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That's right is Three's a magic number you're listening to the uncle Frank show on b.b.c. Radio Leicester and I've got just this is going to be a pleasure for me because one of my favorite gems of being d.j. Now for many many years is the awesome song still pretty much one of all time favorites and I have the man on the end of the fire now from kicker on the card is one on the oldest How are you my friend already had such a good thank you thank you so much for sparing the. Law is an absolute treat when I get to interview people the people that story much music that I play in you are one funky cat and I've seen you I've seen you play out in a few years but now think it was pink a pop festival I think in Holland Oh yeah yeah yeah fantastic show and you do put on a great show of odd lot to just take you back to music that inspired you as a youngster or guess what was the kind of things that would do and if you back in the day well you know it's very interesting because I thank the gods that I had a very eclectic upbringing I grew up in the Bronx New York City and I know it sounds like a cliche but it was a true melting pot and we heard as youngsters we heard all kinds of music in the Bronx and that is why my influences are so varied because we we were 'd gifted enough to listen to those different genres and not claim one to be better than the other so one of the 1st tracks that influenced me as a youngster was right about 1957 of early on my dad and mom used to play 'd a lot of Patti Page in the house if the milieu with Patti Page but she was a crooner the male vocalist in America and there was this one song in particular that I heard in the house all the time called Old Cape Cod leave me with it I'm no no I'm not but this is what I love about talking to a major cool cat sometimes. You know a lot we all think. We think all record collections are the best and. Sometimes when I'm choking to some serious counts when I'm doing these interviews I get schooled with tractor I've never had before and I've got a sorry property probably huge He's not somebody that's been I'm a dog or horse and I'm going to try a whole college of your old Cape Cod That's I think that's the name of the place and America she actually put that that place on the map by singing a tribute to the place it's a very romantic song and Patti Page if enough in the with her she is magical whole voice is like oh it's indescribable it's just delicious and when I heard that as a youngster listening to her crew I would say it crooning thing in this love song but a love song to a place I never forgot it and as I grew older and older it still remains one of my favorite songs forever and it influenced me a great degree in writing the movie songs that became part of my my epic journey through the musical and I would say the Patti Page I would have to attribute that song and her self to a lot of my songwriting parents always primaries or caucuses a kid to remember all always music music was in the house nonstop and interestingly enough my children complained to me about the same thing that whenever they come to visit me there's always music in the background is never a moment when music is simply. So the soundtrack of my youth was the music that my dad and mom were and more so my dad he was he was more of a musician amateur musician that mom but but they both loved music is feel fine then. You're sure. Would. Like the. Bio end with the no. Should have. Would. Wasn't. That seem to. Greet. You. On Who are you. If you spend any. Just. Watching. It On. Yours should have. With. You. Spend. Your. Love with. You. That was wrong because his 1st 3 minute number is in the hot seat and he's an expert on music and he's got one of the crits about Rondo That was pretty pricey type college now August do you remember watching a Pacific on chased where all of us should tune you out Doc on a moment from God where this is something called I Want To Do Is there anybody from back in the day which really made you think oh honey this is something on me to do it came early it came early but it didn't come in the normal fashion it came in my junior high school in in New York City there was a 'd play being staged it was the king and I Rodgers and Hammerstein's the King and I I remember going to see the play because everyone in the school had put dissipate all watch the school plays and I remember sitting in that auditorium that I must have been 13 years old 12 years old who knows sitting in there and sorry I'm watching that show and I said that's me that's what I want to do and that was the awakening moment for me that I can remember perhaps the started earlier who knows but I do know that was a turning point for me listening to Rodgers and Hammerstein's music and the King and I and watching the actors and watching them thing and than changed my life now as I grew older if you want to name one person who absolutely rang my bells and a live performance that would be James Brown I went to see James Brown at the Apollo Theater. Yes I did I I used to say in line to watch James Brown which I never do for any a hard day. James Brown used to put on 3 shows at the Apollo Theater 1 in the evening then one later the 2nd show and then a 3rd show in the wee hours of the morning. He and and I stayed through all 3 shows and the Believe me his energy level was the same for the 3rd show as it was for the 1st and I was astonished at this guy's energy at the drive at the power of him being a band leader and that band behind him that changed my life because at that moment I said when I do have a band and I was that bad to be as explosive as that show I just I've just been rather have to go at the bow down to that guy who he was my hero more I want a great story I mean. Makes me jealous because like growing up as a kid from the u.k. I've always been heavily influenced by everything that was bubbling outs of New York and actually some of the West Coast music as well but mainly New York I joined a New York band nearly 20 years ago. Lived there yeah I see our soak up the the culture as much as our camp it's most have been just and such an excise in and somewhat maybe dangerous as well because you do you would have grown through New York in so many changes you would have been there through the funk era you would have been there through the birth of hip hop you would have been you know or you've just grew up in in a melting pot what's interesting is it makes total sense now that somebody was young at the time that was standing in line for these famous I mean there are absolutely no choice the famous the James Brown shows at the Apollo Yeah you were in there you were in the audience and it makes sense because obviously she from side stage fright in front of 30000 people at the pink pop festival yeah and you put a show on the dance in this entertainment this humor this funk this you know even blasts of rock n roll this everything in your show so it makes total sense that you know. Because you must've been influenced restaurant and sense of growing up in that town every every everywhere every other week we'd go to a show that was mind blowing and and and is you know those as a youngster these things stick with you especially if you want to continue in that zone the music business James Brown this guy who was so incredible because he would put out singles and then the next 2 weeks he put out another single and then another month he put out another and they all went to the top 10 the prob the problem back then was they had this demarcation of music and there was and is singles what do what's called the black single market which is ridiculous because music is music and that has changed thank the gods recently and people have recognized that music is music but in those days they had the black charts the pop charts the country west and shots. Were any of that very young still me going to see James Brown doing doing that music and also being influenced by music that had nothing to do with funk I was as a youngster you think how do I merge all these styles into my own signature and to tell you the truth of what the from my older brother I would never have entered 'd the music business because I was quite content being a schoolteacher believe it and wow I never knew that you were in school actually I would just go through those teaching English before my brother drafted me into his band which was called duck that was the original Savannah vamp and I never looked back so I have to thank him because I could have been a schoolteacher for the rest of my life. Yes to be very brave and in my time and I would talk about the 1960 s. In New York City you have to be very brave to leave a job to leave a well paid job to enter a zone with nothing. Guarantee without without my brother I would never had the courage to to leave to take that great leap day job well thank God for one thank goodness for your brother and and so you know you're absolutely right some people would have said that was suicide in the sixty's late while by job to ensure this thing according. To the survey was it was suicide and that is why that is why my if you were good at me what my 2nd choice what song would be it would be James Brown give it up or turn it loose with a game out 1968 it was still dark it was like 3 instruments playing the funk you groove I've ever heard in my entire life when I heard it when my brother heard it we both looked at each other and say how is that possible. I could be that funky So you instrument and we would like analyze that and we said if the think a patient. Instrument has a song. But they form a unit because of the magic magic give it a pleasure and it will read to. Us. All. C let. Me. Ask. You. Because. I did think about it I think you know when I 1st heard the track that's how much. Meant to me and you know the James Brown track in particular there's a mistake on that track and he didn't record it and that as a youngster you're listening to you say why do you keep the mistake years and because it is a magic that they're not messed with it is a lesson I learned when I started producing small sometimes I'll be able studio there's a mistake and I'll remember that James Brown track and I'll say I do think of the guys they leave that area even n k Ok We're not super protection was super magic. I think is imperfect and that's why there's so many so much to me it really changed my life. To something else people are influenced by by things in their life and you side Blaster about the best as you were coming through with me being a kid from the eighty's I believe that I was blessed by a little an artist called Prince Oh yes absolutely absolutely my mom musical hero obviously took you know he took a pound of James Brown in a compound of Stevie Wonder and it's a compound a Jimi Hendrix and you know it he became this monster which is which is the point size Prince but. I've seen him prior to 50 odd times from when I was watching watching yourself perform there's just the Scheinman ship that I think is been lost and when I say that yes there is some great shows you can go and see nowadays some of the some of the people the stars. It's very much curry graft and it's very much smoke America where when you see somebody that puts leaves it all out there on the stage you've got like Joe Cocker left all out there on the stage Amen Tina Turner left it all out there on the stage you know yourself you come off you know you're towels around your use when. You leave out that don't you know it's a wonderful feeling when you're friends that So in the good old days in my young. Younger days we ourselves were 2 and a half hours long and when we left that stage where we were driven through and through but it was a good feeling it was like We're not going to come down from this for another 4 hours so let's go out and party. And then there is my brother when I finished so I go to my dressing room next to get me into my old room. With a cook among. Our youth. As they say youth is wasted on the young but damn those are great time but. I appreciate you recognizing that there are some others I respect so much I remember going to see Sly and The Family Stone downtown Manhattan blew my mind that was California soul and he did a nice combination of pop and r. And b. That I think was under rated even to this day the guy was a genius he was magnificent Blystone and I love those shows but as you just said I was blessed to be able to see my heroes and to see these guys performing at the height of their careers and as a youngster those they left their mark on me I tell you Oh yeah for sure now ogress you won't be fair without talking to also about your your style your straight shot now. What do you strongly cellphone because of the years you've had some amazing looks me just walk up on another Sometimes I look at you and I think I look like I. Know gangsta from Miami back in the day with a drop top Chevy in and then the challenge you look like are selfish Where do you get your style from what influences you with your your dress sense you studied showed that all started when we my brother and I was fascinated by the 1940 s. Movies by technically 'd the gangster film so our heroes were just. You just said our heroes energy Robinson and John Garfield and Humphrey Bogart and the tough guys James Cagney and we used to go to the cinema and look at these guys and say What is it about these guys that makes makes them so cool even though they're doing a written this things. Called Rhodes and then we analyze that we said look at the way they look for Dora's in the box back stoop and the 2 tone shoes and that whole 940 s. Look became my style back in the 1st batch of an event and I love that so much that we continued with it into the Kid Creole zone so the style is very $940.00 is very Hollywood cinema forty's fifty's and this is natural because those those were my heroes I believe me I used to go to 3 movies the day back in New York City and I was a real eye to this day I'm still a cinema bust but the style definitely came from those Hollywood films where you wear it well my friend you know you look super quo. Now talk to me about what's new for Creole because I got your single sent to me just last week and it's really really good now I'm not shy and not because I'm a presenter and you know my guest I'm actually trying the new frontrunner status and it's true it's got like a bit of a new for you to say yes yes 100 percent and you know what I think I'm going to stand on the air with you Uncle Frank. Right here that I think is going to be the biggest record I've ever done and I know that that it's a curse to try and say predict what's going to happen but I don't feel it I feel it in my bones and there's a number of reasons for that number one the reason it sounds different is because it was produced by my son now wow yes that is an amazing thing because they've been trying to get me in the studio for years they've been the. Dad We got a song for you dad we got a song for you and I finally gave them. A couple of months ago and I still keep going to keep asking me until I say yes so I might as well go on down to the studio they played me this track and it was it just knocked me out and I said tell us let me have it let me take it home let me work on it and I'll bring it back and they said no dad that's not the way we work. Together to create this in the studio now to get up so I tried to fight my way out of it and say no that's not the way I work with they insisted that we all do it together so fast forward 88 Hours later. We have to spiral prize out you call it checked in my colonies and I'm so proud of it it's a beautiful thing it's amazing I'll be playing it lights in the show notifying it for the next few weeks because if it's in the phone from a group shot that we do have on a Sunday no it's a fine thing a friend now can we see Chris. Coleman Ok if you go any plans for any shows will guest yes we do we have plans to do what is called the 40th anniversary tour believe it or not wow he is in the business and I'm still standing tall. The bones hurt a little I must admit but nevertheless we are still jamming and so we're planning this a major world tour and 2020 will be going all through the u.k. In May and June and then off to Australia and the United States then to the south and Scandinavia everywhere so it's going to be a major top for us but we have a lot of cities to hit in the u.k. Yesterday if we could and I'd love to have you back next year when you when you pass you through the you carry my boo can have a couch open a chat and just say Oh it's always go and not be front onstage let me tell you something that that happened because my lady is from last night or no home and was not a drug user. The richest were just about to wrap this interview and then you go and drop one of the major things. About you ladies from my lady is born in the last name of Eva to the Jones what school in the last world where the hell that is 'd 'd . Left and she told me to say hello to Lester from Eve on the phone I'm saying hello. To she used to be a coconut for 18 years even to the Jones and absolutely or some Prosser less so that's why I know I'm going to see you when we pass through Leicester I definitely would have to go out to some food and and just to just to set the record straight all the best ladies are from the stronger I think. It's just a fact my friend. Now before you disappear. And find a track Three's a magic number so when we go in with this choice Ok We're going to go to my Calypso in Florence people a lot of people say to me you're from the Bronx what how why why is your music so Latin oriented so reggae so Calypso and it's because I was very influenced by some of the Calypsonian Mighty Sparrow in particular and Lord Kitchener so the so the 3rd song I'm going to pick is the new g.m. Called doc to k i t c h by a Calypsonian called Lord Kitchener talk about the British General them talk about this thing. And the song is called the ticket and what I learned from that song is all about the doodle on time how to sing a song that means something different than what you're actually saying and when you hear the lyrics to this song if you're allowed to play it on. You know what I mean are where I'm the north you want to stretch and trust me I'll reply and thank you so much Joyce for an absolute treat find you good luck with have another try and single market just. It's a really really. Interesting that you know that was the song that got you back in the studio. As well for Frankie So I. Thought. I am not. A. Step. Beyond me. She. Was in it was. Right up. There. She still was. Must be sleeping in a. Couple. Should. Stand . Beside. A point in front of the. Sun. Against the. News bring up. The Sun. Very. Frank. I'm going to. Play. The Boeing. Boeing. No longer exists. I'm. Going along with the election a. Slow a. Long as. Long as. The sole. Goal. The goal. Posts the Boeing. Boeing the lower. The ball go and the my accountant. This is. A long long ago. 3 is the magic number. Frank. Kind. Of the. Supply one of the funky. This is the. It's 3 is the name of the truck. You know. I'm a thank. You Susan. Let me see where. The new. Book published. A. Book. Deal with Though you. Get her. Own. Son. Basically saying. That she would. Meet her guests about. Hello. Don't. Just. Turn it up turn him on it's all going on b.b.c. Radio. a. Big creo. B.b.c. Radio Les started you doing really good this Sunday evening if. You want to get in touch I want trouble free for us would be less stuff as we head towards the official after show by. Talk about classics. On the c.c. Peniston right have been she read on the Uncle Frank show coming up seen on a Courtney's and then often on a claw and he think. That it's all good prank on b.b.c. Radio last or 10.9 on your bile. And turning it on. Radio last. Little bit across the board. A little bit. Trying to get to the. Tracks but always. This one. Thank. 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