Huey Lewis discusses his work on My Aim is True

[The Gentleman]

From an appearance on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me:

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/16/174403534 ... not-my-job


GOLDTHWAIT: What was the rumor, maybe it was wrong, but the My Aim is True album...

LEWIS: Right.

GOLDTHWAIT: Were some of your musicians involved in that?

LEWIS: Yeah.

SAGAL: This is Elvis Costello's debut in like '78.

LEWIS: Bobcat knows his stuff.

SAGAL: He does.

POUNDSTONE: I guess.

SAGAL: So your band played on Elvis Costello's first record.

LEWIS: The rhythm section. Four of the six Clovers backed Elvis up on My Aim is True.

SAGAL: But you did not.

LEWIS: I did not. Elvis told me, he said, I got a couple of songs you can play on and we're going to be here for two weeks. So Alex, the lead singer and I, took two weeks off and went to Amsterdam.

SAGAL: Right

(LAUGHTER)

LEWIS: And watched movies. And we watched movies in Amsterdam.

SAGAL: That's all you did. I grew up a big Elvis Costello fan, and I always love the trivia that, you know, Huey Lewis plays the harmonica on Elvis' debut record.

LEWIS: Right.

SAGAL: And it didn't occur to me until quite recently that there is no harmonica on Elvis Costello's record.

LEWIS: But the harmonica that is not on Elvis Costello's record is played by me.

SAGAL: That's exciting.

POUNDSTONE: That is so great.