September 5, 2025 ⢠27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's CAMF I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We
have the Four Tops or one of the Tops here,
Lawrence Peyton Junior. They started way back in nineteen fifty three, right,
nineteen fifty three, So what is that forty seven and
(00:20):
twenty two, sixty nine years ago? Seventy years of the Tops.
But I believe that Lawrence Peyton's dad was a four
Top or one of the four Tops, and he's with us.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Lawrence Peyton Junior, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yes, sir, I'm fine.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I can't believe it. One of the Four Tops. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
It's me. I'm right here, I'm right here. Hey was
Jo the Sunshine?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah? It was your dad, one of the original Tops.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Absolutely, Lawrence Peyton Senior. Yes. Hell.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And then so he goes back to the original founding
members in nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Absolutely, they got together at a party and they had
sung until his death in nineteen ninety seven after forty
four years. And they never broke up. The group just
stayed together and the only thing that separated them was death.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That is incredible, man, So did you grow up in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I did. I grew up in Detroit, the home of Motown,
you know, you know, dwelling among all the Motown styles.
They were just like all my dad's ran. So I've
seen it all. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
My mother was born and raised in Deerborn, so I
spent you know, two or three weeks every summer in Detroit,
and I loved it.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh yeah, you Detroit got Deerborn. That's just right next door.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Deerborn was great.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
We need to do sure. That's the home of Henry Ford.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yes, yes, everybody who worked for Ford lived in you know, Dearborn,
and then we'd wander off to you know, Belle Isle
and Saunder's Hot Fudge.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Now the whole summer thing you know.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Oh yes, oh right, bottle of boat.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You probably remember the bottle of them.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's water park and all of it.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
As a matter of fact, my my, my mom's pay
arrance lived in Deerborn until the I R. S. Guy
came over one night and said, you know, it was
twenty eight thousand, and my grandfather said, let me get
a check. It's in my check book. He went into
the closet, pulled out a baseball bat and nearly killed
the I R. S. Agent, And that night he had
(02:17):
to move all his entire family over to Windsor because
in Canada they had no extradition at that time, and
he lived the rest of his life in Windsor, Canada
because of his beating the hell out of an I R. S.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Agent.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Well, see, now that's a true Detroiter there, you know
what I mean. You can't just You're just not going
to pull up to my house and take my house
and throw me out, you know, not without a fight.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That's right. That's old school Detroit.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
That is wild. So, man, that must have been an
unduly minute.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Tim, I got a question for you. Sure, are you
related to Tim Conway, the actor?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yes, that is my dad, I thought so.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I thought so. I knew when I've seen that name,
I was like to be related.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Not crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Absolutely, I'm a fan. I'm a fan of your father.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh that's great, man. My dad was a big, huge
Four Tops fan. I mean he always he loved all
that music. He was turned onto that music early because
again my mom born and raised in Dearborn, and they
met at bowling Green State University. So he'd go every
weekend back to their place in Dearborn and then go,
you know, into Detroit and listen to music all the time.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Oh yeah, you know, Detroit is a great music cub,
you know. I think that's why it had to musically,
because all types of music. We listened to everything. You
guys probably remember, I don't know if you're listening audience, remember,
but Paul Revere and the Raiders and all of those.
Oh yeah, I mean yeah, you know, Detroit was a
hub for that. So you had every genre of music there.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
But you probably you probably had people at your house
every weekend or so. I mean, you know, people that
we'd all know. Smokey Robinson.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, speaking of Smoky, Wait, let me tell you with
a story about Smoky. He pulls up in the driveway
to visit my father, a friend and a friend of
min and I. We were out in the back playing basketball.
He came back and said I want to play. We
said okay, and look he went after us. He was
knocking us down for the rebound and he was just
so intense. And I thought, later on, in later years,
(04:13):
I said, no, that's why this guy is so successful
because he was just intense. I remember him telling me,
he said, I don't do nontheless I played a win
that he had always stuck with me.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, you know, it's it's it's similarly. It's like that
that story of I can't remember which comedian.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I think it was rich and it wasn't Richard Pryor.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I can't remember who it was, but it was some
comedian was at a bar, or at a restaurant and
was was challenged to a basketball game with Prince and
Prince's friends and oh yes, yes, Charlie Murphy and Eddie
Murphy and they went back and and Prince just schooled everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Listen, Prince could really play. He probably could have been
like tiny Archiball or something. He was very very good
on the basketball court. You know, people just sort of
just you know, by a size and everything. They kind
of discouraged him from playing. But the guy was tremendous
on the basketball court.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
All right, this is great Laurence Peyton juniors with us.
So who else would would stop by when you were
a kid? I mean what other people like we would
know you.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Just name it. You're just all the motown acts. I mean,
like just just name it. David Ruffling would come back.
My father was very very good with the arranging voices
and stuff like that. So a lot of the groups
would come by basically for singing lessons really to learn
different harmonies and stuff. And they sit around the piano.
So you know, like I just mentioned David Ruffling and Supreme,
(05:41):
some of the girl groups, the marble Letts, I mean,
everybody shorty long, all the old Motown acts. They would
all be over to our house. It was just like
my fifth birthday. My father came and picked me up
and he said, come on, we're going I'm having a party.
We go to this hotel and there was one other
child there that was Duke for Kar's daughter Tie and
(06:02):
all the rest were Motown stars.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
About fifth was Michael Jackson would have been too young,
and Stevie Young Stevie Wondermut would have been too young
too or maybe not.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Oh no, I remember Stevie wonder And I do remember
the Jackson's. They were like actually in Detroit about a
year before they actually put out a record and stuff,
so I kind of met them at the Gordy Mansion
before and and all of that. Real nice guys very talented.
They were magical. Then Michael was just a ball of energy.
He was just incredible even then.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So when did you leave Detroit or are you still
live there?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I still live in Detroit. I'm a Detroiter forever. But
for you, I mean, I'm not knocking l A. I
love it out here and all of this, but I'm
a Detroiter.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah. I love Detroit.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I love the fact that, you know, after a thousand years,
they're probably they're they're finally putting another bridge over to Canada.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
You know, it's been a billion.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Year, absolutely after a thousand years, and they're calling.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It the Gordy Hawbor. How cool is that?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's beautiful? I mean it's said because he bridged listen,
you know it's very appropriate. Yeah, because he bridged the
racist together through music, you know what I mean. And
it's very appropriate. You know, really he did.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But now you know, you probably remember this because you
were born and raised in Detroit, but you remember Whodini
died in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I remember that. I do remember. I don't remember him
dying there, but I know that it happened.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
To him, right, And my grand my grandfather was in
I was owned a funeral home and he embombed Houdini
and stole his gold watch. And I saw that watch
about forty years ago. My uncle had it and no
one's seen it since.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Can you imagine what that's worth history?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Can you imagine what what the gold watch is worse?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I've just seen a documentary on Hudini and they're one
of his artifacts were auctioned off for like half a
million dollars or something like that. I think copper Field
bought it or something.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh that's wild. All right, we got to say, can
you stay with us or do you got to go?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, I'm fine, nixl okay, all right, hold on one second.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
This is great Lawrence Peyton Junior the Four Tops, and man,
this guy is one of the most upbeat guests we
have ever had. I love this guy, Lawrence Peyton Jr.
His dad was the original member the.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Four Tops, and I believe there's only one original member
still playing with them that's singing with them.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Is that right? Yes? Wow? And which one it is?
When we come back?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah? Will?
Speaker 7 (08:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Everybody listening to radio right now? Either yourself, your parents,
or your grandparents have stories about the Four Tops.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
How Lawrence, how big a tour is this for you?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, you know we we we're on tour all year round,
so we do about eighty shows a year, and about
fifty or sixty of those are actually with the Temptations.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh wow, that's the time.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, yes, it's called the TMT show. Like
I said, about fifty or sixty shows a year with them,
and the other shows on our own or with the
Beach Boys or other acts.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You know, what's the one song where it makes the
audience crazy?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Wow, I tell you what it's got to be. There's
a couple it's the same old song, and I can't
help myself. They just go nuts over those. But I
mean all of them, Shake me, wake me baby, I
need your love, and that just ain't no woman like
when I my girl. I'm just running them off, burn
it de oh man. It's just you know, there's one
(09:31):
outter another. You know, they just they get excited about
them all. Really.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
By the way, I heard a rumor that Abdull that
the Duke, one of the original members, is still singing.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yes he is. That's not a rumor, that's the fact.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So his name is Duke, right, Abdul's name is Abdul.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
For about a year and a half ago he sailed
down and broke his hips. But he's up dancing and everything.
But every now and then he'll have to sit on
the stool and everything because of that.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
So he's got to be how old I mean if
he's born in third five.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Years old and he's been singing with this group and
performing with the Four Tops for sixty a year, can
you imagine that? Just think about that, Wow, postman or
something or a factory worker. You you would have been
Piet twice.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That is unbelievable. Really truly is amazing. What I mean,
what a long, beautiful life he's had. He's got to
write a book. Has he written a book or or
a biography or anything?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
A matter of fact, he's got going out. It's called
I'll Be There My Life with the Four Tops by
Duke for kir and it was released about two months ago.
And if you get a chance to go up, go
out and pick it up. There's a lot of history there,
you know, a lot of because I don't know if
you guys know before they signed with Motown. They had
been with two, three or four other record companies. But
before even before the record companies, they had performed with
(10:52):
Count Basie and Billy Egstein and groups like that, you know,
singing jazz or stuff. So this this, it's a lot
of history in that book. Get it.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I will.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And And if he's ever wanting to sell some books,
wants to come on radio, man, we'd love to talk
to him for five or ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I think I can almost say equipically he would love
to do that. And I will tell him that's great.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You will be here, Okay, buddy, I really can't believe.
I mean, what a great life you've had. It's so
rich in music and friends and family. I'm completely envious
that you've had, you know, such a great run and
such a great attitude towards life.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I was just talking to Sharon Elly seriously. I mean, Buddy, all.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
The people come up I Entertainment say, I.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Know, but man, all the people that you know, that,
all of my heroes, that and all my mom My
mom was the biggest Stevie Wonder fan in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Born and raised in Detroit, uh and and and and
he's become my favorite and for you to just like
casually know him is incredible.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh yeah, it was just like like I said, it
was just hanging out with dad's friends. It was really
normal to me. You know. It wasn't until later on
in life. I really really appreciated those experiences because I
was like, you know that blanket that the guy on
Charlie Brown with Hero, And that's how it was with
my father. I was his blanket. So everywhere he went,
I went. So I got to see all of that
and it was quite quite an experience, a learning experience too.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yes, that's great.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I'm not just in his group because of nethotism. I
can do this thing. I can sing.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
You got it. And Sharon Belly are our producer. I've
been working with her for twelve years and I can
count on one finger the time she came in here
and said this is a great guest. And she did
it during the break and she said, this guy should
teach other people how to be radio guests.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh well, teller, I said, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Wonderful you.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You have such a great energy and personality. You've been
such a delight.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Thank you, Sharon. I really appreciate that. You know, Like
I said, we just do it for the fairs, and
I'm just glad to be here, so tanna to be here,
honor to be in the group. Did my father once represented,
and I just want to do that, you know what
I mean. So it's about pleasure.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Please, if you're ever in town again, I always got
a home here. We'll love to have you on any time,
and any kind of publicity you need, we'll tackle it
for you.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
All right. Thank you, Tim, Thank.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You, sir, Thank you all right, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Oh right, have a good one, are you too?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
That's a great guest man. Laurence Peyton Junior at the
four Tops.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
We have Mike Love with us, lead singer the Beach Boys. Mike.
How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Tim? I'm great, Thanks having me on the program.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I tell you, you know, I can't believe that that
I'm talking to you. You know, my mom and dad
and myself, my wife all major major Beach Boys fans,
and I'm telling you it's not just even you know,
the older guys or guys in their fifties. We have
a news editor from Detroit. She's in her twenties. I
(13:55):
think she's twenty three or twenty four, and when she
heard you were coming on tonight, she screamed.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
She probably watched a full house when we when John
Samos had a song.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Probably, but man, what a run this has been.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Huh yeah, sixty years as.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
That is great.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah, well, you know, we took a family hobby, which was,
you know, singing and making harmonies because we didn't have
any money, and turned it into a profession based on
the fact that my cousin Brian and I got together
wrote some songs that people really liked. Oh yeah, they
still like him.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Oh that's actually man, that is great. Mike, what was
what was the first?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Of all?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I'm sure your songs have been covered a million billion
different times.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I really liked the cover of California Girls that David
Lee Roth did. It was an awesome video. Awesome video.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, now how does that work? Did you know him?
Did he ask permission or how does something like that work?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
No, he just liked the song. A few years back,
I got an award, an Ello Award, which is you know,
a really nice thing, and I called him and said,
would you like to come in and do the song
with me? He did, he came out and we did
it together. It was pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And and the video you know, that was when MTV
was at its peak, and the video for that for
that song is just awesome.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Oh, it's classic. It really is.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It really is that trick? What is the what?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
What the what is the one song where the audience,
I mean if you if you didn't play it, the
audience would kill you if we didn't play it.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Cokomo oho Okay, that is our biggest sing along. It's
thirty four years young, but it's been playing on Full
House numerous reruns. It was in the Tom Cruise movie
soundtrack Cocktail, and it is like a massive sing along. Everybody,
all ages sing along with that song.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's the best and it gets into your head and
you just sing it over and over. What was there
an actual place called Cocomo? Is that something you guys fabricated?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Well, as you know, there's one in Indiana, there's also
one in Malley, But this was a stigma of John
Phillips's imagination. He came up with a verse melody. I
came up with the chorus Ruba Jamaica. I want to
take it, and then Terry Melcher who came up, I
want to take it down to Cokemo. True collaboration that one.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You know, I there are very few songs where you know,
you hear just the opening of the song and you
you know, every one of the lyrics did stretch over generation.
But my mom knew every every every lyric to that song.
So did I, and I guarantee you there's a lot
of people like our our news director Aaron who knows
every lyric to that song as well.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, it's it's a catchy one.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
It's great Jimaica.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
I want to take it.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Con diego babe, Adam Legold.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yes, I am six forty Conway shout. Lead singer Michael Off.
The Beach Boys is with us, Mike. By the way,
you guys weren't originally called the Beach Boys.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Was the Pendletones? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
That's correct. We all were of those Pendleton shirts that
we surfers used to do over a T shirt, you know.
But with the the record promotion man heard the song
and said, hey, it's about serving what about the Beach Boys?
I said, what's better than what we got, so it
stuck for sixty one years.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, so you guys immediately warmed up to the titled
Beach Boys.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, that's a winner. That's a winner, man.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I mean, I think you know, everybody knows the Beach Boys,
and also not not only everybody you know, just the public,
but people in high places as well.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You know, my father knew Nancy Reagan pretty well, and
I don't think there was a bigger fan than Ronald
and Nancy Reagan.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
She called me one time to apologize for James what
it said? Oh really, yeah, she environment to the White House.
We played two separate Reagan inaugurations. Wow, two different bushes. Also,
oh that is wild other endless done. Yeah, yeah, so
you're right. We did a show in uh, well, a
(18:19):
couple of shows in Washington, d C. One year back
in the mid eighties. We did Philadelphia in the afternoon
and they said there were nine hundred thousand people on
the street there in the evening, DC or another half
a million people were so always, Wow, we're over a
million and half people in person, which is pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
That would have been January February of eighty five and
eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I guess it would have.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Been back in the day. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And that second Ronald Reagan victory nineteen eight eighty eight,
I believe it was five hundred and twenty five electoral votes.
I mean it was a wipeout. Mondale I think won
his home state and washed in d C. So that
was I mean, in the heyday of you know, a politics,
when you know, when the Republicans, you know, could really
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sweep this country and really had a huge, huge difference
and a huge majority.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yeah, it was. It was, but they were very nice
to us. They're so nice to us, and so you know,
we really appreciate that. It really made us feel good
about what we had done. I came up with the
idea to do a free concert.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
In Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
To Yeah it was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Now, you guys.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I got into the Rock rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
I think that same year, like it was eighty eight, wasn't.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
It eighty eight?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Okay, what a year, right, playing for Reagan and rock
and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
And Cocomo came out then wow.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And the Dodgers won the World Series, the Lakers won
an NBA title.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That was some year.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
It was all good, all good.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That was great. Now that must be something to see though.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
You're walking through the you know, the rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, and to see, you know, all the
greats up there and you're right there on the on
the top shelf with all of them.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's got to be really pleasing.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
It's awesome, it really is. It's a miracle. I mean,
our parents didn't have any that much money or anything,
but what they had is they had the passion for
music and they instilled that in us. My cousin's Brian
Dennison Carl who lived in Hawthorne. I lived in Baldwin
Hills overlooking Lambert Park in La Wow. And uh yeah,
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so we're homeboys, Mike.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
If you want to keep this a secret, I understand.
But how many of the original Beach Boys and or
anybody's ever played for and with the Beach Boys. How
many of you guys can actually surf?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Oh now, wait a minute, that's a little blow. I am.
I'm a rotten, terrible surfer can but I can sing
about it really well.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's great, man, that is terrific. That is that's really awesome.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Body.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I can't believe that we had John again, it spans
three or four generations, and it is the soundtrack to
where most of us grew up. And if you didn't
grow up with the you know, the original music in
the sixties and seventies, all the remakes of it, and
it's just it's when you hear it, you you cannot
be depressed when you listen to your music, and that
is a huge, huge uplift for a lot of people
(21:18):
in life. All Right, I really appreciate coming on, and
anytime you're in town, please you always have a friend here,
will always you know, give you a shout out and
talk about the tour dates.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And I really appreciate coming on.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Well, thank you so much, Jim. It's been enjoyed to
be on your program.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Excellent, Thank you sir. All Right, there he goes.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
That's wild man Mike Love with the Beach Boys. That's crazy.
And Aaron's reaction was unbelievable. You know how old is Aaron.
She's got to be what twenty three, twenty four, twenty five,
she's twenty five, okay, six, she's getting up there. And
when we heard when she heard the Mike Love was
coming on, she screamed.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
She's like, I got my Yeah, she's just a couple
of days ago.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
She was I don't even know how it came up,
but she was talking about her love for the Beach
Boys all time favorite band.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, I think it's I think it's you know, this
new generation is going to get into it the same
way our dads did, in the same way we did.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Was your dad a big Beach Boys gun?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Yeah, I saw him in DC he did. Yeah, it
was eighty eighty one when when I saw him out there.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh that's wild man, what a show they put on. Huh.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I'll play it for you. Okay, okay, okay, and I
flew here.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
How come the first class people just they can just
get on whenever they want. I've always hated that first
class people bought it your leisure, take your time, first
class people people, wait six cuz wait hello piggies. So
(22:49):
when you do get on, the first class people that
are already sitting there, they're all sprawled out in their big.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
Thrones, bring me the head of a tao.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
And a goblet of something cool and refreshing. If doon't
have a fiddle. Make someone from coach fiddle form.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Muse me the fiddles and the overhead backs up there,
you're not allowed to even use their bathrooms.
Speaker 10 (23:20):
The bathrooms up front are for our first class passengers.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
The coach bathrooms are.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
Located at Newark Airport Concourse Sea Concourse, Seas. Un So,
when you do board the first class people, they're sitting there.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
A lot of them are working as you're boarding. They
have computers out and calculators. They're looking up and you're like, hey,
we're making money right now, right hand, we're making money.
Speaker 8 (23:48):
Go get in the back.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Curtain.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
I don't want to see even in my primeral Snap it, snap.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
It, shit, it's a matter with us. They gotta cover
us up with a tarp and you go in the back.
Everybody has coloring books.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
On put Where where was you?
Speaker 10 (24:12):
Where was you?
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Man?
Speaker 5 (24:15):
You're in the middle and there's nine of us, and
you're in the middle, and we have all the arm wrestle.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
You gotta sit like this.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
You gotta figure out a way to eat your snack while.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
Your nipples are touching.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
You gotta learn how to twist your little plastic your tensil.
I like to sit weigh in the back, weigh in
the back. Except for one thing. All the good meals
run out. You know, you're poking your head out from
Road one nine.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
The flat A.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Tennants are this big. You can hear the good meals
getting snagged. We have a turkey sandwich, a chicken casedia,
and a cold fish head.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I'm just.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Wonder what I'm good.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
So when they get to the back of the plane,
they have to do that flat attendants psychology game and pretend.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Like the good stuff never even existed. It never even was.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Would you like a nice cold fish head? They're frozen, solid,
frozen head of fish. The eyeballs in there and the
skeleton's coming out.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
It comes with a turn up and a spork. I
was pushing. You'd have one of them pushing upon a star.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
But I admire flat attendants, man, I really do. They
put up with a lot of garbage from people.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Have you ever been sitting in your seat.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
And you see somebody trying to fit somebody overhead, rap
that you know going in there like in a million
years you have like a mattress on a lamp.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
They're looking at them like, what kind of perception problems
this guy?
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Had and the flat attendants are always nice. You always
run up and act like it may be fed you know,
I don't know if that's gonna get up there.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
We can check it for you.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
I know that's what they want to say. I would
last about eight seconds at that job. I'll just get
up there and do this.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
That look like it's going to fed.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
This true?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
You have a dead yet, are you okay?
Speaker 5 (26:21):
You don't see all these people jammed up waiting on you.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
You don't see it. No, this is your world. It's
all about you. You let us know when you're all set.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
That guy's great man, Brian Reagan. If you want something
clean that the kids can listen to, you know, you
got some time this holiday season. You want to put
something on, something that's you know, not the social media,
and the kids and the parents can listen to.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Brian Reagan is the go to guys. It does take
a lot for a clean comedian to get to me,
and he definitely does.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yeah, I gotta I gotta go for the dark nexty stuff,
but Reagan knocks it out.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, he's good man.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Brian Reagan Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app Now,
you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime
on demand on the iHeartRadio app
It's CAMF I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We
have the Four Tops or one of the Tops here,
Lawrence Peyton Junior. They started way back in nineteen fifty three, right,
nineteen fifty three, So what is that forty seven and
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twenty two, sixty nine years ago? Seventy years of the Tops.
But I believe that Lawrence Peyton's dad was a four
Top or one of the four Tops, and he's with us.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Lawrence Peyton Junior, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yes, sir, I'm fine.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I can't believe it. One of the Four Tops. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
It's me. I'm right here, I'm right here. Hey was
Jo the Sunshine?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah? It was your dad, one of the original Tops.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Absolutely, Lawrence Peyton Senior. Yes. Hell.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And then so he goes back to the original founding
members in nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Absolutely, they got together at a party and they had
sung until his death in nineteen ninety seven after forty
four years. And they never broke up. The group just
stayed together and the only thing that separated them was death.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That is incredible, man, So did you grow up in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I did. I grew up in Detroit, the home of Motown,
you know, you know, dwelling among all the Motown styles.
They were just like all my dad's ran. So I've
seen it all. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
My mother was born and raised in Deerborn, so I
spent you know, two or three weeks every summer in Detroit,
and I loved it.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh yeah, you Detroit got Deerborn. That's just right next door.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Deerborn was great.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
We need to do sure. That's the home of Henry Ford.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yes, yes, everybody who worked for Ford lived in you know, Dearborn,
and then we'd wander off to you know, Belle Isle
and Saunder's Hot Fudge.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Now the whole summer thing you know.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Oh yes, oh right, bottle of boat.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You probably remember the bottle of them.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's water park and all of it.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
As a matter of fact, my my, my mom's pay
arrance lived in Deerborn until the I R. S. Guy
came over one night and said, you know, it was
twenty eight thousand, and my grandfather said, let me get
a check. It's in my check book. He went into
the closet, pulled out a baseball bat and nearly killed
the I R. S. Agent, And that night he had
(02:17):
to move all his entire family over to Windsor because
in Canada they had no extradition at that time, and
he lived the rest of his life in Windsor, Canada
because of his beating the hell out of an I R. S.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Agent.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Well, see, now that's a true Detroiter there, you know
what I mean. You can't just You're just not going
to pull up to my house and take my house
and throw me out, you know, not without a fight.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That's right. That's old school Detroit.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
That is wild. So, man, that must have been an
unduly minute.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Tim, I got a question for you. Sure, are you
related to Tim Conway, the actor?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yes, that is my dad, I thought so.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I thought so. I knew when I've seen that name,
I was like to be related.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Not crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Absolutely, I'm a fan. I'm a fan of your father.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh that's great, man. My dad was a big, huge
Four Tops fan. I mean he always he loved all
that music. He was turned onto that music early because
again my mom born and raised in Dearborn, and they
met at bowling Green State University. So he'd go every
weekend back to their place in Dearborn and then go,
you know, into Detroit and listen to music all the time.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Oh yeah, you know, Detroit is a great music cub,
you know. I think that's why it had to musically,
because all types of music. We listened to everything. You
guys probably remember, I don't know if you're listening audience, remember,
but Paul Revere and the Raiders and all of those.
Oh yeah, I mean yeah, you know, Detroit was a
hub for that. So you had every genre of music there.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
But you probably you probably had people at your house
every weekend or so. I mean, you know, people that
we'd all know. Smokey Robinson.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, speaking of Smoky, Wait, let me tell you with
a story about Smoky. He pulls up in the driveway
to visit my father, a friend and a friend of
min and I. We were out in the back playing basketball.
He came back and said I want to play. We
said okay, and look he went after us. He was
knocking us down for the rebound and he was just
so intense. And I thought, later on, in later years,
(04:13):
I said, no, that's why this guy is so successful
because he was just intense. I remember him telling me,
he said, I don't do nontheless I played a win
that he had always stuck with me.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, you know, it's it's it's similarly. It's like that
that story of I can't remember which comedian.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I think it was rich and it wasn't Richard Pryor.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I can't remember who it was, but it was some
comedian was at a bar, or at a restaurant and
was was challenged to a basketball game with Prince and
Prince's friends and oh yes, yes, Charlie Murphy and Eddie
Murphy and they went back and and Prince just schooled everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Listen, Prince could really play. He probably could have been
like tiny Archiball or something. He was very very good
on the basketball court. You know, people just sort of
just you know, by a size and everything. They kind
of discouraged him from playing. But the guy was tremendous
on the basketball court.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
All right, this is great Laurence Peyton juniors with us.
So who else would would stop by when you were
a kid? I mean what other people like we would
know you.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Just name it. You're just all the motown acts. I mean,
like just just name it. David Ruffling would come back.
My father was very very good with the arranging voices
and stuff like that. So a lot of the groups
would come by basically for singing lessons really to learn
different harmonies and stuff. And they sit around the piano.
So you know, like I just mentioned David Ruffling and Supreme,
(05:41):
some of the girl groups, the marble Letts, I mean,
everybody shorty long, all the old Motown acts. They would
all be over to our house. It was just like
my fifth birthday. My father came and picked me up
and he said, come on, we're going I'm having a party.
We go to this hotel and there was one other
child there that was Duke for Kar's daughter Tie and
(06:02):
all the rest were Motown stars.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
About fifth was Michael Jackson would have been too young,
and Stevie Young Stevie Wondermut would have been too young
too or maybe not.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Oh no, I remember Stevie wonder And I do remember
the Jackson's. They were like actually in Detroit about a
year before they actually put out a record and stuff,
so I kind of met them at the Gordy Mansion
before and and all of that. Real nice guys very talented.
They were magical. Then Michael was just a ball of energy.
He was just incredible even then.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So when did you leave Detroit or are you still
live there?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I still live in Detroit. I'm a Detroiter forever. But
for you, I mean, I'm not knocking l A. I
love it out here and all of this, but I'm
a Detroiter.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah. I love Detroit.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I love the fact that, you know, after a thousand years,
they're probably they're they're finally putting another bridge over to Canada.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
You know, it's been a billion.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Year, absolutely after a thousand years, and they're calling.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It the Gordy Hawbor. How cool is that?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's beautiful? I mean it's said because he bridged listen,
you know it's very appropriate. Yeah, because he bridged the
racist together through music, you know what I mean. And
it's very appropriate. You know, really he did.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But now you know, you probably remember this because you
were born and raised in Detroit, but you remember Whodini
died in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I remember that. I do remember. I don't remember him
dying there, but I know that it happened.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
To him, right, And my grand my grandfather was in
I was owned a funeral home and he embombed Houdini
and stole his gold watch. And I saw that watch
about forty years ago. My uncle had it and no
one's seen it since.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Can you imagine what that's worth history?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Can you imagine what what the gold watch is worse?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I've just seen a documentary on Hudini and they're one
of his artifacts were auctioned off for like half a
million dollars or something like that. I think copper Field
bought it or something.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh that's wild. All right, we got to say, can
you stay with us or do you got to go?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, I'm fine, nixl okay, all right, hold on one second.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
This is great Lawrence Peyton Junior the Four Tops, and man,
this guy is one of the most upbeat guests we
have ever had. I love this guy, Lawrence Peyton Jr.
His dad was the original member the.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Four Tops, and I believe there's only one original member
still playing with them that's singing with them.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Is that right? Yes? Wow? And which one it is?
When we come back?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah? Will?
Speaker 7 (08:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Everybody listening to radio right now? Either yourself, your parents,
or your grandparents have stories about the Four Tops.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
How Lawrence, how big a tour is this for you?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, you know we we we're on tour all year round,
so we do about eighty shows a year, and about
fifty or sixty of those are actually with the Temptations.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh wow, that's the time.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, yes, it's called the TMT show. Like
I said, about fifty or sixty shows a year with them,
and the other shows on our own or with the
Beach Boys or other acts.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You know, what's the one song where it makes the
audience crazy?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Wow, I tell you what it's got to be. There's
a couple it's the same old song, and I can't
help myself. They just go nuts over those. But I
mean all of them, Shake me, wake me baby, I
need your love, and that just ain't no woman like
when I my girl. I'm just running them off, burn
it de oh man. It's just you know, there's one
(09:31):
outter another. You know, they just they get excited about
them all. Really.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
By the way, I heard a rumor that Abdull that
the Duke, one of the original members, is still singing.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yes he is. That's not a rumor, that's the fact.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So his name is Duke, right, Abdul's name is Abdul.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
For about a year and a half ago he sailed
down and broke his hips. But he's up dancing and everything.
But every now and then he'll have to sit on
the stool and everything because of that.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
So he's got to be how old I mean if
he's born in third five.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Years old and he's been singing with this group and
performing with the Four Tops for sixty a year, can
you imagine that? Just think about that, Wow, postman or
something or a factory worker. You you would have been
Piet twice.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That is unbelievable. Really truly is amazing. What I mean,
what a long, beautiful life he's had. He's got to
write a book. Has he written a book or or
a biography or anything?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
A matter of fact, he's got going out. It's called
I'll Be There My Life with the Four Tops by
Duke for kir and it was released about two months ago.
And if you get a chance to go up, go
out and pick it up. There's a lot of history there,
you know, a lot of because I don't know if
you guys know before they signed with Motown. They had
been with two, three or four other record companies. But
before even before the record companies, they had performed with
(10:52):
Count Basie and Billy Egstein and groups like that, you know,
singing jazz or stuff. So this this, it's a lot
of history in that book. Get it.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I will.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And And if he's ever wanting to sell some books,
wants to come on radio, man, we'd love to talk
to him for five or ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I think I can almost say equipically he would love
to do that. And I will tell him that's great.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You will be here, Okay, buddy, I really can't believe.
I mean, what a great life you've had. It's so
rich in music and friends and family. I'm completely envious
that you've had, you know, such a great run and
such a great attitude towards life.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I was just talking to Sharon Elly seriously. I mean, Buddy, all.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
The people come up I Entertainment say, I.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Know, but man, all the people that you know, that,
all of my heroes, that and all my mom My
mom was the biggest Stevie Wonder fan in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Born and raised in Detroit, uh and and and and
he's become my favorite and for you to just like
casually know him is incredible.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh yeah, it was just like like I said, it
was just hanging out with dad's friends. It was really
normal to me. You know. It wasn't until later on
in life. I really really appreciated those experiences because I
was like, you know that blanket that the guy on
Charlie Brown with Hero, And that's how it was with
my father. I was his blanket. So everywhere he went,
I went. So I got to see all of that
and it was quite quite an experience, a learning experience too.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yes, that's great.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I'm not just in his group because of nethotism. I
can do this thing. I can sing.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
You got it. And Sharon Belly are our producer. I've
been working with her for twelve years and I can
count on one finger the time she came in here
and said this is a great guest. And she did
it during the break and she said, this guy should
teach other people how to be radio guests.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh well, teller, I said, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Wonderful you.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You have such a great energy and personality. You've been
such a delight.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Thank you, Sharon. I really appreciate that. You know, Like
I said, we just do it for the fairs, and
I'm just glad to be here, so tanna to be here,
honor to be in the group. Did my father once represented,
and I just want to do that, you know what
I mean. So it's about pleasure.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Please, if you're ever in town again, I always got
a home here. We'll love to have you on any time,
and any kind of publicity you need, we'll tackle it
for you.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
All right. Thank you, Tim, Thank.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You, sir, Thank you all right, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Oh right, have a good one, are you too?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
That's a great guest man. Laurence Peyton Junior at the
four Tops.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
We have Mike Love with us, lead singer the Beach Boys. Mike.
How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Tim? I'm great, Thanks having me on the program.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I tell you, you know, I can't believe that that
I'm talking to you. You know, my mom and dad
and myself, my wife all major major Beach Boys fans,
and I'm telling you it's not just even you know,
the older guys or guys in their fifties. We have
a news editor from Detroit. She's in her twenties. I
(13:55):
think she's twenty three or twenty four, and when she
heard you were coming on tonight, she screamed.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
She probably watched a full house when we when John
Samos had a song.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Probably, but man, what a run this has been.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Huh yeah, sixty years as.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
That is great.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah, well, you know, we took a family hobby, which was,
you know, singing and making harmonies because we didn't have
any money, and turned it into a profession based on
the fact that my cousin Brian and I got together
wrote some songs that people really liked. Oh yeah, they
still like him.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Oh that's actually man, that is great. Mike, what was
what was the first?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Of all?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I'm sure your songs have been covered a million billion
different times.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I really liked the cover of California Girls that David
Lee Roth did. It was an awesome video. Awesome video.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, now how does that work? Did you know him?
Did he ask permission or how does something like that work?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
No, he just liked the song. A few years back,
I got an award, an Ello Award, which is you know,
a really nice thing, and I called him and said,
would you like to come in and do the song
with me? He did, he came out and we did
it together. It was pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And and the video you know, that was when MTV
was at its peak, and the video for that for
that song is just awesome.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Oh, it's classic. It really is.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It really is that trick? What is the what?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
What the what is the one song where the audience,
I mean if you if you didn't play it, the
audience would kill you if we didn't play it.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Cokomo oho Okay, that is our biggest sing along. It's
thirty four years young, but it's been playing on Full
House numerous reruns. It was in the Tom Cruise movie
soundtrack Cocktail, and it is like a massive sing along. Everybody,
all ages sing along with that song.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's the best and it gets into your head and
you just sing it over and over. What was there
an actual place called Cocomo? Is that something you guys fabricated?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Well, as you know, there's one in Indiana, there's also
one in Malley, But this was a stigma of John
Phillips's imagination. He came up with a verse melody. I
came up with the chorus Ruba Jamaica. I want to
take it, and then Terry Melcher who came up, I
want to take it down to Cokemo. True collaboration that one.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You know, I there are very few songs where you know,
you hear just the opening of the song and you
you know, every one of the lyrics did stretch over generation.
But my mom knew every every every lyric to that song.
So did I, and I guarantee you there's a lot
of people like our our news director Aaron who knows
every lyric to that song as well.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, it's it's a catchy one.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
It's great Jimaica.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
I want to take it.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Con diego babe, Adam Legold.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yes, I am six forty Conway shout. Lead singer Michael Off.
The Beach Boys is with us, Mike. By the way,
you guys weren't originally called the Beach Boys.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Was the Pendletones? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
That's correct. We all were of those Pendleton shirts that
we surfers used to do over a T shirt, you know.
But with the the record promotion man heard the song
and said, hey, it's about serving what about the Beach Boys?
I said, what's better than what we got, so it
stuck for sixty one years.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, so you guys immediately warmed up to the titled
Beach Boys.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, that's a winner. That's a winner, man.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I mean, I think you know, everybody knows the Beach Boys,
and also not not only everybody you know, just the public,
but people in high places as well.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You know, my father knew Nancy Reagan pretty well, and
I don't think there was a bigger fan than Ronald
and Nancy Reagan.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
She called me one time to apologize for James what
it said? Oh really, yeah, she environment to the White House.
We played two separate Reagan inaugurations. Wow, two different bushes. Also,
oh that is wild other endless done. Yeah, yeah, so
you're right. We did a show in uh, well, a
(18:19):
couple of shows in Washington, d C. One year back
in the mid eighties. We did Philadelphia in the afternoon
and they said there were nine hundred thousand people on
the street there in the evening, DC or another half
a million people were so always, Wow, we're over a
million and half people in person, which is pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
That would have been January February of eighty five and
eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I guess it would have.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Been back in the day. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And that second Ronald Reagan victory nineteen eight eighty eight,
I believe it was five hundred and twenty five electoral votes.
I mean it was a wipeout. Mondale I think won
his home state and washed in d C. So that
was I mean, in the heyday of you know, a politics,
when you know, when the Republicans, you know, could really
(19:09):
sweep this country and really had a huge, huge difference
and a huge majority.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yeah, it was. It was, but they were very nice
to us. They're so nice to us, and so you know,
we really appreciate that. It really made us feel good
about what we had done. I came up with the
idea to do a free concert.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
In Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
To Yeah it was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Now, you guys.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I got into the Rock rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
I think that same year, like it was eighty eight, wasn't.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
It eighty eight?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Okay, what a year, right, playing for Reagan and rock
and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
And Cocomo came out then wow.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And the Dodgers won the World Series, the Lakers won
an NBA title.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That was some year.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
It was all good, all good.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That was great. Now that must be something to see though.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
You're walking through the you know, the rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, and to see, you know, all the
greats up there and you're right there on the on
the top shelf with all of them.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's got to be really pleasing.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
It's awesome, it really is. It's a miracle. I mean,
our parents didn't have any that much money or anything,
but what they had is they had the passion for
music and they instilled that in us. My cousin's Brian
Dennison Carl who lived in Hawthorne. I lived in Baldwin
Hills overlooking Lambert Park in La Wow. And uh yeah,
(20:25):
so we're homeboys, Mike.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
If you want to keep this a secret, I understand.
But how many of the original Beach Boys and or
anybody's ever played for and with the Beach Boys. How
many of you guys can actually surf?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Oh now, wait a minute, that's a little blow. I am.
I'm a rotten, terrible surfer can but I can sing
about it really well.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's great, man, that is terrific. That is that's really awesome.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Body.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I can't believe that we had John again, it spans
three or four generations, and it is the soundtrack to
where most of us grew up. And if you didn't
grow up with the you know, the original music in
the sixties and seventies, all the remakes of it, and
it's just it's when you hear it, you you cannot
be depressed when you listen to your music, and that
is a huge, huge uplift for a lot of people
(21:18):
in life. All Right, I really appreciate coming on, and
anytime you're in town, please you always have a friend here,
will always you know, give you a shout out and
talk about the tour dates.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And I really appreciate coming on.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Well, thank you so much, Jim. It's been enjoyed to
be on your program.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Excellent, Thank you sir. All Right, there he goes.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
That's wild man Mike Love with the Beach Boys. That's crazy.
And Aaron's reaction was unbelievable. You know how old is Aaron.
She's got to be what twenty three, twenty four, twenty five,
she's twenty five, okay, six, she's getting up there. And
when we heard when she heard the Mike Love was
coming on, she screamed.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
She's like, I got my Yeah, she's just a couple
of days ago.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
She was I don't even know how it came up,
but she was talking about her love for the Beach
Boys all time favorite band.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, I think it's I think it's you know, this
new generation is going to get into it the same
way our dads did, in the same way we did.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Was your dad a big Beach Boys gun?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Yeah, I saw him in DC he did. Yeah, it
was eighty eighty one when when I saw him out there.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh that's wild man, what a show they put on. Huh.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I'll play it for you. Okay, okay, okay, and I
flew here.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
How come the first class people just they can just
get on whenever they want. I've always hated that first
class people bought it your leisure, take your time, first
class people people, wait six cuz wait hello piggies. So
(22:49):
when you do get on, the first class people that
are already sitting there, they're all sprawled out in their big.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
Thrones, bring me the head of a tao.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
And a goblet of something cool and refreshing. If doon't
have a fiddle. Make someone from coach fiddle form.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Muse me the fiddles and the overhead backs up there,
you're not allowed to even use their bathrooms.
Speaker 10 (23:20):
The bathrooms up front are for our first class passengers.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
The coach bathrooms are.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
Located at Newark Airport Concourse Sea Concourse, Seas. Un So,
when you do board the first class people, they're sitting there.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
A lot of them are working as you're boarding. They
have computers out and calculators. They're looking up and you're like, hey,
we're making money right now, right hand, we're making money.
Speaker 8 (23:48):
Go get in the back.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Curtain.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
I don't want to see even in my primeral Snap it, snap.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
It, shit, it's a matter with us. They gotta cover
us up with a tarp and you go in the back.
Everybody has coloring books.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
On put Where where was you?
Speaker 10 (24:12):
Where was you?
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Man?
Speaker 5 (24:15):
You're in the middle and there's nine of us, and
you're in the middle, and we have all the arm wrestle.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
You gotta sit like this.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
You gotta figure out a way to eat your snack while.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
Your nipples are touching.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
You gotta learn how to twist your little plastic your tensil.
I like to sit weigh in the back, weigh in
the back. Except for one thing. All the good meals
run out. You know, you're poking your head out from
Road one nine.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
The flat A.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Tennants are this big. You can hear the good meals
getting snagged. We have a turkey sandwich, a chicken casedia,
and a cold fish head.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I'm just.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Wonder what I'm good.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
So when they get to the back of the plane,
they have to do that flat attendants psychology game and pretend.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Like the good stuff never even existed. It never even was.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Would you like a nice cold fish head? They're frozen, solid,
frozen head of fish. The eyeballs in there and the
skeleton's coming out.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
It comes with a turn up and a spork. I
was pushing. You'd have one of them pushing upon a star.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
But I admire flat attendants, man, I really do. They
put up with a lot of garbage from people.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Have you ever been sitting in your seat.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
And you see somebody trying to fit somebody overhead, rap
that you know going in there like in a million
years you have like a mattress on a lamp.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
They're looking at them like, what kind of perception problems
this guy?
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Had and the flat attendants are always nice. You always
run up and act like it may be fed you know,
I don't know if that's gonna get up there.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
We can check it for you.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
I know that's what they want to say. I would
last about eight seconds at that job. I'll just get
up there and do this.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
That look like it's going to fed.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
This true?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
You have a dead yet, are you okay?
Speaker 5 (26:21):
You don't see all these people jammed up waiting on you.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
You don't see it. No, this is your world. It's
all about you. You let us know when you're all set.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
That guy's great man, Brian Reagan. If you want something
clean that the kids can listen to, you know, you
got some time this holiday season. You want to put
something on, something that's you know, not the social media,
and the kids and the parents can listen to.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Brian Reagan is the go to guys. It does take
a lot for a clean comedian to get to me,
and he definitely does.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yeah, I gotta I gotta go for the dark nexty stuff,
but Reagan knocks it out.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, he's good man.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
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