i looked at him and honestly, i said, it ll make me famous. what a player and arranger. it was really great to have a guy that great in your band. i had that gift, but you have to learn that instrument well enough to reproduce that tape that s going on in your head. beside the brass arrangements, his sense of melody, his expression in playing his horn, it s just uncanny. make me smile was actually titled vivace. first movement and then reprises at the end. now that i need you lennon, how would you like to be remembered? i remember john lennon said, just as a good little rock and roll band. you know, we wanted to just a good little rock and roll band with horns.
we were on the road 250 days, i think. we had all we could do just to keep our sanity. we would come home for a day and leave for three months, and be out there working every night. we were working so intensely we were traveling so intensely, we were learning and rehearsing the songs of the second album while we were on tour promoting the first album. when the second album came out, jimmy had written ballet for a girl in canon. and am radio said they were interested in make me smile . and i m in the car and i hear this. i go hey, that s the ballet, and i was going, i m in the car going, hey, hey, this is me on the radio, you know. i mean, i you know, i m embarrassed to say it, but when the disc jockey came on and said here s a new song by an up and
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