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If you see me walking down the street,
Deon Warwick, one of the great female
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singers of all time, you hear Deion
Warwick's voice and you never heard a
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voice like that before and you are never
gonna hear a voice like that again.
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Don't make me Dion's.
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Music is generational because.
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They just don't do it like that no more.
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When Dion opened her mouth,
did you know it was Dion?
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Of course she did.
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Anyone who ever a dream, her voice
was like water in the desert.
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She acquaints her food,
and so I dream mom.
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She was always having a, in her dress
and her demeanor and her delivery.
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Always the picture of
elephants, what's it?
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Dan War's voice has this
beautiful melancholy tone that
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just, just touches your heart.
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I could actually feel
what she was feeling.
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The was an ideal partner for Burton
Hell, magical combination, the way
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she brought their songs to life.
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It was an amazing thing to watch.
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Dion was, you know, one of the few,
you know, to cross over to old markets.
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Dion was the first African American woman
to win a Grammy in the pop category.
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I mean, that's a huge, huge thing.
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It's Dion War, a legend.
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It's pig.
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Televis.
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I wasn't open to that many black women.
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The people that I was privileged
to be in the same room with.
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Not many of my peers had that opportunity.
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Some people thought that she was
a sellout, she trying to be white.
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All of that.
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Deion had to.
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Terry, what do you get when you fall?
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This is the way I was represented.
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When I first went to Europe.
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They didn't know if I was black.
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If I was white, I was going
into uncharted territory.
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Never this way.
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You cannot separate the
voice from the heart.
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Dion's music inspired people.
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See and look forward to the
best part of themselves.
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She was not just an artist, she was
one of the first these genuine AIDS
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activists in the United States.
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DM was the hero of mine and for a
lot of people, she was really the
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first person in the music business
to actually speak up about it.
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Ah, and when you look at the great
singer will come, the Cre de la Cru
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DM Warwick is right at top level.
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She PAVs the wife of artist like
myself, great artists, great
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humanitarian, great person.
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That's what defines greatness.
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I sing music and from that
evolve, whatever this is, I am.
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I come from a middle class working family.
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We lived in Newark, New Jersey, and
then moved to East Orange, New Jersey
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where I spent all of my growing years
lived in a wonderful neighborhood.
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East Orange.
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Every race, color, creeds,
religion lived on that block.
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We were virtually the United Nations.
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My mom worked at a electrical factory.
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My dad was a Poland porter.
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I got an opportunity to travel with
him a lot, which was wonderful.
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My grandfather was a minister.
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Oh yeah.
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And uh, so I grew up in church.
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You have given me something this evening
that have missing, truly missing, and
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it's only because I gotta keep my.
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Gospel will never be that
far away from what I do.
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That's what I was brought up.
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Singing will always sing, and
it's just an innate part of it.
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A path is coming.
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The
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very first performance, I was six years
old, we had just finished Sunday school.
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Jesus loves me this.
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I know my grandfather
said I come to the pulpit.
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He had arranged five or six
heavy books for me to stand on.
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He says, I want you to sing for me.
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I says, you want me to do what?
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Sing said, I want you to sing.
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Jesus loves me, so I closed my
eyes as tight as I could get
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him, and I started singing.
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Jesus loves me.
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Yes, Jesus loves me
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and you.
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I started hearing things coming
from the congregation, Jesus.
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All right, see.
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Oh, and I opened up, vote in
my eyes, and I just let it go.
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Then I started really giving it
to him, and I finally finished it.
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It was my very first stand in Ovation.
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Yeah, dm.
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She really knew what she
wanted to do way back then.
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So she came to live with us in our teens.
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She grew up in our house.
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When my mom passed, I went to live
with my sister, which was Dion's mom.
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I always considered her more
of a big sister than an aunt.
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And of course I was the boss.
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, that's what she thought.
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You know, the, the
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Lord.
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I think Dion learned how to sing because
we always had a, um, a group, you
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know, the drinkers, singers was before.
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All of it.
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They were the first gospel
group to record the RCA victory.
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Whenever they sang, it was like the
whole neighborhood would come out and
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sit on their porches to listen to.
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And of course I'd open my mouth
and try to, I'll sing them
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all , which was impossible to do.
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Gospel music is something different
because it comes from way that
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in here and usually troubles and
tribulations that we've been through.
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My daughter was raised in Gospel Church.
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I am Whitney Houston.
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Dion's my first cousin,
and very proud of that.
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I just heard gospel all in my family.
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You know, we'd have Christmas
dinner and then we'd sing.
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We'd have Thanksgiving
dinner and we'd don't sing.
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Legacy is my family.
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Music, pure and simple music.
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The Apollo Theater gave me my first
taste of being on a stage, an actual
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theatrical stage, performing in 1934.
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A lot of black entertainers were being
discovered on the state deal power.
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So they start presenting the Harlem
Amateur Hour radio show renamed
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Amateur Night at the Apollo tradition.
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It's folklore.
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It's the granddaddy of
black show business.
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Well, I've always loved soul singers.
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I've always loved black music.
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I grew up playing it in a band.
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I grew up loving it.
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I talked with some of the greatest
entertainers around the world,
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and everybody wants to experience
the Apollo Theater any day now.
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I will hear you say, but back, right?
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Wrote any day now for Chuck
Jackson, which is one of my favorite
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reputable time, any day now way.
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When I came to the Apollo, I thought
I was pretty good as a performer,
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but I was just standing up singing
and the people were not lacking.
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So the next show I went on, I started
throwing the mic and falling to my knees.
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The people were standing and cheering
and there were women screaming,
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and they just came into me.
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And when they backed
off, I was almost naked.
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That's what I knew.
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There's stuff to get this.
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I remember the first time I walked
into the Apollo Theater and the whole
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wall on both sides was a mural of
all these artists who have played
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at the Apollo Theater, Ella Jeron,
Billy Stein, Sammy Davis, Harry
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Belafonte, the Oreos the Moon Glows.
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The Spaniels, the Drifters, Jackie Wilson,
Sam Cook, all these people on this wall.
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And I said to the miracles, I hope
one day we can make this wall.
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Oh,
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now, the first time we played
the Apollo, we were terrible.
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We were so terrible until
the guy called Barry, Mr.
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Chipman called Barry told
me he wanted his money back.
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He wasn't really even paying us no money.
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We didn't have money
to get outta the hotel.
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You know what I'm saying?
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But he wanted that back.
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That's how terrible we were.
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But it was a lesson.
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They've seen everybody.
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So when you go there, you better be ready.
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You better bring it.
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On amateur night, the Apollo,
the audience judged you.
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If they like you, they applaud you.
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If they don't like you, this
guy chases you off the stage.
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Amateur night at the
Apollo just crazy big.
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You gotta go up there.
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Everybody's cheering, yelling, screaming.
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You think Sam Man's gonna
come out and yank you off?
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. It's hard to get your confidence up.
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It's scary.
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It was frightening cuz you know what can
and has happened, and I've seen it happen.
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And there's a saying that
says, if you can make it at the
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Apollo, you can make it anywhere.
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And that is the truth.
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Go ahead.
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Go research.
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How many people won Amateur night?
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Amateur night launch, the careers
of so many incredible women.
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Ella Fitzgerald was the first
then followed by Sarah Vaughn,
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then a young lady from Harlem
by the name of Billy Holiday.
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Then in 1957, this incredible young lady
came and performed on Amite and her name.
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Was Miss Dion Warwick,
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shall I?
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I'm going send one by
one, one for a little bit.
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The baby he was born, born.
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He was born in Beth.
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Hell.
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Our gospel group decided who gonna sing
a song is recorded by the Imperials.
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I'm still adult.
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Imperials happened to be
on that particular show,
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So when we got on stage, the Imperials
were standing there watching us.
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We used to laugh about a house.
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Scared she was, she said she was
hitting notes she didn't even realize.
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And when we came off,
we said, we, we didn't.
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You did a wonderful job on this song.
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Are you kidding me?
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We loved it.
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And when the time came to announce
the winner, we were winner.
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Which was a wonderful thing.
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Young man at one of the shows
that we were attending needs
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a vocal group to do background
work on a recording, big mouthy.
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I said, oh yeah, we know how to do that.
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I said, do you, was that,
what's the background work?
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said, I don't know.
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We gonna find out, I guess
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And as it turned out, we went into civil
glory records in Newark, New Jersey,
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and we did the zas and occasional, yay.
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Yay.
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And that was the beginning
of our background careers.
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While I was in high school, I would travel
into New York and do demos, and while
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I was in college, even, I arranged my.
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So that I could come in and do that.
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It was made a very, very good living,
helped to put me through college.
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Dionne Warwick did what she needed to
do to strengthen her professional life,
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learning the skills that you need to be
a great musician, to get a bachelor's
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degree, to get a master's degree.
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She changed the notion that
African Americans can't study,
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they can't sing that way.
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The fact that she can read music, write
music, play music site, read music,
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which is no easy feat, by the way, takes
years and years and continual practice.
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It allows you, I think a flexibility and
a freedom to just really never be held.
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Back
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when I met Dion, we're gonna record
Mexican divorce with the Drifters.
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Wanted to have a girl group
in the background and these
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four, um, ladies came in.
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They were pretty awesome.
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I mean, the way they sounded, you
couldn't tell who was the best singer.
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Some of Dion stood out, she sort
of looked like could be a star.
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Bird approached me and asked if I would
be interested in doing more demonstration
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records of songs that he'd be writing with
Halal David, a new songwriting partner.
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And I said, yo, I guess as long as it
doesn't interfere my education, cuz
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my mother will kill you, . And me too.
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Dion came in to sink her how and
myself and we signed her right.
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Florence Greenberg who owns Step Record,
she said, I can't believe that voice.
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I just heard it was heavenly.
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Thank God for my daddy who negotiated my
contract and, uh, let Florence Greenberg
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know we're gonna take care of my baby.
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I did a demonstration record
of a song called Make It Easy
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on Yourself, and it was agreed
between Backpack, David and myself.
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That would be my very first record.
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Calvin Carter was a and r at BJ Records
and he called and he said to me, you
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know that song, make it Easy on Yourself.
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One to do with Jerry Butler.
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Basically run the date book the musicians.
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That was a big opportunity for me.
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Well, I was on my way from Hartford
down to New York to do a session
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for them and I had the radio on my.
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And out of the radio King
Jerry Butler singing, make It
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Easy and Make It Easy On the,
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on the, and that didn't
sit too well with me.
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So when I got to New York, I kinda let
know Uhuh, you don't do that to me.
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One thing I want you to both to
understand is there's something you
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can never do to d try to make her over.
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So don't even think it how
they put pen and paper.
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Don't make me,
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don't make me over.
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Now that you know,
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a lot of companies thought
Bert and Hal CEP were losers.
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When they released, don't Make Me Over.
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They said it couldn't happen a format.
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Radio Station wouldn't touch it.
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Other jockeys wouldn't touch it
because it was something brand new
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and they weren't playing new music.
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When I played, don't Make Me Over.
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The phones lit up.
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I knew from that moment,
Deion war would become a star.
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I was coming home one day listening
to a pop station and it came on.
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And I said, oh my God, they did it.
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I met Dion when I was 13.
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I remember hearing Don't Make me Over.
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And I was saying, you know, there's
a new song about Dion Warriors,
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incredible, Bert Barrick and Hal David.
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Great.
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But Dion was the glove
that fitted them perfectly.
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She was the one
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in the name of the greatest people
that have ever tried this earth.
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I draw the line in the dust and tossed
the gauntlet before the feet of turn,
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and I say segregation now, segregation
tomorrow, and segregation forever.
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My very first tour was the
true chitlin surrogate.
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We did the South when it was not
popular to be black and go into
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the south, it opened my eyes.
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It surprised me because I had
never encountered anything
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of that nature before.
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If the black restaurants are closed,
we don't have any place to eat.
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We've been shot at for wanting to go to
the toilet, you know, or you get to the
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place and there are toilets there, and
once it's men, Taylor says women, and
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around the back somewhere it says colored.
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Like if you're colored, you are just,
there's, you know, gender, you know, all
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the colored people go to the same one.
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We have absolutely no intentions
of integrating in the south.
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Those areas would have been segregated
for at least a hundred years.
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They didn't want us even staying
overnight in certain towns.
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we were going ease in, do our
show, you know, and ease out.
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I toured with the Motown review and
I remember they had just experienced,
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um, someone in the south shooting
at the bus and had missed the gas
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tank I inch from the gas tank.
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I can remember the story
very, very clearly.
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We were in,
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but I'm old and young.
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Twist them the night away
shows were completely sold.
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Every night.
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It was one side, which was white
where they were seated, and the
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other side was a ballroom type
setting where everybody was standing.
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Blacks were on this side,
whites were on this side.
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The stage was straight ahead, and
I remember Sam saying, Dion, do not
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turn your back on the white boat.
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And I said, well, why not?
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He said, do not turn your
back on the white boat.
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I said, okay.
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First thing I did when I went out
there, I walked straight to the
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band and turned my back and played
the ones that looked like me.
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Everybody could hear
me, everybody could see.
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Someone and I come together.
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We were in South Carolina.
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Sam decided that he was going
to treat everybody to lunch.
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Our bus was parked right outside
of a place called the Toddle House.
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So we walked in and this waitress came by.
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She says, um, what do you gals want?
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Which kind of started the
hair rising on my neck.
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I said, we have a list here.
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These kind sandwiches and this
kind of hamburger and da da.
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So I said, well, where can we sit down?
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She said, oh, no, you gonna stand right
here and wait till I get it back to you?
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Excuse me?
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She said, no, there's no way
you're gonna sit down here.
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You're not supposed to even be in here.
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Well, that's when I turned around.
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He said, I was crazy.
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Anyway, everybody knows that.
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I looked at it.
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I said, well, you know what?
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You can do that order I just gave you.
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When it comes, shove it up.
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Your mm.
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And we walked out.
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Well, we got back on the bus
and Sam said, where's the food?
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I said, that woman's got stuck up her
butt, . That's what I told her to put it.
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Less than three minutes after
we got back on that bus, a
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police officer came to the bus.
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She stood at the front
right where the door opens.
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He said, okay.
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Where those two girls that was in
the title house, they seemed to
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have been very, very insubordinate
to the waitress in there.
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And I wanna know which
one of them said what.
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I almost stood up said, I said
it, and Sam, just stop me.
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Sam said, listen Sarah, I
don't mean to be rude to you.
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However, this is a private bus.
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It happens to belong to me.
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You do not belong on it.
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So I'd ask you to please leave it.
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And he.
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He said, Dan, you could have
got us put all in jail up.
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Stop.
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Daddy, don't beat me wrong.
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Deion had in her act, what I say,
Ray out a song and she had in
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it, tell your mom, tell your paw,
we going to integrate Arkansas.
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And we were in one of those
cities where you didn't do that.
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So they told her that she
cannot do that part of the song.
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And Dion went on stage.
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And then I hear you say, your
mom tell your mom, you say Y.
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Tell your paw.
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And when she said, Anna, she
didn't finish graded, the cops
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stopped the show right in there.
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The police told us we had so
many minutes to get out of town.
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, we made sure that Deion was the
first person to get out of town.
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She took chassis.
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Because I would never have said that
if they told me not to, but she said,
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they're not gonna tell me what to do.
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And she went through a time where
it was just hard being a black
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person, not alone being a black
woman, but that made her who she is.
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And I believe that what don't
kill you makes you stronger.
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To sing back racks, melodies,
you almost had to have a music
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education just to read what he wrote.
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Different registers, time signatures,
man marched to his own drummer.
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If you wanted to be a part
of that, you had the march.
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With Dionne is able to read music,
she was able to play a little piano.
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That's a real.
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There were a few of us who decided that
a music background was very important.
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One was Valley Simpson.
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I found Dion Warwick
through singing background.
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I was lucky enough to get the
premier gig, which is Bet Back Rack,
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and Hal David and Dion Warwick.
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She can look at a piece of music,
the notes on the page, interpret
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that, and then make those notes
come to life in a special way.
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It was an amazing thing because her
training made that sound easy, backtrack,
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and David wrote very rangy melodies
and she just effortlessly sang them.
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I am forever grateful that I learned from
her as much as I learned from John Qure
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in the sixties, though we were awful bits.
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In Detroit, we heard Dion, her
unique interpretation of the Burt
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Pack rack and held David songs.
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Were iconic, raw, and real.
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They were just perfect works of art.
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They were a bit like Picassos.
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When you can take a song and you can
completely transform the listener
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and make them know that every single
word, every single note counts.
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It transports you.
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Anyone who have a at
me and know love honey.
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Anyone who have dream good and know
I dream love you knowing I love you.
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And at Nissan
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her.
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That floated through those lyrics with
those complex melodies was magical.
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Dion, it's a huge range.
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Anyone had her heart, you know,
she's very delicate and then she's
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very explosive, very unusual to
have a singer that can do that.
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Knowing
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Z young girl.
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One of the voices that touched my heart
most in the world was Dan's voice.
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I grew up in Australia and when
I was 15 I went into a talent
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contest and uh, I actually won
the talent contest with anyone I.
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So she was the beginning of my career.
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I grew up listening to a lot of music.
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It made me realize I wanted to be a voice.
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My guitar is my voice.
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And when I heard Deion Warwick's voice,
I said, I wanna have a voice like that.
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She was like jealous.
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Iic.
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Anyone who had a heart tore
at my heart and is still one
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of my favorite all time songs.
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They were forming what I would
call a musical marriage and the way
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she brought their songs to life.
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It was just magic.
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I don't like it at all.
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I don't like it.
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A and I would write and beat a piano, and
maybe I'd have part of a melodic fragment.
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Maybe how I would have a lyric, a title.
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That's how we, we started.
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The more we recorded Dion, the
more I could see what she could do.
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I, I think, how David
was tuned into the world.
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I don't call him a lyricist.
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I call him a poet.
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He wrote to you, not at you.
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He wrote from his heart things
that he felt needed to be said.
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And I think that most people
literally wanted to be able to
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say, that is why I revere him.
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Hell was really mild mannered, but Byrd
is very strong, so you have to be sure of
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yourself and, and Deion had that quality.
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I'd always try to get her to stop smoking.
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It's a hard habit to break.
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I guess I'd been on her case a little
bit and she had some T-shirts made up.
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Don't tell me to stop smoking.
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It's pretty good.
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In the 1950s and sixties there was music,
so there was rhythm and blues, which
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was considered for African Americans,
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and then there was pop music.
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It's my party
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and it was really hard to cross over.
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There was almost a river
that separated them.
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Back then we were, you had two
different sets, the criteria.
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You had white radio and
you had black radio.
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Have do a lot with fears that
this race music might contaminate
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people, make them act differently
than the society would want.
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In the studio, we would record it.
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Dion, sister Dei, Merna.
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And Sissy Houston.
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And then we would bring three
white girls who did all the jingles
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and the pop stuff in New York.
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Put sissy's group on the bottom and
then on top would be the white girls.
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That was kind of the format.
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This is the way I was represented
when I first went to Europe in Paris.
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That those white blonde, blue eye,
this is Deion Warwick, I changed
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cause that's all he ever
saw representing me.
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And when I walked out on that stage at
the theater was like, it was a gasp.
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And I told him, I said,
yeah, I know I ain't white.
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I am attempt.
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Teasing Brown.
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Okay.
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If you see me walking down the street and
I start to cry each time we be walk on,
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oh me leave and you don't see
thes, just let me in private.
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Cause each time I see
you'll break down and cry
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are gone by stop.
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There were some black people who
thought that she was a seller.
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A little too white.
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And then there was Wes that was
saying almost the same thing.
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She had it coming from both ways.
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I just can't, Dion wasn't really gospel.
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She had another spirit
in her where she went.
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Was where she was supposed to be.
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They didn't know where I
fit, if I was black, if I was
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white, if I was what I was.
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The music I was singing was nothing
like anything that any of them
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were singing, black or white.
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So they really didn't
know what to do with me.
478
00:32:16,965 --> 00:32:20,785
Roy Pock was a true blues club.
479
00:32:21,175 --> 00:32:24,115
I didn't know nothing about no
blues, but I was booked there.
480
00:32:24,535 --> 00:32:27,235
When I showed up at
Saints Home made me over.
481
00:32:27,895 --> 00:32:28,945
I knew they hated me.
482
00:32:29,635 --> 00:32:32,515
They had heard the song that
there was a white girl singing
483
00:32:32,815 --> 00:32:34,985
and Henry Wyn own Thero.
484
00:32:35,125 --> 00:32:35,395
God.
485
00:32:35,725 --> 00:32:36,595
I told Mr.
486
00:32:36,595 --> 00:32:38,335
Wynn, I said, I am not coming back here.
487
00:32:38,635 --> 00:32:39,655
These people hate me.
488
00:32:39,715 --> 00:32:41,425
So he says, no, no, no.
489
00:32:41,425 --> 00:32:42,205
Don't say that.
490
00:32:42,295 --> 00:32:42,985
It's not true.
491
00:32:43,375 --> 00:32:46,285
They do like it, but you just
not sing the right thing.
492
00:32:46,915 --> 00:32:50,305
Do you know a song called
What I Say by Ray Charles?
493
00:32:50,515 --> 00:32:52,015
I said, yeah, everybody know that song?
494
00:32:52,315 --> 00:32:52,885
He said, good.
495
00:32:53,095 --> 00:32:58,225
So now your next show, what I want you to
do, I want you to open with what I say.
496
00:32:58,495 --> 00:32:59,935
I said, well, why you want me to do that?
497
00:33:00,175 --> 00:33:01,985
He said, you'll find out everybody.
498
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:09,550
Oh, oh, it oh, oh, oh.
499
00:33:09,580 --> 00:33:09,870
I
500
00:33:13,370 --> 00:33:15,350
had people singing it and carrying up.
501
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,000
By the time I got thumb make me of it,
they didn't care what I was saying.
502
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:19,350
It was wonderful.
503
00:33:23,970 --> 00:33:31,510
You see this girl, this
girl in love with you?
504
00:33:34,530 --> 00:33:34,950
Yes.
505
00:33:35,530 --> 00:33:45,750
I'm who love said you love when you smile.
506
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:50,750
We know each other.
507
00:33:50,750 --> 00:33:53,399
Now you gotta understand
there are cultures.
508
00:33:53,865 --> 00:33:58,875
In this world, Dion could touch anybody
with her music across the board because
509
00:33:58,965 --> 00:34:01,334
she wasn't so far one way or the other.
510
00:34:01,485 --> 00:34:05,264
Dion was, you know, one of the students
that had the kind of material and the
511
00:34:05,264 --> 00:34:10,065
voice to, to cross over to all markets and
making an international kind of an appeal.
512
00:34:10,214 --> 00:34:13,304
And the people that she was
dealing with also knew how to
513
00:34:13,310 --> 00:34:14,475
take that middle of the rope.
514
00:34:14,475 --> 00:34:19,125
So she hooked up with them and you know,
with her sweet voice like she has, you
515
00:34:19,125 --> 00:34:20,864
know, it was just the perfect match,
516
00:34:33,165 --> 00:34:34,275
if not a.
517
00:34:58,185 --> 00:35:02,985
Even though I had a head
record in the States, my career
518
00:35:02,985 --> 00:35:05,085
literally blossomed in Europe.
519
00:35:08,025 --> 00:35:08,835
It was exciting.
520
00:35:09,285 --> 00:35:10,875
I was treated like a little princess.
521
00:35:11,060 --> 00:35:13,700
Which I loved . It was a lot of fun.
522
00:35:18,530 --> 00:35:22,070
Marlene Dietrich showed me what it was.
523
00:35:22,070 --> 00:35:25,730
I really was headed for,
oh, give your something.
524
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:27,470
The dream about Mr.
525
00:35:28,340 --> 00:35:33,290
Marlene took very good care of Dion
in Paris, and Marlena lived in Paris.
526
00:35:33,830 --> 00:35:38,870
I was going to appear at the Olympia
Theater and Berta let Marlene
527
00:35:38,875 --> 00:35:42,020
know that I was heading that way
and to please take care of the.
528
00:35:43,335 --> 00:35:46,455
Okay, see, put us in the limousine.
529
00:35:46,515 --> 00:35:50,505
Took us to our hotel, went to
the Olympic Theater with me,
530
00:35:50,805 --> 00:35:52,695
did my lighting, my sound check.
531
00:35:52,785 --> 00:35:55,965
She did everything and she
just show me your clothes.
532
00:35:56,655 --> 00:35:58,395
So I took her back to the dressing room.
533
00:35:58,515 --> 00:36:02,805
She looking at my dresses that
I thought were pretty ill.
534
00:36:02,865 --> 00:36:03,315
Okay?
535
00:36:03,825 --> 00:36:08,805
And each one she looked at, she tossed
into the hall, off the rack, into the
536
00:36:08,805 --> 00:36:10,886
hall, off the rack, into the hall.
537
00:36:11,445 --> 00:36:14,835
I thought the woman had lost some eye and
the New Jersey started coming outta me
538
00:36:15,255 --> 00:36:17,205
and I asked, I said, what are you doing?
539
00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:20,405
She said, no, no, no.
540
00:36:20,505 --> 00:36:21,915
You must wear good tool too.
541
00:36:23,235 --> 00:36:24,375
I said, what?
542
00:36:25,065 --> 00:36:25,725
Good tour?
543
00:36:25,935 --> 00:36:26,835
I said, good tour.
544
00:36:26,955 --> 00:36:27,765
What is good tour?
545
00:36:28,095 --> 00:36:32,835
He says, she took me shopping much to
this, your grand and my accountants,
546
00:36:35,145 --> 00:36:37,035
. That was my introduction to.
547
00:36:38,134 --> 00:36:40,515
The designers of the industry.
548
00:36:45,825 --> 00:36:49,095
Hey, little girl, comb your hands.
549
00:36:49,365 --> 00:36:50,235
Fix your makeup.
550
00:36:52,035 --> 00:36:54,615
He will open the door.
551
00:36:55,275 --> 00:36:55,285
What?
552
00:36:55,395 --> 00:37:00,825
A woman is attractive and she has a talent
and she's displaying it, they become sex.
553
00:37:01,485 --> 00:37:05,085
And I think Dion was one of
those the first time I see her.
554
00:37:06,355 --> 00:37:06,835
Magnificent.
555
00:37:07,275 --> 00:37:10,665
The high cheek bones looked
like a Nubian princess.
556
00:37:12,525 --> 00:37:16,665
Deion was always the picture
of elegance in her dress, in
557
00:37:16,665 --> 00:37:18,355
her demeanor and her delivery.
558
00:37:18,525 --> 00:37:19,545
She was always elegant
559
00:37:23,415 --> 00:37:25,845
and we used to always tease
her and say, this thing, you
560
00:37:25,845 --> 00:37:27,225
gotta show those pretty legs.
561
00:37:27,225 --> 00:37:31,185
Now, don't always wear those long
dresses because when we saw her legs,
562
00:37:31,190 --> 00:37:32,895
she had these tremendous legs, you know?
563
00:37:33,450 --> 00:37:39,960
There was this sense of pride in
her stature in the way she carried
564
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,210
herself that made you feel good.
565
00:37:42,629 --> 00:37:43,770
Um, about being black.
566
00:37:44,310 --> 00:37:46,649
I used to have thoughts of Dion Warwick.
567
00:37:46,799 --> 00:37:51,420
Uh, I am five foot, three and a
half, uh, Dion War was always taught.
568
00:37:51,750 --> 00:37:54,149
I always thought about how
be climb that mountain.
569
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,009
No disrespect Dion.
570
00:37:56,460 --> 00:38:01,710
Much love to you, sisters, but
back in the day, your boy did.
571
00:38:01,710 --> 00:38:03,509
I have big for you, girl.
572
00:38:06,299 --> 00:38:07,799
Oh, my wife is not watching this.
573
00:38:09,450 --> 00:38:10,109
I'm in trouble.
574
00:38:12,859 --> 00:38:14,109
Ladies and gentlemen,
575
00:38:18,580 --> 00:38:25,680
Wari, I happen to be amongst the fortunate
view that people of all nationalities and
576
00:38:25,685 --> 00:38:29,279
races listen to my audiences worldwide.
577
00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:30,629
And that's the beauty of music.
578
00:38:32,325 --> 00:38:33,495
It transcends color.
579
00:38:36,214 --> 00:38:40,904
I was, when we were first the artist
to perform before the Queen Mother
580
00:38:40,904 --> 00:38:45,015
of England, I had the Royal Command
performance, the Palladium in England.
581
00:38:45,944 --> 00:38:47,225
I was one of the first.
582
00:38:47,775 --> 00:38:51,565
Recording artists to
tour Europe completely.
583
00:38:52,355 --> 00:38:57,805
France, Germany, Spain,
Italy, Machi, Sokos in
584
00:39:07,485 --> 00:39:08,725
these days.
585
00:39:31,005 --> 00:39:32,325
Daddy mess.
586
00:39:50,645 --> 00:39:53,415
I was involved in being a lot first.
587
00:39:53,805 --> 00:39:57,355
Yeah, sometimes it's nice to
step outside the box once again.
588
00:39:58,235 --> 00:40:05,175
Dun Warwick, a chair
is still a chair even,
589
00:40:16,755 --> 00:40:21,135
and the, there's no one there.
590
00:40:21,915 --> 00:40:25,305
You your, that's not one there.
591
00:40:26,195 --> 00:40:30,135
You can be good enough.
592
00:40:30,645 --> 00:40:35,175
I found that people outside of
the United States not only knew
593
00:40:35,175 --> 00:40:37,335
I was, but appreciated my talent.
594
00:40:38,045 --> 00:40:39,655
They didn't understand what I was saying.
595
00:40:39,655 --> 00:40:42,375
I didn't understand what they were
saying, but musically, they knew exactly.
596
00:40:43,085 --> 00:40:44,645
Who and what I was and.
597
00:41:18,455 --> 00:41:19,745
It's exciting in Europe.
598
00:41:20,265 --> 00:41:24,384
When I came back to the States
is when it started snowballing.
599
00:41:24,525 --> 00:41:25,875
You welcome, please Miss Deion.
600
00:41:29,565 --> 00:41:30,105
Deion
601
00:41:38,825 --> 00:41:39,265
grandpa.
602
00:41:39,275 --> 00:41:39,625
Oh,
603
00:42:00,585 --> 00:42:01,145
together.
604
00:42:09,805 --> 00:42:14,754
My first Vegas room was The Sands,
which was the home of the wreck hat.
605
00:42:15,045 --> 00:42:16,214
Sammy Davis Jr.
606
00:42:16,305 --> 00:42:18,225
Was one of my major mentors.
607
00:42:18,435 --> 00:42:19,234
Okay, you coming in?
608
00:42:19,465 --> 00:42:21,385
Welcome to the family kind of thing.
609
00:42:29,815 --> 00:42:33,055
When I first met Elvis, he said, you
got records here in town, don't you?
610
00:42:33,055 --> 00:42:33,835
I said, yeah, I do.
611
00:42:34,435 --> 00:42:39,385
Elvis put a photograph of himself
inside it, every album of mine in Las
612
00:42:39,385 --> 00:42:41,425
Vegas and made announcements about it.
613
00:42:42,505 --> 00:42:46,525
I sold so many albums, I, I
realized how many albums I sold.
614
00:42:47,035 --> 00:42:48,205
Said, alright, now, Mr.
615
00:42:48,205 --> 00:42:49,165
Fred, thank you,
616
00:43:11,319 --> 00:43:17,649
I was able to play the Apollo Theater,
which was relatively, uh, looking at an
617
00:43:17,649 --> 00:43:26,259
African American audiences to the Brooklyn
Fox, which were basically white teenagers.
618
00:43:26,799 --> 00:43:30,850
If you see me walking down
the street and I started to,
619
00:43:43,060 --> 00:43:47,670
I was able to perform at the
Apollo and the Brooklyn Fox and.
620
00:43:48,255 --> 00:43:54,455
Both entities seem to feel that,
okay, I, I enjoy what you're doing.
621
00:44:02,085 --> 00:44:05,565
She was able to define pop by
bringing something to the table
622
00:44:05,565 --> 00:44:06,825
that was original and unique.
623
00:44:06,825 --> 00:44:06,884
Me.
624
00:44:10,085 --> 00:44:15,195
I did not wanna record outfit because it
had already been recorded by 46 people.
625
00:44:15,735 --> 00:44:18,615
I said, okay, I'm gonna record
this song in one tape, and if you
626
00:44:18,620 --> 00:44:19,975
don't get it, you don't get it.
627
00:44:20,155 --> 00:44:23,335
And that turned out I'm the only one
who had a hit record with the song.
628
00:44:23,985 --> 00:44:25,305
Paid off in the long run.
629
00:44:26,775 --> 00:44:28,305
What's it all about?
630
00:44:35,565 --> 00:44:35,715
S
631
00:44:41,805 --> 00:44:46,985
what's it when you it off?
632
00:44:49,695 --> 00:44:50,115
All
633
00:45:15,135 --> 00:45:16,155
its what?
634
00:45:16,765 --> 00:45:17,635
To be cruel.
635
00:45:18,375 --> 00:45:22,905
Television wasn't open to that many
black women or black people, period.
636
00:45:23,730 --> 00:45:29,420
At any rate, so, uh, doing the
Sullivan Show, doing the Per Como
637
00:45:29,420 --> 00:45:33,870
show, doing the Donna Shore Show,
doing Rich Kel and Danny Kay.
638
00:45:34,350 --> 00:45:41,190
I was kind of put into another,
I, I don't even know, bubble the
639
00:45:41,310 --> 00:45:45,540
people that I was privileged to
be thrown in the same room with.
640
00:45:46,050 --> 00:45:48,990
Not too many of my peers
had that opportunity.
641
00:45:55,050 --> 00:45:58,080
I was so thrill to be here to honor
not only a great star, but someone
642
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,230
I once dated, and that's no joke.
643
00:46:01,230 --> 00:46:03,030
I really did date Sammy Davis, Jr.
644
00:46:04,050 --> 00:46:05,100
We had a lot in common.
645
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,480
I started singing gospel at the age
of six, and he started breaking the
646
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:10,950
Commandments at the age of seven
647
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,310
I still don't know why Sammy
went out with me in those days.
648
00:46:17,310 --> 00:46:18,360
I just wasn't as tight.
649
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:19,770
I wasn't sexy.
650
00:46:20,190 --> 00:46:21,090
I wasn't beautiful.
651
00:46:21,629 --> 00:46:22,379
I wasn't white
652
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:28,859
lay it on.
653
00:46:30,839 --> 00:46:32,549
He came backstage after that show.
654
00:46:32,549 --> 00:46:34,529
He said, sing a comedian now, right?
655
00:46:35,339 --> 00:46:36,180
I said, no.
656
00:46:45,410 --> 00:46:46,259
What's wrong?
657
00:46:49,940 --> 00:46:52,060
Every night I'm sleep.
658
00:46:53,910 --> 00:46:55,419
My things
659
00:47:01,279 --> 00:47:06,379
a's the Warwick has the supreme common.
660
00:47:07,490 --> 00:47:08,060
Everyone accepts you.
661
00:47:10,370 --> 00:47:14,690
Of course, she broke down racial barriers,
ma'am, because her music is everybody.
662
00:47:14,690 --> 00:47:21,080
Music be the first says a lot
because there were none before you,
663
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:22,250
but there'll be many after you.
664
00:47:57,850 --> 00:48:00,545
There's always somebody that
gotta open the door and then
665
00:48:00,650 --> 00:48:01,580
they all come running through.
666
00:48:09,465 --> 00:48:12,915
There's a song called Do You Know
the Way, San Jose, that I really
667
00:48:12,915 --> 00:48:14,445
was not gonna record this song.
668
00:48:17,595 --> 00:48:19,965
We had to kind of coax
Dion to get her to do it.
669
00:48:20,265 --> 00:48:20,985
She's glad we did.
670
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:22,509
We're glad she did.
671
00:48:22,740 --> 00:48:27,069
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
672
00:48:27,069 --> 00:48:28,270
You didn't write that, did you?
673
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:30,939
You know the way to
674
00:48:34,270 --> 00:48:44,379
wrong, you know, the way to, so
some of these, uh, these big.
675
00:49:02,944 --> 00:49:04,214
You can really
676
00:49:08,645 --> 00:49:08,944
swear.
677
00:49:10,245 --> 00:49:11,774
I was born and raised in
678
00:49:21,055 --> 00:49:22,335
tomorrow went the hall.
679
00:49:23,550 --> 00:49:26,700
I first went to Northern
California to visit Hillary.
680
00:49:27,030 --> 00:49:32,850
We just started going out and I said, we
gotta drive to San Jose because I can't
681
00:49:32,850 --> 00:49:34,620
stop singing that Dionne Warwick song.
682
00:49:34,620 --> 00:49:38,670
And I want to say yes, I
know the way, and so help me.
683
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:42,150
I drove her down there
singing the song all the way.
684
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,450
Do you know the way to San Jose
685
00:49:48,540 --> 00:49:52,800
Deion was the first African American
woman to win a Grammy in the pop category?
686
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,600
I mean, that's a huge, huge thing.
687
00:49:54,900 --> 00:49:58,800
She opened the door for many, many artisan
different color to be that woman, to
688
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:04,110
stand out and, and, and break the mold
and show women that you could do anything.
689
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,310
Do you know the way to San Jose,
690
00:50:12,810 --> 00:50:14,630
get back to Jose
691
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:18,690
1968.
692
00:50:18,780 --> 00:50:19,990
Do you live way to San Jose?
693
00:50:20,150 --> 00:50:22,310
It's a crossover six days year.
694
00:50:22,310 --> 00:50:22,610
Dr.
695
00:50:22,610 --> 00:50:27,170
King was killed with so much pain
and the streets were a blaze.
696
00:50:28,010 --> 00:50:29,540
Martin Luther King Jr.
697
00:50:29,545 --> 00:50:31,730
Was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
698
00:50:32,300 --> 00:50:34,850
Shot as he stood alone on
the balcony of a hotel room.
699
00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:37,040
He died in a hospital an hour later.
700
00:50:38,570 --> 00:50:40,640
Martin Luther King, he was our voice.
701
00:50:43,370 --> 00:50:45,590
We dedicated that evening to him.
702
00:50:46,170 --> 00:50:49,280
And uh, the battle him of the
Republic happened to have been
703
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:50,600
one of his favorite songs.
704
00:50:51,740 --> 00:50:52,370
It got to me.
705
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:53,660
I was a wreck.
706
00:50:57,730 --> 00:51:08,660
The glory, um, calling all the
Lord, he is traveling out the
707
00:51:08,660 --> 00:51:12,590
vintage where the grace of around.
708
00:51:14,634 --> 00:51:19,154
He has losed the faithful lightning of his
709
00:51:23,685 --> 00:51:24,355
through
710
00:51:27,475 --> 00:51:28,035
Jesus.
711
00:51:29,805 --> 00:51:30,154
Oh,
712
00:51:33,185 --> 00:51:35,714
I have a dream Lord.
713
00:51:35,935 --> 00:51:42,754
One day hall, this
nation rise up, live up.
714
00:51:42,754 --> 00:51:48,194
The true meaning its he
means to be self-evident.
715
00:51:48,745 --> 00:51:49,234
That.
716
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:58,110
All of this craziness that
happened in the sixties,
717
00:51:59,670 --> 00:52:02,070
unfortunately was happening again.
718
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:06,590
The windows of the world
are covered with rain.
719
00:52:08,670 --> 00:52:12,570
Where is the sunshine we want?
720
00:52:15,495 --> 00:52:20,805
Everybody knows when little children play.
721
00:52:21,734 --> 00:52:26,855
They need a sunny day to
grow straight and tall.
722
00:52:28,424 --> 00:52:31,095
Let the sun shine through.
723
00:52:35,565 --> 00:52:42,585
The windows of the world are
covered with rain, wind, willows,
724
00:52:42,585 --> 00:52:45,944
relax guys, hair to blue.
725
00:52:47,865 --> 00:52:51,524
Slavery brought on a lot of things
that people are not ready to accept.
726
00:52:51,745 --> 00:53:00,234
When ands the dead, some to die.
727
00:53:01,815 --> 00:53:03,714
Let the sun shine.
728
00:53:13,710 --> 00:53:14,520
So what is change?
729
00:53:15,330 --> 00:53:15,690
Nothing.
730
00:53:18,510 --> 00:53:23,890
But I think, um, there
is hope, love is answer.
731
00:53:36,270 --> 00:53:43,750
What do you get when you fall
in love A with a job and that's
732
00:53:43,750 --> 00:53:46,070
what you get falling your
733
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:53,750
in another again, no, no.
734
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:58,650
At a very early age, I fell in
love, I thought with a young
735
00:53:58,650 --> 00:53:59,790
man named William Elliot.
736
00:54:01,500 --> 00:54:04,470
We started dating and one thing
led to another, finally asked me to
737
00:54:04,650 --> 00:54:06,870
marry him, and I thought, oh, okay.
738
00:54:06,870 --> 00:54:07,390
I don't know.
739
00:54:07,950 --> 00:54:10,630
Let me think about it's thought about.
740
00:54:10,630 --> 00:54:11,880
I said, okay, let's do it.
741
00:54:12,090 --> 00:54:14,350
Never fall in love again.
742
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:19,670
Never fall in love.
743
00:54:20,310 --> 00:54:23,150
Couldn't have been more than
two weeks after I got married.
744
00:54:23,790 --> 00:54:27,120
I woke up that morning, said I
didn't really wanna be married.
745
00:54:27,785 --> 00:54:33,455
So I to Mexico outta those
chains of chains of five
746
00:54:33,795 --> 00:54:35,355
and I got a Mexican divorce.
747
00:54:38,505 --> 00:54:45,175
We were divorced for two years and
yes, me married again, you gonna
748
00:54:45,175 --> 00:54:47,655
think I'm crazy, but I said, okay.
749
00:54:49,495 --> 00:54:51,615
Never bought in love again.
750
00:54:53,025 --> 00:54:59,235
That lasted well over 12 years and out
that came my two incredible babies.
751
00:55:03,675 --> 00:55:06,975
We're boys to men and we're gonna for you.
752
00:55:08,265 --> 00:55:08,615
Mm.
753
00:55:09,535 --> 00:55:10,135
. It's a
754
00:55:13,245 --> 00:55:14,325
We really rehearsed this.
755
00:55:14,325 --> 00:55:15,365
I can't believe you.
756
00:55:17,235 --> 00:55:17,985
. She's a legend.
757
00:55:18,375 --> 00:55:22,635
You know, I, I've gotten that for
a long time, but really, she's mom.
758
00:55:23,415 --> 00:55:27,315
I knew she was busy, but she would
divert her tour to make sure she
759
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:28,725
was there for a little league game.
760
00:55:29,355 --> 00:55:32,085
You know, those were special times.
761
00:55:33,015 --> 00:55:35,715
My mom is a single mom,
but she's everything.
762
00:55:35,715 --> 00:55:39,495
She's like, mom, dad,
sister, when I need friend.
763
00:55:39,795 --> 00:55:41,895
No, she's, she's the
everything of the family.
764
00:55:42,525 --> 00:55:46,245
My kids were very close to
Dion when she was working in
765
00:55:46,245 --> 00:55:48,285
Florida or somewhere close by.
766
00:55:48,555 --> 00:55:52,515
She used to come on the weekends, get a
plane and she'd take my kids with them.
767
00:55:52,845 --> 00:55:54,075
God was the days.
768
00:55:54,165 --> 00:55:56,295
I love those days, Charlie,
with Dion on the roof.
769
00:55:59,835 --> 00:56:04,245
I remember this, those stuff
happening and it's not my thing.
770
00:56:04,245 --> 00:56:08,685
So I said, maybe I'll just give
it up and I'll never forget we
771
00:56:08,685 --> 00:56:10,125
were doing the dining shore show.
772
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:12,960
And Clive happened to be.
773
00:56:13,875 --> 00:56:17,355
And he and I conversing about,
well, what are you doing?
774
00:56:17,355 --> 00:56:18,585
Who are you recording for?
775
00:56:18,585 --> 00:56:19,395
And all that good stuff.
776
00:56:19,395 --> 00:56:24,005
But you guys a wonderful way of doing, she
was ready to leave the recording business.
777
00:56:24,165 --> 00:56:25,205
He said, wait a minute.
778
00:56:25,205 --> 00:56:26,085
What you talking about?
779
00:56:27,235 --> 00:56:29,175
I just started a new label.
780
00:56:29,745 --> 00:56:32,685
Would you consider joining me on Arisa?
781
00:56:33,115 --> 00:56:36,345
I said, no, you know, maybe
I'll just give it up and I'll
782
00:56:36,345 --> 00:56:38,385
never forget what he said to me.
783
00:56:38,865 --> 00:56:43,305
You might have left in your mind
the music business, but we in
784
00:56:43,310 --> 00:56:46,965
music and I particularly need you.
785
00:56:47,205 --> 00:56:49,605
It will stay with me
for the rest of my life.
786
00:56:50,145 --> 00:56:50,955
What you gonna say?
787
00:56:50,955 --> 00:56:53,865
But, okay, let's try Arista about that.
788
00:56:55,425 --> 00:57:00,735
, I had this song that I knew
would be incredible and the song
789
00:57:00,735 --> 00:57:04,885
that I was holding for her was,
I'll never love this way again.
790
00:57:05,745 --> 00:57:09,725
You looked inside My fantasies made.
791
00:57:12,855 --> 00:57:16,815
Something no one else had ever found.
792
00:57:17,035 --> 00:57:22,875
Lou, you I've The memories one, Bible one.
793
00:57:23,714 --> 00:57:30,705
Since you took, I know this way again.
794
00:57:52,444 --> 00:57:54,395
Oh, this again.
795
00:57:55,904 --> 00:58:00,355
Hold on, hold on.
796
00:58:02,484 --> 00:58:03,915
Oh, on.
797
00:58:16,265 --> 00:58:23,825
Tomorrow reaching back, boy,
you, I won't turn my head in.
798
00:58:23,825 --> 00:58:24,145
So
799
00:58:27,825 --> 00:58:35,905
while standing and remember
just how good it's been and know
800
00:58:49,715 --> 00:58:50,065
he,
801
00:58:57,145 --> 00:59:01,105
we came out with our Never love
this way again, and it explode.
802
00:59:01,965 --> 00:59:05,415
And then Dejavu, that became a hit.
803
00:59:06,315 --> 00:59:07,815
This is insane.
804
00:59:22,155 --> 00:59:24,975
It's like a, I used to love.
805
00:59:31,875 --> 00:59:33,215
How can this be?
806
00:59:35,165 --> 00:59:41,095
You're a different space in time to me.
807
00:59:48,375 --> 00:59:48,935
Place
808
00:59:52,805 --> 00:59:53,295
long.
809
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:57,090
Call it of it.
810
01:00:00,050 --> 01:00:00,850
Could you?
811
01:00:01,300 --> 01:00:03,610
My dream I You
812
01:00:12,570 --> 01:00:14,450
could you My dream,
813
01:00:21,810 --> 01:00:26,010
I Keep Remember me, remember.
814
01:00:29,700 --> 01:00:32,210
So the album so beautifully.
815
01:00:32,550 --> 01:00:39,030
And then comes the Komi Award time there
and the Best Pop Female performance.
816
01:00:40,620 --> 01:00:43,710
Is Deion Warwick
817
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:54,180
water thrill?
818
01:00:54,180 --> 01:00:59,890
I feel, uh, to this day, she won
the best female pop meat for,
819
01:00:59,890 --> 01:01:01,350
I'll Never Love This way again.
820
01:01:02,010 --> 01:01:08,610
And in the same Grammy, she won the best
female r and b performance for Deja.
821
01:01:10,470 --> 01:01:14,040
There was a great comeback
to inspire everybody.
822
01:01:14,310 --> 01:01:20,190
Dion was back on top,
heartbreaker another one.
823
01:01:20,190 --> 01:01:23,279
I was basically badgered into recording.
824
01:01:23,660 --> 01:01:25,550
I shouldn't buy the brothers Gibb.
825
01:01:27,550 --> 01:01:33,150
These stay in the alive the
city and everybody stay in.
826
01:01:33,634 --> 01:01:35,675
Barry Gibbs writing eye here.
827
01:01:35,675 --> 01:01:41,165
The BGS were so incredible, and I
said, Barry, I'd love to work with you.
828
01:01:41,165 --> 01:01:48,305
I mean, is there an artist on my roster
that you'd be interested in working with?
829
01:01:48,725 --> 01:01:50,165
Five Davis came to see me.
830
01:01:50,435 --> 01:01:52,415
He asked me if there was
someone I'd like to produce.
831
01:01:53,105 --> 01:01:58,325
He gave me a list of artists and
his face lights up and he says, Dion
832
01:01:58,595 --> 01:02:01,025
Warwick, that's the lady right there.
833
01:02:01,505 --> 01:02:02,884
He was so thrilled.
834
01:02:02,884 --> 01:02:03,275
He sucked.
835
01:02:03,515 --> 01:02:05,705
I'm gonna write you a
song for Dion Warwick.
836
01:02:06,305 --> 01:02:08,585
You're gonna get it in 10 days.
837
01:02:08,645 --> 01:02:12,245
So he came up with a song along with
Morrison Robin called Heartbreaker.
838
01:02:12,545 --> 01:02:14,795
I was excited that this
might be a hit for her.
839
01:02:14,915 --> 01:02:16,475
He says, I wrote this.
840
01:02:16,475 --> 01:02:19,145
He said, for Dion, and I did the demo.
841
01:02:19,505 --> 01:02:20,825
Oh my God.
842
01:02:21,005 --> 01:02:23,585
So we both were the be
of breath for waiting.
843
01:02:23,884 --> 01:02:27,755
I would sing the song in Bolsen
because that was a woman's key,
844
01:02:28,205 --> 01:02:29,585
and I did an heartbreak that way.
845
01:02:31,815 --> 01:02:33,765
To see, and it's hard.
846
01:02:33,915 --> 01:02:37,515
Mommy can me cry in?
847
01:02:38,795 --> 01:02:39,995
Daughter would never be.
848
01:02:40,904 --> 01:02:44,084
I can only of one thing to say about
that, that she did it about it.
849
01:02:44,654 --> 01:02:47,174
Maybe that's why she wasn't keen on it.
850
01:02:48,584 --> 01:02:51,855
I, there's something about that song,
I just did not want to record it.
851
01:02:52,365 --> 01:02:58,035
Between Barry and Morris, CLA Davis
was very strong armed at the time.
852
01:02:58,125 --> 01:03:01,455
Uh, I just kept going at it
saying, I just know that it'll
853
01:03:01,459 --> 01:03:02,805
work and you just gotta trust me.
854
01:03:03,524 --> 01:03:07,125
And when it came time to record
the record, where do we show up?
855
01:03:07,245 --> 01:03:08,504
What studio they want to.
856
01:03:09,495 --> 01:03:14,505
He said, Clive, wherever she
wants to record it, I will go.
857
01:03:15,045 --> 01:03:19,245
That has never left me, especially
considering the power that
858
01:03:19,245 --> 01:03:23,055
he had, Barry guarantee, he
said it's gonna be a big hit.
859
01:03:23,145 --> 01:03:28,875
Major hit for you is to this very day,
the biggest European hit I've ever had.
860
01:03:31,275 --> 01:03:31,695
You.
861
01:03:36,885 --> 01:03:37,655
What You,
862
01:03:48,505 --> 01:03:48,855
ah,
863
01:04:01,555 --> 01:04:02,535
you have to.
864
01:04:05,190 --> 01:04:09,330
Heartbreaker worked out to be really
successful all over the world.
865
01:04:09,420 --> 01:04:10,080
It was number one.
866
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:12,870
If you wanna make a great
record, make a deal more
867
01:04:16,110 --> 01:04:21,300
It's cheating, but nevertheless, , if you
wanna know what's gonna be hit, ask me
868
01:04:21,660 --> 01:04:23,580
and I'll tell you, that ain't going hit.
869
01:04:23,580 --> 01:04:25,590
I don't like that, so
I'm not gonna record it.
870
01:04:25,590 --> 01:04:32,970
And then you'll find out right down
what at this , my God is the Bible.
871
01:04:32,970 --> 01:04:34,320
Everybody is your brother's keeper.
872
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:35,460
Everybody.
873
01:04:35,460 --> 01:04:38,070
I don't care who you are, white,
black, green, orange, indifferent.
874
01:04:39,090 --> 01:04:42,810
You can be striped and I, you're
still my sister or brother by the
875
01:04:42,810 --> 01:04:47,730
rules of God, and I've got to do
what I think is right to help you.
876
01:04:49,430 --> 01:04:52,680
Scientists at the National Centers
for Disease Control in Atlanta today
877
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:56,850
released the results of a study which
shows that the lifestyle of some
878
01:04:56,855 --> 01:05:01,270
male homosexuals has triggered an
epidemic of a rare form of cancer.
879
01:05:02,294 --> 01:05:07,455
I became very, very vocal and very public
with the AIDS issue based on the fact
880
01:05:07,455 --> 01:05:10,544
that, uh, we're losing so many people.
881
01:05:10,785 --> 01:05:16,725
Our industry was becoming decimated
with this thing, and this was long
882
01:05:16,725 --> 01:05:18,825
before we even knew what it was.
883
01:05:19,904 --> 01:05:23,774
Well, the 1980s were a very, very
dark time in the AIDS epidemic.
884
01:05:23,984 --> 01:05:25,935
There was a lot of
misinformation out there.
885
01:05:25,935 --> 01:05:30,674
Can you catch it in a bathroom or drinking
a glass of water from a person who had it?
886
01:05:31,064 --> 01:05:31,995
People were scared.
887
01:05:33,375 --> 01:05:37,424
People forget now what it was like
when there was no medicine there.
888
01:05:37,424 --> 01:05:41,024
Just a question of when, not whether
you were gonna die, unless you were
889
01:05:41,024 --> 01:05:42,915
some sort of biological miracle.
890
01:05:43,165 --> 01:05:50,015
People that we know are losing their lives
to this, uh, something gotta be done.
891
01:05:51,495 --> 01:05:55,485
In the early days, it was hard at
amfAR for us to organize benefits
892
01:05:55,485 --> 01:06:01,185
of any kind because everybody feared
that to be associated with this
893
01:06:01,190 --> 01:06:02,955
disease meant that you must have it.
894
01:06:04,305 --> 01:06:09,375
So to have someone like Deion
dedicate a song on behalf of this
895
01:06:09,375 --> 01:06:12,945
disease was simply groundbreaking.
896
01:06:13,335 --> 01:06:15,225
My sister Deion called me on the phone.
897
01:06:15,225 --> 01:06:20,715
She said, Hey, look, you, I need you in
the studio, uh, this afternoon about 12.
898
01:06:20,955 --> 01:06:22,665
And she said, Stevie's already on it.
899
01:06:23,655 --> 01:06:27,465
Well, I was happy for the moment
that I was called to be asked to be a
900
01:06:27,465 --> 01:06:32,235
part of it, and most importantly, do
something, uh, that would help despite
901
01:06:32,235 --> 01:06:36,465
against aids, I thought, God, these
people have already done something.
902
01:06:36,465 --> 01:06:42,195
I've gotta get off my big fat ass
and, um, do something positive.
903
01:06:42,645 --> 01:06:46,455
I remember my first time hearing that song
as a kid, to hear those voices together
904
01:06:46,455 --> 01:06:48,195
and to hear how she's that motherly.
905
01:06:49,545 --> 01:06:52,575
Voice on there that could just comfort you
and let you know that everything was gonna
906
01:06:52,575 --> 01:07:02,535
be alright and, uh, never I feel as far
907
01:07:07,625 --> 01:07:12,255
to say that I do believe I love.
908
01:07:13,714 --> 01:07:18,174
And if I should ever away.
909
01:07:19,424 --> 01:07:25,935
Well then your eyes and
try way we do today.
910
01:07:27,404 --> 01:07:30,234
And it you can remember.
911
01:07:34,410 --> 01:07:42,140
Keep smiling, keep shining and
know and can always count on me.
912
01:07:45,870 --> 01:07:53,700
That's what friends are for,
for good times and bad times.
913
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:54,580
All.
914
01:08:01,890 --> 01:08:02,740
That's what,
915
01:08:13,330 --> 01:08:19,140
well, you came and opened me
and now there's so much more.
916
01:08:19,370 --> 01:08:20,140
I see.
917
01:08:21,349 --> 01:08:24,500
Am so by the way, I thank you.
918
01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:29,040
You know, there's a saying that's been
around since the beginning of time United.
919
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:31,019
We stand the divide that we fall.
920
01:08:31,410 --> 01:08:34,920
She's an incredible singer, but
equally as important as her heart
921
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:39,479
is one of the greatest of all times,
it's typical of a Warwick performance.
922
01:08:39,509 --> 01:08:41,969
She started on a peak
and went up from there.
923
01:08:43,589 --> 01:08:50,099
And her generosity is also akin to
her talent and ability because the
924
01:08:50,099 --> 01:08:56,519
proceeds are being donated to the
American Foundation for AIDS research.
925
01:08:58,589 --> 01:09:01,679
She realized that President
Reagan had given her an
926
01:09:01,679 --> 01:09:03,429
opportunity to be an advocate.
927
01:09:04,380 --> 01:09:09,960
I consider it an honor to be invited
to announce my AIDS agenda for
928
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:15,269
1988 as Ambassador of Health Dion's
known presidents and worked with
929
01:09:15,274 --> 01:09:16,529
them since the Kennedy's president.
930
01:09:16,529 --> 01:09:18,089
Reagan appointed her health ambassador.
931
01:09:18,719 --> 01:09:22,380
He wanted her to use that job
to be a voice in American around
932
01:09:22,384 --> 01:09:26,099
the world to increase awareness,
compassion, sensitivity, willingness
933
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:27,809
to do something about this.
934
01:09:28,319 --> 01:09:29,279
And that's what she did.
935
01:09:30,029 --> 01:09:32,460
Uh, Always at her own expense.
936
01:09:32,460 --> 01:09:37,260
As far as I know, nobody ever bought
a plane ticket for her as president.
937
01:09:37,260 --> 01:09:40,650
She was helpful to me mostly
because she was never satisfied
938
01:09:40,650 --> 01:09:41,610
with how much I'd done.
939
01:09:42,150 --> 01:09:45,480
She was pleased that would
triple the efforts to help people
940
01:09:45,480 --> 01:09:46,710
with AIDS around the world.
941
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:52,560
But she would always tell me it was
never enough, and the president needs
942
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:58,650
to remember that she is truly one of
the greatest ambassadors of good will.
943
01:09:58,950 --> 01:10:00,570
I said what I had to say.
944
01:10:00,750 --> 01:10:02,100
I did what I could do.
945
01:10:02,815 --> 01:10:05,934
And that's the way I
moved to this very day.
946
01:10:06,125 --> 01:10:14,815
That's what friends are for,
for good times and bad times, am
947
01:10:18,184 --> 01:10:22,315
yesable all these years later.
948
01:10:22,735 --> 01:10:28,095
That's what friends are for, is still
the anthem of the AIDS movement.
949
01:10:38,695 --> 01:10:42,745
It was just a very magical day and the
lyric summed up exactly what needed
950
01:10:42,745 --> 01:10:44,125
to be said at that particular time.
951
01:10:45,415 --> 01:10:50,335
But the help of my good friends, Stevie
Wonder, Gladys Knight, Elton John,
952
01:10:50,455 --> 01:10:54,385
and all those people who gave it their
time, their money, and their hearts.
953
01:10:54,625 --> 01:10:59,995
We raised over $1.5 million
with all of the proceeds.
954
01:11:00,540 --> 01:11:03,510
Going to the American
Foundation for AIDS research.
955
01:11:04,170 --> 01:11:05,370
Otherwise, and Bar
956
01:11:23,570 --> 01:11:24,580
supposed do.
957
01:11:24,580 --> 01:11:29,310
Now on behalf of amfAR, let
me welcome you to our offices.
958
01:11:29,700 --> 01:11:31,350
We know that you haven't been here before.
959
01:11:31,350 --> 01:11:32,970
We're all really excited to have you here.
960
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:35,430
My camera.
961
01:11:37,950 --> 01:11:38,420
Where we going?
962
01:11:39,210 --> 01:11:39,900
To your left.
963
01:11:40,210 --> 01:11:41,300
Left to do that?
964
01:11:41,730 --> 01:11:42,220
Yeah.
965
01:11:42,225 --> 01:11:43,300
That's the song, isn't it?
966
01:11:54,570 --> 01:11:58,980
You were the first recording artists
who donated royalties to our cause.
967
01:11:59,100 --> 01:12:00,660
I think it was really quite special.
968
01:12:00,660 --> 01:12:02,490
I mean, there, there weren't
many people who were willing to
969
01:12:02,490 --> 01:12:04,530
even talk about this disease.
970
01:12:04,590 --> 01:12:07,710
Ronald Reagan didn't mention
the word AIDS publicly until 87.
971
01:12:07,910 --> 01:12:09,360
I know he made him do it.
972
01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:10,980
Took 40,000 people had already died.
973
01:12:10,980 --> 01:12:12,720
So this was really early.
974
01:12:13,190 --> 01:12:17,580
I made him say the word, and it was at
a press conference, what is it called?
975
01:12:17,580 --> 01:12:18,390
President of Reagan.
976
01:12:18,990 --> 01:12:22,440
He said, uh, come on, you know the name.
977
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:24,990
He said, aids.
978
01:12:25,410 --> 01:12:26,070
I said, yes.
979
01:12:26,070 --> 01:12:28,200
See, you can say the word aids, can't you?
980
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:29,880
So he wanted to kill me.
981
01:12:30,420 --> 01:12:31,620
I saw it in his eyes.
982
01:12:31,980 --> 01:12:32,940
He thought you were crazy.
983
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:33,540
Oh yeah.
984
01:12:33,660 --> 01:12:34,950
The stigma was so bad.
985
01:12:35,310 --> 01:12:36,510
Oh, the stigma was horrible.
986
01:12:37,290 --> 01:12:40,380
What did Clive Davis say to you when
you said, we're gonna, oh my God,
987
01:12:40,750 --> 01:12:44,250
he looked at me, he said, you've
just given the biggest record you'll
988
01:12:44,340 --> 01:12:46,590
ever have in your lifetime away.
989
01:12:46,890 --> 01:12:49,230
Well, you know, if you'd kept the
royalties from this, you probably could
990
01:12:49,230 --> 01:12:50,940
have retired a long, long time ago,
991
01:12:52,830 --> 01:12:53,190
Yeah.
992
01:12:53,190 --> 01:12:58,420
But, uh, I, as far as I'm concerned
that this is something that, uh,
993
01:12:58,420 --> 01:13:04,440
as I said I committed to and, um,
anyway, really knows me, that's
994
01:13:04,440 --> 01:13:07,620
when I say Yeah, it means, yeah,
995
01:13:11,610 --> 01:13:12,100
yeah.
996
01:13:14,850 --> 01:13:19,320
The royalties for, that's what
friends are for is now into the tens
997
01:13:19,320 --> 01:13:24,720
of millions of dollars and counting
that money has literally changed the
998
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:26,730
trajectory of the epidemic in America.
999
01:13:27,780 --> 01:13:30,740
I'd like to see people acknowledge the
fact that she was one of the first.
1000
01:13:31,740 --> 01:13:34,379
His genuine AIDS activist
in the United States.
1001
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:39,300
DM was definitely a hero of mine and
a hero to a lot of people that she was
1002
01:13:39,300 --> 01:13:42,060
really the first person in the music
business to actually speak up about it.
1003
01:13:49,650 --> 01:13:51,780
Anybody who lives goes
through tough times.
1004
01:13:51,890 --> 01:13:55,980
I think the difference being
her tough times are publicized.
1005
01:13:56,730 --> 01:13:59,910
Today, you'll find out what
Dionne Warwick has to say about
1006
01:13:59,910 --> 01:14:01,350
the psychic Friends network.
1007
01:14:01,380 --> 01:14:05,400
Call the Psychic Friends Network and get
a psychic power reading of your very own.
1008
01:14:05,700 --> 01:14:10,020
It was the first of its kind, and
they got a person who was camera
1009
01:14:10,020 --> 01:14:11,730
friendly to talk to you about it.
1010
01:14:11,730 --> 01:14:12,780
She was a host.
1011
01:14:13,230 --> 01:14:17,040
Unfortunately, it overshadowed
who she was as a singer.
1012
01:14:18,690 --> 01:14:22,380
When you have a celebrity as an
a parent, the things that are
1013
01:14:22,810 --> 01:14:25,350
normally private, everybody knows.
1014
01:14:25,365 --> 01:14:27,644
Sad news for music legend.
1015
01:14:27,650 --> 01:14:31,815
Deion Warwick, the fabulous
woman who's had tons of hits and
1016
01:14:31,815 --> 01:14:35,505
even more money, suddenly filed
bankruptcy because of negligent
1017
01:14:35,510 --> 01:14:37,785
and gross financial mismanagement.
1018
01:14:37,785 --> 01:14:41,565
Having an accountant that totally
screws you over, and the only thing
1019
01:14:41,570 --> 01:14:44,264
that happens through that is the
government points their finger at you.
1020
01:14:44,355 --> 01:14:48,255
She gives, gives gifts, gifts, gifts
and gifts even when she doesn't have it.
1021
01:14:48,255 --> 01:14:52,335
She gives, she donated all the
proceeds to, uh, of her wonderful song.
1022
01:14:52,545 --> 01:14:54,965
That's What Friends Are for,
which is a song that continues
1023
01:14:55,184 --> 01:14:56,655
to be recorded and sung.
1024
01:14:56,655 --> 01:15:03,075
Whoever needed help, that's what she gave
the show up and for free so many times.
1025
01:15:03,590 --> 01:15:05,220
They never tried to sell a record.
1026
01:15:06,030 --> 01:15:09,090
sense was that Thomas
was God's gift to her.
1027
01:15:09,120 --> 01:15:11,040
It was her way of saying, thank you.
1028
01:15:11,580 --> 01:15:15,510
If General Motors can file
bankruptcy, why can't Deion Warwick?
1029
01:15:16,349 --> 01:15:17,849
You know, what's the big deal about it?
1030
01:15:18,300 --> 01:15:21,870
You know, there are many rumors about
Deion Warwick, and they still are.
1031
01:15:22,410 --> 01:15:26,790
Uh, so gossip, which I find hysterical.
1032
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:27,930
Uh, oh.
1033
01:15:27,930 --> 01:15:31,530
I was, I was taking drugs not in my arms.
1034
01:15:31,530 --> 01:15:33,000
I was taking them in my legs.
1035
01:15:34,890 --> 01:15:36,930
That's why I wore gowns all the time.
1036
01:15:38,730 --> 01:15:42,570
People go say and do whatever they
wanna say and do you know what?
1037
01:15:42,570 --> 01:15:45,570
And my feeling is, and I've
said it, talk about me.
1038
01:15:45,900 --> 01:15:49,680
As long as you spell my name
out, make sure you do that.
1039
01:15:50,580 --> 01:15:56,430
It's really a pleasure to enter, act,
and relate to each other on all levels.
1040
01:15:57,030 --> 01:16:00,720
Levels of business, levels of
religion, levels of education.
1041
01:16:01,695 --> 01:16:03,585
And levels of miso.
1042
01:16:03,615 --> 01:16:09,045
His lyrics given to us by these
so-called gangsta rappers,
1043
01:16:12,945 --> 01:16:16,335
gangster rap has become
incredibly popular and profitable.
1044
01:16:16,340 --> 01:16:17,835
People either like it or hate it.
1045
01:16:18,014 --> 01:16:21,785
I felt very strongly about stuff rap.
1046
01:16:24,065 --> 01:16:26,474
First of all, it was not gonna
be ever played in my home.
1047
01:16:27,615 --> 01:16:31,875
Your hands way up in the air and wave
them all around like you just don't pay.
1048
01:16:35,505 --> 01:16:40,155
I remember driving my car one
afternoon, Damon was in the car with me.
1049
01:16:40,545 --> 01:16:43,785
Those misogynistic
lyrics came on the radio.
1050
01:16:43,905 --> 01:16:44,505
I'm still on.
1051
01:16:44,505 --> 01:16:45,525
Hit legit now.
1052
01:16:45,525 --> 01:16:48,195
More for Rome with the dog.
1053
01:16:48,195 --> 01:16:49,485
Pound right behind me.
1054
01:16:49,485 --> 01:16:50,745
You're rolling with my bitch.
1055
01:16:50,750 --> 01:16:53,785
That's where your I turned radio off.
1056
01:16:55,200 --> 01:16:59,160
These kids were calling people out of
their name, especially little girls.
1057
01:16:59,519 --> 01:17:00,660
You don't call me outta my name.
1058
01:17:00,660 --> 01:17:01,680
You don't know me that well.
1059
01:17:01,830 --> 01:17:04,080
So let's, let's get a grip on that first.
1060
01:17:04,110 --> 01:17:08,309
We must support and uplift
those who are doing things.
1061
01:17:08,309 --> 01:17:13,110
However, we must also remind them
yes, of the responsibility that's
1062
01:17:13,110 --> 01:17:16,740
right, that they have and carry,
that they're gonna carry messages.
1063
01:17:17,099 --> 01:17:20,099
These kids are expressing themselves,
which they're entitled to do.
1064
01:17:20,519 --> 01:17:22,080
However, there is a way to do it.
1065
01:17:22,559 --> 01:17:25,950
Mom decided she was gonna get respect.
1066
01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:29,970
I have two sons and they also
understand that I'm crazy.
1067
01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:34,170
They do, they understand
very well that I am crazy.
1068
01:17:34,290 --> 01:17:37,680
She decided to have a meeting
with Snoop Sugar Knight, whole
1069
01:17:37,684 --> 01:17:38,760
bunch of gangster rappers.
1070
01:17:38,849 --> 01:17:43,170
I said, well, listen, you need to
talk to me and I need to talk to you.
1071
01:17:43,590 --> 01:17:47,010
Snoop Doge dog in the house
with the pound, like every, and
1072
01:17:47,010 --> 01:17:48,720
I'm right back up in with Dr.
1073
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:50,370
Dre like I was young.
1074
01:17:50,700 --> 01:17:55,830
Kind of thuggish, not really
like hmm, who I am now.
1075
01:17:56,640 --> 01:17:59,850
So we like Deion Warwick, what
she wanna do with us over there.
1076
01:17:59,850 --> 01:18:03,330
Like we kind of like scared and
shook up like we are in the industry.
1077
01:18:03,330 --> 01:18:04,410
We're powerful right now.
1078
01:18:04,410 --> 01:18:06,270
But she's been powerful forever.
1079
01:18:06,510 --> 01:18:10,650
30 some years in the game, in a big
home with a lot of money and success.
1080
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:14,310
Not much scares us, but this got us shook.
1081
01:18:16,230 --> 01:18:18,660
I told them, I want you all at my home.
1082
01:18:19,680 --> 01:18:22,770
7:00 AM tomorrow morning.
1083
01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:26,580
We show up at our door by like 6 52.
1084
01:18:27,090 --> 01:18:28,290
Cause we wanna be on time.
1085
01:18:28,740 --> 01:18:30,660
We wanna be promised you understand me.
1086
01:18:30,660 --> 01:18:32,430
Cause we realize what
we in the presence of.
1087
01:18:33,285 --> 01:18:35,145
7:00 AM my doorbell rang.
1088
01:18:35,565 --> 01:18:41,895
I remember waking up very early one
morning and seeing about 15 SUVs,
1089
01:18:42,465 --> 01:18:43,725
and I knew what they were there for.
1090
01:18:44,235 --> 01:18:46,455
My sons thought I had lost my mind.
1091
01:18:46,665 --> 01:18:47,625
She opened the door.
1092
01:18:48,015 --> 01:18:50,085
I remember she had like a big old walkway.
1093
01:18:50,090 --> 01:18:55,005
We stepped down, walked into the living
room area, and then she just had us sit
1094
01:18:55,005 --> 01:19:00,675
down, gave us some drinks and ordered
some donuts and we had coffee and tea and
1095
01:19:00,675 --> 01:19:02,655
we sat and we talked for quite a while.
1096
01:19:02,660 --> 01:19:07,215
She took control of the room, like you
at grandma house with the plastic on
1097
01:19:07,220 --> 01:19:11,445
the couch and you, you trying to be
on your, you see candy on the table?
1098
01:19:11,445 --> 01:19:12,435
You don't even want to take me.
1099
01:19:12,435 --> 01:19:15,045
You, you don't even want to ask
granny, do you old seven then.
1100
01:19:15,885 --> 01:19:19,535
I made a point, a very important one.
1101
01:19:19,540 --> 01:19:22,485
She said, I wanted to, to meet
you, and then she said, and I
1102
01:19:22,485 --> 01:19:23,775
want you to call me a bitch.
1103
01:19:25,245 --> 01:19:26,205
Uh, what?
1104
01:19:26,955 --> 01:19:29,355
She said, go ahead, call me a bitch.
1105
01:19:29,355 --> 01:19:33,035
She came in the store saying all
of that, like, Using our lyrics
1106
01:19:33,035 --> 01:19:35,405
against us was like, miss Ms.
1107
01:19:35,405 --> 01:19:36,285
Ward, Ms.
1108
01:19:36,290 --> 01:19:36,950
Ward, Ms.
1109
01:19:36,950 --> 01:19:39,065
Ward, miss, you know I
got respect for you Ms.
1110
01:19:39,395 --> 01:19:40,655
She said, so if you have respect for Mr.
1111
01:19:40,660 --> 01:19:40,955
Why?
1112
01:19:41,135 --> 01:19:42,185
What gives you the right?
1113
01:19:42,185 --> 01:19:44,675
And she looked at everybody to call women.
1114
01:19:44,885 --> 01:19:47,525
Bitch, these little girls don't
have tales and they don't walk on
1115
01:19:47,525 --> 01:19:50,315
four legs, so why are you calling
them what you're calling them?
1116
01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:52,265
It's like she was talking to me directly.
1117
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:56,460
Checking me at a time when we
thought we couldn't be checked.
1118
01:19:57,030 --> 01:19:58,230
You need to change.
1119
01:19:58,290 --> 01:20:02,550
You know your lyrics and because
you're gonna be a father one day.
1120
01:20:02,670 --> 01:20:06,360
One day you're gonna be married
or you are gonna have a child.
1121
01:20:06,780 --> 01:20:07,770
It's gonna be a little girl.
1122
01:20:08,580 --> 01:20:11,760
You're gonna want that little girl to
come to you and say, daddy, is that you?
1123
01:20:12,120 --> 01:20:13,410
She just give me all this stuff.
1124
01:20:13,410 --> 01:20:14,910
And I'm like, I ain't even got no kids.
1125
01:20:14,910 --> 01:20:16,350
I'm like, man, what is she talking about?
1126
01:20:16,350 --> 01:20:19,590
But I'm hearing what she's saying
and I'm respecting what she's saying.
1127
01:20:19,680 --> 01:20:23,480
Cause we recognize and we realize
who she is as far as like this is a
1128
01:20:23,485 --> 01:20:25,500
powerful figure in the music industry.
1129
01:20:25,500 --> 01:20:29,160
And I'm like, man, why is
Deion Warwick talking to me?
1130
01:20:29,710 --> 01:20:31,920
I told him, if I didn't care
about you, I wouldn't be here.
1131
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:37,360
This is like one of your auntie that got
all the wisdom and the money and the.
1132
01:20:37,990 --> 01:20:40,540
Come by grandma house and be
like, bring Snoopy back here.
1133
01:20:40,540 --> 01:20:41,500
I need to talk to him for a minute.
1134
01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:43,150
He'd be like, what do I do auntie?
1135
01:20:43,450 --> 01:20:43,960
Shut up.
1136
01:20:44,089 --> 01:20:46,059
And, and just listen,
here's what you going to do.
1137
01:20:46,210 --> 01:20:49,929
You going A, B, and C if you
want to get to X, Y, and Z and
1138
01:20:49,929 --> 01:20:50,919
I'm gonna leave it at that.
1139
01:20:51,460 --> 01:20:54,940
Somebody just got to give them the
guidance and somebody that they
1140
01:20:54,940 --> 01:20:58,839
trust and that they feel they might
be able to learn a little bit.
1141
01:20:58,839 --> 01:21:04,059
Something from, I was raised by strong
black women, so to have her stick me
1142
01:21:04,059 --> 01:21:09,099
again, like, know you was raised this
way, don't have me call your mama, your
1143
01:21:09,580 --> 01:21:12,730
grandma, or you, oh dear, all right.
1144
01:21:13,480 --> 01:21:14,530
Okay, I'm gonna straighten up.
1145
01:21:15,429 --> 01:21:19,960
And they promised that they were going
to start curtailing the way that they
1146
01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:21,790
were presenting themselves on recordings.
1147
01:21:24,429 --> 01:21:27,940
About a year later, I did tone
it down on the Dog Father album.
1148
01:21:28,540 --> 01:21:31,419
I made it a point to put records of joy.
1149
01:21:31,860 --> 01:21:34,980
Me uplifting everybody and nobody
dying, and everybody living
1150
01:21:35,310 --> 01:21:37,500
everything is free and ain't no hiv.
1151
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:40,920
We were the most gangster
that you could be.
1152
01:21:41,430 --> 01:21:46,710
But that day at Dionne War's house, I
believe we, we got our gangster that day.
1153
01:21:47,580 --> 01:21:52,320
I, I think they all kind of grew up,
which is a wonderful thing for me.
1154
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:55,630
Everything that she's seen in me,
everything that she thought I could be
1155
01:21:55,860 --> 01:21:59,670
a father, a mentor, a humanitarian Dion.
1156
01:21:59,880 --> 01:22:03,120
I hope I became the jewel that
you seen when I was the little
1157
01:22:03,120 --> 01:22:04,620
dirty rock that was in your house.
1158
01:22:04,980 --> 01:22:06,270
I hope I'm making you proud.
1159
01:22:06,810 --> 01:22:07,770
I'm thrilled about it.
1160
01:22:10,300 --> 01:22:15,030
I've seen my mom lose so many
family members still through it all.
1161
01:22:15,360 --> 01:22:16,830
My mom was so strong.
1162
01:22:18,360 --> 01:22:21,150
But when Whitney pass.
1163
01:22:22,245 --> 01:22:24,224
I saw something in her that I hadn't seen.
1164
01:22:24,675 --> 01:22:26,505
The loss was traumatic for her.
1165
01:22:29,415 --> 01:22:31,724
We have some sad breaking
news coming to us tonight.
1166
01:22:31,845 --> 01:22:34,635
Singer Whitney Houston is dead again.
1167
01:22:34,639 --> 01:22:36,885
This is according to the Associated Press.
1168
01:22:36,945 --> 01:22:39,195
Whitney Houston was 48 years old.
1169
01:22:40,345 --> 01:22:42,705
She was always around me.
1170
01:22:42,705 --> 01:22:45,945
Um, grow into an incredible talent.
1171
01:22:46,365 --> 01:22:47,295
Gorgeous young lady.
1172
01:22:48,555 --> 01:22:49,405
Should I?
1173
01:23:00,325 --> 01:23:00,805
Nothing
1174
01:23:04,415 --> 01:23:05,365
in my bra?
1175
01:23:06,695 --> 01:23:09,525
No, it's Mike.
1176
01:23:10,575 --> 01:23:12,085
She's the little girl in the bed.
1177
01:23:13,094 --> 01:23:15,285
Losing Whitney was probably
one of the hardest things
1178
01:23:15,285 --> 01:23:16,695
I've seen my mom go through.
1179
01:23:17,144 --> 01:23:20,684
It was difficult because it was
so public we didn't have time to
1180
01:23:20,684 --> 01:23:26,535
grieve My time seemed all too brief.
1181
01:23:28,995 --> 01:23:34,215
Don't length it now with undue grief.
1182
01:23:36,165 --> 01:23:40,785
Lift up your hearts and share with me.
1183
01:23:41,745 --> 01:23:43,785
God wanted me now.
1184
01:23:46,605 --> 01:23:47,655
He set me free.
1185
01:23:48,195 --> 01:23:53,384
My family has always been,
I think, uh, my rock.
1186
01:23:53,384 --> 01:23:55,094
You know, my, my, my stability.
1187
01:23:55,394 --> 01:23:56,415
Oh, we've had our bombs.
1188
01:23:56,565 --> 01:23:57,495
Don't get me wrong.
1189
01:23:57,554 --> 01:24:02,804
Everything has, its, its obstacles, but
we managed to come together and managed to
1190
01:24:02,804 --> 01:24:04,575
hug each other and say we love each other.
1191
01:24:06,134 --> 01:24:08,505
Whitney was special through and through.
1192
01:24:10,214 --> 01:24:13,655
She had it all and she
was a beautiful soul.
1193
01:24:14,875 --> 01:24:15,295
And
1194
01:24:28,634 --> 01:24:29,054
Mom,
1195
01:24:47,025 --> 01:24:50,085
Whitney's daughter, Chrissy, another one.
1196
01:24:50,085 --> 01:24:51,045
That's tragic.
1197
01:24:55,485 --> 01:24:56,474
I miss her terribly.
1198
01:24:56,535 --> 01:24:57,375
I miss her a lot.
1199
01:24:57,495 --> 01:24:58,125
I really do.
1200
01:25:00,915 --> 01:25:07,035
My grandfather taught me that transition
takes place because you have completed
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everything that you are put here to do.
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01:25:10,950 --> 01:25:15,450
Grandpa used to tell me, God put us all
here to be of service to each other.
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I never forgot that.
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01:25:19,440 --> 01:25:24,090
My grammar school, Lincoln now bears
the name of the Gion Warwick Institute,
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01:25:24,269 --> 01:25:28,030
which I'm very proud to say, ah,
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to be
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and laugh.
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01:25:47,625 --> 01:25:53,315
What a love what Alys
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a.
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A
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good day and
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open your heart.
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Open your hearts to what I mean.
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Oh, oh, caution.
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Oh
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wow.
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That's a, there's a, a
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I
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live.
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Woo.
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And that's shown up a.
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01:27:17,590 --> 01:27:20,280
That's a, that's a yay.
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01:27:21,190 --> 01:27:24,160
That's a, that's a yes.
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01:27:24,269 --> 01:27:26,760
It's, it's a's,
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and
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I know the show that I'm.
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The true icons.
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My shoulders are broad now.
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01:27:54,315 --> 01:27:59,415
I've learned enough to allow the
babies today to stand on my shoulders.
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01:27:59,835 --> 01:28:06,264
What the world needs
now is love, sweet love.
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01:28:07,735 --> 01:28:14,545
It's the only thing that there's
just too love for what the world
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needs Now is love, sweet love.
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01:28:21,165 --> 01:28:24,615
No, just for some but for everyone.
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01:28:28,005 --> 01:28:31,995
Lord, we don't prepare from the
world to able to enjoy life.
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01:28:32,085 --> 01:28:36,264
Enjoy to the fullest and hillside.
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01:28:37,245 --> 01:28:38,115
I'm a messenger.
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01:28:38,950 --> 01:28:43,170
And I'm carrying messages
of love and hope.
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01:28:44,190 --> 01:28:48,730
I think it's something that has kept me
able to walk out on the, the stage, the,
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01:28:58,200 --> 01:29:03,719
it's the, A few years ago we here at the
Apollo Theater started paying tribute
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to some of our icons and legend, and we
created the Apollo Theater Walk of Fame.
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01:29:11,040 --> 01:29:15,330
And what that is, we induct someone
into the Apollo Theater Hall of Fame,
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01:29:15,780 --> 01:29:20,940
and then their names are placed in
a bronze plaque on the ground and
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01:29:20,940 --> 01:29:25,049
under the marquee of the Apollo
Theater, we started with Quincy Jones.
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01:29:25,230 --> 01:29:26,910
We've also had Stevie Wonder.
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01:29:27,059 --> 01:29:30,330
We've had Gladys Knight, we've
had Smokey Robinson, we have
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01:29:30,330 --> 01:29:32,790
Chuck Jackson D on War, right?
1247
01:29:33,150 --> 01:29:36,490
She won Amateur Knight 16 years ago.
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01:29:37,139 --> 01:29:41,790
And now we just inducted
for one and over Miss Dion.
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Thank.
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Thanks
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01:30:22,370 --> 01:30:22,849
everyone.
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01:30:26,715 --> 01:30:34,155
I feel very privileged to share messages
of hope, of love, of peace through music.
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01:30:35,985 --> 01:30:41,205
When I close these two brown eyes,
I want people to just rejoice that I
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lived a full life doing what I wanted
to do, when I wanted to do it, where
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01:30:46,575 --> 01:30:48,554
I wanted to do it, how and with who.
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01:30:50,535 --> 01:30:55,845
Asking if my friends, she'll tell
you how crazy Dionne really is.
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01:31:08,985 --> 01:31:09,615
It is.
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01:31:09,915 --> 01:31:14,445
The Deion will always be
considered to be one of the
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great female singers of all time.
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01:31:16,725 --> 01:31:18,765
Those singers don't come along for us.
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01:31:21,555 --> 01:31:24,015
Dion's music is forever and ever.
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01:31:24,345 --> 01:31:27,225
That type of legacy is
protected because it's anointed.
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01:31:27,645 --> 01:31:32,145
She will open the door for today's artist,
and I truly believe that without Dionne
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01:31:32,145 --> 01:31:33,645
Warwick, there would be no Snoop Dog.
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01:31:35,145 --> 01:31:38,715
I do stand on the shoulders, a Dionne
Warwick, the woman who has been
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01:31:38,715 --> 01:31:40,635
able to break so many boundaries.
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01:31:40,695 --> 01:31:43,155
That's what defines greatness.
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01:31:44,735 --> 01:31:47,315
She is pristine romance.
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01:31:48,844 --> 01:31:52,745
When you'd look at the great singers
of all time and you go back to Billy
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01:31:52,745 --> 01:31:57,844
Holiday and you go to Ella Fitzgerald
and you go to Maha Franklin, DM
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01:31:57,844 --> 01:31:59,615
Warwick is right at that top level.
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01:32:43,965 --> 01:32:54,135
Dion, I'm sitting here doing this
here because I love you, Dion.
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01:32:54,135 --> 01:33:07,245
I remember you forever and never
your smile, your heart of gold.
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01:33:13,065 --> 01:33:18,195
So never forget how much I love you
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01:33:22,605 --> 01:33:24,795
long before we are
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01:33:28,575 --> 01:33:29,265
older.
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01:33:30,285 --> 01:33:30,905
. That's crazy.
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01:33:34,005 --> 01:33:39,295
My favorite song of Dionne
Wars is, The moment I wake her
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stop before I put my makeup.
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01:33:44,145 --> 01:33:48,175
I say a little for you forever.
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01:33:48,345 --> 01:33:49,015
Forever.
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01:33:49,015 --> 01:33:53,375
Can never I ever.
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01:33:53,545 --> 01:33:57,615
If I live, be, be hungry.
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01:33:59,835 --> 01:34:02,385
Do you know the way to say Jose?
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01:34:02,715 --> 01:34:04,035
I mean, who can rock today?
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01:34:04,095 --> 01:34:05,265
Don't make me over.
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01:34:08,265 --> 01:34:15,405
Now that I got you with all
of my, it keeps smiling.
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01:34:15,765 --> 01:34:16,485
Keep shining.
1289
01:34:16,785 --> 01:34:18,825
That's what friends are for.
1290
01:34:19,815 --> 01:34:20,295
Come on baby.
1291
01:34:21,285 --> 01:34:22,605
What the
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01:34:26,415 --> 01:34:29,085
is love, sweet love.
1293
01:34:30,525 --> 01:34:35,215
It's the only thing that is just.
1294
01:34:38,700 --> 01:34:44,310
If you see me walking down the
streets and I start to cry,
1295
01:34:47,970 --> 01:34:53,100
walk on by what I grew up with was rough.
1296
01:34:53,250 --> 01:34:56,370
And we say, if you see me walking
down the streets and I have a gun
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01:34:56,370 --> 01:34:58,410
each time we meet, walk on by.
1298
01:34:58,410 --> 01:34:58,830
You know?
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01:34:59,100 --> 01:35:03,270
So we used to change the lyrics just,
just to be rascals when you say goodbye.
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01:35:05,340 --> 01:35:05,760
Aye.
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01:35:05,780 --> 01:35:06,200
Aye.
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01:35:06,840 --> 01:35:07,890
I'm walking on.
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01:35:07,980 --> 01:35:08,520
Bye.
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01:35:10,890 --> 01:35:13,410
I just love Deion walk
cause she's a good person.
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01:35:14,190 --> 01:35:15,300
Thanks for the music.
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01:35:15,870 --> 01:35:18,960
I will love you internally and
just keep being you loving.
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01:35:19,170 --> 01:35:21,240
You're still going strong
and stronger than ever.
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01:35:21,810 --> 01:35:22,350
Fantastic.
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01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:25,170
I'm happy to call you my friend.
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01:35:26,040 --> 01:35:29,790
I mean, that's a wonderful thing, mom.
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01:35:30,060 --> 01:35:33,600
We just want to say that
we love you very much and.
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01:35:36,269 --> 01:35:37,440
That's what pins are for.
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01:35:38,340 --> 01:35:39,480
, you didn't go there.
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01:35:47,250 --> 01:35:48,330
That should be the end right there.
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01:35:48,400 --> 01:35:48,720
Yeah.
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