May 27, 2021
The twins reunite with longtime friend, singer/songwriter Lee Newman at long last - chatting about everything from their times in Hollywood together and Lee's music and years of performing in Hollywood's top venues - to his legendary great-grandfathers Jimmy McHugh and Eddie Cantor, his friendship with Harry Nilsson and much more - including an original tune from Lee's archive.
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 - "Brown Eyed Boy" by Lee Newman
2:02 - Greetings and about Lee Newman / Eddie Cantor / Jimmy McHugh
5:40 - Welcome, Lee
6:33 - About "Brown Eyed Boy" / UCLA / Harry Nilsson / "The Point" / "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" / Dick Martin / Bill Bixby / "The Courtship of Eddie's Father"
9:10 - "Relatively Singing" / Original Cast Records
10:08 - "Merrily We Roll Along" by Eddie Cantor is best known as the theme for Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoons.
11:29 - Growing up around great music - within the family and outside of it. / Nilsson's influence on Lee / Nilsson's stage fright / Working on "The Point" in Los Angeles in 1991 (Oblio) / Jimmy Webb / Nilsson's death
16:14 - Preaching the gospel of Nilsson at Hollywood High / Copper Penny / Bell Coffee Shop / Snow White Coffee Shop / "Liverpool"
17:18 - Meeting Lee for the first time / Magic Hotel (now Magic Castle Hotel / Our friend and bandmate, Pascal Srabian (RIP) / Early gigs with our band, Yale
18:45 - Lee as band manager for Yale / Winning the battle of the bands at Gazzarri's / Bill Gazzarri / More about the early days
21:53 - More Jimmy Webb / "Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting"
23:12 - Jimmy McHugh Music / Lucille Myers passes the torch to Lee
25:18 - Running Jimmy McHugh Music and what that entails
27:00 - About "I Can't Give You Anything But Love"
27:48 - About Jimmy McHugh / Gershwin and McHugh / The Piano / "I'm in the Mood for Love" / "On the Sunny Side of the Street" / McHugh in Hollywood / Timeline
34:31 - McHugh-related projects
35:15 - Eddie Cantor conquered every medium / Humanitarian - March of Dimes
36:24 - "Happy Together: The 60s Songbook" / SLK Records
Rod Stewart / Producer Richard Perry / Producer Lauren Wild / Sunset Plaza / "Happy Together" moment / May Pang / John Lennon's acoustic demo of "Help" as a ballad
42:20 - Sea change in the music business / Tower Records closure / Napster
44:27 - The fate of the Cinerama Dome
45:12 - Find Lee's music on Amazon, iTunes and at Amoeba Music Hollywood
45:40 - COVID-19 in Hollywood and Myrtle Beach / Dodger Stadium / Angel Stadium / Magic Castle Reopens / La Poubelle / More Magic Hotel memories / Robert Morse / Pantages Theatre / "Hamilton"
49:29 - Wrapping things up