I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

I express my firmest condemnation of this new act of violence that, added with other cruel gestures carried out in that tormented country, does not help pacification or renewal,

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?" After they laughed at me a few times they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it.

Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.