Hi everyone! It's Seth Rudetsky with one of my favorite singers ever, and I mean ever
I'm talking about pop, Broadway, ever right there
hi!
Lillias White, unbelievable. By the way, what are your solo albums
because I have that amazing live, go
From Brooklyn to Broadway,
is so good you gotta listen to it at the gym it was a fairytale, unbelievable
I could do like 45 different obsessed with her
there's so many things I'm obsessed with but we're gonna sort of focus on just
just a smidgeon, so I made a list of everything that we're going to talk about
here's my little list, OK, How to Succeed, it's private! How to Succeed
the fluidity of the riff so just talk to me
how do you have that fluidity of your riffs, how did you learn how to do a thousand notes
well I didn't really learn how to do it, I really interpret the song
and it depends on what what the song is saying to me musically and with the words
but how do you how can you literally do 45 - because you guys
'be giving each brother oh oh' how do you literally do 45 different notes when I
have to go like 'oh ha ha ha ha'
I don't really know, I don't really know how
I don't know, I don't really know
OK, please listen
it's supposed to just go um 'keep giving each brother all you can' that's kind of
what's written listen to watch Lillias's amazing fluidity want to do from
from where?
'can'
'all you can'
'can'
that's my riff, I literally have to look at this list
now this is 'Don't Rain on my Parade'
this was a Funny Girl concert that I did with a lot of different divas sing different songs
and I wanted Lillias to do, I can't remember what song
and someone said what about 'Don't Rain on my Parade'
he wanted me to do this other song
'People' actually, because I was like she would be amazing at 'People'
and I said no, if I'm gonna do this benefit I'm going to sing 'Don't Rain on my Parade'
and I said why you're not gonna sound good on that I mean it's just sort of whatever
but it's been a lucky song for me, my whole career so that's what I wanted to do
not only is it lucky, but she was amazing, she got the only standing ovation of the night
so I'm gonna first show you what the ending is supposed to be
and then Lillias will sing that, and then Lillias will show the amazing final turn that she did to the song I was obsessed with
first do it from 'nobody'
1 2 3 4
'Nobody, no nobody
'is gonna rain on my parade'
that's how it was written 'parade'
the audience was going crazy the whole song and then Lillias did the last final sassafras
this was it, from 'nobody;
'nobody no nobody'
'is gonna rain on my parade'
'dah-dah-dah-dah' so creative, so musical, do you read music?
a little bit
but I got that riff from Dionne Warwick
you got that riff from Dionne Warwick?
yeah!
from listening to Dionne Warwick
what song does she do it in, do you even know?
lots of songs she does that
thief
a riff thief!
I've got to check my iPhone, I have so many things I want to talk about
next thing is as follows straight tone
what is this song from?
this song is from a show called Like Jazz
that's what it was called we did it at the Mark Taper Forum in LA and it was written by
Cy Coleman with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman okay obsessed so I want you to
OK, obsessed!
so I want you to just hear, what I love about Lillias's voice is how she bites it
if you listen to 'maybe I'm a sinner, who's gonna cast the first stone'
she bites it 'stone', you know what I'm talking about, you bite the sound am I correct?
yeah I guess
yes! so first I want you to hear 'those hands'
just like straight tone and then listen to the biting of it, so this if this would be
the straight tone version of those hands
I'll give you a little quick intro
'those hands'
'hands' straight tone
now listen to the biting
now I just want to show you the ending that I'm obsessed with
the song is amazing, but listen to the ending, and I love the exciting last note
she could have done the most boring 'going to the six' for you musicians, but she goes to the tonic
spot the tonic
this will be the big finish
the placement!
I'm out!
oh I'm not out! you have to go see her, where are you performing, at Stage 72
right here at 72nd Street 158 West 72nd Street or November 10th at 9:30 it's
just the piano series, summer is just a piano series, stage 72 formerly
known as the triad 158 West 72nd Street November 10th at 9:30
I'm in a state of shock from that last note still
but you also have to come and see Why Yet Live, written by Billy Porter, who's the Tony Award winning star
of Kinky Boots
still in a state of shock, look, my eyes won't leave the camera
OK I'm gonna go, still in a state of shock, by the way that was a D, and by the way I'm sweating from it
she's still here, I'm scared Jesse he's a little crazy but I love him
Seth Rudetsky, he's a little crazy, but I love him a lot
I look a little crazy too! OK, see you, bye! Love you!