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Writer-producer who was really at the top of his game. >> i don't know what jimmy's contribution was to the early albums but i suspect the sound they had, he just had to harness the sound and just hang on for dear life. i don't think he was hands on getting in there playing, arranging and writing. the first day of the first session i said, peter, at the bridge you played a wrong note there. f, not e. whatever. he took me to the vocal booth. there was nobody in there and said, you know, i don't want you to out me in front of the band. furthermore, i don't want to play bass anymore. you play bas...

Arranging and writing. the first day of the first session i said, peter, at the bridge you played a wrong note there. f, not e. whatever. he took me to the vocal booth. there was nobody in there and said, you know, i don't want you to out me in front of the band. furthermore, i don't want to play bass anymore. you play bass. peter was unhappy in the group. the double whammy was it clicked. we became the power couple within the group. >> "hard to say i'm sorry" was the big first hit. it emerges from a movie sound track called "summer lovers". >> we went to the premiere. peter and i were in it. ...

>> that was fun. >> because -- >> recording was really tough because i was working on that album, doing this show, and my other album. so i turned my closet into my vocal booth. i would sing until like 7:00 in the morning. >> i recorded in my dressing room. >> if i did lead, i would do lead there and then ship it to him. if he did the lead i would do the harmonies. it's not like we really sat and did it together. >> are you pleasantly surprised? >> i have to say i'm pleasantly surprised because donnie and marie is a big target for critics. it's so easy to not like donnie and marie. >> why do y...

>> because -- >> recording was really tough because i was working on that album, doing this show, and my other album. so i turned my closet into my vocal booth. i would sing until like 7:00 in the morning. >> i recorded in my dressing room. >> if i did lead, i would do lead there and then ship it to him. if he did the lead i would do the harmonies. it's not like we really sat and did it together. >> are you pleasantly surprised? >> i have to say i'm pleasantly surprised because donnie and marie is a big target for critics. it's so easy to not like donnie and marie. >> why do you say that? i do...

Initially when -- it was more difficult -- >> i want to hear about this. >> he's so full of it. >> big time, baby. >> the thing that was fun was the process of picking songs. that was fun. >> that was fun. >> that was fun. >> because -- >> recording was really tough because i was working on that album, doing this show, and my other album. so i turned my closet into my vocal booth. i would sing until like 7:00 in the morning. >> i recorded in my dressing room. >> if i did lead, i would do lead there and then ship it to him. if he did the lead i would do the harmonies. it's not like we really sa...