{"id":651,"date":"2014-02-13T16:43:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turneyduff2.dev\/?p=651"},"modified":"2014-02-13T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:43:16","slug":"the-good-ship-galleon-shirley-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/13\/the-good-ship-galleon-shirley-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Ship Galleon &#8211; Shirley Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-651-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Good-Ship-Galleon.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"\" src=\"\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Good-Ship-Galleon.mp3\">https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Good-Ship-Galleon.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWith the help of Millrose Music I was able to finally find a copy of The Good Ship Galleon. With the passing of Shirley Temple I thought it was appropriate. RIP&#8230; In October of 2000 we recorded the song with Jesse Jaymes, Lucy Woodward and me &#8211; Cleveland D. Not my proudest moment, but whatever &#8211; I&apos;d do it again.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/raj-rajaratnam.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-658\" alt=\"raj-rajaratnam\" src=\"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/raj-rajaratnam.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/raj-rajaratnam.jpg 400w, https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/raj-rajaratnam-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nHere is the part of the book that talks about the rap song.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>One morning, the guy Raj hired to plan the party and arrange for the talent, which included headliner Diana Ross, walks in the door. A hip-looking, tall dude with shaggy blond hair, there\u2019s something about him I like immediately. Maybe it\u2019s his entrepreneurial manner, or that his company seems ultra-creative\u2014along with having him plan the whole party, Raj has also commissioned him to write a rap theme song for Galleon. Or maybe he represents a non-Wall Street part of me I\u2019ve almost completely forgotten. He introduces himself as Jesse Itzler, and then I realize he also goes by the rap name Jesse Jaymes.<br \/>\n\u201cHey Jesse,\u201d one of my desk mates yells out. \u201cTurney here is a rapper.\u201d I turn a baby girl\u2019s nursery shade of pink. \u201cThat so,\u201d he says, nodding his head in approval. \u201cWhat\u2019s your rap name?\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>I contemplate choking on a pen cap so I don\u2019t have to tell him. I remember coming home from the beach in 1991 and watching Yo! MTV Raps where he performed \u201cShake It Like A White Girl\u201d and \u201cCollege Girls Are Easy.\u201d I knew he\u2019d won an Emmy for \u201cI Love This Game,\u201d a rap song he\u2019d written for the NBA, and he also wrote the New York Knicks theme song, \u201cGo New York, Go New York, Go.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cCleveland D,\u201d I say, finally.<br \/>\n\u201cNice,\u201d he says.<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Now, calling me a rapper is, to say the least, a bit of a stretch. It\u2019s true I love hip-hop. And it\u2019s also true that in 1988 I formed a rap group called \u201cMaximum Intensity\u201d with my best friend, Nathaniel, who called himself Live T. Most of our other friends hated rap music. But we were in high school in Kennebunk, certainly one of the most un-hip-hop places on earth, and we mostly performed in Nathaniel\u2019s barn to an audience of zero.<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>A couple of days later, the phone rings at the desk and it\u2019s Jesse. He wants to know if I\u2019ll help him with the lyrics for the Galleon theme song. \u201cReally?!\u201d I say, in a voice that is embarrassingly high-pitched. But I follow up with a very manly, \u201cSure, love to.\u201d After all, though it might be a big jump from Nathaniel\u2019s barn, when will another opportunity like this come along?<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>I meet Jesse at the studio a week before the party. It\u2019s on the Upper West Side in the basement of a building. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m in the right place until I find the buzzer, above which a small tag reads \u201cMilrose Music.\u201d I walk down the dark rickety staircase. The carpet is dark, the walls are dingy and the whole place smells musty, but the studio looks professional. There\u2019s a couple of recording booths, the engineer\u2019s table in the middle and a couch and chairs in the back. The engineer sees me and says, \u201cSup?\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>With only a week to write, record and produce the song, I don\u2019t understand how he\u2019s going to get it done in time. I prepared for our meeting for a week or rather I worried about our meeting for a week. I wanted to prepare, but I didn\u2019t know where to start. I had come up with one idea for the hook, but it seems foolish now. I sit on the couch and Jesse sits on a chair across from me and begins asking me questions about Galleon: what it\u2019s like to work there, what\u2019s Wall Street\u2019s perception of the firm. I tell him one of the names the Street calls Galleon is \u201cthe good ship.\u201d And that\u2019s when my one idea pops out of my mouth. Why don\u2019t we sample the song \u201cOn the Good Ship Lollipop\u201d but change the lyrics to \u201cOn the Good Ship Galleon?\u201d I ask.<br \/>\nHis face breaks into a smile. \u201cCleveland D!\u201d he belts, his head pumping up and down. I breathe a sigh of relief.<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>I start to relax and the lyrics began to flow: It\u2019s the Good Ship Galleon\u2026 When Wall Street has a rally on\u2026 When Trader\u2019s trade\u2026 Everybody in the place gets paid\u2026 Shirley Temple would be proud. Jesse has a female vocalist lay down the chorus. Then, with all of my notes and suggestions, he gets into the booth and starts to rap. I\u2019m in awe. In less than twenty minutes he\u2019s done. \u201cYour turn,\u201d he says. Jesse had suggested I rap a few lines or in his words, eight bars. At first I was excited, but now I\u2019m nervous. I think about Nathaniel and all those afternoons and evenings we\u2019d spent practicing, mimicking the latest hit, or coming up with our own rhymes. I need to do this.<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>The engineer plays the track of Jesse\u2019s last line so I\u2019ll know where to jump in. I have to finish his line and rhyme it with CNBC. Here\u2019s what I do: \u201cAnd me, Cleveland D\u2026,\u201d I begin. \u201cHit me, bid me, I need liquidity\u2026 Stopped me on five? Stupidity\u2026 I\u2019m at Galleon where it all connects, trading healthcare and biotech\u2026 When I finish, the producer looks at me with an \u201care you serious?\u201d expression. He plays it back and I sound awful, like a tone-deaf robot. I try it again with little improvement. Nine more times we lay it down. And nine more times the producer shakes his head back-and-forth. Finally, on the eleventh try, he shrugs and my first (and only to this point) rap recording is born. So I don\u2019t sound like Chuck D or Ice Cube or even Vanilla Ice for that matter. I have a CD I can send home to Nathaniel, which he can play as loud as he wants, and silence all the haters in Maine.<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Galleon-fund-returns.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-659\" alt=\"Galleon-fund-returns\" src=\"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Galleon-fund-returns.png\" width=\"604\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Galleon-fund-returns.png 604w, https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Galleon-fund-returns-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know &#8211; if you&#8217;re coming off of an up 93% year &#8211; aren&#8217;t you supposed to make a rap song?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 With the help of Millrose Music I was able to finally find a copy of The Good Ship Galleon. With the passing of Shirley Temple I thought it was appropriate. RIP&#8230; In October of 2000 we recorded the song with Jesse Jaymes, Lucy Woodward and me &#8211; Cleveland D. 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