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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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and happiness. That's why there are no headlines here. If
you are listening or watching or reading the headlines, you
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With the case of the four a's angry, aggravated, anxious,
and afraid. I don't want that. I want you waking
up amazing, which.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Is why I have topics of guests that get you
to happiness eighty eight percent of the time. Why not
one hundred percent of the time, because you know, if
you're happy hundred percent of the time, you're dead. And
I don't want dead people watching or talking. Instead, I
want you happy most of the time. So I, you know,
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bring you series as well.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And fabulous guests than today. Is absolutely no exception.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You've seen one of them before. In fact, you've seen
him Oliver my social on the Red Carpet. That's where
I met him. He was inducted into the Hall of
Fame along with you know, my co host Ricky Rebel.
But I'm gonna welcome back David Longoria. He's a Grammy
Award winning producer, trumpet virtuoso, recording artist, music innovator, and
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he brought his friend and I found out I actually
had met her before.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
She is not shy at all. She's one of a kind.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Wonderful Carol Connors also a Grammy Oscar wait for it,
Grammy Oscar.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Emmy and Golden Globe.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Nominated songwriter and winner of awards, trailblazing artist, pop and
film music icon. Please welcome to my studio, David Longoria
and Calcunner.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Good morning, Sit down, everyone, sit down. It's just embarrassing.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Good morning, doctor, morning Carol. Today, it's a great morning
because it's morning.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
It is, and the planet is din crash into each
other last night, and we have a whole new day
to laugh and love. I'm very excited about this hour
this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Enough that we are surplanting my regular Monday series. If
you're wondering, wait a minute, it's not Tuesday Talent today.
That's because we had to make this work with schedules,
and you know, I've been barking at you guys for
your mental health Mondays for a long time. So I
thought for Happy Hanukkah, we would have a special with
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these two fabulous music icons.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So what you don't know, David knows this, Carol. But
what you don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
As I start every show, which by the way, today
is show podcast number one, five hundred and thirty five,
I've been on. I forgot to change the consecutive weeks
it is now.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Hold on, it's.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Coming on the stroller seven hundred and eleven consecutive weeks,
But who's counting?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And so delighted to have you here.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So we start every show with breakfast, and I hope
you're not too hungry because there's no calories in this one,
no protein.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But you take a bite of my gratitude sandwich.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So what does that mean? Top of the butt? What
are we grateful for? When we look around us, outside
of ourselves?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Bottom of the butt? When you go to bed tonight,
I want you to look within.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And say, what do I like about myself? Because that
is the foundation of good mental health, is being able
to like yourself. Because frankly, my dear, if you can't
approve of yourself, how the fork do you expect anybody
else to? So that's what we're gonna do. So top
of the bun, I am grateful for my fantastic coffee.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That first step, I'm gonna be one with my coffee. Okay,
we're good now, David, what are you grateful for?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I am grateful for so many things it's hard to
find you want to do. But I'm going to be
grateful today for animals and all the joy that they
bring to our lives, pets, the birds when they're out
there seeing, and just to take a minute and enjoy
all the nature around us. But I'm thankful for all
of them and what they bring to our lives.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Awesome, kiro what are you grateful for? And David, maybe
you can put the volume up about that much while
Carol's talking, I.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Don't know how to put the volume up.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I know. That's why I said to David, Carol, what
are you grateful for?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
I am grateful When I woke up this morning and
every single morning that I go for this walk, I
live on top of a mountain, and this morning, for
some bizarre reason, there were four different owls hooting, and
each one hooted in a different key. You understand what
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I mean them and they don't hoot over each other,
so it's who It was so beautiful, and I realized
that just being able to walk and to listen to
these beautiful sounds of nature, because I suffer from something
called hypothusis, which is the inability to deal with everyday
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horrible sounds. So the sounds of nature, to me, they
really start my day off. And I do love a
cup of coffee. Doctor might have a quest, off.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Why until that's your beauty?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Secret to staying is just really being in touch with
nature for sure? Yeah, bottom of the button, what do
you like about yourself? So some you know, some of
us grow up with well meaning parents more mean than
well that tell us don't do your own horn.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You're not all that. And frankly, that is.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Kind of a precursor to walking around with antenna.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Who likes me? Right? Literally for the gen z on
the computer? How many likes am I getting?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And it's a horrible way to live because you're constantly
looking for validation or loving all the wrong places.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So that's why I do this exercise. I think that
the three.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Of us have pretty healthy sense of who we are,
and it's a good model for others who may not
have that.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So who would like to start?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Okay, I'll start. I'll start. What do I like about myself?
Speaker 7 (08:06):
I like that I'm open to helping other people and
I'm open to That doesn't mean I'm perfect at it,
but it does mean that if I see somebody in need,
or I seek out somebody that they need, I genuinely
find joy in helping other people.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And I know you do. David performed his song.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
That was like a coming together of different celebs for
a cause, and that's my favorite kind of celebrity, those
who use their limelight to shine it on areas that
need a little bit of light and attention.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Temporary areas of darkness is what I call it.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So yes, I do know that about David, and those
are the only kind of celebs that get on my show, by.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The way, So kudos to you, David, and to you here.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Well, I'm standing on David. It's wonderful, my love.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
We are one. We are one.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
It's very strange because both David and I have songs,
believe it or not, and we didn't know that are
very similar to each other. But I remember that I
was one of the lucky celebrities or whatever to be
able to sing on his remarkable song. It Now what
am I thankful for at the end of the day,
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I'm thankful that it that I've lived, the day that
I hope enriches others helps me get to the next day.
I do have a saying, and it's it's about life.
I mean about pursuing your dreams. And I try and
do that, and I have said it to many young
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people that have thanked me for it. Because my theory
is if you don't eat it, sleep it, think it,
drink it, need it, forget it, you have you have to.
I have laser been concentration on what you want, and
I try to live there. And I love that. I wait,
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you know that before I go to sleep, my two
little kitty cats, Music and Star snuggle up next to
me and we're like three little bugs in a rug.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh that's wonderful and beautiful. What do I like about myself?
I love the sound of laughter.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
That is like my favorite sound in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And yesterday I played the final round of a eight round,
three or four month mojong a tournament, and at that
second last table, I was making at least one of
them laugh. I've been doing stand up lately, and the
sound of his laughter just like I.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Won a bunch of hands.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I think I was just like motivated to keep them laughing.
I do love the fact that, even if it's having
to laugh about myself, I like that about myself. Now,
my husband did not think I was funny, so that's
another good reason for me to.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Laugh and make people laugh. So I love that about myself,
all right.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
And that is you know how David and I connected.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Is on the red carpet.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I've never had someone There's not one picture of me
not going well, thank you for joining us for breakfast
this morning with my very special guests in studio today,
David Longoria and Carol Connors.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I hope that.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You continue to have breakfast with me every weekday morning.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I'm here live at night on my YouTube TV channel.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Where if you free subscribe and give me the finger,
this one not the other one, you'll get an alert
every weekday morning.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
To join me for breakfast. And I promise if you
do that, you will standwich your day in the most
positive way. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And now for the topic of the day.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
The topic of the day is sitting.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
In studio today, Carol Conters and David Longoria. Who I mean,
there's we're not going to finish everything. David and I
barely finished. Actually we didn't finish that hour we were together.
So I know this is going to be no exception,
but I really want to know as much as possible
the highlights of your life, right and I know there's
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tons and tons and then this new.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Grammy, Yes, Grammy nomination.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
I always at Oscar, I mean nominated project that is
going on right now and how exciting that is and
when you're gonna hear and how that all came about?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So just a little bit to talk about today.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
So, uh, who wants to start the count of three?
Point to the point to the person you.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Want to have start one, two, three.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Well, I already interviewed you deep, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Start with Carol, and Carol, what would you say like
when you close your eyes and you bring something to
mind that makes you smile beside your cats automatically in
your professional life, what would that be.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
One of the things that touch really touched my heart
was that my mother was supposed to study in the
war second Senatorium Music Opera, and she was brought out
of Poland in nineteen thirty eight, and Hitler invaded, as
we know, in nineteen thirty nine, and the entire family
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was wiped out. But my mother always loved music, and
she made it a point to have my sister and
I studied the piano, and I think I studied when
I was seven or six or something like that. But
she would always sing all the great arias to us
from La Boheme and Madame Butterfly, on and on and on,
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and Caruso, and she loved Enrique Carusso and all these
wonderful Zio Pinzo and Mario Lanza so I grew up
to that. So as years passed, and obviously my career
happened because of phil Spector and tenoah Is to love
Him and Elvis and things went on. When I got
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to a point I was able to go to my
mother and say to my mother because she sort of
was living through me vicariously, and I said, Mother, I
have to tell you something, and she said, well what,
And I said. Placid Domingo, one of the greatest opera
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singers of our time, just recorded, of all things, a
Christmas song that I wrote that he does every single
year with the Vienna Boys Choir, called once again It's Christmas.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Time this year. Oh.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Of being able to tell my mother that it was
very important to me, and I think it was one
of the great moments of my life. And I note
my mother just started to cry, which I'm on the
verge of doing, but I'm not going to do.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Oh No, I love it when my guests cry.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Honestly, how I make up by I know, I know,
but tears on the it's in fact that they keep
our hearts soft.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
And it also tells me that your heart's open.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So go ahead and cry if you want, although you know,
I get the make up a.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Very special moment for me, and I wrote it with
Lee Holdridge and Placido ended up recording four of my
songs and one of them was quite a hit. It
was with Marie McGovern called Halfway Home and it was
from the Earthleen and it was William Holden's last film,
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If I'm Not Mistaken, and Ricky Schroeder's first. And Marie
McGovern said to me once, she said, Carol, it's very
difficult for me to sing that song because my mother
just passed away and it tells it. It is the
story of everything that I felt. So people want to
listen to it. It is It's called the Earthleen and
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the song is Halfway Home. That was sort of extended
the story, you know, from the songs of my mother.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
Yeah, I just got chosen when you told me that.
And the recognition. Folks, we have songwriter Royalty in.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Studio today live here on take my advice, I'm not
using a gip balance with Doctor Maris of the Morning
Show on casey AA, NBC News Radio and of course
live every weekday morning at nine am.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Pacific time on my YouTube TV channel for subscribe and
driven so.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Elvis Rocky and me. We have to say, what's happening to?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Uh, what's what?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
What?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Some of you may know and I didn't know the
reason why she has Elvis in there is Carol Cotter's
actually dated.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Tell you was my first boyfriend, my very very first boyfriend,
her very.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Very first boyfriend. So we have to hear about this one.
How did that happen?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
I'll tell the story, and then David has to tell
the story of how all this.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Grammy thing happened.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
When I was sixteen and a half, a young man
was dating my girlfriend Donna, and he used to come
to pick us up at school and one day he said,
I love your voice. I'm going to write a song
for your voice because I was always twiddling my thumbs
and singing because my mother, as I said, was supposed
to be a singer, an opera singer. So he said,
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but you have to do you have ten dollars And
I said ten dollars. I'm not even seventeen years of age.
I don't even have ten cents. And he said, well,
if you can get together the ten dollars, you can
be in our singing group and I'll write you down song. Well,
The song went on to become the number one record
in the world, not just the US at that time.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
What was it.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
It was called to No No No Him is to
love Love Love him, and I do. And it was
written by Phil Specter, who went on to become the
genius of rock and roll music. Oh, one of my geniuses.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That's the guy that I asked you for ten dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Yep, ten dollars, and but I drove my parents crazy.
My father had been a jockey and he lived on
the edge, and my mother you know, like no, no, no,
and my father said, give her the ten dollars. I
was driving them nuts, so we did that. Elvis was
in Germany in nineteen This was nineteen fifty eight. You
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can all compute my age.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
He was in Germany.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
He heard the song when he said to the Memphis Mafia.
Those were all the boys that hung around him, his
cousins and everything. Translation. I love that girl's voice. I'd
love to meet her one day. He didn't know if
I looked like Dracula's daughter or Frankenstein's niece or whatever,
but he loved my voice. So one day, due to
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this creepy little guy that came up to me in
the market and said, aren't you the girl that sang
to Noah missed to love him. I said yes, I
was holding a carton of milk, and he said, Elvis
would love to meet you. Dropped the milk and said,
right of course, sir. Well sure enough. About two weeks later,
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the phone rings and it's this creepy little guy. I
didn't even know if he was a serial killer, but
I had given him my phone number. You didn't do
that in those days. And he called and my mother went,
Annett all my real name an Elvis Presley, placed it
on the phone the box to taught to you. I
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went to Elvis's house. He was like this beautiful cat
and I was like a mouse. And he came up
to me finally and he said, so, why didn't inter
grew to a translation. So what you named the group
the Teddy Bears? And I thought, oh my god, it
is Elvis Presley and I went, just want to be
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your dead herdie bear. And that started our love affair.
I went with him for nine months, stay friends with
him until the end. He can. He was so happy
for me, for Rocky, and I believe that if he
would have done a Star as board, which he was offered.
He would have he would have been nominated for an
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Oscar because he loved acting, and I believed it would
have saved his life.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh yeah, wow, that's.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Elvis in me, which is why. And now David will
take it from me.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Here, I have no idea where to go.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
You have to tell now it came about. Oh absolutely,
if that's okay, I mean.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
You've won it.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
I've only been nominated.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Well, we're working on it.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
In the early times of knowing Carol, I heard all
the stories and I said, you definitely have to be
telling your story in the book.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
And she said to me, well, I've.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Been working on the book for a while now, and
so as soon as the book was done, I waited
for that because I wanted.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
To hear these stories firsthand.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
And then I said, well, you know what you need
to do is you need to make an audiobook out
of this. And you said, I don't know, that's a
lot of work. I said, well, if we make an
audio book, a lot more people will be exposed to
it than if they have to sit down and read it.
So we figured out how to get that done. We
made the audiobook, and then we submitted it for the Grammys,
and there are so many people who fell in love
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with the story, the crazy journey this lady's men on
and and it's very compelling.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
So that's how this came about.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
And sure enough, out of all the hundreds of entries,
were one of the top five. It's been nominated for
the Grammy Award for the Best Audiobook, which is a
crazy thing, but it's it's definitely the most compelling music
story out there right now.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
And oh, Cathy, tell them about Caine.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Oh yes, of course. This is narrated by Kathy.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Garverer, who I think she's been on your show before. Yeah,
she's best known. She's a very beloved actress.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
For sure.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
She's best known as Sissy from Family Affair with Bryan
Keith and Sebastian Cabot and Bucky Jody and Missus Beasley.
So yeah, so she I just saw her the other day.
We were the three of us were in the Hollywood
Christmas pread together and.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
He played the most fabulous trumpet and everybody got to
hear him, and I mean it was just all the
Christmas carols. It was beautiful with the Salvation Army in
back of us.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Very special. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, I didn't get the invite, by the way on it,
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
And we were in a blind out that he blinged
out with beautiful his wife Letitia Rolls Royce.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Convertible mid seventies, beautiful vintage car, and we.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Went through the parade. It was just gorgeous. I mean,
people can go on line and see it. They didn't
see the picture. And we had more fun, and then
the car died.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I didn't hear about that.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
It lasted since the mid seventies, but it finished at
the at.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
The It made it through the.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Entire parade, and then it kicked the bucket.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
That is, well, there's timing for you. It doesn't matter.
He made it through the That was the most important thing, right.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Absolutely absolutely. I also have a documentary that is coming
out based on the book that I wrote with Steve Berdsman,
thanks to David for sort of talking me into it,
and that is being premiered at the Palm Springs International
Film Festival. And guess what the title is, doctor m
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What do you think the title is?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Elvis roden Is talking to me? Well, I mean, why not?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Because it's true and it's incredible and my only regret
no offense to Kathy Garber.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I love her.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
She came to celebrate one of my Molestone shows and
she'll be coming on again.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
But why didn't you narrate it?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Because the way that she just did Elvis was hilarious
and says.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
What that meant?
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Is?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I mean I think that that anyways? Well maybe the.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
And I.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Yes, David kept asking me, I did the dedication to
my mother and father at that time when I when
I was doing all this, it just wasn't done. I mean,
you know, you were how dare you want to be
a songwriter for film and television? So you know, but
my parents allowed me to follow my dream and live it.
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So I did, and I did the introduction and the
two songs are on it. The song I wrote the
night that Elvis died. I was so beside myself. I
sat down at my piano and I wrote every single note,
every single word. But there were some very unique chort
changes in it. It's called you Love My Night Away,
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and David and a few other major composers have said,
very quietly, they go like this, so how did you
come up with those core changes? Carol?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
And my answer is I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
I believe that Elvis's spirit was still in the room
when I was writing the song. I truly truly believe that,
and just wonderful things have happened. But I had a
speech impediment as a child. Had there are at left,
but nobody could understand me. And I was taken out
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of school and putting a special class, and I'm a
very slow reader and I can't read phonetically because of
this trauma as a child. I would still be reading
the book today and we would not be up for
a Grammy. I just I can't. I can't do it. It's
too difficult for me.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
But the amazing thing about this is that and reflecting
on it, even though I was taken on her to
narrate her own book, there's something that's magical about the
way that Kathy.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Yes, you said that.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Yeah, And it definitely comes through when you listen to this.
It's hard to distinguish whether it's Kathy being you or
you being you because the stories are so incredible, and
she pulls it together and she added a lot to this.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Oh really, but she doesn't imitate all this.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I can do that.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, Well, he asked you Yeah, if I had been
any part of that production, I would have insisted because
maybe you're your whole background with the speech thing was
the reason why you could understand him just saying don't
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want to speak ill ill of that. I actually got
a chance to interview Priscilla on the carpet. So did
you ever have any kind of contact with her or.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
She's not only was my neighbor because after rock I
bought my house and and you know, before Rocky I
made five hundred dollars up front. But after Rocky I
bought my house in Beverly Hills and she lived down.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
The street for me.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
But I did her first movie. She had the movie
about bringing the young girl out of Cambodia called Love
Is Forever and Laura Brannigan sang the song, and it
was Priscilla's first movie. So we talked about Elvis and
you know, I mean I he had when I went
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with Elvis, which was in nineteen sixty four, romantically, not
that you know, because I stayed friends, but she she
had they had met in nineteen fifty and fifteen, eight
and nine, but they had not gotten married. When when
you know, I was I was a girlfriend, he was
(29:59):
He had a lot of for girlfriends, but he was
my first, very very first love.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Mmm. So without getting X rated, what were the kinds
of dates that you went on?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
He's he like Hefner, who was a very good friend
of mine. They didn't like to go out. There's a
word for it, that netrophilia or something. I can't think
of the words.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
That's different, No, I know, but but you yeah, I
know that that. I know, speech of betterment, you know.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Alert.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
He didn't like to go out. He liked to bring
everything in. So we would spend lots of time with
he and the Memphis Mafia and really you know.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
In bel Air, no.
Speaker 11 (30:57):
Like Memphis like mafia, like like Italian mafia.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Memphis Mafia.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
That's with all the boys. That was the nickname young men. Yeah,
his posse, they were called the Memphis Mafia.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I was like, what.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I've learned all kinds of new things, but that one,
oh wow? And and was it true about like I
mean I heard stories that he would have at the
near the end because he was gained a lot of weight,
probably depression, all of the food addiction stuff, and have like.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Cheeseburgers thrown over the wall.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I somehow heard that somewhere so that because no one
was going to give him any food that was bad
for him, he liked cheeseburgers.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I heard, is that true?
Speaker 5 (31:58):
At the very end, I saw him at the last
time that he was during that last period, when he
was at the International at the Hilton in Las Vegas sixteen,
and I don't want to tell you what I saw.
I really don't. I may have talked about it in
(32:21):
the book, but it was so different from the Elvis
because I watched him over the years, you know, deteriorate
help wise. And when I first went with him, he
didn't drink anything but water, and he tapped his feet
his foot quite a bit. But in the end he
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was with Ginger, that was his last girlfriend, and I
was there and I remember leaving the penthouse and saying
and being because I'm not I don't like the word psychic,
but I really sense things, and I said, he's really
ill and something is going to happen. And very shortly after.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
That m m hm.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
You alluded to if he had had.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
The success in acting that he deserved, or was you know,
able to be recognized for that, he would not have.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Died.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Speak to that for me, he loved, like James Dean
and Marlon Brando. And if you I think, David, you
know what I mean too. If you watch some of
his earlier some of the movies, not the fluffy puppy ones,
but the ones you saw moments of really intense acting,
(33:50):
you and far between, because Colonel Parker always put him
in these, you know, nonsensical type movies. So you're earned.
I'm going to use that word. He yearned to be
respected as an actor. And Tya Schier, you know who
(34:12):
did Rocky because we're very good friends. And Diane Warren,
who thinks I'm a trailblazer I wish, of course, I
call her the goat. But all three of us believed
that if he would have done A Star is Born,
that he would have gotten nominated. And I do not
think he would have won, but I think it would
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have saved his life. He's so yearned for that respect
and that he was the greatest performer, incredible musician. That
was something that eluded him.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
There's one thing, there's one thing that you mentioned that
he probably wouldn't have won, because you're saying that he
was up against the movie that you do music and
it wasn't because of his acting abilities. I think he
was a Marlos actor. He just wasn't given the opportunities
to do a serious role and that's what he wanted
to dig his teeth any more.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
But the reason that he might not.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
Have won that year because you know, the politics and showbiz,
but the year that he would have done the Stars for.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
He was up against Rocky and we walked away with
practically every single award. You know, we were just blowing
him out of the you know, it was what can
I tell you the year of the year, year of.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Rocky, and I have to say, We've made the strong
connection with Elvis and now I'm going to give you
the strong connection to Rocky.
Speaker 9 (35:39):
As I said earlier, we're in songwriter royalty.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
That Carol is.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
The co writer of one of the most besides Thriller,
I would say, one of the most recognizable music themes,
which is going to fly now. So that's why I
put a behind your posts. I don't know if you
saw it for the promo for this show, is that
I put it actually on the on the promo, So
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I mean that is that is truly amazing and this
is why, uh, you know, Carol well, it's not why
Carol's here, but why. I'm grateful to David that you have,
you know, have encouraged Carol. She's had a great career,
she's done a lot of my great things, and now
(36:29):
she's in. You know, I'm not gonna ask you how old,
because your ageless has to take ageless.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
And and I'm not telling you my age.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
I'm not gonna have it.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
I'm not gonna have before. Once said to me Carol,
if a woman will tell you her age, she will
tell you anything. Therefore I tell nothing.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
So Carol, I'm in your camp. And I say, better
to be thought a fool than to open your mouth
and confirm it, Better to be thought young than to
open your mouth and disconfirm it.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Brilliant, Thank you live.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
So I don't know either, how I.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
Said to my best friend Barbie Benton. She said, you
know she was in love with you after his life
And she said, well, you know we're getting older. And
I said, Barbie, Barbie, if it's similar to what you
just said, doctor, and if you think old, you are
going to be old. If you think young, you will
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stay young.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Go that to my knees. I don't know, Oh, I
believe that.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
I believe that it's just blind.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
You do not you do not act, look or feel
your age. For sure. I did look it up, and
I you know, it's amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
The only the only thing is it away is your
u discomfort with technology.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Yes and to no no no. And if people know
that song, they can figure it out.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah. Yeah, but I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
I was going to say, there's something kind of funny
about my relationship with Carol because when UH, I had
known her for a little while before I figured out
that she was the voice of the Teddy Bears UH
in nineteen fifty eight when that song came out, and
a few years later, when I was born, my mother
sang that song to.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Me, and.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
That was a kitty cat I'm sorry that star who
thinks he's a star, Clear he is a star.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
But my mom would sing this very song.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
It's the only song she ever sang to me when
I was little, and all the way up to I
was five or six years old, I heard she sang
that song to me all the time, and so my
only knowledge of that song was my mom saying it.
And then later when I saw the title of the
song that Carol first sang with Phil Specter. I thought,
I'm going to look that up. It sounds so familiar,
and I looked it up and that's the song. How
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ironic that is that I'm friends with the lady who
was the voice originally of that, and it's kind of interesting.
You know what else is ironic? And this is completely
it's not off topic. It'll sound like it is. When
I was on the show the last time, I played
Happy Birthday on my trumpet to your ninety six year.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Old bonus Dad, bonus Dad, and.
Speaker 7 (39:35):
There was a cat that was visiting in the studio
and I let the cat in and I wasn't paying
attention to it, but right when I was getting ready
to play, the cat did exactly what Carol's cat just did.
And it's just a flashback to me.
Speaker 9 (39:49):
So all of this is hashtag accidental not accidental.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
I called what pop moments.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Watcot, which is what are the chances of that?
Speaker 5 (40:03):
Love it?
Speaker 3 (40:07):
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Speaker 9 (40:20):
We'll be right back with David Mongoria and Carol Conters.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
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Speaker 3 (40:45):
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Speaker 3 (41:06):
Now I'm so grateful.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
They said I wouldn't last a year because I do
not talk about headlines, only heartlines, and yet thirteen and
a half years later, I'm still here every weekday morning.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
So delighted to have you tuning in. Those of you
who are driving a.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
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songwriter Royalty. Both of them are up for Grammy nominations
this year.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
We're gonna wiggle our fingers that they win. I would
love to see that. There you go.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I actually had Jafar Jacks on my show years back,
and he's the star of the Michael biopic. So I
have really good feelings about stuff as well. I don't
like the words I get guither, Carol, but I have
you know, just now, when you were talking too about
(42:20):
Elvis and his you know what would have maybe changed
the course of his life, literally a siren went by,
and David, I don't know if that happened in our interview,
but whenever a siren goes.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
By, that is the truth, you know.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
So that went by while you were talking about Elvis,
and it reminds me of.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
It's so sad, you know.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Here he is incredibly talented for his music, right as
in the parallel I'm going to make his Barbara streisand
she her voice to me is just gold right, and
it's and and her talent and her recognition for singing
(43:06):
and music, and yet her love was also acting, and
part of her disappointment.
Speaker 9 (43:15):
Is that she wasn't recorded.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
And so the parallel there is one hundred percent. But
it's almost like it's heartbreaking because you have talent in
this particular area, but.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
If it's not what you value.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
And I call that the difference between professional mastery and
personal mastery.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
If you can't get a handle.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Or soothe yourself and love yourself right and not have
that imposter syndrome or fear of failure, fear of success
or all those critical voices in your head that say
you're not enough.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
Unless you have this, then you don't have mastery. Right.
Speaker 9 (43:58):
You've got to have that internal sense of.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Hey, I'm not perfect, but I'm really good at this
or I you know, I say I'm eighty eight percent
fabulous and twelve percent of the time I step in
it and it.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Ain't pretty right.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
So but it's okay, Like I I have desires, but
I know things that I'm good at and things that
I'm not good at, right, and that the most important
person is themselves. So yeah, it's super sad, super sad,
and I'm sorry for your loss in particular, Carol. But
I know he's not lost. He's singing and tapping, you know,
(44:36):
and sending love over from there. I think the cats
are the are the you know, reminder of that.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
So there you go. And I'm allergic, ads, but I'm
far enough away to you.
Speaker 5 (44:50):
But David, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
The what did you go up? I didn't know that?
Or things that surprised you in this project.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
Oh, it was such a long list. It was crazy.
Speaker 7 (45:07):
Around every corner, there's some other new facts and figures
about how things happened. And you know, sometimes you get
kind of we're influenced by the Internet and the stories
on Wikipedia and everything else and on the news reports
that we hear. But when you start hearing things from
people who were there in the room at the time,
it's very fascinating. And that I would say, from cover
(45:30):
to cover, this is a book that is enlightening in
so many ways, and it's hard to believe that one
person's life could have gone from here to hear, to hear,
to hear to hear. And it all pivoted on meeting
Phil Spector, like the probably the craziest person in music
of our lifetimes, but he also was brilliant.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
He noted he.
Speaker 7 (45:52):
Saw something in Carol's voice and in her spirit that
that plus ten dollars.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
People that hit record and get over that one.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
He got the math right.
Speaker 7 (46:02):
So ten dollars was a make or break for Carol
having a career in like this illustrious life Suab Live
and you know, it's just it's it's amazing as a
consumer and as a as a reader or a listener
that this kind of a thing happened. And one other
thing that I noticed that when in this was that
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she was one of the first witnesses in the O. J.
Simpson trial. Like, how crazy is that? From here to
here to hear?
Speaker 5 (46:29):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (46:29):
Yeah, by the way, the O J. Simpson trial. Here
you are on national TV and testifying, and you've known O. J.
Simpson for a long time through through charity things and
entertainment things.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Wow, that that is new.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
But I have to pull this up really quick because
I've heard you talk about I have never looked at him.
Speaker 9 (46:48):
And point you you were not kidding.
Speaker 3 (46:52):
I just lost it. Where did it go?
Speaker 4 (46:55):
I can describe it? He had big hair, he changed
all the time.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
That is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 9 (47:03):
He that is I mean, how tall was he or short?
Speaker 3 (47:07):
Right?
Speaker 5 (47:08):
It was about five six or seven? He was tiny.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
He looked like I would and yet he was brilliant, right.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
Beyond brilliant, I mean he was he You know, I
don't use the word genius a lot. I just don't
use it, but I believe that as a man of music.
Phil Spector was one hundred plus. As a human being,
he was more like a minus zero. I mean, all
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his demons and all his anger, and his father committed
suicide and all the things his mother was. All I
remember is when I used to go to the house,
which I would take the bus because I couldn't drive.
I was too young, and.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Have your money anymore. He took your ten dollars.
Speaker 5 (47:58):
Yeah, we were poor at the time. But I remember
that his sister and his mother were always screaming, screaming.
There was so much noise and anger in that house.
And I think the more successful that Phil became and
people realized that he was a hit maker, he was
(48:19):
a starmaker, that he just couldn't get past all the
all the demons that had lived with inside of him.
Speaker 9 (48:28):
Well, you know, there is a very fine line.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
I did two years with chronically metal patients I have.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
My initial route was to do a PhD in clinical
and those were the.
Speaker 3 (48:40):
Best and worst two years of my life because it
taught me.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
The very fine line between you know, brilliance and insanity.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
Right, Yes, so there you go, the living embodiment. But
let's go back to the what were David the other
cool thing. I have a really good married but my
recall sucks.
Speaker 7 (49:06):
Okay, the condo and Bundy and all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
You were on the stand, what were you? Were a
character witness for him?
Speaker 5 (49:19):
I was with I was at the dinner the night before,
the twenty five thousand dollars dinner.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
I didn't pay for that.
Speaker 5 (49:26):
I had trouble with the ten dollars, let alone twenty
five thousand. But but I was at that dinner and
it was for friends of Sheba, and there were these
three little ladies and they said they knew I knew OJ.
And they said, oh, can we get a picture with OJ?
So I went up to OJ and I said is
(49:47):
it okay? And he said, oh, Carol, you look so beautiful.
He also owned He and Nicole owned Abyssinian cats.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
My kitty cat.
Speaker 5 (49:56):
You could own an Abyssinian because they're dander it is
that of a wildcat and not of a cat cat.
So we were talking about everything, and he took the picture.
There were only three pictures taken that night, and I
was with the little girl and the ladies that were
shorter than I was, and I'm pretty tiny because my
(50:16):
dad was a jockey. That there were only three pictures
taken that night, so I ended up being I don't
want to say character. It was a character. There's a
word for it, and I can't dere. I can't think
of the word.
Speaker 13 (50:33):
Like a winter, a demeanor, witness.
Speaker 5 (50:40):
And you know when I said, I said to I'll
never forget this. I said to Oj that night, I said,
O Ju. He said, oh, you look so beautiful and
blah blah blah. I mean, people can look up the
picture on the internet. And he said I said to him,
how how how are you fine? I said, well, how
(51:01):
are your Abyssinian cats? And I'll never forget the sound
of his voice and the way he looked at me.
He didn't say, oh, they've all passed away or Nicole
and I don't have them anymore. He said they're all dead.
It was so chilling. And I said something stupid like
(51:23):
what how Nicole And he said, she's fine, She's fine.
He didn't say anything else. I for a long time
did not believe that he had committed the crime. I
couldn't because I just couldn't, and I had known him
a long time. I flew back with him on the
MGM Grand yet once, but and we sat and talked
(51:47):
for five hours. But after the DNA, which was the
first time that they had really very checked. I think
it was was the attorney that's the picture, that's well,
that's one of the little ladies.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Yeah, I see them, they are.
Speaker 5 (52:06):
But after the DNA, how could you? How could you
think anything else?
Speaker 3 (52:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (52:16):
And I had to testify and it was I you know,
I remember that I wrote on my my hand s,
which meant shut up. If they say that word, what
do they always say? They say? Now, there are two
words that they say to stay right. So I had
to write so I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 5 (52:43):
Well, that is hilarious, Carol, Judge Ito, I'll never forget this.
I mean you can see it online. I mean he
stopped the trial to congratulate me for the for the oss.
Oh wow, yeo, I mean it was. It was just horrible.
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I had and I when I left the stand, he
went to touch me because we had been friends, and
the Marshall.
Speaker 4 (53:17):
Took his hand aids and don't touch it.
Speaker 7 (53:20):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
That's uh.
Speaker 5 (53:23):
It was not something I want to remember.
Speaker 3 (53:26):
But yeah, I justify.
Speaker 5 (53:29):
There was nothing I could do.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (53:32):
You know I love this picture with picture with let's see,
can you see it?
Speaker 2 (53:38):
The one with the Rocky with Sylvester I do.
Speaker 5 (53:44):
I can imitate him too, a little gil doctor M
are you laughing?
Speaker 3 (53:50):
I am still.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Laughing right now, because again, once again you know the
the value of that early speech impediment allows.
Speaker 13 (54:00):
You to figure out where's phonetically and I was terrible
in French and also what was the other one in Spanish?
Speaker 5 (54:11):
But I can imitate people and animals.
Speaker 3 (54:15):
So much so what can we do?
Speaker 11 (54:19):
Obviously, if you're a nominating member and I do know
because of Ricky Rebel that I do have Grammy nominated
Grammy nominating members from pet Vote, So definitely vote Vote Vote.
Speaker 7 (54:34):
Category is best Audiobook because this is the best audiobook
and it's and what's exciting is this, this is this
is a year that there's the best audiobook that involves
a music icon who is telling music stories about things
that uh have empowered women, particularly Carol. One of the
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facts about Carol is that she was the first voice
of a band in the rock role era. And we
didn't have that until Carol's voice came out there.
Speaker 14 (55:06):
Yay, yay, sure you're you're a pioneer in so many
different ways, and so for that, I already gave David
this award, but I haven't given it to you.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
It's Doctor Marissa's.
Speaker 9 (55:23):
Beneficial Presence on the planet. Award goes to carol' connor.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
Thank you for all that you've done and all the
insight that you've brought on some incredibly you know, household
named people who we only we only hear the either
fabricated or you know, I don't know what it is
the obsession that people seem to have to take people
down that doesn't happen on the show as a as
(56:00):
a rule. So so grateful that I was able to
get it to you know, the whole story, not the
whole story, but at least enough that I'm sure you
all need to go get the audio book and have
a listen to it so that you can truly appreciate
the lives of these people that we've only seen on
(56:22):
from someone who's actually lived and uh, and I know
there's like a thousand thousands of more, but thank you
so much, Carol.
Speaker 5 (56:33):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (56:35):
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (56:35):
I think you're absolutely endearing and brilliant, and I just
love the way you talk and your little wonderful isms
of you know, of life are so important, and you know,
I hope people love the book, the audio book, and
also the documentary that's coming out next year. You can
see the Spring Festival and in Miami.
Speaker 3 (56:58):
And blah blah blah, I'll meet you that maybe I'll
meet you there.
Speaker 7 (57:02):
Oh yeah, and your whole audience come on and meet yeah.
Speaker 3 (57:07):
Yeah, because it's.
Speaker 5 (57:09):
The premiere of the documentary. It's going to be January third.
I'll be there the third, the fourth, and I think
the fifth.
Speaker 3 (57:20):
Actually, wow, that's soon.
Speaker 1 (57:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (57:23):
And then I go on to we're doing a project
that looks like for Malaysia. I had written the music
for the country many many years ago from Malaysia. It
had gone on to become the theme song for eight
years and one Awards, And now they want us to
because because of President Trump landing there about a month
ago and they played the theme from Rocky I got
(57:45):
a call from them, of all things, and now it
looks like we're doing a project for Sarahwak, which is
the gateway to Borneo. So it's right now. I'm very
I'm very thrilled that somebody said to me, well, how
do you feel now? And I said, if everything you
(58:07):
ever dreamed of, wanted, needed, wish for, hope for was
coming to before your eyes. Once again. You don't have
the right to become.
Speaker 3 (58:17):
Unhappy, beautifully said, we're out of time. Can you hold
up your peace fingers for me? It's all about balance.
Speaker 2 (58:25):
Peace in peace, out world, peace through inner peace. This
is doctor Borrissa reporting live with the amazing Carol Connor
and David Longoria. I'm so grateful to have had you on.
Now go and have the best day ever.
Speaker 3 (58:44):
I'll see y'all. Carl Hey you.
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And fabulous guests than today. Is absolutely no exception.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You've seen one of them before. In fact, you've seen
him Oliver my social on the Red Carpet. That's where
I met him. He was inducted into the Hall of
Fame along with you know, my co host Ricky Rebel.
But I'm gonna welcome back David Longoria. He's a Grammy
Award winning producer, trumpet virtuoso, recording artist, music innovator, and
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he brought his friend and I found out I actually
had met her before.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
She is not shy at all. She's one of a kind.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Wonderful Carol Connors also a Grammy Oscar wait for it,
Grammy Oscar.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Emmy and Golden Globe.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Nominated songwriter and winner of awards, trailblazing artist, pop and
film music icon. Please welcome to my studio, David Longoria
and Calcunner.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Good morning, Sit down, everyone, sit down. It's just embarrassing.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Good morning, doctor, morning Carol. Today, it's a great morning
because it's morning.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
It is, and the planet is din crash into each
other last night, and we have a whole new day
to laugh and love. I'm very excited about this hour
this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Enough that we are surplanting my regular Monday series. If
you're wondering, wait a minute, it's not Tuesday Talent today.
That's because we had to make this work with schedules,
and you know, I've been barking at you guys for
your mental health Mondays for a long time. So I
thought for Happy Hanukkah, we would have a special with
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these two fabulous music icons.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So what you don't know, David knows this, Carol. But
what you don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
As I start every show, which by the way, today
is show podcast number one, five hundred and thirty five,
I've been on. I forgot to change the consecutive weeks
it is now.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Hold on, it's.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Coming on the stroller seven hundred and eleven consecutive weeks,
But who's counting?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And so delighted to have you here.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So we start every show with breakfast, and I hope
you're not too hungry because there's no calories in this one,
no protein.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But you take a bite of my gratitude sandwich.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So what does that mean? Top of the butt? What
are we grateful for? When we look around us, outside
of ourselves?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Bottom of the butt? When you go to bed tonight,
I want you to look within.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And say, what do I like about myself? Because that
is the foundation of good mental health, is being able
to like yourself. Because frankly, my dear, if you can't
approve of yourself, how the fork do you expect anybody
else to? So that's what we're gonna do. So top
of the bun, I am grateful for my fantastic coffee.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That first step, I'm gonna be one with my coffee. Okay,
we're good now, David, what are you grateful for?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I am grateful for so many things it's hard to
find you want to do. But I'm going to be
grateful today for animals and all the joy that they
bring to our lives, pets, the birds when they're out
there seeing, and just to take a minute and enjoy
all the nature around us. But I'm thankful for all
of them and what they bring to our lives.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Awesome, kiro what are you grateful for? And David, maybe
you can put the volume up about that much while
Carol's talking, I.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Don't know how to put the volume up.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I know. That's why I said to David, Carol, what
are you grateful for?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
I am grateful When I woke up this morning and
every single morning that I go for this walk, I
live on top of a mountain, and this morning, for
some bizarre reason, there were four different owls hooting, and
each one hooted in a different key. You understand what
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I mean them and they don't hoot over each other,
so it's who It was so beautiful, and I realized
that just being able to walk and to listen to
these beautiful sounds of nature, because I suffer from something
called hypothusis, which is the inability to deal with everyday
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horrible sounds. So the sounds of nature, to me, they
really start my day off. And I do love a
cup of coffee. Doctor might have a quest, off.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Why until that's your beauty?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Secret to staying is just really being in touch with
nature for sure? Yeah, bottom of the button, what do
you like about yourself? So some you know, some of
us grow up with well meaning parents more mean than
well that tell us don't do your own horn.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You're not all that. And frankly, that is.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Kind of a precursor to walking around with antenna.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Who likes me? Right? Literally for the gen z on
the computer? How many likes am I getting?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And it's a horrible way to live because you're constantly
looking for validation or loving all the wrong places.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So that's why I do this exercise. I think that
the three.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Of us have pretty healthy sense of who we are,
and it's a good model for others who may not
have that.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So who would like to start?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Okay, I'll start. I'll start. What do I like about myself?
Speaker 7 (08:06):
I like that I'm open to helping other people and
I'm open to That doesn't mean I'm perfect at it,
but it does mean that if I see somebody in need,
or I seek out somebody that they need, I genuinely
find joy in helping other people.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And I know you do. David performed his song.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
That was like a coming together of different celebs for
a cause, and that's my favorite kind of celebrity, those
who use their limelight to shine it on areas that
need a little bit of light and attention.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Temporary areas of darkness is what I call it.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So yes, I do know that about David, and those
are the only kind of celebs that get on my show, by.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The way, So kudos to you, David, and to you here.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Well, I'm standing on David. It's wonderful, my love.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
We are one. We are one.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
It's very strange because both David and I have songs,
believe it or not, and we didn't know that are
very similar to each other. But I remember that I
was one of the lucky celebrities or whatever to be
able to sing on his remarkable song. It Now what
am I thankful for at the end of the day,
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I'm thankful that it that I've lived, the day that
I hope enriches others helps me get to the next day.
I do have a saying, and it's it's about life.
I mean about pursuing your dreams. And I try and
do that, and I have said it to many young
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people that have thanked me for it. Because my theory
is if you don't eat it, sleep it, think it,
drink it, need it, forget it, you have you have to.
I have laser been concentration on what you want, and
I try to live there. And I love that. I wait,
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you know that before I go to sleep, my two
little kitty cats, Music and Star snuggle up next to
me and we're like three little bugs in a rug.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh that's wonderful and beautiful. What do I like about myself?
I love the sound of laughter.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
That is like my favorite sound in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And yesterday I played the final round of a eight round,
three or four month mojong a tournament, and at that
second last table, I was making at least one of
them laugh. I've been doing stand up lately, and the
sound of his laughter just like I.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Won a bunch of hands.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I think I was just like motivated to keep them laughing.
I do love the fact that, even if it's having
to laugh about myself, I like that about myself. Now,
my husband did not think I was funny, so that's
another good reason for me to.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Laugh and make people laugh. So I love that about myself,
all right.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
And that is you know how David and I connected.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Is on the red carpet.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I've never had someone There's not one picture of me
not going well, thank you for joining us for breakfast
this morning with my very special guests in studio today,
David Longoria and Carol Connors.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I hope that.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You continue to have breakfast with me every weekday morning.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
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Speaker 3 (12:03):
To join me for breakfast. And I promise if you
do that, you will standwich your day in the most
positive way. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And now for the topic of the day.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
The topic of the day is sitting.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
In studio today, Carol Conters and David Longoria. Who I mean,
there's we're not going to finish everything. David and I
barely finished. Actually we didn't finish that hour we were together.
So I know this is going to be no exception,
but I really want to know as much as possible
the highlights of your life, right and I know there's
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tons and tons and then this new.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Grammy, Yes, Grammy nomination.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
I always at Oscar, I mean nominated project that is
going on right now and how exciting that is and
when you're gonna hear and how that all came about?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So just a little bit to talk about today.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
So, uh, who wants to start the count of three?
Point to the point to the person you.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Want to have start one, two, three.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Well, I already interviewed you deep, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Start with Carol, and Carol, what would you say like
when you close your eyes and you bring something to
mind that makes you smile beside your cats automatically in
your professional life, what would that be.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
One of the things that touch really touched my heart
was that my mother was supposed to study in the
war second Senatorium Music Opera, and she was brought out
of Poland in nineteen thirty eight, and Hitler invaded, as
we know, in nineteen thirty nine, and the entire family
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was wiped out. But my mother always loved music, and
she made it a point to have my sister and
I studied the piano, and I think I studied when
I was seven or six or something like that. But
she would always sing all the great arias to us
from La Boheme and Madame Butterfly, on and on and on,
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and Caruso, and she loved Enrique Carusso and all these
wonderful Zio Pinzo and Mario Lanza so I grew up
to that. So as years passed, and obviously my career
happened because of phil Spector and tenoah Is to love
Him and Elvis and things went on. When I got
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to a point I was able to go to my
mother and say to my mother because she sort of
was living through me vicariously, and I said, Mother, I
have to tell you something, and she said, well what,
And I said. Placid Domingo, one of the greatest opera
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singers of our time, just recorded, of all things, a
Christmas song that I wrote that he does every single
year with the Vienna Boys Choir, called once again It's Christmas.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Time this year. Oh.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Of being able to tell my mother that it was
very important to me, and I think it was one
of the great moments of my life. And I note
my mother just started to cry, which I'm on the
verge of doing, but I'm not going to do.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Oh No, I love it when my guests cry.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Honestly, how I make up by I know, I know,
but tears on the it's in fact that they keep
our hearts soft.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
And it also tells me that your heart's open.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So go ahead and cry if you want, although you know,
I get the make up a.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Very special moment for me, and I wrote it with
Lee Holdridge and Placido ended up recording four of my
songs and one of them was quite a hit. It
was with Marie McGovern called Halfway Home and it was
from the Earthleen and it was William Holden's last film,
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If I'm Not Mistaken, and Ricky Schroeder's first. And Marie
McGovern said to me once, she said, Carol, it's very
difficult for me to sing that song because my mother
just passed away and it tells it. It is the
story of everything that I felt. So people want to
listen to it. It is It's called the Earthleen and
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the song is Halfway Home. That was sort of extended
the story, you know, from the songs of my mother.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
Yeah, I just got chosen when you told me that.
And the recognition. Folks, we have songwriter Royalty in.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Studio today live here on take my advice, I'm not
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Show on casey AA, NBC News Radio and of course
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Speaker 3 (17:29):
Pacific time on my YouTube TV channel for subscribe and
driven so.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Elvis Rocky and me. We have to say, what's happening to?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Uh, what's what?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
What?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Some of you may know and I didn't know the
reason why she has Elvis in there is Carol Cotter's
actually dated.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Tell you was my first boyfriend, my very very first boyfriend,
her very.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Very first boyfriend. So we have to hear about this one.
How did that happen?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
I'll tell the story, and then David has to tell
the story of how all this.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Grammy thing happened.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
When I was sixteen and a half, a young man
was dating my girlfriend Donna, and he used to come
to pick us up at school and one day he said,
I love your voice. I'm going to write a song
for your voice because I was always twiddling my thumbs
and singing because my mother, as I said, was supposed
to be a singer, an opera singer. So he said,
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but you have to do you have ten dollars And
I said ten dollars. I'm not even seventeen years of age.
I don't even have ten cents. And he said, well,
if you can get together the ten dollars, you can
be in our singing group and I'll write you down song. Well,
The song went on to become the number one record
in the world, not just the US at that time.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
What was it.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
It was called to No No No Him is to
love Love Love him, and I do. And it was
written by Phil Specter, who went on to become the
genius of rock and roll music. Oh, one of my geniuses.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That's the guy that I asked you for ten dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Yep, ten dollars, and but I drove my parents crazy.
My father had been a jockey and he lived on
the edge, and my mother you know, like no, no, no,
and my father said, give her the ten dollars. I
was driving them nuts, so we did that. Elvis was
in Germany in nineteen This was nineteen fifty eight. You
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can all compute my age.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
He was in Germany.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
He heard the song when he said to the Memphis Mafia.
Those were all the boys that hung around him, his
cousins and everything. Translation. I love that girl's voice. I'd
love to meet her one day. He didn't know if
I looked like Dracula's daughter or Frankenstein's niece or whatever,
but he loved my voice. So one day, due to
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this creepy little guy that came up to me in
the market and said, aren't you the girl that sang
to Noah missed to love him. I said yes, I
was holding a carton of milk, and he said, Elvis
would love to meet you. Dropped the milk and said,
right of course, sir. Well sure enough. About two weeks later,
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the phone rings and it's this creepy little guy. I
didn't even know if he was a serial killer, but
I had given him my phone number. You didn't do
that in those days. And he called and my mother went,
Annett all my real name an Elvis Presley, placed it
on the phone the box to taught to you. I
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went to Elvis's house. He was like this beautiful cat
and I was like a mouse. And he came up
to me finally and he said, so, why didn't inter
grew to a translation. So what you named the group
the Teddy Bears? And I thought, oh my god, it
is Elvis Presley and I went, just want to be
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your dead herdie bear. And that started our love affair.
I went with him for nine months, stay friends with
him until the end. He can. He was so happy
for me, for Rocky, and I believe that if he
would have done a Star as board, which he was offered.
He would have he would have been nominated for an
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Oscar because he loved acting, and I believed it would
have saved his life.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh yeah, wow, that's.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Elvis in me, which is why. And now David will
take it from me.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Here, I have no idea where to go.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
You have to tell now it came about. Oh absolutely,
if that's okay, I mean.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
You've won it.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
I've only been nominated.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Well, we're working on it.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
In the early times of knowing Carol, I heard all
the stories and I said, you definitely have to be
telling your story in the book.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
And she said to me, well, I've.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Been working on the book for a while now, and
so as soon as the book was done, I waited
for that because I wanted.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
To hear these stories firsthand.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
And then I said, well, you know what you need
to do is you need to make an audiobook out
of this. And you said, I don't know, that's a
lot of work. I said, well, if we make an
audio book, a lot more people will be exposed to
it than if they have to sit down and read it.
So we figured out how to get that done. We
made the audiobook, and then we submitted it for the Grammys,
and there are so many people who fell in love
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with the story, the crazy journey this lady's men on
and and it's very compelling.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
So that's how this came about.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
And sure enough, out of all the hundreds of entries,
were one of the top five. It's been nominated for
the Grammy Award for the Best Audiobook, which is a
crazy thing, but it's it's definitely the most compelling music
story out there right now.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
And oh, Cathy, tell them about Caine.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Oh yes, of course. This is narrated by Kathy.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Garverer, who I think she's been on your show before. Yeah,
she's best known. She's a very beloved actress.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
For sure.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
She's best known as Sissy from Family Affair with Bryan
Keith and Sebastian Cabot and Bucky Jody and Missus Beasley.
So yeah, so she I just saw her the other day.
We were the three of us were in the Hollywood
Christmas pread together and.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
He played the most fabulous trumpet and everybody got to
hear him, and I mean it was just all the
Christmas carols. It was beautiful with the Salvation Army in
back of us.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Very special. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, I didn't get the invite, by the way on it,
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
And we were in a blind out that he blinged
out with beautiful his wife Letitia Rolls Royce.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Convertible mid seventies, beautiful vintage car, and we.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Went through the parade. It was just gorgeous. I mean,
people can go on line and see it. They didn't
see the picture. And we had more fun, and then
the car died.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I didn't hear about that.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
It lasted since the mid seventies, but it finished at
the at.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
The It made it through the.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Entire parade, and then it kicked the bucket.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
That is, well, there's timing for you. It doesn't matter.
He made it through the That was the most important thing, right.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Absolutely absolutely. I also have a documentary that is coming
out based on the book that I wrote with Steve Berdsman,
thanks to David for sort of talking me into it,
and that is being premiered at the Palm Springs International
Film Festival. And guess what the title is, doctor m
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What do you think the title is?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Elvis roden Is talking to me? Well, I mean, why not?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Because it's true and it's incredible and my only regret
no offense to Kathy Garber.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I love her.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
She came to celebrate one of my Molestone shows and
she'll be coming on again.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
But why didn't you narrate it?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Because the way that she just did Elvis was hilarious
and says.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
What that meant?
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Is?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I mean I think that that anyways? Well maybe the.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
And I.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Yes, David kept asking me, I did the dedication to
my mother and father at that time when I when
I was doing all this, it just wasn't done. I mean,
you know, you were how dare you want to be
a songwriter for film and television? So you know, but
my parents allowed me to follow my dream and live it.
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So I did, and I did the introduction and the
two songs are on it. The song I wrote the
night that Elvis died. I was so beside myself. I
sat down at my piano and I wrote every single note,
every single word. But there were some very unique chort
changes in it. It's called you Love My Night Away,
(26:52):
and David and a few other major composers have said,
very quietly, they go like this, so how did you
come up with those core changes? Carol?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
And my answer is I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
I believe that Elvis's spirit was still in the room
when I was writing the song. I truly truly believe that,
and just wonderful things have happened. But I had a
speech impediment as a child. Had there are at left,
but nobody could understand me. And I was taken out
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of school and putting a special class, and I'm a
very slow reader and I can't read phonetically because of
this trauma as a child. I would still be reading
the book today and we would not be up for
a Grammy. I just I can't. I can't do it. It's
too difficult for me.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
But the amazing thing about this is that and reflecting
on it, even though I was taken on her to
narrate her own book, there's something that's magical about the
way that Kathy.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Yes, you said that.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Yeah, And it definitely comes through when you listen to this.
It's hard to distinguish whether it's Kathy being you or
you being you because the stories are so incredible, and
she pulls it together and she added a lot to this.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Oh really, but she doesn't imitate all this.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I can do that.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, Well, he asked you Yeah, if I had been
any part of that production, I would have insisted because
maybe you're your whole background with the speech thing was
the reason why you could understand him just saying don't
(28:43):
want to speak ill ill of that. I actually got
a chance to interview Priscilla on the carpet. So did
you ever have any kind of contact with her or.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
She's not only was my neighbor because after rock I
bought my house and and you know, before Rocky I
made five hundred dollars up front. But after Rocky I
bought my house in Beverly Hills and she lived down.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
The street for me.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
But I did her first movie. She had the movie
about bringing the young girl out of Cambodia called Love
Is Forever and Laura Brannigan sang the song, and it
was Priscilla's first movie. So we talked about Elvis and
you know, I mean I he had when I went
(29:38):
with Elvis, which was in nineteen sixty four, romantically, not
that you know, because I stayed friends, but she she
had they had met in nineteen fifty and fifteen, eight
and nine, but they had not gotten married. When when
you know, I was I was a girlfriend, he was
(29:59):
He had a lot of for girlfriends, but he was
my first, very very first love.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Mmm. So without getting X rated, what were the kinds
of dates that you went on?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
He's he like Hefner, who was a very good friend
of mine. They didn't like to go out. There's a
word for it, that netrophilia or something. I can't think
of the words.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
That's different, No, I know, but but you yeah, I
know that that. I know, speech of betterment, you know.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Alert.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
He didn't like to go out. He liked to bring
everything in. So we would spend lots of time with
he and the Memphis Mafia and really you know.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
In bel Air, no.
Speaker 11 (30:57):
Like Memphis like mafia, like like Italian mafia.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Memphis Mafia.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
That's with all the boys. That was the nickname young men. Yeah,
his posse, they were called the Memphis Mafia.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I was like, what.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I've learned all kinds of new things, but that one,
oh wow? And and was it true about like I
mean I heard stories that he would have at the
near the end because he was gained a lot of weight,
probably depression, all of the food addiction stuff, and have like.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Cheeseburgers thrown over the wall.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I somehow heard that somewhere so that because no one
was going to give him any food that was bad
for him, he liked cheeseburgers.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I heard, is that true?
Speaker 5 (31:58):
At the very end, I saw him at the last
time that he was during that last period, when he
was at the International at the Hilton in Las Vegas sixteen,
and I don't want to tell you what I saw.
I really don't. I may have talked about it in
(32:21):
the book, but it was so different from the Elvis
because I watched him over the years, you know, deteriorate
help wise. And when I first went with him, he
didn't drink anything but water, and he tapped his feet
his foot quite a bit. But in the end he
(32:42):
was with Ginger, that was his last girlfriend, and I
was there and I remember leaving the penthouse and saying
and being because I'm not I don't like the word psychic,
but I really sense things, and I said, he's really
ill and something is going to happen. And very shortly after.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
That m m hm.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
You alluded to if he had had.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
The success in acting that he deserved, or was you know,
able to be recognized for that, he would not have.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Died.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Speak to that for me, he loved, like James Dean
and Marlon Brando. And if you I think, David, you
know what I mean too. If you watch some of
his earlier some of the movies, not the fluffy puppy ones,
but the ones you saw moments of really intense acting,
(33:50):
you and far between, because Colonel Parker always put him
in these, you know, nonsensical type movies. So you're earned.
I'm going to use that word. He yearned to be
respected as an actor. And Tya Schier, you know who
(34:12):
did Rocky because we're very good friends. And Diane Warren,
who thinks I'm a trailblazer I wish, of course, I
call her the goat. But all three of us believed
that if he would have done A Star is Born,
that he would have gotten nominated. And I do not
think he would have won, but I think it would
(34:34):
have saved his life. He's so yearned for that respect
and that he was the greatest performer, incredible musician. That
was something that eluded him.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
There's one thing, there's one thing that you mentioned that
he probably wouldn't have won, because you're saying that he
was up against the movie that you do music and
it wasn't because of his acting abilities. I think he
was a Marlos actor. He just wasn't given the opportunities
to do a serious role and that's what he wanted
to dig his teeth any more.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
But the reason that he might not.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
Have won that year because you know, the politics and showbiz,
but the year that he would have done the Stars for.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
He was up against Rocky and we walked away with
practically every single award. You know, we were just blowing
him out of the you know, it was what can
I tell you the year of the year, year of.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Rocky, and I have to say, We've made the strong
connection with Elvis and now I'm going to give you
the strong connection to Rocky.
Speaker 9 (35:39):
As I said earlier, we're in songwriter royalty.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
That Carol is.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
The co writer of one of the most besides Thriller,
I would say, one of the most recognizable music themes,
which is going to fly now. So that's why I
put a behind your posts. I don't know if you
saw it for the promo for this show, is that
I put it actually on the on the promo, So
(36:07):
I mean that is that is truly amazing and this
is why, uh, you know, Carol well, it's not why
Carol's here, but why. I'm grateful to David that you have,
you know, have encouraged Carol. She's had a great career,
she's done a lot of my great things, and now
(36:29):
she's in. You know, I'm not gonna ask you how old,
because your ageless has to take ageless.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
And and I'm not telling you my age.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
I'm not gonna have it.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
I'm not gonna have before. Once said to me Carol,
if a woman will tell you her age, she will
tell you anything. Therefore I tell nothing.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
So Carol, I'm in your camp. And I say, better
to be thought a fool than to open your mouth
and confirm it, Better to be thought young than to
open your mouth and disconfirm it.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Brilliant, Thank you live.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
So I don't know either, how I.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
Said to my best friend Barbie Benton. She said, you
know she was in love with you after his life
And she said, well, you know we're getting older. And
I said, Barbie, Barbie, if it's similar to what you
just said, doctor, and if you think old, you are
going to be old. If you think young, you will
(37:41):
stay young.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Go that to my knees. I don't know, Oh, I
believe that.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
I believe that it's just blind.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
You do not you do not act, look or feel
your age. For sure. I did look it up, and
I you know, it's amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
The only the only thing is it away is your
u discomfort with technology.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Yes and to no no no. And if people know
that song, they can figure it out.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah. Yeah, but I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
I was going to say, there's something kind of funny
about my relationship with Carol because when UH, I had
known her for a little while before I figured out
that she was the voice of the Teddy Bears UH
in nineteen fifty eight when that song came out, and
a few years later, when I was born, my mother
sang that song to.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Me, and.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
That was a kitty cat I'm sorry that star who
thinks he's a star, Clear he is a star.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
But my mom would sing this very song.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
It's the only song she ever sang to me when
I was little, and all the way up to I
was five or six years old, I heard she sang
that song to me all the time, and so my
only knowledge of that song was my mom saying it.
And then later when I saw the title of the
song that Carol first sang with Phil Specter. I thought,
I'm going to look that up. It sounds so familiar,
and I looked it up and that's the song. How
(39:13):
ironic that is that I'm friends with the lady who
was the voice originally of that, and it's kind of interesting.
You know what else is ironic? And this is completely
it's not off topic. It'll sound like it is. When
I was on the show the last time, I played
Happy Birthday on my trumpet to your ninety six year.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Old bonus Dad, bonus Dad, and.
Speaker 7 (39:35):
There was a cat that was visiting in the studio
and I let the cat in and I wasn't paying
attention to it, but right when I was getting ready
to play, the cat did exactly what Carol's cat just did.
And it's just a flashback to me.
Speaker 9 (39:49):
So all of this is hashtag accidental not accidental.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
I called what pop moments.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Watcot, which is what are the chances of that?
Speaker 5 (40:03):
Love it?
Speaker 3 (40:07):
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Speaker 9 (40:20):
We'll be right back with David Mongoria and Carol Conters.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
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Speaker 3 (40:45):
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Speaker 3 (41:06):
Now I'm so grateful.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
They said I wouldn't last a year because I do
not talk about headlines, only heartlines, and yet thirteen and
a half years later, I'm still here every weekday morning.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
So delighted to have you tuning in. Those of you
who are driving a.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
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(41:45):
songwriter Royalty. Both of them are up for Grammy nominations
this year.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
We're gonna wiggle our fingers that they win. I would
love to see that. There you go.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I actually had Jafar Jacks on my show years back,
and he's the star of the Michael biopic. So I
have really good feelings about stuff as well. I don't
like the words I get guither, Carol, but I have
you know, just now, when you were talking too about
(42:20):
Elvis and his you know what would have maybe changed
the course of his life, literally a siren went by,
and David, I don't know if that happened in our interview,
but whenever a siren goes.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
By, that is the truth, you know.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
So that went by while you were talking about Elvis,
and it reminds me of.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
It's so sad, you know.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Here he is incredibly talented for his music, right as
in the parallel I'm going to make his Barbara streisand
she her voice to me is just gold right, and
it's and and her talent and her recognition for singing
(43:06):
and music, and yet her love was also acting, and
part of her disappointment.
Speaker 9 (43:15):
Is that she wasn't recorded.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
And so the parallel there is one hundred percent. But
it's almost like it's heartbreaking because you have talent in
this particular area, but.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
If it's not what you value.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
And I call that the difference between professional mastery and
personal mastery.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
If you can't get a handle.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Or soothe yourself and love yourself right and not have
that imposter syndrome or fear of failure, fear of success
or all those critical voices in your head that say
you're not enough.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
Unless you have this, then you don't have mastery. Right.
Speaker 9 (43:58):
You've got to have that internal sense of.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Hey, I'm not perfect, but I'm really good at this
or I you know, I say I'm eighty eight percent
fabulous and twelve percent of the time I step in
it and it.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Ain't pretty right.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
So but it's okay, Like I I have desires, but
I know things that I'm good at and things that
I'm not good at, right, and that the most important
person is themselves. So yeah, it's super sad, super sad,
and I'm sorry for your loss in particular, Carol. But
I know he's not lost. He's singing and tapping, you know,
(44:36):
and sending love over from there. I think the cats
are the are the you know, reminder of that.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
So there you go. And I'm allergic, ads, but I'm
far enough away to you.
Speaker 5 (44:50):
But David, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
The what did you go up? I didn't know that?
Or things that surprised you in this project.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
Oh, it was such a long list. It was crazy.
Speaker 7 (45:07):
Around every corner, there's some other new facts and figures
about how things happened. And you know, sometimes you get
kind of we're influenced by the Internet and the stories
on Wikipedia and everything else and on the news reports
that we hear. But when you start hearing things from
people who were there in the room at the time,
it's very fascinating. And that I would say, from cover
(45:30):
to cover, this is a book that is enlightening in
so many ways, and it's hard to believe that one
person's life could have gone from here to hear, to hear,
to hear to hear. And it all pivoted on meeting
Phil Spector, like the probably the craziest person in music
of our lifetimes, but he also was brilliant.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
He noted he.
Speaker 7 (45:52):
Saw something in Carol's voice and in her spirit that
that plus ten dollars.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
People that hit record and get over that one.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
He got the math right.
Speaker 7 (46:02):
So ten dollars was a make or break for Carol
having a career in like this illustrious life Suab Live
and you know, it's just it's it's amazing as a
consumer and as a as a reader or a listener
that this kind of a thing happened. And one other
thing that I noticed that when in this was that
(46:23):
she was one of the first witnesses in the O. J.
Simpson trial. Like, how crazy is that? From here to
here to hear?
Speaker 5 (46:29):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (46:29):
Yeah, by the way, the O J. Simpson trial. Here
you are on national TV and testifying, and you've known O. J.
Simpson for a long time through through charity things and
entertainment things.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Wow, that that is new.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
But I have to pull this up really quick because
I've heard you talk about I have never looked at him.
Speaker 9 (46:48):
And point you you were not kidding.
Speaker 3 (46:52):
I just lost it. Where did it go?
Speaker 4 (46:55):
I can describe it? He had big hair, he changed
all the time.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
That is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 9 (47:03):
He that is I mean, how tall was he or short?
Speaker 3 (47:07):
Right?
Speaker 5 (47:08):
It was about five six or seven? He was tiny.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
He looked like I would and yet he was brilliant, right.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
Beyond brilliant, I mean he was he You know, I
don't use the word genius a lot. I just don't
use it, but I believe that as a man of music.
Phil Spector was one hundred plus. As a human being,
he was more like a minus zero. I mean, all
(47:39):
his demons and all his anger, and his father committed
suicide and all the things his mother was. All I
remember is when I used to go to the house,
which I would take the bus because I couldn't drive.
I was too young, and.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Have your money anymore. He took your ten dollars.
Speaker 5 (47:58):
Yeah, we were poor at the time. But I remember
that his sister and his mother were always screaming, screaming.
There was so much noise and anger in that house.
And I think the more successful that Phil became and
people realized that he was a hit maker, he was
(48:19):
a starmaker, that he just couldn't get past all the
all the demons that had lived with inside of him.
Speaker 9 (48:28):
Well, you know, there is a very fine line.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
I did two years with chronically metal patients I have.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
My initial route was to do a PhD in clinical
and those were the.
Speaker 3 (48:40):
Best and worst two years of my life because it
taught me.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
The very fine line between you know, brilliance and insanity.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
Right, Yes, so there you go, the living embodiment. But
let's go back to the what were David the other
cool thing. I have a really good married but my
recall sucks.
Speaker 7 (49:06):
Okay, the condo and Bundy and all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
You were on the stand, what were you? Were a
character witness for him?
Speaker 5 (49:19):
I was with I was at the dinner the night before,
the twenty five thousand dollars dinner.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
I didn't pay for that.
Speaker 5 (49:26):
I had trouble with the ten dollars, let alone twenty
five thousand. But but I was at that dinner and
it was for friends of Sheba, and there were these
three little ladies and they said they knew I knew OJ.
And they said, oh, can we get a picture with OJ?
So I went up to OJ and I said is
(49:47):
it okay? And he said, oh, Carol, you look so beautiful.
He also owned He and Nicole owned Abyssinian cats.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
My kitty cat.
Speaker 5 (49:56):
You could own an Abyssinian because they're dander it is
that of a wildcat and not of a cat cat.
So we were talking about everything, and he took the picture.
There were only three pictures taken that night, and I
was with the little girl and the ladies that were
shorter than I was, and I'm pretty tiny because my
(50:16):
dad was a jockey. That there were only three pictures
taken that night, so I ended up being I don't
want to say character. It was a character. There's a
word for it, and I can't dere. I can't think
of the word.
Speaker 13 (50:33):
Like a winter, a demeanor, witness.
Speaker 5 (50:40):
And you know when I said, I said to I'll
never forget this. I said to Oj that night, I said,
O Ju. He said, oh, you look so beautiful and
blah blah blah. I mean, people can look up the
picture on the internet. And he said I said to him,
how how how are you fine? I said, well, how
(51:01):
are your Abyssinian cats? And I'll never forget the sound
of his voice and the way he looked at me.
He didn't say, oh, they've all passed away or Nicole
and I don't have them anymore. He said they're all dead.
It was so chilling. And I said something stupid like
(51:23):
what how Nicole And he said, she's fine, She's fine.
He didn't say anything else. I for a long time
did not believe that he had committed the crime. I
couldn't because I just couldn't, and I had known him
a long time. I flew back with him on the
MGM Grand yet once, but and we sat and talked
(51:47):
for five hours. But after the DNA, which was the
first time that they had really very checked. I think
it was was the attorney that's the picture, that's well,
that's one of the little ladies.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Yeah, I see them, they are.
Speaker 5 (52:06):
But after the DNA, how could you? How could you
think anything else?
Speaker 3 (52:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (52:16):
And I had to testify and it was I you know,
I remember that I wrote on my my hand s,
which meant shut up. If they say that word, what
do they always say? They say? Now, there are two
words that they say to stay right. So I had
to write so I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 5 (52:43):
Well, that is hilarious, Carol, Judge Ito, I'll never forget this.
I mean you can see it online. I mean he
stopped the trial to congratulate me for the for the oss.
Oh wow, yeo, I mean it was. It was just horrible.
(53:04):
I had and I when I left the stand, he
went to touch me because we had been friends, and
the Marshall.
Speaker 4 (53:17):
Took his hand aids and don't touch it.
Speaker 7 (53:20):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
That's uh.
Speaker 5 (53:23):
It was not something I want to remember.
Speaker 3 (53:26):
But yeah, I justify.
Speaker 5 (53:29):
There was nothing I could do.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (53:32):
You know I love this picture with picture with let's see,
can you see it?
Speaker 2 (53:38):
The one with the Rocky with Sylvester I do.
Speaker 5 (53:44):
I can imitate him too, a little gil doctor M
are you laughing?
Speaker 3 (53:50):
I am still.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Laughing right now, because again, once again you know the
the value of that early speech impediment allows.
Speaker 13 (54:00):
You to figure out where's phonetically and I was terrible
in French and also what was the other one in Spanish?
Speaker 5 (54:11):
But I can imitate people and animals.
Speaker 3 (54:15):
So much so what can we do?
Speaker 11 (54:19):
Obviously, if you're a nominating member and I do know
because of Ricky Rebel that I do have Grammy nominated
Grammy nominating members from pet Vote, So definitely vote Vote Vote.
Speaker 7 (54:34):
Category is best Audiobook because this is the best audiobook
and it's and what's exciting is this, this is this
is a year that there's the best audiobook that involves
a music icon who is telling music stories about things
that uh have empowered women, particularly Carol. One of the
(54:54):
facts about Carol is that she was the first voice
of a band in the rock role era. And we
didn't have that until Carol's voice came out there.
Speaker 14 (55:06):
Yay, yay, sure you're you're a pioneer in so many
different ways, and so for that, I already gave David
this award, but I haven't given it to you.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
It's Doctor Marissa's.
Speaker 9 (55:23):
Beneficial Presence on the planet. Award goes to carol' connor.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
Thank you for all that you've done and all the
insight that you've brought on some incredibly you know, household
named people who we only we only hear the either
fabricated or you know, I don't know what it is
the obsession that people seem to have to take people
down that doesn't happen on the show as a as
(56:00):
a rule. So so grateful that I was able to
get it to you know, the whole story, not the
whole story, but at least enough that I'm sure you
all need to go get the audio book and have
a listen to it so that you can truly appreciate
the lives of these people that we've only seen on
(56:22):
from someone who's actually lived and uh, and I know
there's like a thousand thousands of more, but thank you
so much, Carol.
Speaker 5 (56:33):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (56:35):
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (56:35):
I think you're absolutely endearing and brilliant, and I just
love the way you talk and your little wonderful isms
of you know, of life are so important, and you know,
I hope people love the book, the audio book, and
also the documentary that's coming out next year. You can
see the Spring Festival and in Miami.
Speaker 3 (56:58):
And blah blah blah, I'll meet you that maybe I'll
meet you there.
Speaker 7 (57:02):
Oh yeah, and your whole audience come on and meet yeah.
Speaker 3 (57:07):
Yeah, because it's.
Speaker 5 (57:09):
The premiere of the documentary. It's going to be January third.
I'll be there the third, the fourth, and I think
the fifth.
Speaker 3 (57:20):
Actually, wow, that's soon.
Speaker 1 (57:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (57:23):
And then I go on to we're doing a project
that looks like for Malaysia. I had written the music
for the country many many years ago from Malaysia. It
had gone on to become the theme song for eight
years and one Awards, And now they want us to
because because of President Trump landing there about a month
ago and they played the theme from Rocky I got
(57:45):
a call from them, of all things, and now it
looks like we're doing a project for Sarahwak, which is
the gateway to Borneo. So it's right now. I'm very
I'm very thrilled that somebody said to me, well, how
do you feel now? And I said, if everything you
(58:07):
ever dreamed of, wanted, needed, wish for, hope for was
coming to before your eyes. Once again. You don't have
the right to become.
Speaker 3 (58:17):
Unhappy, beautifully said, we're out of time. Can you hold
up your peace fingers for me? It's all about balance.
Speaker 2 (58:25):
Peace in peace, out world, peace through inner peace. This
is doctor Borrissa reporting live with the amazing Carol Connor
and David Longoria. I'm so grateful to have had you on.
Now go and have the best day ever.
Speaker 3 (58:44):
I'll see y'all. Carl Hey you.
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