The Healing Power of Sound with Jeralyn Glass

**Dr. Drew** (0:10)
Hey, everybody, welcome to the podcast. Appreciate you being here. Do you support the people that support us? We can keep doing this thing. Any guest suggestions, contact at drdrew.com. And I want to welcome today's guest, Jeralyn Glass. The book is Sacred Vibrations, The Transformative Power of Crystalline Sound and Music. She is well-versed in, you'll see from multiple angles in terms as her experience of music and sound. Has a whole series of credentials under her belt. I'll let you speak to them for yourself. Jeralyn, welcome to the show.

**Jeralyn Glass** (0:48)
Thank you so much, Dr. Drew. What an honor.

**Dr. Drew** (0:51)
So you started as a singer. I read the book and that's where it started, right?

**Jeralyn Glass** (0:56)
It sure did.

**Dr. Drew** (0:57)
Tell me about that. Tell us the journey. I know it's in the book. Don't give them too much because I want them to read the book also, but tell us the sketch.

**Jeralyn Glass** (1:05)
I knew from the time I was a little girl that I was going to sing, and then I had a solo in the sixth-grade choir, and people said to my parents, what are you going to do? She's talented. At that time, there was no America's Got Talent or The Voice or any of those shows. They took me to a neighbor who was a very experienced singer. She had dubbed Ava Gardner in the musical movie Showboat. She dubbed Lucille Ball, and she's 102 today, and she's still singing, Annette Warm-Smith.

**Dr. Drew** (1:32)
Still singing? That's cool.

**Jeralyn Glass** (1:33)
Oh, yeah.
If you heard her, you'd be blown away. Oh, wow. So I started my training, and then it happened pretty fast. I went to New York, and I was taken as the youngest cast member in My Fair Lady starring Rex Harrison. And then from there, it went to... I did Showboat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and from there, it went to classical music, which I found out that you also studied, so it was very exciting.

**Dr. Drew** (1:58)
I did. That's why I was kind of interested in your story.
And when you say My Fair Lady and Showboat, was it first run of Jesus Christ Superstar and first run?

**Jeralyn Glass** (2:08)
No, no, no. But I played Mary Magdalene, which was a very eye-opening experience to sing that music. So no, My Fair Lady was the 25th anniversary revival, and Showboat was a national tour.

**Dr. Drew** (2:20)
Got it, got it, got it. But having Rex Harrison in there, there was a period where they had a bunch of revivals. I went to Broadway and got to see like Yule Brenner and King and I, What's Your Name and Hello, Dolly?

**Jeralyn Glass** (2:36)
Carol Channing.

**Dr. Drew** (2:36)
Carol Channing. There was like three or four different, Zero Mustale and Phil on the Roof. There was a bunch of them back then. It was so interesting to see all that stuff.
So there you are. And I'm just curious, for me, I sort of started with the American musical lexicon, and it got boring musically very, very, very quickly. That's why I went to classical music. I'm like, it's got to be something else. Let's try this stuff. As somebody that wasn't that into music, I was sort of fumbling around. I was late in high school and stuff. That's kind of why I went into classical music.

**Jeralyn Glass** (3:14)
Yeah, you know, my teacher, Annette, so when I started, she always gave me Vakai. I don't know if you did any of those Italian exercises.

**Dr. Drew** (3:19)
I hated it. I hated that. I did not like that. Had I been exposed to that first, because it wasn't my... So what happened, I had a teacher.
I'll see how this worked. Yeah, the teacher was sort of... See, I really wanted to focus on the singing part. I didn't really want to focus on the music. I enjoyed the singing and I enjoyed producing exciting music. And so Vakai was like...

**Jeralyn Glass** (3:44)
Right, it was exercises. And then I was young, I was 11 And then Italian classic songs. But then she gave me one of the Carmen Arias, which was like, wow, this is really incredible. So yeah, I always was exposed to both. So I sang Gershwin and Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter and all the great kind of classic American musical theater composers. And then more modern ones, of course, and the classical. So I was exposed. And then jazz, her husband was Paul Smith, who used to play for Ella Fitzgerald and Sammy Davis Jr. So he accompanied me in our recitals. So I was also exposed to great, great jazz. So, yeah.