September 12, 2024 • 9 mins
The Philadelphia legend passed away at age 77 on Tuesday. He was a cultural icon. Along with his status, his distinct style of all-white custom designed is also what his is best known for. It's immeasurable what he meant to us. He just completed his farewell tour.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, wow, we're all just I mean, just devastated, very
very sad to hear about the passing of musical legend
in icon Frankie Beverly.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Frankie was seventy seven years old.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
He was from Philadelphia and a founding member of his
group's Made Yeah. Their music inspired us for generations. Our
home station in Philly WDAS one oh five point three
FM shared a statement from Frankie's family on social media.
It said, quote, Grieving the loss of a loved one
(00:34):
is a deeply personal and emotional experience. During this time,
as we are navigating feelings of sorrow, reflection, and remembrance,
we kindly ask for privacy and understanding, allowing us the
space to grieve in our own way. The family continued,
this period is for one of healing, and your respect
(00:55):
for our need for solitude is appreciated as we honor
the memory of our loved Howard Stanley Beverly, known to
the world as Frankie Beverly. He lived his life with
pure soul, as one would say, and for us, no
one did it better.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
He lived for his music, for.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
His family, and for his friends love one another as
he would want that for us.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
All end quote, Steve.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I mean you know, I know you knew Frankie what
a legacy of music legacy he left.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I mean, tell us about some of your fondness memories.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't even I don't even really, I don't even
know the words. Yeah, about what Frankie Beverly was to
us culturally. Yes, if you are forty years old, you understand.
I don't even have to explain this to you. Right,
(01:49):
If you are forty years old, I don't even have
to explain this to you. But if you are not
forty years old and you don't know, then you should know.
What you should do. What you should do is go
on Apple Music and download everything you can from Frankie Bellley,
and I want you to listen to it. And I
(02:09):
want you to understand why this man could sell out
Arenas having not put out an album in twenty years.
I want you to go see why. I want you
to see why, for years he closed out the biggest
musical festival in America for us, the Essence Musical Festival.
I want you to understand why he I didn't care
(02:31):
who was on the show. I don't care who you
bought down there, Frankie Belly and Mays was the show
Closer period.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yes, sir, I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Know if you even understand what how entrenched in the
souls of soul music lovers that Frankie Beverley and Mays was.
You can't know, but you have to hear the songs
now listen. I know if you're young, y'all have a
(03:04):
propensity sometimes to overlook old school and think it's old.
If it wasn't for that, you don't exist today. If
you don't think Frankie Beverly bad ass Beyonce, ask the
Queen be I am telling you you cannot call yourself
(03:25):
a music connoisseur and not know what this man did.
Frankie Beverly, and then on top of that was just
a beautiful soul. He was a cool ass dude. Many
I'm talking about when we talk about cool. He wasn't hard,
he wasn't no gangster, he wasn't no thug. When I'm
telling you the epitome of cool.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah cool with.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
A capital old capital C O O L all caps,
Frankie Bevy all caps, all white.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yes, yeah with the cap Yeah, this is how deep
he was.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
No introduction necessary, The only person and excuse me for
I take this flex moment. Only person ever introduced Frankie
Beverly at essence was Steve Harvey. Only one nobody else.
You just you just walked off the stage. He left
it black. Nobody Frankie Frankie walked out there. I'm just
(04:25):
saying me though, because Frankie had a Frankie had a
set thing. I'm just telling you Frankie had at essence.
I said, at essence, Frankie had a set thing. Everybody
leave the stage, stage go black. The band walk out,
the band don't say nothing. Two dun two three don't
(04:49):
and then they start. After that, Frankie Beverly walked out.
There was no introduction. Just one time I asked him,
could I do it? He says, Steve, I'm gonna let
you do it. I just wanted to. I just wanted
that because I'd never seen nobody do it before.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But this dude right here, he it was no introduction necessary.
He was Frankie to us. He was Frankie our soundtrack
that his voice changed as he got older. For us,
he would Frankie Beverly Yes for us, man, and what
he meant to us immeasurable unbelievable to the culture. Yes,
(05:36):
you can't go to a family union, they still electric slide, No, Frankie.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Yes to a family wedding, wedding, barbecue.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
People, Frankie playing.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yes, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh wow, yeah, amazing that that the news was shocking.
He just completed his farewell tour too.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Now, let me tell you something. He wasn't a prince
or Michael Jackson global icons, right, but to us though,
in our culture, he was.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
All of that, all of that and all of that, yes, sir, Yes.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
To black folks. And you got to be bad to
black people, to be bad anyway, So suck.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
No disrespecting nobody else, but you got to be bad
to us.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That's right. Thank you for that reflection.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Steve.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Coming up in twenty minutes after the hour, we'll have
more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So we're here celebrating the legend and icon Frankie Beverly.
You know what, we need to talk more about Frankie
because we had a relationship with him. He would come
on our show, Steve. Sometimes you would go on Big Cation.
He would host for you and those were some of
our greatest shows when Frankie Beverly, because people love him,
(07:07):
like you say, he's the culture.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
People loved him so much. What were some of you
guys's favorite memories of Frankie Beverly.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Oh God, I didn't know. I Frankie had a sense
of humor when he came on the show. Yeah, he
didn't know how to act. I ain't. No, I don't
know what kind of man you He was laid back,
he was a cool cat, and he had a hell
of a sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yes he did, he did. He was very funny.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I remember when in Chicago I worked for wgc I
and we had a giveaway. We were sending our listeners
to London to see Frankie Beverly perform in London Live concert.
And I went, That's how I got to go to
London because I was part of the promotion and everything
and went over there and saw Frankie Beverly and it
(07:55):
was an amazing trip. I was in London watching Frankie
Beverly on Stay. That was just an awesome, awesome trip
for me. I'll never forget that as long as I
lived because it was great and he was great, and
the people over there loved him too.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They loved him.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
I think for me, it's the same thing what Tommy
was saying when Frankie would guest host with us, and
it was like, you're speechless because we love him so much,
and talk, you gotta talk, and he watched in the
studio and you just you want.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
To sing every song while I'm alone before I let go. God,
the time of day.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I feeling love phone, yeah, yes, a feeling.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Just hit after hit after him and of course essence fest.
Of course to see that super Dome and the lights
go down, like Steve was saying, early and everybody in white.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Everybody in white. Yes, yeah, Junior, I know it's not
jo to see.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
No, no, no, let me tell you something. Two thousand
and eight, The Convicted City in New Orleans. In New Orleans,
all New Year's Eve. I got to open for Frankie.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh wow, there you go.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
I did it about four times with it. But at first,
but that's what, OK say, you ain't you ain't got
to introduce him. I did my jokes and they just
told me, you know, to walk off stage.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I did.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I'm just off the front of the stage.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I want to be upfront. My grandmother's hero. Right here,
I'll finish.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Getting his music live.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
He inspired generations, generations for us and our culture for black.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
People, he did for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Coming up in thirty four minutes after the hour, we're
gonna check your voicemail Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Right after this, you're listening Morning Show
Well, wow, we're all just I mean, just devastated, very
very sad to hear about the passing of musical legend
in icon Frankie Beverly.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Frankie was seventy seven years old.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
He was from Philadelphia and a founding member of his
group's Made Yeah. Their music inspired us for generations. Our
home station in Philly WDAS one oh five point three
FM shared a statement from Frankie's family on social media.
It said, quote, Grieving the loss of a loved one
(00:34):
is a deeply personal and emotional experience. During this time,
as we are navigating feelings of sorrow, reflection, and remembrance,
we kindly ask for privacy and understanding, allowing us the
space to grieve in our own way. The family continued,
this period is for one of healing, and your respect
(00:55):
for our need for solitude is appreciated as we honor
the memory of our loved Howard Stanley Beverly, known to
the world as Frankie Beverly. He lived his life with
pure soul, as one would say, and for us, no
one did it better.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
He lived for his music, for.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
His family, and for his friends love one another as
he would want that for us.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
All end quote, Steve.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I mean you know, I know you knew Frankie what
a legacy of music legacy he left.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I mean, tell us about some of your fondness memories.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't even I don't even really, I don't even
know the words. Yeah, about what Frankie Beverly was to
us culturally. Yes, if you are forty years old, you understand.
I don't even have to explain this to you. Right,
(01:49):
If you are forty years old, I don't even have
to explain this to you. But if you are not
forty years old and you don't know, then you should know.
What you should do. What you should do is go
on Apple Music and download everything you can from Frankie Bellley,
and I want you to listen to it. And I
(02:09):
want you to understand why this man could sell out
Arenas having not put out an album in twenty years.
I want you to go see why. I want you
to see why, for years he closed out the biggest
musical festival in America for us, the Essence Musical Festival.
I want you to understand why he I didn't care
(02:31):
who was on the show. I don't care who you
bought down there, Frankie Belly and Mays was the show
Closer period.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yes, sir, I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Know if you even understand what how entrenched in the
souls of soul music lovers that Frankie Beverley and Mays was.
You can't know, but you have to hear the songs
now listen. I know if you're young, y'all have a
(03:04):
propensity sometimes to overlook old school and think it's old.
If it wasn't for that, you don't exist today. If
you don't think Frankie Beverly bad ass Beyonce, ask the
Queen be I am telling you you cannot call yourself
(03:25):
a music connoisseur and not know what this man did.
Frankie Beverly, and then on top of that was just
a beautiful soul. He was a cool ass dude. Many
I'm talking about when we talk about cool. He wasn't hard,
he wasn't no gangster, he wasn't no thug. When I'm
telling you the epitome of cool.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah cool with.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
A capital old capital C O O L all caps,
Frankie Bevy all caps, all white.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yes, yeah with the cap Yeah, this is how deep
he was.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
No introduction necessary, The only person and excuse me for
I take this flex moment. Only person ever introduced Frankie
Beverly at essence was Steve Harvey. Only one nobody else.
You just you just walked off the stage. He left
it black. Nobody Frankie Frankie walked out there. I'm just
(04:25):
saying me though, because Frankie had a Frankie had a
set thing. I'm just telling you Frankie had at essence.
I said, at essence, Frankie had a set thing. Everybody
leave the stage, stage go black. The band walk out,
the band don't say nothing. Two dun two three don't
(04:49):
and then they start. After that, Frankie Beverly walked out.
There was no introduction. Just one time I asked him,
could I do it? He says, Steve, I'm gonna let
you do it. I just wanted to. I just wanted
that because I'd never seen nobody do it before.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But this dude right here, he it was no introduction necessary.
He was Frankie to us. He was Frankie our soundtrack
that his voice changed as he got older. For us,
he would Frankie Beverly Yes for us, man, and what
he meant to us immeasurable unbelievable to the culture. Yes,
(05:36):
you can't go to a family union, they still electric slide, No, Frankie.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Yes to a family wedding, wedding, barbecue.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
People, Frankie playing.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yes, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh wow, yeah, amazing that that the news was shocking.
He just completed his farewell tour too.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Now, let me tell you something. He wasn't a prince
or Michael Jackson global icons, right, but to us though,
in our culture, he was.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
All of that, all of that and all of that, yes, sir, Yes.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
To black folks. And you got to be bad to
black people, to be bad anyway, So suck.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
No disrespecting nobody else, but you got to be bad
to us.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That's right. Thank you for that reflection.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Steve.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Coming up in twenty minutes after the hour, we'll have
more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So we're here celebrating the legend and icon Frankie Beverly.
You know what, we need to talk more about Frankie
because we had a relationship with him. He would come
on our show, Steve. Sometimes you would go on Big Cation.
He would host for you and those were some of
our greatest shows when Frankie Beverly, because people love him,
(07:07):
like you say, he's the culture.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
People loved him so much. What were some of you
guys's favorite memories of Frankie Beverly.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Oh God, I didn't know. I Frankie had a sense
of humor when he came on the show. Yeah, he
didn't know how to act. I ain't. No, I don't
know what kind of man you He was laid back,
he was a cool cat, and he had a hell
of a sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yes he did, he did. He was very funny.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I remember when in Chicago I worked for wgc I
and we had a giveaway. We were sending our listeners
to London to see Frankie Beverly perform in London Live concert.
And I went, That's how I got to go to
London because I was part of the promotion and everything
and went over there and saw Frankie Beverly and it
(07:55):
was an amazing trip. I was in London watching Frankie
Beverly on Stay. That was just an awesome, awesome trip
for me. I'll never forget that as long as I
lived because it was great and he was great, and
the people over there loved him too.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They loved him.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
I think for me, it's the same thing what Tommy
was saying when Frankie would guest host with us, and
it was like, you're speechless because we love him so much,
and talk, you gotta talk, and he watched in the
studio and you just you want.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
To sing every song while I'm alone before I let go. God,
the time of day.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I feeling love phone, yeah, yes, a feeling.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Just hit after hit after him and of course essence fest.
Of course to see that super Dome and the lights
go down, like Steve was saying, early and everybody in white.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Everybody in white. Yes, yeah, Junior, I know it's not
jo to see.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
No, no, no, let me tell you something. Two thousand
and eight, The Convicted City in New Orleans. In New Orleans,
all New Year's Eve. I got to open for Frankie.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh wow, there you go.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
I did it about four times with it. But at first,
but that's what, OK say, you ain't you ain't got
to introduce him. I did my jokes and they just
told me, you know, to walk off stage.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I did.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I'm just off the front of the stage.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I want to be upfront. My grandmother's hero. Right here,
I'll finish.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Getting his music live.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
He inspired generations, generations for us and our culture for black.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
People, he did for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Coming up in thirty four minutes after the hour, we're
gonna check your voicemail Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Right after this, you're listening Morning Show
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