M2 Let’s turn now.
M3 My oldest and best friend who you admire, Santo Domingo, was very much with me in the first beginnings of Atlantic Records. We were we were both living in Washington and I was taking occasional trips to New York to make suggestions. And we made some sessions in Washington, including one one of our first releases was a record I made for a disc jockey who had a show called The House that Jack Built. That was Hal Jackson and who you admire, Santo Domingo, who was an A student in Washington. He was going to Georgetown was. With me and we got a young saxophone player who had no renown, but he was a very good young player and we made the theme song for the house that Jack built, the show that was run by Hal Jackson. And he was the first person to ever play in Atlantic Records. And I made this happen. So dedicated to how Jackson and Houllier, Mya Santo Domingo and I sang Sang Together the riff together back behind which the at least tenor saxophone played the solo, the house that Jack built. And I would like to now say hello again to my friend of well, some I hate to say it. It’s something like 50 years.
M4 60 years. Yeah, I think 60 takedown of almost 60 then take off. We were 20 then.
M3 Yeah. Were young kids but were actually were 17 or 18. That’s when we first met. And I guess we were 20 years old when we made that record. And, and Julio Mario is now the, the chairman of a very major company and lives in many countries. He lives in his native Colombia as well as in Paris, London and New York and all the ships at sea. So so it’s great to say hello to your Mario brothers.
F1 I’m delighted to be here. It’s a great moment for me.
M3 And I remember very, very, very, very candidly and will be our youth and the miracle of having been having still been alive after all the use of word of mouth, use of words that I think Mario is something about there are many years and in nightclubs like Al Morocco and very many jazz clubs all over the world where, where, where we went. But Elnora el Morocco in New York was our favorite watering ground. I think Elmos Elmos is how we recorded those days. Yeah. And who am I was one of the great young South American playboys who roamed around the world. And and I spent some time with them in those years. And it’s great to be with Mario again here today. At. Mario can tell us maybe a little bit about.
M5 Our travels in Europe and some of our adventures in New York, where many people, I don’t know the of it will permit it, but I will say the few things that we can still get away with, like going to Morocco every day and having a good time with many girls who are unfortunately not here now because of their age. They were older than most.
M3 I know they are. Not that. Not that. I think that that’s holding up for a second, you really have to get married talking and I have to think about something that. Going to for a minute. Yes, stop time for a second, OK?
M1 We are ready to roll. OK, OK. All right, we’re ready.
M7 OK, so, Mario, your name, the the the days when we used to ride around New York. Do you remember about the bus. Everything.
M5 How could I forget it, for God’s sake. I mean, we invented the thing anyway. It was really great fun because we used to go not a not on taxes but on the bus because we needed a big, big vehicle to collect girls and things like that and go to El Morocco or even we didn’t go tomorrow, come in.
M8 We got also to Morocco to get people out of Morocco.
M4 And it was a tale of the music is better here, which it was, by the way, because the music at El Morocco was lousy with a good band. We had a good one and it was a better one than in Morocco. They tell us for sure.
M7 And people used to love it and they hated it in Morocco because you know that you who could empty the happy room or the Oval, the old all the well, the one night I remember we we had and the Saturday night and and we had all that, all these people and the bus was parked in front of the club and jump around. I came out looking to see how he was angry and he was like, and you remember he was angry and he said that both of us said, you’ll never come in our club again. But then we grabbed them and brought them and brought them back and got a glass of champagne. I had him dancing with one of the girls. So everything was all right.
M5 I mean, he he he forbade everything.
M9 Yeah.
M3 I think that’s that’s that’s the sequence.
M7 I say, I don’t think Mario was there in the night that I kidnapped the Count Basie band, but. But that’s a story sad because it rolls on from the bustling. So, yeah, I remember Mario, we have one that we went by by the Byrdland and. We had our best, as usual, and I walked I went and asked the fellows in the band if they want to come out and have a drink in the bus. So half of the most of the band came up and they came in the bus. And we are as they were having a drink, I told the driver to take off. And we went half way downtown to the Greenwich Village with half the with of the Count Basie band who had missed the lot the next set. I know that they got very angry, but that was another one of those nights. But it was always funny and fun. And that I must say that you were always the leader of the of the pack in those days.
M4 Well, I would not believe I was following. You forgot I got you where you were really.
M10 My my master. My my professor of law at Georgetown. Yeah. Well, we both went to Georgetown, but at different times.
M7 But it’s it’s great to be it’s great to be back together in New York. And thank you for coming on the show with me.
M5 Well, I’m delighted to do it. You know that I consider you one of my best friends or my best friend, and I couldn’t say no.
M7 Well, you’re very sweet. OK, thank you very much.
M4 I don’t think you’re very sweet, but you’re very likable.
