…why is “you wait” the one I remember the best?
Jerry Adler, who passed at age 96, played it straight and plain in every Sopranos scene he appeared in.
The bulk of Hesh’s fortune was built upon the backs of black r&b singers whom he unfairly exploited in the ’50s and ’60s. So he wasn’t a “nice guy”, but Hesh was Hesh was Hesh…the real McCoy.
Boilerplate: Hesh is a Jewish businessman who made his initial fortune in the recording industry, founding F-Note Records during the 1950s and 1960s, bringing many young black musicians to prominence, and receiving royalties by being fraudulently credited as a co-writer on many songs.
“Hesh is thought to be a composite character, inspired by real life music mogul Morris “Mo” Levy, the founder of Roulette Records who (a) had connections to the mafia, and (b) owned a string of racehorses.”