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“It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.”

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Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.

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Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.

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Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was…

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And there's always one special element. In 'There Goes My Baby,' it's the out-of-tune timpani. 'Stand by Me,' it's the bass pattern. Of course,…

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Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on.

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I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better…

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I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we…

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The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In…

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