October 15, 2024 • 30 mins
What happens when a teenage musician swaps the Catskill nightclubs for the glitzy sets of Hollywood?
Don Most, beloved for his role as Ralph Malph on "Happy Days," shares his enthralling journey from an aspiring singer in New York to a celebrated actor in Los Angeles.
This episode of "Almost Live Nashville" captures his transition from music to acting, inspired by the vibrant filmmaking scene of the late 60s, and the unexpected turn that led him to stay in LA and pursue a full-time acting career.
Ever wondered what it was like behind the scenes of one of TV's most iconic shows?
Don gives us an insider’s look at some unforgettable moments from "Happy Days," like when a key character destroys Fonzie's motorcycle, and the camaraderie among the cast and crew.
He reminisces about John Lennon's surprise visit and Robin Williams' legendary guest appearance, which catapulted Williams to stardom.
Don also opens up about his decision to leave "Happy Days" after seven seasons and the concerns about typecasting that influenced his choice.
But Don's story doesn't end with acting. This episode dives into his successful pivot to directing and rediscovering his musical roots.
From his first films "The Last Best Sunday" and "New Law" to releasing jazz CDs like "Demos Mostly Swinging" and "New York High,"
Don shares the creative processes that fueled his projects.
Plus, hear about the serendipitous moment he met his wife on set and his adventures directing theater in the early '90s.
Join us for an engaging conversation that showcases Don Most's multifaceted career and passions.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Music.
My career in the entertainmentindustry has enabled me to work
with a diverse range of talent.
Through my years of experience,I've recognized two essential
aspects.
Industry professionals, whetherfamous stars or
behind-the-scenes staff, havefascinating stories to tell.
Secondly, audiences are eagerto listen to these stories,
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which offer a glimpse into theirlives and the evolution of
their life stories.
This podcast aims to sharethese narratives, providing
information on how they evolveinto their chosen career.
We will delve into theirjourney to stardom, discuss
their struggles and successesand hear from people who help
them achieve their goals.
Get ready for intriguingbehind-the-scenes stories and
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insights into the fascinatingworld of entertainment.
Hi, I'm Tony Mantor.
Welcome to Almost LiveNashville.
Today we have the distinctpleasure of hosting Don Most,
the actor that brought life toRalph Mouth on Happy Days.
He will talk about his journeyfrom the show to his varied
ventures in film, theater andhis love for music, offering a
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unique glimpse into his lifebeyond the beloved sitcom.
So thanks for coming on.
Oh sure, my pleasure.
When you was about 14, 15 yearsold, I believe that your first
love was actually music.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, yeah.
I was focused more on musicback then, growing up in
Brooklyn and at the age of 13, Istarted going to this school in
Manhattan.
It was for kids and teenagers,for singing, dancing, acting
that sort of thing.
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And I was in that school forprobably a year and a half,
something like that.
And then I got picked becausethe guy who ran it he was an old
vaudevillian performer inCharlie Lowe.
So he had a studio with hiswife, Kasia.
She taught the tap dancingwhich I had to take.
It wasn't very good, but thenhe would handpick some of the
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best students or whatever youwant to call it, and created
like a review students orwhatever you want to call it,
and and created like a, a review, you know, like a nightclub act
called the broadway show offs,because his studio was on
broadway 1650 broadway, Iremember.
So I was picked to be in thisreview and then he had an agent
that would book the show up in a.
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There was a big resort areaupstate new york called Catskill
Mountains.
Oh yeah, great place.
Some of your listeners willknow, some won't.
The movie Dirty Dancing was setin the Catskill Mountains and
Walk on the Moon was anothermovie that was set there.
They had a whole bunch ofhotels and they would get some
big name entertainment in theirheyday.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, I remember those places, they were great.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The summer that I was turning 15, I spent the summer
up there and performed in abunch of nightclubs up in those
hotels all summer long.
So yeah, that was sort of myfirst real professional job and
I thought the music is where Iwas mainly focused on.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So how long after that did you turn to acting?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Probably about a year later I really switched gears
and I started getting laserfocused on the acting side and I
put the music aside for a while, Just circumstances, I think it
was being exposed to.
You know it was a very ferventtime for filmmaking.
Then in the late 60s, somegreat you know independent type
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movies that were being made thatI became really a fan and
hooked on going to see all thesegreat films.
You know Dustin Hoffman,midnight Cowboy and Jack
Nicholson.
I became a huge fan seeing himin Easy Rider and Five Easy
Pieces and then you know BobDonich's films, last Picture
Show.
It was just a great time.
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And that's when I went to adifferent school in New York for
strictly acting and that's whenI really sort of changed the
course.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So what led you to make the move from New York,
where there was several thingsgoing on, to LA?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, there were a lot of things going on, but you
know back then.
Okay, so when I went out to LA,it was originally just for the
summer after my junior year incollege.
That was my plan.
What happened was, when I didswitch gears, I was able to get
a manager through that actingschool and she sent me out, got
me with agents and I went out ona lot of.
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I did a lot of commercials foryears, from the time I was 16
till I was 20.
I did like 40 commercials and alot of them were national
commercials, and I was up for acouple of Broadway plays.
I came pretty close Actuallyone of them was the original
Jesus Christ Superstar and I gotthrough like three different
singing auditions and it waslike getting really close.
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But then I had to get through adance audition.
I didn't make that so I woundup not getting it.
But you know so.
But back then it was mainlytheater in New York.
The soap operas were big andcommercials and there were some
films every once in a while thatwould be shooting in New York.
The soap operas were big andcommercials and there were some
films every once in a while thatwould be shooting in New York.
You know there wasn't a lot oftelevision going on.
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You know network kind ofprimetime television.
There was very little of that.
Most of the films were stillbeing done in LA.
And so I decided after my junioryear to go out there for the
summer, make some headway, makesome contacts, and then I'd go
back to school, finish my senioryear.
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But I'd already have a footholdso that when I graduated I
could get out there and maybehit the ground running, was the
thought.
But then what happened was Iwent out there just for the
summer and I landed it.
I was able to get an agent outthere because of the agents that
I worked with in New York.
They referred me to severalagents and one of them signed me
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and they started sending me outon auditions for, like some
guest roles on TV shows and Ilanded a couple of them very
quickly.
So it was a tough decision butmy manager actually at the time
said you should think abouttaking six months off of school
and not going back because yougot some momentum going, you
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know.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, that must have been a pretty tough decision to
make at that time.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, actually I didn't think about it very long
when they said you should dothat.
I said you know, so I, just ona dime.
Actually I was supposed to beback at school in a few days for
my senior year start senioryear and and then and I and I
didn't go, and you know I had tochange everything, and then I
just stayed out and nothinghappened.
Sure, well, I got another part,I did get another part, and
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then nothing happened forseveral months and I was
thinking, oh, I made a mistake.
Um, and then nothing happenedfor several months and I was
thinking, oh, I made a mistake.
And then that's when theaudition for Happy Days came up.
And then I was also up for a TVmovie the same exact time that
producers and directors reallyliked me a lot and my agent said
I had a great chance of gettingit.
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And then, after I did thescreen test for Happy Days, and
then they made an offer for meand we actually turned it down
it was a Friday night turned itdown because I was at the time
more interested in the TV moviethan doing than doing a sitcom,
you know television show.
And the movie was the TV moviewas being directed by a guy who
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was a big director at the time.
He had directed the originalBrian song, which was huge, and
he was going to be directingthis.
And there was a writer.
The guy who had written thisproject had written a movie
called the Summer of 42, whichwas a show my loved back then,
and so I was more interested inthat.
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So my agent and I talked and wedecided to pass on Happy Days.
That Friday night some of myactor friends were saying what
are you crazy?
You know why'd you turn it down?
And all this and, as luck wouldhave it, my agent played
basketball every Saturday atGary Marshall's house.
It's the guy who created HappyDays and went on to direct a lot
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of big movies after they playedbasketball that day.
And he told my agent that theshow he thought had a really
good chance of getting on theair because it was just to do a
pilot.
The offer was to do a pilot andthen they sell it and they
probably you know there wereprobably 50 to 75 pilots or more
made every season and maybe youknow a handful would get on the
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air.
So you don't know season andmaybe you know a handful would
get on the air.
So you don't know.
But he told my agent it had areally good chance.
He said, well, give them abetter deal.
They upped the money and myagent called me on Monday and
said I think we shouldreconsider and by then I was
more open to going along withthat.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
If I'm correct, this is the 50th anniversary of the
debut of Happy Days.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, this year we're sort of celebrating the 50th
anniversary of when Happy Dayscame on the air 74.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, can you imagine that?
That it's been 50 years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I know I can't, I can't, it doesn't seem possible.
It's 50 years.
I mean, yeah, I know, you know,it's so surreal sometimes.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
When the show first started, your name was at the
end of the show and then after awhile it transitioned to the
beginning because you becamemore of a regular, I think.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
My deal was that in the first season I was
guaranteed 10 out of 13 episodesbecause it was like a
mid-season replacement.
But then, yeah, I mean I wasmore of a peripheral character,
in the very same way that theFonzie character played by Henry
Winkler was a peripheralcharacter.
As a matter of fact, in thefirst season both of our credits
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came at the end of the showwhere the stars were all at the
beginning.
But then our show was doingvery well right off the bat and
they renewed us for another 10,12 episodes to fill out the
first season.
And then my part started.
You know the producers anddirectors were liking what I was
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doing with the character andthey started writing more and
more for me, and the same thingwith Afonso, with Henry, and it
did grow.
So then we were still in mostof the episodes at the first
season but we were more reallyco-starring kind of characters.
And then by the second seasonthey moved us up, we were in the
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front credits and, you know,had a bigger spotlight on us.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, that's so good that it happened that way.
So, with all the shows that youdid, what stands out as one of
the top few that you will alwaysremember when you think about
the show?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's a tough one because there are so many
episodes that really felt great.
One that was the first episodewhere my character was the
integral part of the story thistook place in the third season,
but the first or second episodeand it was the one where
somebody had absolutelydestroyed Fonzie's motorcycle.
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He was out to get the guy whohad done it and it turned out
that it was me that Iaccidentally backed into it and
then I panicked and I didn'tknow it had gotten caught in my
fender or something, and I wentforward and back and forth and,
you know, just got worse andworse.
We never really saw that, butwe found out.
It was a really well-writtenscript, it was very funny and it
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was, you know, one thathighlighted my character.
That one always has a strongimpact for me and in my memory.
But there were a bunch of otherepisodes.
So the thing that really standsout for me is the relationships
that we had.
You know, we really becametight all of us, and we're a
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family, and it was thecollaborative effort and all of
the discussions that we wouldhave sometimes in between
filming.
Those are the things thatreally stand out for me.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, so you had so many special guests on the show
during your time.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I know you've mentioned John Lennon was on.
Who else comes to mind when youthink about your special guests
on the show?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, well, john Lennon was a guest star.
He came and just totallyunannounced, he came onto the
set with his son, julian, whowas like nine at the time, just
wanted to visit me.
I guess they were watching theshow and he wanted Julian to
maybe get a chance to see usmeet us.
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So that was pretty wild.
But in terms of guest stars,you know we had some really
interesting guest stars, but ofcourse the one that stands out
is Robin Williams, who launchedon our show yeah, I remember
those shows with him and thenbecame, you know, had his own
show, morton Mindy.
That spun off from that episode.
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All of us remember that sovividly because when he came
onto the set it was like whoa,where did this guy come from?
You know, it was like he wasfrom another planet, you know,
because nobody had ever seen thekind of quick, spontaneous
things he was coming up with interms of lines and the body
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language and sounds andeverything he was doing.
And we felt, all of us felt,that it was maybe one of the
weakest scripts that had comeacross our you know, our table
and we thought, god, this isthis script, this this isn't
work, isn't going to work, youknow.
But then with robin and it ittotally got transformed and
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where the network, there wassuch buzz going on about him
that all a lot of the networkpeople came to the show the
friday night where we shot infront of an audience.
After the weekend we come in onmonday or tuesday and we find
out oh, ron's got his own show.
Now you know, I mean, it wasthat quick, it was like he's got
his own show.
What?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, that was really amazing.
So you stayed with the show.
What six, or was it seven years?
It was seven seasons.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh, okay, seven, seven seasons, but it was like
six years because we did thatmid-season and the first full
season kind of in one year.
But yeah, it was seven seasons.
The show ran 11.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Everyone always said that hindsight is 20-20.
So, looking back, do you haveany regrets on leaving the show
early, or do you believe thatthat was definitely the right
move for you to make at thattime?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's a tough one.
Tough one because at the time Ifelt there were a lot of
reasons, combination of reasons.
First, I knew I was going to,you know already, facing getting
type being typecast, becausethat's very much more prevalent
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than when there were only likethree networks on and there was
no cable, there was no, noInternet streaming or anything.
So you know, we had 50, 60million people watching us on a
Tuesday night when we werenumber one.
Yeah, you know, you'd get moreassociated with a role than
people would today when there'sso much to so many options to
look at.
Sure.
But so I knew that, knew that Iwas facing that, and I also
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felt that the scripts, thequality of where it was going
After six, seven seasons so itwas this I did seven it's hard
to keep a show growing andgetting better and fresh and I
felt it was kind of goingdownhill in direction that
didn't feel right.
So, combination of that and,like I said, wanting and I
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wasn't very much like thecharacter I played.
You know I was just playing arole and and here you know I
didn't want to be so locked downinto to only playing that kind
of character and I it was verystrong feelings that I had about
wanting to do all differentkinds of roles.
So at the time I felt it wasthe right move.
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Yeah, in retrospect I don'tknow, I still think it was.
But there were some tough timesafter that trying to break away.
It was difficult and I knew itwould be hard, but I don't know
if I knew it would be quite ashard as it was.
But I kept plugging away,chipping away at it and
gradually I got a role that wasdifferent.
And then it was like people sawme a little bit.
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Oh wow, I played like a, youknow, psychiatrist in some show
and then I played this almostlike a Kiss kind of character,
you know a metal rocker kind ofguy in a different episode, and
we started just playing and Iplayed an attorney and then, you
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know, so slowly it started toopen up and then I got some
independent films and then astudio film and then I was doing
theater a lot in between toplay all different kinds of
roles.
So it would get better then.
It would kind of even out.
But now in the last four or fiveyears it's probably been the
best period for me in terms ofgetting different kinds of films
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with really interesting rolesthat are all very different.
I think you know I attributethat to getting older and, you
know, being further and furtherdistanced, obviously, from what
I was back in that day in termsof age and the way you look and
all of that and the time thathas passed and the fact that I
think that I've done somedifferent kinds of things, so
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people have seen it.
Now you know different kinds ofthings, so people have seen it.
Now you know I've gotten rolesin the last five years that went
from playing a small townpastor to a polygamist.
Literally it went from saying apastor to a polygamist and then
everything in between anattorney defending a wounded vet
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and then a career criminal andthen a guy who owned owner of a
minor league hockey team.
And then in a West I did aWestern and then I did a film
where I played a king inmedieval times.
And now just recently I did afilm that's coming out in
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November called Harsin's IslandRevenge, where it's a true story
During the Prohibition, withall the bootlegging going on.
This was in Michigan and theywere getting the liquor from
Canada and there were differentmobs that were competing for
control and there was a gangcalled the Purple Gang and I was
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a Jewish mob and I play thehead of the Jewish mob, so it
was a pretty intense role.
So I'm really looking forwardto having that come out.
I haven't gotten to see it yetand I'm hearing really good
things about it, so this is whatI had in mind.
It's taken a little longer thanI hoped to get into a better
stride, but better late thannever.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah, and I think there's one person in Happy Days
that you'll probably rememberforever, I think.
To my knowledge, she's kind ofstuck with you for a long time.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yes, indeed, I'm glad that she showed up on that
seventh season before I left.
Yeah, absolutely yeah, I met mywife on the show.
It was the seventh season.
It was an episode.
She had a small guest rolewhere she played a model at a
photographer's studio.
So we met, you know, during therehearsal the day she showed up
on, probably Wednesday, and westarted, you know, during the
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rehearsal the day she showed upon, probably Wednesday, and we
started, you know, talking alittle bit, and then Thursday,
more so, and then by Friday whenwe were shooting the show, I
asked her out before shootingthe show to go to dinner and we
did, and then started dating andtwo years later got married.
And here it is, 42 years later.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So yeah, that have that to thank Happy Days for big
time as well.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, absolutely.
And after you left Happy Days,you went from being in front of
the camera to doing work behindthe camera.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, I knew I would want to direct at some point,
and this was probably in theearly 90s, and this was probably
in the early 90s I said youknow what?
I think what I should do isstart out directing some theater
and then see how that goes, seehow I like did, and it went
really well.
We got really good reviews.
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And then I did several more.
And then I started looking forsome material film scripts that
I could maybe find or see if Ican get them somehow off the
ground.
And I met a writer on a filmthat I acted in.
We got along, we were talkingand then she said let me send
you a few of my scripts becausethey're made to be, you know,
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sort of on the low-budgetindependence scale, but they're
really, you know, strongcharacter pieces and really
could make for a nice film.
So I read two of her scriptsand loved them.
One of them would have beenthree to five million to make
and I was looking for the firsttime out to do something, you
know, under a million and it'dbe easier to get financing that
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sort of thing.
I decided to try to startpushing that script.
And then I met a producer,michael Murphy, who had produced
the original Bill and Ted'sExcellent Adventure and several
others and we got along realwell and he loved the script and
then talking to friends anddifferent people and we wound up
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raising enough money to makethat first film that I directed
it was called the Last BestSunday Really proud of the film.
It came out really well.
It got some awards at somefestivals and then it even got
picked up for some distributionand the two lead actors were
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great Douglas Spain and AngelaBettis and we got a great, great
review in the variety and youknow so.
It was a great experience andthat led to, several years later
, me doing a.
My second show in my filmcalled new law.
We had a great cast.
A young shaylene woodley was 13at the time and shaylene has
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gone on there to become prettybig.
We also have treat williams inthe film and a will William
Maypoth there and CurtisArmstrong, leaving out a few
other people but great cast.
It premiered at the NewportBeach Film Festival.
I got a lot for directing inthat, which was great.
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And then we also got somedistribution.
People can still see thesefilms.
They're on, I think they're onAmazon, tubi and a bunch of
other streamers.
And then I have a bunch ofother projects that I've been
trying to get up around there,you know, in development, so to
speak, and hopefully I'll getsome more going, because I
enjoyed that very much as well.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, that's really good.
So now I think I can say thatit's gone full circle You've
gone from music to acting.
Back to music again, yeah about.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
It was about 10 years ago.
You know, I, I, I done some.
I didn't completely burn mybridges on the singing back then
.
There, you know, there weretimes when I would do it here.
I did some musicals, you knowmusical theater, and then there
were a couple of times where Iwould do I did some club in LA.
I tried it out, but it was backin the late 70s, early 80s and
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that music wasn't really infavor.
You know the jazz standards andAmerican songbook.
It was kind of looked likepassé or something.
But you know it had a bigcomeback when people like you
know, natalie Cole did thatalbum dedicated to her dad, nat,
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and Diana Krall started doingall these great albums with
bringing that jazz, the jazzstandards.
And then of course, harryConnick oh yeah, he did Harry
Met Sally and the song that hadto be you.
And then people like RodStewart started doing standards.
So I said about 10 years ago Isaid if I'm ever going to do the
music which I've always loved,that style, that kind of music,
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I better do it, because you knowI'm not getting younger.
And so I was able to puttogether a show.
I found a musical director andhe found us some great musicians
in LA and I was able to in NewYork at 54 Below in New York and
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the Iridium Jazz Club CuttingRoom, and then I started getting
some shows booked in sometheaters around the country and
then it led to me doing my firstCD, which was called Demos
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Mostly Swinging, which wascalled Demos Mostly Swinging,
and that was with a musicaldirector I knew out in LA who's
a trumpet player, arranger,great, great arranger of that
style of music, just phenomenal.
We did that.
It's called Mostly Swinging andit turned out really well and
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it introduced more people towhat I'm doing, which was great.
And then, you know, then it ledto a few years later.
I guess that's when you and Imet.
Yeah, I think you're right, itwas a mutual friend of ours
online introduced us, yes, andthen you were coming out to LA
because Bobby Wilson I thinkbecause his dad, I guess was
getting a star on the Walk ofFame there.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yes, I produced and managed Bobby at that time and
Jackie Wilson was getting hisstar on the Walk of Fame, so you
and I talked and we gottogether for lunch at oh, it was
that famous restaurant.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I forget the name right now but I'll think of it
later but we had a really goodconversation about music.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, it seems like yesterday.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I remember you saying you thought that if we did
another CD, if I did another CD,that you'll you know, yes, we
could still do jazz standardsand all that, but not in the big
band style.
Why don't this time try a morecontemporary jazz approach?
You know the way a Diana Krallor you know, I guess, a Harry
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Connick would do.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, I loved your style and your voice and I
thought that it could do reallywell that way.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah, I think that's a great idea.
That makes sense for the nextone.
And then that led to me comingout to Nashville and recording
with you and had such a greatexperience working with you and
recording the CD which is calledNew York High, which is one of
the singles, an original, theonly original.
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All the others were, you know,mainly jazz standards, although
a couple of 60s, 70s songssprinkled in that we sort of had
a new take on, which was fun.
You know I've been gettinggreat feedback to that CD, new
York High for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, I really enjoyed doing it and plus it did
well in the UK.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, very well there On the Hercules chart it got up
to number 10, and it was on intheir top 40 for a long time.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
So, yeah, it did well there and I think it did much
better than 10.
I think it hit five or six.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I don't know.
No, I think it peaked at 10.
I don't know, I think it peakedat 10.
I think so, but yeah, I couldbe wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
But it did well, so I'm looking forward to
introducing it to more and morepeople and getting it out there
in a bigger way.
Yeah, me too.
So what's on the horizon now?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Anything that you can tell us about, nothing that I'm
working on right now but I dohave one I mentioned coming out
in November Harsin's IslandRevenge.
A few others I would mentionthat came out, you know, in the
last couple of years that peoplecould see that are streaming.
One is called County Line, noFear, I did that with Tom Wolpat
and it's a really fun role thatI play in that.
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Nice and Far Haven, a Westernthat I did and that was some
really great cast, and a filmcalled Lost Heart, which was the
one I played that local pastor.
But it's very different, very,very different, not your normal
local pastor and it's a reallyfun movie that has a lot of
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heart.
There's some projects I'mtalking to some people now about
for the future, but they're notdefinite goals yet.
You know, I read the scriptsand I really liked them and said
, yeah, I'd be very interestedin playing these roles.
So I'm just now waiting forthem to get it lined up in a you
know where it's greenlit andready to go.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, that's good.
So we'll see.
We'll see, hopefully soon.
Yes, definitely so.
I understand you're coming toNashville for Comic-Con.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Oh yes, Gallatin Comic-Con October.
I think it's 26th and 27th, sothat'll be a lot of fun because
it'll be a little reunion ofsorts, because Henry Winkler and
Anson Williams are going to bethere with me.
We got together for one ofthese about a month ago in
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Wisconsin and it was a blast.
It was so great gettingtogether with them again and
hanging out and meetingeverybody.
So we'll do that again at theGallatin Comic-Con in October.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, I definitely have it on my calendar, oh great
.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
How far away is that?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
It's about 25 minutes for me.
Oh, good, good.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
That's a lot closer than I knew.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, it's not far at all.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
All right.
Well, it'll be great.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, it will.
I'm looking forward to it.
This has been a greatconversation.
I really appreciate you comingon.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Oh yeah, Thank you, Tony, for having me Great to
talk to you again and lookforward to seeing you in October
.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, absolutely See you then.
Thanks for joining us today.
We hope you enjoyed the show.
This has been a Tony Mantourproduction.
For more information, contactmedia at platomusiccom.
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Hi, I'm Tony Mantor.
Welcome to Almost LiveNashville.
Today we have the distinctpleasure of hosting Don Most,
the actor that brought life toRalph Mouth on Happy Days.
He will talk about his journeyfrom the show to his varied
ventures in film, theater andhis love for music, offering a
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unique glimpse into his lifebeyond the beloved sitcom.
So thanks for coming on.
Oh sure, my pleasure.
When you was about 14, 15 yearsold, I believe that your first
love was actually music.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, yeah.
I was focused more on musicback then, growing up in
Brooklyn and at the age of 13, Istarted going to this school in
Manhattan.
It was for kids and teenagers,for singing, dancing, acting
that sort of thing.
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And I was in that school forprobably a year and a half,
something like that.
And then I got picked becausethe guy who ran it he was an old
vaudevillian performer inCharlie Lowe.
So he had a studio with hiswife, Kasia.
She taught the tap dancingwhich I had to take.
It wasn't very good, but thenhe would handpick some of the
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best students or whatever youwant to call it, and created
like a review students orwhatever you want to call it,
and and created like a, a review, you know, like a nightclub act
called the broadway show offs,because his studio was on
broadway 1650 broadway, Iremember.
So I was picked to be in thisreview and then he had an agent
that would book the show up in a.
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There was a big resort areaupstate new york called Catskill
Mountains.
Oh yeah, great place.
Some of your listeners willknow, some won't.
The movie Dirty Dancing was setin the Catskill Mountains and
Walk on the Moon was anothermovie that was set there.
They had a whole bunch ofhotels and they would get some
big name entertainment in theirheyday.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, I remember those places, they were great.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The summer that I was turning 15, I spent the summer
up there and performed in abunch of nightclubs up in those
hotels all summer long.
So yeah, that was sort of myfirst real professional job and
I thought the music is where Iwas mainly focused on.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So how long after that did you turn to acting?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Probably about a year later I really switched gears
and I started getting laserfocused on the acting side and I
put the music aside for a while, Just circumstances, I think it
was being exposed to.
You know it was a very ferventtime for filmmaking.
Then in the late 60s, somegreat you know independent type
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movies that were being made thatI became really a fan and
hooked on going to see all thesegreat films.
You know Dustin Hoffman,midnight Cowboy and Jack
Nicholson.
I became a huge fan seeing himin Easy Rider and Five Easy
Pieces and then you know BobDonich's films, last Picture
Show.
It was just a great time.
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And that's when I went to adifferent school in New York for
strictly acting and that's whenI really sort of changed the
course.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So what led you to make the move from New York,
where there was several thingsgoing on, to LA?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, there were a lot of things going on, but you
know back then.
Okay, so when I went out to LA,it was originally just for the
summer after my junior year incollege.
That was my plan.
What happened was, when I didswitch gears, I was able to get
a manager through that actingschool and she sent me out, got
me with agents and I went out ona lot of.
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I did a lot of commercials foryears, from the time I was 16
till I was 20.
I did like 40 commercials and alot of them were national
commercials, and I was up for acouple of Broadway plays.
I came pretty close Actuallyone of them was the original
Jesus Christ Superstar and I gotthrough like three different
singing auditions and it waslike getting really close.
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But then I had to get through adance audition.
I didn't make that so I woundup not getting it.
But you know so.
But back then it was mainlytheater in New York.
The soap operas were big andcommercials and there were some
films every once in a while thatwould be shooting in New York.
The soap operas were big andcommercials and there were some
films every once in a while thatwould be shooting in New York.
You know there wasn't a lot oftelevision going on.
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You know network kind ofprimetime television.
There was very little of that.
Most of the films were stillbeing done in LA.
And so I decided after my junioryear to go out there for the
summer, make some headway, makesome contacts, and then I'd go
back to school, finish my senioryear.
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But I'd already have a footholdso that when I graduated I
could get out there and maybehit the ground running, was the
thought.
But then what happened was Iwent out there just for the
summer and I landed it.
I was able to get an agent outthere because of the agents that
I worked with in New York.
They referred me to severalagents and one of them signed me
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and they started sending me outon auditions for, like some
guest roles on TV shows and Ilanded a couple of them very
quickly.
So it was a tough decision butmy manager actually at the time
said you should think abouttaking six months off of school
and not going back because yougot some momentum going, you
(06:34):
know.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, that must have been a pretty tough decision to
make at that time.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, actually I didn't think about it very long
when they said you should dothat.
I said you know, so I, just ona dime.
Actually I was supposed to beback at school in a few days for
my senior year start senioryear and and then and I and I
didn't go, and you know I had tochange everything, and then I
just stayed out and nothinghappened.
Sure, well, I got another part,I did get another part, and
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then nothing happened forseveral months and I was
thinking, oh, I made a mistake.
Um, and then nothing happenedfor several months and I was
thinking, oh, I made a mistake.
And then that's when theaudition for Happy Days came up.
And then I was also up for a TVmovie the same exact time that
producers and directors reallyliked me a lot and my agent said
I had a great chance of gettingit.
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And then, after I did thescreen test for Happy Days, and
then they made an offer for meand we actually turned it down
it was a Friday night turned itdown because I was at the time
more interested in the TV moviethan doing than doing a sitcom,
you know television show.
And the movie was the TV moviewas being directed by a guy who
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was a big director at the time.
He had directed the originalBrian song, which was huge, and
he was going to be directingthis.
And there was a writer.
The guy who had written thisproject had written a movie
called the Summer of 42, whichwas a show my loved back then,
and so I was more interested inthat.
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So my agent and I talked and wedecided to pass on Happy Days.
That Friday night some of myactor friends were saying what
are you crazy?
You know why'd you turn it down?
And all this and, as luck wouldhave it, my agent played
basketball every Saturday atGary Marshall's house.
It's the guy who created HappyDays and went on to direct a lot
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of big movies after they playedbasketball that day.
And he told my agent that theshow he thought had a really
good chance of getting on theair because it was just to do a
pilot.
The offer was to do a pilot andthen they sell it and they
probably you know there wereprobably 50 to 75 pilots or more
made every season and maybe youknow a handful would get on the
(08:55):
air.
So you don't know season andmaybe you know a handful would
get on the air.
So you don't know.
But he told my agent it had areally good chance.
He said, well, give them abetter deal.
They upped the money and myagent called me on Monday and
said I think we shouldreconsider and by then I was
more open to going along withthat.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
If I'm correct, this is the 50th anniversary of the
debut of Happy Days.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, this year we're sort of celebrating the 50th
anniversary of when Happy Dayscame on the air 74.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, can you imagine that?
That it's been 50 years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I know I can't, I can't, it doesn't seem possible.
It's 50 years.
I mean, yeah, I know, you know,it's so surreal sometimes.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
When the show first started, your name was at the
end of the show and then after awhile it transitioned to the
beginning because you becamemore of a regular, I think.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
My deal was that in the first season I was
guaranteed 10 out of 13 episodesbecause it was like a
mid-season replacement.
But then, yeah, I mean I wasmore of a peripheral character,
in the very same way that theFonzie character played by Henry
Winkler was a peripheralcharacter.
As a matter of fact, in thefirst season both of our credits
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came at the end of the showwhere the stars were all at the
beginning.
But then our show was doingvery well right off the bat and
they renewed us for another 10,12 episodes to fill out the
first season.
And then my part started.
You know the producers anddirectors were liking what I was
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doing with the character andthey started writing more and
more for me, and the same thingwith Afonso, with Henry, and it
did grow.
So then we were still in mostof the episodes at the first
season but we were more reallyco-starring kind of characters.
And then by the second seasonthey moved us up, we were in the
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front credits and, you know,had a bigger spotlight on us.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, that's so good that it happened that way.
So, with all the shows that youdid, what stands out as one of
the top few that you will alwaysremember when you think about
the show?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's a tough one because there are so many
episodes that really felt great.
One that was the first episodewhere my character was the
integral part of the story thistook place in the third season,
but the first or second episodeand it was the one where
somebody had absolutelydestroyed Fonzie's motorcycle.
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He was out to get the guy whohad done it and it turned out
that it was me that Iaccidentally backed into it and
then I panicked and I didn'tknow it had gotten caught in my
fender or something, and I wentforward and back and forth and,
you know, just got worse andworse.
We never really saw that, butwe found out.
It was a really well-writtenscript, it was very funny and it
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was, you know, one thathighlighted my character.
That one always has a strongimpact for me and in my memory.
But there were a bunch of otherepisodes.
So the thing that really standsout for me is the relationships
that we had.
You know, we really becametight all of us, and we're a
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family, and it was thecollaborative effort and all of
the discussions that we wouldhave sometimes in between
filming.
Those are the things thatreally stand out for me.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, so you had so many special guests on the show
during your time.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I know you've mentioned John Lennon was on.
Who else comes to mind when youthink about your special guests
on the show?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, well, john Lennon was a guest star.
He came and just totallyunannounced, he came onto the
set with his son, julian, whowas like nine at the time, just
wanted to visit me.
I guess they were watching theshow and he wanted Julian to
maybe get a chance to see usmeet us.
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So that was pretty wild.
But in terms of guest stars,you know we had some really
interesting guest stars, but ofcourse the one that stands out
is Robin Williams, who launchedon our show yeah, I remember
those shows with him and thenbecame, you know, had his own
show, morton Mindy.
That spun off from that episode.
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All of us remember that sovividly because when he came
onto the set it was like whoa,where did this guy come from?
You know, it was like he wasfrom another planet, you know,
because nobody had ever seen thekind of quick, spontaneous
things he was coming up with interms of lines and the body
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language and sounds andeverything he was doing.
And we felt, all of us felt,that it was maybe one of the
weakest scripts that had comeacross our you know, our table
and we thought, god, this isthis script, this this isn't
work, isn't going to work, youknow.
But then with robin and it ittotally got transformed and
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where the network, there wassuch buzz going on about him
that all a lot of the networkpeople came to the show the
friday night where we shot infront of an audience.
After the weekend we come in onmonday or tuesday and we find
out oh, ron's got his own show.
Now you know, I mean, it wasthat quick, it was like he's got
his own show.
What?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, that was really amazing.
So you stayed with the show.
What six, or was it seven years?
It was seven seasons.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh, okay, seven, seven seasons, but it was like
six years because we did thatmid-season and the first full
season kind of in one year.
But yeah, it was seven seasons.
The show ran 11.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Everyone always said that hindsight is 20-20.
So, looking back, do you haveany regrets on leaving the show
early, or do you believe thatthat was definitely the right
move for you to make at thattime?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's a tough one.
Tough one because at the time Ifelt there were a lot of
reasons, combination of reasons.
First, I knew I was going to,you know already, facing getting
type being typecast, becausethat's very much more prevalent
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than when there were only likethree networks on and there was
no cable, there was no, noInternet streaming or anything.
So you know, we had 50, 60million people watching us on a
Tuesday night when we werenumber one.
Yeah, you know, you'd get moreassociated with a role than
people would today when there'sso much to so many options to
look at.
Sure.
But so I knew that, knew that Iwas facing that, and I also
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felt that the scripts, thequality of where it was going
After six, seven seasons so itwas this I did seven it's hard
to keep a show growing andgetting better and fresh and I
felt it was kind of goingdownhill in direction that
didn't feel right.
So, combination of that and,like I said, wanting and I
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wasn't very much like thecharacter I played.
You know I was just playing arole and and here you know I
didn't want to be so locked downinto to only playing that kind
of character and I it was verystrong feelings that I had about
wanting to do all differentkinds of roles.
So at the time I felt it wasthe right move.
(16:25):
Yeah, in retrospect I don'tknow, I still think it was.
But there were some tough timesafter that trying to break away.
It was difficult and I knew itwould be hard, but I don't know
if I knew it would be quite ashard as it was.
But I kept plugging away,chipping away at it and
gradually I got a role that wasdifferent.
And then it was like people sawme a little bit.
(16:46):
Oh wow, I played like a, youknow, psychiatrist in some show
and then I played this almostlike a Kiss kind of character,
you know a metal rocker kind ofguy in a different episode, and
we started just playing and Iplayed an attorney and then, you
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know, so slowly it started toopen up and then I got some
independent films and then astudio film and then I was doing
theater a lot in between toplay all different kinds of
roles.
So it would get better then.
It would kind of even out.
But now in the last four or fiveyears it's probably been the
best period for me in terms ofgetting different kinds of films
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with really interesting rolesthat are all very different.
I think you know I attributethat to getting older and, you
know, being further and furtherdistanced, obviously, from what
I was back in that day in termsof age and the way you look and
all of that and the time thathas passed and the fact that I
think that I've done somedifferent kinds of things, so
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people have seen it.
Now you know different kinds ofthings, so people have seen it.
Now you know I've gotten rolesin the last five years that went
from playing a small townpastor to a polygamist.
Literally it went from saying apastor to a polygamist and then
everything in between anattorney defending a wounded vet
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and then a career criminal andthen a guy who owned owner of a
minor league hockey team.
And then in a West I did aWestern and then I did a film
where I played a king inmedieval times.
And now just recently I did afilm that's coming out in
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November called Harsin's IslandRevenge, where it's a true story
During the Prohibition, withall the bootlegging going on.
This was in Michigan and theywere getting the liquor from
Canada and there were differentmobs that were competing for
control and there was a gangcalled the Purple Gang and I was
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a Jewish mob and I play thehead of the Jewish mob, so it
was a pretty intense role.
So I'm really looking forwardto having that come out.
I haven't gotten to see it yetand I'm hearing really good
things about it, so this is whatI had in mind.
It's taken a little longer thanI hoped to get into a better
stride, but better late thannever.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah, and I think there's one person in Happy Days
that you'll probably rememberforever, I think.
To my knowledge, she's kind ofstuck with you for a long time.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yes, indeed, I'm glad that she showed up on that
seventh season before I left.
Yeah, absolutely yeah, I met mywife on the show.
It was the seventh season.
It was an episode.
She had a small guest rolewhere she played a model at a
photographer's studio.
So we met, you know, during therehearsal the day she showed up
on, probably Wednesday, and westarted, you know, during the
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rehearsal the day she showed upon, probably Wednesday, and we
started, you know, talking alittle bit, and then Thursday,
more so, and then by Friday whenwe were shooting the show, I
asked her out before shootingthe show to go to dinner and we
did, and then started dating andtwo years later got married.
And here it is, 42 years later.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So yeah, that have that to thank Happy Days for big
time as well.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, absolutely.
And after you left Happy Days,you went from being in front of
the camera to doing work behindthe camera.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, I knew I would want to direct at some point,
and this was probably in theearly 90s, and this was probably
in the early 90s I said youknow what?
I think what I should do isstart out directing some theater
and then see how that goes, seehow I like did, and it went
really well.
We got really good reviews.
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And then I did several more.
And then I started looking forsome material film scripts that
I could maybe find or see if Ican get them somehow off the
ground.
And I met a writer on a filmthat I acted in.
We got along, we were talkingand then she said let me send
you a few of my scripts becausethey're made to be, you know,
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sort of on the low-budgetindependence scale, but they're
really, you know, strongcharacter pieces and really
could make for a nice film.
So I read two of her scriptsand loved them.
One of them would have beenthree to five million to make
and I was looking for the firsttime out to do something, you
know, under a million and it'dbe easier to get financing that
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sort of thing.
I decided to try to startpushing that script.
And then I met a producer,michael Murphy, who had produced
the original Bill and Ted'sExcellent Adventure and several
others and we got along realwell and he loved the script and
then talking to friends anddifferent people and we wound up
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raising enough money to makethat first film that I directed
it was called the Last BestSunday Really proud of the film.
It came out really well.
It got some awards at somefestivals and then it even got
picked up for some distributionand the two lead actors were
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great Douglas Spain and AngelaBettis and we got a great, great
review in the variety and youknow so.
It was a great experience andthat led to, several years later
, me doing a.
My second show in my filmcalled new law.
We had a great cast.
A young shaylene woodley was 13at the time and shaylene has
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gone on there to become prettybig.
We also have treat williams inthe film and a will William
Maypoth there and CurtisArmstrong, leaving out a few
other people but great cast.
It premiered at the NewportBeach Film Festival.
I got a lot for directing inthat, which was great.
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And then we also got somedistribution.
People can still see thesefilms.
They're on, I think they're onAmazon, tubi and a bunch of
other streamers.
And then I have a bunch ofother projects that I've been
trying to get up around there,you know, in development, so to
speak, and hopefully I'll getsome more going, because I
enjoyed that very much as well.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, that's really good.
So now I think I can say thatit's gone full circle You've
gone from music to acting.
Back to music again, yeah about.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
It was about 10 years ago.
You know, I, I, I done some.
I didn't completely burn mybridges on the singing back then
.
There, you know, there weretimes when I would do it here.
I did some musicals, you knowmusical theater, and then there
were a couple of times where Iwould do I did some club in LA.
I tried it out, but it was backin the late 70s, early 80s and
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that music wasn't really infavor.
You know the jazz standards andAmerican songbook.
It was kind of looked likepassé or something.
But you know it had a bigcomeback when people like you
know, natalie Cole did thatalbum dedicated to her dad, nat,
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and Diana Krall started doingall these great albums with
bringing that jazz, the jazzstandards.
And then of course, harryConnick oh yeah, he did Harry
Met Sally and the song that hadto be you.
And then people like RodStewart started doing standards.
So I said about 10 years ago Isaid if I'm ever going to do the
music which I've always loved,that style, that kind of music,
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I better do it, because you knowI'm not getting younger.
And so I was able to puttogether a show.
I found a musical director andhe found us some great musicians
in LA and I was able to in NewYork at 54 Below in New York and
(25:00):
the Iridium Jazz Club CuttingRoom, and then I started getting
some shows booked in sometheaters around the country and
then it led to me doing my firstCD, which was called Demos
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Mostly Swinging, which wascalled Demos Mostly Swinging,
and that was with a musicaldirector I knew out in LA who's
a trumpet player, arranger,great, great arranger of that
style of music, just phenomenal.
We did that.
It's called Mostly Swinging andit turned out really well and
(25:43):
it introduced more people towhat I'm doing, which was great.
And then, you know, then it ledto a few years later.
I guess that's when you and Imet.
Yeah, I think you're right, itwas a mutual friend of ours
online introduced us, yes, andthen you were coming out to LA
because Bobby Wilson I thinkbecause his dad, I guess was
getting a star on the Walk ofFame there.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yes, I produced and managed Bobby at that time and
Jackie Wilson was getting hisstar on the Walk of Fame, so you
and I talked and we gottogether for lunch at oh, it was
that famous restaurant.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I forget the name right now but I'll think of it
later but we had a really goodconversation about music.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, it seems like yesterday.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I remember you saying you thought that if we did
another CD, if I did another CD,that you'll you know, yes, we
could still do jazz standardsand all that, but not in the big
band style.
Why don't this time try a morecontemporary jazz approach?
You know the way a Diana Krallor you know, I guess, a Harry
(26:44):
Connick would do.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, I loved your style and your voice and I
thought that it could do reallywell that way.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah, I think that's a great idea.
That makes sense for the nextone.
And then that led to me comingout to Nashville and recording
with you and had such a greatexperience working with you and
recording the CD which is calledNew York High, which is one of
the singles, an original, theonly original.
(27:10):
All the others were, you know,mainly jazz standards, although
a couple of 60s, 70s songssprinkled in that we sort of had
a new take on, which was fun.
You know I've been gettinggreat feedback to that CD, new
York High for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, I really enjoyed doing it and plus it did
well in the UK.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, very well there On the Hercules chart it got up
to number 10, and it was on intheir top 40 for a long time.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
So, yeah, it did well there and I think it did much
better than 10.
I think it hit five or six.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I don't know.
No, I think it peaked at 10.
I don't know, I think it peakedat 10.
I think so, but yeah, I couldbe wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
But it did well, so I'm looking forward to
introducing it to more and morepeople and getting it out there
in a bigger way.
Yeah, me too.
So what's on the horizon now?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Anything that you can tell us about, nothing that I'm
working on right now but I dohave one I mentioned coming out
in November Harsin's IslandRevenge.
A few others I would mentionthat came out, you know, in the
last couple of years that peoplecould see that are streaming.
One is called County Line, noFear, I did that with Tom Wolpat
and it's a really fun role thatI play in that.
(28:24):
Nice and Far Haven, a Westernthat I did and that was some
really great cast, and a filmcalled Lost Heart, which was the
one I played that local pastor.
But it's very different, very,very different, not your normal
local pastor and it's a reallyfun movie that has a lot of
(28:46):
heart.
There's some projects I'mtalking to some people now about
for the future, but they're notdefinite goals yet.
You know, I read the scriptsand I really liked them and said
, yeah, I'd be very interestedin playing these roles.
So I'm just now waiting forthem to get it lined up in a you
know where it's greenlit andready to go.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, that's good.
So we'll see.
We'll see, hopefully soon.
Yes, definitely so.
I understand you're coming toNashville for Comic-Con.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Oh yes, Gallatin Comic-Con October.
I think it's 26th and 27th, sothat'll be a lot of fun because
it'll be a little reunion ofsorts, because Henry Winkler and
Anson Williams are going to bethere with me.
We got together for one ofthese about a month ago in
(29:35):
Wisconsin and it was a blast.
It was so great gettingtogether with them again and
hanging out and meetingeverybody.
So we'll do that again at theGallatin Comic-Con in October.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, I definitely have it on my calendar, oh great
.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
How far away is that?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
It's about 25 minutes for me.
Oh, good, good.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
That's a lot closer than I knew.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, it's not far at all.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
All right.
Well, it'll be great.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, it will.
I'm looking forward to it.
This has been a greatconversation.
I really appreciate you comingon.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Oh yeah, Thank you, Tony, for having me Great to
talk to you again and lookforward to seeing you in October
.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, absolutely See you then.
Thanks for joining us today.
We hope you enjoyed the show.
This has been a Tony Mantourproduction.
For more information, contactmedia at platomusiccom.
(30:38):
Thank you.
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