November 27, 2023 • 32 mins
This Dude is 74 and still as powerful and soulful as ever. How does a Legend maintain his “Cool”? Let’s talk about it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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nice guys, praiding to trust kid, he ain't ready for
the star starts winner and oh g three times.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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to dinner, on your job and your brother turned.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I mean, that's all. Michael Trucks said.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Everybody to call Michael taus that everybody like a call, Yes,
Michael Taustay, everybody you know what Shin called Michael fuck said,
Everybody called Michael talks. Everybody Michael took say that my
cloudy everybody, everybody you call?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hey, family, Hey, everybody, welcome to the show today. Michael
talks to everybody. Ooh wee, I gotta special one today, y'all.
We have a legend oh man, and more legendary than
you can imagine. This guy is so great, a great vocalist.
Someone described him and they hit it absolutely perfect. One
of the richest most uplifting voices in R and B.
(01:11):
Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Jeffrey Osborne is in our studio
right now. It's right. Thank you, Jeffrey. You know joining
me today is one of the greatest comedians out there,
any clean comedian. I was telling mister Osborne that this
guy won't cuss no matter what happened. You can hit
(01:31):
him in the head with two back four Josiah Jones
ain't gonna say no curse words. He also is a minister,
you know. And I've seen you, minister the time you
did online. That boy is deep and he's funny. You know.
My favorite land is his mother was white and his
father was absent. I just thought that's hilarious. But weren't
need to talk to you, Jeffrey Osborne. This is my
(01:54):
time to find out who you are. And you know,
I want to go back before we even start. I
want to go back to your daddy. I want to
go back to I want to go back to Legs Osborn.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
He played trumpet right they he did, great trumpet player
and he.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Played with like lying On Hampton, count Basie, Duke Ellington.
So so it's in your system, isn't it? Singing music
isn't your blood.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Yeah, I'm the youngest of twelve too, so all my
brothers and sisters played an instrumental saying, so, you know
when I came up in the house was just full
of music. You know, it was music all around me.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
With twelve kids. How do you have time to do
anything else?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I don't know how, I don't know. Maybe that's why
they called him legs. He was just.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Here, wasn't it?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Or he was moving around on the legs?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And now did you grow up under him? Did you
grow up and watch all these great people he played
music with? Were you around that influence at all?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I wasn't.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
He died when I was thirteen years old, so I
didn't really get a chance to see his greatness. You know,
I was the guy that was at home when he
came in from playing all the gigs around town.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Woeaw.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
He would come in after having a few drinks and
throw everything on the ground and tell me to pick up,
pick up, pick up the money. You pick up the money, man,
and we'll split it. And then he would sit there
and play, and I would sit outside his door and
listen to him play.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
It was just amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It's beautiful. Do you do you keep tapes? Did you
keep tapes of your dad?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Have tapes back then. I mean, come on, man, I'm
seventy five.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And that's another thing I want to talk about. Whow
a seventy five years young? I was telling people the
other day, you know, you and I did the or
you and Stephanie Mills actually did the concert, and I
was just on there with y'all. But your performance is
that of a forty year old and thirty five. You
dumped off that stage, you walked through that audience, you
(03:46):
had the more energy than anybody there, and each one
of your songs you're still delivering them with that same beautiful, deep,
lovely sound. It's not like crackice. Come. I'm watching lot
of the old people. I'm I'm sorry, I'm not. I
watch a lot of these artists who are becoming seasoned,
like our sail. I'm sixty six myself, but I don't
(04:06):
feel a day over fifty nine. They still going on
stages and stuffing on.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Here.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
People cracking the music. The boys is cracking it off.
They faking you see some people start singing low at
certain points because they can't hit that note. But you
hit that stage, hit every note just like you've been
doing it the whole time. What's the secret to that well.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
I mean the most important thing is health, you know,
And I think a lot of us take that for granted,
especially the life that we lead, because I'll tell you,
the road is a beast. And when you're doing these
shows and you're doing back to back nights or three
four nights in the row, and if you ain't taking
care of yourself, it'll come back and get you. And
(04:46):
I think that's where a lot of the older guys
kind of slacked up a bit, you know. I I've
been vegan for the last ten years.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I don't teach you.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
I just started eating fish in the last six months
because the little training guy I have told me that,
you know, you getting old, man, you need some fatty acids,
so you better eat a little fit. So but I
was strictly digging and uh, And I've always taken care
of myself. I always think the most important thing is
vocal hygiene. I take care of my instrument like it's
(05:20):
you know, it's just like anybody would take care of
their horn. You know, you gotta take care of it.
You gotta clean it, you gotta lubricate it, you gotta
do all those things. And so I take care of that.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I call it vocal hygiene where I steam every day.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I so it's like a hooker, a hooker and a coochie.
You have to clean that thing. You have steam it
and make sure everything's freshus. All right, If that thing
ain't clean, it ain't good for nobody. You know what
I'm saying. Talk about your health? Yeah, oh my god.
(05:54):
Now are you self taught? Because I know you are
a drummer as well as the lead singing LTD and
I adore LTD. I love LTD. So you are a
drummer in there too. So how did you start?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
I am self taught, by the way, I'm self taught
with every I'm living in Providence. I'm from Providence, and
uh I had a brother.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I know they had the black people in Province Land. Okay,
a whole lot, a whole lot of my fam really
your family alone, that's one city right there.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
The youngest twelve. You know, all my brothers and sisters
at fourth.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But you were the very youngest.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
I'm the youngest at twelve. Yeah, dude, we.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Have so many parallels. I'm the youngest in my family.
It was five brothers. I'm the youngest. Uh my father
died when I was twelve. Your father died at thirteen.
And both of us have beautiful ball heads.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
People are ball in their head looked like hell, it
looks like a damn roller coaster that lump some ship.
And your head is perfect.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
You know, it's rough.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
When you get to the ball saying and realize yo,
he it looked like furniture, you'd be like, nah, I
ain't gonna do it. Oh my goodness. So so you did.
You did musical instructs before you start singing. I played drums. O.
My father left his trumpet for me. That's the one
thing I got was his trumpet. So I started playing trumpet.
(07:20):
That didn't last long. I was like, okay, I don't
like that. I'mmateur on my lips. Oh yeah, And it
was swell right there in the middle.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
So I played a little bit and kind of put
that down. And then my brother left the set of
drums in my basement and I just sat down and
for some reason I could play.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
I had no lessons at all. I sat down and I.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Was able to just fell natural.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
So I started playing around town when I was like fourteen,
fifteen years old in my little local bands, and that's
how well, that's what I met the OJ's first. I
met the OJ's coming through Providence, Rhode Island, when I
was fifteen years old, and I used to play that
nightclub and I sold my mom, I want to go
see the old j's. It was a school night. She's like,
(08:03):
all right, no, go ahead and be back. You know,
I go see him. And the night that they are performing,
I'm watching. Their drummer was actually on Heroin. He was
on He was falling asleep after every song, so.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
He would play a song.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Then he would nod out, and then he would play
another song. Even now, and I'm fifteen and I'm sitting
there and saying, what what is that?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Right? So I talked to the club owner.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
He let me meet them after the show and I said, look, man,
you guys guys need a drummer. They said, yeah, we
need one right now. I said, well, they said, no,
you're too you'll I said, well, I know all the guys.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
I'll bring a few guys up audition if you let
me audition. They said okay.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
So brought a few guys up, all the guys in town,
and I ended up getting the job. So My bird
job was when I was fifteen playing with you know,
an established group was the Old Jays, and then I
met that WOW and I met LTD under the same
circumstances I met them. I met them when I was
about twenty years old. They would come through town and
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everybody said, look, there's ten black musicians playing in this
club down the street.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
You gotta go see him. I said, I ain't seen
ten black musicians, and.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Problem is ever so all together, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I went to see them.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
The night I went to see them, their drummer got
taken to jail for smoking marijuana outside the club. That
was nineteen seventy. I was nineteen, so you know that
was a major offense. So they locked him up in
The club owner said, can you help us out? Can
you play drums with this group? Like, I don't know
what they're doing, but they're doing Top forty. I knew
all Top forty because I used to work part time
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in record store. So I went in and played the knight,
sang a couple of songs, and they asked me to
join the group. So I owe my career to drugs.
I got, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And harra haro I helped my career's herod. Oh my god,
So did you really play like they want you to
be able to play? When you first started? Did you
get on them drums?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Did you do your thing?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
You winging it?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Because I had a local group and we had all
the best jobs of time. I played and sang at
the same time, and so when I joined LTD, I
did the same thing. I was playing and singing most
of the time, and then we recorded. We had this
one song in nineteen seventy five call Love Ballot.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Come, and that's one of my favorite songs. Man, I
love that song so much.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
And you know, there's four hunt players in LTD.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
So record company came to me and said, look, you
got to get up from behind the drums because the
ladies are going crazy over this song. They can't even
see you singing it. You got to get out front.
And I'm like, i don't even know what to do
with myself out front. I'm so used to this doing
this with my hands and singing. So they got me
a teacher. So I got a guy who was the
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theater director at La City College, and he came in
and he worked with me and he taught me how to,
you know, work the stage. And the one thing he
taught me that I never forget. He said, the most
important thing is to reach the last person in the
last seat. He said, you get that last person in
the last seat, you got the whole audience. So he
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just taught me how to, you know, how to bring
in an audience, how to work with the audience, and
it was invaluable.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Wow, wow, I want to see. I was trying to
pull that up real quick.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
I love ballad? Why did they name it love ballad?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Like? I see all the words in it.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I'm younger.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I was like, my mother loves this song, and I'm like,
it's the love ballad.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I'm like, well, what's the name of the song?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Right, it's a bat.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I have no idea why.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
If I had written it, I wouldn't have called it
love ballad. But it was written by this guy, Skip Scarborough,
who was an incredible song right.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Skip Scarboro wrote a bunch of hits something from Winning
By he wrote, you know, he was just a great writer.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
And I don't know he just came up with I
guess when he was writing it, he was gonna write
this love ballad, and that's what he ended up calling
it you cute it.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Years old.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Or a lot of people got something on this one.
A whole lot of buff us born to this one. Yes, sir,
y'all don't know about love ballad. You know about this
is one of the America's greatest classics. Black or white,
that's all Love ballad. The Ghoult people went in on
that amazing.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, that was it was fortunate to be able to
get a hold of that. That song. It was turned
down by earth winning fire.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Oh my god, how beautiful.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Maurice said he didn't wasn't feeling he wasn't feeling it.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Gave it, They gave it to us, and uh interesting.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
So that was one of them songs that uh.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
I fought with the producers the night I sang it,
didn't want to sing, was ready to go home. They
taught me in the stinging at like four o'clock in
the morning, I'm singing a song. You know, it's four
in the morning. So I got sang it one time
and left and said I'm done with it. Came back
the next day they said, oh, this is done. You
want doesn't do this.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I'm what you want to take Jake.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
You didn't one time I did it one time. I
didn't want to do it.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Then I didn't want it because I've been waiting in
the studio since eight o'clock. They showed up in one
in the morning, and so we had the big argument,
and they were like.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Well, you still got time, man, you can go something
like I don't want to sing right now.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
So I did it, did it one take, and when
I came back and listened to it, I said, yeah,
I'm not gonna mess with that either.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
What the biggest ever? Hey, we'll take a quick break. Now,
you gonna go talk to a man about a horse. Hey, y'all,
this is your boy, Michael Kaya And I'm here with
the world famous, the awesome, the crewer himself, Jeffrey Osbourne,
and my team.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Will be right black in a pair of seconds.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
And we're black, I mean we're black. And I am
with Jeffrey Osbourne, who is so amazing, and I had
the pleasure of actually being on a stage with him,
and we performed a couple of weeks ago, and I'm
just going away, how excellent, how strong your performance is
at seventy five years young. Don't you want to go
lay down? How do people feel when they sit. I'm
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sixty six. Oh, and we have a young lady who
would as well today, Austraya Black is a brilliant comedian
and she's like one of my side kicks, and she's
my partner on the morning show. Hey, Astraya, you on me?
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Hey listen, I gotta listen, miss Iborn. What the fuck
are you doing drinking from the family youth because you
look swell you look, and I just want to tell you.
I know for a sex that my mama was doing well.
She ain't have no business off of your music.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I know for a fact she was. But it's so beautiful.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
I think just in general for music is missing just
love period. You just the pure love. Is no one
who just could pours out love anymore, you know what
I'm saying. So I'm just honored to, you know, be
on here and just to see you like this is
really a blessing love.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Well, hey, pleasure, it is so nice to meet you.
I feel like out of place. I'm like the only
singer here. I got comedians all around me here.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
No, no, no, I know they both say they sing.
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Talent shows in the third ride and everything.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Now I sing praizy worship at church. Right now, I'm
a praisy worship leader. You better be bringing it. If
you singing in church, you better be bringing it.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Some of the best vocalists we have on this show
started at church. They sang at church. Now. So, at
seventy five years young, what was the greatest and the
most exciting performance that you've ever done? Something that just
rocked you. You just had to go over the corner,
sit down and catch yourself recover from it. It was
so amazing. What was that?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
It's that's hard to choose.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
I mean, there's been so many and I just did
one at seventy five in Detroit, and I could have
sworn I must be Michael Jacquelin or somebody. I mean,
what's going on? They stood up the whole concert. They
sang every word to every song. It was amazing. There's
been so many moments like that, it's hard to pick one.
I think Nolan might be one of my favorite places
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to play because people and all that is love music.
They love everybody, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
All of love party. That's it.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
They They're gonna eat.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
It, drink it, make love to it, dance with it.
They're doing all that shit right out in the street.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
I have a question, mister Osborne. So with the way
that music is now, do you have a new favorite artist?
Like I know sometimes you know, people like I don't
listen to nobody for real, or I listen to contemporary music.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Do you have someone that you listen to that you
like this kind of fairly new or something like that.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
You know what it's it's it's kind of hard for
me to listen today to a lot of the today's music.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
It's it's so different, you know.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I appreciate some of the people out and I am
completely blown away with the success of some of the
younger people.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
It's amazing how well they have done.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I wish that my generation had done what they're doing,
which is they collaborate with everybody. I mean, you look
up and they're all on each other's albums, and I
love that that, you know, I love that about the
young artist. I think today's music, like we were saying earlier,
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it doesn't have the character or for me, the melodic
depth that music had back then.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
But the following is amazing.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
I mean, these kids are selling just oh gods are
records and I mean, I saw I have to say
that I respect what they're doing quite a bit, but
I you know, like you were saying, I don't get
that that love feeling anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
A lot of it is.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
That's what I was going to ask you. Are there
any more crooners?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
There's not a lot, especially male vocalists. I don't see
a lot.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Everybody wants to rap now, you know, and most and
most of the melodies are basically almost like a rap melody.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
It's all kind of monochrone.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
There's no versus and then a bridge and then a chorus,
and you know, it's all sitting on the same little
eight bath phrase and right right, it's.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Not challenging to sum it up.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
That's why it's a lot of eighties babies, you know
what I'm saying that at my eighties and nineties babies
sang where it was easy to take women's panties off,
Versus now they're just like, bitch, take your pannies off.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Like it's a.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Little they say, you know me and saying to you
real pretty Where it was like it was an ease
or you know, like you know, let's just do it,
but you know, now it's everything is a lot rougher.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Basically it is, and I think we've lost respectful women
in today's music. I mean, I just hate to hear
people on them bitches and holes and this and that
and what the thing is they buying it? I don't
get it.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yes, mister Osborne, to your point, to your point on
the wings of love, that ain't nobody going on the
wings of love?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
No more, no wings of love. Nobody. Ain't nobody holding on?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Come on, somebody, Ain't nobody. Ain't nobody talking about I'll
make believe. Ain't nobody doing that?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It's in their face.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Like you some songs you would be like, hold the
wings up, love. Now it's like I'm gonna beat it
up until your back hurt.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Daddy.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Didn't beat it up, daddy.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
The women saying period, beat it up, period, period.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I missed the songs where you said my one and
only love, Come on, somebody, yes, shut up so that
they love. Now, mister Osbourne, they just screwing. They not
making love.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You're right, And he could enunciate his words.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
He enunciate his words like you can hear him and
a nunci ain't his words.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
You don't know half the ship people talking about them?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Are you saying to beat was nice.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
That be was nice. Australa and Josiah, this is before
you your kids time. But there was a day when
people actually held each other and danced slowly. Come on, y'all,
don't remember that? Do you? You remember that? Josiah? Now
you better not touch the mofuck on the dance floor.
I wish the fuck you would. You better not touch
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your hand off me. But it was all about the
blue light and the basement. Man, we throw on some
L T D. We granding. I know you too young
to remember grand Austraya remember grinding.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Griding is because I remember Pokino night and Pochino Knights
used to get rough in the family at the houses
and I was a little gird at the Yeah, I
used to see that at the top of the stars
while everybody was in the basement. Of course I didn't
got popped a couple of times. My little grown ass
was watching y'all.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
So so so, Jeffrey, what is the worst experience musical experience,
the thing that didn't work out? Which one of those?
Do you remember anything that turned into a disaster? I
thought it was would be great, but it didn't work out.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
We've had a bunch of those during the course of
my career.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I think one of the biggest disappointments was we finally
got our chance to audition.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
For A and M Records Ltd.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
We've been struggling in La get a chance and were
going and we auditioned and they were like, well, we're
not hearing it. You know, the music is too militant,
and we were.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Militant back then.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Oh wow, our music was all about y'all white folks doing.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
This and black folks.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
They were like, so we kind of messed up that
audition and it kind of hurt us.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
But what they did was they said, well, we love you.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Guys musically, would you consider being a band for Mary Clayton.
Mary Clayton at the time was very big, you know,
and she had done some work with the Rolling Stone.
So we started performing with Mary Clayton, and we did
the Monterey Folk Fest with her and a band fell out,
so they asked us to fill in twenty minutes, and
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we did twenty minutes and left the crowd standing and
the record company looked at.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Us and said, oh wow.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
So they called us back in and the funny thing
is our first record deal.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
It was one of my favorite artists, Jerry Butler had.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
A production love Jerry Butler.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Jerry Butler had a production deal at A and M Records,
and we signed through his production deal for our first album,
and after that we signed directly to the label. But yeah,
I mean, so you know those moments you work hard,
you get there, you get that big audition, and it
don't happen. That was That was a tough moment for us.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
So at seventy five, are you still dreaming? Do you
still have dreams of accomplishing more different things? Or have
you mellowed out and just gonna.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Do I'm living a dream. It's all about the dream,
you know.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
It started with a dream when I was twelve years
old on the street corners out there.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I thought I was one of the Temptations. I was
doing my steps right right, you know.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
And then ten years later I'm on stage opening for
the Temptations and I got to meet them.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Why dreaming is important?
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Yeah about that dream? So yeah, I never stopped.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
We live or die by them dreams, we see, because
you can only live the story that you write. So
so yeah, family, you have a wife, your five kids,
four kids, four kids, four kids for what's them, Sherry? Yeah,
please give her our best, tell her hello, it's just
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love down here. Are you in l A Novemberfore?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
I'm not in l A. I'm going most of November.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I like that. I like being going because that means
I'm coming back with the money now. I can't put
in Chase Bank because they just closed all my counsel
with out a reason. But I love coming back with
the money now. I got I gotta go after them, man,
because they tripping. You know, they racist and ship you
know they They ain't even tell me a reason. They
just say, you know, we don't understand your activity. You
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ain't both know my activity. I better take my money,
put it in when I won't take it out when
I want. But of course, being black, they assume niggas
are selling drugs. I ain't slaying nothing but jokes. So
I don't know what the hell they talking about. But
I think I think I smell a lawsuit. Yeah it's tasty.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Okay, that's interesting right there.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
If you wanted your public out there to know anything
that you haven't had a chance to say yet, can
you say it now? What was one thing you want
people to know about you? Jeffrey Osbourne. Man, the legend.
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
That's a hard question. The things that I haven't accomplished
that I still would like to accomplish, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
And I tell you what, tell me one, tell me one.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Well, I've never done anything as far as TV is concerned,
no motion picture work other than I've had songs on TV.
I've had theme songs, and I've had songs in the movie.
But I've never done any acting. And I think that's
one thing I would like to do. You like to
travel actor, I think I would know the right thing
comes along. I think I would.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yeah, the part of I'm doing tomorrow you would have
been perfect for them. So glad you didn't know about it.
And uh, it's it's a fimm I'm a little older
than sixty and I'm the guy who comes and check
out everything.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I do the inspection, the counting inspection for this building, right,
But come to find out, the guy who lives there
also slept with my wife and I recognized his face, like,
wait a minute, you the hindred just the musician. He said, yeah, man,
I remember you. And so at first they had passed
the inspection, but then when I realized that this dude
(26:41):
has done the who see with macuity? Things changed. I
can't tell y'all no more than that. But the show
is called Man, Man Your Business, that's the name of
the series. Man Your Business are Bounce. But I you
should try to act?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
You should?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
You should get out there and do something.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Yeah, I like to Have you ever done a monologue? No?
Not really, you know?
Speaker 6 (27:02):
And I started at one time to, you know, try
to get into some voiceovers, and I never did that
because I figured I do some voiceover work.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
But why don't you learn a monologue? If you if
you learn a monologue, like a five minute monologue, and
if you go online you could put up put in
monologue for black men like five hundred to jump up
and find one you like? You feel good, feel like
you could say it and learn it. If you learn
a four or five minute monologue, Man, you could come
on a morning show. How cold would it be to
(27:33):
see you doing a monologue? Brother? People would go crazy
for that.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I agree. I think that.
Speaker 8 (27:39):
I think listen. I think he almost soap opera worthy.
I think you like Young and the restless he does,
I mean not heat of a night.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
What's the other one? The Light, the Sun, the.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Guy in Like, I really think that you should try
to go do one of those the soap opera. I
really do, oh yeah, because they're doing a lot of
so a lot of people doing so soap operas. But
soap operas tough, but you know, I mean as a
first job. Because soap opera it's new material every day,
and so for five days, every single day, you got
(28:11):
a new script for every day because it's a story
that keeps unfolding every day. That's tricky to me because
I don't memorize that quick like all the rest of
this day today, A memorizing line for tomorrow, you know. Yeah, yeah,
so I want that to happen. Please consider getting your
monologue together. Then we can get you on the Michael
coy In Morning Show. Do your monologue. I bring on
(28:32):
Miguel New Year's He'll be the monologue judge and we'll
just have fun. Man, do it, man, don't be scared,
don't board and give us some of that love ballad
that love you see a little bit, let me hear
just a little bit. You do three lines. Hey, I'm
(29:04):
grabbing myself over here.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Stop.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
I love you, Jeffrey, Thank you, so much. Man, We
appreciate you. Tell people how they can find you so
they can find out what you're doing all over the place.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Jeffrey Iging dot com. Pretty simple.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
I got my website up and then everything is on there,
and my all my dates are on there, so my
merchants on everything's on there.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I love you, sir, and I appreciate you. Thank you
so much for coming to that give it up. Thank
You's beautiful. It was a beautiful pleasure for us. Thank you, Yes, yes,
thank you. And no one's gonna see this, they're gonna
hear this, but here we go. Thank you so much.
And Straya Black, who is so funny, Thank you for
dropping in and talking with us. And tell people they
(29:44):
can find you Astraya.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
Well, they can find me Monday do Friday on the
best TV show on the Internet, Michael Call You Morning show.
Social media platforms is Istraia Black. You can find me
over here on our radio with Michael talks to.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Everybody what And finally Josiah tell people they can find you. Hey,
you guys can find me at Josiah B. Jones dot com,
Josiah B. Jones dot com on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat.
Everything is at Comedian Josiah. It's all one word at
(30:20):
Comedian Josiah. And I'm telling you, man, listen, I'll make
you laugh at loud. If not, you laugh on the inside. Ay,
I love it. Thank y'all all, thank you. I'm your boy.
Michael Kaya wore famous, world renown, often talked about, and
you can always find me on my morning show five
days a week on YouTube. The Michael Kaya Morning Show's
only done seven hundred and nine, so I understand you
haven't heard about it. Also, I'm right here at iHeart
(30:43):
three new shows every week and this is like the
most beautiful artist I've had an opportunity to interview. Mister Jeffrey.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
I was one.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
It made my whole week, my whole month. I appreciate you.
Thank you for saying yes, King. I appreciate and giving
mis Sherry a hug from me and my lovely wife. Okay,
hey y'all, we gotta get out of here. This has
been great. As Michael talks to everybody, we out, remember
keep God first life of the garden. If you dig
it and guess what He needs you have fun today
(31:13):
and just remember we're here to have fun. If you
ain't gonna have fun. Why the hell are you still here?
Get out of here? Yiada, okay, catch you on the rebound.
See everybody. It's a beautiful day. And by woo, I
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Thank y'all for checking us out here. Michael talks to everybody. Hey,
(31:37):
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Speaker 5 (32:16):
I see y'all later.
Hm, who y'all ready, lets go? Well, so missus.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Michael called this world started doing venice each now he
reached in the world. He'll make you left ticket, stomach cars, superfly,
nice guys, praiding to trust kid, he ain't ready for
the star starts winner and oh g three times.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
This ain't gonna be get up.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Whether you want y'all house, you want your brother out
to dinner, on your job and your brother turned.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I mean, that's all. Michael Trucks said.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Everybody to call Michael taus that everybody like a call, Yes,
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Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hey, family, Hey, everybody, welcome to the show today. Michael
talks to everybody. Ooh wee, I gotta special one today, y'all.
We have a legend oh man, and more legendary than
you can imagine. This guy is so great, a great vocalist.
Someone described him and they hit it absolutely perfect. One
of the richest most uplifting voices in R and B.
(01:11):
Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Jeffrey Osborne is in our studio
right now. It's right. Thank you, Jeffrey. You know joining
me today is one of the greatest comedians out there,
any clean comedian. I was telling mister Osborne that this
guy won't cuss no matter what happened. You can hit
(01:31):
him in the head with two back four Josiah Jones
ain't gonna say no curse words. He also is a minister,
you know. And I've seen you, minister the time you
did online. That boy is deep and he's funny. You know.
My favorite land is his mother was white and his
father was absent. I just thought that's hilarious. But weren't
need to talk to you, Jeffrey Osborne. This is my
(01:54):
time to find out who you are. And you know,
I want to go back before we even start. I
want to go back to your daddy. I want to
go back to I want to go back to Legs Osborn.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
He played trumpet right they he did, great trumpet player
and he.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Played with like lying On Hampton, count Basie, Duke Ellington.
So so it's in your system, isn't it? Singing music
isn't your blood.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Yeah, I'm the youngest of twelve too, so all my
brothers and sisters played an instrumental saying, so, you know
when I came up in the house was just full
of music. You know, it was music all around me.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
With twelve kids. How do you have time to do
anything else?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I don't know how, I don't know. Maybe that's why
they called him legs. He was just.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Here, wasn't it?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Or he was moving around on the legs?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And now did you grow up under him? Did you
grow up and watch all these great people he played
music with? Were you around that influence at all?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I wasn't.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
He died when I was thirteen years old, so I
didn't really get a chance to see his greatness. You know,
I was the guy that was at home when he
came in from playing all the gigs around town.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Woeaw.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
He would come in after having a few drinks and
throw everything on the ground and tell me to pick up,
pick up, pick up the money. You pick up the money, man,
and we'll split it. And then he would sit there
and play, and I would sit outside his door and
listen to him play.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
It was just amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It's beautiful. Do you do you keep tapes? Did you
keep tapes of your dad?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Have tapes back then. I mean, come on, man, I'm
seventy five.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And that's another thing I want to talk about. Whow
a seventy five years young? I was telling people the
other day, you know, you and I did the or
you and Stephanie Mills actually did the concert, and I
was just on there with y'all. But your performance is
that of a forty year old and thirty five. You
dumped off that stage, you walked through that audience, you
(03:46):
had the more energy than anybody there, and each one
of your songs you're still delivering them with that same beautiful, deep,
lovely sound. It's not like crackice. Come. I'm watching lot
of the old people. I'm I'm sorry, I'm not. I
watch a lot of these artists who are becoming seasoned,
like our sail. I'm sixty six myself, but I don't
(04:06):
feel a day over fifty nine. They still going on
stages and stuffing on.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Here.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
People cracking the music. The boys is cracking it off.
They faking you see some people start singing low at
certain points because they can't hit that note. But you
hit that stage, hit every note just like you've been
doing it the whole time. What's the secret to that well.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
I mean the most important thing is health, you know,
And I think a lot of us take that for granted,
especially the life that we lead, because I'll tell you,
the road is a beast. And when you're doing these
shows and you're doing back to back nights or three
four nights in the row, and if you ain't taking
care of yourself, it'll come back and get you. And
(04:46):
I think that's where a lot of the older guys
kind of slacked up a bit, you know. I I've
been vegan for the last ten years.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I don't teach you.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
I just started eating fish in the last six months
because the little training guy I have told me that,
you know, you getting old, man, you need some fatty acids,
so you better eat a little fit. So but I
was strictly digging and uh, And I've always taken care
of myself. I always think the most important thing is
vocal hygiene. I take care of my instrument like it's
(05:20):
you know, it's just like anybody would take care of
their horn. You know, you gotta take care of it.
You gotta clean it, you gotta lubricate it, you gotta
do all those things. And so I take care of that.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I call it vocal hygiene where I steam every day.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I so it's like a hooker, a hooker and a coochie.
You have to clean that thing. You have steam it
and make sure everything's freshus. All right, If that thing
ain't clean, it ain't good for nobody. You know what
I'm saying. Talk about your health? Yeah, oh my god.
(05:54):
Now are you self taught? Because I know you are
a drummer as well as the lead singing LTD and
I adore LTD. I love LTD. So you are a
drummer in there too. So how did you start?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
I am self taught, by the way, I'm self taught
with every I'm living in Providence. I'm from Providence, and
uh I had a brother.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I know they had the black people in Province Land. Okay,
a whole lot, a whole lot of my fam really
your family alone, that's one city right there.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
The youngest twelve. You know, all my brothers and sisters
at fourth.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But you were the very youngest.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
I'm the youngest at twelve. Yeah, dude, we.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Have so many parallels. I'm the youngest in my family.
It was five brothers. I'm the youngest. Uh my father
died when I was twelve. Your father died at thirteen.
And both of us have beautiful ball heads.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
People are ball in their head looked like hell, it
looks like a damn roller coaster that lump some ship.
And your head is perfect.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
You know, it's rough.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
When you get to the ball saying and realize yo,
he it looked like furniture, you'd be like, nah, I
ain't gonna do it. Oh my goodness. So so you did.
You did musical instructs before you start singing. I played drums. O.
My father left his trumpet for me. That's the one
thing I got was his trumpet. So I started playing trumpet.
(07:20):
That didn't last long. I was like, okay, I don't
like that. I'mmateur on my lips. Oh yeah, And it
was swell right there in the middle.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
So I played a little bit and kind of put
that down. And then my brother left the set of
drums in my basement and I just sat down and
for some reason I could play.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
I had no lessons at all. I sat down and I.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Was able to just fell natural.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
So I started playing around town when I was like fourteen,
fifteen years old in my little local bands, and that's
how well, that's what I met the OJ's first. I
met the OJ's coming through Providence, Rhode Island, when I
was fifteen years old, and I used to play that
nightclub and I sold my mom, I want to go
see the old j's. It was a school night. She's like,
(08:03):
all right, no, go ahead and be back. You know,
I go see him. And the night that they are performing,
I'm watching. Their drummer was actually on Heroin. He was
on He was falling asleep after every song, so.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
He would play a song.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Then he would nod out, and then he would play
another song. Even now, and I'm fifteen and I'm sitting
there and saying, what what is that?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Right? So I talked to the club owner.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
He let me meet them after the show and I said, look, man,
you guys guys need a drummer. They said, yeah, we
need one right now. I said, well, they said, no,
you're too you'll I said, well, I know all the guys.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
I'll bring a few guys up audition if you let
me audition. They said okay.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
So brought a few guys up, all the guys in town,
and I ended up getting the job. So My bird
job was when I was fifteen playing with you know,
an established group was the Old Jays, and then I
met that WOW and I met LTD under the same
circumstances I met them. I met them when I was
about twenty years old. They would come through town and
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everybody said, look, there's ten black musicians playing in this
club down the street.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
You gotta go see him. I said, I ain't seen
ten black musicians, and.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Problem is ever so all together, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I went to see them.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
The night I went to see them, their drummer got
taken to jail for smoking marijuana outside the club. That
was nineteen seventy. I was nineteen, so you know that
was a major offense. So they locked him up in
The club owner said, can you help us out? Can
you play drums with this group? Like, I don't know
what they're doing, but they're doing Top forty. I knew
all Top forty because I used to work part time
(09:42):
in record store. So I went in and played the knight,
sang a couple of songs, and they asked me to
join the group. So I owe my career to drugs.
I got, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And harra haro I helped my career's herod. Oh my god,
So did you really play like they want you to
be able to play? When you first started? Did you
get on them drums?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Did you do your thing?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
You winging it?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Because I had a local group and we had all
the best jobs of time. I played and sang at
the same time, and so when I joined LTD, I
did the same thing. I was playing and singing most
of the time, and then we recorded. We had this
one song in nineteen seventy five call Love Ballot.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Come, and that's one of my favorite songs. Man, I
love that song so much.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
And you know, there's four hunt players in LTD.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
So record company came to me and said, look, you
got to get up from behind the drums because the
ladies are going crazy over this song. They can't even
see you singing it. You got to get out front.
And I'm like, i don't even know what to do
with myself out front. I'm so used to this doing
this with my hands and singing. So they got me
a teacher. So I got a guy who was the
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theater director at La City College, and he came in
and he worked with me and he taught me how to,
you know, work the stage. And the one thing he
taught me that I never forget. He said, the most
important thing is to reach the last person in the
last seat. He said, you get that last person in
the last seat, you got the whole audience. So he
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just taught me how to, you know, how to bring
in an audience, how to work with the audience, and
it was invaluable.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Wow, wow, I want to see. I was trying to
pull that up real quick.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
I love ballad? Why did they name it love ballad?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Like? I see all the words in it.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I'm younger.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I was like, my mother loves this song, and I'm like,
it's the love ballad.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I'm like, well, what's the name of the song?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Right, it's a bat.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I have no idea why.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
If I had written it, I wouldn't have called it
love ballad. But it was written by this guy, Skip Scarborough,
who was an incredible song right.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Skip Scarboro wrote a bunch of hits something from Winning
By he wrote, you know, he was just a great writer.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
And I don't know he just came up with I
guess when he was writing it, he was gonna write
this love ballad, and that's what he ended up calling
it you cute it.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Years old.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Or a lot of people got something on this one.
A whole lot of buff us born to this one. Yes, sir,
y'all don't know about love ballad. You know about this
is one of the America's greatest classics. Black or white,
that's all Love ballad. The Ghoult people went in on
that amazing.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, that was it was fortunate to be able to
get a hold of that. That song. It was turned
down by earth winning fire.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Oh my god, how beautiful.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Maurice said he didn't wasn't feeling he wasn't feeling it.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Gave it, They gave it to us, and uh interesting.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
So that was one of them songs that uh.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
I fought with the producers the night I sang it,
didn't want to sing, was ready to go home. They
taught me in the stinging at like four o'clock in
the morning, I'm singing a song. You know, it's four
in the morning. So I got sang it one time
and left and said I'm done with it. Came back
the next day they said, oh, this is done. You
want doesn't do this.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I'm what you want to take Jake.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
You didn't one time I did it one time. I
didn't want to do it.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Then I didn't want it because I've been waiting in
the studio since eight o'clock. They showed up in one
in the morning, and so we had the big argument,
and they were like.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Well, you still got time, man, you can go something
like I don't want to sing right now.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
So I did it, did it one take, and when
I came back and listened to it, I said, yeah,
I'm not gonna mess with that either.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
What the biggest ever? Hey, we'll take a quick break. Now,
you gonna go talk to a man about a horse. Hey, y'all,
this is your boy, Michael Kaya And I'm here with
the world famous, the awesome, the crewer himself, Jeffrey Osbourne,
and my team.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Will be right black in a pair of seconds.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
And we're black, I mean we're black. And I am
with Jeffrey Osbourne, who is so amazing, and I had
the pleasure of actually being on a stage with him,
and we performed a couple of weeks ago, and I'm
just going away, how excellent, how strong your performance is
at seventy five years young. Don't you want to go
lay down? How do people feel when they sit. I'm
(14:46):
sixty six. Oh, and we have a young lady who
would as well today, Austraya Black is a brilliant comedian
and she's like one of my side kicks, and she's
my partner on the morning show. Hey, Astraya, you on me?
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Hey listen, I gotta listen, miss Iborn. What the fuck
are you doing drinking from the family youth because you
look swell you look, and I just want to tell you.
I know for a sex that my mama was doing well.
She ain't have no business off of your music.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I know for a fact she was. But it's so beautiful.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
I think just in general for music is missing just
love period. You just the pure love. Is no one
who just could pours out love anymore, you know what
I'm saying. So I'm just honored to, you know, be
on here and just to see you like this is
really a blessing love.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Well, hey, pleasure, it is so nice to meet you.
I feel like out of place. I'm like the only
singer here. I got comedians all around me here.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
No, no, no, I know they both say they sing.
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Talent shows in the third ride and everything.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Now I sing praizy worship at church. Right now, I'm
a praisy worship leader. You better be bringing it. If
you singing in church, you better be bringing it.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Some of the best vocalists we have on this show
started at church. They sang at church. Now. So, at
seventy five years young, what was the greatest and the
most exciting performance that you've ever done? Something that just
rocked you. You just had to go over the corner,
sit down and catch yourself recover from it. It was
so amazing. What was that?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
It's that's hard to choose.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
I mean, there's been so many and I just did
one at seventy five in Detroit, and I could have
sworn I must be Michael Jacquelin or somebody. I mean,
what's going on? They stood up the whole concert. They
sang every word to every song. It was amazing. There's
been so many moments like that, it's hard to pick one.
I think Nolan might be one of my favorite places
(17:01):
to play because people and all that is love music.
They love everybody, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
All of love party. That's it.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
They They're gonna eat.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
It, drink it, make love to it, dance with it.
They're doing all that shit right out in the street.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
I have a question, mister Osborne. So with the way
that music is now, do you have a new favorite artist?
Like I know sometimes you know, people like I don't
listen to nobody for real, or I listen to contemporary music.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Do you have someone that you listen to that you
like this kind of fairly new or something like that.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
You know what it's it's it's kind of hard for
me to listen today to a lot of the today's music.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
It's it's so different, you know.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I appreciate some of the people out and I am
completely blown away with the success of some of the
younger people.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
It's amazing how well they have done.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I wish that my generation had done what they're doing,
which is they collaborate with everybody. I mean, you look
up and they're all on each other's albums, and I
love that that, you know, I love that about the
young artist. I think today's music, like we were saying earlier,
(18:16):
it doesn't have the character or for me, the melodic
depth that music had back then.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
But the following is amazing.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
I mean, these kids are selling just oh gods are
records and I mean, I saw I have to say
that I respect what they're doing quite a bit, but
I you know, like you were saying, I don't get
that that love feeling anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
A lot of it is.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
That's what I was going to ask you. Are there
any more crooners?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
There's not a lot, especially male vocalists. I don't see
a lot.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Everybody wants to rap now, you know, and most and
most of the melodies are basically almost like a rap melody.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
It's all kind of monochrone.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
There's no versus and then a bridge and then a chorus,
and you know, it's all sitting on the same little
eight bath phrase and right right, it's.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Not challenging to sum it up.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
That's why it's a lot of eighties babies, you know
what I'm saying that at my eighties and nineties babies
sang where it was easy to take women's panties off,
Versus now they're just like, bitch, take your pannies off.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Like it's a.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Little they say, you know me and saying to you
real pretty Where it was like it was an ease
or you know, like you know, let's just do it,
but you know, now it's everything is a lot rougher.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Basically it is, and I think we've lost respectful women
in today's music. I mean, I just hate to hear
people on them bitches and holes and this and that
and what the thing is they buying it? I don't
get it.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yes, mister Osborne, to your point, to your point on
the wings of love, that ain't nobody going on the
wings of love?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
No more, no wings of love. Nobody. Ain't nobody holding on?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Come on, somebody, Ain't nobody. Ain't nobody talking about I'll
make believe. Ain't nobody doing that?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It's in their face.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Like you some songs you would be like, hold the
wings up, love. Now it's like I'm gonna beat it
up until your back hurt.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Daddy.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Didn't beat it up, daddy.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
The women saying period, beat it up, period, period.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I missed the songs where you said my one and
only love, Come on, somebody, yes, shut up so that
they love. Now, mister Osbourne, they just screwing. They not
making love.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You're right, And he could enunciate his words.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
He enunciate his words like you can hear him and
a nunci ain't his words.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
You don't know half the ship people talking about them?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Are you saying to beat was nice.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
That be was nice. Australa and Josiah, this is before
you your kids time. But there was a day when
people actually held each other and danced slowly. Come on, y'all,
don't remember that? Do you? You remember that? Josiah? Now
you better not touch the mofuck on the dance floor.
I wish the fuck you would. You better not touch
(21:18):
your hand off me. But it was all about the
blue light and the basement. Man, we throw on some
L T D. We granding. I know you too young
to remember grand Austraya remember grinding.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Griding is because I remember Pokino night and Pochino Knights
used to get rough in the family at the houses
and I was a little gird at the Yeah, I
used to see that at the top of the stars
while everybody was in the basement. Of course I didn't
got popped a couple of times. My little grown ass
was watching y'all.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
So so so, Jeffrey, what is the worst experience musical experience,
the thing that didn't work out? Which one of those?
Do you remember anything that turned into a disaster? I
thought it was would be great, but it didn't work out.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
We've had a bunch of those during the course of
my career.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I think one of the biggest disappointments was we finally
got our chance to audition.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
For A and M Records Ltd.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
We've been struggling in La get a chance and were
going and we auditioned and they were like, well, we're
not hearing it. You know, the music is too militant,
and we were.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Militant back then.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Oh wow, our music was all about y'all white folks doing.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
This and black folks.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
They were like, so we kind of messed up that
audition and it kind of hurt us.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
But what they did was they said, well, we love you.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Guys musically, would you consider being a band for Mary Clayton.
Mary Clayton at the time was very big, you know,
and she had done some work with the Rolling Stone.
So we started performing with Mary Clayton, and we did
the Monterey Folk Fest with her and a band fell out,
so they asked us to fill in twenty minutes, and
(23:04):
we did twenty minutes and left the crowd standing and
the record company looked at.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Us and said, oh wow.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
So they called us back in and the funny thing
is our first record deal.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
It was one of my favorite artists, Jerry Butler had.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
A production love Jerry Butler.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Jerry Butler had a production deal at A and M Records,
and we signed through his production deal for our first album,
and after that we signed directly to the label. But yeah,
I mean, so you know those moments you work hard,
you get there, you get that big audition, and it
don't happen. That was That was a tough moment for us.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
So at seventy five, are you still dreaming? Do you
still have dreams of accomplishing more different things? Or have
you mellowed out and just gonna.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Do I'm living a dream. It's all about the dream,
you know.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
It started with a dream when I was twelve years
old on the street corners out there.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I thought I was one of the Temptations. I was
doing my steps right right, you know.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
And then ten years later I'm on stage opening for
the Temptations and I got to meet them.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Why dreaming is important?
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Yeah about that dream? So yeah, I never stopped.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
We live or die by them dreams, we see, because
you can only live the story that you write. So
so yeah, family, you have a wife, your five kids,
four kids, four kids, four kids for what's them, Sherry? Yeah,
please give her our best, tell her hello, it's just
(24:33):
love down here. Are you in l A Novemberfore?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
I'm not in l A. I'm going most of November.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I like that. I like being going because that means
I'm coming back with the money now. I can't put
in Chase Bank because they just closed all my counsel
with out a reason. But I love coming back with
the money now. I got I gotta go after them, man,
because they tripping. You know, they racist and ship you
know they They ain't even tell me a reason. They
just say, you know, we don't understand your activity. You
(25:03):
ain't both know my activity. I better take my money,
put it in when I won't take it out when
I want. But of course, being black, they assume niggas
are selling drugs. I ain't slaying nothing but jokes. So
I don't know what the hell they talking about. But
I think I think I smell a lawsuit. Yeah it's tasty.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Okay, that's interesting right there.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
If you wanted your public out there to know anything
that you haven't had a chance to say yet, can
you say it now? What was one thing you want
people to know about you? Jeffrey Osbourne. Man, the legend.
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
That's a hard question. The things that I haven't accomplished
that I still would like to accomplish, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
And I tell you what, tell me one, tell me one.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Well, I've never done anything as far as TV is concerned,
no motion picture work other than I've had songs on TV.
I've had theme songs, and I've had songs in the movie.
But I've never done any acting. And I think that's
one thing I would like to do. You like to
travel actor, I think I would know the right thing
comes along. I think I would.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yeah, the part of I'm doing tomorrow you would have
been perfect for them. So glad you didn't know about it.
And uh, it's it's a fimm I'm a little older
than sixty and I'm the guy who comes and check
out everything.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I do the inspection, the counting inspection for this building, right,
But come to find out, the guy who lives there
also slept with my wife and I recognized his face, like,
wait a minute, you the hindred just the musician. He said, yeah, man,
I remember you. And so at first they had passed
the inspection, but then when I realized that this dude
(26:41):
has done the who see with macuity? Things changed. I
can't tell y'all no more than that. But the show
is called Man, Man Your Business, that's the name of
the series. Man Your Business are Bounce. But I you
should try to act?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
You should?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
You should get out there and do something.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Yeah, I like to Have you ever done a monologue? No?
Not really, you know?
Speaker 6 (27:02):
And I started at one time to, you know, try
to get into some voiceovers, and I never did that
because I figured I do some voiceover work.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
But why don't you learn a monologue? If you if
you learn a monologue, like a five minute monologue, and
if you go online you could put up put in
monologue for black men like five hundred to jump up
and find one you like? You feel good, feel like
you could say it and learn it. If you learn
a four or five minute monologue, Man, you could come
on a morning show. How cold would it be to
(27:33):
see you doing a monologue? Brother? People would go crazy
for that.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I agree. I think that.
Speaker 8 (27:39):
I think listen. I think he almost soap opera worthy.
I think you like Young and the restless he does,
I mean not heat of a night.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
What's the other one? The Light, the Sun, the.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Guy in Like, I really think that you should try
to go do one of those the soap opera. I
really do, oh yeah, because they're doing a lot of
so a lot of people doing so soap operas. But
soap operas tough, but you know, I mean as a
first job. Because soap opera it's new material every day,
and so for five days, every single day, you got
(28:11):
a new script for every day because it's a story
that keeps unfolding every day. That's tricky to me because
I don't memorize that quick like all the rest of
this day today, A memorizing line for tomorrow, you know. Yeah, yeah,
so I want that to happen. Please consider getting your
monologue together. Then we can get you on the Michael
coy In Morning Show. Do your monologue. I bring on
(28:32):
Miguel New Year's He'll be the monologue judge and we'll
just have fun. Man, do it, man, don't be scared,
don't board and give us some of that love ballad
that love you see a little bit, let me hear
just a little bit. You do three lines. Hey, I'm
(29:04):
grabbing myself over here.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Stop.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
I love you, Jeffrey, Thank you, so much. Man, We
appreciate you. Tell people how they can find you so
they can find out what you're doing all over the place.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Jeffrey Iging dot com. Pretty simple.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
I got my website up and then everything is on there,
and my all my dates are on there, so my
merchants on everything's on there.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I love you, sir, and I appreciate you. Thank you
so much for coming to that give it up. Thank
You's beautiful. It was a beautiful pleasure for us. Thank you, Yes, yes,
thank you. And no one's gonna see this, they're gonna
hear this, but here we go. Thank you so much.
And Straya Black, who is so funny, Thank you for
dropping in and talking with us. And tell people they
(29:44):
can find you Astraya.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
Well, they can find me Monday do Friday on the
best TV show on the Internet, Michael Call You Morning show.
Social media platforms is Istraia Black. You can find me
over here on our radio with Michael talks to.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Everybody what And finally Josiah tell people they can find you. Hey,
you guys can find me at Josiah B. Jones dot com,
Josiah B. Jones dot com on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat.
Everything is at Comedian Josiah. It's all one word at
(30:20):
Comedian Josiah. And I'm telling you, man, listen, I'll make
you laugh at loud. If not, you laugh on the inside. Ay,
I love it. Thank y'all all, thank you. I'm your boy.
Michael Kaya wore famous, world renown, often talked about, and
you can always find me on my morning show five
days a week on YouTube. The Michael Kaya Morning Show's
only done seven hundred and nine, so I understand you
haven't heard about it. Also, I'm right here at iHeart
(30:43):
three new shows every week and this is like the
most beautiful artist I've had an opportunity to interview. Mister Jeffrey.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
I was one.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
It made my whole week, my whole month. I appreciate you.
Thank you for saying yes, King. I appreciate and giving
mis Sherry a hug from me and my lovely wife. Okay,
hey y'all, we gotta get out of here. This has
been great. As Michael talks to everybody, we out, remember
keep God first life of the garden. If you dig
it and guess what He needs you have fun today
(31:13):
and just remember we're here to have fun. If you
ain't gonna have fun. Why the hell are you still here?
Get out of here? Yiada, okay, catch you on the rebound.
See everybody. It's a beautiful day. And by woo, I
had a good time today. I hope y'all did too. Man,
Thank y'all for checking us out here. Michael talks to everybody. Hey,
(31:37):
you can follow me, man, I'm easy to follow. I'm
on Instagram just under at Michael Kaya. I'm on TikTok
that's Michael Kaye one three five. I have a very
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You know, you go over there. You can find out
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my shows. Our airthing is right there. Or if you
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(32:00):
accept green sem foods and Canadian money. I'll take your
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Speaker 5 (32:16):
I see y'all later.
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