The Story of The Taster

WMF: Uh, I wrote "The Taster" when I was around fourteen years old, and, uh, I used to listen to Chubby Checker do "The Twist", and I used to think, y'know, he was really in then, I used to really dig "The Twist", so I figured if I wrote a "Taster" some record company would really pick up on the song and think it was good as "The Twist", and I used to go to company to company and they used to tell me no, uh, that's just not it., y'know, I told 'em, that's uh it's a new dance, and they just, you know, thought I was crazy, they just said that was, y'know—but that wasn't what they're lookin' for, so I wrote a song c— I tried to chase it, I changed it around to "C'mon Let's Do the Twister" but, uh they didn't go for that neither so uh, y'know, I went back to my scoom— I think I wrote it when I was sixteen, I thought it was fourteen but I forgot I wrote it when I was sixteen because I finally remembered when I wrote it, uh—my mother never liked me to sing in my bedroom but I always get into my bedroom and sing, I used to sell papers, y'know, I used to sell papers—TCHOOPF!—excuse me, "Sir would you like to buy a paper", Herald-Express, y'know, it used to be Herald-Express and Mirror-News, I'm sure some of you people remember the Mirror-News, and I used to sell papers and I used to come home, I heh had to give my mother like uh, I'd make like two dollars and ten cents, my mother used to make me give her half but I'd give her like seventy-five cents, heh! said I was making, uh nn, a dollar fifty, and, uh, you know, my mother always used to, you know, uh, wonder about me, she always wondered what I was going to do when I get older, I said "Mother, don't worry about me uh, I'll get a job", heh heh! "I'll go straight", heh heh heh . . . !