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...actual performance, which combined two of Jackson’s biggest hits and one of Timberlake’s most recent, could have been groundbreaking. Barely a generation has passed since the white singer Petula Clarke insisted on touching the arm of black musician Harry Belafonte during a duet on her 1968 NBC special. Despite pressure to cut the segment in “deference” to (racist) Southern viewers, NBC exercised the good judgment to leave the duet...
...crowd "I love you" for the 26th time (admittedly one "I love you" was directed specifically to Donald Trump), Jackson assembled a choir of his acolytes for a jazz version of We Are the World. No one pays $2,500 to see Kenny Rogers jam with Yoko Ono and Petula Clark. But with Michael Jackson, you have to take the bad with the good...
...Petula," 1968: The sponsors, Chrysler Motor Corp., try unsuccessfully to quash a shocking sequence in this Petula Clark special. In the sequence, Petula's white hand rests momentarily on the black arm of Guest Star Harry Belafonte...
...record the LP at the RCA studios on Ivar, with long-time producer Bones Howe. "Pomona Lisa" didn't make it to his seventh album, but tracks like "Ruby's Arms," "Jersey Girl" and "Till the Money Runs Out" did. And another song -- "Downtown." A Waits' original or the Petula Clark classic...
...long drive from Petula Clark's," he grins. And then sitting by the piano and plunking the ivories absently, his eyes look up. "Actually, I've been thinking about putting out an album called My Favorites. And instead of my cover versions of those tunes, it would just be an album of the actual cuts. Just songs that I enjoy and [in TV commercial voice] you can enjoy the same ones that I enjoy, but you'll know that those specifically are the ones that I like...