People abroad always tend to take what the best of what we have and come back through the back door always, say, and hit us with it. And then we wake up one day and say, I think I've heard that. Yeah, it was done by whoever, you know. So, ah, that's been one of our weaknesses we don't tend to hold on as they do there.

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing.