Clark Peters
đ€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Absolutely.
I get them, darling.
I get them, believe me.
They say...
Into your early life romance came, And in this heart of yours burnt a flame, A flame that flickered one day and died away.
Oh, that's cute.
The origin was back in 85 when I was in Sheffield doing Carmen Jones.
I had a nine-hour ride from there on a Saturday night to my home in the southern part of England.
And I would listen to Louis Jordan.
And I had done quite a few of these records.
reviews with a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful man named Ned Sharon and, um, his co-writer Carol Brahms.
Um, and so when I'm listening to Louis' songs, each one of them is a, is a vignette within itself.
And he always came with a little, um,
with a moral at the end of the song.
And some of these songs seem to be really talking to me.
So I decided to let them talk to me.
So I got as many songs of his that I could and strung them together loosely in a storyline.
And it starts, I mean, just when you think about the song Five Guys Name Moe,
is the perfect entrance or the perfect preface to the story.
Let me tell you a story from way back.