Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. It is at nine forty five and it's time for one on one with a fabulous entertainer. Way Tower on the line with it is how you doing, a young man, I'm good, young man, you're too kind. Well, you know, I'm sixty three. Everybody's younger than me. Now you have been setting the place on fire. People have seen you at a few events other than the Constantine Theater. But you've got a dynamic show and
it spans a good swath of time. But my gosh, is it packed with entertainment. Tell us a little bit about your show. It's just it's a show that I created. Honestly, I came up with the concept about ten years ago, and I'm so quick and efficient that I just got it on stage this summer. But as I, as I have traveled the country performing to just doing shows at casinos and corporate events and private events, there were two things that stood out to me as I sang all these groups.
There were two performers and essentially two categories of songs that were just unbelievably popular with every crowd that I sang for. And it didn't matter demographic didn't matter, what part of the country I was in, didn't matter age. And those were the classic Frank Sinatra songs and all of the classic Elvis songs. And so I thought, well, you know what, what if I had
a show, And that's what I did. The first half of the show is essentially all Frank Sinatra music, and it's just all of his biggest hits, although we certainly don't have time to hit all of them. And then the second half of the show is all Elvis Wow, and so it's Elvis hits. And so I had somebody reached out to me earlier this week and they said, Okay, I'm trying to explain this to my friends because they came to the show this past Saturday and they said, they're asking me if
you're an impersonator, and I was like, no, not really. And so the reason she was confused is because when I do the music, I've got a nine piece band and we've got, you know, charts that I've had written for the show. That they were charts that were written from the original charts from Sinatra's band leaders and Elvis's folks. So the music itself,
whenever I sing and perform the songs. We sound very much like the original entertainers, and that is on purpose because I want them to be able to close their eyes and go, oh, oh, my gosh, this is what it maybe felt like a little bit to see Sinatra or see Elvis in person. But in between the songs, I'm very much myself. So I
dressed the part. I wear a tuxedo, and I've got an Elvis not a jumpsuit, but an Elvis outfit that I wear that actually I had made by the same costume company that made all of the Elvis costumes for the movie that just came out not very long ago. So it looks the part, it sounds the part, but the show is very much my personality. For better or worse. Well, I tell you what, it sounds like. You've got a trifecta going on there. Well, looks pretty good. It's
just it's just it's just fun music. You know. I tell people all the time, I call I call it happy music. Yeah, because you just cannot be sad listening to all those horns blaring, and listening to those songs and all of those fantastic lyrics. And so you know, every time I start singing those songs, whether it's in this show or doing some events somewhere, you see people start to sway their shoulders and start to you know, kind of thing along with me at their table or in their seat.
It's just great music. Now you're doing this at the Constant Constantine Theater, and that's a beautiful place. I've had the honor of performing there myself a couple of times. That is one sweet sounding building and it's nice and air condition especially this time of year. That's really cool. But no plan intended. Yeah, yeah, no, Actually, they they've done a fantastic job the last couple of years. Yea. They have spent a lot of time
and money. Um sort of. They put in a new sound system, they could actually in a new air conditioning system and actually a filtration system. You know, a lot of historic theaters kind of have that musty smell, which is just because it's been there for a hundred years. Oh yes, I'm familiar. Yes, but it doesn't have that, and it's it's very comfortable and it's you're right, it's a beautiful theater and it was originally built
as an opera house, so the acoustics are absolutely fantastic. So now when are your shows playing? I know they're on Saturday. Better are they matinees or are the prime time or are they are matinees? We felt like it made more sense to do a matinee when folks were out in about and hustling
and bustling around town. And so it's every Saturday three o'clock. We are not there this weekend because they have our artisans show that was on the calendar from a year ago, and I've actually got a charity event that it worked out perfectly nice. So yeah, so every every Saturday starting on the twenty fourth, will be back starting on June twenty fourth, and then literally every
Saturday for the rest of the year at three o'clock in the afternoon. That's great because you know why, when you're walking around visiting with the Pioneer Woman and all her different things going on there. And then of course with the movie there, they've got some of the places we can kind of go visit and kind of check out see where the movie was made. Killers with the Flower Moon, that's gonna be a building once that thing gets fully developed.
And you know, so right there in the heat of the afternoon kind of take a little break, cool your heels and really be entertained by Wayne Tower. I gotta you're from what does still want? Still Water America? Sir? And you know this this is gonna be a fantastic show. I mean right there, you've already told us you're covering the songs of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley. So the only thing that's missing is that you took us in the seats, folks, because this is a great show. Now. You
just played bartlesvilt at a special gala. What a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, the Chamber of Commerce had their awards banquet and gala. Um. I think last week actually left Tuesday Good Day and I got to sing at that, which was which was always fun. It's always a good group of folks. I had three hundred hundred, twenty thous people there, so it was fun. And they're still talking about it, by the way, so
you had a good job of them. That got less them. It's just it's just fun, you know, sharing the music that I'm sort of an old soul, so whenever I grew up watching old movies and listening to this music and just fella love with it, and the thing that I tell everyone is that it's certainly not the music that everyone listens to every day. You know, I'm one of the rare people that go to work out and have Frank Sinatra and my headset. But it's the music that everybody knows. Everybody.
Yeah, it doesn't matter if I do an event. You know, we've we've been blessed that we've gotten to do some pretty large, very h bougie weddings, as they say, But you know that those are groups where the bride and groom are twenty five, twenty six years old, and all of those kids know all of the words to fly Me to the Moon, and that's life. And so it's just it doesn't matter if you're eight or eighty. It's just music that's familiar to everybody, and and we just absolutely
love doing it. I tell people at the beginning of the show, my my only goal for the audience is I hope that they have as much fun as we're going to have on stage. Well, I gotta tell you, that's the music that was the heart of America that at the forties and the fifties and into the sixties and seventies as well. And you cut across a
lot of generations just with those two artists to begin with. Everybody's familiar with the songs, whether they've seen it in a movie, heard it on the radio, or you know, just maybe somebody's a Spotify collection and playing off field some of them, Yeah and whatever or where everything else. I mean, that's the song that both both artists actually did with My Way. So I have to ask you this question. I'm kind of building up to it. Which version do you do um of which song My Way? Oh?
Oh, well, you know what your question is very afropos, so you could get away with both, you know, oh no, no, absolutely, And here's here's how we handle that. Actually, My Way is sort of the encore song that some audiences don't ask for, but I come back and sing it anyway. And so when I come back on stage to sing My Way, I literally let the audience pick which version they want hot Dog. Now, that's cool. It's the only song that I let them decide.
But both artists made it famous. Both artists have their own style, and it was interesting on June three, when we opened, we sort of had a half and half, so I kind of had to a mixture. And then at the last show last Saturday. It was very Elvis heavy at the end, and so they wanted the Elvis version, so that's what we did. Well, there you go, folks. You get a little surprise
ending and this is all kinds of funny. Say, do you have a social page or a maybe a website so folks can learn just a little bit about you before they come see you. I'm glad you asked it is. You can go to Wadetower dot com and that's Wade just like Wade in the water and tower like a water tower. Wadetower dot com. You go to Waytower dot com. I am on every social media platform you can think of.
You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Interests. More importantly, probably if you if you want to sample and you want to hear some of the music ahead of time and hear what I sound like, you can find I've got two albums on iTunes, so you can sample me on iTunes. You can listen to me on Pandora, on Spotify, on Amazon Music, so just about any place online that you can listen to music,
you can find Wave Tower. Well, there you go, and of course, folks, on Saturday, with a special deal, we've got a lot of things going on over in Pahuska that are kind of annual, but after that, it's virtually every Saturday at three o'clock throughout the entire year, Wave Tower, the Chairman and the King, and that is at the Constantine. How can I get that they've been so good to me? They have been They really are. They treat you. They do treat you like a king,
don't they? No, they absolutely do. And I will throw in, you know, there's some folks that come to the theater and they're not sure what to expect because some folks, believe it or not, are not huge Snatra or Elvis fans. But I will just tell you that we've got some surprises thrown into the mix because we do a little Neil Diamond, we do a little George Straight, we do a little Dean Martin, so we kind of throw in some of their peers along the way just to kind of
mix it up. You're kind of like a one man Vegas All Star show. That's that's really kind of cool. Well, I appreciate that. It is a lot of fun, and I absolutely am super thankful to the Constantine and for them having me and being willing to put this show on because it's a big commitment on their part obviously to have me every week, and it allows me to do exactly what I love to do. So I am super
super grateful and super blessed. Well, this is wonderful. And again, tell the folks where they can find you online, because right now some of them we're kind of preoccupied because I know how. You can find me online at wadetower dot com. Wadetower dot com, you can find me on Facebook. It's all everything's under Wadetower, Facebook, Instagram, Interest, Twitter,
Pandora, Amazon, Music, Spotify, any place that there's music. And then, of course, probably the most important thing for this conversation is if you go to Constantine Theater dot com you can buy tickets or any of the shows that are listed. You can buy them online. You're welcome to buy them if you just want to walk up that day as long as there's tickets available. You can buy tickets at the door, which seems to be a pretty good plan for most folks at decide last minute. And then you know
the other thing that we don't. We're going to do the show all summer long and off fall. But then in mid November, we're going to switch the show over and it becomes a holiday show and a Christmas show, so it'll be the same theme Chairman and the King. It'll be the Chairman and the King Christmas and we'll see all of the classic Christmas hits for the rest of the year. Well, son of a Gun, this is really good. This is gonna be a lot of fun. And you know you hit
this right at the right time, Wade. I mean, the Pioneer Woman is hotter than ever as far as viewership and people wanting to know a lot about Ree and then of course there's a lot of interest with the movie that was shot over there, and of course Bohuska has tons of visitors every Saturday anyway. The streets are just full and the businesses are too. This is really a nice little icing on the cake here. And folks, I want to tell you, if you're looking to be entertained, you're going to be
entertained. And then something that's Saturday's three o'clock Constantine Theater and that is Wade Teller. Wait, thank you for being our guest today, No, sir, I appreciate you giving me the time. And it was a pleasure. I look forward to doing it again sometime. All right, you'll be seeing me in the audience. I'll be there with about seven. And you can't miss that. You can't miss that thing coming at you.