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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Audrey Landers, Actress, Singer, Co-Star “Dallas” Mar 13, 2025

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Audrey Landers, Actress, Singer, Co-Star “Dallas”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Audrey Landers, is a popular and beloved actress, singer, writer, director, composer and producer who is perhaps best known for her portrayal of “Afton Cooper” for 8 years on the blockbuster TV series, “Dallas”, and in the 1996 TV movie, “Dallas: J.R. Returns”, and in the 2013 reboot of “Dallas”.

But beyond that iconic role, our guest has had a highly successful and diverse international career. On the big screen, she starred as “Val” in the movie version of “A Chorus Line”, and her other feature film credits include “1941”, “Tennessee Stallion”, “Deadly Twins”, “Getting Even”, “Freakshow”, “Ghost Writer”, “Last Chance Love”, “Circus Island”, “Deadly Closure”, and many more.

On television, besides her iconic role in “Dallas”, she played “Heather Lawrence Kane” in “Somerset”, she was “Charlotte Hesser” in “One Life to Live”, she was “Miss Audrey” in “The Huggabug Club”, an award-winning children’s TV show which she also wrote and produced, and she’s appeared in dozens of classic TV series including “Marcus Welby”, “The FBI”, “Happy Days”, “Police Woman”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “Fantasy Island”, “The Dukes of Hazzard”, “Murder She Wrote”, “Burn Notice” and many more.

And she’s also appeared in a number of great TV movies and miniseries including “The French Connection 3”, “Lucky Chances”, “Love at Sea”, “Murder at the Mansion”, and “Cloudy with a Chance of Christmas”. And in addition to her acting career, our guest is a multi-gold and platinum recording artist and songwriter, with 10 gold hit singles including some of my favourites: “Manuel Goodbye”, “Little River”, “Playa Blanca”, “Honeymoon in Trinidad”, “Mi Amor”, “Summernight in Rome”, and “Jim, Jeff & Johnny”. She’s performed at the most prestigious concert venues around the world. And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also a major force behind the scenes, writing, producing and directing films, TV series and music videos. In addition to the immensely successful and influential children’s show “The Huggabug Club”, she coproduced feature films like “Ghost Writer”, “Club Fed”, “California Casanova” and “Circus Island”, which she also wrote and directed. And together with her brilliant mother, the wonderful Ruth Landers, whom we lost last year, our guest created the Landers STAR Collection, an immensely popular women’s clothing and accessories company. And among the many accolades she’s received over the years, in 2012, our guest was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Motion Picture & Television Association.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Highly Acclaimed Actress, Singer & Dancer, Sandy Duncan Mar 11, 2025

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Highly Acclaimed Actress, Singer & Dancer, Sandy Duncan

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Sandy Duncan, is a highly acclaimed and beloved actress, singer and dancer who has been dazzling audiences for 6 decades in every medium of the entertainment world.

On the big screen, she starred in “Star Spangled Girl”, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. And that same year, she received another Golden Globe nomination for most promising female newcomer for her delightful performance in the Disney movie, “The Million Dollar Duck”. She also appeared in a number of other great movies like “The Cat From Outer Space” and “Never Again”, and she was unforgettable as “Pinocchio” in the wonderful 1976 TV movie, “Pinoccio” co-starring Danny Kaye and Flip Wilson. And of course, we all remember her stellar performance as “Missy Anne Reynolds” in the groundbreaking TV miniseries, “Roots”, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for outstanding supporting actress.

She starred in several TV sitcoms, starting with “Funny Face”, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series. She then starred in “The Sandy Duncan Show”. And then, in 1987, she astonished the whole world by achieving something that many people thought was impossible: she took over the lead in Valerie Harper’s TV sitcom, “Valerie”, after Ms. Harper left the show, which was ultimately renamed “The Hogan Family”, and she actually made the show better, and kept it going successfully for a further four seasons, which is a truly remarkable accomplishment that no one else in this business could ever have done unless they had the immense popularity and likeability of our guest.

She guest starred in many classic TV shows like “Bonanza”, “The Six Million Dollar Man”, “The Bionic Woman”, “Law & Order: SVU”, and she starred in one of my all-time favourite TV movies, “My Boyfriend’s Back” with Jill Eikenberry and Judith Light. She was also a regular on “Hollywood Squares” and numerous TV game shows, and she guest starred on every major variety show including “The Sammy Davis Jr. Show”, “The Jackie Gleason Show”, “The Sonny and Cher Show”, “The Flip Wilson Show”, “Laugh-In” and dozens more. And get this: in the late 70s, our guest received four consecutive nominations for a Photoplay Gold Medal Award for Favourite Variety Star.

And on Broadway, our guest has had a stellar career, with THREE Tony Award nominations, for her performances in “Canterbury Tales”, “The Boy Friend”, and “Peter Pan”. She won a Drama Desk Award for her performance in “The Boy Friend”, and she received ANOTHER Drama Desk Award nomination for her work in “Peter Pan”. Her other Broadway performances include “My One and Only”, “Chicago” and “Finding Neverland”. She’s starred in numerous national tours of “Peter Pan”, “My One and Only” and “The King and I”.

And off-Broadway, she won a Theatre World Award for her performance in “The Ceremony of Innocence”. She’s also starred in many theatrical productions including “No, No Nanette”, “Driving Miss Daisy”, “The Glass Menagerie” and many more.

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is a recipient of the prestigious National Rehabilitation Hospital Victory Award, which is given to individuals who exhibit exceptional courage and strength in the face of adversity. And most recently, she received the Medal of Arts Award from her home state of Texas.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Burt Kearns, Author, “SHEMP! The Biography of the Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard” Feb 19, 2025

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Burt Kearns, Author, “SHEMP! The Biography of the Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Burt Kearns, is an award-winning producer, director, writer, journalist and author who is renowned for his work in nonfiction television and film, in TV shows like “Breaking the Ice”, “Legsville Oral History”, “Guinness World Records Unleashed”, “Joe Rogan Questions Everything”, “The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll” with Gene Simmons, “All The Presidents’ Movies”, and many more. He produced the excellent 2001 documentary, “Death of A Beatle”, about the death of John Lennon, and he co-wrote and produced the 2006 movie, “Cloud 9”, starring Burt Reynolds. He’s an Emmy Award winning newswriter, and he served as managing editor and producer of the highly popular TV shows, “A Current Affair” and “Hard Copy”.

But beyond all of that, our guest is also a highly acclaimed author. He wrote, “Tabloid Baby”, which traces the evolution of the tabloid television genre. He then co-wrote “The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage”, followed by “Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy”.

Last year, he appeared on our show to discuss his brilliant bestselling book entitled, “Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel”.

And now, he’s back to talk about his brand new book entitled, “Shemp: The Biography of the Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard: The Face of Film Comedy.” The Three Stooges are widely considered to be the greatest, most successful and most influential slapstick comedy group in modern history, and if you’re a fan of The Three Stooges – and who isn’t? – this extremely well-researched book is an absolute must-read, because the author enlightens us on the incredibly impressive – but until now, largely unexplored - life and body of work of the most misunderstood and the most underrated member of The Three Stooges, Shemp Howard, who was actually a highly accomplished, influential and respected comic actor in his own right.

Along with his brother Moe and vaudeville comedian Larry Fine, Shemp was an original member of the Three Stooges, but in 1932 he quit the group to pursue a solo acting career. He appeared in over a hundred movies alongside the biggest Hollywood stars, including W.C. Fields, John Wayne, James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, William Powell, Lon Chaney Jr., Myrna Loy, and the team of Abbott & Costello. But in 1946, when Curly became too ill to continue working, Shemp gave up a successful film career to help his brothers out by returning to The Three Stooges.

And what’s really fascinating and compelling about this book, is that, because of his meticulous research, our guest challenges and debunks the “official” version of Three Stooges history, largely promoted by Moe, that’s been repeated for decades. The book shatters many myths and uncovers the surprising and often troubling facts behind the scenes surrounding Shemp’s departure from and return to The Three Stooges, and the circumstances surrounding his untimely death. But more than anything, the book confirms Shemp Howard’s well-deserved place in cinematic history.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Legendary Actor, Barry Bostwick Feb 13, 2025

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Legendary Actor, Barry Bostwick

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Barry Bostwick, is a legendary actor who has brought us dozens of unforgettable performances in a career spanning over 5 decades.

On Broadway, he originated the role of “Danny Zuko” in “Grease”, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He got another Tony Award nomination for his performance in “They Knew What They Wanted”, and he WON a Tony Award and got a Drama Desk Award nomination for his performance in “The Robber Bridegroom”. He also appeared on Broadway in “Cock-a-Doodle Dandy”, “Hamlet”, “Soon” and “Nick & Nora”, and he starred in the national tour of “The Pirates of Penzance”.

On the big screen, while it is certainly true that our guest will forever be immortalized as Susan Sarandon’s straight-laced, all-American boyfriend “Brad” in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, there can be no question that his talent, versatility and diverse body of work extend FAR beyond that one phenomenally successful cult classic movie. His many other movie credits include “Megaforce”, “Weekend at Bernie’s 2”, “Project: Metalbeast”, “Spy Hard”, “Evening”, “Holiday Baggage”, “Bedrooms”, “Finding Joy”, “The Field”, and of course, “Movie Movie”, for which he was nominated for a National Society of Film Critics Award and a New York Film Critics Circle Award.

On television, we all remember him as the childish, vain and outrageously inept mayor “Randall Winston” in the classic TV sitcom, “Spin City”. He’s also appeared in many other iconic TV shows like “Charlie’s Angels”, “Hawaii Five-O”, “Foul Play”, “Scrubs”, “Ugly Betty”, “Ghost Whisperer”, “Nip Tuck”, “Glee”, “Hot in Cleveland”, and he’s had recurring roles in numerous shows like “Law & Order: SVU”, “Cougar Town”, “Research”, “Inside the Extras Studio”, “Still the King”, “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce” and “The Potwins”.

He’s also starred in dozens of great TV movies and miniseries including “The Quinns”, “You Can’t Take it With You”, “Scruples”, “Red Flag: The Ultimate Game”, “George Washington”, “A Woman of Substance”, “Till We Meet Again”, “The Last U-Boat”, “Depth Charge”, “A Christmas Miracle”, and last but certainly not least, the multi-award winning miniseries “War and Remembrance”, for which our guest won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a historic TIE with his co-star Sir John Gielgud. For more interviews and podcasts go to:

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To learn more about Barry Bostwick, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialBarryBostwick/

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Renowned Jazz Singer, Holly Cole Feb 05, 2025

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Renowned Jazz Singer, Holly Cole

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Holly Cole, is an internationally renowned vocalist and multi-platinum recording artist whose sultry, smoky and sexy, perfect pitch voice somehow defies categorization.

She has a way of reshaping traditional genres, like jazz, pop and country, into her own unique signature style. She’s been dazzling music lovers for almost 4 decades, first in the Holly Cole Trio, and then as a solo artist. She’s released well over a dozen critically acclaimed albums, and some of my favorites are ‘Blame It on My Youth’, “Don’t Smoke in Bed”, “Temptation”, “Dark Dear Heart”, “It Happened One Night”, “Romantically Helpless”, “Shade”, as well as her 2 fabulous live albums, “Steal the Night: Live at the Glenn Gould Studio”, and most recently, “Montreal”, which captured a very special reunion concert of the Holly Cole Trio recorded at the International Jazz Festival in Montreal.

And I have to mention her wonderful Christmas compilation album, “Baby it’s Cold Outside and I Have the Christmas Blues”, which should be a MUST in everyone’s holiday music collection. And now, our guest has released her latest album, “Dark Moon”, in which she delivers her unique signature style and reshapes some of the most iconic standards from the New American Songbook writers including Marty Balin, Peggy Lee, Hal David, Burt Bacharach and Johnny Mercer.

Our guest has performed at some of the most prestigious music venues in the world, and she has starred in TV specials, most notably in 1993, in a show called “Holly Cole Trio: My Foolish Heart”, which won numerous distinguished awards including 2 Gemini Awards. She has also won 2 Juno Awards, 2 Japanese Grand Prix Gold Disc Awards, AND the highly coveted Ella Fitzgerald Award, joining the ranks of Aretha Franklin, Etta James and Harry Connick Jr.. In fact, she and Diana Krall are the ONLY 2 Canadians to have EVER won this award.

And if all of that weren’t enough, I’m very proud to say that in 2014, our guest received an honorary doctorate from MY alma mater, Queen’s University.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Legendary Award Winning Actress, Carol Kane Feb 03, 2025

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Legendary Award Winning Actress, Carol Kane

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Carol Kane, is a legendary multi-award winning actress who’s brought us dozens of memorable performances in a career spanning over 5 decades.

She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her stellar performance in “Hester Street”, and she’s appeared in many iconic movies including “Carnal Knowledge”, “Wedding in White”, “The Last Detail”, “Dog Day Afternoon”, “Annie Hall”, “The World’s Greatest Lover”, “The Muppet Movie”, “The Princess Bride”, “Scrooged”, “Joe Versus the Volcano”, and one of my favourite movies in recent years, the highly acclaimed “Between the Temples”, for which she won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress.

On television, we all remember her as “Simka Dahblitz-Gravas”, the quirky and sharp-tongued wife of Andy Kaufman’s character “Latka”, on the classic TV sitcom, “Taxi”, for which she won 2 Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award nomination, and a TV Land Medallion Award. She also portrayed “Lillian Abernathy” in “American Dreamer”, “Annie Caraldo” in “Pearl”, “Gertrude Kapelput” in “Gotham”, “Lillian Kaushtupper” in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”, “Minny Markowitz” in “Hunters” and “Nana” in “Dinner with the Parents”.

And she’s guest starred in dozens of classic TV shows including “Laverne and Shirley”, “Cheers”, “Seinfeld”, “Empty Nest”, “Two and a Half Men”, “Law & Order SVU”, and “Chicago Hope”, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She’s also appeared in a number of great TV movies and miniseries including “The Greatest Man in the World”, “An Invasion of Privacy”, “Burning Rage”, “Freaky Friday”, “Noah’s Ark”, and many more. And on the stage, our guest has starred on Broadway in a number of shows including “Harvey” and “Sly Fox”, and she earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for her performance in “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds”. And she also played “Madame Morrible” in “Wicked”, not only on Broadway, but in numerous productions around the country. And she’s appeared in over a dozen off-Broadway productions including “Macbeth”, “The Tempest”, “The Exonerated, and “Love, Loss and What I Wore”, to name only a few.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Iconic Actress and Singer, Linda Purl Feb 01, 2025

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Iconic Actress and Singer, Linda Purl

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Linda Purl, is an iconic and highly popular actress and singer who’s been dazzling audiences for over 5 decades.

On the big screen, she’s appeared in many great movies including “Crazy Mama”, “W.C. Fields and Me”, “Leo and Loree”, “The High Country”, “Visiting Hours”, “Viper”, “The Perfect Tenant”, “Bender”, “Broken Halos”, and “Paul’s Promise”, for which she received numerous prestigious film festival awards. And on television, we all remember her as “Ashley”, Fonzie’s girlfriend in the mega-hit TV series, “Happy Days”.

She also played Ben Matlock's daughter “Charlene” in the first season of “Matlock”. And she played Pam Beesly's mother “Helene” in “The Office”. She’s also co-starred in many other TV shows including “Beacon Hill”, “Robin’s Hoods”, “Port Charles”, “First Monday”, “The Oath”, “General Hospital”, “After Forever”, “The Bold and the Beautiful”, and “Claire-ity”, for which she received an Indie Series Award as Best Supporting Actress in a comedy series.

In addition to dozens of guest starring roles in classic TV shows like “Hawaii Five-0”, “The Waltons”, “Murder, She Wrote”, “Touched by an Angel”, “Homeland”, “True Blood”, “Reckless” and many more, our guest has also appeared in a whole slew of TV movies and miniseries including “Young Pioneers”, “The Flame is Love”, “The Last Days of Pompeii”, “In Self Defense”, “Web of Deceit”, “Incident at Deception Ridge”, “The Story First: Behind the Unabomber”, “Stranger at the Door”, “Maid of Honor”, and “Doomsday Mom”, to name just a few. And on Broadway, our guest starred in “Getting and Spending”, and she played “Aunt Polly” in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”.

She’s also appeared onstage in “Seven Deadly Sins, Four Deadly Sinners”, “The Glass Menagerie”, and many other theatrical productions. And beyond all of that, our guest is a magnificent singer. She’s released 6 albums: “Alone Together”, “Midnight Caravan”, “Up Jumped Spring”, “Taking a Chance on Love”, “This Could be the Start”, and a wonderful live album called “Out of This World”. She appears in concert at the most prestigious music venues in America. And if all of that weren’t enough, she and her partner Patrick Duffy own and operate a company selling Sourdough Starter Kits called “Duffy’s Dough”, and 100% of the profits are donated to charities that are working to eradicate food scarcity and hunger.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Renowned Actor, Writer, Producer & Director, Dan Butler Jan 29, 2025

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Renowned Actor, Writer, Producer & Director, Dan Butler

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Dan Butler, is a highly popular actor, writer, producer and director who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of “Bob Briscoe”, better known as “Bulldog”, the volatile, macho host of the “Gonzo Sports” radio show” on the blockbuster TV sitcom, “Frasier”.

And beyond that iconic role, you’ve seen him in many movies including “Longtime Companion”, “The Long Walk Home”, “The Silence of the Lambs”, “Captain Ron”, “I Love Trouble”, “The Fan”, “Enemy of the State”, “Crazy, Stupid Love”, “Blonde”, as well as the multi-award winning short film, “Courage Doesn’t Ask”, and “Karl Rove, I Love You”, which he co-wrote, co-directed, produced and starred in, and which won numerous prestigious film festival awards.

And on TV, you’ve seen him in many classic shows including “Roseanne”, “Quantum Leap”, “The X-Files”, “Star Trek: Voyager”, “Touched by an Angel”, “Ally McBeal”, “American Dreams”, “Malcolm in the Middle”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “The Mist” - and yes, last year he made a surprise return appearance as “Bulldog” in the reboot of “Frasier”.

He’s also appeared in some great TV movies and miniseries including “The Assassination File”, “From the Earth to the Moon”, “More Tales of the City”, “Prayers for Bobby”, to name only a few. Our guest is also a renowned voice actor. He was the voice of “Mr. Simmons” in the Nickelodeon animated TV series, “Hey Arnold” and in “Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie”. He was also one of the voices of those lovable canine poker players on “Poker Night”.

And beyond all of that, our guest has had a very impressive career on the stage. On Broadway, he appeared in “The Hothouse”, “Biloxi Blues”, “Twentieth Century” and “Travesties”. And off-Broadway, he wrote and starred in a highly acclaimed one-man show, “The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me”, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He’s also appeared in dozens of other stage productions including “Much Ado About Nothing”, “Waiting for Godot”, “Old Money”, “The Irish Curse”, “When Harry Met Rehab”, “Another Shot”, and many more.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Renowned Actor, Writer & Producer, Dan Lauria Jan 22, 2025

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Renowned Actor, Writer & Producer, Dan Lauria

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Dan Lauria, is a highly popular and beloved actor, writer and producer who became a household name for his portrayal of “Jack Arnold”, the stern, gruff but loving father of “Kevin”, played by Fred Savage, on the hit TV series “The Wonder Years”, for which he was nominated for an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male Performer in a TV series.

You also remember him as “Jack Sullivan”, Steve Byrne’s father in another great sitcom, “Sullivan & Son”. And of course, he played “Al Luongo”, manager of the San Diego Padres, in the best TV series ever made about major league baseball, “Pitch”. And he played “Leonard Fero” the angry head coach of the New England Knights basketball team, in yet another TV series about professional sports, “The Hoop Life”.

But beyond those iconic roles, our guest has brought us countless memorable performances on the stage and screen. You’ve seen him in many great movies including “Without a Trace”, “9 ½ Weeks”, “Stakeout”, “Another Stakeout”, “Independence Day”, “Wide Awake”, “Total Stranger”, “The Signs of the Cross”, “Miranda’s Victim”, and most recently, he played Tipp O’Neill in “Reagan”.

On television, in addition to the TV shows I already mentioned, he’s appeared in dozens of classic series including “Hill Street Blues”, “L.A. Law”, “Cagney & Lacey”, “NYPD Blue”, “Touched by an Angel”, “ER”, “Law and Order”, “JAG”, “The Good Wife”, “Shameless”, “This is Us” and many more.

He’s also starred in a number of terrific TV movies and miniseries including “At Mother’s Request”, “David”, “Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story”, “The Great Los Angeles Earthquake”, “Overexposed”, “Terror in the Family”, and “From the Earth to the Moon”, to name only a few.

And on the stage, he’s appeared on Broadway in “Lombardi” and “A Christmas Story: The Musical”. And off-Broadway, he’s appeared in many shows including “Game Plan”, “Dinner with the Boys” and “Just Another Day”, ALL of which he also wrote.

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest has also written 3 children’s books in a series called “The Godfather Tales”.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Dan Lauria, go to:

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Legendary Singer / Songwriter, Peabo Bryson Jan 17, 2025

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Legendary Singer / Songwriter, Peabo Bryson

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Peabo Bryson, is a legendary singer and songwriter who is widely referred to as “the voice of love”.

In a career spanning 5 decades, this man’s rich, soulful voice has brought us 21 albums, 5 of which have been certified gold, in addition to 8 compilation albums. He’s released 57 hit singles including “Reaching for the Sky”, “I’m So Into You”, “Minute by Minute”, “Let the Feeling Flow”, “If Ever You’re In my Arms Again”, “Show & Tell”, “Can You Stop the Rain”, and of course, he’s recorded some of the greatest duets of the past century including “Gimme Some Time” and “What You Won’t Do for Love” with Natalie Cole, “Here We Go” with Minnie Ripperton, “Make the World Stand Still”, “Tonight I Celebrate My Love” and “You’re Lookin’ Like Love to Me” with Roberta Flack, “Lovers After All” with Melissa Manchester, “You Are My Home” with Linda Eder, “By the Time This Night Is Over” with Kenny G, “We Kiss in the Shadows” with Lea Salonga, and of course we all remember the mega-blockbuster classic duets which earned our guest TWO Grammy Awards: “Beauty and the Beast” with Celine Dion, and “A Whole New World” with Regina Belle, and BOTH of those songs won Academy Awards for the Disney animated feature films, “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin”.

This man is so phenomenally successful, that he’s the first artist in music history to have separate songs topping FOUR different Billboard charts: pop, R & B, Classical Crossover and Contemporary Jazz. And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest has also starred onstage in “Raisin”, and he played “The Wizard” in “The Wiz”, and he starred as “Sporting Life” in the Michigan Opera’s 100th Anniversary Production of “Porgy and Bess”.

He’s currently on a North American tour and then headed to Japan, but he’s taken time out of his very busy schedule to speak with me today.

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