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Speaker 1 (00:00):
First to more than just the time of day, Jump off.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
That exhausting amster wheel and into balance. Living with Doctor
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wake up angry, anxious, afraid, and aggravated, and I don't
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you to tune into a show that balances out all
of the headlines. If it bleeds, it leads with some
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good news, good people, and great topics. That today is
no exception. We are on my seven hundred and eighth
consecutive week. So those who said, those who said that
I would not last a year, I'm so glad you're wrong,
and I'm so delighted today to bring you live in
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studio someone from a family, especially if you're a baby boomer,
you will remember the King Family extremely tied also with
holiday music. For sure. Cam Clark is part of that family.
He began his career at six years old on TV's
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The King Family Show. His mother was a member of
the popular singing group The King's Sisters, and his father
was actor Robert Clark. For many American families, the King
Family defined Christmas entertainment. And now there's a book called
now They're All Here, The King Family. Over one hundred
years of entertainment from America's first family of song. The
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author is in my studio. It's not only the complete
history of the famous King family, but the story of
cam life in front and behind the camera, and whether
you're a longtime fam or new to their story, this
offers a nostalgic and heartfelt tribute to a family that
defined the spirit of family entertainment for generations. Cam himself
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you'll recognize his voice was Leonardo in the original Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles and the favorite villain as Liquid Snake
in the Metal Gear Solid Games. Throughout his career, Cluk's
been praised for his ability to bring depth and emotion
tooth character, making them memorable to audiences worldwide. He now
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travels meeting fans around the world who consistently say thank
you for my childhood. Is work continues to inspire both
fans and aspiring voice actors alike. Please welcome to my
studio for the first time, CAM Club Welcome.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Thank you for having me. We don't even need to
do this interview because what you just said says it all.
We're good. I'm going home.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
No, you're not getting off that easy. But what I do,
what I do want to do is what I do
at the start of every show. And I didn't tell
you this because I love to surprise my guests. It's
don't worry. I'm not like any other host of any
other show where I'm trying to trick you or anything.
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I promise, I dare you, I dare you. Don't do that.
But we start every morning with breakfast, whether I'm by
myself with a guest or a co host, which is
I take a bite of my gratitude sandwich, and I
invite you to do the same. Top of the butt,
A few things that you're grateful for when you look
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out of yourself, around you and bottom of the butt?
What are you grateful for? Inside? What do you like
about yourself? And We've been doing this on the show,
and every.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Prize money if I answer correctly, parting gifts if I fail.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
No, this is purely for I'm known as I have
a best selling book on happiness, and so to get
everybody to exercise. They're a muscle of choice. That's why
we do this exercise. So let's start at the top
of the bud. What are you grateful for, Cam, I'll
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start and give you an example. I am grateful that
my daughters are here. They drove down from San Francisco
yesterday and we're going to have the holiday together, and
I'm very excited. I do love my daughter so much,
so I am grateful for cars that drive and come
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down to visit mom.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Cars that drive with drivers or driverless cars.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
They actually drove themselves. But nice station. I can tell
we're gonna have a good time today. Cam. What are
you grateful for?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Golly? I have a tradition speaking of food that at Thanksgiving,
and I am grateful that I've got some of my
family and a couple of friends coming over here to
have spend the evening together. I do a thing where
on each person's plate, I buy an ear of Indian corn,
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and on each plate, each person gets three kernels of corn,
representing the first Thanksgiving. One kernel is for a wish,
whether it's for the world or however you want to
determine wish. The other is a gratitude, and the third
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one is something you It's funny you would say that
this way something you like about yourself. No, isn't that wild?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
That is wild? We did not talk about this. Hold on,
this is wow, really really really really that's stunning.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, like you're saying it forces you know, not like
what you're you're talking about. But people sometimes think if
I say something nice about myself, people will think, oh,
I'm stuck up, or it's all about me or blah
blah blah. And this gives a person permission, among intimates, uh,
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to say out loud something that there's spirits that you
know that you're that the universe can hear you saying
out loud that you.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Like, Wow, that's that's great.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We should have Thanksgiving together.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I was just gonna say, say, you know, when I
actually when Don Wells, she's on the other side, bless
her Mary and from Gilligan's Island, and she was the
first when she first the first time she was on
my show. She ended up coming up like six or
seven times. But she also the very first time said
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something about Thanksgiving, right, and she's like right aligned with
all both of us and and all of my listeners
watchers out there. I said, oh, I'm coming to your
house for Thanksgiving. She goes, yes, you are, And then
I ended up going to her house for Thanksgiving for
the rest of the time. But when she was on
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the planet and yeah, so so so be careful, okay,
I chow it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Well, Okay, the gauntlet has been thrown down.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh so next year, when my kids say I have
to choose because which side of the family they go to,
I'll say you can. You can come for Chris miss
I'm going to cams for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
How's that all right?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
All right? I shall probably find out where you live first,
but anyways, okay, uh, that's beautiful. So I love your
table setup. I think that's great. I'm putting a promo
up right now. So that's what I'm doing. It's a
King family. It doesn't have a anyways is your do
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you know the King Family on Instagram? Is it King
Family Singers?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I told you I'm a technophobe, but I have people.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Okay, I got no people. I'm a one woman band.
But anyways, okay, I'm grateful.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
For you if you want to, for people who still
use fish book at cam Clark Voice dot com. All
roads lead to anything. Technophobia there got it clips from
the show as well as the Ninja Turtles or Lion
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King or flounder of Definitely.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The last thing I'm grateful for this morning is lushing toilets.
I so appreciate the fact that we have that creature
comfort and a good morning to the captain of the
Cashew Gallery. April, nice to see you back. We have
someone that you may or may not remember. The King
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family singers, the son of the one of the main couples.
Your dad was Robert Clark. Your mom was one of
the King's sisters. April, I believe was your mom's name.
Was it Alice? It started with an A.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You got the first letter right.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Well, you know what, April, see, there's my huh there
you go. So yeah, So let's go to the bottom
of the bottom. What are we grateful for inside of ourselves?
What do we like about ourselves? This is weightlifting because
a lot of us grew up with well meaning parents
more mean than well, don't toot your own horn, you're
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not all that, and so we have a few generations
of folks who are looking for love and likes in
the wrong place social media, literally, So I use this
section of the show what do you like about yourself?
So that you don't have to look for approval in
other places, because, frankly, my dear, if you can't approve
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of yourself, how the fork do you expect anybody else to?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
So?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I like about myself that I am witty, I actually
like to play with words, and even though my husband
told me I was not funny. The best thing about
divorce is I own my funny. All right, Cam, what
are you.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Well, nobody's listening to us right now, so it's just me,
me and you right now, right. Yes, many many years ago,
I turned HIV positive. Oh, and I'm a survivor. But
anyone who has had about with a potentially terminal illness,
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besides all the negative that comes with that, if you
play it correctly, for lack of another way to put it,
that's dumb, it makes you aware of how precious I is.
I never miss a sunset. And this is all going
to sound like Hallmark, but sound please look past the
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cliche for shorthand. I could say that anyone in my
family or my friends could die and I would not say, Gee,
I wish I'd only told them fill in the blank.
Everyone knows how I feel about them. I tell them
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whenever it comes to mind, like things like this dinner.
It doesn't get better than this, y'all excuse me. So
that is a gift that comes from the acknowledgment that.
And now in my third act, you know again, we
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don't know how long we're here, and that could be
for anybody. You know, nobody knows the time of going
on to the next phase. But I am so aware
and I'm proud of the fact of that. I get it.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
There's plenty of arenas that I don't get. Don't get
me wrong. I want a private with you when this
show is over.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yes, yes, I thank you. That really touched my heart.
And my best friend from grad school was in the
same boat, and you know he's on the other side
and I know he's smiling right now listening to us. Michael,
I love you, and I know I don't miss you
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because I know you're not gone, and but you have
a new friend here and so that's a kind of
a very cool thing. Thank you for sharing your heart
there can and I absolutely agree. There's something about knowing
that your time, like we all should do that. I'm
not shitting on you, but you like y'all, but it
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is important to know, oh that nobody, nobody's here forever.
So why don't we use every every time I hear
about a tragedy, that's my first go to is have
I told everybody I love that I love them? You
know that's that's the response. But good on you I'm
you know, I'm going to give you, and I don't
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give all my guests. You haven't even really done anything
except breakfast. But I'm going to give you Doctor Marissa's
Beneficial Presence on the planet Award for that message you
just shared from your I accept unexpected, unexpected blessings, and
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April is glad that you get tuned in. She also
is appreciating herself, her new found creative freedom, and she's
proud of steadfastness and moving in the direction of her dreams.
So there you have it. We are really good at
taking a bite out of my gratitude sandwich. I'm going
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to encourage everybody to continue this good life habit hashtag
discipline with me every weekday morning on the show. It
is live on YouTube TV channel at nine am Pacific
time and eight am a week later on my NBC
News Radio. I am back at my drive time, so
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I'm so grateful for that as well. So thank you
for joining us for breakfast, and I promise you if
you do pick up this good life habit, you will
sandwich your day in the most positive way. Thanks for
joining us for breakfast. And now for the topic of
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the day, it is the King Family first family of Entertainment,
and one of the King Family is here with us today,
Cam Clark. And before we start talking, I wanted to
show this because you don't know I'm going to show
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this either. I didn't realize you had clips on your
on your page, on your page, but I set this up,
so let me see if you recognize this.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I do, Darling.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
The cookies are for the children.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
I've just started straightening the trade. How are you doing?
The cookie is almost ready good. They ought to be
here in a minute.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I'm Bob Clark.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
And in case you haven't guessed, my wife Alice and
I are hosting a party tonight. It's a very special
party because you know, for years people have been asking
me the question, because the entire King family really get
together at Christmas and hug and kiss and sing songs.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Well, the answer is yes we do.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
For no matter what the year has brought, laughter, tears,
triumph or.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Disappointment, it's usually a little bit of each.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
What with our touring the country doing concerts most of
the year, Christmas is the time we come home and
count our blessings, experience the joy, spirit and love that
we truly feel for one another. And it's that spirit
of love that we want to share with you right now.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
See if we can guess which one is Cam. And
by the way, that was his dad introducing in his
mom in the kitchen. What are you wearing? Cam?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That's me with the afro gathering on the coats there,
I am.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh, my goodness, Oh all.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Right, and now I give you a little there's my
whole king family in nineteen two.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Nephews.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Where am I? Oh, I'm right. You're right in the middle,
right in the middle in the back row.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, under the tree.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Ah ah.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
How's that for picking out a good one?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah? Man, got a little misty seeing my pop there.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah. Well, tears are the disinfected. They keep our hearts soft.
So I'm glad you didn't apologize for that. I think
it's beautiful. I wanted to kind of surprise you with that.
And yeah, and this is who we have in studio today.
And thanks shout out to my favorite publicist, Harlan, who
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brings me just the best interesting guests, especially nostalgic and
celebrating all that was good in the past and not
focusing on anything that isn't. So how does that feel?
Besides nostalgic for you.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I'm very proud.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
To be part of that family.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
What we achieved, being that the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Was a fluke, Oh tell me about that.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well. As the title of the book, Years of Entertainment, Literally,
this year nineteen twenty five is when our parents again.
As you see there, there were like thirty six of
us in the performing group. They'd been performing since Vaudeville
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and in the fifties, nineteen fifty eighteen fifties, nineteen fifties,
uh sorry, push back, push up a decade. In the
early sixties, the King sisters were asked to do a
fundraiser for this building fund and my aunt Yvonne said, uh,
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because she was heading this project. The people who came
to her and she said, wouldn't it be a kooky,
wacky idea if we brought the kids on stage with
us and our husbands and our other brothers, brothers and sisters.
And we tried it out a couple of times, really
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good response. And when we did this benefit performance, she
had it crudely a film like not you know, Super
eight or sixteen whatever it would have been in like
nineteen sixty three, and she took it to a friend
over at ABC and he said, I'm going to rent
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you a studio in San Francisco. Cut this down to
an hour and I presented, which she did, and then
he did, and the suits at ABC said, how soon
can we get a pilot on this? So the older
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kids in my family, the older cousins, were in Hollywood
back in that day. Whenever at a children's singers were
needed for an album, say Doris Day's qu Arrah or
Frank Sinatra's High Hopes. Many of most of those kids
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came from the entertainers in the compete, in the community.
They were the kids of the singers. So there was
already experience musically in the in you know, recording in
the studio, so it wasn't that biggest step. And we'd
also we were raised under a piano with the moms,
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and when the moms would play the casinos in Lake
Tahoe or Vegas or Jackpot, you know, the whole circuit,
we kids would go along. So kind of osmosis.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yep, like a like a a good Napo baby.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Yeah, only because Jamie Leekert has said it herself.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I just thought that was hollearnious.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But we call ourselves hothouse.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Babies, hothouse baby.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Oh I like that because we were raised in this
environment and in a positive fashion.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
No, none of the.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Horror stories of Hollywood kids, of Hollywood stars, whatever, hothouse
because when it stopped, the hothouse went away, and you
you know, these delicate orchids that we were are now
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in the sunshine, are now in the really cold weather
or the wind. Da da da da. And you have
to relearn, or not re learn, learn what life is like.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
After Yes, yeah it was and and and unless you're
a really uh bad egg, those are the ones they
get in the news, right, not for the good things
they do. Yeah, yeah, unfortunately, But we're not gonna go there.
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Uh I do want to, uh you know, just go
back for a second. King Sisters were a you know,
formidable entertainment group at that time, right, And one of
the things that I saw in there that they used
to run around with one of my guests that dad.
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So I had Richard Pryor Junior on the show, and
I read that tell us about that.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, I was just a kid and I was not
on this show. The girl cousins in the family. When
we stopped taping for our first season, we're asked to
join a show called Craft Summer Music Hall, I think
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it was. And Richard Pryor knew, you know, pretty new
on the scene, along with George Carlin, believe it or not,
and the King cousins did the show together. And the
choreographer and director's director called the girls his dairy queens
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because they all looked like they were straight out of
Michigan and you know, up there with the cow farms
and everything like that, you know, doing the maid you know,
doing the the dairy thing. And they would hang out
and John Davidson was the host of the show, and
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they would like go to on a break, lunch break
from the studio, they'd go to a there's a local
coffee shop still is there, called Patti's. And here's these
five gorgeous blonde twenty year old twenty two year olds
walking in with Richard Pryor. Now remember it's nineteen sixty five.
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And they said they would get the looks, but that
they would hang up. They'd have hangout and after hours
they'd have scavenger hunts together and game nights, you know,
John Davidson, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, the girls whoever else
might be one of the regulars, and it was just like, man,
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what a way to play this, but aware of the
looks they were getting.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, yeah, interesting. There's so many ways to go and
I'm not going to go anywhere that one. But I
thought it was an interesting like how did that happen?
So they were on show they would and and uh,
you know, I think that's a good thing. I think
that that is uh, you know, hopefully our ability to
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value diversity has not taken a turn for the worse,
but I continue to highlight all the ways in which
we we do value all diversity. So but I see,
I'm getting the signal. We're going to take a quick
break for news, weather, traffic, and a word from our sponsor,
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don't go away. We've got way more wonderful things to
talk about about. The first family of entertainment, the King Family.
We have one of the Kings in studio today, Cam Clark.
He actually won his own award for his voice over work.
I just peaked at that. So don't go away. We'll
be right back. And two and two, as Chuck Willer
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used to say, he's on the other side too. But
we say peace in peace out don't go away. I'll
be right back.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Well.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
She has been dubbed the Asian Oprah and she just
wants all of us to be happy. Doctor Marissa aka
the Asian Oprah says, the most.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
Important thing you can choose is choosing to be happy.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
You are tuned into my weekly talk radio TV show
called Take My Advice.
Speaker 10 (29:51):
I'm not using it. Get balance with Doctor Marissa.
Speaker 8 (30:05):
That's the idea for it. Doctor Marissa Pay's new book
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Speaker 11 (30:11):
Many of us say, I am my own worst critic.
Nobody's harder on me than I am. And my response
to that is stop it. Why are you doing that
to yourself?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You have to be your biggest fan, because if you can't,
at the end of the day say I did a
good job, who is We don't have to constantly be
angry at the things that are wrong.
Speaker 11 (30:35):
Why don't we choose to be happy about things that
are right. We have the choice.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
That's our muscle, and life.
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Is so amazing if we can see it.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Take back your life with Doctor Maurice Pey.
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Speaker 3 (31:25):
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Thank you very much and all things positive him because
you have plenty of places to get the headlines that
will leave you in the four a's afraid, angry, aggravated,
(32:08):
and annoyed, but here you get to meet people who
are amazing. Today's no exception we have in studio live.
His name is Cam Clark. He is the son of
Robert and Alice Clark, who Alice is one of the
King's Sister singers. They turned that singing group into this
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family of entertainers who went all over entertaining and Cam
has put together a beautiful tribute slash historical accounting, biography autobiography.
It's called.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Now they're all here, And since this is Thanksgiving week,
the title comes from the only line My Graham ever
had on our show. It was our nineteen sixty seven
Thanksgiving special. And we're all coming into her house, you know,
over the river, through the woods kind of thing. And
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in the scene, everybody's in and then there's a pause,
and then one of the little kids comes running up,
you know, last one, and he pecks her on the cheek.
He runs in, and she says, now they're all here.
Just like we all do with lines we love from movies,
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whether it's we're not in Kansas anymore or or I'll
have what she's having, there are lines from our own
career that we use, and that one is like at
any gathering, whoever is last, someone inevitably says, now they're
all here.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Ah, that's so adorable.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
It's kind of a corny title, but it has implication.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Oh for sure, for sure, And so can I ask
how many Kings are still here now that we're talking
about now we're.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Of the performing troupe as opposed to the great great
great great great grandkids?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah, oh, how many greats are there?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Now? Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Who knowsh okay, do you have.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
What do you have?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Reunions?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
We did for many years, but the family is so
large now that it has become reunions. But pocketed this
branch of the family because there's you know, fifty in
that branch. But we still do get together different combinations.
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I have a place in a local mountain resort called
Lake Arrowhead, and we often have gatherings up there. We
have a cousin's we weekend, you know, all of us
between the ages of sixty and death, and you know,
we're all twelve years old again.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I want to I want to come to one of those.
That would be all right Thanksgiving and I'll be the host. No,
that would be. That would be I think that's to
have a legacy like that is? How cool? Is that?
For sure? For sure? Now was there ever any like
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what was the funniest moment?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Dolly? I said, golly, you want to go on a
road trip to discuss the funniest moments?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yeah, well, I know what the most poignant moment? That
is one of those that played over. It's a It's
still poignant today because we still have service people coming
home unexpectedly to surprise their loved ones. But that one
was televised. Is that on your website?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yes, it is, and I will be here Cam Clark
Voices dot com and Clark is c l A r
K e as it says Marissa's screen.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
And this surprise when you're filming a surprise, you got
one take. If something goes south, it's no longer a surprise. Jay,
we're shrinking.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
It, says, Uh, Cam Clark Voices dot Com is under construction.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Well, not true, that's conspiracy conspiracy theory.
Speaker 14 (36:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Oh so so anyway, and is a real thing. Uh.
But on our sixty seven Christmas special, my mom's song
was I'll be home for Christmas Now. Even though most
of our stuff was pre recorded, Mom could not. She
(37:17):
could she could not lip sync because she could never
sing a song the same way twice. I'm not even
kidding she it was like, yeah, but Mom, come on,
but she was horrible at it. So my aunt Vonne,
who was one of the producers, the one who came
up with the idea, comes up with an idea to
(37:39):
surprise Mom while she's singing. They got my brother Ricky
a two day pass to come out to Hollywood to
surprise Mom. And yeah, we've all seen it on Instagram
and stuff. Oh there's a great one, isn't this it? Uh?
(38:00):
Oh yes, oh my god.
Speaker 15 (38:02):
Yes, she's my mother Alice, who will now be accompanied
at the piano by my brother lets and she sings
a song dedicated to my other brother Rick, who's in
the army.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Oh, I'm so glad I found this.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Oh man, be hold this says it. All this clips
you can call toll me.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
She's gorgeous, Yes she was, and presence around the two.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
My favorite singer, my mom Mussy.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Will find she wasn't the oldest, butecially she was fourth
of eight.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Wow. Yeah, ah, if anybody was pregnant, there was another
sister available to take over. Wow.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Okay, I'm gonna fast forward just a bit, just for time.
Speaker 16 (39:16):
To but I'll be thinking about you everything. I sent you,
a little prisoner, your candid for me over the manage.
Speaker 17 (39:35):
Oh no, evil, Fine, Now there's an entertained can still say.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Okay, watch what happens at their hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Hold on, hold on. I didn't know there was more.
Let me get that back.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
No, it's just hilarious. She's totally balling her eyes out
as right, and but at the end you will.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, don't tell you.
Speaker 14 (40:09):
Behold Christmas, if only in my dream only.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
She's going to go in for a hug.
Speaker 8 (40:30):
My.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
She doesn't miss her last line of the song. She's
balling her eyes out and she goes, I'm hugging my
baby boy. But I've got one more line.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
So best foot of our show.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Exactly the beast. I amidst the too in a good way.
I love crying because to good the disinfectant that keepne
So you go. I enjoyed that. That was That was priceless.
I'm so glad I got to share that with y'all.
(41:20):
I had previewed it, but I hadn't watched the whole thing.
So beautiful, beautiful, Thank you, your your whole family. What
what a legacy, uh that you get to chronicle everybody.
This is a great gift for the holidays. Hint, hint,
(41:41):
where can you get that book? I'm guessing everywhere?
Speaker 1 (41:46):
And here? So yes, here comes the shameless plug.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
No, no shame here?
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Uh? Oh is that backwards on your screen?
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Oh okay, I'm saying backwards yes, but anyway, Hey, this
is it now they're all here.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
What a great cover shot.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (42:06):
That's a great cover shot. Let me, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Yeah, so obviously, guys, it's a it's a coffee table
book filled with huge, lush photograph photographs of the family
as well as text stories from everyone. And you can
get it at Amazon. It's probably the easiest. There you
(42:30):
go and look at sexycam there with his long hair
from the nineties.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Yes, very nice and uh so you.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Can get that at Amazon or at my publishing company
rare bird Lit dot com r A R E b
I R D L I t rarebird lit dot com.
But again, Amazon is an easy, easy go to.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
All right, let's see this is where you can get
Is this the one?
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I see a picture of an automobile? Oh there's rare Bird. Yeah, wow,
that was quick.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Yeah, Oh damn girl, you're fits.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
All right? Here it is and I love that cover shot.
Now where are you? What are the blue Is that
a family insignia.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Or where it says the king family?
Speaker 3 (43:47):
No, the blue sashes that the women have on.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
This was one of our very first episodes in nineteen
sixty five, and it was just a play a pun
on our see the mom's name their family name was Driggs,
which doesn't really have a great ring. Yeah, and it's
so cliche. But they're going on. You know, they get
(44:15):
a manager and you know, they landed a couple of gigs.
They got some attention on radio and uh, okay, what
now you are the you're the Driggs sisters. Yes, sir,
we are. He was, No, you're not. That doesn't work.
It's what are some other names in your family? And
they said, uh, well, daddy's name is William King Driggs.
(44:39):
It was like King King sisters. So hence the sacks.
We did introductions to the tune for the theme from
the King and I and so hence the royal sashes
and the little tiaras and the tuxedo or tailcoats and everything.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Are you in the front there with I know?
Speaker 1 (45:02):
I am? Oh golly, how to tell you where that is?
The man in the front on the right. If you
go strictly, strictly straight above his head, you'll see a
little head. That's me there. Oh yeah, and my brother
Ricky above me, and my mom dad to the far right.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
That's so cool. Now your dad almost what became a
different guy? Oh yeah, tell us about that?
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Yeah, my mom and dad met on a blind date.
And before that, Mom was dating Dick Martin, who is
of Rowan and Martin, which a lot of boomers know
from laughing. And they were dating but then dad, you know,
(46:09):
Dad got got it, but they were still so tight
that I don't know that I could do this. But
Dick would baby sit. My mom was a widow, so
I have she had two kids already that were before
I was born. They were already like six and ten. Yeah,
(46:31):
there he is, and he would babysit for the boys
when Mom would be on a date with Dad. How
wild is that? And when they decided to get married
and Mom told the kids that, you know, Bob is
we're getting married and he's going to be moving in.
(46:51):
You know that's tough for kids and all. Yeah, And
so Ricky, who's like whatever eight or something, says, well,
can Dick move into And Mom's like.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
WHOA, that doesn't really work that way. But he's still alive six, Yeah,
he's eighty six. Maybe you should reach out to him.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
Well, I did an episode of a show he was directing.
Lynn Redgrave had a series I can't think of the
name of a sitcom, and I did an episode on
and I went to you know, I auditioned with the
casting person, then was presented to the directors. I didn't
(47:42):
know the story, and I'm like and I'm like, mom,
what do you holding out for? But he's the one who.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
Told you no, I'm.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
In the room. And he goes, and of course I
knew who he was, right he goes, Uh, I used
to date your mom. Wow, So I don't know exactly
how he knew who that I was. That child?
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Interesting. So you're you're a child from from the.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
From Bob Clark marriage, second.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
From Bob Clark second marriage.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
Oh yeah, okay, my brothers are ten and fifteen years older.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
We're also part of the performing.
Speaker 3 (48:21):
Group, right right, right, right right? Wow, that's that's yeah.
I think you should get in touch with him. I
would love to have him on the show.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
I wish I knew how well.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
Our fingers and that will you know, law of attraction,
set the intention, the details will will come about. Yeah,
that's so cool. What other stuff do you want to
talk about that's in the book.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Well, the people that had solo careers outside of the family.
There is a chapter again with these glossy gorgeous full
page photos. They have their own chapters, like Alvin O. Ray,
who was an amazing and one of the father's guitar
(49:14):
players and one of the inventors of the steel guitar
slide guitar, My dad who was, despite his displeasure, king
of the Bee Horror Flick in the nineteen fifties. My
cousin Tina Cole was from my three sons, and she
(49:36):
was married to Robbie Douglas and she was the mother
of the triplets. And then my solo career. What's cool
about the book within the hundred years of entertainment, there
isn't a branch of it that is not in it.
From vaudeville, radio, big band, swing, pop, bop, uh jazz,
(50:02):
everything and mine, of course is video games and animation.
And so there's a chapter on me yes, and there's
a there's a small that's a double page spread from
the book that's me Wow, you really got it together, doctor,
surrounded by a lot of my characters. And there's a
(50:22):
whole chapter where I where I tell stories about Ninja Turtles,
or being the voice of Snoopy or Simba as you mentioned,
Liquid Snake in the very popular metal Gear Solid series.
Speaker 3 (50:37):
So and you've been nominated and you won an award.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
For this stuff, which, yes, a show we did a
I did a feature called Barnyard and it was spun
off into a weekly show and it was at won best.
You know, I don't know how they break it Saturday
Morning or animated series for that year. So that was lovely.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
That's cool. We're running out of time, so tell me
one more thing. Let me see. I saw something that
I wanted you to. Bob Mackie.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Aha, Yes, Bob McKie, famous costume designer in Hollywood. We
were his first series where he was head costumer, and
so that's quite a challenge, you know. He you know,
share Diana Ross, Carol Burnett, This list of superstars goes
(51:45):
on and on, but we were his first show and
you're you're dressing thirty six people every week. Now you
don't have Carol Burnett's budget. So the magic he perfer
formed dressing all those people and mixing and matching tops
to you know, top women's tops to their skirts, you know,
(52:09):
different they were all separates so that you could mix
and match him and stuff. He was amazing to work with.
I uh and we I mean, who gets to say
(52:30):
that when we were the littles, when we were kids
on that first season he made Halloween costumes for all
of us.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
Who gets this? Who gets to say they went trigger
treating and Bob mc original.
Speaker 3 (52:47):
There you go?
Speaker 1 (52:48):
You do?
Speaker 3 (52:51):
You do?
Speaker 1 (52:53):
I do well. Many years ago, my cousin said, hey,
I think I found this in my kid's dress up box.
Could this be your clown coat? And I went, oh
my god, yes it is wow. And I called Bob
and I said, you feel free to say no, but
(53:18):
this is all that remains. Can you restore it? And
not a second went by before he went absolutely, So
I brought the coat over to his where he was,
you know, his what do you call it his store whatever,
his design shop, and he put the sequence back on
(53:43):
and put the flour back on the lapels, big clown
costume and the bowler hat with the dyed pink and
orange feathers in it. I mean, it was beautiful, and
he was an amazing He is an amazing man, and
he's still here. For my fortieth birthday, he surprised me
(54:07):
with a sketch of the costume that.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
He's Oh, how beautiful. Yeah, man, he has the words
up the ying Yang totally totally crazy, and he's still alive.
He's also eighty six.
Speaker 1 (54:28):
Yeah, and he's a pistol. He is still going yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:33):
How cool is that? How cool is that? I just
I just love, you know, Hollywood, the Golden age of Hollywood. Whoops?
Okay uh one last one? Which is the Tokyo.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
Rose Ah yeah, And this I didn't know till I
was grown U. The King's Sisters were really popular during
World War Two. In fact, they had a record that
was played a record called Nighty Night featuring the solo
(55:12):
was my Aunt von And it would play on Armed
Forces radio right before lights out, and it was so
successful that Tokyo Rose would go on the air and
say in her you know, sexy, come hither thing. You know,
(55:34):
wouldn't you boys rather be home listening to Yvonne than
out here fighting the Japanese, you know, using my mom's
for demoralizing art troops. It was like, I was like,
I can't believe that's us, that's my mom's having such
a position. I would like to close with a positive.
(56:00):
I know we're like what about three minutes or something.
My parents were my mom and her siblings came up
during the depression and they were dirt poor, and at
a reunion many years later, maybe in the eighties or nineties,
my mom would she would swoon and she'd think about, Oh,
(56:21):
I remember in summertime, Daddy would take us camping and
we'd take our cow and we plant a garden and
sleep under the stars. And her older sister and I
was present for this. She sits up and she says, Alice,
we were not camping, we were homeless. Oh wow, which
(56:45):
is proof that their daddy and their mama. I get
emotional just thinking about it, did their best to put
a force field around their kids, which is such a gift.
And not everybody gets that. Not everybody has parents like that.
(57:08):
And I am so aware. It is never lost on
me my gratitude that I had this insane upbringing. None
of us, none of us have forgotten how this could
never have been. And we talk about it, you know,
especially at the home.
Speaker 3 (57:27):
Yes, gratitude, Sandwich. Gratitude is a force of life for joy.
I think that it's also free. To be grateful is
a free activity, and I promise it was it. Doctor
Wayne Dyer says, five thank yous. In the morning. Four things,
(57:48):
five things you're grateful for you will you find that
key to a magical life. I say eight because I'm
an overachiever and eight number in Chinese as the the
phone for good fortune. So thank you so much, Cam.
What a delightful hour.
Speaker 1 (58:07):
And you did such good homework, I mean wonderful being
with you. I'm going to send three kernels of corn.
I got to get your address so I can send
three kernels of corn. Surprise you with three kernels.
Speaker 3 (58:21):
That's beautiful, and you can send me your addressing. I'll
surprise you on Thanksgiving next year. All right, yeah, all right,
that's it today. If you would hold your fingers up
for me. It's all about balance, peace in peace, out world,
peace through inner piece. This is doctor Marissa reporting live
(58:46):
from my loving room and with Cam Clark. Go get
his beautiful coffee table book. King family, Thanks for joining us, and.
Speaker 13 (58:56):
Thank you, thank you giving everybody.
Speaker 3 (59:01):
Yes happy gratitude. I'll see you guys tomorrow and in
the meantime, have the best day.
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I would not last a year, I'm so glad you're wrong,
and I'm so delighted today to bring you live in
(02:02):
studio someone from a family, especially if you're a baby boomer,
you will remember the King Family extremely tied also with
holiday music. For sure. Cam Clark is part of that family.
He began his career at six years old on TV's
(02:25):
The King Family Show. His mother was a member of
the popular singing group The King's Sisters, and his father
was actor Robert Clark. For many American families, the King
Family defined Christmas entertainment. And now there's a book called
now They're All Here, The King Family. Over one hundred
years of entertainment from America's first family of song. The
(02:48):
author is in my studio. It's not only the complete
history of the famous King family, but the story of
cam life in front and behind the camera, and whether
you're a longtime fam or new to their story, this
offers a nostalgic and heartfelt tribute to a family that
defined the spirit of family entertainment for generations. Cam himself
(03:13):
you'll recognize his voice was Leonardo in the original Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles and the favorite villain as Liquid Snake
in the Metal Gear Solid Games. Throughout his career, Cluk's
been praised for his ability to bring depth and emotion
tooth character, making them memorable to audiences worldwide. He now
(03:37):
travels meeting fans around the world who consistently say thank
you for my childhood. Is work continues to inspire both
fans and aspiring voice actors alike. Please welcome to my
studio for the first time, CAM Club Welcome.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Thank you for having me. We don't even need to
do this interview because what you just said says it all.
We're good. I'm going home.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
No, you're not getting off that easy. But what I do,
what I do want to do is what I do
at the start of every show. And I didn't tell
you this because I love to surprise my guests. It's
don't worry. I'm not like any other host of any
other show where I'm trying to trick you or anything.
(04:32):
I promise, I dare you, I dare you. Don't do that.
But we start every morning with breakfast, whether I'm by
myself with a guest or a co host, which is
I take a bite of my gratitude sandwich, and I
invite you to do the same. Top of the butt,
A few things that you're grateful for when you look
(04:53):
out of yourself, around you and bottom of the butt?
What are you grateful for? Inside? What do you like
about yourself? And We've been doing this on the show,
and every.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Prize money if I answer correctly, parting gifts if I fail.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
No, this is purely for I'm known as I have
a best selling book on happiness, and so to get
everybody to exercise. They're a muscle of choice. That's why
we do this exercise. So let's start at the top
of the bud. What are you grateful for, Cam, I'll
(05:34):
start and give you an example. I am grateful that
my daughters are here. They drove down from San Francisco
yesterday and we're going to have the holiday together, and
I'm very excited. I do love my daughter so much,
so I am grateful for cars that drive and come
(05:57):
down to visit mom.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Cars that drive with drivers or driverless cars.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
They actually drove themselves. But nice station. I can tell
we're gonna have a good time today. Cam. What are
you grateful for?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Golly? I have a tradition speaking of food that at Thanksgiving,
and I am grateful that I've got some of my
family and a couple of friends coming over here to
have spend the evening together. I do a thing where
on each person's plate, I buy an ear of Indian corn,
(06:34):
and on each plate, each person gets three kernels of corn,
representing the first Thanksgiving. One kernel is for a wish,
whether it's for the world or however you want to
determine wish. The other is a gratitude, and the third
(06:58):
one is something you It's funny you would say that
this way something you like about yourself. No, isn't that wild?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
That is wild? We did not talk about this. Hold on,
this is wow, really really really really that's stunning.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, like you're saying it forces you know, not like
what you're you're talking about. But people sometimes think if
I say something nice about myself, people will think, oh,
I'm stuck up, or it's all about me or blah
blah blah. And this gives a person permission, among intimates, uh,
(07:42):
to say out loud something that there's spirits that you
know that you're that the universe can hear you saying
out loud that you.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Like, Wow, that's that's great.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We should have Thanksgiving together.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I was just gonna say, say, you know, when I
actually when Don Wells, she's on the other side, bless
her Mary and from Gilligan's Island, and she was the
first when she first the first time she was on
my show. She ended up coming up like six or
seven times. But she also the very first time said
(08:19):
something about Thanksgiving, right, and she's like right aligned with
all both of us and and all of my listeners
watchers out there. I said, oh, I'm coming to your
house for Thanksgiving. She goes, yes, you are, And then
I ended up going to her house for Thanksgiving for
the rest of the time. But when she was on
(08:40):
the planet and yeah, so so so be careful, okay,
I chow it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Well, Okay, the gauntlet has been thrown down.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh so next year, when my kids say I have
to choose because which side of the family they go to,
I'll say you can. You can come for Chris miss
I'm going to cams for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
How's that all right?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
All right? I shall probably find out where you live first,
but anyways, okay, uh, that's beautiful. So I love your
table setup. I think that's great. I'm putting a promo
up right now. So that's what I'm doing. It's a
King family. It doesn't have a anyways is your do
(09:27):
you know the King Family on Instagram? Is it King
Family Singers?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I told you I'm a technophobe, but I have people.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Okay, I got no people. I'm a one woman band.
But anyways, okay, I'm grateful.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
For you if you want to, for people who still
use fish book at cam Clark Voice dot com. All
roads lead to anything. Technophobia there got it clips from
the show as well as the Ninja Turtles or Lion
(10:12):
King or flounder of Definitely.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The last thing I'm grateful for this morning is lushing toilets.
I so appreciate the fact that we have that creature
comfort and a good morning to the captain of the
Cashew Gallery. April, nice to see you back. We have
someone that you may or may not remember. The King
(10:38):
family singers, the son of the one of the main couples.
Your dad was Robert Clark. Your mom was one of
the King's sisters. April, I believe was your mom's name.
Was it Alice? It started with an A.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You got the first letter right.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Well, you know what, April, see, there's my huh there
you go. So yeah, So let's go to the bottom
of the bottom. What are we grateful for inside of ourselves?
What do we like about ourselves? This is weightlifting because
a lot of us grew up with well meaning parents
more mean than well, don't toot your own horn, you're
(11:22):
not all that, and so we have a few generations
of folks who are looking for love and likes in
the wrong place social media, literally, So I use this
section of the show what do you like about yourself?
So that you don't have to look for approval in
other places, because, frankly, my dear, if you can't approve
(11:44):
of yourself, how the fork do you expect anybody else to?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
So?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I like about myself that I am witty, I actually
like to play with words, and even though my husband
told me I was not funny. The best thing about
divorce is I own my funny. All right, Cam, what
are you.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Well, nobody's listening to us right now, so it's just me,
me and you right now, right. Yes, many many years ago,
I turned HIV positive. Oh, and I'm a survivor. But
anyone who has had about with a potentially terminal illness,
(12:31):
besides all the negative that comes with that, if you
play it correctly, for lack of another way to put it,
that's dumb, it makes you aware of how precious I is.
I never miss a sunset. And this is all going
to sound like Hallmark, but sound please look past the
(12:52):
cliche for shorthand. I could say that anyone in my
family or my friends could die and I would not say, Gee,
I wish I'd only told them fill in the blank.
Everyone knows how I feel about them. I tell them
(13:18):
whenever it comes to mind, like things like this dinner.
It doesn't get better than this, y'all excuse me. So
that is a gift that comes from the acknowledgment that.
And now in my third act, you know again, we
(13:43):
don't know how long we're here, and that could be
for anybody. You know, nobody knows the time of going
on to the next phase. But I am so aware
and I'm proud of the fact of that. I get it.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
There's plenty of arenas that I don't get. Don't get
me wrong. I want a private with you when this
show is over.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yes, yes, I thank you. That really touched my heart.
And my best friend from grad school was in the
same boat, and you know he's on the other side
and I know he's smiling right now listening to us. Michael,
I love you, and I know I don't miss you
(14:35):
because I know you're not gone, and but you have
a new friend here and so that's a kind of
a very cool thing. Thank you for sharing your heart
there can and I absolutely agree. There's something about knowing
that your time, like we all should do that. I'm
not shitting on you, but you like y'all, but it
(14:58):
is important to know, oh that nobody, nobody's here forever.
So why don't we use every every time I hear
about a tragedy, that's my first go to is have
I told everybody I love that I love them? You
know that's that's the response. But good on you I'm
you know, I'm going to give you, and I don't
(15:19):
give all my guests. You haven't even really done anything
except breakfast. But I'm going to give you Doctor Marissa's
Beneficial Presence on the planet Award for that message you
just shared from your I accept unexpected, unexpected blessings, and
(15:41):
April is glad that you get tuned in. She also
is appreciating herself, her new found creative freedom, and she's
proud of steadfastness and moving in the direction of her dreams.
So there you have it. We are really good at
taking a bite out of my gratitude sandwich. I'm going
(16:01):
to encourage everybody to continue this good life habit hashtag
discipline with me every weekday morning on the show. It
is live on YouTube TV channel at nine am Pacific
time and eight am a week later on my NBC
News Radio. I am back at my drive time, so
(16:21):
I'm so grateful for that as well. So thank you
for joining us for breakfast, and I promise you if
you do pick up this good life habit, you will
sandwich your day in the most positive way. Thanks for
joining us for breakfast. And now for the topic of
(16:47):
the day, it is the King Family first family of Entertainment,
and one of the King Family is here with us today,
Cam Clark. And before we start talking, I wanted to
show this because you don't know I'm going to show
(17:09):
this either. I didn't realize you had clips on your
on your page, on your page, but I set this up,
so let me see if you recognize this.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I do, Darling.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
The cookies are for the children.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
I've just started straightening the trade. How are you doing?
The cookie is almost ready good. They ought to be
here in a minute.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I'm Bob Clark.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
And in case you haven't guessed, my wife Alice and
I are hosting a party tonight. It's a very special
party because you know, for years people have been asking
me the question, because the entire King family really get
together at Christmas and hug and kiss and sing songs.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Well, the answer is yes we do.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
For no matter what the year has brought, laughter, tears,
triumph or.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Disappointment, it's usually a little bit of each.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
What with our touring the country doing concerts most of
the year, Christmas is the time we come home and
count our blessings, experience the joy, spirit and love that
we truly feel for one another. And it's that spirit
of love that we want to share with you right now.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
See if we can guess which one is Cam. And
by the way, that was his dad introducing in his
mom in the kitchen. What are you wearing? Cam?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That's me with the afro gathering on the coats there,
I am.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh, my goodness, Oh all.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Right, and now I give you a little there's my
whole king family in nineteen two.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Nephews.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Where am I? Oh, I'm right. You're right in the middle,
right in the middle in the back row.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, under the tree.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Ah ah.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
How's that for picking out a good one?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah? Man, got a little misty seeing my pop there.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah. Well, tears are the disinfected. They keep our hearts soft.
So I'm glad you didn't apologize for that. I think
it's beautiful. I wanted to kind of surprise you with that.
And yeah, and this is who we have in studio today.
And thanks shout out to my favorite publicist, Harlan, who
(20:19):
brings me just the best interesting guests, especially nostalgic and
celebrating all that was good in the past and not
focusing on anything that isn't. So how does that feel?
Besides nostalgic for you.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I'm very proud.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
To be part of that family.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
What we achieved, being that the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Was a fluke, Oh tell me about that.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well. As the title of the book, Years of Entertainment, Literally,
this year nineteen twenty five is when our parents again.
As you see there, there were like thirty six of
us in the performing group. They'd been performing since Vaudeville
(21:20):
and in the fifties, nineteen fifty eighteen fifties, nineteen fifties,
uh sorry, push back, push up a decade. In the
early sixties, the King sisters were asked to do a
fundraiser for this building fund and my aunt Yvonne said, uh,
(21:41):
because she was heading this project. The people who came
to her and she said, wouldn't it be a kooky,
wacky idea if we brought the kids on stage with
us and our husbands and our other brothers, brothers and sisters.
And we tried it out a couple of times, really
(22:03):
good response. And when we did this benefit performance, she
had it crudely a film like not you know, Super
eight or sixteen whatever it would have been in like
nineteen sixty three, and she took it to a friend
over at ABC and he said, I'm going to rent
(22:26):
you a studio in San Francisco. Cut this down to
an hour and I presented, which she did, and then
he did, and the suits at ABC said, how soon
can we get a pilot on this? So the older
(22:46):
kids in my family, the older cousins, were in Hollywood
back in that day. Whenever at a children's singers were
needed for an album, say Doris Day's qu Arrah or
Frank Sinatra's High Hopes. Many of most of those kids
(23:07):
came from the entertainers in the compete, in the community.
They were the kids of the singers. So there was
already experience musically in the in you know, recording in
the studio, so it wasn't that biggest step. And we'd
also we were raised under a piano with the moms,
(23:29):
and when the moms would play the casinos in Lake
Tahoe or Vegas or Jackpot, you know, the whole circuit,
we kids would go along. So kind of osmosis.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yep, like a like a a good Napo baby.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Yeah, only because Jamie Leekert has said it herself.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I just thought that was hollearnious.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But we call ourselves hothouse.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Babies, hothouse baby.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Oh I like that because we were raised in this
environment and in a positive fashion.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
No, none of the.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Horror stories of Hollywood kids, of Hollywood stars, whatever, hothouse
because when it stopped, the hothouse went away, and you
you know, these delicate orchids that we were are now
(24:42):
in the sunshine, are now in the really cold weather
or the wind. Da da da da. And you have
to relearn, or not re learn, learn what life is like.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
After Yes, yeah it was and and and unless you're
a really uh bad egg, those are the ones they
get in the news, right, not for the good things
they do. Yeah, yeah, unfortunately, But we're not gonna go there.
(25:22):
Uh I do want to, uh you know, just go
back for a second. King Sisters were a you know,
formidable entertainment group at that time, right, And one of
the things that I saw in there that they used
to run around with one of my guests that dad.
(25:43):
So I had Richard Pryor Junior on the show, and
I read that tell us about that.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, I was just a kid and I was not
on this show. The girl cousins in the family. When
we stopped taping for our first season, we're asked to
join a show called Craft Summer Music Hall, I think
(26:11):
it was. And Richard Pryor knew, you know, pretty new
on the scene, along with George Carlin, believe it or not,
and the King cousins did the show together. And the
choreographer and director's director called the girls his dairy queens
(26:37):
because they all looked like they were straight out of
Michigan and you know, up there with the cow farms
and everything like that, you know, doing the maid you know,
doing the the dairy thing. And they would hang out
and John Davidson was the host of the show, and
(27:00):
they would like go to on a break, lunch break
from the studio, they'd go to a there's a local
coffee shop still is there, called Patti's. And here's these
five gorgeous blonde twenty year old twenty two year olds
walking in with Richard Pryor. Now remember it's nineteen sixty five.
(27:24):
And they said they would get the looks, but that
they would hang up. They'd have hangout and after hours
they'd have scavenger hunts together and game nights, you know,
John Davidson, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, the girls whoever else
might be one of the regulars, and it was just like, man,
(27:46):
what a way to play this, but aware of the
looks they were getting.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, yeah, interesting. There's so many ways to go and
I'm not going to go anywhere that one. But I
thought it was an interesting like how did that happen?
So they were on show they would and and uh,
you know, I think that's a good thing. I think
that that is uh, you know, hopefully our ability to
(28:18):
value diversity has not taken a turn for the worse,
but I continue to highlight all the ways in which
we we do value all diversity. So but I see,
I'm getting the signal. We're going to take a quick
break for news, weather, traffic, and a word from our sponsor,
(28:39):
don't go away. We've got way more wonderful things to
talk about about. The first family of entertainment, the King Family.
We have one of the Kings in studio today, Cam Clark.
He actually won his own award for his voice over work.
I just peaked at that. So don't go away. We'll
be right back. And two and two, as Chuck Willer
(29:01):
used to say, he's on the other side too. But
we say peace in peace out don't go away. I'll
be right back.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Well.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
She has been dubbed the Asian Oprah and she just
wants all of us to be happy. Doctor Marissa aka
the Asian Oprah says, the most.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
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Speaker 3 (29:46):
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Speaker 10 (29:51):
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Speaker 8 (30:05):
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Speaker 11 (30:11):
Many of us say, I am my own worst critic.
Nobody's harder on me than I am. And my response
to that is stop it. Why are you doing that
to yourself?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You have to be your biggest fan, because if you can't,
at the end of the day say I did a
good job, who is We don't have to constantly be
angry at the things that are wrong.
Speaker 11 (30:35):
Why don't we choose to be happy about things that
are right. We have the choice.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
That's our muscle, and life.
Speaker 12 (30:43):
Is so amazing if we can see it.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
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Speaker 13 (31:14):
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Speaker 3 (31:25):
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(31:48):
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Thank you very much and all things positive him because
you have plenty of places to get the headlines that
will leave you in the four a's afraid, angry, aggravated,
(32:08):
and annoyed, but here you get to meet people who
are amazing. Today's no exception we have in studio live.
His name is Cam Clark. He is the son of
Robert and Alice Clark, who Alice is one of the
King's Sister singers. They turned that singing group into this
(32:30):
family of entertainers who went all over entertaining and Cam
has put together a beautiful tribute slash historical accounting, biography autobiography.
It's called.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Now they're all here, And since this is Thanksgiving week,
the title comes from the only line My Graham ever
had on our show. It was our nineteen sixty seven
Thanksgiving special. And we're all coming into her house, you know,
over the river, through the woods kind of thing. And
(33:12):
in the scene, everybody's in and then there's a pause,
and then one of the little kids comes running up,
you know, last one, and he pecks her on the cheek.
He runs in, and she says, now they're all here.
Just like we all do with lines we love from movies,
(33:33):
whether it's we're not in Kansas anymore or or I'll
have what she's having, there are lines from our own
career that we use, and that one is like at
any gathering, whoever is last, someone inevitably says, now they're
all here.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Ah, that's so adorable.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
It's kind of a corny title, but it has implication.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Oh for sure, for sure, And so can I ask
how many Kings are still here now that we're talking
about now we're.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Of the performing troupe as opposed to the great great
great great great grandkids?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah, oh, how many greats are there?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Now? Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Who knowsh okay, do you have.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
What do you have?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Reunions?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
We did for many years, but the family is so
large now that it has become reunions. But pocketed this
branch of the family because there's you know, fifty in
that branch. But we still do get together different combinations.
(34:49):
I have a place in a local mountain resort called
Lake Arrowhead, and we often have gatherings up there. We
have a cousin's we weekend, you know, all of us
between the ages of sixty and death, and you know,
we're all twelve years old again.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I want to I want to come to one of those.
That would be all right Thanksgiving and I'll be the host. No,
that would be. That would be I think that's to
have a legacy like that is? How cool? Is that?
For sure? For sure? Now was there ever any like
(35:37):
what was the funniest moment?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Dolly? I said, golly, you want to go on a
road trip to discuss the funniest moments?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yeah, well, I know what the most poignant moment? That
is one of those that played over. It's a It's
still poignant today because we still have service people coming
home unexpectedly to surprise their loved ones. But that one
was televised. Is that on your website?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yes, it is, and I will be here Cam Clark
Voices dot com and Clark is c l A r
K e as it says Marissa's screen.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
And this surprise when you're filming a surprise, you got
one take. If something goes south, it's no longer a surprise. Jay,
we're shrinking.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
It, says, Uh, Cam Clark Voices dot Com is under construction.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Well, not true, that's conspiracy conspiracy theory.
Speaker 14 (36:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Oh so so anyway, and is a real thing. Uh.
But on our sixty seven Christmas special, my mom's song
was I'll be home for Christmas Now. Even though most
of our stuff was pre recorded, Mom could not. She
(37:17):
could she could not lip sync because she could never
sing a song the same way twice. I'm not even
kidding she it was like, yeah, but Mom, come on,
but she was horrible at it. So my aunt Vonne,
who was one of the producers, the one who came
up with the idea, comes up with an idea to
(37:39):
surprise Mom while she's singing. They got my brother Ricky
a two day pass to come out to Hollywood to
surprise Mom. And yeah, we've all seen it on Instagram
and stuff. Oh there's a great one, isn't this it? Uh?
(38:00):
Oh yes, oh my god.
Speaker 15 (38:02):
Yes, she's my mother Alice, who will now be accompanied
at the piano by my brother lets and she sings
a song dedicated to my other brother Rick, who's in
the army.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Oh, I'm so glad I found this.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Oh man, be hold this says it. All this clips
you can call toll me.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
She's gorgeous, Yes she was, and presence around the two.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
My favorite singer, my mom Mussy.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Will find she wasn't the oldest, butecially she was fourth
of eight.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Wow. Yeah, ah, if anybody was pregnant, there was another
sister available to take over. Wow.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Okay, I'm gonna fast forward just a bit, just for time.
Speaker 16 (39:16):
To but I'll be thinking about you everything. I sent you,
a little prisoner, your candid for me over the manage.
Speaker 17 (39:35):
Oh no, evil, Fine, Now there's an entertained can still say.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Okay, watch what happens at their hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Hold on, hold on. I didn't know there was more.
Let me get that back.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
No, it's just hilarious. She's totally balling her eyes out
as right, and but at the end you will.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, don't tell you.
Speaker 14 (40:09):
Behold Christmas, if only in my dream only.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
She's going to go in for a hug.
Speaker 8 (40:30):
My.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
She doesn't miss her last line of the song. She's
balling her eyes out and she goes, I'm hugging my
baby boy. But I've got one more line.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
So best foot of our show.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Exactly the beast. I amidst the too in a good way.
I love crying because to good the disinfectant that keepne
So you go. I enjoyed that. That was That was priceless.
I'm so glad I got to share that with y'all.
(41:20):
I had previewed it, but I hadn't watched the whole thing.
So beautiful, beautiful, Thank you, your your whole family. What
what a legacy, uh that you get to chronicle everybody.
This is a great gift for the holidays. Hint, hint,
(41:41):
where can you get that book? I'm guessing everywhere?
Speaker 1 (41:46):
And here? So yes, here comes the shameless plug.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
No, no shame here?
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Uh? Oh is that backwards on your screen?
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Oh okay, I'm saying backwards yes, but anyway, Hey, this
is it now they're all here.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
What a great cover shot.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (42:06):
That's a great cover shot. Let me, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Yeah, so obviously, guys, it's a it's a coffee table
book filled with huge, lush photograph photographs of the family
as well as text stories from everyone. And you can
get it at Amazon. It's probably the easiest. There you
(42:30):
go and look at sexycam there with his long hair
from the nineties.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Yes, very nice and uh so you.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Can get that at Amazon or at my publishing company
rare bird Lit dot com r A R E b
I R D L I t rarebird lit dot com.
But again, Amazon is an easy, easy go to.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
All right, let's see this is where you can get
Is this the one?
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I see a picture of an automobile? Oh there's rare Bird. Yeah, wow,
that was quick.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Yeah, Oh damn girl, you're fits.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
All right? Here it is and I love that cover shot.
Now where are you? What are the blue Is that
a family insignia.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Or where it says the king family?
Speaker 3 (43:47):
No, the blue sashes that the women have on.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
This was one of our very first episodes in nineteen
sixty five, and it was just a play a pun
on our see the mom's name their family name was Driggs,
which doesn't really have a great ring. Yeah, and it's
so cliche. But they're going on. You know, they get
(44:15):
a manager and you know, they landed a couple of gigs.
They got some attention on radio and uh, okay, what
now you are the you're the Driggs sisters. Yes, sir,
we are. He was, No, you're not. That doesn't work.
It's what are some other names in your family? And
they said, uh, well, daddy's name is William King Driggs.
(44:39):
It was like King King sisters. So hence the sacks.
We did introductions to the tune for the theme from
the King and I and so hence the royal sashes
and the little tiaras and the tuxedo or tailcoats and everything.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Are you in the front there with I know?
Speaker 1 (45:02):
I am? Oh golly, how to tell you where that is?
The man in the front on the right. If you
go strictly, strictly straight above his head, you'll see a
little head. That's me there. Oh yeah, and my brother
Ricky above me, and my mom dad to the far right.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
That's so cool. Now your dad almost what became a
different guy? Oh yeah, tell us about that?
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Yeah, my mom and dad met on a blind date.
And before that, Mom was dating Dick Martin, who is
of Rowan and Martin, which a lot of boomers know
from laughing. And they were dating but then dad, you know,
(46:09):
Dad got got it, but they were still so tight
that I don't know that I could do this. But
Dick would baby sit. My mom was a widow, so
I have she had two kids already that were before
I was born. They were already like six and ten. Yeah,
(46:31):
there he is, and he would babysit for the boys
when Mom would be on a date with Dad. How
wild is that? And when they decided to get married
and Mom told the kids that, you know, Bob is
we're getting married and he's going to be moving in.
(46:51):
You know that's tough for kids and all. Yeah, And
so Ricky, who's like whatever eight or something, says, well,
can Dick move into And Mom's like.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
WHOA, that doesn't really work that way. But he's still alive six, Yeah,
he's eighty six. Maybe you should reach out to him.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
Well, I did an episode of a show he was directing.
Lynn Redgrave had a series I can't think of the
name of a sitcom, and I did an episode on
and I went to you know, I auditioned with the
casting person, then was presented to the directors. I didn't
(47:42):
know the story, and I'm like and I'm like, mom,
what do you holding out for? But he's the one who.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
Told you no, I'm.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
In the room. And he goes, and of course I
knew who he was, right he goes, Uh, I used
to date your mom. Wow, So I don't know exactly
how he knew who that I was. That child?
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Interesting. So you're you're a child from from the.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
From Bob Clark marriage, second.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
From Bob Clark second marriage.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
Oh yeah, okay, my brothers are ten and fifteen years older.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
We're also part of the performing.
Speaker 3 (48:21):
Group, right right, right, right right? Wow, that's that's yeah.
I think you should get in touch with him. I
would love to have him on the show.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
I wish I knew how well.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
Our fingers and that will you know, law of attraction,
set the intention, the details will will come about. Yeah,
that's so cool. What other stuff do you want to
talk about that's in the book.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Well, the people that had solo careers outside of the family.
There is a chapter again with these glossy gorgeous full
page photos. They have their own chapters, like Alvin O. Ray,
who was an amazing and one of the father's guitar
(49:14):
players and one of the inventors of the steel guitar
slide guitar, My dad who was, despite his displeasure, king
of the Bee Horror Flick in the nineteen fifties. My
cousin Tina Cole was from my three sons, and she
(49:36):
was married to Robbie Douglas and she was the mother
of the triplets. And then my solo career. What's cool
about the book within the hundred years of entertainment, there
isn't a branch of it that is not in it.
From vaudeville, radio, big band, swing, pop, bop, uh jazz,
(50:02):
everything and mine, of course is video games and animation.
And so there's a chapter on me yes, and there's
a there's a small that's a double page spread from
the book that's me Wow, you really got it together, doctor,
surrounded by a lot of my characters. And there's a
(50:22):
whole chapter where I where I tell stories about Ninja Turtles,
or being the voice of Snoopy or Simba as you mentioned,
Liquid Snake in the very popular metal Gear Solid series.
Speaker 3 (50:37):
So and you've been nominated and you won an award.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
For this stuff, which, yes, a show we did a
I did a feature called Barnyard and it was spun
off into a weekly show and it was at won best.
You know, I don't know how they break it Saturday
Morning or animated series for that year. So that was lovely.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
That's cool. We're running out of time, so tell me
one more thing. Let me see. I saw something that
I wanted you to. Bob Mackie.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Aha, Yes, Bob McKie, famous costume designer in Hollywood. We
were his first series where he was head costumer, and
so that's quite a challenge, you know. He you know,
share Diana Ross, Carol Burnett, This list of superstars goes
(51:45):
on and on, but we were his first show and
you're you're dressing thirty six people every week. Now you
don't have Carol Burnett's budget. So the magic he perfer
formed dressing all those people and mixing and matching tops
to you know, top women's tops to their skirts, you know,
(52:09):
different they were all separates so that you could mix
and match him and stuff. He was amazing to work with.
I uh and we I mean, who gets to say
(52:30):
that when we were the littles, when we were kids
on that first season he made Halloween costumes for all
of us.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
Who gets this? Who gets to say they went trigger
treating and Bob mc original.
Speaker 3 (52:47):
There you go?
Speaker 1 (52:48):
You do?
Speaker 3 (52:51):
You do?
Speaker 1 (52:53):
I do well. Many years ago, my cousin said, hey,
I think I found this in my kid's dress up box.
Could this be your clown coat? And I went, oh
my god, yes it is wow. And I called Bob
and I said, you feel free to say no, but
(53:18):
this is all that remains. Can you restore it? And
not a second went by before he went absolutely, So
I brought the coat over to his where he was,
you know, his what do you call it his store whatever,
his design shop, and he put the sequence back on
(53:43):
and put the flour back on the lapels, big clown
costume and the bowler hat with the dyed pink and
orange feathers in it. I mean, it was beautiful, and
he was an amazing He is an amazing man, and
he's still here. For my fortieth birthday, he surprised me
(54:07):
with a sketch of the costume that.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
He's Oh, how beautiful. Yeah, man, he has the words
up the ying Yang totally totally crazy, and he's still alive.
He's also eighty six.
Speaker 1 (54:28):
Yeah, and he's a pistol. He is still going yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:33):
How cool is that? How cool is that? I just
I just love, you know, Hollywood, the Golden age of Hollywood. Whoops?
Okay uh one last one? Which is the Tokyo.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
Rose Ah yeah, And this I didn't know till I
was grown U. The King's Sisters were really popular during
World War Two. In fact, they had a record that
was played a record called Nighty Night featuring the solo
(55:12):
was my Aunt von And it would play on Armed
Forces radio right before lights out, and it was so
successful that Tokyo Rose would go on the air and
say in her you know, sexy, come hither thing. You know,
(55:34):
wouldn't you boys rather be home listening to Yvonne than
out here fighting the Japanese, you know, using my mom's
for demoralizing art troops. It was like, I was like,
I can't believe that's us, that's my mom's having such
a position. I would like to close with a positive.
(56:00):
I know we're like what about three minutes or something.
My parents were my mom and her siblings came up
during the depression and they were dirt poor, and at
a reunion many years later, maybe in the eighties or nineties,
my mom would she would swoon and she'd think about, Oh,
(56:21):
I remember in summertime, Daddy would take us camping and
we'd take our cow and we plant a garden and
sleep under the stars. And her older sister and I
was present for this. She sits up and she says, Alice,
we were not camping, we were homeless. Oh wow, which
(56:45):
is proof that their daddy and their mama. I get
emotional just thinking about it, did their best to put
a force field around their kids, which is such a gift.
And not everybody gets that. Not everybody has parents like that.
(57:08):
And I am so aware. It is never lost on
me my gratitude that I had this insane upbringing. None
of us, none of us have forgotten how this could
never have been. And we talk about it, you know,
especially at the home.
Speaker 3 (57:27):
Yes, gratitude, Sandwich. Gratitude is a force of life for joy.
I think that it's also free. To be grateful is
a free activity, and I promise it was it. Doctor
Wayne Dyer says, five thank yous. In the morning. Four things,
(57:48):
five things you're grateful for you will you find that
key to a magical life. I say eight because I'm
an overachiever and eight number in Chinese as the the
phone for good fortune. So thank you so much, Cam.
What a delightful hour.
Speaker 1 (58:07):
And you did such good homework, I mean wonderful being
with you. I'm going to send three kernels of corn.
I got to get your address so I can send
three kernels of corn. Surprise you with three kernels.
Speaker 3 (58:21):
That's beautiful, and you can send me your addressing. I'll
surprise you on Thanksgiving next year. All right, yeah, all right,
that's it today. If you would hold your fingers up
for me. It's all about balance, peace in peace, out world,
peace through inner piece. This is doctor Marissa reporting live
(58:46):
from my loving room and with Cam Clark. Go get
his beautiful coffee table book. King family, Thanks for joining us, and.
Speaker 13 (58:56):
Thank you, thank you giving everybody.
Speaker 3 (59:01):
Yes happy gratitude. I'll see you guys tomorrow and in
the meantime, have the best day.
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