that word of what I've been
Speaker 2: looking to achieve musically, So, you know, bring the better
Speaker 2: lyrics in the vocals and the vocal arrangements and the
Speaker 2: music altogether to create a good sound that reflects who
Speaker 2: I am as a person, but also who I am
Speaker 2: as a vocalist. And the song amazing does that. We
Speaker 2: released that just a little while ago and been promoting
Speaker 2: that ever since.
Speaker 1: So can we hear that song?
Speaker 2: Yes we can. I can no misspeakfore.
Speaker 6: Yep, the things that I be, So when it comes
Speaker 6: to that, I'll talk for the whole night through.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 6: Oh then it said, may.
Speaker 1: I okay, now hold on for one second. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: on the phone right now. Hold on.
Speaker 2: That's Teddy Pendergrass.
Speaker 1: Not the tp A.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought i'd take this, Teddy, I'm getting around.
Speaker 2: The request for songs said, I thought, this is a
Speaker 2: challenge ring here, so let's go. Wait it.
Speaker 1: Fucking batter.
Speaker 2: Oh my, yes, I guess.
Speaker 6: The shad is some tennis.
Speaker 5: Killing it all myself time and time again.
Speaker 2: It's time I'm gonna win.
Speaker 5: I don't know the fun ain't sing honey, I'm going
Speaker 5: again takes a full times once start at again.
Speaker 2: I think I'm beast ready go mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Looks fucking another than naughty.
Speaker 1: K Okay, come on, brother, like that is bad to
Speaker 1: the bone. Okay, now we're gonna play your original song.
Speaker 4: Is there anybody on there? O? Yes, somebody? Somebody tell
Speaker 4: me why?
Speaker 1: Ay?
Speaker 2: No one tries to stay in love anymore. It's like
Speaker 2: everyone has an excuse. But that would never.
Speaker 4: Be a girl coach just so amazing.
Speaker 5: One of the kinds a love.
Speaker 4: I swear.
Speaker 2: Step coming, Namenge.
Speaker 4: Gone my heart.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's why you're getting people. Okay, you want to
Speaker 1: hear that song? How do people download that song, whether.
Speaker 2: It's on Spotify, iTunes, in any of the platforms that
Speaker 2: you may listen.
Speaker 1: To, and how the download's been.
Speaker 2: They've been great. Yeah, And you know, I threw a
Speaker 2: little video out there just to kind of get people
Speaker 2: and a roll up what I'm feeling when I sing
Speaker 2: the song.
Speaker 1: And that's the last one on your Instagram, I'm going
Speaker 1: to say, right the last post the hold I'm just
Speaker 1: in here.
Speaker 2: It's like red background, Oh.
Speaker 1: The red background, hold on, I gonna see it.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like your music's coming out for the
Speaker 3: first time.
Speaker 2: All over again, right seriously.
Speaker 1: So, Sammy, I want people to also follow Darnell on Instagram.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's under Darnell Alexander music with Darnell with one
Speaker 2: l as posted on the screen.
Speaker 1: Spell it for people, because.
Speaker 2: Because people will get lost if they're looking for and
Speaker 2: you know what else, Indy, I know you probably run
Speaker 2: into this too. All the impostors out there.
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus with your name is ridiculous. Crazy. I had,
Speaker 1: I had a woman, UH send me, and I can't
Speaker 1: reach you. I can't. That's why I gave you myself
Speaker 1: phone right number, because I can't keep up my messages
Speaker 1: on this how many platforms. It's ridiculous, it really is.
Speaker 1: But she called and she yelled. She was like, not called.
Speaker 1: She literally yelled at it popped on my phone. So
Speaker 1: if it pops down on my phone, I can see
Speaker 1: it right away. If I'm on the phone and she
Speaker 1: had capitaliz you gave me the wrong color paint. I'm like, lady,
Speaker 1: who are you? I didn't know. All the messages from her,
Speaker 1: like lady, who are you? Well, you gave me no
Speaker 1: I never spoke to you. I have no messages. Here,
Speaker 1: I go, what are you talking about? You told me
Speaker 1: it was Ben Moore. But no, ma'am, I don't know
Speaker 1: who you were talking to. I think you're talking to
Speaker 1: the wrong Sidney Stumbo. No I was talking to. Is
Speaker 1: there a blue check market next to that person's name?
Speaker 1: Then she said, wait and no, I'm so sorry that
Speaker 1: I yelled at you. I'm like, get off my page.
Speaker 1: All that thought we're going to break. I'm Sidney Stumble
Speaker 1: and listened to Toughest Nails on WBZ. Will be right
Speaker 1: back and welcome back to Toughest Nails on WBZ. And
Speaker 1: this is Ciddy Stumpo And I'm here with Sammy and
Speaker 1: I'm here with beautiful Darnell with the most beautiful voice.
Speaker 1: I literally listened him all the time. He just doesn't
Speaker 1: like he's in my bedroom every night. He just doesn't
Speaker 1: know he's in my bedroom every night because he is Okay,
Speaker 1: what are you got coming up? Anyways?
Speaker 2: So in May eleventh, Mother's Day, I'm going to be
Speaker 2: in Redondo Beach, California, doing a tribute show. So there'll
Speaker 2: be a couple of other artists. One guy is doing
Speaker 2: Teddy Pendergrats I believe and then Aretha Franklin, so it
Speaker 2: should be a really powerful vocal show for those folks
Speaker 2: down there in California.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I would look into some of the
Speaker 1: Boston venues that we have here, Like I'll text you
Speaker 1: a couple of places, let's do it that brings this
Speaker 1: this type of entertainment to Boston. And also want to
Speaker 1: hook you up with Dave from All the All, so
Speaker 1: he brings back a lot of the disco. I've had
Speaker 1: a you know, open up for a lot of those events.
Speaker 1: For God, in the last ten years. I've opened up
Speaker 1: for so many. But Sister Sledge and all those they
Speaker 1: all get together and they do their down in Bulkert
Speaker 1: in Boston, and and you you just can't believe the
Speaker 1: young people that come. I can't believe it. So I
Speaker 1: think for like Samantha's first of all, I had sa
Speaker 1: me at twenty three, so that's young. So she's you know,
Speaker 1: I got married at twenty and I had her twenty
Speaker 1: three and my son in twenty eight, So they grew
Speaker 1: up on my music. So I think these kids that
Speaker 1: grew up on just like I grew up. My parents
Speaker 1: were big Motown lovers, right, Johnny mathis Motown. So I
Speaker 1: wasn't listening to Elvis Presley in my house, right. They
Speaker 1: weren't an Elvis Presley fan. They were Diana Ross, Movin Gate,
Speaker 1: Tammy Terrell. The Spin is the fourth tops I keep going, right,
Speaker 1: So of course when I hear that music, you know,
Speaker 1: the intruders, I'll always love my mama, right, Like that's
Speaker 1: like that song will live on for generations of my family,
Speaker 1: all for my dad.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: My kids love it. But when I hear that music,
Speaker 1: it puts me in a good place, and probably when
Speaker 1: my kids hear my music, which is also my parents' music,
Speaker 1: with them in a good place.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So I'll get this all the time on my stories,
Speaker 1: and my stories would go from five thousand to twenty
Speaker 1: five thousand every story I post nothing under five thousand.
Speaker 1: Do you're got me a message I get? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I forgot about that song, or oh my god, miss Stumpo,
Speaker 1: I used to hear that song in my mom My
Speaker 1: mom and dad used to that song, or my mom
Speaker 1: played that song. Like I literally get so many messages
Speaker 1: on the music because I'll only put older music with
Speaker 1: my stories. That's it. You're not getting any new stuff.
Speaker 1: With my note. You can have new stuff. The old
Speaker 1: stuff goes just that's who I am, that's I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be someday I'm not right. So it goes
Speaker 1: from disco to votetown to soft rock to the era
Speaker 1: that I love the best right now again, I'm a cancer.
Speaker 1: We don't like change, right, So that's just what it is.
Speaker 1: But it's still shocking when they say, like, there was
Speaker 1: a song I put on recently. Check it out by Tavaris.
Speaker 1: You know that song? Check it out? Have you ever
Speaker 1: heard that song? Check it out by Virus?
Speaker 2: But I probably have.
Speaker 1: If you need a strong hand to get you through
Speaker 1: the night, a strong hand, yeah, just take your thing
Speaker 1: right now and just find check it out by Tavarus. Okay,
Speaker 1: just check and you know it's just like, wow, I
Speaker 1: can't how did you remember that song? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: But if you hear it, you remember it real fast.
Speaker 1: But Tavarus was all over you know, say night Fever
Speaker 1: or you know, they were they go, but they were
Speaker 1: they were a huge hit Toavirus. They were you know.
Speaker 1: But but people say to me, where did you how
Speaker 1: did you remember that song? But I just do write.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what a for breakfast, or where my
Speaker 1: glasses are or where my phonus.
Speaker 3: But I can sing every remember like history, facts and facts.
Speaker 3: But you remember lyrics to songs you don't and you
Speaker 3: couldn't write them. You can only sing them when you
Speaker 3: you I.
Speaker 1: Don't know, like I can remember every lyric to every
Speaker 1: song that I've ever loved from probably the age of
Speaker 1: seventy years old.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: And my father's just say to me, why can't you
Speaker 1: learn your schoolwork the way you learn songs different? Because
Speaker 1: I love it exactly. So by fast, Okay, we're going
Speaker 1: to figure out how I can teach you timetables. We're
Speaker 1: going to sing them to you. I'm like, okay, let's
Speaker 1: start singing the timetables right like. But for some people
Speaker 1: they'll never forget a lyric ever, right, And then there
Speaker 1: are people that can never remember lyrics right. So, well,
Speaker 1: you dance with people and they're dancing to the lyrics
Speaker 1: instead to the beat. Dude, go to the beat. Start
Speaker 1: with the lyrics. It's a combination here going on, is
Speaker 1: you know?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: I mean, like for me singing and stuff, that's the
Speaker 2: whole thing is with My whole world was taken over
Speaker 2: when Luther Vandros was in his heyday, and that's really
Speaker 2: you know why I have the sound that I do
Speaker 2: is because it's in my soul. It's in my heart,
Speaker 2: like just you know, the texture and the tones from
Speaker 2: his voice. And when I was brought to his concert
Speaker 2: as a child from you know, my mother brought me there.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget the way I felt and how it
Speaker 2: sounded and the experience. And that's what I want to
Speaker 2: do is bring experience people. You know, I want them
Speaker 2: to to you know, not just hear good singing, but
Speaker 2: to be like, oh, be taken back to a place
Speaker 2: or something that made them feel a certain way.
Speaker 1: Or isn't that what music's all about?
Speaker 2: Though, that's what it really is. It really is. But
Speaker 2: a lot of times you don't get that music.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, okay, so I've said the last mainstream, the
Speaker 1: last fifteen years of the music that's been out there.
Speaker 1: I don't know that's going to bring back happy memories.
Speaker 1: That music gives me anxiety, Like it's for fifteen years,
Speaker 1: more twenty years, you know. Look at I thought for
Speaker 1: sure rap was going to be like disco habits run
Speaker 1: and go right. And then when they dropped disco It's like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean they dropped disco like it just
Speaker 1: went out right, It's gone. It was gone, but raps
Speaker 1: lived on for a very very long time and it'll
Speaker 1: keep living on. It's just like the old sugar Hill
Speaker 1: Gangs of Rap and that run DMC all that I loved,
Speaker 1: you know, but then when it just got really nasty
Speaker 1: and killing and the lyrics just got so bad.
Speaker 2: Common and Will Smith left for that type of good
Speaker 2: stuff that people would just want to feel good too
Speaker 2: when they want to hear some rap music, you know, correct,
Speaker 2: you know, just to feel good, happy goal.
Speaker 1: And I just want to know this. I have a
Speaker 1: big question, like who wants that sex to that music?
Speaker 1: I don't get it, Like I really try to. I
Speaker 1: say to my son, do you listen that music when
Speaker 1: you're when you're making loves your girlfriend?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 1: What are you doing slamming each other's heads off?
Speaker 2: I got one song that you can do it too,
Speaker 2: which one? Hello? Cool Jake? I need love?
Speaker 1: But I just want to know, like do they put
Speaker 1: this music on? Like you know, like what are you doing?
Speaker 2: It will be the equivalent, It would be the equivalent
Speaker 2: of making love to a really hard rock song. Have
Speaker 2: you ever watched The Terminator. Yeah, keep going at it.
Speaker 1: That was strip of music back in the day. Okay,
Speaker 1: strippers use that poison, use that music for stripping, right
Speaker 1: heavy metal. That was all stripping music when I was
Speaker 1: like eighteen, nineteen twenty.
Speaker 2: Somehow they got it in the bedroom. I don't know how.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's a different type of sex. But I mean,
Speaker 1: what was better than Marvin Gay and you know, Timie
Speaker 1: Terrell and Dinah Ross and you know, I keep going
Speaker 1: and going and you know, smoking Robin. I don't know, like,
Speaker 1: and that was even before technically my time. Like I said,
Speaker 1: it was my parents' music, right, But their music was great,
Speaker 1: So why when I keep the tradition of their music?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: But like I said, I didn't grow up with the
Speaker 1: Elvis right, And I still will look at his videos
Speaker 1: today and realize that he wasn't very handsome meal when
Speaker 1: he was young. I just didn't know it when I
Speaker 1: was younger. But as my age now, when I look
Speaker 1: in the last ten fifteen years, I realized he was handsome,
Speaker 1: but his music just wasn't would have not been my music,
Speaker 1: And I can understand why it wasn't my parents' music either.
Speaker 1: But my parents us a.
Speaker 2: Kind of music. It's like we are kind of defined
Speaker 2: by music and we kind of like, you know, it's
Speaker 2: almost like clothing, right, you know, there's there's like a
Speaker 2: different style, fit and brand and style for each person.
Speaker 1: So you have something coming up in.
Speaker 2: Kelly, Yeah, Yeah, Redondo Beach.
Speaker 1: And how big of a crowd you think, you guys
Speaker 1: will pull it on that one?
Speaker 2: That one is I believe it's like twenty five hundred
Speaker 2: or three thousand people in that place. But you know,
Speaker 2: the first time I played there at at the Performing
Speaker 2: Arts Center in Redondo Beach, it felt like the Apollo Theater.
Speaker 2: Those people were crazy wild and just like feeling it.
Speaker 1: And now at this stage of the game, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: going to start now getting out there more again.
Speaker 2: And absolutely really enjoying it now. You know, now at
Speaker 2: this this stage of my life, it's like I can
Speaker 2: be more present. I'm more aware of what I'm doing
Speaker 2: and what's going on in the world, and just you know,
Speaker 2: when I show up somewhere how much it means to people.
Speaker 2: It's a different, you know, experience than went out in
Speaker 2: my mid twenties, you know, with the R and B
Speaker 2: a cappella groups, and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, you're your mad twenties. You're also like you
Speaker 1: got your mind all over the place like a jumping jellybean.
Speaker 1: You got two heads going. You don't know which head
Speaker 1: you should be thinking with. If you're out there having
Speaker 1: a good old time, all that thought it's in my face,
Speaker 1: got to go to break. This is Cindy Stumbo and
Speaker 1: you listen to Toughest Nails on WBZ. We'll be right
Speaker 1: and welcome back to Toughest Nails on WBZ. And I'm
Speaker 1: here with Sammy and I'm here with Donell Dona. Lets
Speaker 1: your song, buddy.
Speaker 2: I love that song me too.
Speaker 1: Samu Alay downloaded and she's gonna do sam on my
Speaker 1: phone and download on my phone too. But tell people
Speaker 1: how to download that song. Please.
Speaker 2: You can download Amazing by Darnell Alexander on iTunes, Apple Music,
Speaker 2: Spotify and other streaming platforms. That's Darnell with one L
Speaker 2: Alexander Donald.
Speaker 1: It was a pleasure having you tonight. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: to have a new friend. I like having a new friends.
Speaker 2: I'm honored to be on your show and I thank
Speaker 2: you so much for having me out.
Speaker 1: And I will get you that number. Just send me
Speaker 1: that high. Like I said, Okay, everybody, have a great,
Speaker 1: safe weekend. This is Cindy Stumbo toughest nails on WBZ
Speaker 1: and we will see you next week.