Even if you don't love the simmering '60s hits of Tommy James (and if you don't, we're not sure we can really be friends with you), this Canadian radio interview about his years on the mafia-run Roulette label is pretty fascinating stuff. It turns out that the guys who made most of the money on songs like "Crimson and Clover" and "I Think We're Alone Now" were notorious gangsters--who, among other things, muscled out all the other labels trying to sign James on the back of his first hit, "Hanky Panky."
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