171. Tommy James

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Rock 'n' roll legend Tommy James serenades Gilbert and Frank with some of his biggest hits ("I Think We're Alone Now," "Crystal Blue Persuasion") and discusses his troubled, decades-long relationship with notorious music mogul/mob associate Morris Levy. Also, "Sgt. Pepper" changes the game, Gene Krupa hits hard times, Hubert Humphrey calls in a favor and Tommy reveals the strange origin of "Mony Mony." PLUS: Alan Freed! Vincent "The Chin" Gigante! "Hanky Panky" tops the charts! Tommy pens "Tighter, Tighter"! And Ed Sullivan presents "Tony Jones and the Spondells"! Photos: Charles Eshelman www.charleseshelman.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, Gil, we lost three greats in the last couple of weeks.
0:07.0	And, uh, Joe Bologna.
0:09.0	Wonderful, Joe Bologna from a movie, my favorite year, that we talk about all the time.
0:13.2	And I remember Joe Bologna popping up for one of those really scary, um, you know, pilots
0:26.0	that they would hide and marry to a children.
0:28.5	Oh, that's where I was.
0:29.5	Joe Bologna.
0:30.5	And Matt Leblanc was his son.
0:32.5	Yeah.
0:33.5	I have a memory of that.
0:34.5	We're like the bunnies would say, Hey, you know, a good friend.
0:39.5	So, so here I'm going to go, well, they're such good friends.
0:42.9	How come they've never once met?
0:44.4	I remember that pilot, but he was a versatile guy who did a lot of things.
0:48.1	Oh, yeah.
0:49.1	And very, very funny in the Sid Cesar part in my favorite year.
0:52.3	Yeah.
0:53.3	And also in another one of those favorite naked movies, uh, oh,
0:59.5	Blame it on real Stanley Donnelly.
1:01.3	Yeah.
1:02.3	Yeah.
1:03.3	Yeah.
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