Aug 30, 2022
Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we bring you part one of our conversation with Kristen Hillaire Glasgow PhD, daughter of manager, restauranteur, impresario, raconteur Roy Silver and actress Kathryn Reynolds. The episode sparked literally, when Kristen made the connection on Twitter to the band Sparks in our conversation with Matt Asner a few episodes back. It turns out her dad, Roy Silver managed Sparks for a bit early in their career as well as musicians and entertainers like Joan Rivers, Cass Elliott, Bill Cosby, Jackson Browne and the rock band Fanny. What’s more, we learned that not only did Roy Silver manage Tiny Tim but that our host Josh Mills’ parents threw a party for Ron and Tiny Tim to ‘introduce’ Hollywood in Tiny Tim in July of 1968. And we have the proof to back that up.
We talked a lot about all things LA in the 70s & 80s, including restaurants (like Roy’s which her dad owned), how her dad ‘found’ Bill Cosby at The Bitter End in NYC, her mother’s folk mockumentary group Allen & Grier, her stepmother actress Dee Dee Rescher, the real story behind the all-female, all amazing rock band Fanny, the genius that was El Grande De Coca-Cola starring Ron Silver & Jeff Goldblum, the record label Tetragrammaton Records Silver and his partners founded which released Deep Purple debut album and the John Lennon and Yoko Ono album Two Virgins and much more. What’s more you ask? Well we have to break this interview up into two episodes. It was that good. Part one is here, so take a listen to the Rarified Heir Podcast right now.