Speaker 1: With Jenny Garth and Tori Spelling. Okay, so we have
Speaker 1: him here today. It's Brandon's bookie. It's the infamous Billy Vera.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, American singer, extraordinary. Oh my god, you're here, Hi, Billy.
Speaker 1: We're so excited. Hold on, I just want to remember
Speaker 1: this moment. I remember it all too well. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you when I I can't Family Ties that was like
Speaker 1: this moment, uh huh, at this moment that was everybody
Speaker 1: remembers that song that made that scene on Family Ties
Speaker 1: like oh yeah, and nobody's happier than I am. That
Speaker 1: lived on with a lot of cover versions you have.
Speaker 1: Today was Tom Jones birthday, and so on my Facebook,
Speaker 1: I always put whoever's birthday it is in music, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'll put a you know, a song of theirs
Speaker 1: or whatever. So when when it's Tom Jones's birthday, I
Speaker 1: get to put his version of At this Moment or
Speaker 1: Michael Hoy whoever did it most you know on their birthday.
Speaker 1: That must be feel like such an honor to have
Speaker 1: people cover your iconic song. It's it's it's great. You know.
Speaker 1: I've been a professional songwriter since I was about nineteen
Speaker 1: years old, and uh, I used to be a staff
Speaker 1: songwriter at publishing companies. You know, they luck you in
Speaker 1: a room and a little half a piano and and
Speaker 1: you both comes in and tells you, Hey, Tony Bennett's
Speaker 1: recording next week, can you come up with something for him?
Speaker 1: You know, whoever pressure you just knock him when you
Speaker 1: knock him out, and you hope that they recorded, and
Speaker 1: you hope it sells. You know, I got my best
Speaker 1: was one of my favorites was Dolly parton what would
Speaker 1: You Write for? Dolly? Song called I Really Got the
Speaker 1: Feeling and I went to number one on the country charts.
Speaker 1: I was happy, Well, she's the nicest person you ever
Speaker 1: want to meet. In case you never have, I would
Speaker 1: love to meet Dolly Dolly either. Everybody loves the Dolly.
Speaker 1: Every loves this song too. Everybody loves you. You've been,
Speaker 1: like you said, doing this since you were knee high
Speaker 1: to a grasshopper or lower. Well, you know, my parents
Speaker 1: were in show business. You know, was an announcer on
Speaker 1: NBC for about thirty years, and my mom was a
Speaker 1: singer on the Perry Como Show. One of the background said,
Speaker 1: no letters, we get letters. You know, one of those curs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how did your parents influence your career? Then? Do you
Speaker 1: think I think just a professional you know, making me
Speaker 1: more professional? Uh, because there's really if you're not if
Speaker 1: you don't come from a show biz family, who's to
Speaker 1: teach you, right, Who's just you know a little little
Speaker 1: silly things. Of course, when I first started, first had
Speaker 1: a hit record, I got booked at the Apollo Theater,
Speaker 1: you know, in New York, and it was the Apollo
Speaker 1: was the pinnacle of black show business, you know, and
Speaker 1: I was totally white guy. But a lot of the
Speaker 1: old timers they would take it as their obligation to
Speaker 1: to show you the ropes. You know, hey, kids, this
Speaker 1: is how you make an entrance, this is how you
Speaker 1: make an exit. You know, don't say this, do that,
Speaker 1: And that's how you learn. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know how kids learned nowadays. Yeah, it's different now it's
Speaker 1: not people aren't so supportive of one another. They're kind
Speaker 1: of like you're on your own out there. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they make a record and the next thing, you know, oh,
Speaker 1: now you got to go on stage. You know, you
Speaker 1: gotta do an act. Whereas you know, in my day,
Speaker 1: you you did a lot of time, you know, crummy clubs, performing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: getting dressed in the bathroom, changing your clothing. Since your
Speaker 1: career was mostly music in the beginning, what made you
Speaker 1: want to start acting? That was not something I really
Speaker 1: wanted to do. Uh. We were playing at the Troubadoor
Speaker 1: every Monday night, you know, the first year I was
Speaker 1: out here. And the fellow that was my songwriting mentor
Speaker 1: was named Jim Taylor. He wrote wild Thing Agent. And
Speaker 1: he had a brother who was an actor named John Foyd.
Speaker 1: So one night John comes in with his acting coach,
Speaker 1: David pro Vaal you might remember from the Sopranos and
Speaker 1: Main Streets, and and he comes. They come backstage. John said,
Speaker 1: you know, Billy, I've never seen a singer do what
Speaker 1: you do up there. He said, you know, most of
Speaker 1: these guys come out there and say, hey, hello, La,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you feel happy, I'm gonna make you cry,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you And you don't do that, he said.
Speaker 1: He said, you you just get out there and lay
Speaker 1: it out there and let them feel with nature tells
Speaker 1: him to feel. He said, you know, he said, you
Speaker 1: should be an actor. I said, oh, John, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be an actor, man. You know, that's for
Speaker 1: you guys. You know, because John was one of the
Speaker 1: great actors of our time. In case you you've seen
Speaker 1: him recently in the Ray Donovan, he kills anyway. So
Speaker 1: he taught me to go into this class, David pro
Speaker 1: Ball's class, and I just against my will. And there
Speaker 1: were two guys up on stage that night, Chris Moulkey
Speaker 1: and a guy named Rocky Esaveria who became Stephen Bower.
Speaker 1: And I said, oh, these guys are doing something that's real,
Speaker 1: you know, and maybe I'll see if I can learn
Speaker 1: how to do this. And you know, it took me
Speaker 1: a while to make the transition, but after a while
Speaker 1: people started saying, Hey, you want to be on this show,
Speaker 1: Hey you want to be in this movie, Hey you
Speaker 1: want to be in this play. And I started doing it.
Speaker 1: You know, Oh you are you are natural and he
Speaker 1: knew it. I guess, you know. I think it coincided
Speaker 1: with something I've been working on when I still lived
Speaker 1: in New York. Um it was a concept I had
Speaker 1: and I didn't know other people did this. So I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, you know, I know how I've been doing
Speaker 1: this for a while. I know how to make people
Speaker 1: laugh and make them cry, and but there's got to
Speaker 1: be more. You know, what what if what if I'm
Speaker 1: doing a funny song on stage tonight, but my best
Speaker 1: friend died this afternoon? You know? Do I have a
Speaker 1: what's my obligation to be funny? Yeah? But it is.
Speaker 1: Do I also have an obligation maybe to include somehow
Speaker 1: my friend's death or that guy that cut me off
Speaker 1: on the way to the club tonight, you know? And
Speaker 1: and how can I combine all those things and and
Speaker 1: and make it bigger than just getting out there and
Speaker 1: singing in the song? You know? And so I was
Speaker 1: working on that and then as low and behold. That's
Speaker 1: kind of what David's class was teaching, you know, how
Speaker 1: to how to do that, how to bring all of
Speaker 1: the of your life experiences into the portrayal of whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you're doing. Yeah, you know, like it's
Speaker 1: like having a pale a painter and you've got all
Speaker 1: those colors and there they are, you can use them,
Speaker 1: choose which ones you're going to use, and that becomes
Speaker 1: so relatable. You become real to the fans as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they feel the connection on a deeper level. I think
Speaker 1: when you performed in that place. Well, you know, that's
Speaker 1: one of the things the old timers up at the
Speaker 1: Apollo Theater told him. They said, you know, don't be
Speaker 1: afraid to talk to him on stage. You know if
Speaker 1: they if you talk to him, they'll get to know you.
Speaker 1: And if they get to know you, they'll like you.
Speaker 1: They like you, they'll come and see you next time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how it works. I guess. Yeah, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: back to your TV appearances and You've done so many
Speaker 1: amazing things. But of course I have to ask because
Speaker 1: I'm a huge soap opera fan. You're on Days of
Speaker 1: Our Lives? Wait, did you play yourself on Days of
Speaker 1: Our Lives or did you play a character on Dave's
Speaker 1: Uh No, we went on There's the Band. Yeah. We
Speaker 1: did a couple of songs on Days and one of
Speaker 1: my by myself with the band, and another one we
Speaker 1: did a duet of an old hit I had some
Speaker 1: years before, cool story with children that I sang it
Speaker 1: with Gloria lor Oh wow, yeah, that's so cool to
Speaker 1: be How about take us back though? How did you
Speaker 1: get the role of Duke on Beverly Hills nine or
Speaker 1: two on. Oh, I don't know. I guess I guess
Speaker 1: I just auditioned maybe or maybe just somebody figured out
Speaker 1: you know, um, I can't he plays Thug of the Week.
Speaker 1: You know, I think you were a little bit more
Speaker 1: than Thug of the Week. I feel like you did
Speaker 1: not audition. I feel like they want to eat in
Speaker 1: that role, you know. As it turns out, Chuck Rosen
Speaker 1: was my neighbor, Well there you go. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: don't think that I adn'ty going to do with it.
Speaker 1: And I knew Chuck peripherally, you know, because I had
Speaker 1: done some things for a friend that one of his
Speaker 1: best friends, guy named Bobby Roth, another director, uh I,
Speaker 1: and also sometimes the band had appeared in a lot
Speaker 1: of Bobby's We were kind of like a stock company,
Speaker 1: you know, asked Jen. Do you think the character Duke
Speaker 1: was named after Duke Fencent? My dad and my dad
Speaker 1: had a right I'm sorry, So my dad had a
Speaker 1: producing partner and it was his name was Duke, like
Speaker 1: I called him Uncle Duke. At the time we were
Speaker 1: doing the show, somebody said it was kind of a
Speaker 1: you know, an inside joke, and I always like inside jokes.
Speaker 1: Was it fun to play a character like that, like
Speaker 1: this kind of bad guy. Yeah. I like to play
Speaker 1: bad guys, you know. Uh. And then poor Jason I
Speaker 1: had to scare and you know, you had to rough
Speaker 1: him up a little. I didn't hit him or anything,
Speaker 1: you know, I did, I did. I did a similar thing. Uh.
Speaker 1: There was a movie called The Doors and I played
Speaker 1: a promoter at the concert where Jim Morrison uh exposes
Speaker 1: himself and the kid that played his manager, you know,
Speaker 1: the Doors manager. I think he was Ally McGraw's son
Speaker 1: or something like that. Anyway, so Oliver Stone said, look,
Speaker 1: don't be don't be afraid to just beat him up.
Speaker 1: So I made him cry a poor kids really and
Speaker 1: and and Oliver Stone never never, you know, he kept
Speaker 1: he wouldn't say cut. You know, he just kept going
Speaker 1: a distant with this poor kid because I kept yelling
Speaker 1: at him and calling them all kinds of vile names.
Speaker 1: And you know, that was that was my part. That
Speaker 1: was my job. You know. Oh my gosh, that makes
Speaker 1: me really happy, because um, my parents were friends with
Speaker 1: his parents and they were trying to set us up
Speaker 1: and he didn't want to go out with me. So
Speaker 1: his name is Josh. So thanks for thanks good, I
Speaker 1: did it for you. Well, you know, you did a
Speaker 1: great job as an actor, But you would have to
Speaker 1: say that music was always your passion probably, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my main thing, you know, singing songs and getting
Speaker 1: up there on the stage and relating to the people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, acting really was the sideline for the most part,
Speaker 1: although there was a period there where the music wasn't
Speaker 1: going so well, so I was actually making more of
Speaker 1: a living acting than than singing it. Well, that's great
Speaker 1: fallback then, right, Yeah, Well, you know I figured out
Speaker 1: at one point that the age of specialization was over
Speaker 1: m hm, you know, and and then that you that
Speaker 1: I had to do as many things that I'm you know,
Speaker 1: you're you're good at a number of things hopefully, so
Speaker 1: if you do them all, you know, maybe this year
Speaker 1: this one will do well, and next year that one
Speaker 1: will do well and this one not so well, and
Speaker 1: so combining them all you can make a decent living.
Speaker 1: I like that. Diversify people. Yeah, it's a good message.
Speaker 1: Modern rule of the show business. I need, we need
Speaker 1: to diversify tour. We gotta work on that, like start
Speaker 1: saving or dancing or I don't know, we can do
Speaker 1: something fall back on. It didn't teach you to dance
Speaker 1: in those days, they didn't. There was no training of
Speaker 1: any kind like the studio system. They just threw out
Speaker 1: there back in the thirties and the forties. They had
Speaker 1: to do it. You had to do fencing and thing,
Speaker 1: and yeah, he taught you actual skills. WHOA like remembering
Speaker 1: the old remember like look at all of us. Let
Speaker 1: me take that again. Remember when you had an actual
Speaker 1: printed resume, but at the bottom you would always have
Speaker 1: it would be like special special talents or special interests,
Speaker 1: and people would have like special skills, and people would
Speaker 1: have like fencing and like gymnastics. Yeah, did you have
Speaker 1: like dancing on their gen And like, what were your
Speaker 1: special skills, Billy? Besides fencing and singing. One time I
Speaker 1: had a I had in this movie called BUCKERUBONSI and
Speaker 1: I had had to ride a horse. And I hadn't
Speaker 1: ridden a horse since I was riding ponies as a
Speaker 1: little boy. So I knew this actress that that she
Speaker 1: was a good rider, you know, and she she took
Speaker 1: me out and gave you some stuff. And not only
Speaker 1: did I have to ride the horse, I had to
Speaker 1: stand on him. Yeah, not a stunt double. No, not me, man,
Speaker 1: you know important enough to have a stunt double, so
Speaker 1: you had to do it? Was the horse moving? No, no,
Speaker 1: you know what I got there in the ring room,
Speaker 1: I said, Man, you know, I'm a little scared to
Speaker 1: get it right. Of course I have only had a
Speaker 1: few lessons. He said, don't worry about it. That these
Speaker 1: are movie star horses. They won't let you fall. They
Speaker 1: can They're trained to sense when you're about to, you know,
Speaker 1: do this, and and they move. They know how to
Speaker 1: move so that you won't fall. You can't fall, So
Speaker 1: I didn't, Thank god, Oh my god, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: We would be remiss if we did not talk about
Speaker 1: your song at this moment. And it's how it became
Speaker 1: such an iconic symbol after it was featured on Family Ties.
Speaker 1: I don't think that we really talked about that enough
Speaker 1: because it really had a huge impact on the world
Speaker 1: and your career. Like what you what happened? How did
Speaker 1: that go down? Well? Um, I had written this song
Speaker 1: back when I still lived in New York, Uh, living
Speaker 1: at my mother's as like a loser musician at age
Speaker 1: and uh, when Dolly cut my song, I'm got an
Speaker 1: offer to move out here and write songs for Warner Brothers.
Speaker 1: And I had already written at this moment it had
Speaker 1: come about. I had just I was I guess I
Speaker 1: was thirty three at the time, and I had this
Speaker 1: little twenty year old college girlfriend and she was telling
Speaker 1: me about her previous boyfriend and how crushed he was
Speaker 1: when he when she left him, and how destroyed he
Speaker 1: wasn't just all this and I kind of started writing
Speaker 1: it from what I perceived as his point of view. Wow,
Speaker 1: you know, and well, you know, it's like acting. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta write a song for a girl singer,
Speaker 1: so you gotta you gotta be a girl for the
Speaker 1: twenty minutes it takes you right there song, you know.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Uh, I got about two thirds of the
Speaker 1: way through the song. I couldn't figure out how to
Speaker 1: end it. And then when she dumped me a year later,
Speaker 1: I knew how it ended that last first. So I
Speaker 1: came out here and that was my publisher heard it.
Speaker 1: This guy had been music business forever, and uh he
Speaker 1: had me play a couple of songs for his staff
Speaker 1: and that was one of them. And I don't really
Speaker 1: didn't think it was a commercial song. You know, it
Speaker 1: didn't have a great title, you know, a memorable title.
Speaker 1: I turned anyway, I turned around, and there he is.
Speaker 1: He's got tears coming down his face. This is this hard,
Speaker 1: hardened businessman. I said, Wow, maybe this song really has something.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we started doing it in the clubs and
Speaker 1: we got a record you and that was one of
Speaker 1: the songs he recorded. Well, the record company went out
Speaker 1: of business, and then I was five years between record deals,
Speaker 1: and then the golden phone call comes. Guy says, my
Speaker 1: name is Michael Whitehorn. I produced and write for a
Speaker 1: showk Family Times, and we heard you do a song
Speaker 1: at the club the other night. We came to see you,
Speaker 1: and we think it might be good for an episode
Speaker 1: we have coming up. And I said, what's the name
Speaker 1: of it? He said, I don't know whatever the title
Speaker 1: it was, So I knew that's what the song was.
Speaker 1: When he couldn't think of the title, that's it was it. Well,
Speaker 1: I said, we'll call my publisher called Warner Brothers, and
Speaker 1: licensed the song for the show. So he did, and
Speaker 1: I get a bank full of mail. You know, I
Speaker 1: had had songs on TV shows before it. Usually you
Speaker 1: make a few bucks and that's nice. That's the end
Speaker 1: of it. But ma'am so I said, well, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe this song has something, maybe somebody will let me
Speaker 1: re record it. And everybody I called said no. And
Speaker 1: one day I was having lunch with a friend of
Speaker 1: mine who owned Rhino Records, and that's a company that
Speaker 1: puts out all these goodies, and we have these mock arguments.
Speaker 1: You know, whose version of Mustang salarly is the best?
Speaker 1: You know. We had these lunches and I told him
Speaker 1: about family ties. I said, I said, how many records
Speaker 1: do you need to sell to break even at your company? Said, oh,
Speaker 1: we have a small staff here, not made a couple
Speaker 1: of thousands, and so I'll guarantee you two thousand if
Speaker 1: you put it out. Put it out. He said sure.
Speaker 1: And he only did it because he likes me. He'll
Speaker 1: tell you to this day. He just figured to do
Speaker 1: your favor and nothing would come of it. And as
Speaker 1: as Lady luck would have it, they used to the
Speaker 1: following season and the girl breaks up with Michael J. Fox.
Speaker 1: Then the story of the song and the story of
Speaker 1: the episode Boy Loses Girl were the same, and the
Speaker 1: public responded. NBC said they had more phone calls than
Speaker 1: any time in the history of the network for a song,
Speaker 1: and people started calling radio stations, they started calling record stores.
Speaker 1: There was no promotion because Ranno didn't know how to promote,
Speaker 1: and it was an organic, uh you know, grassroots kind
Speaker 1: of record that just boom took off. The next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the number one record. I'm forty two
Speaker 1: years old, got the number one record. Yeah, I went
Speaker 1: on Dick Clark. You know, one of my dreams was
Speaker 1: to be on American band Stand. Did Johnny Carson nine times,
Speaker 1: you know, so it was cool. It turned out to
Speaker 1: change my life for the better. Great story. I was
Speaker 1: twelve years old and literally I still to the same
Speaker 1: forty nine. Can remember that scene and that song like
Speaker 1: it's and it was, I mean I loved Alex and
Speaker 1: Ellen like, but it was that song that made made it.
Speaker 1: It made everything. And it was probably my first like
Speaker 1: thing into like loving romance and watching that in movies
Speaker 1: and TV and um, you know, heartbreak and wanting it
Speaker 1: to work out. It's like a song concealed the deal
Speaker 1: on that you were twelve years old, Yeah, a little baby.
Speaker 1: That funny thing about that song, I mean vividly remember
Speaker 1: I mean, there were kids that made it their junior
Speaker 1: high school record hop song. There were sixty five year
Speaker 1: old couples was their song. It crossed every demographic group.
Speaker 1: It was being on the pop chart. Yeah, like when
Speaker 1: that played in high school dances, Oh my gosh, she
Speaker 1: just looked around and you were praying like a boy
Speaker 1: would ask me a slow dance to. It was just
Speaker 1: that one of those rare, universal kind of songs that
Speaker 1: fit every format. Yeah. It just goes to show you
Speaker 1: the power of music, especially when they use it mix
Speaker 1: it with the medium of storytelling through film and television,
Speaker 1: like they're there partners, Like when they worked together like
Speaker 1: that so beautifully to create something so memorable. That's what
Speaker 1: that's like lightning in a bottle. I mean, people to
Speaker 1: this day, you know, come up to me. I remember
Speaker 1: where I was when Michael J. Fox was crying over
Speaker 1: the girl. You know, well he never lost her in
Speaker 1: real life because they want to get married and have kids.
Speaker 1: They're still but the other I know, like I think
Speaker 1: in Hollywood things don't work out. They have this great relationship.
Speaker 1: He was on he was on a talk show, you know,
Speaker 1: and he said, he said, you know, I'm getting to
Speaker 1: tell you the truth. I'm getting a little sick of
Speaker 1: the song, he said. He said, every time we walk
Speaker 1: into a place, the band starts playing it in real life.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's hilarious. I wonder if they played
Speaker 1: it at their wedding. Boy, you know it's it's really
Speaker 1: not a wedding. I guess not. People say, what are
Speaker 1: you seeing at this moment? I said, you crazy? Are
Speaker 1: you sure you want me to do that? I don't
Speaker 1: want to you can I ask you one last question
Speaker 1: about nine two and so you were You were in
Speaker 1: four episodes as Duke, but Duke later comes back in
Speaker 1: the show, but it wasn't you. It was a different actor. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't remember why that happened or how that happened.
Speaker 1: You're probably busy and on tour and stuff that we
Speaker 1: had to get something else. I must have had another
Speaker 1: gig that week or something. I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I would have done in a minute, you know, just
Speaker 1: one that was curious. That was my role. He wasn't
Speaker 1: as good as now. Well, you're still busy to this day.
Speaker 1: What are you tell us what you're up to? I'm
Speaker 1: going to do something really fun the end of the month,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go back and play at my high school. WHOA,
Speaker 1: oh my god, in White Plains, New York. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna do a show there, and uh it's
Speaker 1: a it's a really nice theater at the school. In fact,
Speaker 1: Alan older was it was the was alumni. John Boyd
Speaker 1: was an alumni. So yeah, And the last time I
Speaker 1: was on that stage, I was. I was in tenth grade.
Speaker 1: We we we wanted to be in the talent show,
Speaker 1: you know, and uh, you know, how good could you
Speaker 1: be a sixteen years old? So I knew a little
Speaker 1: bit of guitar. I put my best friend and I
Speaker 1: taught him how to play two songs on guitar stone deaf.
Speaker 1: He couldn't even the guitar, poor kids, but he had
Speaker 1: an amp. I couldn't afford an amp. And then uh,
Speaker 1: I taught this other kid out to play the same
Speaker 1: two songs on drums. And we went up there and
Speaker 1: we had friends up in the spotlight booth. So we
Speaker 1: want these cheap white jackets. We said, put purple and pink,
Speaker 1: you know, lights on us. And we got two hundred
Speaker 1: ninety six out of two d boats and it was
Speaker 1: it was really shameful because the kid that should have won.
Speaker 1: His name was Germano Romano. I'll never forget Romano, that's
Speaker 1: his real name. It was a classical pianist. His hands
Speaker 1: were insured for a hundred thousand dollars. He should have won,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean we sucked, but he looked good. Well,
Speaker 1: we played the Rocket Roll. I think that was the key.
Speaker 1: I can't lose with Rocket Roll. Now, you when you can't.
Speaker 1: So when you play, is it just gonna be you
Speaker 1: or it'll be your entire group, which obviously everyone knows
Speaker 1: is Billy veron the Beaters. I wish it was. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're coming with you. It's going to be a house band.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a multi artist show. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like bringing Billy back, you know, back home, and all
Speaker 1: the homies will be there. Fun. If you need some backups,
Speaker 1: we'll dance for you in the back. Yeah. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: try to lips, you know, Uh, to do a gig
Speaker 1: in New York, you know, usually in the city, but
Speaker 1: this is the suburbs. So because it's one kid must
Speaker 1: have done well because you bought three rows in the theater,
Speaker 1: so I guess so exciting anybody that's listening that gets
Speaker 1: to go to the show. You are very lucky. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'd like the things. And we play out here in
Speaker 1: a place called Vito. Yeah. Yes, we just played there
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago to celebrate my birthday. So,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we can see him. We could go
Speaker 1: see him at Votels. I know, next time you're there,
Speaker 1: let's go the guy who's the same Does the same
Speaker 1: guy own that place? Still? Bad is his name? He's
Speaker 1: on it? Not the old easier that used to own
Speaker 1: right that? Because that Votelo has had some history, some
Speaker 1: stuff go down. Oh let me tell you. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: some stories. I was called the Robert Blake Memorial Room.
Speaker 1: I still get nervous to go there. Yeah, Vincent, Wait,
Speaker 1: do you know the next time you're gonna be a Vatelos.
Speaker 1: I don't know the date. You can always go on
Speaker 1: billy vera dot com or you know, I can give
Speaker 1: you my number, you know, whatever you want. Billy Fair
Speaker 1: is going to give us his number one what I mean, Facebook,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. You know, it's okay, Billy, we'll just
Speaker 1: slide into your d M s. Yeah, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that's very exciting. Okay, Well, when you see us there,
Speaker 1: remember us, it's Jenny and Tory. We'll be like wean Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll announce you, man, every once while we get some
Speaker 1: famous people in there, you know, to come to see us.
Speaker 1: My boy Joe Pesci always comes when he's in town.
Speaker 1: He's a great singer, you know. Yes, oh great, not good,
Speaker 1: He's great. Really, I love him. He been singing since
Speaker 1: he was ten years old. Well, don't ask us this thing.
Speaker 1: Just trust me on that. Okay, maybe Tory actually, but
Speaker 1: I can't help her. Um, we're finding out so much info.
Speaker 1: Then I feel like this is like cool and so
Speaker 1: much fun time. This has been the greatest interview. Thank
Speaker 1: you for taking the time to talk to us and
Speaker 1: catch up and fill us in. I be to do it.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to do it. You're bringing back some good
Speaker 1: memories of being on that one though. Man, I mean
Speaker 1: this confirms that you are the real deal. Like, you're
Speaker 1: not just an unbelievable iconic performer. You are charming as hell.
Speaker 1: Like oh mg, like and want to hang out. I
Speaker 1: want to hear are so charming and adorable. Come on over.
Speaker 1: We'll play old old blues records in my house. Love it,
Speaker 1: love it, thanky so much. Billy, Well, thanks for having me. Girls,
Speaker 1: good look at your show. Thanks, thanks, not really, you
Speaker 1: gotta come back then. We gotta see if you tell
Speaker 1: us any time. I'm here for you, all right, love you,
Speaker 1: Billy your Oh my gosh, take care. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Billy is so amazing a heartthrob. I know, he's so charming,
Speaker 1: so charming and sexy and like he knows how. It's
Speaker 1: like eggs started to come out a little more and
Speaker 1: more and more as he got more comfortable. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, wait, we have to actually go. We have
Speaker 1: to we have to do that. We should definitely do that.
Speaker 1: I'm scared of hotels, but it we'll go. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so convenient though. It's right there. Okay, we're doing it.