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And we were a great group. Great.

We had a good sound...

...but I always thought we should have

something bigger, a fuller sound.

And one night in 1960,

I'll never forget this...

...we were at a hootenanny and we

were jamming with the Klapper Family.

And all of a sudden, I heard it.

The sound that I'd been thinking about.

The harmonics were amazing.

I thought, "Well, there's five of us,

there's four of them. It's a neuf-tet."

And it was there, just in a moment,

it was all there.

The neuf-tet sound.

This thing clicked with The Klappers

too, so we joined forces...

...and became The Main Street Singers.

Well, 10 years and 30 albums later,

we disbanded, but we'd had a good run.

My partner Chuck Wiseman and myself,

we called it quits too.

I went my way and Chuck went his.

In 1971, after the breakup

of The Main Street Singers...

...Chuck Wiseman moved to San Francisco

where he started a business...

...with his two brothers.

The Three Wiseman's Sex Emporium.

It was very successful for a year...

...until they were sued over something

having to do with a box of benwa balls.

No, I need you, Mitch.

I need Mitch and Mickey. Mitch and Mickey.

That's the thing. You go together.

I love Mickey, but without you

it's not the same. You got to think--

I'm gonna tell you something, Mitch,

and I've never told anybody this before.

You were Dad's favorite. Okay.

Just deal with it. You were Dad's favorite.

I've never said this to a single soul.

Two weeks before he died

he took me aside and he said to me:

"Of all those ferkakte people,

I love Mitch, he's my favorite.

He's like a relative,

he's like my nephew to me."

I'm saying this because I think you'd want

to know before you make your mind up.

Would you just think about it?

Sounds cliche, but it's kind of a blur,

you know? They loved us.

I guess we were, in a way, maybe easy

to love because we represented...

...true love and romance

and sweetness, and...

To be quite honest, I bought

the image as much as anyone else.

Maybe that's why I sold it so well.

Because it was sweet and happy...

...and everybody, everybody

loved to hang around Mitch.

They tried to get close to him,

but I was close to him.

He was very smart, very intense...

...and distant, you know?

You'd get close to him and he'd inch back

that much further, you know.

And you'd move in,

you know, to get inside Mitch...

...and he'd just back off a little more.

Just always kept you wanting to get there,

to understand him.

Which was impossible.

Oh, when the veil of dreams has lifted

And the fairy tales have all been told

There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow

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