Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.
I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.
Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.
My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.