Smokey was on today with stories of his best friends and best loved songs

Jeffrey Osborne is his golf buddy

Lionel is his brother - and one of Smokey’s best songs is Endless Love, for which he thinks Lionel won an Academy Award - um no

He met Diana when she was 8 and brought her to Motown

His favourite song of his brother Marvin Gaye is Mercy Mercy Me and he thinks What’s Going On might be Motown’s best selling album ever

He graduated with Cecil Franklin and in their Grad year, he can remember they all jumped out of the car to dance to Booker T and the MG’s Green Onions

Martha Reeves is his sister and he recently went to the Hollywood Star ceremony and was going to play an interview with her later - I missed it

When he was visiting Berry Gordy with his son who is named after BG, a demo tape was delivered from Stevie Wonder - he wanted BG to listen to it and give his critique of it; it was Signed Sealed Delivered and Berry phoned Barney Ales and said “release it as is”

Kind of sad - there are dozens of rock channels on Sirius and this is about the only Motown and Classic Soul channel

Oh he talked about Gasms and said it was controversial from the beginning, but it only means “something nice”. He played the song Gasms - it won’t be amongst his classics