Clark Peters

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.