Curtain Call with David Spatz - Guest: Gary Puckett

1968 is notoriously one of the "bad" years in American history... but not for Gary Puckett. Gary Puckett & The Union Gap exploded on the pop charts that year with three Top 20 albums and four Top 10 hits, was nominated for a Grammy and played the White House. Within 2 years, Puckett's run with The Union Gap was over but those songs and that big voice never left the airways. Puckett made a comeback to live performances in the 80s and we caught up with Puckett at the Trump Taj Mahal in 1995.

[@user-ej4re7rr8o]

Love his music

[@jenpeterson3712]

Met him 3 times. So entertaining and such a gentleman

[@francecote9558]

Il ne change pas et il a une belle physionomie un homme sympathique humble xx

[@TheThevolkov]

Best male vocals ever, loved and respected by every generation, privileged to have attended his concert in LA in the 80s

[@bryanwatson4865]

I’m a guy 69 years young who back then was a teenager when Gary Pucket and the Union Gap were cranking out all the great hits that impacted me then and still do to this day! I still listen regularly to their top hits and get my Mojo lol!

[@dansmusic4579]

There is another interview from 2007 on you tube: th-cam.com/video/RXDrz5jAIoM/w-d-xo.html
Gary Puckett is STILL with us, performing all the time, quite often in Las Vegas, either downtown at the Golden Nugget or on the south Strip at Southpoint Hotel/Casino.
I'll be seeing him once again, next week March 11, 2022, at the Southpoint. He STILL has that amazing voice! I was a studio musician at Columbia records, Sunset Strip, Hollywood working for Terry Melcher,1966-1971, and Gary and the Union Gap (working for Jerry Fuller) would often be seen in the halls, or in the studio, but I never got to record with him. He used some wrecking crew (Blaine, Kaye, etc) in the first records, but the Union Gap played all their own instruments for all the rest of the records! They were THAT good!

[@francecote9558]

Il a des yeux expressifs

[@user-og8tj2lu4c]

Ill always love you!!!!!

[@becky.sellers4339]

Love GP

[@brassplyer]

Interesting but it drives me nuts when an interviewer cuts off the person being interviewed in the middle of a thought.

[@jerirollins414]

I am with you on this comment. It drives me nuts to especially when they interrupt the person they’re interviewing cut them off their rude and you’re wondering what the heck is going on it just ruins the whole atmosphere bad karma but everybody is right about Gary, being humble and kind, respectful and likable all over the world. Happy Easter, everyone