Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
I want to be a soul singer.
I don’t need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
I didn’t need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I’d have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.
As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
One of us is chained, none of us is free.
Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.
Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn’t love them all. But I tried.
Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.