Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame: DeWayne Jessie (Otis Day and The Knights)

from Poorman's 15 Minutes of Fame · host Chelsea Shells

“My first film was Halls of Anger (1970), and it was about a racial high school issue. You know, they bus white kids to a black school and stuff like that.” — DeWayne Jessie (Otis Day and The Knights)

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Tune in as Poorman interviews character actor and singer, DeWayne Jessie (a.k.a. Otis Day) who played Otis Day, frontman of the band Otis Day and The Knights, in the comedy movie, National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978). In the 1980s, Jessie purchased the rights to the band's name from Universal Studios and formed a real-life version of the band with some of his family members, touring the country with wild success for years afterward, with Jessie maintaining his role as lead singer Otis Day.

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