First Lady spiders.
Lovey dovey.
Play, lovey dovey,
Lovey dovey.
All day long,
Life won't wait.
All day long,
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Dee Dee Warren.
Hi, hi.
When all the songs are out of tune
And all the rhymes ring so untrue
When I will find the words to say
The thoughts I long to bring to you
When I hear all these singers
Who are just as lost as me
Making noise
Not in a low D
You will be my music
You will be my song
You will be my music
I can't wait any longer
For my song
I'll never find the words to tell me
All the things I need to say
And I'm afraid as time goes by
That someday soon you'll go away
And I'll be lost and I'll be trying
For the songs I'll never sing
Wanting you
It's everything
You will be my music
You will be my song
You will be my music
I can't wait any longer
For my song
No, no, no
I can't wait any longer
For my song
I can't wait any longer
If I'm wrong
I'll never find the words to tell me
And I'll be lost and I'll be trying
For the songs I'll never sing
I can't wait any longer
For the songs I'll never sing
I can't wait any longer
I'm going to do all the things for you, my man
Oh, man
I'll sacrifice for you
I even do wrong to obey
Every minute, every hour
I'm going to shout
You and her, man, our friendship
Is coming in your direction
I'm going to make you love me
Ooh, yes, I will
Yes, I will
I'm going to make you love me
Ooh, yes, I will
Yes, I will
My love is strong, you see
I know you'll never get tired of me
Oh, baby
I'm going to use every trick in the book
Tryin' my best to get you, oh, baby
Every night, every day
I'm going to say
I'm going to get you, I got to get you
Look out, boy, I'm going to get you
I'm going to make you love me
Ooh, yes, I will
Yes, I will
I'm going to make you love me
Ooh, yes, I will
Yes, I will, yeah
Guitar Solo
Every night, every day
I'm going to say
I'm going to get you, I got to get you
Look out, boy, I'm going to get you
I'm going to make you love me
Ooh, yes, I will
Yes, I will
I'm going to make you love me
In the midnight hour
I will feel your power
I'm going to make you love me
Love, love, love, love me
Ooh, yes, I will
You know I will
Ooh, I'm going to make you love me
Oh, yes, I will
Yes, I will, yeah (applause)
Here's a song that we recorded not long ago.
Maybe a little too long for some of you, but
reach back and get the read.
You might find this song intellectuals.
Is that all right?
Must have been something you had to say to someone
at some time because you bought this particular record.
That might have been a little too long.
Ooh, Oh scratch me you prisoner
Ooh, Hoo, Hoo...
Ooh, Hoo, Hoo, Hoo...
Foolish, foolish, foolish, foolish
If she thinks that she can take you from me
She's gotta be foolish
Foolish, foolish, foolish, foolish
That girl is the queen of Crazy
Crazy, crazy, crazy girl
If she thinks that she can destroy my world
She's gotta be crazy
Crazy, crazy, crazy girl
My love for you is too strong
We've been together for all too long
I told my mother, told my father too
Give me more love before I lose you
She's gotta be foolish
Foolish, foolish, foolish, foolish
If she thinks that she can take you from me
She's gotta be crazy
Crazy, crazy, crazy girl
I told my mother, told my father too
Give me more love before I lose you
She's gotta be foolish
Foolish, foolish, foolish, foolish
Foolish, foolish
Foolish, foolish, foolish
She's a foolish, foolish, foolish
A foolish fool
I know I'm going to make you love me, right
I've got this new song for you that was a
favorite of mine
It is on one of my albums, in case you didn't
have it
You can have it at your local record shop
If you haven't been in there to purchase it
Just look it up and hang on to it
I can't ever say anything, it's been there forever
It's a beautiful song.
You can hear it immediately by the style of the music.
Yes, I'm the price, I'm the move of the year.
For believing your lies, fool of the year.
I want to thank all of my friends for letting
me down.
For hiding the truth and letting me pray for
number one's love. Yeah.
So man, play a chord for the fool of the year.
But one thing I know is I, I love you so that
twelve months from now I'll be here, right
here, taking you out, fool of the year. Yeah.
But one thing I know is I, I love you so that
twelve months from now I'll be here, standing
right here, taking you out.
Fool, fool, fool, fool of the year.
Take me about, fool of the year. (applause)
Thank you for having me, you know, we put
together a special, special memory, especially
for you.
A song is recorded by the queen of the blues,
Donna Marshall.
But she's about the only person I know in the
world that can get the blues about anything, anything.
We were just hearing a CD about my niece today
and she sang a song and said, the whole lyric
was, Fosu'olong, Fosu'olong.
I said I'm ready, Fosu'olong, Fosu'olong, Fosu'olong.
That one we get the blues about television and
the media.
The Icemane is an icemane.
Some of my favorite songs by her are Icemane.
Each time I hold somebody new
My arms grow cold, longing for you
Though I may try and try, no one can satisfy
This longing in me
And when my lips burn with desire
No one can hear this song, it's out of line
Each kiss I gave to you, made me a slave to you
I'll never be free
I'll never be free from your smile so tender
Sweet surrender in your eyes
How can I be free when I still remember
How you thrilled me with a sigh just like the heat
Bound to my heart your love remains
When we're apart
Each kiss I gave to you, made me a slave
I'll never be free
Each kiss I gave to you, made me a slave to you
Oh, I'm just a prisoner of love
And I'll never, no, I'll never be free
I won't cry anymore
Now that you left me again
I won't cry anymore
Now that you're gone
I've shed a million tears since we've been apart
Now that it's come to an end
Tears can never mend a broken heart, and I
won't sigh anymore
I'll just forget you, yes
For I am closing the door of memories
Although you won't love me, my arms are long
and cold
Baby, let's just goodbye
You can't make me cry, not anymore, oh no
Although you won't love me, my arms are long
and cold
Baby, let's just goodbye, and I won't cry
anymore, no
Well, I've got bad news, baby
And you're the first to know
I've got bad news, baby
And you're the first to know
Well, when I woke up this morning
I discovered that my wig was about to blow
Well, I've been rockin', rockin' on my feet
And I've been talkin' all out of my head
Well, I've been rockin', rockin' on my feet
And I've been talkin' all out of my head
And when I get through Talkin'
I'll remember a word I said
Well, I used to be a sharpie
All dressed in the latest style
But now I'm walkin' down Broadway
Where nothin' but a silly smile
I see all kinds of women
Although they never fail
I tried to push a subway train, pour whiskey in
my head
I'm a gal who blew a fuse
Don't excuse, oh, low-top blues
Last night I was five feet
Tonight I'm eight feet tall
Every time I fall down some stairs
I seem to be able to float back up again
The night they turned the light on me
It nearly blew my mind
I woke up this morning, Bellevue, but left my
mind behind
I'm a gal who blew a fuse
I brought those low-top blues
I got a heart last night
Told my man to his wife's front door
I got a heart last night
Told my man to his wife's front door
But she's a 45,000-woman
And I ain't gonna try that
Ain't gonna try it no more Dream
When you're feeling blue Dream
That's the thing to do Just
Watch the smoke rings
Rise in the air
You'll find yourself
Of memories there
Some will dream
When the day is through Dream
And they might come true
Things never are as bad as they seem
So dream Dream
When the day is through Dream
And they might come true
Things never are as bad as they seem
So dream Dream
Oh, hey, oh
Yes, I open the mind, I'm the fool of the year
For believing your lies, fool of the year
I wanna thank all of my friends in this floor
For letting me down
For hiding the truth and letting me pray
The number one clown
Oh yes, I'm the fool of the year
The fool of the year
So banter play a chord
For the fool of the year
But one thing I know
That I, I love you so
That twelve months from now on
I'll be here, right here
Taking a vow
Fool of the year
And that's gonna change in a year, two thousand Yeah!
You had a good time?
Yeah, you had a good time?
I'm giving it to you now.
Yeah, I like that, right?
But you gotta pay more than that to be saved.
Can't bring it down a little bit, so have a
seat just for a second.
We're gonna wait for we have to get more wine.
First of all, I wanna say all praises.
It's the center of my life and my uniform.
And I give all praise to and I always say that
this is my new thing until I go to the grave
And I thank God for using me as a vessel.
And I said this to a couple of people last night
About three weeks ago, I had talked to Dee Dee
and Henry Dion, Henry Dion the business partners
And Dee Dee had called me and told me she would
come to LA
Because they were doing the 50th anniversary
for Gladys Knight in Los Angeles
So when I got to LA and at this wonderful,
wonderful dinner
I sat at a table and I see all these people
just coming in and everybody's just moving
And you see cameras and Steven Seagal and
Arnold Schwarzenegger
And you see Luther Vandross and you see
Paddlevale and Dion Ward and Stevie Wonder
And just all of these, I was like mesmerized
So who was the person that sat at the table
with me?
Next to me, Little Richard.
It was fabulous.
Who sat across the table from me?
Do y'all know who it was?
Anybody know?
Okay, I'll tell you who it was.
Ike Turner
It was truly a wonderful afternoon.
I mean it was a wonderful evening.
And the thing that made it so wonderful is
because Little Richard talked about
At one moment he said, you know they talk about music
Well I started, and I did this Woo!
Right at the table.
But the thing that's so beautiful for me is to
have legends
I believe in legends
And a legend is a person who has paved the way
for those of us who were out there at a period
of important time in our life
And Dee Dee, you know she's in the program
Dee Dee!
And there are two things that are most important
One is that we have to have a place for people
who paved the way for us to continue to work
and practice the craft
And then we have to pass it on to those young
people like
The young brother on the piano here that's 26
years old
Pass it on to him
I thought he was 18 and my homeboy, I said
earlier he's actually from Memphis, Tennessee
But Fred said you know I got this piano played
and he's awesome
So I said okay
I said I want to hear it
So the brother came in the door and he was
looking around
And so he says is Mr. King here?
I said I'm Curtis
And so I said well I'm the piano player that
Freddy told me to talk to
I said huh?
I said he's 18 years old
So I said can we go up to the Catholic Theater
this place
And I said I'd like to hear you play
And of course we sat down at the piano and the
rest is history Wow!
Brother is awesome
And I'm just trying to make sure that people
remember us so when he gets like Erika and
people like that
You know Erika Barthew, we claim her too
You know and I have to say one thing about
I said Erika's like a student she calls me up
in Curtis you know I always take my chest out
And one thing that made me feel so wonderful
Because in December of last year
She was sitting, we were having a rehearsal
A director's rehearsal for a show that we were on
And she sat behind me
And she had something she had written out on a
piece of paper so I said okay thank you
And she said I love you very much
And I said I love you too
And it was a $5000 check
And I said that's giving back
And that's understanding
And then I said people like Erika
People like Arlington
These are the people who will be responsible
for the institution like the organization
To continue to do what it is that we're doing
And I'm just saying to you Dee Dee
That we love you
And we praise you
And I have to say she probably doesn't want me
to say this but I'm going to say it anyway
Because I think it's important
She said you know Curtis I really thank God
For your coming to my life
She said because I really haven't been on the
stage to a single performance in two years
And she is back
And the last thing I'll say is really
A couple of things
Thank you Estero for your spirit tonight
And I remember
I'm really into those people
Paying the way Estero
When she had a near fatal car accident
And she was so nervous to get back on stage
And we opened and premiered
Bethune right here in the main stage
Downstairs in the theater
And that was like 10 years ago
And from that point on
She was a person that broke her ribs
And everything but she said I thank you
For taking an interest in me
When I nearly lost my life
And didn't have the courage to get back on
stage again
I said that's because of what you had already
given to me
So I didn't even give it back
Because I know if you give it
It comes right back to you
So Dee Dee Hey
We love you
We love you very much
And she's going to be in the audience here
She's going to mix in
She's going to change clothes
And we do have some CDs
But they cost $30 a CD Alright
Okay I'm just kidding
Okay man
It's all for you
Let's have a good time alright
Thank you Madam Chair
Thank you very much
So if anybody want to dance
Let's get up and have a good time