Cam Clarke Returns (TMNT, Barnyard, Now They're All Here)

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<v Speaker 4>Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
<v Speaker 4>Jim Cummings. We have a really good episode coming up
<v Speaker 4>for you today. Our guest is none other than Cam Clark.
<v Speaker 4>How are you doing today, sir?
<v Speaker 3>Cam Clark is here?
<v Speaker 2>How did you get him? It was very difficult.
<v Speaker 3>Here's a real yeah. Yeah, don't look him in the eyes. Okaya?
<v Speaker 2>Hi up there ceiling where no one is.
<v Speaker 3>Good to see you, buddy, Hey, Jimbo, how about that?
<v Speaker 3>Who good to be with you?
<v Speaker 2>Again, who better than us?
<v Speaker 3>Says I say, I as well.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, Uh, it didn't take much figuring out.
<v Speaker 2>But I have known you. Uh, you're you and I
<v Speaker 2>are tied. Well, how am I? I'm putting this in correctly,
<v Speaker 2>aren't I?
<v Speaker 3>For most?
<v Speaker 1>For for most longest knowedge? So you know, we took
<v Speaker 1>the first thing I ever did in this area of
<v Speaker 1>the business other than play drums or sing somewhere.
<v Speaker 2>Uh in a strip joint in New Orleans?
<v Speaker 3>Uh?
<v Speaker 2>Was you were? You were? You were in the strip joint?
<v Speaker 1>Actually, you were in the Sue Blue and Andre Romano's
<v Speaker 1>voiceover acting class.
<v Speaker 2>And we met there.
<v Speaker 3>And you were this weird guy who always has and
<v Speaker 3>I don't have today, So what is that about?
<v Speaker 2>I feel naked?
<v Speaker 1>But uh but but I left him at home, so
<v Speaker 1>you're safe. But yeah, I mean you you are like
<v Speaker 1>the first guy that I ever met in showbiz.
<v Speaker 3>And you still stayed in the industry. And this is
<v Speaker 3>the kind of people I'm going.
<v Speaker 2>To have to work with.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, and fortunately we worked a great deal together. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>and we were even brothers. Can you name that series
<v Speaker 1>where Cam and Jim were brothers?
<v Speaker 2>And yes, I was the older.
<v Speaker 1>One then too, do do do do do do do
<v Speaker 1>the California Raisins.
<v Speaker 3>And I don't know if we touched on this on
<v Speaker 3>our last interview, yes, but we were both fired.
<v Speaker 1>Really you don't recall this. I'm sure I blocked it out.
<v Speaker 1>It was a tragic moment in my history.
<v Speaker 3>There was a right because the music was motown.
<v Speaker 2>Right, I do, I know what you're talking?
<v Speaker 3>What are these white dudes? And like, people went, well, ray,
<v Speaker 3>if you want to be technical, Raisin started out green
<v Speaker 3>and they end up purple or it's.
<v Speaker 2>Like yeah, yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So they dropped us, but they allowed us to re audition.
<v Speaker 2>Yes with viames.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we use numbers.
<v Speaker 2>We use numbers.
<v Speaker 3>That's right with I forgot sw of new people. Yeah
<v Speaker 3>and he still.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we still we still made it. I remember sitting
<v Speaker 1>on the couch and have studio. Yes, And then I
<v Speaker 1>went to a studio. Uh and and I was sitting there,
<v Speaker 1>just sitting there waiting, and I looked in the student
<v Speaker 1>nobody was there.
<v Speaker 2>Nobody was there.
<v Speaker 1>Nobody was but there was a lady sitting on the
<v Speaker 1>couch and and down at the other end and her
<v Speaker 1>phone rang. She goes, yeah, Hi, No, no he's not here.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know where I don't know where he is.
<v Speaker 1>All right, all right, well i'll let you know.
<v Speaker 2>God, what is DomU? He's gonna get her? And I went,
<v Speaker 2>do you say Jim Cummings.
<v Speaker 1>She goes, oh, yeah, Oh well I'm Jim coming.
<v Speaker 2>She goes, You're the nice black man on the tape.
<v Speaker 2>And I went, oh, I've not.
<v Speaker 3>Heard that, Jim.
<v Speaker 2>Isn't that great? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>And I said, yeah, yeah, I've been out of the
<v Speaker 1>sun for a while.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what do you say to that?
<v Speaker 3>What you I mean, you remember?
<v Speaker 2>But the idea danced?
<v Speaker 3>What did you do? It was?
<v Speaker 2>I think it was for the Raisins?
<v Speaker 3>Well, yeah, nobody. I mean, how did you did you say? Yes? Oh?
<v Speaker 2>Well you said I can't res Yeah, she said yeah.
<v Speaker 2>She said I don't know when Jim coming. He's going
<v Speaker 2>to get here.
<v Speaker 1>And I go, well, he's he's me If that helps,
<v Speaker 1>because I'm you're sitting.
<v Speaker 2>But the same year as.
<v Speaker 1>As we are here, he goes, you're the nice black
<v Speaker 1>man on the tape.
<v Speaker 2>Like sure, why not? I thought I was. I thought
<v Speaker 2>I was a raish, I thought I was purple.
<v Speaker 3>But but here we are, at this age I bruised
<v Speaker 3>very easily.
<v Speaker 2>Now, Yes, that's true. That's true.
<v Speaker 1>I gave blood yesterday and I have I have a
<v Speaker 1>blood blister becoming purple.
<v Speaker 3>That could be the name of my autobiography. If I
<v Speaker 3>didn't already.
<v Speaker 1>Have, I was gonna say, wait a minute, did you
<v Speaker 1>say autobiography.
<v Speaker 2>And a biography about a car? No? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Is that? Is that? What it was?
<v Speaker 1>For those of you who don't know, Cam is show
<v Speaker 1>business royalty. He is comes from.
<v Speaker 2>A that's a dynasty family. That's why.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, That's why I'm looking over here at the
<v Speaker 1>coffee machine. But it's true, and why it just so happens.
<v Speaker 2>We have them.
<v Speaker 1>But wait, hold on there this little bella hooter the
<v Speaker 1>baby cam.
<v Speaker 2>Look at that? Stupid How about that, folks? Very cool?
<v Speaker 2>How cool is that to be able to write a
<v Speaker 2>book about your family? See?
<v Speaker 1>I did that too, and they went no, no.
<v Speaker 2>Go away, stop.
<v Speaker 4>And this isn't your first time writing a book, right,
<v Speaker 4>you've written books before?
<v Speaker 3>Uh? I before voiceovers? What I was planning on pursuing.
<v Speaker 3>I wanted to be an illustrator of children's books, an author.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, I did that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I did a one, and like cartoons as well,
<v Speaker 3>not like comic book. But I had a book in
<v Speaker 3>the eighties came out that did rather well called how
<v Speaker 3>to Be a Total Californian And it was an eighties
<v Speaker 3>kind of not as quirky as Gary Larson, but it did.
<v Speaker 3>Oh that's you know one liners.
<v Speaker 1>With like you got the word total in there too, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>almost very close to.
<v Speaker 3>Totally yeah, totally got to be a total California tots
<v Speaker 3>And but as far as book book, no, this is
<v Speaker 3>my first like that. But I had a line of
<v Speaker 3>greeting cards.
<v Speaker 4>And nice, nice, So what was the motivation for this book?
<v Speaker 3>Wow, vanity, I'll explain that. Uh. There was a coffee
<v Speaker 3>table book not unlike this coffee table size that came
<v Speaker 3>out about Bob Mackie. And for those of you who
<v Speaker 3>don't know who that is, he is probably the most
<v Speaker 3>prolific successful Hollywood costume designers, share Carol Burnett, Diana Ross,
<v Speaker 3>the whole run of the series, that famous costume of
<v Speaker 3>hers as Scarlett O'Hara with wearing the curtain rod. As
<v Speaker 3>you know, I made this outfit out of drapes. This
<v Speaker 3>was his idea. We were his first series he'd been
<v Speaker 3>assistant on, I think like Judy gar Carland's series some
<v Speaker 3>other stuff as you know, second in command. We were
<v Speaker 3>his first and this coffee table book came out about
<v Speaker 3>him and we had a page and that's not an
<v Speaker 3>eagle thing. I mean, Share and Carol Burnett are kind
<v Speaker 3>of bigger than we are, right, And we had a page.
<v Speaker 3>The fellow, the person that wrote it, said a joke
<v Speaker 3>about us, that my fragile eagle. Wow, that's freud, my
<v Speaker 3>fragile eagle.
<v Speaker 2>How is the old egle?
<v Speaker 3>My fragile ego took offense to it, talked about how
<v Speaker 3>we went on the air and you know, the zeitgeist
<v Speaker 3>of white America, end of Camelot blah blah blah, and
<v Speaker 3>they ended up paraphrasing but but they ended up in
<v Speaker 3>the unemployment line, as in never to be heard of again.
<v Speaker 3>And I took fans, but I went, but look how
<v Speaker 3>cool we look in a fancy, fancy color book. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>And I went, I don't think so. And I started
<v Speaker 3>out thinking it was just I was gonna, for history's sake,
<v Speaker 3>was going to put something together for my family and
<v Speaker 3>maybe you know big fans shutterfly thing, Well that grew
<v Speaker 3>into this and four years a lot of growth in
<v Speaker 3>the making. Yeah, yes, steroids really autobiography.
<v Speaker 2>Four years and.
<v Speaker 3>I had read a book on Truman Capodi by George Plimpton,
<v Speaker 3>who is one of my favorite authors, and in the
<v Speaker 3>beginning of it he said, if you're looking for a
<v Speaker 3>straight up biography of Capodi, I recommend, and then he
<v Speaker 3>lists these other books and their authors like, go over
<v Speaker 3>there this one. There is no narrator. I have just
<v Speaker 3>compiled and done interviews with people from his life and
<v Speaker 3>it is chronological. So he says, imagine yourself at a
<v Speaker 3>cocktail party, drifting from conversation to conversation. So I went,
<v Speaker 3>I love that. So imagine yourself at a Fourth of
<v Speaker 3>July picnic and you're drifting from picnic table to picnic table. So,
<v Speaker 3>as the subtitle on this is, and I have to
<v Speaker 3>look it up, over one hundred years of entertainment from
<v Speaker 3>America's first family of song.
<v Speaker 2>One hundred years.
<v Speaker 3>We started whole nineteen twenty five for one hundred Wow
<v Speaker 3>in Vaudeville. So the book itself is all first person. Fortunately,
<v Speaker 3>the moms, the King's sisters, who were famous singing group
<v Speaker 3>on their own right, which is why we even exist, right.
<v Speaker 3>They did diaries, they did journals, so it's a century
<v Speaker 3>of first person.
<v Speaker 2>Anybody else can say that?
<v Speaker 1>Is there anybody else that can make what statement you
<v Speaker 1>just made?
<v Speaker 3>You have the barymours, but they're not still right. Well
<v Speaker 3>I guess well, no Drew is working. But this book
<v Speaker 3>is I me, we like, I don't speak until the
<v Speaker 3>nineteen sixties because I wasn't there.
<v Speaker 2>You weren't born. So this is I'll do it every time.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and as it is, and then
<v Speaker 3>it goes on. I'm the last one of having had
<v Speaker 3>a step so a career, which they're chapters on those
<v Speaker 3>that have, which is still going going on in animation
<v Speaker 3>and video games. So you start with vaudeville, you go
<v Speaker 3>to radio, you go to a big band, you go
<v Speaker 3>to jazz, you go to television. You got your sci
<v Speaker 3>fi motion pictures. Well, that's right, that's right, doctor sitcoms
<v Speaker 3>with my cousin Tina Cole. Alvin O. Ray was one
<v Speaker 3>of the Granddaddy's invented the slide guitar.
<v Speaker 1>Right, yeah, tell does everybody know who that guy is
<v Speaker 1>because he's pretty damn cool.
<v Speaker 3>He is. I mean he's in the museum as Mount
<v Speaker 3>Rushmore of guitarists.
<v Speaker 2>How about that.
<v Speaker 3>He worked with Fender directly trying to, you know, reorganize
<v Speaker 3>and make In fact, he had.
<v Speaker 1>To as in every guitar player you have ever seen
<v Speaker 1>amplifier fender by the way.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, sorry, yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And in fact, she didn't know.
<v Speaker 3>When they would on our show, when on The King
<v Speaker 3>Family Show, when they would reel in his slide guitar,
<v Speaker 3>he had a joke. I didn't get it as a kid,
<v Speaker 3>but and if you've never seen a slide guitar, says,
<v Speaker 3>it's a contraption.
<v Speaker 2>And he said, this joke really cool.
<v Speaker 3>I started building this in high school. Started out as
<v Speaker 3>a sugar scoop, which is a little metal thing that
<v Speaker 3>you've built in metal shop to get sugar Da da da. Anyway,
<v Speaker 3>I didn't get the reference, but if you see a
<v Speaker 3>slide guitar, it is a piece of work. And he
<v Speaker 3>had part of his act on the radio and live
<v Speaker 3>was he had a character named Stringy who he would
<v Speaker 3>use the slide guitar and I still don't know the
<v Speaker 3>mechanics you might as a musician. His wife would be backstage,
<v Speaker 3>who was part of the band Louise Aunt Louise King's sister.
<v Speaker 3>She would wear something called a Sono vox and through
<v Speaker 3>the sliding it would talk because he is going like
<v Speaker 3>this backstage, and like he did.
<v Speaker 2>He had a bit This sounds like sorcery to me.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, kill that phone, yeah sorry, out damn phone.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah sorry.
<v Speaker 3>And so he had a bit called Babysitter Blues that
<v Speaker 3>he did with the guitar with the slide guitar. And
<v Speaker 3>he had to babysit the slide guitar. So he's using
<v Speaker 3>the the that metal sliding thing. I don't know what
<v Speaker 3>that's called.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, the metal slide. They make them in glass too,
<v Speaker 2>Oh do they they do?
<v Speaker 3>Well? He would use that and he'd talk to his guitar,
<v Speaker 3>and the guitar would say, I want my mama. And
<v Speaker 3>he did this comedy almost like Edgar Bergen right with
<v Speaker 3>Charlie McCarthy, except he wasn't. His wife was backstage wearing
<v Speaker 3>this thing. And it's a bit he had in the
<v Speaker 3>act since the thirties.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, yeah, that sounds the fact.
<v Speaker 3>I should probably post a bit of alvino.
<v Speaker 2>Are you wearing one right now?
<v Speaker 1>I see you clutching the pearls, So I don't know
<v Speaker 1>what's going on here.
<v Speaker 3>They make them invisible.
<v Speaker 1>Now, oh okay, okay.
<v Speaker 3>Anyway, so Alvino was an inventor. My uncle Jim, who
<v Speaker 3>has a Step Out chapter, founded the Grammy Awards, founded
<v Speaker 3>he founded Warner's Records. And that's not bad, not bad, right,
<v Speaker 3>And so the King sisters were asked to do a benefit,
<v Speaker 3>a fundraiser, and my aunt Vonn said, here's a wacky idea.
<v Speaker 3>Why don't we bring the let's just toss the kids
<v Speaker 3>into the act, just for shits and giggles.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, and how did that work out?
<v Speaker 3>Well, I'll tell you, please, my good man. Back in
<v Speaker 3>the fifties, maybe the forties as well, a lot of
<v Speaker 3>the children in recordings were just like the kids of
<v Speaker 3>the celebrities. And when they needed kids on albums, you know,
<v Speaker 3>you call in these particular kids. So my older cousins
<v Speaker 3>were already in the recording business in a fashion like
<v Speaker 3>for those of you who are into your mid century
<v Speaker 3>albums and such. My cousins and others were with Doris
<v Speaker 3>Day on k Sarah Frank Sinatra's High Hopes, which has
<v Speaker 3>a children's choiet. Okay, you've got High Up Boompie and
<v Speaker 3>the by Hopes, And so they are the kids for that.
<v Speaker 3>So Uncle Jim would come home from the office and
<v Speaker 3>go hey, girls, we have a session Friday night with
<v Speaker 3>text Ritter with Doris Day And like Jamie, as I
<v Speaker 3>mentioned earlier, I said that this is all first person.
<v Speaker 3>So each one of my cousins also tells when they
<v Speaker 3>joined the history of entertainment. They speak not again, not
<v Speaker 3>me and my cousin Jamie. She tells a story how Dad,
<v Speaker 3>I have a school dance Friday night. I don't want
<v Speaker 3>I don't want to go and be famous and go
<v Speaker 3>see him make money. Wait a minute, and he would
<v Speaker 3>literally go, oh okay. And of course she jokes about
<v Speaker 3>seriously self what.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no kidding, and my cousin zan and give up
<v Speaker 2>show biz? Yeah, you know.
<v Speaker 3>And she has these wonderful memories of being a kid
<v Speaker 3>with these performers and behind the scenes things of who
<v Speaker 3>had to have every note plunked out and who was
<v Speaker 3>great with kids, like she said, Glenn Campbell, who was
<v Speaker 3>part of the wrecking Crew.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, very famous.
<v Speaker 3>And the wrecking crew was the group back Capital or
<v Speaker 3>did they travel?
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, but you should tell people who the
<v Speaker 2>wrecking crew was.
<v Speaker 3>Helped me out here. The record crew was like.
<v Speaker 1>Blaine the drummer, and then oh god, Tony I spec
<v Speaker 1>the guitar player you got me played.
<v Speaker 2>On every beach. They were the beach boys. Yeah, but
<v Speaker 2>they were everybody started with more of the some of.
<v Speaker 3>The older stars. It started in the city. Well, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you're right. But in the sixties, of course, Doris Day
<v Speaker 3>Frank Sinatra text for her. They're still in the thick
<v Speaker 3>of it. There's still you know, a contemporary, I guess.
<v Speaker 3>And she talked about Glenn who was just part of
<v Speaker 3>the wrecking crew at the time, and how he would
<v Speaker 3>go out of his way to entertain the kids between
<v Speaker 3>takes and stuff, and how wonderful he wasn't how cool,
<v Speaker 3>how very cool, not like in a good way, but
<v Speaker 3>how cool Doris Day was. And in fact, one of
<v Speaker 3>our cousins, who wasn't on the session date came just
<v Speaker 3>to watch, and Doris would not let her be, not
<v Speaker 3>only not in the studio, but not in the booth.
<v Speaker 3>She had to sit in the lobby. So these are
<v Speaker 3>stories from a kid's perspective that you're not gonna get anywhere.
<v Speaker 2>No, like anywhere at all. Yeah, but here but here.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, that's pretty damn cool. What that's see Like my family,
<v Speaker 1>it's like, well, Grandpa was fired from the steel mill.
<v Speaker 2>That's it all done. That's all you need to know.
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, man, that's an amazing thing.
<v Speaker 1>There's not and you know, I don't who would you
<v Speaker 1>compare your your background to slightly Osmon Dy?
<v Speaker 3>Yes, I mean I would think, yeah, they In fact,
<v Speaker 3>I mean there were thirty six of us in Okay
<v Speaker 3>you as you see, as you'll see what was I saying?
<v Speaker 2>You were talking about being fabulous and not Osmon dy?
<v Speaker 3>Oh oh oh, so we are both both the Osmon
<v Speaker 3>brothers and we are playing Vegas at the same time.
<v Speaker 2>Aha, and we're on the same See that already doesn't
<v Speaker 2>sound right. You're playing where in the middle of Sinville, USA? Right?
<v Speaker 3>I mean, on one hand, how does the king fan? Well, no,
<v Speaker 3>Osmin's too. They were huge in Vegas and they were
<v Speaker 3>squeaky clean. Oh yeah, hands down. They were amazing musicians
<v Speaker 3>and dancers.
<v Speaker 2>You know, oh everything. Oh yeah. And so we're on the.
<v Speaker 3>Same episode of whatever local talk show doing pr for
<v Speaker 3>being there, and you know it's so Donnie, how many
<v Speaker 3>how many instruments do you play? And when we rehearse,
<v Speaker 3>you know, this is every day we get up at
<v Speaker 3>this time, you know, like Olympians, you know, and I
<v Speaker 3>played the instruments.
<v Speaker 2>It was a spark plug, wasn't he.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And it comes our turn and we're like, m well, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>we don't want to over rehearse.
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<v Speaker 3>Do It Now. I took piano lessons for five years,
<v Speaker 3>and I think all I can play is.
<v Speaker 2>That one.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that'll chestnut.
<v Speaker 2>Not even chopsticks.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, and the left hand to heart and soul boom
<v Speaker 3>boo boom boo boom boo boom poot boom poo boom poo.
<v Speaker 2>Boom Yeah, point point point yes.
<v Speaker 3>And so we're kind of sitting there with egg on
<v Speaker 3>our face and fingers up our noses.
<v Speaker 2>It could have been in a worse place, could have
<v Speaker 2>been worse.
<v Speaker 3>Depending how you like stuff. I don't even know what
<v Speaker 3>I just said.
<v Speaker 2>I don't either, And.
<v Speaker 3>In fact, we younger kids wish we had because we
<v Speaker 3>were so young when we started that we were just
<v Speaker 3>like little monkeys and just toss these five and six
<v Speaker 3>year olds out stage and they're already darling and we
<v Speaker 3>would crack up in the middle of a number, and
<v Speaker 3>that was part of the appeal, right.
<v Speaker 2>I would think, yeah, yeah, I'm well.
<v Speaker 3>But as you grow out of monkey, your monkey years
<v Speaker 3>somewhat happened eventually one of these days of well, people
<v Speaker 3>relied on our monkey and because I've seen you know,
<v Speaker 3>of course, like with a I've gone over our shows
<v Speaker 3>with a magnifying glass, right, And as we get older
<v Speaker 3>and you're you know, say you're ten in there, you're
<v Speaker 3>not monkey cute anymore, and no one is going kids, smile, Okay,
<v Speaker 3>all right, we're going to go in five for three,
<v Speaker 3>Remember to smile. That didn't happen, mm hmm. And I
<v Speaker 3>even you know, so when you're on the show. Everyone
<v Speaker 3>was the result of that, I mean, well, not as
<v Speaker 3>well performed, because we are not in monkey phase where
<v Speaker 3>you just smile anyway. And I see times where you know,
<v Speaker 3>it's like camp, they're going like yeah, Cam, you know,
<v Speaker 3>don't be thinking about lunch. And in fact, when we're
<v Speaker 3>on the When we were on the series, our first series,
<v Speaker 3>we went to studio school and you're on the set
<v Speaker 3>every day. Sure, so you had your assistant directors in
<v Speaker 3>the script people to go over the lines with the kids.
<v Speaker 3>You know your parents are. They were prison like crazy
<v Speaker 3>and in fact, because of the child labor laws, we
<v Speaker 3>could only work so many hours.
<v Speaker 2>Oh okay.
<v Speaker 3>Kids in film and television, and I imagine theater as well,
<v Speaker 3>you can only work so many hours and then they'll,
<v Speaker 3>you know, drag you off set for a good reason
<v Speaker 3>because there was so much abuse in the early days
<v Speaker 3>of film and such.
<v Speaker 2>I think Shirley Temple inspired that, wasn't.
<v Speaker 3>She Cogan Cougan, Jackie Cook, Jackie Coogan?
<v Speaker 2>My gosh, that's right.
<v Speaker 3>But it is black and white, which is not taken
<v Speaker 3>to fact that the it of the lot. So you
<v Speaker 3>were you know, if you screw up and you can
<v Speaker 3>take another take at uh oh, it's blank. It's something
<v Speaker 3>a clock. You're out of the you're out of the
<v Speaker 3>number anyway, and which I will sidestep to say that
<v Speaker 3>when we did our last Christmas special, I am seventeen,
<v Speaker 3>so I'm still on the clock. It's like it's a
<v Speaker 3>Christmas special.
<v Speaker 2>We taped it.
<v Speaker 3>I think in October my birthday. I think you're a
<v Speaker 3>scorpio too.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah, I'm November sixth.
<v Speaker 3>Yea, how I have room for your birthday in my
<v Speaker 3>brain when I could use it to find my keys?
<v Speaker 3>Understood our birthday?
<v Speaker 2>There's my keys?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, exactly. So I'm like two months from my eighteenth
<v Speaker 3>birthday where I'm legal. We of course you're running behind
<v Speaker 3>in schedule whatever. There's a number that I'm supposed to
<v Speaker 3>be in, but the clock runs out. Now I'm with
<v Speaker 3>my family. I'm seventeen and ten months almost years old,
<v Speaker 3>I mean, and the teacher on this set, I was like, nope,
<v Speaker 3>So there was no like guys his birthdays in five minutes. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and it's my family. It's not even like I'm a
<v Speaker 3>I mean, yeah, we're getting paid, but I'm not a
<v Speaker 3>hired hand. This is and it was a men's number.
<v Speaker 3>It was my uncles and my cousins and my brothers.
<v Speaker 3>So it was like being ripped out of a birthday
<v Speaker 3>party because our time to get there was never work.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's right, but to get back like monkey hour
<v Speaker 2>with your it.
<v Speaker 3>Was Monkey hour. Welcome to the King Family. With more hours.
<v Speaker 2>Why not?
<v Speaker 3>So when we were little, there were so many people
<v Speaker 3>help us learn our lines. I remember on our Christmas Special,
<v Speaker 3>which for whatever reason, the parents were supposed to do
<v Speaker 3>that stuff. As far as lines and I was, I
<v Speaker 3>would say I was raised by wolves, but that would
<v Speaker 3>imply a lot of structure.
<v Speaker 2>And oh, I see, so okay my intro.
<v Speaker 3>I'm supposed to introduce this number that my mom's about
<v Speaker 3>to sing and this Christmas special, and the script supervisor
<v Speaker 3>or whoever, or dad I don't know, goes, oh, yeah, honey,
<v Speaker 3>here that's your intro for mom.
<v Speaker 2>I'm tan perfect and you're sitting there.
<v Speaker 3>So if you watch this intro, if you catch some
<v Speaker 3>of the clips of the old show, there's the que
<v Speaker 3>cards and I sound like one of the Charlie Brown kids. Hi,
<v Speaker 3>I'm Cam and my brother Rich is going to sing
<v Speaker 3>a song. My mom is going my mother and that's
<v Speaker 3>my mother Alice, and she's going to sing a song.
<v Speaker 3>It's like if someone had given to me, given these
<v Speaker 3>lines to me. Oh, I don't know, even the.
<v Speaker 2>Day before, an hour before, maybe it.
<v Speaker 3>Just sounded like this. And I can remember another special
<v Speaker 3>where I've got this special poem that I'm supposed to
<v Speaker 3>have written, you know, a goofy you know, oh really,
<v Speaker 3>and I am reading it like this and I've got
<v Speaker 3>the papers, but I haven't even looked at it.
<v Speaker 2>I it was from your heart.
<v Speaker 3>My heart is with my keys.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, Jesus, Well that's good. Well good, So there
<v Speaker 2>was no pressure, no pressure, no pressure, No, there was
<v Speaker 2>no pressure. What and give up show biz?
<v Speaker 3>Exactly?
<v Speaker 2>Well you've probably.
<v Speaker 1>Given your background. Was there ever a time when you said,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I'd like to grow up and own a
<v Speaker 1>general store, or I want to sell shoes.
<v Speaker 2>Or you know, was there ever any doubt? Yeah? As
<v Speaker 2>I said earlier, it's a single syllable answer.
<v Speaker 3>I did want to pursue. My other love was art.
<v Speaker 3>Oh so not something not No, I mean selling, Uh,
<v Speaker 3>you know, working at Wesley's shoes store and selling ps flyers.
<v Speaker 3>How old are you to know what flyers?
<v Speaker 1>They made attire and your p F flyers?
<v Speaker 3>Would you say?
<v Speaker 4>So they made a little comeback when I was in
<v Speaker 4>high school? I don't know if I don't know if people, Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>p F Flyers had a pair.
<v Speaker 3>That's good to know. There kids that stop stop on
<v Speaker 3>a dime.
<v Speaker 2>Uh, like you could run running.
<v Speaker 3>They stop on a dime because of their rubber or something.
<v Speaker 3>But we digress. We do.
<v Speaker 2>I had to stand lunch.
<v Speaker 3>I'll be digressing again. What were we talking about?
<v Speaker 2>Geez, your book?
<v Speaker 3>Have you read? Doing things?
<v Speaker 2>So I went to always go back to the book.
<v Speaker 3>So, so I went to Parsons School of Design and
<v Speaker 3>Art school. It's hard, really and an expensive man. And
<v Speaker 3>I wasn't I hadn't worked since I was a kid.
<v Speaker 3>I've done some commercials and stuff, and I was living
<v Speaker 3>at home. And I was the first class of Parsons,
<v Speaker 3>which is in New York, was a New York design school.
<v Speaker 3>They bought a fine arts school called Otis in Los Angeles.
<v Speaker 3>So I was the first class thirty kids, thirty students
<v Speaker 3>chosen for Parsons Design Center.
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's pretty cool.
<v Speaker 3>It's pretty cool. And I'm like list blobberdy blue. I
<v Speaker 3>applied for a loan and they said, yeah, but you
<v Speaker 3>live alone. I'm sorry you live at home. I went, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>because I don't have the rent money. Really, that's why
<v Speaker 3>I am at home. Yeah, well, because you live at home.
<v Speaker 3>I went, let me get this straight. If I go
<v Speaker 3>spend money and get an apartment, then you'll give me money.
<v Speaker 3>Our school is boring now. And I eventually dropped out
<v Speaker 3>because my brother Ricky, who was still in the business
<v Speaker 3>and now he was behind the camera as an associate
<v Speaker 3>producer at Warner Brothers. He said, Hey, cam, we have
<v Speaker 3>this thing called looping, and I can put you in
<v Speaker 3>the loop.
<v Speaker 2>I have heard of that.
<v Speaker 3>Have you ever done to group?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, maybe on some animated maybe Lorraine Newman and uh yeah, like.
<v Speaker 3>Some animated features.
<v Speaker 2>Uh huh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Well for those of you that don't know, it's different
<v Speaker 3>than your animation or anime or radio, TV spots and stuff.
<v Speaker 2>It's kind of fun.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, it's actually a whole different animal. It is.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>In post production is where they lay in fight grunts. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>that they lay in you know, one out forty. We
<v Speaker 3>have your suspect on Route nine, please respond. And crowd scenes,
<v Speaker 3>crowds of football games, locker rooms, sports bars, what whatever.
<v Speaker 3>It is. All the extras, they're just mouthing stuff. Because
<v Speaker 3>when you go from your master shot to your close
<v Speaker 3>up to your close up, you're gonna hear a bump
<v Speaker 3>in sound if anyone is also talking a din in
<v Speaker 3>the background, and it's likewise, I'm going to ruin your
<v Speaker 3>watching movies.
<v Speaker 2>Now, that's why it is, and it's kind of never
<v Speaker 2>dance local camouflage.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, And it's why nobody dances in time because there
<v Speaker 3>is no music playing. Because when you cut from shots
<v Speaker 3>to shots, Oh, there's a bump. And although you have
<v Speaker 3>your script supervisor, who's going to go, no, Jim, your
<v Speaker 3>hand was you know, your arm goes here and you movee.
<v Speaker 3>I just remember this that.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah, music they can't like at.
<v Speaker 3>The nano second, get bar thirty six to fall organic
<v Speaker 3>or when you're being organic with your line delivery, to
<v Speaker 3>fall in that nanosecond. So if you watch a dance
<v Speaker 3>scene in a movie, unless it's a musical, no one
<v Speaker 3>is in time. Are the clapping gets off? Huh because
<v Speaker 3>there is no music?
<v Speaker 2>Wow? So again because you never pick up on that
<v Speaker 2>if you were just one.
<v Speaker 3>So you're welcome, and of course I always am aware.
<v Speaker 2>That and you're hyper aware at this point.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, especially when I'm there and there now is music
<v Speaker 3>and we're supposed to be the people in the cowboy
<v Speaker 3>bar whatever. You'll clap into the music or whatever it is,
<v Speaker 3>and we have to do we have to juggle with
<v Speaker 3>the picture. We're trying to stay in time. With whatever
<v Speaker 3>the music is. But sometimes we have to go like
<v Speaker 3>this to catch the picture. And then when we cut
<v Speaker 3>away from the crowd, we can be back in rhythm.
<v Speaker 3>So that stuff is laid down after the fact. And
<v Speaker 3>that's where I started in voice and there.
<v Speaker 2>So what what what's your loop? And gig a big
<v Speaker 2>movie that anybody would know. There you got to lay
<v Speaker 2>down a couple of greatest hits here so we can
<v Speaker 2>sit there and go, wait.
<v Speaker 3>A minute, okay them here here, here's a deep diet. Actually,
<v Speaker 3>I will respond to that first. Back in the early
<v Speaker 3>days that I started in the eighties, local hires, like
<v Speaker 3>say a film or a television show was on location,
<v Speaker 3>they would hire local actors for small parts. We call
<v Speaker 3>them under fives, right, which meant five lines or under
<v Speaker 3>Now there are talented, it means less money. Oh god, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>like way less. Let's because they're local hires. But now
<v Speaker 3>over the last couple of decades or whatever it is,
<v Speaker 3>they're talented people everywhere. Yes, But back in those days
<v Speaker 3>it's like hiring speaking of the you know the general
<v Speaker 3>stores selling yeah, I mean the kid from the general store. Inevitably,
<v Speaker 3>when the footage would get back here, we would revoice them,
<v Speaker 3>and I always felt sad that here's this kid or
<v Speaker 3>this grandma or whoever it is. Whoever, Hey, everybody, come over.
<v Speaker 3>I'm in this episode of Walker, Texas Ranger, which was
<v Speaker 3>one of my first series, okay, that I conducted, and
<v Speaker 3>that one of two things is going to happen, or
<v Speaker 3>like we did North in the South, which was an
<v Speaker 3>early Civil War multi episode.
<v Speaker 2>Patrick swayzey, Yes, dude, Yes.
<v Speaker 3>Find your glasses out. Patrick Swayze out. Yeah, Jimmy Cummings
<v Speaker 3>birthday out. Lets me find my keys, Patrick Swayze out.
<v Speaker 3>Jimmy can find it. And I could picture and I
<v Speaker 3>know there was a young Civil War guy that that
<v Speaker 3>I did, that I revoiced, and one of two things
<v Speaker 3>I imagine happens. One is he's got his mom and
<v Speaker 3>his dad and whoever, his cousin whoever, over to the
<v Speaker 3>house to watch his claim to fame here. Either he
<v Speaker 3>is mortified when he hears that's not me hm, or
<v Speaker 3>damn I sound good.
<v Speaker 2>That's good? And were you responsible for making him sound
<v Speaker 2>so good?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? And I will never Yeah, No, I mean you
<v Speaker 3>see how it could go either way. It's not like
<v Speaker 3>we changed the timber.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and had.
<v Speaker 3>Someone with a big, deep voice, be this sixteen year
<v Speaker 3>old Civil War kid on the battlefield. You know, you
<v Speaker 3>keep it in kind.
<v Speaker 2>Like the Lone Ranger. They did that Clinton Spillsbury when
<v Speaker 2>they made the Lone Ranger movie, and.
<v Speaker 3>He had a voice like this, I'm the Lone Ranger.
<v Speaker 2>And and coming through the whole thing.
<v Speaker 3>And in the Tarzan movie, famous one with Andy McDowell,
<v Speaker 3>Glenn Close and Annie McDowell became a star. Oh but
<v Speaker 3>I mean, look this up in case I'm a big
<v Speaker 3>fat liar, and you can blame Patrick Swayze stuck in
<v Speaker 3>his head for my lying that Glenn Close revoiced the
<v Speaker 3>entire role of Andy McDowell is Tarzan.
<v Speaker 2>That's right.
<v Speaker 3>So it it is a thing.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and Glenn was pretty big.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah it is. Yeah, probably, but you never you
<v Speaker 3>would never know because nobody knew Andy yet.
<v Speaker 2>No except from that for Cocta commercial before Tarzan. I
<v Speaker 2>think so. I think it was something about her hair.
<v Speaker 2>She had someday, someday I'm on to go to Dallas.
<v Speaker 2>It was something like that.
<v Speaker 3>She she had a really accent. Yeah yeah, oh god, yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Shove that out of my head and make room for something.
<v Speaker 3>Use your phone. Let's find your phone.
<v Speaker 2>That's fine, that's true, okay, or your last name?
<v Speaker 3>My name is if found. So you asked, what is
<v Speaker 3>the first show I did? Looping on and it was
<v Speaker 3>a spin off of Dukes of Hazard that my brother
<v Speaker 3>was associate producer on, called Enus No. I said us
<v Speaker 3>the no P right got to end No A, which
<v Speaker 3>is where I.
<v Speaker 2>Went, Okay, okay, well see, okay.
<v Speaker 3>Either one is quite a difference.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, it is a show, Yes, but what a great
<v Speaker 2>show that wasn't Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>I think it lasted a season and a half.
<v Speaker 2>I thought it was just for up Tommershall and then cut.
<v Speaker 3>Oh they do a rerun story about that and the
<v Speaker 3>King family. Oh you don't jump up track.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, they went to a commercial and said, okay, that's good.
<v Speaker 3>When we got our second series in nineteen sixty nine,
<v Speaker 3>and guys, shameless plug, Well, this whole interview is a
<v Speaker 3>shameless plug. Yes, please welcome back to Shameless Plugs.
<v Speaker 4>I'm going to jump in here and just answer a
<v Speaker 4>question that you guys may have watching. How come we're
<v Speaker 4>not talking about mutant ninja turtles? How can we're not
<v Speaker 4>talking about Lion King. This is Cam's second time on
<v Speaker 4>the show. The first time we talked about all that
<v Speaker 4>good stuff, all the good voices, everything like that. So
<v Speaker 4>you haven't seen that episode, then go over and check
<v Speaker 4>that out right now, check that out, and now we're
<v Speaker 4>back to party with cam Clark and skip.
<v Speaker 3>Everything else and come back to me. Why because it's
<v Speaker 3>all about.
<v Speaker 2>Me that you're back.
<v Speaker 3>So and a lot of the stuff we're talking talking
<v Speaker 3>about is in the book. When we got our second series,
<v Speaker 3>ABC had launched a show called turn On, which was
<v Speaker 3>nineteen sixty nine winter season, so January whatever that used
<v Speaker 3>to start, not September like most of the shows did
<v Speaker 3>back in the day of network TV. It was supposed
<v Speaker 3>to be like a race laugh in like naughtier, pushing
<v Speaker 3>buttons and dot dot da, and I talk about it
<v Speaker 3>here in the book that it was found in that
<v Speaker 3>day to be so awful, I mean, so risk whatever
<v Speaker 3>words you know you want to use that some of
<v Speaker 3>depending on the time zone, some affiliates did cancel, did
<v Speaker 3>take it off the air at a first commercial. Now
<v Speaker 3>the people on the East coast get into this and
<v Speaker 3>it doesn't air at all, or you mean.
<v Speaker 2>The West coast because then they go from Easter. No,
<v Speaker 2>this was filmed.
<v Speaker 3>Wait, don't ask me math questions. However it travels is
<v Speaker 3>east west, home, has been, you know wherever it is
<v Speaker 3>because of the time zones. Geez, put me on the spot.
<v Speaker 3>Never learned my timestables. By the way, I'll just add
<v Speaker 3>that there. I know that's seven times eight.
<v Speaker 2>Is a fifty is a math equation?
<v Speaker 3>Is a math equation.
<v Speaker 2>That's right.
<v Speaker 3>But back to cancellations on television, of which I know
<v Speaker 3>a lot.
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<v Speaker 3>Do It Now so it get is canceled and they
<v Speaker 3>toss on some rerun of Who Saved My Couch or
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, Oh yeah, I love that show. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>And it's like they're getting on the horn with like,
<v Speaker 3>who can we we got to change this. We can't
<v Speaker 3>got a lot of everybody's you know, saying cancel, cancel, canceled,
<v Speaker 3>and they go like, who do we have in the vault?
<v Speaker 3>And our manager got wind of this and knew a
<v Speaker 3>guy who knew a guy and said, uh, I know,
<v Speaker 3>I know here's someone that Procter and Gamble will and
<v Speaker 3>those folks will get on board. So I mean, who
<v Speaker 3>can be more informative or well, no, squeaky clean.
<v Speaker 2>Oh then the King Family, but that's pretty squeaky.
<v Speaker 3>So we were already doing we were off the air
<v Speaker 3>weekly and doing our specials and blah blah blah. But
<v Speaker 3>we were back on the air weekly because of this show.
<v Speaker 3>Turned on that and the letters from the networks about
<v Speaker 3>your dirty little shows.
<v Speaker 2>And your well you solved that, didn't you?
<v Speaker 3>Yes? And it was the in the days of network
<v Speaker 3>Rulage had the record for quickest cancelation. I don't know
<v Speaker 3>if there was some would be as they came out
<v Speaker 3>of that, but King Family to the rescue. Wow.
<v Speaker 2>And it's that's a chapter in this, isn't it. Yeah? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>See you like how I went back.
<v Speaker 3>To the Yes and it gave us, It gave a
<v Speaker 3>boost to us. You know, it was a little shot
<v Speaker 3>in the arm to get us back on weekly, which
<v Speaker 3>bumped up our touring.
<v Speaker 2>You know, comes Oh yeah, you guys toured a lot,
<v Speaker 2>did you?
<v Speaker 3>Oh my god. Also I didn't know that, yeah, every summer.
<v Speaker 3>And in fact, there is a section in the book
<v Speaker 3>as well where I wrote on my site camclark Voices
<v Speaker 3>dot com. That's a good name for it, right, Too
<v Speaker 3>bad it wasn't available what I asked fans to write
<v Speaker 3>in if you had an experience as a fan with
<v Speaker 3>a live memory and experience of seeing us live, can
<v Speaker 3>you send it in?
<v Speaker 2>Oh and what a great idea.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my god. And so I have a section of that.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, you can't make this ship up. One and
<v Speaker 3>number two, these people submitted stuff written like Earl Hamner.
<v Speaker 3>I mean it reads like Walton's Mountain or mountains or
<v Speaker 3>the elegance I'm sorry, eloquence with which these are written,
<v Speaker 3>and the humor of a teenager and the irony and stuff.
<v Speaker 3>And one guy writes in about he had a crush
<v Speaker 3>on cousin Liza and to get autographs out of the show,
<v Speaker 3>but he didn't have a pen, and Alvino had one
<v Speaker 3>and he loaned it to me. And I had your
<v Speaker 3>souvenir program and I still have the program, but I
<v Speaker 3>also still have the pen. I mean it gets me, like,
<v Speaker 3>you know, like this, yeah, and these stories about we
<v Speaker 3>baby sat and we did lemonade stands and doggie sat
<v Speaker 3>and so we could afford tickets. My girlfriend and I
<v Speaker 3>my little girl, the two little gals, little thirteen year
<v Speaker 3>old girls or whatever. And then they saw the program
<v Speaker 3>and they have these many nickels and dimes in there,
<v Speaker 3>you know, in their little their little pocket books. Sure,
<v Speaker 3>and do we get a program or do we have dinner?
<v Speaker 3>And they splurged for you know, and they'd driven on
<v Speaker 3>the they went on the bus, like a three hour
<v Speaker 3>bus ride or something. So this woman talks about they
<v Speaker 3>bought the program and they split a candy bar oh
<v Speaker 3>for dinner on the drive home because they had that
<v Speaker 3>many Nichols.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, it's like.
<v Speaker 3>Out of a movie.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Just beautiful. Seven guys, If any of you are watching
<v Speaker 3>Jimmy Show, I know I've told you this a million times,
<v Speaker 3>but your stuff is beautiful.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, that is nice.
<v Speaker 3>And I had a gay guy to write in who said,
<v Speaker 3>so believe it or not? Okay, well, all right, we
<v Speaker 3>have just like Diana Ross and Madonna, we have a
<v Speaker 3>bet a bet and with their number one fan right
<v Speaker 3>here in fact, you get by the drawing thing. I
<v Speaker 3>have pictures here in the book because I loved drawing,
<v Speaker 3>as I've mentioned, and I love drawing fashion. And I
<v Speaker 3>have pictures that somehow survived of me sketching King's sister
<v Speaker 3>gowns that I could see, and I have the photo
<v Speaker 3>of the gown they were wearing and my sketch from
<v Speaker 3>when I was like five years old. Holy wow, Mackie, Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>he learned everything from me.
<v Speaker 2>There you go.
<v Speaker 3>And so this man writes in and says that he
<v Speaker 3>had a his favorite King cousin because everybody, there were
<v Speaker 3>so many of us, everybody had a you know, I
<v Speaker 3>love this one.
<v Speaker 2>I love that one.
<v Speaker 3>And his favorite cousin was Kathy. And the girl Cousins
<v Speaker 3>released an album of their own of kind of what
<v Speaker 3>they call a term that's come to be in the
<v Speaker 3>music industry called sunshine pop, which is kind of it
<v Speaker 3>what it says.
<v Speaker 1>It's kind of like slip, not only not quite or
<v Speaker 1>not slip or not Yeah, Okay, I mean I think
<v Speaker 1>you might put someone like Petula Clark.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if she is sunshine pots.
<v Speaker 1>That sounds good, but is that kind of or cows
<v Speaker 1>oh cow sills. Sure you know, so I'm singing yes, okay, yeah, thank.
<v Speaker 3>Me, happy happy happy Partri's family stuff kind of thing.
<v Speaker 3>But this was earlier in the mid sixties.
<v Speaker 2>They were imitating y'all. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And so this man, when he was a boy, he
<v Speaker 3>wrote me that he uh.
<v Speaker 2>You say, wrote wrote, Okay, I thought I heard something else.
<v Speaker 2>Go ahead, well that was.
<v Speaker 3>On the sequel sequel to Chris Got It, and goes
<v Speaker 3>that was I thought. He said that too, said when
<v Speaker 3>he was home alone as a kid, he would put
<v Speaker 3>on the girl's album and where his mother's pink, put
<v Speaker 3>on his mother's lipstick, and dance around the house. And
<v Speaker 3>as he says, I swear to God, I was Kathy Cole,
<v Speaker 3>you know. And so these stories are just all over
<v Speaker 3>the map, and people saying I wanted to be a
<v Speaker 3>member of your family. And one girl, one woman wrote
<v Speaker 3>in to say when she was a girl, she would
<v Speaker 3>just was badger her mom about Oh I wish I
<v Speaker 3>was part of that family. And she goes, well, you
<v Speaker 3>can't because you have brown hair. Okay, see end of story.
<v Speaker 4>Wow, I'm curious. I have two questions. Yeah, sitting here
<v Speaker 4>listening to you talk, what is there any part of
<v Speaker 4>your family that wasn't interested in show business or didn't
<v Speaker 4>partake mercy killing.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they're not with us anyway. I was gonna go,
<v Speaker 3>wait a minute, boy took a turn. Did I do
<v Speaker 3>that with too much of a strange face?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I think so. Yeah, it was you used to
<v Speaker 2>play with them, didn't you. Mercy killing?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, ladies and gentlemen give it up for mercy killing.
<v Speaker 3>And no, there was a couple surprisingly the and uh
<v Speaker 3>one in particular my cousin Chris. Fortunately for him, he says,
<v Speaker 3>he was. I mean, I think he's adorable on the
<v Speaker 3>stuff he chose to be on. He didn't dig it,
<v Speaker 3>so he opted. There was no gunpoint. No, you didn't
<v Speaker 3>have to do it if you want to.
<v Speaker 2>Et cetera. Enough people, but if your mom wanted you to,
<v Speaker 2>you have better. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And the girls, for example, I mean the people that
<v Speaker 3>choreographed our first first series director was Mark brow uh,
<v Speaker 3>choreographer Dede Wood. They choreographed Mary Poppins and sounded so
<v Speaker 3>step in tall him.
<v Speaker 2>But that's the first thing I thought of. Yeah, but
<v Speaker 2>that's just wow.
<v Speaker 3>And all it's interesting. All our girls, all the kids
<v Speaker 3>that were girls okay, sorry, could dance anything. We're great dancers.
<v Speaker 3>The boys were like a bunch of high school boys,
<v Speaker 3>and my brother Ricky was great, but most of the
<v Speaker 3>boys did not have.
<v Speaker 2>The there's no way you a good dancer. Look at
<v Speaker 2>I mean you could. You're right there, now, come on,
<v Speaker 2>you were a good dancer. Yeah, I was, thank you.
<v Speaker 3>But there was also this period, and to me it
<v Speaker 3>shows in the shows. And again I mentioned it in
<v Speaker 3>here knowing that I was gay and this was my deep,
<v Speaker 3>dark secret, and I was never Donnie Osmond or Michael
<v Speaker 3>Jackson started at the same time. I didn't have the
<v Speaker 3>training or that focus.
<v Speaker 2>That those are the probably too well they.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, but I was afraid that if I was a
<v Speaker 3>little too Broadway to Broadway jazz hands to yeah, that
<v Speaker 3>whole I don't know. I was afraid I would give
<v Speaker 3>away my secret.
<v Speaker 4>This is eleven.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's a long time.
<v Speaker 3>And so although I start out as a monkey, a
<v Speaker 3>durable unlike Michael and Donnie, I disp the the the
<v Speaker 3>performer of me goes undercover for fear of not passing. Sure,
<v Speaker 3>and so you'll see me with my hands like we're
<v Speaker 3>standing there and nobody there's thirty six away. Who's going
<v Speaker 3>to notice everybody? My hands are supposed to be here,
<v Speaker 3>and I've got them like like this, and we uh
<v Speaker 3>in sixty nine on that series, we did always something
<v Speaker 3>there to remind you, remind me al Vino's doing on
<v Speaker 3>the guitar and the boy cousins are in it. I
<v Speaker 3>am sitting there there's risers with my legs like this
<v Speaker 3>and my hands here and my shoulders, shoulders curled in. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>because and I have to keep to keep it from
<v Speaker 3>solode with Alvino Diana, you know this kind of thing
<v Speaker 3>there and wow, but I am confined and you can
<v Speaker 3>see the body language that I don't want to be
<v Speaker 3>anywhere to the underlying truth.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so.
<v Speaker 3>I am there, but it wasn't until I am there, however,
<v Speaker 3>there the show. But it wasn't until I think I
<v Speaker 3>got to be in the last years of the show,
<v Speaker 3>when I was like fifteen, sixteen, seventeen eighteen, that I
<v Speaker 3>so it was a secret, but I got my body back.
<v Speaker 2>Put your way, got a dance, Yeah, okay, give me
<v Speaker 2>the ball, give me the ball, gotcha?
<v Speaker 3>Oh man, I did fail home a one oh one. No,
<v Speaker 3>come on, no, it's true. I know my workers won't
<v Speaker 3>believe that.
<v Speaker 2>Wait a minute, but I don't know what them. I
<v Speaker 2>acted like I knew what you were talking about.
<v Speaker 3>How'd I do the only way I know Broadway tunes? Oh? Oh?
<v Speaker 2>Is that because I was paid to sing them?
<v Speaker 3>Okay?
<v Speaker 2>Well, okay, fair so yeah?
<v Speaker 3>And also, oh, if we can just get psychological for
<v Speaker 3>a second. Sure I found out not by my own.
<v Speaker 3>A friend told me that I did this. Can I
<v Speaker 3>talk naughty? I'm allowed to say? Than what naughty?
<v Speaker 2>Probably you sure are here?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, we're not live, so you can put your little
<v Speaker 3>bleep comes on.
<v Speaker 2>And that's what I did.
<v Speaker 3>That's right, And then the King Family places your podcast.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I used to rent a place up in a local
<v Speaker 3>mountain resort here called Lake Arrowhead. Yeah, that's the naughty word. Anyway.
<v Speaker 3>I'd rent a place in the fall, take all my
<v Speaker 3>friends up for an autumn you know, like weekend contest,
<v Speaker 3>and I would have people drop off firewood for the weekend.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm up there, and y'all know how I speak.
<v Speaker 2>We do now?
<v Speaker 3>We do now? Yeah? And I went early with one
<v Speaker 3>of my girlfriends and we're sitting there talking. Knock knock,
<v Speaker 3>knock on the door, and it's the firewood guys. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and she's sitting at My friend is sitting just a
<v Speaker 3>few feet away in the in the living room. And
<v Speaker 3>I opened the door and here's these birdies, you know,
<v Speaker 3>yeah lumberga. I'm a lovel.
<v Speaker 2>Actually lumberjair if you think about it.
<v Speaker 3>And these young guys, you know, just mountain kids. Sure,
<v Speaker 3>and they go, Hi, we're here at the firewood and
<v Speaker 3>I go from this too, Yeah, thanks for coming. If
<v Speaker 3>you'll set that up over there, yeah, just under that
<v Speaker 3>eve there, that'd be great. Uh, yeah, here you go,
<v Speaker 3>thanks for coming over. And I got your number for
<v Speaker 3>the future. Fucking a right, and I'm well done, and yes, fabulous.
<v Speaker 3>I closed the door. My girlfriend Julie goes, what was that?
<v Speaker 2>And what was what?
<v Speaker 3>She goes, are you kidding me?
<v Speaker 2>You didn't even know you did it?
<v Speaker 3>Probably a safety measure, and she goes, I know what
<v Speaker 3>you're talking about. She goes, what was that? You're sports
<v Speaker 3>and pussy voice.
<v Speaker 2>So I didn't know that.
<v Speaker 3>I you know that I was, you know, using this voice,
<v Speaker 3>and uh it's a damn fine one, which I've used
<v Speaker 3>as a cartoon voice over, you know, I've employed that fellow. No,
<v Speaker 3>that's funny, but I speaking a voice the world a
<v Speaker 3>voice I was doing this protection thing, and now what
<v Speaker 3>I use it for besides work is embarrassing my friends
<v Speaker 3>and family. Perfect will be someplace that's maybe like we'll
<v Speaker 3>be on the lake, you know, and there's all the
<v Speaker 3>guys in their you know, speedboats and stuff, and We'll
<v Speaker 3>be just sitting there chatting, and I'll yell out to them, hey,
<v Speaker 3>how's your weekend going? Fucking e bro right on, right on,
<v Speaker 3>And they are between giggling and wanting to smack me
<v Speaker 3>with a baseball back right right right, They're just go
<v Speaker 3>like this, all right, man, we'll see you next time.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, right on, Hey, geez, I feel like changing a
<v Speaker 2>flat tire.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, what you do? Because I don't know our time here,
<v Speaker 3>that's pretty good.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I think we're doing damn fun here.
<v Speaker 2>Is there anything you'd like to talk about?
<v Speaker 3>You can get again. It's called I keep using the
<v Speaker 3>name of that one man show. Stop me if I
<v Speaker 3>told you this. No, it's called now They're All here.
<v Speaker 3>The title comes from is the only line my grandmother
<v Speaker 3>ever had on the show.
<v Speaker 2>Now They're all Are? We are all?
<v Speaker 3>Now? Now?
<v Speaker 2>No, it's they they okay?
<v Speaker 3>Because it's our Thanksgiving special. She's sitting on the parts
<v Speaker 3>of this big Victorian home that's our family is supposed
<v Speaker 3>to be our family home, right, and everybody comes in.
<v Speaker 3>We're singing over the river and my little cousin Adam
<v Speaker 3>is scheduled to be everybody's inside. There's a beat and
<v Speaker 3>he comes running up the steps, gives her a peck
<v Speaker 3>on the cheek and runs in. And Grandma looks at
<v Speaker 3>the camera and says, now they're all here, and the
<v Speaker 3>hills are alive with the sound of music. Wow comes
<v Speaker 3>up in the background, and it is a phrase that
<v Speaker 3>we still use in our family. There are otherwives from
<v Speaker 3>the show that if you're the last to show up,
<v Speaker 3>someone inevitably goes, now they're all here.
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's great.
<v Speaker 3>It's kind of a goofy titled, but it has yeah
<v Speaker 3>purpose sentimental.
<v Speaker 4>What it's sentimental.
<v Speaker 3>It is sentimental and represents the unity of togetherness.
<v Speaker 2>That's awesome. Yeah, that's awesome. That's a nice that's a
<v Speaker 2>nice button.
<v Speaker 3>And I get the same response that as you've I'm
<v Speaker 3>sure experienced at the con. At the com con circuit,
<v Speaker 3>the what kids come up and say to us about
<v Speaker 3>I had a bad home life and you got me
<v Speaker 3>through this.
<v Speaker 2>So you got me through that.
<v Speaker 3>I wish Da Da and the King family, the fans
<v Speaker 3>that are now between the ages of fifty and death
<v Speaker 3>will say the same things, I was an only child
<v Speaker 3>or abusive home.
<v Speaker 2>Bah bah bah.
<v Speaker 3>So my true button out.
<v Speaker 2>Here would be.
<v Speaker 3>The insane gratitude I have had for being in your
<v Speaker 3>homes for six a few years, sixty years, I've been
<v Speaker 3>in your living room and to this day I get
<v Speaker 3>paid to have you guys say thank you for my childhood.
<v Speaker 3>And same with the King family, thank you for letting
<v Speaker 3>me be a part of your family. So it's an honor.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, it is an honor. That's it is never lost. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>never lost on me.
<v Speaker 3>And I think I know our team, I know our peeps,
<v Speaker 3>and I'm so proud of Geez. I didn't think I
<v Speaker 3>was going to go here. Fah. That it is never
<v Speaker 3>lost on us, you guys, because we don't get it us. Really,
<v Speaker 3>it is not. We don't get heady.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's like, well, we work in a vacuum, we
<v Speaker 1>work in a room alone, and it's moments like this
<v Speaker 1>and as you have mentioned before, the conventions where people
<v Speaker 1>will come up and they can't even talk because all
<v Speaker 1>of a sudden, you know, you launch into this, you
<v Speaker 1>start that forget about it, and you know there's a
<v Speaker 1>forty year old who's now five.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, and it's and it's a nice it's a beautiful thing.
<v Speaker 2>It's a really beautiful thing.
<v Speaker 1>And my old joke is, now that I've done this
<v Speaker 1>for you, I can go back to being a jerk
<v Speaker 1>because I'm and break even, you know, and break even.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you so much for being here by.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, thank you very much, guys, thanks for having me back.
<v Speaker 3>I'm out of this. You can get it at Amazon
<v Speaker 3>or my publishers, which are rarebird Lit dot com, r
<v Speaker 3>A R E b I R D L I t
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<v Speaker 3>and I hope you like it too. Awesome.
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<v Speaker 4>Do it now, and we have we have to do
<v Speaker 4>a voice swap for the for the fans, we got
<v Speaker 4>to do a couple of voices at least.
<v Speaker 3>So you're gonna sing, baby Cam, thank Heaven for little girls.
<v Speaker 2>Oh oh okay, thank Kevin for little girls.
<v Speaker 3>Remember you're seven?
<v Speaker 2>Sure, I'm seven? Oh you know the song?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, sure, oh yeah, maybe Gigi, maybe Tess.
<v Speaker 3>Just what your characters singing?
<v Speaker 2>And see that's what I'm saying.
<v Speaker 3>This is a musical called Gigi. Yeah, this is one
<v Speaker 3>of the biggest Mariva. Yes, okay, is it gonna be
<v Speaker 3>Tasmanian devil singing things? Thanks for girls? Sure said no
<v Speaker 3>one ever?
<v Speaker 2>Said no one ever. And then you should respond.
<v Speaker 3>As whatever your heart one of your characters, one of
<v Speaker 3>one of your voices doing the station break I would do.
<v Speaker 2>On the I like the one.
<v Speaker 1>I like the one that you did on the farm.
<v Speaker 1>By the way, I shay, we whack them that guy
<v Speaker 1>the oh yes, Friday the ferrets.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah he was first. Thank Kevin for little girls.
<v Speaker 3>Well for little girls get bigger every day. Just finish
<v Speaker 3>the phrase.
<v Speaker 2>For lettle girls get bigger every day.
<v Speaker 3>Here some more ladies and gentlemen stay done for usaid
<v Speaker 3>I didn't have a king family show which follows. This
<v Speaker 3>is a minute after people to some commer shows.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, that was painful, James, we've done it again to
<v Speaker 2>my purple brother.
<v Speaker 1>Yes that's right, I was your older brother still Amy.
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<v Speaker 2>Buddy, thank you
<v Speaker 3>Very cool