Neil Sedaka

I'd love to hear Yiddish or Mama.

I do it half in English and half in Yiddish.

It reminds me of my mother who passed away last year, Eleanor Sedaka, who lived to 89.

She lived a great life.

I think it was originally done by Sophie Tucker years ago, and it's a very moving, very emotional song.

A Yiddish Mama Es gibt nicht besser in der Welt A Yiddish Mama I weh wie bitter wenn sie fällt

Licht deck ist ein Häus, wenn die Mammes du.

Wie treu dich finster wird, wenn Gott nehmt dir auf eulem Habu.

In Wasser und Feier.

That's an accurate description, Terry.

There was also a natural progression of five years of hits.

The Everly Brothers, Connie Francis, Fats Domino, Brenda Lee.

We all didn't have more than five years.

But as you said, the British invasion, the great Beatles and Rolling Stones came.

I wanted to write that story.

that style, and I did write that style, but my public wouldn't accept it, and the record company wouldn't accept it.

So for 11 years, I took a back seat, took stock of myself, raised a family, had my two children, and wrote for a publishing firm, and had some great artists record my songs, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis, Peggy Lee, Shirley Bassey, and

But, you know, once you get a taste of being in front of the public, you never get over that.

And it was 11 years later, around 1974, 75, actually, that I lived in England.

I moved my wife and children to England because in England they respected the original rock and rollers in America.