I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.

While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music.