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WGN Radio
"gerald alston" Discussed on WGN Radio
"WGN radio. I'm Raleigh James, so that's the flip side of the manhattans first single first chart single on deluxe second single to picture became quite clear didn't chart, but it's gonna take a lot to bring me back down to number 36. Give them up on a flip, and that was a raid de rouge and Billy Terrell who wrote that. And the what nots did it as well. It was just a great little record, and it also was part of the movement to a lot of Philadelphia influence on the manhattans. And George Kerr, who I mentioned who produced the picture became clear and others, certainly had a number of number of Philadelphia connections. And yeah, that's where that really really came into play with some of the some of the background musicians, but also writers such as ability to rel and read to rush and it was it was just great. So it's going to take a lot to bring me back which was the a side of that and like I say the first charter for the manhattans on deluxe and a sunny was talking about that. And he said, actually, it was co written by a friend of mine, Richard poindexter, who also wrote hypnotized for Linda Jones, just a great record, and of course George kirp said as well. And he also wrote thin line between love and hate for the persuaders. And so, yeah, and of course, one ought to be lead to vocalists for the persuaders later. So yeah, George carrot got in the act all the way around on this stuff. And the next thing you know, deluxe releases an album with these hands. That was 1970. And I think what he's got produced that album, but there were a number of things on it that were different for them, such as remakes of things like can't take my eyes off you, and by the time I get to Phoenix and I think that son, he said, you know the sounds closer to the four freshmen or the high lows than what people would expect from the manhattans and that was buddy Scott's idea. And so it was that what followed was from Atlanta to goodbye, you know, my heart could speak was in there too. And you know, they weren't mid charters of sorts on the R&B charts. But again, barely bubbled under on the pop charts. And but the group is touring that's for sure. And that's what they wanted. But while they were doing that, they're on the road and they're starting to think that smitty's got a problem. And it first, they thought, you know, he's hitting the booze or something. He's doing drugs, and there's all sorts of things that they're saying. He's just not right. Well, the reality was he was not right. He had a brain tumor. And he got to the point of being delirious before anyone really put this together that this was a medical emergency. You know, the group was thinking he's just drinking on the sly. But they searched his house and his cars and there's no bottles or anything. And then he has an accident. He falls down and they got all sorts of diagnoses. They went to different hospitals and then in one they finally said, well, it was a brain hemorrhaged because you looked at his right eye and you could see the brain bleeding behind it. And he was supposed to have surgery that morning. Well, that morning was December 16th and 1970. He was 30 years old, two days away from his 31st birthday, and he died. And a subdural hematoma was on the autopsy report, but the reality is he had, and they did not know a brain tumor. And this was this was just horrible. And, you know, Joe Evans was there in a minute at the hospital and of course feel terrible and sunny. And blew everybody to say the least. But now we're getting into an issue of, okay, smitty is our lead. Who do we get? And like I was talking last night first they were thinking, well, Lee Williams maybe, but Lee was not going to leave the symbols, although he should have, since the symbols basically left themselves, but ultimately they did get Gerald alston. And that was that was luck for them. Yeah, I was Henderson, North Carolina, same city, Benny king, was born. And it was, it was a perfect match, because Gerald had experienced a group called he had the new imperials in high school and then he was the gospel jubilees on Sundays and things like that. But not the kind of experience that would preclude him saying, yeah, I'll take a go with the manhattans. And again, if you look at the manhattans now, you know what happened to mon Columbia and how huge they were, but we're really not talking about a group that has had a lot of success at this point. What they were doing is tours of historically black colleges and universities. And that was great. Don't get me wrong, but it wasn't the kind of thing where you're saying this is big money or anything of that nature. So in fact, the first single on Gerald on lead was I can't stand for you to leave me on deluxe in 1971 and what's interesting about that is not only George Kerr is involved, but Bert keyes, who, you know, if you listen to the show, the opener every night is Burt keyes. But he was a musician in the 40s and jazz musician of pianist and but he also had done a lot of work on Savoy and Rama and coed and labels of that nature. So, you know, and later, of course, he wrote a lot of things like love on a two way street for the moment. So originally that was Leslie Valentine, by the way. And later went on to music scores and all that kind of stuff. So this was this was absolutely good company to be in. Well, to add to that mix, then they suddenly got them all but teddy randazzo. And of course, you know, teddy did, man, a number of wonderful things, and also a lot of writing for the manhattans in the 70s. So you started to have some good singles on the looks. But again, I think backup was the biggest hit. It got to
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"gerald alston" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Friday. High of 67. Looks like we'll get some sunshine from dry weather in here for the weekend 64 degrees right now in Boston President Biden, raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers. Hide inside an executive order boosting the wage from nearly $11 an hour to $15 an hour that covers hundreds of thousands of employees who work for federal contractors. The wage hike kicks in next year I'm Tom Roberts, the Department of Homeland Security, announcing a new operation to combat transnational organizations trafficking migrants across the border. It's called Operation Sentinel, an effort to prevent transnational crime organizations from smuggling migrants across the border. Homeland Security hopes to do this by focusing not on Lee on the funding for these organizations, but also their operations. In a conference call with reporters Tuesday, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that with the help of federal and foreign partners, they aim to cut off the access to profits by denying these criminal organizations the ability to engage in travel, trade and finance in the U. S. Alex Parrish, a ABC NEWS Washington A new poll of Boston voters shows 61% prefer having local elections at the same time as presidential and national midterm elections. The Globe reports. The pole was put together by policy for progress and the MassINC polling group surveying more than 550 registered voters, advocates say this type of move would help lessen racial disparities. And increase voter turnout. Supporters of an effort to recall California's governor Gavin Newsom, now have enough signatures to trigger a recall vote. There are a few more steps, though, before a date is set. It's just like in 2003 when many names started jumping in already, former porn star Mary Carey is again running in the recall, just like she did in 2003. Of course, Back then Arnold Schwarzenegger won. This time so far the most well known Republican name to oppose Newsome, his former Olympic athlete, Caitlyn Jenner, But the most populated areas are still very blue here like L. A and the San Francisco Bay area successfully re calling Newsome is going to be a major challenge is a B C's. Alex Stone Police in Bristol, Rhode Island. Investigating after several Nazi themed stickers were found in town Saturday Stickers with images of all Adolf Hitler and the words White boys summer were found at the town library and on a mail box outside the post office. Even more stickers were found later. They were removed and processed. His evidence by police, who are still trying to identify locate two possible suspects, the state's highest court ruling in favor of a black firefighter who claimed he was a victim of racial discrimination. There is some strong language in this ruling from the state Supreme Court. They write. We emphasized today what should no longer need to be said in 2021. The use of the N word has absolutely no place. In any workplace environment in the Commonwealth. The case goes back to 2010 of Brooklyn firefighter accidentally left of that word on the voice mail of the fallen belonging to black firefighter Gerald Alston. Austin filed a grievance with the town. Six years later he was fired. The lieutenant had been promoted. But the state Civil Service Commission ordered the firefighters reinstatement, saying the town had no just cause to fire him. And today with this strong language, the SJC upheld That commission decision. Carl Stevens, WBC Boston's news radio, five whole weight We head off to Wall Street, Andrew Oh Dae is at Bloomberg. What do you want to record every day or something? It would be nice didn't happen today. Though NASDAQ and S and P 500 fell short of adding to yesterday's records. The NASDAQ fell 49 S and P 500 down one no record for the Dow, but at least it gained three. An entire year of people dressing for comfort instead of style, while working at home did wonders for a maker of proudly ugly shoes. Chairs of crocks jumped 15% to a record today as it reported for stronger than forecast profit and sales for the last quarter and doubled its forecast for the year, predicting that we will keep on buying crocs shoes even as many of us returned to life. Around other people. And you rode a Bloomberg business on WBZ Boston's news radio at home at work or if it's one of the same. Your place for news hasn't changed. Tell your smart speaker to play WBZ news radio on my heart radio. Hello..
The Face Radio
"gerald alston" Discussed on The Face Radio
"It. What happened to ricky taylor. Well you know. Richie was very very smart very intelligent man and i'm gonna tell you this story. I remember when i got into group. We did a lot of promotional tour because he didn't have a wreck. And i remember richie coming to me one day when somewhere. We was down south like new orleans or somewhere in the south mississippi. These are the words he said. I will always remember. He came to mason gerald. He said i'm going to have to leave the group when we get a hit record and you know he he said i was blessed by god to be here to help this group become a success and wanted made his first hit record in. I step off by other plans in my life. That god has that will be this and this is the lab and we had kissing say goodbye chain. Trust one day and he said The begin to take all he sent fellow. I'm gonna have to leave group completed my mission here my job with the manhattan and now i go on to the next step. And that's when richie left the group and became a muslim and he told me that years before you know that he would have to do. This is so amazing to me. And he never ever looked back shortly after you saw the to pursue a solo career. Was it difficult to leave through. It would be a big focus on the road. You don't know which way to join. Dd you just don't know which path to take us gonna fully haunt us by walk. And that's what. I did Patty at this point in my career. When i left the group i didn't have to deal with anybody and i remember. It was a point in my life. Because we've been working together. We were working so much until we didn't get a chance to rehearse like we want to and continue like we wanted to do and just how much work we work in six days a week. Travel sometimes travel on sunday. We leave home going out on the road for a week and ended up staying out there two weeks so i got so point. Wesson uses become a job. And i wanted to do it on. Turns and i came into office one day at a meeting until the guys look. I just had throat surgery on top of that. And that's all the guys i said i'd like to i think i'm going to pursue a so local media i just want to try and massive but i'll stay with you until you get somebody to take my place and that's when we we did. I left the group. Love eighty seven eighty seven And went out to california and can record my first solo album and the first single from that was Take me where you want. And it was a wonderful wonderful career and gratifying to me. It was How you choose those. I was on the motown label. Wasn't it and so you had a motel five albums and ten solo singles Up to nineteen ninety-five Most successful was open. Invitation not reasonable fourteen. A cooler was the great single slow motion. Oh my god slow motion. Take me where you want to getting back into the. Oh my god. Stay a little while Also did a cover of the eagles. I can't tell you why. Oh wow you still Business courses gerald alston and the manhattan's I would say you go plans to go into the uk but obviously not at the moment not at not at the moment but we're working on fontana are working hopefully by noon next day. Lovely said the next question is is only new material on the codes. Yes we are in the process of finishing up our new cd and the title of its manhattan featuring jerrell allston the legacy continues and we have like four or five new songs and then we have covered songs that we've already yeah And also i did. A solo project with george duke. Stanley caught back in the ninety. And i added that on news. A phone call Right by my side and this is like a solo thing but and we got a new song we had who releases the first singles. Call get it ready and today. We have a new release. that's called. She's coming home and look. That's the latest single from the forthcoming album and We're looking forward to it. You know To to continue to bring we will continue to bring music to fans all around the world and our website. That's just kiss and say goodbye dot com or facebook manhattan featuring gerald austin and on instagram the manhattan featuring gerald lawson lieutenant that and We just gonna continue singing. Good glad to hear it gerald. Thanks so much for your time of really enjoyed talking to you. And i wish you every success for the future you and also i just i just want to know that David tyson and choi may came in twenty seven ago and they fit right in. So we'll still carrying the torch and we will always always a trip to those five gentlemen. Glue loved kennett. Kelly stunning gibbons richard taylor and kenneth kelly. These guys laid the groundwork us be here today. And troy myself and they will keep it coming. We will keep the legacy alive exit right. Thank you again to yeah. Just keep doing what you're doing in the thank you absolutely pleasure chatting to you. Enjoy the rest of your day job. Thank you again you too. Thank you saw. What a great guy. I'm gonna play out now with a second of two tracks Seem release off the new. Lp is called getting ready and it's available for download now on all streaming sites stream today told the fellas gold do so candles and you hurry to get old. It's been quite a while since we've had so many other things were the kids found with just you. And we don't have the we can take as we have been and is nothing else could hear it in.
The Face Radio
"gerald alston" Discussed on The Face Radio
"Great from the manhattans and live on the line. I'll got lead singer. Gerald alston gerald welcome to england. Thank you for my kid. It's great to have you with us. So how did you start singing. I started seeing in very young My I come from a singing family. Father was a singer. He and his brother and his uncles and drubbing in law had called gospel and The gospel just rub. I mean goggle. Singing has been a part of my life and has been a part of my life. 'cause you would you formed urine grew very early on you. Tell me about the new imperials. School goes when i was in about. Maybe the eighth grade Give it take a year. So we formed. A group called jerrell allston and the new imperial saturday night friday and saturday night and were jerrell allston and the new imperial and on Sunday we were to gospel jubilee over so you're singing secular music fridays and saturdays and then sunday into gospel acid testing. You want you. Did you come to him to meet the manhattan's then because you in north carolina and those guys are from new jersey. How the happen yet. I met them the first year. Beginning of the first year of college. I was class one day and my professor asked me if i would let the use my phone system and the manhattan's on tour with the supreme at the time. Wow jean terrell was leasing and they were heading dallas to stop too so They performed they had some dates. They performed before forty got there and fortunately they was at my college. Kissel junior college and they I set my system. And i started singing a song win. We did mary. We'll have big celebration on. And so they came. They hurt me seeing this song and they came in and blew luckily glue lovett league. Kenneth kelly richer taylor The manager and philip flood and they came in and richard heard me seeing and he looked at me and he said this is a godsend. I'm telling you the whole story either gonna give an so when he said that what he was talking about. But i found out afterwards to the originally singer. Joyce smith which can call smitty was very ill and he was still performing with the group and they had philip flood as a stand-in in case that many got sick while they wanna rule so anyway they looked at me and ask asked sing on his show and after the show they took my name and my number and they called me. Oh that was on a wednesday night. They called me up until sunday. They reach me on sunday and Told me they have a ticket for me to plot to dallas texas reports. I was under underage for my day. The manager got in touch with my parents contract. Signed everything louis. How old were you then. Seventy house seventeen. And i flew down to dallas texas and i watched manhattan's percent with the supremes for ten days and i came back home and Rest of my pain. And then i went to new york. And i started rehearsing with manhattan and then the rest was that was fifty years ago replicate absolutely but you got some big shoes to fill you. Because smith smith had been frontman well since the group started in sixty three to sixty two. Wow being certainly took to new strong. Because i mean when he joined the manhattan's they already the just been awarded the most promising group award by the national association. Tv and radio announces so it wasn't just a small group policy. Do a really making plays trail. But you might you take him to the next level. When i came in and was like perfectly and you know I was. I was very nervous but took me over and gave me confident without first show that we perform in new york and it was built the albee theatre in brooklyn and Night we were dressing room. I was nervous and win the curtains. Guess who standing on her front row. George mit role. Where you know. We're lucky to have you ever check and see what was beaming. Yes he was and he came back that night after the show gave me the biggest hug and congratulated me. They know And they gave me all the hope in the world note in this job. I i was more at ease and the hope noted. I just really let myself going. Yeah and Just to have his approval. Knowing that i was taking his plate and that was that was like in november or something like that and he passed away on december sixteenth bless. It wasn't long before you achieve national success. Was it major national success with them. A million to one. That's right a million to one guy. That was one of the first songs that i recorded with the group and we recorded that song at a studio in new york city we went in and recorded. We recorded with live orchestra. All that one time everything was done at one pack and that was my first time ever singing with orchestra and It was like in being in heaven. Perfectly mixed in my headphones. I think one we nailed it to want that sums to brought you to the attention of the major players though because he wasn't long before columbia came in for you. What is it exactly. That was the beginning of Wanted assaulted opened the door to my beginning with manhattan and nationally internationally just sprayed it. You know. I just kept going during giger saying that was my beginning And of course you biggest reco today was case say goodbye. What timeless classic one. That really took you to the peak of the manhattan's korea didn't put you on the international stage and lots of fame but it wasn't without a.