Creativity Quote by Eydie Gorme

There is a sly defensiveness tucked inside Eydie Gorme's casual brag. "Turntable hits" is old-industry slang: records DJs loved to spin, songs that lit up radio booths and living-room hi-fis, even when they didn't always translate into the kind of chart dominance that becomes legend. By leaning on "what they call", Gorme both claims the accolade and keeps it at arm's length, as if to say: I know how fickle these labels are, and I also know I earned them.

The repetition - "A lot of them. A lot of them" - does double duty. It plays like conversational emphasis, the way a performer underlines a point with rhythm. But it also reads as a pushback against a cultural amnesia that tends to flatten mid-century pop careers into a handful of evergreen titles (or, worse, into the footnotes of someone else's story). Gorme's era wasn't built on streaming metrics or fan armies; it was built on gatekeepers and formats. The turntable was power: radio programmers, disc jockeys, variety shows, and the machinery of promotion that could make a voice feel omnipresent.

In that light, the line becomes a subtle reclamation of status. Not "I had masterpieces", not "I changed music", but: I was played. I was wanted in rotation. For a woman singer navigating a business that often rewarded image and novelty over longevity, the modesty is strategic. She sidesteps grand self-mythology and instead points to the one measure no one can fake: the needle kept dropping on her records.