0:00:02 > 0:00:06# Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair
0:00:06 > 0:00:11# In the morning when we rise... #
0:00:11 > 0:00:13Are we in a row or a circle?
0:00:13 > 0:00:15They call it in the round,
0:00:15 > 0:00:16even when you're lined up.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20- Round-robin style song swapping? - I do them all the time in Nashville.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23They have a place called the Bluebird Cafe.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27I get down at least once every couple of weeks or so, sit down with
0:00:27 > 0:00:30two or three songwriters and we just pass songs around.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34# Once I was lost but now I'm found
0:00:34 > 0:00:38# Was blind but now I see
0:00:38 > 0:00:41# It's the real thing. #
0:00:41 > 0:00:45- So, just you and that one bit? - No, sing with me.- OK, me and Buffy.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47One of us is bound to get it right.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50I lived in Nashville for a long time.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53- I was in love with my producer. - That's where I met you.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55I met Buffy many years before that.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59We met at a concert here in London, was it Royal Festival Hall?
0:00:59 > 0:01:02- Yes, of course. - I still have a picture of you there.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06# I'm gonna be a country girl again... #
0:01:06 > 0:01:10You were singing, "boy" sometimes and I was singing "girl" sometimes.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13I'm going to sing girl, but I don't care if you sing boy.
0:01:13 > 0:01:18The genius is gathering today. Three amazing songwriters.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23APPLAUSE
0:01:43 > 0:01:50# Sunshine came softly through my window today
0:01:51 > 0:01:57# Could have tripped out easy But I've changed my ways
0:02:00 > 0:02:06# It'll take time, I know it But in a while
0:02:08 > 0:02:14# Gonna be mine, I know it We'll do it in style
0:02:15 > 0:02:21# When you make your mind up you're going to be mine
0:02:21 > 0:02:23# I tell you right now
0:02:23 > 0:02:30# Any trick in the book, now, baby That I can find
0:02:31 > 0:02:37# Everybody's hustling me just to Have a little scene
0:02:39 > 0:02:45# When I say we'll be cool I think that you know what I mean
0:02:47 > 0:02:53# We stood on a beach at sunset Do you remember when?
0:02:56 > 0:03:01# I know a beach where, baby It never ends
0:03:03 > 0:03:09# When you make your mind up you're going to be mine
0:03:09 > 0:03:17# I pick up your hand, pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
0:03:18 > 0:03:25# When you've made your mind up completely to be mine
0:03:25 > 0:03:27# I'll tell you right now
0:03:27 > 0:03:32# Any trick in the book now, baby That I can find
0:03:34 > 0:03:40# When you've made your mind up you're going to be mine
0:03:40 > 0:03:42# I'll tell you right now
0:03:42 > 0:03:49# Any trick in the book now, baby That I can find
0:03:51 > 0:03:53# That I can find
0:03:55 > 0:03:58# That I can find Yeah, yeah
0:03:58 > 0:04:03# Yeah. #
0:04:05 > 0:04:07CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Thank you. Thank you.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18I got one for ya.
0:04:20 > 0:04:27This is a love song that I wrote in the '60s, but you might have heard it by somebody else,
0:04:27 > 0:04:33like Bobby Darren, "Splish-splash I was takin' a bath" Bobby Darren.
0:04:33 > 0:04:38Or Sonny and Cher or Roberta Flack or Neil Diamond or Vera Lynn
0:04:38 > 0:04:43or Barbra Streisand or Elvis Presley or somebody.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45LAUGHTER
0:04:45 > 0:04:48So, with many thanks to all of their fans,
0:04:48 > 0:04:53who made me enough money so I could remain in the music business and see you today.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56It's just a love song.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02# You're not a dream You're not an angel
0:05:02 > 0:05:05# You're a man
0:05:05 > 0:05:08# And I'm not a queen, I'm a woman
0:05:08 > 0:05:10# Take my hand
0:05:12 > 0:05:16# We'll make a space in the lives that we planned
0:05:18 > 0:05:23# And here we'll stay until it's time for you to go
0:05:23 > 0:05:28# Yes, we're different, worlds apart We're not the same
0:05:31 > 0:05:36# We laughed and played at the start like in a game
0:05:36 > 0:05:42# You could have stayed outside my heart but in you came
0:05:42 > 0:05:48# And here you'll stay until it's time for you to go
0:05:52 > 0:05:54# Don't ask why
0:05:58 > 0:06:02# Don't ask how
0:06:04 > 0:06:08# Don't ask forever
0:06:10 > 0:06:13# Love me now
0:06:13 > 0:06:20# This love of mine had no beginning It has no end
0:06:20 > 0:06:26# I was an oak, now I'm a willow Now I can bend
0:06:26 > 0:06:33# And I will never in my life see you again
0:06:33 > 0:06:40# Still I'll stay until it's time for you to go
0:06:42 > 0:06:48# Don't ask why of me
0:06:48 > 0:06:53# Don't ask how of me
0:06:53 > 0:06:58# Don't ask forever of me
0:06:58 > 0:07:04# Love me, love me now
0:07:04 > 0:07:07# You're not a dream You're not an angel
0:07:07 > 0:07:10# You're a man, yeah
0:07:10 > 0:07:16# I'm not a queen, I'm a woman Take my hand
0:07:16 > 0:07:22# We'll make a space in the lives that we planned
0:07:22 > 0:07:29# And here we'll stay until it's time for you to go
0:07:29 > 0:07:39# And here we'll stay until it's time for you to go
0:07:39 > 0:07:44# Mmmmmmm. #
0:07:45 > 0:07:47CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:07:58 > 0:08:00That is a tough act to follow.
0:08:02 > 0:08:07I'm going to start with a song I wrote in 1967 with my friend Roger Greenaway,
0:08:07 > 0:08:12and it was a nice big hit for us. A man called Gene Pitney cut this song.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16And in 1967 it was great to have a Gene Pitney cut.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23# Something's gotten hold of my heart
0:08:23 > 0:08:28# Keeping my soul and my senses apart
0:08:30 > 0:08:33# Something's gotten hold of my life
0:08:33 > 0:08:38# Cutting its way through my dreams like a knife
0:08:38 > 0:08:43# Turning me up, turning me down
0:08:43 > 0:08:48# Making me smile, making me frown
0:08:51 > 0:08:55# In a world that was small
0:08:56 > 0:09:02# I once lived in a time that was peace with no troubles at all
0:09:04 > 0:09:08# But then you came my way
0:09:09 > 0:09:16# And a feeling unknown shook my heart, made me want you to stay
0:09:16 > 0:09:23# All of my nights and all of my days
0:09:24 > 0:09:28# Something's gotten hold of my hands
0:09:28 > 0:09:32# Dragging my soul to a beautiful land
0:09:33 > 0:09:38# Something has invaded my nights
0:09:38 > 0:09:42# Painting my sleep with a colour so bright
0:09:42 > 0:09:47# Changing the grey Changing the blue
0:09:47 > 0:09:53# Scarlet for me, scarlet for you
0:09:55 > 0:09:58HE WHISTLES
0:10:11 > 0:10:14# I've got to know if this is the real thing
0:10:19 > 0:10:23# I've got to know what's making my heart sing
0:10:23 > 0:10:25# Whoa, yeah
0:10:28 > 0:10:33# You smile and I am lost for a lifetime
0:10:34 > 0:10:37# Each minute spent with you is the right time
0:10:37 > 0:10:42# Every night, every day
0:10:42 > 0:10:48# You touch me and my mind goes astray
0:10:48 > 0:10:52# And, baby
0:10:52 > 0:10:58# And, baby
0:10:58 > 0:11:01# Something's gotten hold of my hands. #
0:11:07 > 0:11:10That's about all I can do. Thank you.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:11:20 > 0:11:24That's such a fine song, Roger. I didn't know you wrote that.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30I spent the money, so I hope I did!
0:11:30 > 0:11:31LAUGHTER
0:11:33 > 0:11:38Well, I grew up in Glasgow with Irish and Scottish parents,
0:11:39 > 0:11:43so there were ballads, always.
0:11:45 > 0:11:52So I heard the ballad form from a very early age and my first song that I recorded...
0:11:54 > 0:11:58..for release was this.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01# In the chilly hours and minutes
0:12:01 > 0:12:06# Of uncertainty I want to be
0:12:07 > 0:12:14# In the warm hold of your loving mind
0:12:16 > 0:12:20# For to feel you all around me
0:12:20 > 0:12:26# And to take your hand Along the sand
0:12:26 > 0:12:33# But I may as well try and catch the wind
0:12:36 > 0:12:39# When sundown pales the sky
0:12:39 > 0:12:45# I want to hide awhile Behind your smile
0:12:45 > 0:12:52# And everywhere I'd look Your eyes I'd find
0:12:55 > 0:12:59# For me to love you now
0:12:59 > 0:13:05# Would be the sweetest thing T'would make me sing
0:13:05 > 0:13:12# Ah, but I may as well try to catch the wind
0:13:15 > 0:13:20# Dee-dee-dee-dee Dee-dee-dee-dee
0:13:20 > 0:13:27# Dee-dee-dee dee-dee-dee Dee-dee
0:13:30 > 0:13:34# When rain has hung the leaves with tears
0:13:34 > 0:13:40# I want you near For to kill my fears
0:13:40 > 0:13:46# For to help me to leave all my blues behind
0:13:50 > 0:13:53# For standing in your heart
0:13:53 > 0:13:59# Is where I want to be And I long to be
0:13:59 > 0:14:07# Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind
0:14:18 > 0:14:26# Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind. #
0:14:29 > 0:14:32CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:14:42 > 0:14:45I want to do you a song that Janis Joplin used to sing,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Courtney Love sings it
0:14:48 > 0:14:51and our friend Donovan also recorded it - thank you very much.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55Opiates have always been something that you don't want to mess with
0:14:55 > 0:14:58and here's a song about that.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16# And my belly is craving
0:15:16 > 0:15:19I got a shaking in my head
0:15:23 > 0:15:28# Feel like I'm dying and I wish I was dead
0:15:33 > 0:15:40# If I live till tomorrow That'll be a long time
0:15:41 > 0:15:48# But I'll reel and I'll fall And I'll rise on cod'ine
0:15:48 > 0:15:56# And it's real, and it's real One more time
0:16:00 > 0:16:07# Well, when I was a young girl I learned not to care
0:16:10 > 0:16:17# For whisky and from it I often did swear
0:16:20 > 0:16:25# My mother and father said whisky's a curse
0:16:29 > 0:16:35# But the fate of their baby was many times worse
0:16:35 > 0:16:42# And it's real, and it's real One more time
0:16:46 > 0:16:55# Stay away from the cities Stay away from the towns
0:16:55 > 0:17:01# Stay away from the men passing cod'ine around
0:17:05 > 0:17:14# Stay away from the stores where the remedy is found
0:17:14 > 0:17:19# For better your pain than be caught on cod'ine
0:17:19 > 0:17:27# And it's real, and it's real One more time
0:17:27 > 0:17:34# You'll forget you're a woman You'll forget about men
0:17:38 > 0:17:45# Try it just once and you'll try it again
0:17:45 > 0:17:54# You'll forget about life You'll forget about time
0:17:55 > 0:18:00# And you'll live out your days as a slave to cod'ine
0:18:00 > 0:18:07# And it's real, and it's real One more time
0:18:30 > 0:18:36# But if I die tomorrow Still one thing I've done
0:18:40 > 0:18:47# I've heeded a warning that I heard when I was young
0:18:49 > 0:18:58# My one satisfaction It comes when I think
0:18:59 > 0:19:04# That I'm living my life without dying to drink
0:19:04 > 0:19:11# And it's real, and it's real One more time
0:19:11 > 0:19:21# And my belly is craving I've got a shaking in my head
0:19:21 > 0:19:28# I feel like I'm dying and I wish I was dead
0:19:30 > 0:19:38# If I live till tomorrow That'll be a long time
0:19:38 > 0:19:45# But I'll reel and I'll fall And I'll die on cod'ine
0:19:45 > 0:19:54# And it' real, and it's real One more time. #
0:19:56 > 0:20:00APPLAUSE
0:20:07 > 0:20:09That's pretty heavy.
0:20:11 > 0:20:16This next song I wrote in 1964 with Roger Greenaway,
0:20:16 > 0:20:19it was the first song we ever wrote together. Amazing, really.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22George Martin got to hear of it and he was producing The Beatles
0:20:22 > 0:20:26at the time, big man, and George said, "I really like the song.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29"I like the way you sing, I'd like to produce you."
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Unfortunately a band called The Fortunes had gotten
0:20:32 > 0:20:36a hold of the song and got it out two months before we possibly could.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39So, they had the big hit.
0:20:46 > 0:20:53# I see that worried look upon your face
0:20:55 > 0:20:56# You've got your troubles
0:20:56 > 0:20:59# I got mine
0:21:01 > 0:21:05# She's found somebody else to take your place
0:21:08 > 0:21:13# You've got your troubles I've got mine
0:21:15 > 0:21:20# I too have lost my love today
0:21:23 > 0:21:29# All of my dreams have flown away
0:21:29 > 0:21:35# Now just like you I sit and wonder why
0:21:37 > 0:21:42# You've got your troubles I've got mine
0:21:43 > 0:21:49# You need some sympathy Well, so do I
0:21:50 > 0:21:56# You've got your troubles I've got mine
0:21:58 > 0:22:03# She used to love me, this I know
0:22:05 > 0:22:11# And it don't seem so long ago
0:22:12 > 0:22:15# That we were walking
0:22:15 > 0:22:18# And we were talking
0:22:18 > 0:22:25# The way that lovers do
0:22:32 > 0:22:35# So forgive me if I seem unkind
0:22:35 > 0:22:40# It would seem to you my friend that I ain't got no pity for you
0:22:40 > 0:22:42# You've got your troubles I've got mine
0:22:42 > 0:22:46# I lost, I lost I lost my little girl too
0:22:46 > 0:22:52# I'd help another place another time
0:22:54 > 0:22:58# You've got your troubles I've got mine
0:23:01 > 0:23:05# You've got your troubles I've got mine
0:23:05 > 0:23:08# Mm-hm-hm-hmm
0:23:08 > 0:23:13# You've got your troubles I've got
0:23:13 > 0:23:21# Mine... #
0:23:23 > 0:23:24Thank you.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:23:36 > 0:23:41Well, it's not every week you get to sing backup
0:23:41 > 0:23:43on a Roger Cook hit single.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47- Thank you, Roger. - Don't get used to it.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54- They say I'm very expensive, though.- Oh, I believe that!
0:23:57 > 0:24:02# Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair
0:24:02 > 0:24:07# In the mornin' when we rise
0:24:08 > 0:24:13# In the mornin' when we rise
0:24:14 > 0:24:17# That's the time, that's the time
0:24:17 > 0:24:20# That's the time, that's the time
0:24:20 > 0:24:22# I love the best... #
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Oh, I love the best!
0:24:24 > 0:24:26And then blue.
0:24:27 > 0:24:32# Blue is the colour of the sky
0:24:32 > 0:24:36# In the mornin' when we rise
0:24:38 > 0:24:43# In the mornin' when we rise
0:24:44 > 0:24:49# That's the time, that's the time
0:24:51 > 0:24:53# I love the best... #
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Green.
0:24:57 > 0:25:02# Green's the colour of the sparklin' corn
0:25:02 > 0:25:08# In the mornin' when we rise
0:25:09 > 0:25:14# In the mornin' when we rise... #
0:25:14 > 0:25:15Let me hear you.
0:25:15 > 0:25:20# That's the time, that's the time
0:25:20 > 0:25:23# I love the best
0:25:28 > 0:25:33# Freedom is a word I rarely use
0:25:33 > 0:25:37# Without thinkin', uh-huh
0:25:40 > 0:25:44# Without thinkin', uh-huh
0:25:46 > 0:25:48# Of the time, of the time
0:25:48 > 0:25:51# Of the time, of the time
0:25:51 > 0:25:54# When I've been loved... #
0:25:54 > 0:25:58What about "yellow is the colour," are you ready?
0:25:58 > 0:26:03# Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair
0:26:03 > 0:26:08# In the mornin' when we rise
0:26:10 > 0:26:15# In the mornin' when we rise
0:26:15 > 0:26:20# That's the time, that's the time
0:26:21 > 0:26:24# I love the best... #
0:26:26 > 0:26:27One more time.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33# Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair
0:26:33 > 0:26:38# In the mornin' when we rise
0:26:39 > 0:26:45# In the mornin' when we rise
0:26:45 > 0:26:51# That's the time, that's the time
0:26:51 > 0:26:54# I love the best
0:26:54 > 0:26:58# I love the best
0:26:58 > 0:27:00# I love the best
0:27:01 > 0:27:03# I love the best. #
0:27:06 > 0:27:08CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Thank you.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24This is one I recorded on my third album and, you know,
0:27:24 > 0:27:27some songs you just wish didn't still make sense,
0:27:27 > 0:27:32but some do and so this also is on my latest album.
0:27:37 > 0:27:42# Mmm...
0:27:48 > 0:27:54# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:27:54 > 0:27:59# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:27:59 > 0:28:04# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:28:04 > 0:28:09# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:28:09 > 0:28:12# Merry Christmas jingle bells
0:28:12 > 0:28:14# Christ is born and the Devil's in Hell
0:28:14 > 0:28:17# Hearts they shrink, pockets swell
0:28:17 > 0:28:19# Everybody know and nobody tell
0:28:19 > 0:28:24# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:28:24 > 0:28:29# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:28:29 > 0:28:32# Oh the sins of Caesar's men
0:28:32 > 0:28:34# Cry the pious citizens
0:28:34 > 0:28:37# Who petty thieve the 5 and 10s
0:28:37 > 0:28:40# And the big wheels turn around and around
0:28:40 > 0:28:45# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:28:45 > 0:28:50# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:28:50 > 0:28:53# Blame the angels, blame the fates
0:28:53 > 0:28:55# Blame the Jews or your sister Kate
0:28:55 > 0:28:57# Teach your children how to hate
0:28:57 > 0:29:00# And the big wheels turn around and around
0:29:00 > 0:29:05# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:29:05 > 0:29:10# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:29:10 > 0:29:12# Turn your back on weeds you've hoed
0:29:12 > 0:29:15# Silly sinful seeds you've sowed
0:29:15 > 0:29:17# Add your straw to the camel's load
0:29:17 > 0:29:20# Pray like Hell when your world explode
0:29:20 > 0:29:25# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:29:25 > 0:29:30# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:29:30 > 0:29:32# Swing your girl, fiddler say
0:29:32 > 0:29:35# Later on the piper pay
0:29:35 > 0:29:38# Do-si-do, swing and sway
0:29:38 > 0:29:40# Dead will dance on Judgment Day
0:29:40 > 0:29:45# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:29:45 > 0:29:50# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:29:50 > 0:29:56# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around
0:29:56 > 0:30:03# Little wheels spin and spin Big wheels turn around and around. #
0:30:03 > 0:30:08CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:30:21 > 0:30:25Is that you over there about your piano?
0:30:25 > 0:30:27Yes, and I don't play piano.
0:30:27 > 0:30:30LAUGHTER
0:30:32 > 0:30:35I went over to Nashville, I got there in '75 and made an album there
0:30:35 > 0:30:36and fell in love with the place
0:30:36 > 0:30:39and decided to stay and took my family there.
0:30:39 > 0:30:40I thought, "I'm going to go over there
0:30:40 > 0:30:42"and write me a big old country hit."
0:30:42 > 0:30:46Two years later, I'm thinking to myself,
0:30:46 > 0:30:48"This ain't going to be easy, Roger."
0:30:49 > 0:30:51Somebody who became a friend said, "You know what?
0:30:51 > 0:30:54"If you leave all the little English bits out,
0:30:54 > 0:30:56"I think you could have a hit."
0:30:56 > 0:31:01I said, "Like what?" He said, "Just your language, they don't get it over here."
0:31:01 > 0:31:03So, I sat down one day, with a friend of mine called
0:31:03 > 0:31:07Bobby Wood, a wonderful musician, and we came up with this song.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18# Three o'clock in the mornin'
0:31:18 > 0:31:24# And it looks like it's gonna be another sleepless night
0:31:24 > 0:31:29# I've been listening to your dreams and gettin' very low
0:31:31 > 0:31:34# Wonderin' what I can do
0:31:36 > 0:31:39# Maybe I'm bein' foolish
0:31:39 > 0:31:45# Cos I haven't heard you mention anybody's name at all
0:31:47 > 0:31:51# How I wish I could be sure it's me that turns you on
0:31:52 > 0:31:56# Each time you close your eyes
0:31:58 > 0:32:03# I've heard it said that dreamers never lie
0:32:03 > 0:32:08# You've been talkin' in your sleep
0:32:08 > 0:32:12# Sleeping in your dreams
0:32:13 > 0:32:17# With some sweet lover
0:32:19 > 0:32:22# Holdin' on so tight
0:32:23 > 0:32:26# Lovin' her the way
0:32:27 > 0:32:31# You used to love me
0:32:34 > 0:32:37# Talking in your sleep
0:32:37 > 0:32:41# With lovin' on your mind
0:32:47 > 0:32:49# Maybe I'm bein' foolish
0:32:49 > 0:32:56# Cos I haven't heard you mention anybody's name at all
0:32:57 > 0:33:02# How I wish I could be sure it's me that turns you on
0:33:03 > 0:33:06# Each time you close your eyes
0:33:08 > 0:33:15# I've heard it said that dreamers never lie
0:33:15 > 0:33:19# You've been talkin' in your sleep
0:33:19 > 0:33:23# Sleeping in your dreams
0:33:24 > 0:33:28# With some sweet lover
0:33:31 > 0:33:34# Holdin' on so tight
0:33:35 > 0:33:37# Lovin' her the way
0:33:39 > 0:33:43# You used to love me
0:33:45 > 0:33:48# Talkin' in your sleep
0:33:49 > 0:33:53# With lovin' on your mind
0:33:56 > 0:34:03# You've been talkin' in your sleep. #
0:34:06 > 0:34:09CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:34:20 > 0:34:24This one was not about someone I knew but I was watching this movie
0:34:24 > 0:34:27and a German actress, Lotte Lenya,
0:34:27 > 0:34:32was performing the part in The Threepenny Opera
0:34:32 > 0:34:38and she was a street girl and it occurred to me that I would like to
0:34:38 > 0:34:44be like Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill and make a song like a cabaret song.
0:34:48 > 0:34:53# When the sun goes to bed
0:34:54 > 0:35:01# That's the time your raise your head
0:35:01 > 0:35:06# That's your lot in life, Lalena
0:35:06 > 0:35:12# Can't blame you, Lalena
0:35:15 > 0:35:17# Arty tart
0:35:18 > 0:35:20# Oh so, la-di-da
0:35:22 > 0:35:27# Can your part get much sadder?
0:35:28 > 0:35:33# That's your lot in life, Lalena
0:35:33 > 0:35:39# I can't blame you, Lalena
0:35:43 > 0:35:48# Run your hand through your hair
0:35:50 > 0:35:56# Paint your face with despair
0:35:56 > 0:36:03# That's your lot in life, Lalena
0:36:03 > 0:36:08# Can't blame you, Lalena
0:36:32 > 0:36:37# La-di-da
0:36:37 > 0:36:42# La, la, la, la...
0:36:42 > 0:36:46# Arty tart
0:36:46 > 0:36:49# La-di-da
0:36:49 > 0:36:53# Can your part
0:36:53 > 0:36:56# Get much sadder?
0:36:56 > 0:37:02# That's your lot in life, Lalena
0:37:03 > 0:37:09# Can't blame you, Lalena
0:37:10 > 0:37:14# Oh, Lalena
0:37:16 > 0:37:21# La, la, la-di-da
0:37:21 > 0:37:24# La-da
0:37:24 > 0:37:28# La-da-da... #
0:37:30 > 0:37:33CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:37:44 > 0:37:47So I'd like to do you a song
0:37:47 > 0:37:52that I did on Sesame Street with a cow and a horse.
0:37:52 > 0:37:56Things have improved greatly.
0:37:56 > 0:37:58Don't ever give up.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00APPLAUSE
0:38:05 > 0:38:10# The rain is falling lightly on your buildings and your cars
0:38:10 > 0:38:15# I've said goodbye to city friends Department stores and bars
0:38:15 > 0:38:22# The lights of town are at my back My heart is full of stars
0:38:22 > 0:38:26# And I'm gonna be a country girl again
0:38:27 > 0:38:33# Oh, I'm gonna be a country girl again
0:38:33 > 0:38:37# With an old brown dog and a big front porch
0:38:37 > 0:38:39# And rabbits in the pen And I tell you
0:38:39 > 0:38:46# All the lights on Broadway Don't amount to an acre of green
0:38:46 > 0:38:51# And I'm gonna be a country girl again
0:38:54 > 0:39:00# I spent some time in study Oh, I've taken my degrees
0:39:00 > 0:39:06# And memorised my formulae My As and Bs and Cs
0:39:06 > 0:39:12# But what I know came long ago and not from such as these
0:39:12 > 0:39:17# Oh, and I'm gonna be a country girl again
0:39:17 > 0:39:24# Oh, I'm gonna be a country girl again
0:39:24 > 0:39:27# With an old brown dog and a big front porch
0:39:27 > 0:39:30# And rabbits in the pen And I tell you
0:39:30 > 0:39:36# All the lights on Broadway Don't amount to an acre of green
0:39:36 > 0:39:40# And I'm gonna be a country girl again... #
0:39:40 > 0:39:42Uklele solo, come on, Roger!
0:39:42 > 0:39:45Thank you.
0:39:45 > 0:39:50# ..I've wandered in the hearts of friends looking for to find
0:39:50 > 0:39:57# Somebody who'd show me happiness Where I'd find peace of mind
0:39:57 > 0:40:04# And the one who taught my lesson was a south wind through the pines
0:40:04 > 0:40:07# And I'm gonna be a country girl again
0:40:07 > 0:40:15# Oh, I'm gonna be a country girl again
0:40:15 > 0:40:19# With an old brown dog and a big front porch
0:40:19 > 0:40:22# And rabbits in the pen And I tell you
0:40:22 > 0:40:28# All the lights on Broadway Don't amount to an acre of green
0:40:28 > 0:40:32# And I'm gonna be a country girl again
0:40:32 > 0:40:39# Oh, I'm gonna be a country girl again
0:40:39 > 0:40:42# With an old brown dog and a big front porch
0:40:42 > 0:40:46# And rabbits in the pen And I tell you
0:40:46 > 0:40:52# All the lights on Broadway Don't amount to an acre of green
0:40:52 > 0:40:56# And I'm gonna be a country girl again. #
0:40:59 > 0:41:00CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:41:00 > 0:41:03Thank you.
0:41:12 > 0:41:15Now that's a famous song.
0:41:16 > 0:41:19When I got to Nashville in '75,
0:41:19 > 0:41:23the big artists around in those days were like Dolly Parton,
0:41:23 > 0:41:27George Jones especially, Waylon Jennings,
0:41:27 > 0:41:29and Don Williams.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32Well, I ended up getting some cuts with Don Williams.
0:41:32 > 0:41:36He cut this one song of mine that became the biggest hit he ever had.
0:41:36 > 0:41:40I was very lucky and very fortunate, and I thank Don for that forever.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42And this is the song.
0:41:51 > 0:41:57# I don't believe in superstars Organic food and foreign cars
0:41:57 > 0:42:02# I don't believe the price of gold The certainty of growing old
0:42:02 > 0:42:04# That right is right and left is wrong
0:42:04 > 0:42:07# That north and south can't get along
0:42:07 > 0:42:10# That east is east and west is west
0:42:10 > 0:42:13# And being first is always best
0:42:13 > 0:42:15# But I believe in love
0:42:17 > 0:42:20# I believe in babies
0:42:22 > 0:42:25# I believe in Mom and Dad
0:42:26 > 0:42:29# And I believe in you
0:42:33 > 0:42:39# I don't believe that Heaven waits For only those who congregate
0:42:39 > 0:42:44# I like to think of God as love He's down below, He's up above
0:42:44 > 0:42:47# He's watching people everywhere
0:42:47 > 0:42:49# He knows who does and doesn't care
0:42:49 > 0:42:54# And I'm an ordinary man Sometimes I don't give a damn
0:42:54 > 0:42:57# But I believe in love
0:42:59 > 0:43:01# I believe in children
0:43:04 > 0:43:07# I believe in old folks
0:43:08 > 0:43:11# And I believe in you
0:43:15 > 0:43:20# I know with almost certainty What's goin' on with you and me
0:43:20 > 0:43:22# Is a good thing
0:43:25 > 0:43:28# It's true
0:43:29 > 0:43:32# I believe in you
0:43:36 > 0:43:41# Now, I don't believe virginity is as common as it used to be
0:43:41 > 0:43:44# In working days and sleeping nights
0:43:44 > 0:43:47# That black is black and white is white
0:43:47 > 0:43:52# That Superman and Robin Hood Are still alive in Hollywood
0:43:52 > 0:43:57# That gasoline's in short supply The rising cost of getting by
0:43:57 > 0:44:01# But I believed in love
0:44:02 > 0:44:05# I believed in angels
0:44:07 > 0:44:10# I believe in miracles
0:44:11 > 0:44:15# And I believe in you
0:44:18 > 0:44:21# I believe in love
0:44:23 > 0:44:27# I believe in babies
0:44:28 > 0:44:32# I believe in Mom and Dad
0:44:32 > 0:44:35# And I believe in y'all. #
0:44:38 > 0:44:41Don didn't sing that. Thank you.
0:44:41 > 0:44:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:44:54 > 0:44:57It all goes back, does it not, in many ways,
0:44:57 > 0:45:01to New Orleans and jazz and blues
0:45:01 > 0:45:06for many of us who loved to make our songs from the roots,
0:45:06 > 0:45:11and one day I was in New Orleans and I went down to Preservation Hall,
0:45:11 > 0:45:14where some of the old boys were still there,
0:45:14 > 0:45:17and I couldn't believe it. I sat on the wooden benches
0:45:17 > 0:45:20in that little funky little room, down there,
0:45:20 > 0:45:23and these boys were blowin' Dixie Jazz.
0:45:23 > 0:45:27And I came back to London and I had this song in my head,
0:45:27 > 0:45:32and I started doing this vamp from New Orleans.
0:45:32 > 0:45:36HE STRUMS
0:45:36 > 0:45:41HE BEATBOXES
0:45:41 > 0:45:45# I'm just mad about Saffron
0:45:45 > 0:45:49# Saffron's mad about me
0:45:51 > 0:45:55# I'm just mad about Saffron
0:45:55 > 0:45:59# She's just mad about me What's my name?
0:45:59 > 0:46:01# They call me mellow yellow
0:46:01 > 0:46:04# Quite rightly
0:46:04 > 0:46:07# They call me mellow yellow
0:46:07 > 0:46:09# Quite rightly
0:46:09 > 0:46:11# They call me mellow yellow
0:46:19 > 0:46:24# I'm just mad about 14
0:46:24 > 0:46:27# 14's mad about me
0:46:29 > 0:46:33# I'm just mad about 14
0:46:33 > 0:46:37# She's just mad about me
0:46:37 > 0:46:40# They call me mellow yellow
0:46:40 > 0:46:41# Quite rightly
0:46:41 > 0:46:44# They call me mellow yellow
0:46:44 > 0:46:46# Quite rightly
0:46:46 > 0:46:49# They call me mellow yellow
0:46:56 > 0:47:00# Born high, forever to fly
0:47:02 > 0:47:06# Wind velocity nil
0:47:06 > 0:47:11# Born high, forever to fly
0:47:11 > 0:47:15# If you want Your cup I will fill
0:47:15 > 0:47:18# They call me mellow yellow
0:47:18 > 0:47:20# Quite rightly
0:47:20 > 0:47:23# They call me mellow yellow
0:47:23 > 0:47:25# Quite rightly
0:47:25 > 0:47:28# They call me mellow yellow
0:47:28 > 0:47:30# Oh yeah
0:47:31 > 0:47:34# Mellow yellow
0:47:36 > 0:47:39# Ba ba ba-da-da ba ba
0:47:39 > 0:47:40# Yeah
0:47:40 > 0:47:43# Ba ba ba ba-da-da da
0:47:43 > 0:47:45# Woo-hoo-hoo
0:47:45 > 0:47:48# Ba ba ba-do-da do-da-da... #
0:47:48 > 0:47:50This is the jazz clap.
0:47:50 > 0:47:54# ..Ba ba ba-da-da ba
0:47:54 > 0:47:58# Ba ba ba-da
0:47:58 > 0:48:02# They call me mellow yellow
0:48:02 > 0:48:03# What's my name?
0:48:03 > 0:48:07# They call me mellow yellow
0:48:07 > 0:48:08# Oh yeah... #
0:48:10 > 0:48:13Yeah, keep that up.
0:48:13 > 0:48:18# ..Electrical banana
0:48:18 > 0:48:22# Is gonna be a sudden craze
0:48:23 > 0:48:27# Electrical banana
0:48:28 > 0:48:32# Is gonna be the very next phase
0:48:32 > 0:48:34# They called it mellow yellow
0:48:34 > 0:48:36# Quite rightly
0:48:36 > 0:48:39# They call me mellow yellow
0:48:42 > 0:48:44# They call me mellow yellow
0:48:44 > 0:48:46# He's so mellow
0:48:46 > 0:48:49# They call me mellow yellow
0:48:49 > 0:48:51# Quite rightly
0:48:51 > 0:48:53# They call me mellow yellow
0:48:53 > 0:48:56# Yeah, man!
0:48:56 > 0:49:00# They call me mellow yellow
0:49:00 > 0:49:05# Mellow, fellow. #
0:49:08 > 0:49:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:49:20 > 0:49:22Oh, this is such a pleasure!
0:49:22 > 0:49:26I just so love the art of the three-minute song,
0:49:26 > 0:49:29it's fun when you hear it and it's sure fun when you write it.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32And I got real lucky at my piano one day.
0:49:32 > 0:49:35I live in Hawaii.
0:49:35 > 0:49:40And, er, I was messing around with this little melody,
0:49:40 > 0:49:45and bridge, and, er... I can't play it!
0:49:45 > 0:49:49But I'll play you the beginning, OK, and then I'll do a real song. OK? OK.
0:49:49 > 0:49:54So anyway, er, this was a song that went out and won me an Academy Award.
0:49:54 > 0:49:59I didn't even have to sing it, so many thanks to Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.
0:49:59 > 0:50:02This is the beginning of a song that they sang.
0:50:02 > 0:50:06It's called Up Where We Belong.
0:50:06 > 0:50:08SHE PLAYS PIANO
0:50:19 > 0:50:23# Who knows what tomorrow brings?
0:50:24 > 0:50:29# In a world where few hearts survive
0:50:33 > 0:50:36# All I know is the way I feel
0:50:38 > 0:50:44# If it's real I keep it alive
0:50:46 > 0:50:50# The road is long
0:50:53 > 0:50:57# There are mountains on the way
0:51:00 > 0:51:04# But we climb a step every day
0:51:07 > 0:51:12# Love lift us up where we belong
0:51:14 > 0:51:17# Where the eagles cry
0:51:17 > 0:51:20# On a mountain high
0:51:22 > 0:51:27# Love lift us up where we belong
0:51:28 > 0:51:31# Far from the worlds we know
0:51:31 > 0:51:39# Up where the clear winds blow-oh-oh. #
0:51:46 > 0:51:50CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:52:05 > 0:52:10Thank you, Joe, thank you, Jennifer!
0:52:10 > 0:52:15Then there's this other song that I wrote back in the '60s, right?
0:52:15 > 0:52:20And like I said, there are some songs that you wish didn't keep on making sense.
0:52:20 > 0:52:24Here's one that got me an awful lot of trouble in the US.
0:52:24 > 0:52:28It's about individual responsibility for the world we live in.
0:52:28 > 0:52:31It's called Universal Soldier.
0:52:31 > 0:52:33CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:52:40 > 0:52:45# He's five foot two and he's six feet four
0:52:45 > 0:52:52# He fights with missiles and with spears
0:52:52 > 0:52:57He's all of 31 and he's only 17
0:52:57 > 0:53:03# He's been a soldier for a thousand years
0:53:03 > 0:53:09# He's a Catholic, a Hindu An atheist, a Jain
0:53:09 > 0:53:15# A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
0:53:15 > 0:53:20# And he knows he shouldn't kill And he knows he always will
0:53:20 > 0:53:26# Kill you for me, my friend and me for you
0:53:26 > 0:53:33# And he's fighting for Canada He's fighting for France
0:53:33 > 0:53:36# He's fighting for the USA
0:53:38 > 0:53:44# And he's fighting for the Russians And he's fighting for Japan
0:53:44 > 0:53:49# And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way
0:53:49 > 0:53:55# And he's fighting for democracy and fighting for the Reds
0:53:55 > 0:54:01# He says it's for the peace of all
0:54:01 > 0:54:07# He's the one who must decide Who's to live and who's to die
0:54:07 > 0:54:12# And he never sees the writing on the walls
0:54:12 > 0:54:19# But without him, how would Hitler have condemned them at Dachau?
0:54:19 > 0:54:23# Without him Caesar would have stood alone
0:54:25 > 0:54:32# He's the one who gives his body As a weapon to the war
0:54:32 > 0:54:36# And without him all this killing can't go on
0:54:36 > 0:54:43# He is the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame
0:54:43 > 0:54:48# But his orders come from far away no more
0:54:48 > 0:54:54# They come from him and you and me And brothers can't you see
0:54:54 > 0:54:59# This is not the way we put the end to war. #
0:55:02 > 0:55:06CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:55:10 > 0:55:15And thank you to Donovan for bringing it to so many of you.
0:55:23 > 0:55:28You're not going to believe what I'm going to follow that with.
0:55:28 > 0:55:30In 1971, Roger Greenaway and I
0:55:30 > 0:55:35sat down with the people from McCann Erickson,
0:55:35 > 0:55:39that's a jingle company, over there in the United States, to write a song.
0:55:39 > 0:55:43They'd come up with a new little hooky thing for Coca-Cola.
0:55:43 > 0:55:48They asked us if we could work on the melody and the song with them.
0:55:48 > 0:55:51So we did, and the thing was written. Took about a day.
0:55:51 > 0:55:54And we got paid, and that was the end of that.
0:55:54 > 0:55:56It was a nice little job.
0:55:56 > 0:55:59Well, a year later, that wasn't the end of that.
0:55:59 > 0:56:03It became a jingle and a well-known commercial on TV,
0:56:03 > 0:56:05and then proceeded to be a hit song.
0:56:05 > 0:56:09So...you never know what's going to happen in this business.
0:56:09 > 0:56:12This isn't a protest song, like I say.
0:56:12 > 0:56:14LAUGHTER
0:56:14 > 0:56:17I actually went to Washington and I got to sing this song
0:56:17 > 0:56:21for the President of the United Dairy Farmers. And he loved it.
0:56:21 > 0:56:24He really liked it a lot.
0:56:24 > 0:56:27I hope you do.
0:56:30 > 0:56:34# I'd like to buy the world a home
0:56:34 > 0:56:38# And furnish it with love
0:56:38 > 0:56:42# Grow apple trees and honey bees
0:56:42 > 0:56:46# And snow-white turtle doves
0:56:46 > 0:56:50# I would like to see the world for once
0:56:50 > 0:56:54# All standing hand in hand
0:56:54 > 0:56:59# And hear them echo through the hills
0:56:59 > 0:57:03# For peace throughout the land
0:57:03 > 0:57:07# And I would like to teach the world to sing
0:57:07 > 0:57:12# In perfect harmony
0:57:12 > 0:57:16# I'd like to hold it in my arms
0:57:16 > 0:57:19# And keep it company
0:57:19 > 0:57:21# It's the real thing
0:57:24 > 0:57:27# In the back of your mind
0:57:27 > 0:57:30# What you're hoping to find
0:57:30 > 0:57:35# Oh, yeah, it's the real thing... #
0:57:35 > 0:57:39This song has a particular life all of its own in the United States.
0:57:39 > 0:57:41They love this song there.
0:57:41 > 0:57:46In different ways. In fact, in some of the local churches around Nashville,
0:57:46 > 0:57:49they have different words they sing to it. But you know the words.
0:57:49 > 0:57:54# Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
0:57:54 > 0:57:57# That saved a wretch like me
0:57:57 > 0:58:02# Once I was lost, but now I'm found
0:58:02 > 0:58:05# Was blind, but now I see
0:58:05 > 0:58:07# It's the real thing
0:58:07 > 0:58:09# The real thing
0:58:09 > 0:58:14# In the back of your mind What you're hoping to find
0:58:14 > 0:58:16# Is the real thing... #
0:58:16 > 0:58:18Sing it with me, one time.
0:58:18 > 0:58:23# I'd like to teach the world to sing
0:58:23 > 0:58:27# In perfect harmony
0:58:27 > 0:58:32# I'd like to hold it in my arms
0:58:32 > 0:58:35# And keep it company. #
0:58:35 > 0:58:38And there you go.
0:58:37 > 0:58:38CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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