my first guest is a great singer and one of the stars of the hit movie Fame please welcome
Irene Cara
sometimes I wonder
who I am
make believe in is hard alone out here on my own we're always proven Who We Are always
reaching for that Rising Star to guide me far and shine me home out here on my own
when I'm down and feel and blue I close my eyes so I can be with you oh baby be strong
for me baby to me help me through help me need you you until the morning Sun appears
[Music] I dry the tears I've never shown out here on my own
but when I'm done [Music] to me help me through help me need you sometimes I wonder where
I've been who I am
but I can't be thrown here
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real name and you know Frank Frank is always talking about you how do you know Frank Frank
is the piano player for out here on my own in the movie and in the soundtrack and you
guys uh
thank you you're on the album Frank yes I am terrific yeah Frank is always uh I guess
you know going off to different places to accompany you you would know that wouldn't
you um you you've been performing since you were just a tiny person a little young kid
but you're not you're not very old now are you no I'll be 22 in March just a baby and
so when did you start performing professionally at eight eight years old but I actually started
six what what can a six-year-old do uh in the way of entertaining I was singing and
dancing really on stage here for benefits and Beauty contests and concerts what was
your first professional job uh it was a play on Broadway called Maggie Flynn with Jack
Cassidy and Shirley Jones and I got to meet David Cassidy he was 18 at the time and Sean
was my age he was eight yeah did you uh you feel like you missed anything as a kid you
know because you were I guess you got to devote a lot of your time I'm originally from the
south Brooks and I don't think I missed anything
I'm not sure what that means but uh all the people in the midwest now um the people said
about the movie Fame that there was just a bunch of newcomers and I guess that's certainly
not true for yourself well it was mostly newcomers although Barry Miller who played Ralph Garcia
was in Saturday Night Fever had a lead Road they like to make it seem like you know they're
breaking into new kids but most of the kids who are newcomers had all already been around
and working has this movie changed your life Vinnie I've been doing this 16 years it's
pretty much been the same my life has been my career and my friends and my work but it's
just it's been a successful thing for me but you're a big deal now I mean before you were
always working and always successful well I think when I did Roots Roots the Next Generation
I played Alex Haley's mom that was like another stepping stone for me you know to do a lead
like that you played Alex Haley's mom as a before 14.
she had Alex no I played the whole role his mother uh had passed away at 36 so I played
the role from 14 to 36.
no kidding yeah how would you possibly I died on screen and everything sorry to hear about
that listen you're gonna you're gonna sing another song is that right this one when we
we didn't rehearse so we're gonna wing it folks I think we got a commercial before we
something else we didn't rehearse anyway we'll give you two minutes to work this out and
we'll be right back with Irene thank you very much welcome back to the show ladies and gentlemen
and now just like we rehearsed here's Irene Cara [Applause] [Music]
foreign
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goodbye
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[Music] macaroni and bologna tuna fish our favorite dish [Applause] if it's yellow then
it's yellow if it's [Music] if
about hey [Music]
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I love [Music] you
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thank you
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[Music] amazing just terrific Irene Carroll ladies and gentlemen