Jimmy Scott Smithsonian Interview Block 423 (Q2881)

[sings:] "If your sweetheart sends a letter goodbye . . " - when you heard these - he was obviously modeled on you, and later he would tell that to everybody - but when you would hear Johnnie Ray on the radio sing Cry or The Little White Cloud that Cried, whatever those songs were, did you ever feel like, God, that's me, that's my style? Or that's not in your nature either?