I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

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I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

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People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

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The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

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Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

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As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

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