20 Feet from Stardom Page #2

Shimmy shimmy

It's new this day

Shimmy shimmy's

gonna help us too

With mama and papa

and you know who

Shimmy shimmy in my soul

Shimmy shimmy

We'll never grow old

Now this is a surprise!

This is history.

None of us have sung

together in 30, 40 years.

I was 15 when I first met them.

- Ain't that something? Fifteen.

- That's not funny.

That's not funny.

But we were really white

before you got in,

- and then you added it...

- We had a sweet sound.

She brought guts and...

that bottom gospel thing

and it made it perfect.

- Shimmy shimmy

- Oh, yeah

They made that platform theirs.

The Blossoms made it theirs,

and when they came in,

every producer in California

and everywhere else, that's the sound

they wanted. That was from The Blossoms.

All you had to do is tell them

in what direction you were headed,

and they took you there.

- See when we had to sound white?

- Yeah, uh-huh.

I met him on a Monday

and my heart my stood still

Da-do-ron-ron-ron

Da-do-ron-ron

What was unique about

The Blossoms, we could change our sound.

We worked with people

from Buck Owens to James Brown.

Yes, my heart stood still

Yes, his name was Bill

And when he walked me home

Da-do-ron-ron-ron

Da-do-ron-ron

That was perfect,

without even rehearsing.

The amazing thing about

Darlene and Fanita and Jean

is that they weren't afraid

of anybody else that did what they did.

And if that producer

asked for a particular person

that could do something,

Darlene would say,

"That's not what I do,

but I know a girl that can do it. "

And that's how she'll get in,

and that's how Merry got in.

Can you turn off the radio?

There...

I mean, how could you not have music on,

Morgan, in the Merry Clayton car?

- I know, right?

- That's just...

That's not even logical to me.

See, it's much better

for us to add the music later.

I know it, but I'm just saying,

Morgan, how could you...

How could you logically not

have a diva have her music on?

I don't get that.

Merry Clayton was always

the lead background singer,

but she was always a little

set apart from that group.

Well, I am a sister

Who can sing

I am a sister who can sing

Oh, but if I die

And my soul be lost

Nobody's fault but mine

I started going

to summer school with Merry,

and she'd start singing down

the street, and I'd go like,

"This girl is amazing. "

Nobody's fault but mine

Said nobody's fault

Nobody's fault but mine

I said that no one's fault

- If I die...

- She had no, uh,

no hidden agendas about it.

She just, "That's what I do. "

Oh, if I die

And my soul be lost, yeah

Nobody's fault

But mine

Nobody's fault

Ray Charles.

He was the only artist

that my father would

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