"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs." — Gregory Harrison

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show.

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Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.