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Speaker 1: And right now joining us alive in studio for first time, first time in a long time. Glenn R. J. Wilett, also known as Oh let me get that mic on the People's Mayor, is here with us. But that's not why he's here today. Today, you are not here as Glenn r J. Will Let the People's Marrior. You're you're here as will Let Glenn the artist. Is that correct? Glenn?
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Do I have to call you for the purposes of this conversation? Do I have to? Should I call you? Address you as Wallette or can I still call you Glenn? I should call you Wilette.
Speaker 2: It doesn't really matter because I have.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you. That's going to take some getting used to.
Speaker 2: It's just on my name that I was required to take because your supports have a station name. Yeah, and uh, I wanted something simple. How much you can't go more simple than that?
Speaker 1: Yes? Well, you could have gone with an unpronounceable symbol like Prince had for a while, you know, maybe like uh, maybe like an O for Wallett. But do something make it in like a weird font or something.
Speaker 2: If someone wanted me to call it Glenn.
Speaker 1: Oh, Glenn. I like that. I like that. That's got a nice ring. Well that's why, that's what the diehards could call you, right, like you're die hard fans. They could be like, yeah, you go into the Oak Glenn show. Who's OA Glenn? You know we'll let Glenn. Oh yeah that guy. Of course. Of course I'm going You've been playing out a lot, right, you've been performing a lot.
Speaker 2: Live, Yes, and now I'm I'm coming home.
Speaker 1: You're coming home.
Speaker 2: Well, I started in area that nobody knew me because I'm well known here and uh as who I am? So yes, I didn't want people who doesn't know what to tell you the truth they like you or not. So I'm going to start in a strange city.
Speaker 1: Not to correct you, but who I Am is coming on in the second hour today along with tracks. Really, you're not who I am? You're will let Glenn. Just to be clear for the audience, I don't want it. I don't want anyone to be confused. Yeah I agree, yes, yes, so, and you're going to be performing live for us today. Correct, Yes, We've got we've got several uh, several songs skewed up. Now, how do you choose the songs, Uh that that you perform? What is it? What is it about these songs selections? Uh that that make you say, uh, this is a song that will let Glenn be performing live?
Speaker 2: When I when I, when I choose my songs for a complete concert, which they last about two hours, two hours, Well, there's it in between, and I do a half hour of comedy.
Speaker 1: You do, I'd see. I didn't know this.
Speaker 2: You do a half hour of in French?
Speaker 1: Yes, you do comedy in English and French.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it's ethnic humor, yeah, because well but it's not it's not it's not planned. Okay, I look at the audience.
Speaker 1: Oh, you do crowd work, yes, Oh, no offense, but the crowd work, don't don't you have any actual jokes?
Speaker 2: Or I do, and I'll put him in there.
Speaker 1: But terror I love I love Jenny. Jenny knows how I feel about because I tell him to.
Speaker 2: Be careful if I picked you, because you may be embarrassed in front of the lot of people.
Speaker 1: Oh so there's a little bit of danger to the show. There's a little bit of danger. Well, like when is dangerous?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say I'm dangerous.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't mean like physically dangerous, like you've heard anybody, I just mean in terms of your performance and and wow, this is this is great now.
Speaker 2: The songs that I've chosen, some of them are very powerful, some are very meaningful. I choose my songs to the mood that I am, and I like to have a variety because I do everything except for raps. So I do any artists pretty much, any artists, as long as it's a song that I want to air. Uh my, my, My concerts are are totally family oriented.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I don't want no swearing in front of a five year old or something.
Speaker 1: You know, right right, so you don't do like you don't cover straight out of Compton by nw A is what you're saying.
Speaker 2: No, but I do a lot of uh, rock and roll and hard rock. I do a lot of prints, and I do a lot of Yeah, I do, I do Chair, I do, I do Adam Lamberg, I do. I do a lot of I do a lot of Queen. For example, you do hard rock and I love journey.
Speaker 1: Yes. Oh wow, Yes, I think I saw a video of you performing. Don't stop believing. Yeah, at where have you? Where have you been performing?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Where can people see you.
Speaker 2: Well, you can see me on a weekly basis. I'm at on Mondays, I'm at the Breezeway. This is all karaoke, which is all coming to an end. By the way, Oh, karaoke is coming to an end. Has there been an I don't know if maybe there's been executive order. No, I'm going professional now.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, you're going professional. So this is like you're coming out as well when the professional.
Speaker 2: So I do the Briezebae on Monday. On Tuesday, I do the Goat. On Wednesday, I do uh Stock Brewery, which I've had a concert there last month's, this past this past Mothers Day, I did my first concert in Manchester, Okay. And then I on Thursday, I do the Farm Restaurant. And on Friday, I do the Rival casino.
Speaker 1: The Ripple Casino.
Speaker 2: The Rival.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I thought you said Ripple. I was like the gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 2: And on Saturdays when I'm when I have a my concert is basically on Saturdays and Sundays.
Speaker 1: Playing a casino. Are you concerned that you're promoting gambling.
Speaker 2: Because I don't gamble?
Speaker 1: Okay? Good, good, because you know you got to think about the kids. Yeah, you don't want parents to turn against you and start telling their kids, Hey, don't listen to that. We'll let Glenn. He promotes bad things.
Speaker 2: I don't gamble, I don't drink. I don't take drugs other than medications. I don't smoke. Yeah, it's pure family.
Speaker 1: Your straight edge is what you're saying.
Speaker 2: I am. Yes, my wild times are gone.
Speaker 1: Yes. No, you're a good You're a good inspiration for the youth. What is your demographic? Would you say, like, are you are you going for that eighteen to forty nine demographic or what's your what's your demo?
Speaker 2: I'm really shocked. I'm very big with the college crowd. Yes, soon I understand that. But maybe it's because of the music that I'm playing and I'm in tune with them. Yes, I do have a following with the young people who go to Emthince for example. Oh so I always they always come to the Goat and it's very encouraging. Yes, and I but my my range is from you can be from five years old to ninety nine.
Speaker 1: That's quite arranged, Glenn, that's quite a range.
Speaker 2: And the songs that I do are from nineteen twenty to twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Although I don't think you're your typical ninety nine year old probably can't hear you. Well, they have ear ring, they do well, they do have they can do implants. Iniars now, I guess, but.
Speaker 2: I don't think I see people that old that are there, right, But I do see a lot of seniors.
Speaker 1: You, but you don't see ninet nine year old people at the goat No, I no, okay, now the goat? Right? And you do meet and greets too, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, act to well, not when I do careok, when I after my concerts.
Speaker 1: Yes, after your concerts. So is there like a fee for that?
Speaker 2: No? Oh okay, no, and I haven't. I don't sign in autographs yet. I'm not there yet. I don't want my picture on a postcard. Really they want me to do that or T shirt. It's coming, but yeah, it's just not me. I'm a simple guy. I'm a regular citizen. And I'll have to get I'll have to grow out of it, I guess, but I'll never forget who I am, and I'll always think of the people first.
Speaker 1: Always think of the people first. Remember your roots. You know, you see the same people on your way down that you saw the way up. Yeah, So that's important.
Speaker 2: Here's a question for the audience. Yes, when I do the dance, the last dance, it's by Daniel BETTIPETI I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, but uh, and I do it in English, parts of it in French, and then the last paragraph is done in a different language, and no one's figured out which language it is yet. At the end of the show, I will tell.
Speaker 1: You so you but you saved that part for the last paragraph of the song.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it's specific.
Speaker 1: Yes, I understand. Okay, So what would you like to perform? First? For us, We'll let Glenn.
Speaker 2: Come what may from from the uge.
Speaker 1: Now, for people watching the video, I should explain because they're about to see something unusual that they don't see typically on the program. I'm going to actually turn this monitor toward you so they I believe it's pronounce mulan rouge.
Speaker 2: Correct. Yes, I'm French.
Speaker 1: Yes, because you said it like like some people, you know lame is that they pronounce it less miserables because they.
Speaker 2: Don't know is it up? Yes, French.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're French, so you know you know the right way to and.
Speaker 2: You'll find that I really am French. At the point that they say, oh, he really rolls his ours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people, I can't roll my rs.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know any any French really, I know like we we, I know like uh we we.
Speaker 2: Uh pepee pooh pooh, oh my god.
Speaker 1: That's about it. Okay. So so what we're gonna do is, so I'm gonna start the song and then going to as quickly as I can. I'm going to turn the monitor towards you so that you can read the lyrics. Do you are are any of the songs that you do live? Have you memorized the paragraphs as you say?
Speaker 2: Yes, some of them?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The thing is is that right now in my right eyes eight line oh and uh and I uh and I know about a thousand songs, and at my age, you're not going to know a thousand songs by heart.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: So that's a handicap for me, and so I'm using it as my benefit for me to perform I need in case if I get the words, they're there.
Speaker 1: I was recently reading a study about neurology and memory and so forth, and apparently the uh, it's estimated the average musician is able to memorize somewhere between nine hundred and fifty and nine hundred and seventy five songs. So if you're going for a thousand, yeah, you're kind of you're you're over the you're over the cap. I read that online somewhere, so obviously it's true. Okay, let me get the volume up here. So I'm going to start the song, and as quickly as I can, I'm gonna turn. I'm gonna turn this monitor, and then we'll be ready to go.
Speaker 1: If you are just joining us, we have will let Glenn the artist, am I said? Is it? Is it the artist will let Glenn? Or is it will let Glenn the artist? Or does it matter?
Speaker 2: Well, Glend the artist is fine.
Speaker 1: And is there a comma involved or a dash or how do you? Okay, just will let lend the artists?
Speaker 2: Okay, I will tell you that I do my own special effects.
Speaker 1: You do special effects?
Speaker 2: Yes, you'll hear.
Speaker 1: It like like like you make noises?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh I do like instruments, Oh uh I I do. I do an opening, a closing.
Speaker 5: What they do?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 2: But they do what a normal artist has for the music, for the for the for the openings in that the middle when it's just music. Yes, I do something, Oh you do. I'll need to continue singing, adding my own words all my songs at cover songs, okay, which makes them my song?
Speaker 1: Right? How do you what's your logic behind that? How does that make your song?
Speaker 2: If I ever chose to do an album, m I can't use every word it's in that song. That's plasury. Oh so I have to use.
Speaker 1: You don't want to commit pleasuring?
Speaker 2: No, I have to do. I have to do a cover song.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, first reality, right, I understand. Have you ever considered writing your own songs, your own music? You're a creative guy.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have. I now have a software that was installed two weeks ago and I'm learning how to use it, and I'll actually be able to do my own album at home. I have my own studio with the house. Oh very good, very good, own mix and everything.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, right, I was gonna sugget. I mean, someone of your caliber you might want to consider, you know well, but it costs a lot of money to actually recorded.
Speaker 2: Everything's digital today, yes, so you don't see no more tapes than CDs that much? Right, right, my music would become out digital. I'm now talking with Spotify. If I could get on Spotify, that would be great.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, who are you talking with at Spotify? Or he's talking to the head guy there, mister Spotify himself.
Speaker 2: Probably not they they said they they they sign me. Someone need to go right to the top.
Speaker 1: Glenn, Okay, talk to mister Spotify. I think his first name is Bill.
Speaker 4: Bill.
Speaker 1: All right, so I'm gonna I'm gonna start this. I'm gonna turn the monitor and uh come, what may come? What may as performed by We'll let Glenn the artist. Okay, here we go, pressing.
Speaker 2: Play and make it big?
Speaker 4: Oh do to do?
Speaker 5: Enjoy?
Speaker 2: Come with me? What I never knew that I could feel like these My I've never seen that sky high before.
Speaker 2: I want to then deep inside your dream.
Speaker 4: Every day I love you more and more. Listen to my heart.
Speaker 1: Can you hear it?
Speaker 4: A scene telling me to give you everything?
Speaker 2: Sees may change, winter to spring and summer.
Speaker 4: Ooh, but I love you until the end of time?
Speaker 5: Home? What may? Oh come?
Speaker 4: What the guys will love you? So until my die.
Speaker 2: Day. Suddenly the world see that shop perfect place. Suddenly it moves with that job her a grace. Suddenly my life doesn't seem such a wasting anymore in all evils around you, my darling dear, And there's no mountain to hide, the river to wide see it's sunny, and I'll be there by your side. Storm clouds may gather and starts me cool lo ooh, but I love you.
Speaker 4: Until the end all time?
Speaker 5: Poll?
Speaker 6: What made.
Speaker 5: Oh? Come? What made.
Speaker 4: Old? I will love you so? Kill my die?
Speaker 5: Day?
Speaker 2: Come?
Speaker 4: What maybe.
Speaker 5: Come? What may.
Speaker 4: Base? I will love you so? I love you, so love you so.
Speaker 2: Suddenly the world seems such a perfect.
Speaker 5: What may come? What made um?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 5: Oh die?
Speaker 2: I will love you, kill my die?
Speaker 6: Come?
Speaker 7: What may?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Wow? Glenn r. J. Will let the people's mayor. I'm sorry, We'll let Glenn the artist.
Speaker 2: Neathan'm getting used to.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I gotta swing that monitor back here. Good thing. I have long arms, Jenny calls me long arms because at the grocery store I can reach things.
Speaker 2: So for those of you who follow these songs and you know them by heart, yes, you'll notice that there is a big difference in the words. I did know.
Speaker 1: I did notice that, Glene Funny, you mentioned that, Yes.
Speaker 2: That's what makes it.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, I have to say I mean of all the Uh, of all the performances I've heard of, that song that is by far the most the most recent. Definitely, Yes, yes, well done. If you are just joining us, we'll let Glenn the artist is here with us. What's your favorite song you perform? Putting you on the spot here.
Speaker 2: I like to perform. I have a few, I have unforgettable. I also have the power of love. I do a lot of Hairy Style and Sam Adams. I love a lot of the powerful song. That's why I like come what May do a lot of theater songs. Yeah, Disney songs. Oh, I do it all, you do it all. I do it all. It takes practice. I practice. I get up in the morning and take my shower, get dressed, go to my studio. And I practiced three hours a day, Yes, in the morning, and then I go to work and not to work, I perform an Now there's three or four hours, depending where I am.
Speaker 1: Wow. Now have you ever had any formal vocal training.
Speaker 2: Other than I used to? I I talked, I say oh wow, not necessarily words about I used to humble lot when I was a kid. Yes, and Uh. I belonged to a lot of choirs school choirs, college choirs, church choirs. Yeah, and that's where I got my formal training. Okay, my creativity, it's just it just comes within me. I'm very creative.
Speaker 1: Yes you are, Yes, you are, absolutely Well what would you like to perform next? I'm dying to hear more.
Speaker 7: Actually, the next song is we Have We have many things like the Impossible Dream, The Impossible Dream, and it's an arrangement by Azar van Rose.
Speaker 2: Another very powerful song.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, let me find that one. Okay, here we go. I've got that cueued up. Are you ready, Glenn?
Speaker 2: I am ready.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to uh gonna play this and you have it on large turn this, uh, I will let's see here. Let me put that full screen for you, okay, and I'm gonna hit play a click play rather and this around and here we go.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 4: The raaa.
Speaker 8: Do do do do do do do do do doo?
Speaker 2: Oh uh enjoy hope sees the invisible, feel the intangible, and it cheese the impossible. Helen Keller said this, Enjoy the impossible dream. Do do do do do do do do do Do do do do do do.
Speaker 9: Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do?
Speaker 2: Dream how that impossible dream, And to fight.
Speaker 4: All that unbeatable fool, too.
Speaker 2: Bare with that unbearable sorrow, and to run, oh where the grave do not go, to right that unrightable wrong,
Speaker 2: And to love pure and chest from a fall, to try, when your arms are too weary, to reach that unreachable star.
Speaker 2: Because this is my quest, to follow that star, no matter I hopeless, Oh, no matter how pror to fight for that right without questioning, or Oh, to be willing to much much into hell without heaven leak.
Speaker 5: And I know.
Speaker 4: That if I'll tru.
Speaker 8: Leav true to this glorious quest, that my heart.
Speaker 4: Will be peaceful and calm.
Speaker 2: When I'm late to my ridest and this world.
Speaker 4: Will it be better for these that one man.
Speaker 2: Scorning, covered with scars, still strove with his last ounce of courage to read of that unreachable, that unreachable, that unreachable storm.
Speaker 5: Oh do do do do Do Do do do?
Speaker 2: And I love with dream of that impossible dream. Yes, and I'll reach old to that unreachable storm.
Speaker 9: That on reach boo storm, thank you.
Speaker 1: No, thank you.
Speaker 2: We'll let Glenn the artist that when I roll a lot of my rs, don't I.
Speaker 1: You do you roll a lot of your rs, which is not how I'm used to hearing it.
Speaker 2: It's it's a signature sgnature.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's that's how you make it your own.
Speaker 2: Your artist has to make it their own.
Speaker 1: Okay. I was afraid maybe you were mocking me because you know I can't roll my rs. No, no, I can't roll my rs. You knew that right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm French and I'm using my ability to I still I still speak and write and refriends.
Speaker 1: So yes, yes, yeah, if I try to roll my rs, nothing happens like I'm like urber, I sound like I'm having a stroke or something. I can't do it.
Speaker 7: D R.
Speaker 1: See, I can't do it, never been able to do it. Well, very good. Uh and I see what you mean about the the uh the extra Uh you kind of enhance it a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I make it my own.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you do. I think that's very fair to say if you are just joining us. Well, what Glenn the artist is here with us? You have a logo yet?
Speaker 9: Have you?
Speaker 1: Do you have any kind of a logo or anything.
Speaker 2: No, I'm working on it. You know I I am. This is new to me. Oh you know, and uh.
Speaker 1: Well you've been You've been at this for a long time though, really, I mean it's not that new.
Speaker 2: Well, but in front of crowds it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I did some That's why I had been doing a lot of karaoke. Oh, get rid of the stage fright, which didn't take long because I'm I'm not I'm not the shy kid that I used to be when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I didn't know you when you were a kid, but it's hard to imagine you shy.
Speaker 2: I was very shy you were you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh yeah, oh me too, I can relate to that.
Speaker 1: You want to do another one?
Speaker 2: Sure, the next song will be different, it's uh, I'm already there by I'm raising by Life by West Life.
Speaker 1: West Life, Yes, uh I remember West Life. Now why this song? Now, this song stands out. It's beautiful in that it's it's unlike the other songs, which are sort of standards or classics. One might say this is West Life, a much younger group.
Speaker 2: Yes, and they they it's a very meaningful song. Oh it's about losing a loved one. Oh yeah, it looks like a love song with the past.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, a love song with the past.
Speaker 2: You lost your wife where you lost a husband.
Speaker 1: M Okay, yeah, I think I know this song. I think I remember the song all right, So I'm going to uh, I'm gonna do same deal. I'm gonna out here this time. I will remember to make it full screen.
Speaker 2: You lost to find that I use a lot of my religious bringing in my songs.
Speaker 4: You do.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's important to me. Ah fakes as run my life, so it's very important.
Speaker 1: But do you do any actual religious songs?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 1: Oh, you do?
Speaker 5: I do?
Speaker 2: Like like what I'm pretty much do them all the old ones and new ones.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid at Saint John's going to Saint John's School and we would go on Sundays when my dad would take me to church, they would do songs at Saint John's, but they weren't like instead of I mean they would they would be there would be some religiou hymns, but there was also you know, the ones you're used to hearing, but there would also be these other songs that like because they had a band that they would play live, and they would do these songs that were not like classic religious hymns like share a little bit of your love.
Speaker 1: You ever hear that one?
Speaker 4: Share?
Speaker 1: I actually still remember these, like share a little bit of your love, my friends, share a little bit of your love.
Speaker 2: I do a lot of I'm Roman Catholic and how it was raised. Yes, I do a lot of Seth and Baptist songs. Oh okay, very deep. Yeah, you know it has a lot of meaning.
Speaker 1: Now do you know have you heard from the Vatican at all about that? Do they approve of you as a Roman Catholic doing Southern Baptist songs?
Speaker 2: I don't think I need their approval.
Speaker 1: You're like a cross denominational performer.
Speaker 2: I am an independent yes artists, and I sing what I want to say.
Speaker 1: So if the Pope, if the new Pope, he comes in and says, Glenn, I'll sing a song, you'll sing, You'll sing em a song? All right? Well, very good? Okay, So uh, I'll go ahead and click play on this and I'll turn the monitor around. So this is well, let Glenn the artist performing, I'm already there, all right, here we go.
Speaker 2: This is a relatively new song for me.
Speaker 1: Oh really okay, Oh, I don't hear anything and I think I know.
Speaker 2: Whoops, I'm gonna make it takes time.
Speaker 1: You think you start that over Let's start.
Speaker 2: That over here we go?
Speaker 1: All right? Oh yeah, here we go.
Speaker 2: And enjoy. He called her on that road from a lonely cole hotel room, just to hear her say I love you one more time. And when he heard that sound are the kids laughing in the background, he had to wipe away a tear from his eyes. A little voice came on that boone said, Daddy, when are you coming home? He said the first thing that came to his mind, because I'm all already there. Just take a look, take a look around. I'm that sunshine in your hair. I'm that shadow on that ground. I'm your whisper in the wind.
Speaker 2: I'm your imaginary friend.
Speaker 7: And I know.
Speaker 2: That I'm in your prayers. Oh, I'm all already there.
Speaker 4: I'm already there.
Speaker 2: She got back on that telephone, said I really miss you, my darling. Don't worry about the kids.
Speaker 4: They'll be all right.
Speaker 2: I wish I was in your arms tonight, laying right there beside you, But I know that I'll be in your dreams tonight, right and I'll gently kiss your lips, touch you with your fingertips. So turn out the light and close your eyes, because I'm all already there. Don't you make a sound tonight on the beat in your heart, on that wond light shining down.
Speaker 4: I'm your whispering.
Speaker 2: The wind, and I'll be there until the end. Can you see that love that we shod? But I'm all already there. We may be a thousand, a thousand miles of aw but I'll be with you wherever you are.
Speaker 2: I'm all already there to take a look.
Speaker 4: Take a look around, on.
Speaker 2: That shun shining your hair, on the shadow.
Speaker 5: On that ground.
Speaker 2: I'm your whisper in the wind, and I'll be there and until the end. Can you be the love that reach I'm already there yet, I'm all already because I'm already there. Yes, I'm already there.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Wow. Well let Glenn the artist. But that song you know, I never really paid much attention to the lyrics before. I feel like it's about uh, it's about the supernatural, Like he's threatening to be a ghost and haunt this person. You know, I'm the shadow on the ground. I mean that's creepy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about the part of about don't make a sound. Yeah, that kind of creeped me out a bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be a good Halloween SONGA I.
Speaker 2: Added that, Oh you had it. It came right behind the shadow things, so it made sense.
Speaker 1: Oh that, yes, shadow on the ground don't make a sound.
Speaker 2: Remember I make these songs in my own spooky.
Speaker 1: You made the song spooky. I like that a little, a little halloween swist.
Speaker 2: Known that I also need it a little bit spiritual that you've lost someone.
Speaker 1: I may have taken it the wrong way.
Speaker 2: I'm still there.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm sorry. Sometimes I misinterpret thing, but that's something about art, right, you know, you can you can interpret it different ways, you know. And I uh choose to interpret that as somebody dies and they come back as a ghost and they're haunting the person doing scary things, and it's like it turns into like an Amityville horror kind of situation.
Speaker 2: Created than I guess.
Speaker 1: So oh, by the way, so speaking of creativity, So our friend, you know Dan Dan Randlett also known as Dan Randall of Dan Randall and the Randlets. He also has a stage name. Yes, he says in the chat room, this is a masterclass vocal control reminiscent of later Sinatra or even Tony Bennett, amazingly beautiful in a style we don't necessarily hear in this day and age, all without auto tune and other overprocessing.
Speaker 2: And I do both those artists very well.
Speaker 1: Yes, you do, and you're humble about it.
Speaker 2: Now why shouldn't I be? I was raised with that music. I was born in pitchy two.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so all right, well, very good? You want to do another one. I don't know if we're going to get through all of these necessarily, but I know the audience wants to hear more.
Speaker 4: One is.
Speaker 2: Actually it's better Roses, it's ben Jovi.
Speaker 1: Oh, this song makes me blush when I hear it. I wonder if I'll have that reaction when you sing it.
Speaker 2: It's a long song.
Speaker 1: This is a long song, probably bon Jovi's longest song. Is that why you chose it?
Speaker 2: Probably my longest?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: I like this song? Yes, yes, every song I do is a challenge, and I love a challenge.
Speaker 1: Yes. He also uses a stage name. Did you know that?
Speaker 4: What is he?
Speaker 1: John bon Jovi? Is not his real name?
Speaker 4: Probably not.
Speaker 1: I believe it's uh uh Bonjie of bon Giovi. I think it's bon Giovi, but uh but he made it bon Jovi. All right, So uh so this is Beat of Roses? And why this song, Glen? It's very romantic?
Speaker 2: First of all, I am a romantic.
Speaker 1: I've heard that about.
Speaker 2: Yes again. The songs that I sing and what I injected them is my life. Okay, how I've lived my life?
Speaker 1: All right, So you're going to inject some romance with this song?
Speaker 2: I will all right?
Speaker 1: Very good, very good.
Speaker 2: This is a first on the radio on this one. I've done it on my TV show last week. Oh and I've been doing it for the last week now in karaoke, so it's I think I'm ready for it.
Speaker 1: Wait, so this is the first time then that live read that this version of the song, that's one of my new songs that I'm doing. Your rendition of bet of Roses will be played on the radio.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Well, in that case, you are listening.
Speaker 2: To TUM and H.
Speaker 4: World premiere.
Speaker 1: That's right. It's the world premiere of glennar j Willlett performing that of Roses.
Speaker 4: Here we go, okay, tee of you.
Speaker 2: It will play, I hope, so there we go.
Speaker 4: Oh, Oh the due do do a bed?
Speaker 2: Of roses is enjoy oh hah ha ha, stitting here, wasted and wounded at this piano, trying hard to capture the moment. This morning, I don't know because a bottle of but are still logged in my head, and some blonde girl things that I'm that does. She's still in my bed as I dream about movies. They won't make me when I'm dead with an icon glade kiss, I wake up and French kiss that morning while some marching band keeps his sound beat in my head while I'm talking about the things that I long to believe about love, the truth, what you really mean to me?
Speaker 4: And the truth is.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're all that I need. Oh, I want to lay you down down in at the head of roses.
Speaker 2: What tonight, Tonight I sleep in a.
Speaker 5: Bed of names.
Speaker 2: Oh, I want to be just as close as the Holy ghost is. Oh Lord, and lay you down in a bead of roses.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm so far away.
Speaker 2: Each depth that I take is on my way home,
Speaker 2: and King's Renson dimes and I gave each night to see you on that telephone. Sall I run out of time for It's hard to get through till the bird of the wire flies back to you. I'll just close my eyes and whisper, baby whine, love is true. I want to lay you down down on a bed of roses for the night to night. I sleep in a bed of names.
Speaker 9: Oh.
Speaker 2: I want to be as close as the holy ghost is. Oh lord, Oh, and lay you down down in a.
Speaker 5: Bed of roads.
Speaker 2: Well, this hotel, bars hangover, whiskeys done dry, and the barkeepers with cook. She's giving me the eye. Well I might have said hi, but I laughed so hard I think I died.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, in a bed of roses. I lay you down in a bed, in that bed of roses.
Speaker 4: Do do do do?
Speaker 2: Do?
Speaker 4: Do do do?
Speaker 2: I want to lay you down down in that bed of roses.
Speaker 5: Do do do do do?
Speaker 2: Now, as you close your eyes, know that I'll be thinking about you while my mistress she calls me to stand in her spotlight again tonight. I won't be a long But you know I don't mean I'm not lonely.
Speaker 2: I've got nothing to prove for its you that I die too defend because I want to lay you down down in a bed of roses.
Speaker 4: For to night to night. I sleep in.
Speaker 5: A bed of nails.
Speaker 2: Oh, I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is my lord, Lord, and lay you down down. Oh, I want to lay you down down in a bed of roses. Fortune Night Tune Night, I'll sleep on.
Speaker 4: A bed of name.
Speaker 2: I just want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is.
Speaker 4: My lord, and lay you down down on a bed of rosy.
Speaker 1: Thank you, well, thank you. We'll let lend the artist.
Speaker 2: How did I do?
Speaker 1: Oh? That was that was great. I noticed it at.
Speaker 2: The beginning of There's there's a couple of sentences that I'm still working on.
Speaker 1: Like there was a line in there about a blond in your bed. You kind of stumbled on that a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but uh having in my bed?
Speaker 1: Whoa? Oh tm I Glenn, whoa, My goodness. All right, you want to do one more, We'll do one more to close out the segment. If you are just joining us, Uh, we'll let Glenn. The artist is here with us, alive in studio.
Speaker 2: I'll do a share. So it's called believe, but it's enraging.
Speaker 1: By h oh, I thought you wanted to do uh oh.
Speaker 2: Yes, the dance.
Speaker 4: Let's do the dance.
Speaker 1: I don't have that one. For some reason, when but I thought I did too. Oh last dance, Oh you know what? Oh, I do have it. I'm sorry I close that Apparently I closed that tab out without meaning to the last dance. That's an appropriate uh song to finish the segment, is all right, very good? Let me get that radio.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you can figure out that last paragraph, what language it is?
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm very very curious to hear this. Okay, So because Glenn, when you do this song, you're going to do it. Explain again for people just joining us. There's a there's a twist with the song.
Speaker 2: The way you do it, there is a choice. I do it in three languages, in three languages.
Speaker 1: Okay, very good? All right, here he is performing in three languages, Glenn r J. Well, I'm sorry. We'll let Glenn the artist. Here we go.
Speaker 2: The last dance La Danie dance, Do you do do do? Did you do do do?
Speaker 4: Enjoy?
Speaker 2: Last dance, lad dance, Pula moo, last dance for love.
Speaker 2: This is my last dance Ladanie chance poor lahmans tonight. So swa, I need you to ah that mo money
Speaker 2: beside me, to guide me, and you.
Speaker 4: Hold me.
Speaker 5: To scold me.
Speaker 2: Because when I'm bad I'm allso so so sad enjoy oh lasting Ladie Dunce Lassense Ladonia Dance, commuting along the Lassense Ladonia Dance to night, the Swae lessons.
Speaker 4: My that pool Lamo last that for love. This is my lasting for romance.
Speaker 2: Tonight just swa. I need you that bore then that he's that you got me and to hold me.
Speaker 5: You stole me.
Speaker 3: So when I'm bad, I'm all to madhead go less dance that Dane down, the lesson that Dna downs come on a lesson that Danne down to night swa.
Speaker 2: Yeah baby, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, let John ye down. Let's dance that last dance. Let me be your mystery, right darling. Oh yeah, I can satisfy your appetite for.
Speaker 8: Dancing, my baby.
Speaker 2: I never you that you're the one for me, one for me. Well well well well well all that I asked is that you can with me, Darcy Avetmirday with me poor lesson Nadana downs who lah move who lasted for love?
Speaker 4: This is my lasting for romance to nahhid fir Whi Oh.
Speaker 2: I need you by me besides these to guide thee and hold me, to stole me because when I'm bad, I'm so so so bad. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to let them.
Speaker 2: Ladanie down, don't truly God last dance, To let them Nadianie downs.
Speaker 4: Let us Ladanie dance to re.
Speaker 2: Lie Swabru Corrido, Karamadi Hirapoo Jadabadindo ran Dandee to Roasta Kataki, Oh lad Grandaddy Dambo Bandi cours dudy Hirambari, do duce you need you body Olida. Oh, Let's dance, Ladanie dance bad, decide me, Oh you hold me?
Speaker 4: You stole me? And when I'm there, I'm go bad.
Speaker 5: Let dance.
Speaker 4: Guide da the last day.
Speaker 1: To night.
Speaker 2: It's just why, thank you?
Speaker 1: Wow, very nice, very nice.
Speaker 2: So what was that language?
Speaker 1: Well at glenn uh oh in the last verse there or the last paragraph, as you would say, I don't know what was that.
Speaker 2: It was creative pigouatin Oh okay, so every time I do it, it's different.
Speaker 1: See I wasn't sure. Okay, So I'm glad you clarified that for our listeners. I was getting a little bit concerned. I thought maybe I didn't know if that was a language or if you're having a tia. I didn't know if we had to call nine one one. I didn't know what was happening there. Okay, good, good, No, it sounded great.
Speaker 2: It's it's the fun of music, the fun of us. Can't have fun music.
Speaker 4: Why are you singing?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree. Well, you clearly have a good time.
Speaker 2: It's good for my heart, good for my soul, good for my brain. It calms me down and makes me happy.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't I see.
Speaker 1: Where can we see you live? Whereas when's your next show?
Speaker 2: I don't know right now. I'm planning on one right now in Springfield at the end of the month, uh huh. And then in August I plan to go to Hartford for the first time and take it from there. I am planning a concert at the Rex Theater. I'm not talking with them, and they'll probably be August or September.
Speaker 1: Oh so you're in negotiations with the Rex Theater. Yes, wow, very good.
Speaker 2: It's a very stage. But he definitely wants me to sing.
Speaker 1: Okay, so okay, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 2: And then I'll probably be doing one in in the at the in the park where they have the fireworks. That will be uh with probably twenty other artists. Oh, all local. I like the local flare. Yes, and the culture and uh and that will be also a fundraiser for my campaign. As they're running from mayor. I'm excusing me. I'm not running from here. I'm running for all the men in Ward Street.
Speaker 1: Very good. Oh, you should plug her. You have a television show too, you should plug that.
Speaker 2: Yes, we'll let it Lodge go on Global. It airs ever reserves day at four to five pm. And I have a lot of guests that come, and it airs in the eighty five countries because I've networked in over twenty years. Wow, that's why it airs early in the morning and all through during the daytime and nighttime.
Speaker 1: You've gone global.
Speaker 2: Well that's why it's not call We'll let it lodge gone global.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, well, very good. Well Glenn, thank you so much. This is a pleasure. Thanks for having been a while since we've been able to do this, so I very much appreciate you.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 1: Great? Great, it's but you know, I'm just happy to see you.
Speaker 2: It's something in the work. Yes, it can only get better. Yes, yes, you will let it large gn Global or we'll let Glenn.
Speaker 1: We'll let Glenn. Very good, very good, All right, well, thank you, thank you Glenn,
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