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LOVE. I'm at the end of my patience with this interview. I want to run down the hallway and finish writing a song. I won't sing it, but I'll tell you the hook. "Love makes the world go round." It's really trite, but that's what it is. Love makes the world go round and straight and square and squiggly...
...something old: Martha Reeves, looking better than ever as she reprised her Vandellas anthem, Nowhere to Run. Something new: Patti LaBelle joining Joe Cocker in an unlikely but inspired duet of his You Are So Beautiful. Something borrowed: the Four Tops stepping in at a moment's notice to sing backup to Boy George and Stevie Wonder in his new Part Time Lover. And something blue: Marilyn McCoo's rendition of Am I Blue? as a tribute to Ethel Waters. When the show didn't sing, it danced: Gregory Hines tapped in tribute to Teddy Hale, then Sammy Davis...
...three individual people, and the songs we choose to sing fall into three different camps," says LaCrosby. "I think it will be a nice range...
Although the performers have made no final decisions about what songs will be included in the show, the range from which they are choosing is eclectic: Burke says she plans to sing songs by the Prefenders, the Eurythmics, and the Motels: Miller says she will sing jazz tunes-like Billie Holiday's-and "upbeat" music like Chaka Khan's LaCrosby will perform works by Barbra Streisand and the Talking Heads...
Burke says that she looks forward to "Just Us and Music Too" not just as an opportunity to perform but also a chance to sing songs recorded by Martha Davis, lead singer for the Motels. "She's really intense," says Burke "but not in that Bette Middler screamy type of way. She doesn't put on a floor show...