When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.
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We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again.Ben E. King
One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.
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At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.
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I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing.
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In this country, we do a lot of hotel venues, and we do Fairs. We do joint concerts at stadiums with The Four Tops or The Temptations or Natalie Cole.
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