Reporter's Inside Stories: An Interview With Spinner

Reporter: Hello there, fellow smurfers. This is Reporter Smurf coming to you live from the Smurf Village, and with me today is a Smurf who's responsible for making his fellow Smurfs dance...well, one of them, anyway. His name is Spinner, and his job is being a disk jockey at Smurf parties -- a job that's been in high demand when the phonosmurf was big and now with the crystal disk smurfer. He's also been recording and producing albums for his fellow Smurfs, and one of his notable works is, of course, Smurfette's Ray Of Sunshine album which has been really popular in the Smurf Village, even more so than the Smurflings' "Smurfbop" song. I'd like to thank you for smurfing here with me today, Spinner.

Spinner: Hey, no problem, amigo.

Reporter: First of all, why are you called Spinner? Most of your fellow Smurfs knew you by your birth name Pedro.

Spinner: I don't mind the name Pedro, but honestly I like the name Spinner better 'cause I'm always spinning something on the turntable. Even before that, I would be spinning things like plates on my finger, man. I would be impressing my fellow Smurfs like that all the time with that stuff. But frankly, I like to be smurfing music like my fellow Smurfs, though the only problem is that I'm not good with smurfing instruments. That don't mean that I wouldn't know how to smurf music together to put onto a phonosmurf or a crystal disk.

Reporter: I can see how good you are in smurfing that kind of job, Spinner. It's too bad that you can't smurf your own music to smurf on your own records, though.

Spinner: Yeah, you know, each of us Smurfs' got something that we're good at, and I want to think that my job as a record producer will make Smurfs appreciate the work that goes into smurfing the kind of music that they listen to every day. It's not all fun and games when you got Smurfs who want their music to sound really good and just the way that they want it. But I'm not going to smurf them anything less than my best in the studio.

Reporter: So how was it working with Smurfette in the studio when it came time to smurfing together her first album?

Spinner: Oh, man, she's got the best musicians smurfing with her...well, maybe with the exception of Harmony, who can never smurf a good tune from his horn, but here he wasn't smurfing out of tune with everybody else. It was mostly her show and Empath's and Orbit's since they were the ones who smurfed up with the songs for the album, and I just simply recorded them and smurfed together the tracks, and they got smurfed into the final mix which got smurfed onto the master crystal disk. I had to listen to it several times in a row, but I never got tired of listening to Smurfette sing.

Reporter: You think you'll be working with Smurfette again sometime in the future?

Spinner: She can smurf in my studio anytime, man. I don't know what's got planned for a follow-up album, though, but I hope it will be just as successful.

Reporter: Speaking of music, do you have any particular favorite style of music that you like to listen to?

Spinner: Yeah, I like to listen to Pitufo style music like my Papa and Mama Smurf used to listen to and even play, man. You know, it's got a lot of rhythm and a lot of horns and tambourines and stuff like that, and it plays really fast and it gets Smurfs dancing. Of course, I can't sing the lyrics to Pitufo style music because I don't know much about the language, which is a real shame, 'cause my cousin Gonzales -- you know him as Zipper -- likes to speak in that language a lot, and I have to tell him that you got to speak in Smurf because nobody else will understand you when you speak in Pitufo.

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