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MusicCares Foundation Honors Aretha Franklin
Logged: 2/12/08
Logged: 2/12/08
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| 02:02:37 125 |
Sound Bite: Phil Ramone, Music Producer
Phil: I think its more about excitement with Aretha…you know we cant count the years…because what I always find is amazing are artists like Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra…the people that they refer too as one of the greatest singers in the world …Ella Fitzgerald…and then the one and only Aretha Franklin. |
| 02:02:40 128 |
Sound Bite: Phil Ramone, Music Producer
Phil: Well I …for me its a start whole new …probably of a new generation of interactivity between us and the artist and the audience. You know somehow we lost the audience in the last few years, and yet there right there, music is so important to everybody…the art never goes away…and you need to correspond and be with your audience. Concert venues are gonna be both large and small. We need that cycle where I came out of the 60’s where kids played in a club and the guy let you play two shows a night and you weren’t good but you got better…and we can do that on the internet too. It’s just another great broadcast medium. |
| 02:05:40 308 |
Sound Bite: Neil Portnow, President of the Recording Academy
Neil: Well it’s an iconic year for us…it’s the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Recording Academy…it’s the 50th Grammy Awards and Musicares is one of the charities of the Academy ….so…we’re tying this all together by celebrating….and when you think of who might you want to honor…an iconic moment like that ….who better than Aretha Franklin. |
| 02:09:56 564 |
Sound Bite: Rev. Al Sharpton
Rev. Al : You go to music store and you look for the Jazz section, you look for the R & B section, you look for the hip-hop section…you look for Aretha she is in a category all by herself.. and she’s that as a humanitarian which Musicares is about. |
| 02:13:15 763 |
B-Roll: More arrivals….Josh Groban
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| 02:13:41 789 |
Sound bite: Josh Groban, Singer
Josh: I think you know …myself along with everybody else who’s here and even those who aren’t here who have been inspired by her. Her influence is in her unique quality…and her unique soul…you listen to one note of Aretha Franklin and you know its Aretha… and you feel something. |
| 02:15:38 906 |
Sound Bite: Herbie Hancock, 2008 Grammy Winner Best Album
Herbie: The night is called Aretha Franklin…That is the name of the night…I mean it should be Aretha Franklin day…24 hours…right actually more than that. |
| 02:18:05 1053 |
Sound Bite: Herbie Hancock, 2008 Grammy Winner Best Album
Herbie: First of all the internet has the capacity for opening up a lot of new opportunities for young artists….new ways from them to own what they do….you know in the past that wasn’t possible….you make a contract with a record label and they owned the masters…but there’s new way to promote you songs…for example we have You Tube and Myspace….and linked in and ways for communites to get together and for people to get to know each other and to get to spread the word about what one individual is doing. So clever young minds will be able to discover even more ways to expose their music to the public. And I’m looking forward to that future…It’s a bright new day…it maybe the end of the old day….but what happens in the morning the sun comes up…it did today here in LA. |
| 02:19:18 1126 |
B-Roll: Herbie Hancock and Tony Bennett on the Red Carpet
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| 02:20:05 1173 |
Sound Bite: Herbie Hancock, 2008 Grammy Winner Best Album
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| 02:20:13 1181 |
B-Roll: Trin-I-Tee 5:7 Turn and show outfits/dresses.
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| 02:20:40 1208 |
Sound Bite: Tony Bennett, Past MusiCares Person of the Year
Tony: Wonderful… it’s my favorite night of the Grammy’s because of Musicares it helps the less fortunate musicians that get down on their luck and they really help…it’s the best part of the Grammy’s…no matter what happens. |
| 02:21:05 1233 |
Sound Bite: Tony Bennett, Past MusiCares Person of the Year
Tony: I’m going to love every minute of believe me….she’s just one of the great artists of all time…so I know it’s going to be a very special night. |
| 02:22:05 1293 |
Sound Bite: CeCe Winans.
CeCe: When you hear a voice like that…first of all it makes you really think about is this what you want to do…(laughs)…because she is so great….you listen and think maybe I should do something else. |
| 02:23:40 1388 |
Sound Bite: CeCe Winans.
CeCe: Well you know I had it made for myself…so…so …it’s a tailored suit from what’s her name …Barbara Bates out of Chicago…made it for me. |
| 02:23:53 1401 |
B-Roll: CeCe in suite., CU: jewelry.
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| 02:26:52 1580 |
Sound Bite: Anthony Hamilton, Singer
Anthony: Armani…this is a Billy Reed tie…and I think the shoes are Dolce… |
| 02:27:03 1591 |
B-Roll: Anthony Hamilton, shoes and suite.
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| 02:27:41 1629 |
Sound Bite: Natalie Cole, Past MusiCares Person of the Year
Natalie: Oh no…you don’t understand I had the needle from the record player back and forth on one song which was called…”till you come back to me”…I was such an Aretha Franklin fanatic it wasn’t even funny. …and when I first got a chance to meet her…she called me, I was living in New York and she got my number from my manager and said I just wanted you to know that I will be playing at Carnegie Hall tonight and I’m singing “This Will Be’…well I just about fainted on the floor and that was the beginning of our friendship. |
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