Clark Peters

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.

Truck on down and dig me, Jack.

There's Big Mo, there's Little Mo, there's Farad Mo, there's No Mo, and then there's Eat Mo.

And so just the lyrics themselves introduce the characters and the rest is history, basically.

I'm not on the cast album of Five Guys Named Moe singing As Your Tay, which was Four Eyed Moe's song, because I had slipped a disc.