i bought my mother a mink stole and she said, i think this is better than bait toven. they just signed elvis presley and it was a new teen age market, and our -- r.c.a. was distributed all over the world, so i got to -- to be heard and -- in every country in the world and i didn't want to be a rock and roller. i wanted to be a bobby daryn because he was the -- the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated, so i played the copa and i played all of these adult places. and i got to sing in had five different languages, all over the world. and that is what kept me alive. during those hungry years. i went all over and sang in italian, and spanish, and german, french, all over. >> wow. >> yeah. >> now here you are, these years later with the children's book called "waking up is hard to do" that title rinse a bell. it rings a bell. >> you're right, the third version, the first one i wrote as a rock and roll song. down douby down. and then 13 years later i redid it as a slow balad. "don't take your love away from me." it was number one again. the third time, i changed the wo