I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.
I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.
I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.
I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.
People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.