20 Feet from Stardom

Right.

Well, there was a film a few years ago called 20 Feet from Stardom.

It was about backup singers.

And it won an Academy Award as, you know, the best documentary.

He's on TV.

And there's always a journey, right? What was it, 20 Feet from Stardom was that documentary, right? From the backup singers to the front of the stage.

I remember that.

And that's a journey that people make.

So I'm going to do a darling love thing here for a minute.

First of all, if anyone has ever heard of the movie, it's a documentary called 20 Feet from Stardom.

You familiar with this, Greg? I don't think so.

Okay.

Baby, Please Come Home, that Christmas song, she used to go on, David Letterman would have her on every year to sing that song.

It's an incredible Christmas song.

You guys should watch 20 Feet from Stardom.

I highly recommend it.

Because when you're attacking a song like that, it already comes... with so much weight and it's the legendary iconic rolling stones so you want to approach it with honor and with and pay homage to them right but you also have to put your own thing on it so how do you find that line and i think within the time that we all got together we finally got that because you just you also have to remember why you do music you do it to have fun right i mean so we had fun with it

So have you guys all seen 20 Feet From Stardom? Oh yeah.

Everyone, yeah.

So about the backup singers.

But a stellar group of musicians appeared on the Getting Ready album, including, again, Donald Duck Dunn, How about these for backup vocalists? Kathy McDonald and Claudia Lanier, Don Preston, Don Nix, and there were others on this album too.

Yeah, and if you want to know something about backup vocalists, there's a great documentary called 20 Feet from Stardom that I highly recommend.

Yes, I do too.

And I know Claudia Lanier is in it for sure.

He wrote Bye Bye Bye, and he's one of the top songwriter producers of Sweden, and he wanted to be singing backups.

Tabitha Fair, who had been in a movie called 20 Feet from Stardom.

She was in the lineup.

Chris Willis, who had a huge hit with David Guetta.

Nate, what do we got?

I was gonna recommend the 2013 documentary 20 Feet from Stardom-

Oh, yeah

... which is about backup singers in the music industry.

Mm-hmm.

The other two I have here is 20 Feet from Stardom, which won-

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... an Oscar that year, incredible.

You're welcome.

Siobhan, I don't know if you've ever seen the movie 20 Feet from Stardom.

Yes, about the background singers, right? Yes.

I saw it a while ago, but yes.

I mean, you're not 20 feet from stardom.

You are either one foot in front of stardom or one inch behind Jackson Browne with stardom.

I mean, you are so important.

Yeah.

Um, and so Lou's kind of the bad guy in Troubadours, and then for 20 Feet from Stardom, I went to interview him, because he mentored Mary Clayton, and signed her, and helped her.

And Lou didn't wanna do an interview with me, and I got him on the phone, and he said, "Look, you didn't make me look good in Troubadours," and I said, "Yeah, but in Troubadours you're the bad guy.

In this movie you're the good guy." And he said, "Oh, okay." [laughs]

I know, I know.

Yeah.

I don't, I remember I interviewed her for 20 Feet from Stardom, and I thought, "God, this woman needs her own documentary," 'cause her, um ...

Is Mabel John? Do you know who that is?