Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Do not attempt to adjust your dial, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: We're sort of passing on our normal roll called music,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to bring it back to my hometown
Speaker 2: of Philadelphia. If you are a Philadelphian, you know that
Speaker 2: this particular theme has some sort of sentimental meeting. If
Speaker 2: you're a watcher of w XTF Channel twenty nine, of
Speaker 2: course they use the world famous twilight instrumental from our
Speaker 2: guest today. What can I say this is, I know
Speaker 2: I've said we've done special episodes of Quest Love Supreme before,
Speaker 2: but this is probably super special. The first time I'm
Speaker 2: using the words in front of it. So as you know,
Speaker 2: we are here in Los Angeles, California, doing this in
Speaker 2: person and not on the zoom. And the thing about
Speaker 2: where we're located is we're just kind of a stone's
Speaker 2: throwaway from the iconic Capitol Records building.
Speaker 3: When you think of.
Speaker 2: That label and if your love with music, you think
Speaker 2: of nat King Cole, the Beatles, and Beach Boys and
Speaker 2: Duran durand people pricing milk Boy, Petchhot Boys, Louverrawl's Natalie Cole,
Speaker 2: you know there's But for me in my childhood, when
Speaker 2: I think of that logo, especially the classic orange and
Speaker 2: brown logo spinning on the turntable, I think of our
Speaker 2: steam special guest today, and I will say that throughout
Speaker 2: my childhood when we talk about you get past the barbecue,
Speaker 2: you best believe that that barbecue is going to be
Speaker 2: somewhat scored in soundtracked by our guest today. You name
Speaker 2: the classics, we should know them all. They're national anthems,
Speaker 2: Golden Time of the Day, Southern Girl, joy, pain, feeling
Speaker 2: one dack and stride, silky soul, and of course you
Speaker 2: know the morning after.
Speaker 3: And silk not to.
Speaker 2: Mention the national anthem of life is before I let
Speaker 2: go right, you know, our guest is the definition of
Speaker 2: the barbecue, despite the fact that I've never seen him
Speaker 2: wear anything but the color white, and as a Philly native,
Speaker 2: it is only right that we bring our brother on
Speaker 2: the show to celebrate his life and celebrate his career,
Speaker 2: and we have his family with us. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: please welcome to quest Loft Supreme the one and only,
Speaker 2: the legendary Frankie Beverly, along with his cousin Miss Qugh,
Speaker 2: Miss Hugh and will thank you.
Speaker 4: I don't even need my.
Speaker 3: Own clap.
Speaker 5: America.
Speaker 6: Can I just ask you, we and DC would appreciate
Speaker 6: if you to say Philadelphia and DC's own today.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, see, thank you.
Speaker 2: Part of the running gag of the show is the
Speaker 2: fact that you know Layah often coach, which is where
Speaker 2: she's from today?
Speaker 3: You're from DC today?
Speaker 5: Yes, I have to wrap.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, well I'm.
Speaker 2: From Philadelphia to day. But guess what You're from Philadelphia too?
Speaker 3: Okay? Anyway, we thank you so much for being on
Speaker 3: the show. Thank you.
Speaker 2: There's so much like I I want to know and
Speaker 2: I'm so overwhelmed right now because you are a hero
Speaker 2: to all of us musically and whatnot.
Speaker 3: And I don't know, just thank you for being there.
Speaker 3: How are you today?
Speaker 4: It's beautiful. I'm glad to see you, guys, and it's
Speaker 4: just oneerful.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I guess what I would like to know is were
Speaker 2: you born in I'm claiming as my hometown. I was
Speaker 2: born in your hometown. Were you born in Philadelphia?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: What part of Philadelphia are you from?
Speaker 4: Born in North Philly?
Speaker 3: Okay, Jill wins not me grew up.
Speaker 4: A lot in Germantow okay, yeah, north side of things.
Speaker 2: I'm from West Villy, Yeah, okay, And I think gentrification
Speaker 2: now has me saying that I grew up in Walnut Lane,
Speaker 2: which they've recently called it.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly when gingrification comes through.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was once in the hood and then now
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, University of Pen has tooken over,
Speaker 2: so now we call it Walnut Lane.
Speaker 3: But I live in fifty second in oce Age.
Speaker 4: That's okay.
Speaker 3: What I mentioned like North Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: For you, what what can you describe to me about it?
Speaker 4: Well, I grew up there. I grew uptown then near
Speaker 4: the Uptown Theater, Yes, around that area.
Speaker 2: Where you often a witness of shows there or watch
Speaker 2: a lot of shows that.
Speaker 4: Absolutely to go around there, watch all gods of stuff.
Speaker 4: And then I got older and moved up to Germantown
Speaker 4: and that's where went to Wagner School. Yeah, okay, Germantown
Speaker 4: High Okay.
Speaker 3: Black Thought and uh Frankie Beverley went to Germantown High.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Spawn too, who went to Okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so rich related you went to Germantown High School? You know,
Speaker 2: were you at all in your beginnings as as a singer,
Speaker 2: were you more gospel based in like coming through the
Speaker 2: church or were you do wopped like what was your
Speaker 2: musical entry in both?
Speaker 4: I went to church a lot and sang. But once
Speaker 4: I got going in school, that's when the other stuff happened.
Speaker 4: Other things came in my life, you know. And I
Speaker 4: went to go uptown in North Philly, and then I
Speaker 4: moved back up to Germantown later on in my life
Speaker 4: and went to Wagner Junior High and went to Germantown School.
Speaker 3: How long did you stay in Philadelphia before you? Well,
Speaker 3: quite a while, Okay, quite.
Speaker 4: A while in my twenties.
Speaker 2: So was Rossol formed in Philadelphia or was that your
Speaker 2: first band or I'm trying to think.
Speaker 4: That's a that's a good question. The Butler's, well, the
Speaker 4: Butler's was before that?
Speaker 3: Was that named after streets of Philadelphia?
Speaker 4: Were you? No?
Speaker 3: Said?
Speaker 2: When you say Butler to any Philadelphia, It's like, oh God, no.
Speaker 4: It wasn't. I really don't know where it came from.
Speaker 4: But the name came Butler's.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I have to ask this question just for me.
Speaker 2: My father is also a du wop singer from Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: So that's how I knew you, know, of your music.
Speaker 2: He was in my father's Leandrews of Leandrews in the Hearts.
Speaker 4: Is that right? Yeah? That so oh I was a
Speaker 4: big plan.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you so much, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: But like generally at the time, like what was the
Speaker 2: musical environment of Phility, because you know, we often talk
Speaker 2: about the sound of Philadelphia and people mostly think about
Speaker 2: like Gamble and Heff and what they've done in the seventies,
Speaker 2: but not many people know that Philadelphia has a and
Speaker 2: even richer tapestry of music, do wop and you know,
Speaker 2: operate like with everything.
Speaker 4: But for you, it's more than what most people think.
Speaker 4: Philadelphia was big time music, all sorts of things. You know.
Speaker 4: I got real tied into Frankie Lime.
Speaker 3: Was he your favorite singer?
Speaker 4: He was one of them knowing you know, knowing my
Speaker 4: young years, that was real.
Speaker 6: Big Why you went towards Frankie the name Frankie because
Speaker 6: Frankie is not your first name.
Speaker 3: No, I did not know this.
Speaker 4: My name is Stanley.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not my real.
Speaker 4: My first name is Stamle Howard Howard span Okay.
Speaker 3: So Frankie was from Frankie Liman.
Speaker 4: Yes, I did not know that. Absolutely. He started me going, what.
Speaker 3: Was it about Frankie Lyman that you loved?
Speaker 4: He could sing? Okay, he could sing. He had a
Speaker 4: big impact on me.
Speaker 2: Going up, I was about to say he had a
Speaker 2: big impact on all of us, because even when I
Speaker 2: was in first grade. So I went to a performing
Speaker 2: arts school in Philadelphia. First day of school and our
Speaker 2: homework assignment was bring in your favorite song or your
Speaker 2: favorite forty five and I brought in why do Fools
Speaker 2: Fall in Love? Because my parents parents had tricked me. Okay,
Speaker 2: my mom hates want to tell the story. My dad
Speaker 2: tricked me into thinking that do wop music was new music.
Speaker 3: So I was in, this is nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: So everyone else is bringing in the Beg's and Stevie
Speaker 2: Wonder and whatnot, and I brought in white a Fools
Speaker 2: Fall in Love and they were like, oh, this was
Speaker 2: out when I was a little kid, and you know,
Speaker 2: every adult was one hundred years old to me.
Speaker 3: So I came home and then when.
Speaker 2: My mom told me, yes, this came out in like
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty eight, and I thought that was like a
Speaker 2: thousand years ago, like That's when I realized there was
Speaker 2: a timeline on music, like so I too loved White
Speaker 2: the Fool's Fall in Love and yeah, I see that.
Speaker 2: Did you have brothers and sisters that were in music
Speaker 2: as well? Like did you grow up in a musical household?
Speaker 4: I mean my mother and father, my brother sang, but
Speaker 4: not like I did what I got in the groups
Speaker 4: really young and raw soul? Do you remember ra?
Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, I've seen on YouTube right now. I mean
Speaker 2: there's like there's a concert.
Speaker 3: Of raw soul.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like nineteen I believe, like seventy five, seventy
Speaker 2: six is live and it's some I believe it's in
Speaker 2: the Bay Area or whatever, like it's just right before
Speaker 2: it's Frankly Beverly Mazes raw Soul, and like for me,
Speaker 2: like the audience, the audience reaction was the most exciting
Speaker 2: part of watching.
Speaker 3: That as raw soul.
Speaker 2: How are you guys able to get that exciting reaction
Speaker 2: from the crowd without having I would assume did they
Speaker 2: have singles and a record deal before you guys transferred
Speaker 2: to Maze or.
Speaker 4: We made little records before Mays came. Yeah, Mays came
Speaker 4: along when went to California, Okay, while I was in Philly,
Speaker 4: it was I can't even remember.
Speaker 3: The name Russel.
Speaker 4: Was it wrong? Yeah, it was wrong, So that's true. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But but at the Philly was my teacher. I had
Speaker 4: a lot of good people, a lot of good acts
Speaker 4: out of Philly, a lot of the time of the people.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it was a great place to be. Oh,
Speaker 4: a lot of what I am today to that town.
Speaker 7: Good.
Speaker 3: Great, Well, that town appreciates you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess the story of how Maze came
Speaker 2: into my life, so I did. I never knew the
Speaker 2: story of like Marvin Gaye seeing you guys and discovering
Speaker 2: you guys until when I heard Silky Soul. Then I
Speaker 2: heard the backstory and whatnot about you paying tribute to him.
Speaker 2: But could you talk about like how Marvin Gaye's presence
Speaker 2: sort of changed.
Speaker 4: Though you can imagine, I mean if he didn't meet
Speaker 4: him at that stage, and he was such a like
Speaker 4: a big brother to me. He used to let us
Speaker 4: open shows coming up.
Speaker 2: You know what do you think that it was that
Speaker 2: he saw in you guys that made it special.
Speaker 3: We were a group okay.
Speaker 4: We were a group, was about five of us or something.
Speaker 4: We were young, guys. But we could sing yeah, and
Speaker 4: he liked that. Actually did a Christmas kind of.
Speaker 3: Thing, Okay, Christmas holiday, Christmas hold and.
Speaker 4: He got involved and helpless to do that. And I
Speaker 4: was so young, you know, but he was a good
Speaker 4: guy man, marvelous.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 4: Really changed my life. Got it going, and my mother
Speaker 4: and then loved.
Speaker 7: Them that they did.
Speaker 4: It's Marvin Marvin Day.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 2: How would you describe the sound of Maze because it's
Speaker 2: really hard to describe. I mean, yes, we could say
Speaker 2: soul music, but there's something about the texture of that
Speaker 2: that really speaks to black folks in a way that
Speaker 2: you know, if we could figure out the formula, I'm
Speaker 2: sure that all of us would try to copy it
Speaker 2: and apply it.
Speaker 3: But it's really hard to tell.
Speaker 4: Like, what's interesting, I've never heard anybody, but I think
Speaker 4: you're absolutely right. It's being from Philadelphia has a big
Speaker 4: thing with that. Philly had a lot of talent.
Speaker 2: Was there was there any moment or any time period
Speaker 2: that you guys ever thought about or wanted to record
Speaker 2: at Philadelphia International, like with Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff,
Speaker 2: like to be a part of the Philadelphia International system.
Speaker 4: At that time. I was so young, No, okay, I
Speaker 4: mean I wasn't old enough to be chipping on on that.
Speaker 4: But then then I moved to California and that whole
Speaker 4: thing changed. I got out there and I still didn't
Speaker 4: sign with him, but I got close to him, and
Speaker 4: he's always helped me a little bit too. Yeah, gamble, Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's always been a big help to me.
Speaker 2: What was it like watching the beginnings of his journey
Speaker 2: and this sort of slow rising of his sound?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: What was it like, ass family members watching this?
Speaker 5: Exciting? It was exciting because we saw the work that
Speaker 5: he put in. It was rewarding for him and for
Speaker 5: the family because we have a musical family, and of
Speaker 5: course not to the extent that Frankie has made it,
Speaker 5: but saw the work that he did, the long nights,
Speaker 5: the endless nights, I should say that he kept going.
Speaker 5: He kept going, and he knew what he wanted to do.
Speaker 5: He never wanted to do anything else but sing and
Speaker 5: play his music. So that's what I saw. I saw
Speaker 5: somebody that was just determined and that determination paid off,
Speaker 5: and he loved what he did. It was a passion there, Okay,
Speaker 5: the passion. He was passionate about his music. He loved
Speaker 5: to write, and I asked him this many times a
Speaker 5: long time ago. He loved to talk about love. Love
Speaker 5: is his go to word.
Speaker 3: You're right, yeah, go to word.
Speaker 5: And he loved to talk back. Then he with the
Speaker 5: uprise of all types of things going on with the world,
Speaker 5: he started to think about those things too, and he
Speaker 5: talked about how like, oh, this is horrible, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: go write a song about this. And so that's how
Speaker 5: he came to that we are one people coming together
Speaker 5: instead of being a part. So he absolutely started to
Speaker 5: feel about or start to feel how people were feeling
Speaker 5: about their own lives and what about this. We should
Speaker 5: be as one, We should be helping these other people.
Speaker 5: So that's what I saw. I saw him just work
Speaker 5: hard and think about what other people were going through
Speaker 5: and just thinking about the love. That's really who he is,
Speaker 5: the person of love.
Speaker 2: So would you say that songwriting was therapeutic for you
Speaker 2: in terms of expressing yourself? Yes, absolutely, yeah, because I'll
Speaker 2: say that love like oftentimes I think people will tend
Speaker 2: to type cast soul music and R and B as
Speaker 2: somewhat like meaningless love music or whatever. But I don't know,
Speaker 2: I think coming from you especially the way you sing.
Speaker 2: There's such a gentle comforting, right, yeah, And it's such
Speaker 2: a gentle Normally, gentle singers are are like like high,
Speaker 2: like falsetto smoky stylistics, and so it's very rare to
Speaker 2: hear a baritone voice that's that gentle and that sort
Speaker 2: of thing.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I'm reflecting to you what I'm only showing you what
Speaker 2: you are. But yeah, like in the sixties and seventies,
Speaker 2: when most lead singers were high falsetto.
Speaker 4: Hi voices, whatever.
Speaker 2: For you, was there was that ever an option like
Speaker 2: to figure out because sometimes like Ronald Eisley will.
Speaker 3: Go between his high voice and his little voice. But
Speaker 3: for you, was there No.
Speaker 4: I never thought of that. Oh okay, I was gonna
Speaker 4: be the singer.
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, the approachable every day guy. Okay, I
Speaker 3: get that.
Speaker 5: And that's what he really was. Approachable. That's a that's
Speaker 5: a good term approachable.
Speaker 7: I see that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was approachable. What do you what was I think?
Speaker 4: What do you think? Now?
Speaker 5: I was you know what I was just thinking.
Speaker 6: I was like, yeah, because I was thinking about awards
Speaker 6: and I was thinking about like these Grammys and these
Speaker 6: all these awards, and I was like, to my recollection,
Speaker 6: you guys don't have a lot of those. But the
Speaker 6: acceptance of you in the community, and I seen you
Speaker 6: speak about this.
Speaker 5: Before far exceeds.
Speaker 6: So that everyday manism that you're talking about, it's worth
Speaker 6: so much more. It looks like than the untouched it.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we that's very true, honey. It seems like our
Speaker 4: people really supported us, even from a young stage, as much.
Speaker 6: As we could.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, no, I've been to I've had the privilege
Speaker 8: attendant on one of your shows. You came to my
Speaker 8: hometown at Raleigh, North Carolina. This was this was some
Speaker 8: years back, and y'all played this amphitheater. It was outside
Speaker 8: and I mean you came out and it was full
Speaker 8: of people and they sang every word.
Speaker 7: They sang every word. I was like, if Frank you
Speaker 7: want to chill the night. He didn't got the same.
Speaker 3: We gonna sing form, you know what I mean?
Speaker 8: But I think, you know, speaking of what like he
Speaker 8: was saying, just you know, I just want to make
Speaker 8: sure that we communicate to you today. You know, you
Speaker 8: were just a staple in our households, you know what
Speaker 8: I'm saying, Like your music was like always there, and
Speaker 8: it was and it was oftentimes too. It wasn't just
Speaker 8: your music was there, but your music was the soundtrack
Speaker 8: to some of the best times of our lives.
Speaker 7: It's like you.
Speaker 8: Always associated I always associated Frankie, Beverly and Mads with
Speaker 8: good times, you know what I'm saying, And like what
Speaker 8: you were saying about him singing with love we need
Speaker 8: love to live.
Speaker 7: That was like one of my favorites. So like, I
Speaker 7: would always play that.
Speaker 8: I even a very long time ago, I said it
Speaker 8: was like, Wow, I sampled it and wrapped over it
Speaker 8: did not come out.
Speaker 3: I was sixteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Shine, Golden Time of the Day was the original
Speaker 2: music the Clones. Oh my god, if you can ever imagine, Wow,
Speaker 2: but we couldn't make the loop work and so then
Speaker 2: we start all over again.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but but no, no, you it was just always
Speaker 8: a spirit that came through in your music and just
Speaker 8: really spoke just to all of us and just made
Speaker 8: us all feel really good. And you know, I've seen it,
Speaker 8: just the magic of you performing and people.
Speaker 7: You know, it's like your family member.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it's so beautiful. You guys gonna make me
Speaker 4: start crying.
Speaker 2: This is called the Frankie Beverley takes his flowers today.
Speaker 4: That's what it is.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm curious about because now we live in
Speaker 2: a time when bands are almost non existent. I come
Speaker 2: from a band of eleven members that like, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just you're you're, You're hard pressed to find any
Speaker 2: bands existing today. But can I ask you, like, at
Speaker 2: times in your mind, is it easier fronting a band
Speaker 2: or did you ever imagine a life from which you
Speaker 2: were just a solo artist by yourself without like Frankie
Speaker 2: Beverly and Maze.
Speaker 4: Like always part of it. Never thought of myself it's
Speaker 4: a single actor ever.
Speaker 3: Say, at no point were you just like hey, I like.
Speaker 4: No, oh, it was very moved by Frankie Lahman.
Speaker 3: And the Okay, so you're aways wanted to be in
Speaker 3: a band context. I see that for you.
Speaker 2: Do you have any memories of like how you write
Speaker 2: songs or how our ideas come to you?
Speaker 4: Even today, I write songs that that I want to
Speaker 4: sing about, you know, I want to say things that
Speaker 4: I think people want to hear.
Speaker 2: Well, I have a question about one particular song, which
Speaker 2: is the National Anthem, because this is just hitting me
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: This is the happiest breakup song.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I literally when he said that, when he said that
Speaker 2: I was going through the I said, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Like, even it's the happiest breakup song, it still makes.
Speaker 9: Us you better get on that act, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm afraid to ask, like was that based on it?
Speaker 3: Like do you write from real life experiences?
Speaker 2: Or I have friends that write they'll express where their
Speaker 2: friends aren't able to express, or his experiences.
Speaker 4: But you know that song, I don't I remember, right,
Speaker 4: but I don't. I don't remember what motivated you forgot.
Speaker 2: But then again, some of the some of the biggest
Speaker 2: hits ever are just like afterthoughts, you know what I mean, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Something something happened. Maybe maybe it was some thing I
Speaker 4: was in I was some it.
Speaker 2: Well then you know, because the thing is is that
Speaker 2: that song is on the live album and there's only
Speaker 2: two other studio cuts on there. So I oftentimes I'll
Speaker 2: ask X, like when they stick an extra song or
Speaker 2: two on the Greatest Hits or the live album, and
Speaker 2: they always say, oh, it was just an afterthought, like
Speaker 2: we didn't put much deep thought into it, just on there,
Speaker 2: and it became an anthem.
Speaker 3: Were you shocked? Were you shocked at how that song
Speaker 3: was received? And won't go away?
Speaker 4: Ever? I think I was shocked how that song took off. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's a good point. I mean I liked the song,
Speaker 4: but I was blown away about how it how the
Speaker 4: people liked it so much?
Speaker 2: Has there ever been a franky Beverly show in which.
Speaker 3: You don't perform that song? And is there.
Speaker 7: Home?
Speaker 2: Look, Nirvana spent a whole year never playing smells like
Speaker 2: teen Spirit like some different.
Speaker 6: Crown these aunties, and you don't happy feeling we got dressed?
Speaker 3: You want to hear before I let go? Period? Is
Speaker 3: that a lot? Right?
Speaker 4: No, that's that's true, honey. Yeah, y'all mentioning songs that
Speaker 4: people still want to hear it now, right.
Speaker 6: But there's no songs like that you can skip, like
Speaker 6: a mir said, you can't skip happy feelings at a
Speaker 6: show you want to sing it.
Speaker 7: How did y'all decide on the name made for the band?
Speaker 2: That's that is a good question because I like ros
Speaker 2: Soul too, But like, why was it Lark and Arnold
Speaker 2: or is someone that capital?
Speaker 4: That was just like no, no, no, no, it was
Speaker 4: it was bam, it was well, I can tell you
Speaker 4: that Marvin gated like ras soul he did.
Speaker 3: What did he feel was didn't sound just ordinary to him?
Speaker 4: Or well he just thought I need to change, you know,
Speaker 4: and they find a little better name.
Speaker 8: For I just remember being a kid, and you know
Speaker 8: my aunt she would have y'all albums and it was
Speaker 8: always try.
Speaker 3: To solve that. I actually would try to do too.
Speaker 3: I used to get down cover and try to solve
Speaker 3: the maids. Like.
Speaker 8: No, it didn't get in trouble for writing on her
Speaker 8: album cover, but it was worth it.
Speaker 2: Like we have our favorites of yours as far as
Speaker 2: your songs are concerned. But what songs are your favorite
Speaker 2: in your catalog? Like what, What's Near? And dear to
Speaker 2: your heart?
Speaker 10: Boy?
Speaker 4: Just about all of them? I did? I mean if
Speaker 4: I recording them, they meant something too. They got me
Speaker 4: in there your kids.
Speaker 2: So it's hard to pick a favorite one one that
Speaker 2: you like more.
Speaker 4: Than the other or oh no, I don't like none
Speaker 4: of them more than all of them. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 4: it was a it's a blessing, you know when you
Speaker 4: do when you're a writer and you that's a blessing.
Speaker 4: It comes from a man above, whether it be me
Speaker 4: or whoever you know, like Stevie Wonder and people like
Speaker 4: you know, they must be the same thing for them.
Speaker 4: When you're a writer and you come with this one
Speaker 4: thing after another that comes from from the major place.
Speaker 3: From another s vessel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of all your albums, is there a favorite one
Speaker 2: of yours that you love more than?
Speaker 7: If?
Speaker 3: I can't get you one song?
Speaker 4: Love them?
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm a remix this question. All right, this is
Speaker 5: my question.
Speaker 6: If there was a way for you not to have
Speaker 6: to sing one of these songs that you're always singing
Speaker 6: at every single show, which song would you be like, Oh,
Speaker 6: I'm so happy I don't have to sing that tonight.
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 3: I'm tired. Well wait a minute, yeah, don't yeah, don't
Speaker 3: throw off the bag.
Speaker 6: I mean, because these are songs you've been singing for
Speaker 6: a long time, and I'm just.
Speaker 5: Like you never get tired of.
Speaker 6: Just come on before I'll let you go.
Speaker 4: I'm tired.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sing it for him? That's true that.
Speaker 8: I've seen it, like it's so like he It was
Speaker 8: a show you came to. You came to Raley and
Speaker 8: uh mint Condition was opening and so men condition. Oh
Speaker 8: it was a great show and you know you were
Speaker 8: doing your songs and everybody, I mean like literally, like
Speaker 8: the whole empathis he could have he would have danced,
Speaker 8: he could do the step, he could have ate chicken,
Speaker 8: he could do whatever.
Speaker 3: It was over like that they had him and you.
Speaker 8: Another thing that I was curious to know if and
Speaker 8: if y'all can add on this as well. You know,
Speaker 8: the thing that's so amazing to me about your legacy
Speaker 8: is that you've been able to tour like people. A
Speaker 8: lot of times with black artists, we have to, Okay,
Speaker 8: if you want to go on tour, you got to
Speaker 8: have a new album out or what.
Speaker 7: New you got?
Speaker 8: What got There's always this kind of pressure to feed
Speaker 8: the machine in order to be able to tour whatever.
Speaker 8: And you are always an example if I'm like, look,
Speaker 8: Frankie Beverley ain't put out a new record in how
Speaker 8: many years, but people show up for him every time.
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, every time? You know what
Speaker 8: I mean, what do you attribute to that longevity?
Speaker 4: God that I wish I was that smart, but no,
Speaker 4: it's it just is what it is, and that's what
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 3: You know, I have a question, what part of.
Speaker 2: The United States do you feel is like your biggest
Speaker 2: fan base. Yes, I mean I figured New Orleans because
Speaker 2: that's where you made the record. However, I've learned that
Speaker 2: you know, Asville, North Carolina also has a great audience,
Speaker 2: and and Oakland has a great audience.
Speaker 3: So for you, like what what?
Speaker 2: What are you the favorite cities of yours that you've
Speaker 2: toured throughout the years most of the mm hmm.
Speaker 3: I think this is why your success.
Speaker 4: Because you.
Speaker 5: Can say d is okay, uh.
Speaker 4: No, I was that's one of them. I think you
Speaker 4: know all of the major cities, all of them. I mean, I.
Speaker 6: Can't where we are, where we are and where we
Speaker 6: have passion.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you it's it's it's amazing to me. I'm
Speaker 4: blown away by it too. I don't know what.
Speaker 5: Excuse me, what is the white thing?
Speaker 4: What is the questions?
Speaker 6: What is the inspiration behind wearing so much white?
Speaker 3: Yeah? When did that become a thing?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've been chipped on that. I think
Speaker 4: I was told to do that. None of the people
Speaker 4: who's making my clothes saw any different than that. You know,
Speaker 4: they all suggested the same thing I was wearing all
Speaker 4: the time. Yeah, so some somehow they thought I'd need
Speaker 4: to stay in that google that U was always in.
Speaker 5: And if you saw some of his earlier outfits in
Speaker 5: the earlier years, he would wear red, all red, really
Speaker 5: all black, and then he just stuck with it all white.
Speaker 5: But back in the day it was all red red hat, yes.
Speaker 6: Because back into video that was definitely not a white
Speaker 6: out that was a white outfit time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know too much else.
Speaker 4: I've done nothing crazy, you know.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, you're right, I'm looking right now. I did
Speaker 2: go on Soul Train to see and you're wearing.
Speaker 3: All red right here.
Speaker 2: But with the hat though, yes, and the beard. I
Speaker 2: didn't know you from Philly, and then you know, your
Speaker 2: beard was like.
Speaker 3: A beard.
Speaker 5: So he asked the question. I think it was that
Speaker 5: that was back in the early eighties and he was
Speaker 5: actually in LA when he did this show. And on
Speaker 5: that show he asked having a conversation with the audience
Speaker 5: out there, and they said, I understand that you all
Speaker 5: think that I'm bold, right, because right right, But he says,
Speaker 5: I he pulls off the hat and he says, I'm
Speaker 5: not bald, y'all. This is just a Philly thing. Philadelphians
Speaker 5: wear hats, so that was a good moment for him.
Speaker 2: Actually, wait, all right, so this is a Philadelphia question,
Speaker 2: and you know, I grew up with a lot of uncles.
Speaker 2: My dad almost went through this phase, and of course,
Speaker 2: you know we knew the Sphinx family and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Did you ever go through the urban cowboy phase?
Speaker 5: You mean the stables or in the stables over in
Speaker 5: the West Philly, are you talking about, Well, you're talking
Speaker 5: about that kind of phase with all the kids were
Speaker 5: going well.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, just there was a period in like
Speaker 2: seventy six seventy seven in which the entire like all
Speaker 2: black men were just dressing up as cowboys.
Speaker 3: Tight jeans and a cowboy. Yeah.
Speaker 7: It was just.
Speaker 4: Now my mother and my family would have been jumping out.
Speaker 11: Over Is there anything that you have yet to creatively
Speaker 11: achieve or embarkle on that you would like to do
Speaker 11: that you haven't done yet.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out, like your your other talents
Speaker 3: as well. I mean, besides singer, songwriter, producer.
Speaker 4: There's some stages we're gonna go. Yeah, there's some things.
Speaker 2: Anytime I've seen you, it's been in the United States.
Speaker 2: But has what is his is worldwide?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he has the same thing, right, Yeah, everywhere likes
Speaker 4: us just like Yeah, he's toured.
Speaker 5: Europe in London, Paris, yeah, Japan.
Speaker 7: If you've been Africa, you know, been Africa, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we haven't done a bunch of Africa.
Speaker 8: South Africa would love y'all like y'all, well, I think
Speaker 8: it used to be a jazz fest in Cape Town
Speaker 8: and now y'all would I think y'a would kill it
Speaker 8: long overdue.
Speaker 2: Before you were at I do have one question. I'm
Speaker 2: certain that you're tired of answering this question.
Speaker 3: What was your.
Speaker 2: Feeling on Beyonce covering before I let go and the
Speaker 2: reception that the world gave it.
Speaker 4: I was blown away with it.
Speaker 5: And what he told me when then when they were approached,
Speaker 5: we were approached about Beyonce doing that. He respected her
Speaker 5: and he had a good relationship with Jay Z and
Speaker 5: Beyonce and so that he thought it from what our
Speaker 5: discussion was, he thought that she would do it justice
Speaker 5: and it would bring forth a whole new generation of
Speaker 5: people knowing his music.
Speaker 6: So she didn't play it for you first. They didn't
Speaker 6: ask you for like had the song right now.
Speaker 3: They didn't play it well.
Speaker 2: You know that's that that song is a mighty mountain
Speaker 2: to climb, so you know, and you know I will
Speaker 2: just say that, you know you you have provided us
Speaker 2: with such a timeless, beautiful soundtrack that you know will
Speaker 2: will never go away, will be here forever. You know,
Speaker 2: you're you're, you're the original feel good music. And you
Speaker 2: know I want to thank you just for stopping.
Speaker 3: By and saying hello to us.
Speaker 8: Man, thank you for all the years of music and
Speaker 8: times and everything.
Speaker 6: All my joy, my joy, and I love we felt it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I really do appreciate it. You know you're gonna
Speaker 4: make me cry.
Speaker 6: You're gonna make us cry never stop.
Speaker 3: No, but thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you for coming on the show, and thank you
Speaker 2: for taking your flowers and you know, more flowers for
Speaker 2: Bill Sherman. Yes, that's all feels there to make sure
Speaker 2: that everyone gets flowers.
Speaker 3: Frankie, Beverly, ladies.
Speaker 6: And gentlemen, the best cousins in the world.
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you all.
Speaker 2: Right, and on behalf of you know fanticcolo sugar Steve
Speaker 2: Nay built this long giant applause, And thank you guys
Speaker 2: so much for coming to visiting us. And we'll see
Speaker 2: you on the next go around, of course, Love Supree fine, beautiful.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 7: This is Sugar Steve.
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Speaker 10: is hosted by a mere Quest Love Thompson, Lias Saint Clair,
Speaker 10: Fante Coleman, Sugar Steve Mandel, and unpaid Bill Sherman. The
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Speaker 10: and Brian Calhoun. Produced by Britney Benjamin, Jake Payne and
Speaker 10: Liah Saint Clair. Edited by Alex Conroy. Produced for iHeart
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