uh my first guest tonight is lead singer with huey lewis and the news whose album i have a
copy of it right here it's called sports this was the best-selling album in the country last week
we're really delighted to have him with us tonight please welcome huey lewis
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we got to do a commercial where we're like a terrific job you guys sound wonderful we'll be
right back thank you paul hi there huey lewis is here boy you sound terrific thanks really nice to
have you here and uh congratulations on all your success uh introduce you brought one member of the
news here right johnny kohler our saxophone is sounding great thank you for being here
now what about what about the other gentlemen in
the band are they miffed that they're not making this appearance absolutely
and we were told you couldn't afford us well that's the truth we were uh
that's no lie that we're from marin county yeah so we had to have a band meeting and all get together
you know and sort of talk it over make sure it was okay but it's okay only because it's paul shaffer
and the boys oh good well we appreciate it thank you very much now how does how does this feel all
of a sudden you get the the number one selling album in america you've been at it a long time
i know and this is uh is it everything you hoped it would be well next week we're going to go to
number two which is fortunate i think because one was a little scary yeah yeah you know it's
the air is thin up there a lot of pressure it's better to be back uh huey tell me about this great
looking bar on the cover is this an actual bar or a painting uh or both uh is yeah both
uh it's actually the 2m club in mill valley 2 am that's right and the t-shirts are for sale
you can write to goose at the 2am club and is this goose on the album no that's mario our
bass player oh okay now it looks kind of like a game is goose miffed that he's not in the picture
no i don't think okay well as long as everybody's happy and you actually go to that bar and hang
around that's right and needless to say the drinks are a lot cheaper well i would hope so
uh now for folks who have been watching television a lot tonight this will be your
second appearance they will have seen you twice do you know what i'm talking about oh what do
you mean we're going to do the national we did the national anthem that's right tonight that's right
how was it uh it was another one of those all-star cliffhangers but uh now the whole group sings the
national anthem that's right and johnny actually did the arrangement it's a kind of a part navy
band part doo-wop that's nice yeah and uh how why why do you do that other than is it a lot
of fun seems like it's more nervous than anything it's very nervous but it's a free ticket yeah and
you know when can you sit on the field have you have you done other ball games yeah we've
done lots we were originally asked to do the oakland a's i think isn't it yeah the open a's
and then we did the warriors and the 49ers and the giants and now the st louis cardinals
and now the all-star games whole separate career for you absolutely uh but but people
and i don't know anything about uh the singing the national anthem in front of large groups
of people but people say that's probably one of the the toughest things you can attempt
it is it is especially when you're looking at you know the all-star team is five seconds away
and they announce everybody on the field they line up first and third base and they go end
now would you please stand it gets very quiet one microphone amazing slap back like a second delay
that you have to pretend this is your echo coming back yeah you have to pretend that doesn't exist
so it's hard yeah and uh does it bother you that the ball players are you know what ball players do
you know chewing and playing with themselves and that's that kind of thing it's kind of a
distraction there um what did you do before uh music in your days as a kid um
i just fooled around actually i tried to avoid work as best i could i had millions of odd jobs
and each of which lasted about five minutes what kind of stuff anything you want to remember um
well i was an encyclopedia salesman for a good day i was uh i chauffeured for another day
i had a landscape company landscape coming we weeded we had an old that sort of stuff yeah yeah
that steve's been there yeah and uh you traveled around uh that's right yeah where'd you go i
was hitchhiked in europe for about a year i took the harmonica because it's how old were
you when you went to europe i was 16. and uh you you hitchhiked to new york from uh that's
right i hitchhiked in new york from from san francisco and i actually stowed away on a plane
uh in those days you could take a boarding pass and write seat number destination on the outside
go into the boarding area early and sneak on and you write of course the middle seat over the wing
take a different seat yeah so that if someone says i'm sorry this is my seat oh well mine's
actually up there and then you move down and i actually stowed away for free at a
point no kidding yeah no problem no question no problem i i hitchhiked across the country
and i didn't by the time i got there i was i aimed on paying for a ticket of course sure
the experienced traveler does that the experience will say
i'll i'll buy a ticket so you get to the airport and you got no i have no money and i
spent the money on the trip across the country so i hung out there and i befriended a ticket agent
how long were you at the airport three days you just lived at the airport at the airport
for two days united airlines oh kennedy and uh now can this still be done this forging of two
i don't think so because they do a stamp thing now and i and i don't recommend it anyway yeah
now uh so you get to europe and you hitchhiked around europe hitchhike i learned how to hitchhike
which is completely different in europe how so well here you just sort of stick your thumb out
and wait there you signal you know and like this sort of stuff and whistle and yell this
robe anything i mean they really go was it was it easier to get rides in europe much harder really
but it was good for harmonica playing yeah uh now did you make any money while you're
in europe or do you have to stow away coming back no i made enough money to come back i
actually did make money in europe strange enough just playing on street corners and bus stops
dude that was a great life for a kid boy 16 17 you can't beat it yeah i mean it's it sounds good to
me now you should try it i may be trying it um uh anyway jeez it's a real pleasure to meet you
and and good luck uh out there they're planted at candlestick that's right yeah now that's uh people
say that that's a great place to see a ballgame don't they played it at candlesticks oh that's
right they've already played it at candlestick uh yeah it's it's it's actually a great place to see
a ball game yeah but uh at night oftentimes it gets very cold but in the daytime and
this game started at five and we know the weather was well we know how it was
anyway give my best give my best to the to the rest of the news and uh you couldn't
sound better tonight you're really terrific thanks very much and congratulations on all
your success you certainly deserve it huey lewis ladies and gentlemen
nice to meet you thank you very much we're going to pause here for a station identification