[ Beeping ]
-"We Don't Talk Anymore."
-The Doobie Brothers. -Doobie Brothers.
We don't talk any-- Yeah.
-Yeah.
[ Piano plays ]
♪♪
♪ We don't talk anymore ♪
♪ Like we used to do ♪
♪ We don't love anymore ♪
♪ What was all of it for? ♪
♪ We don't talk anymore ♪
♪ Like we used to do ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-That's it right there. That's it.
[ Beeping ]
Okay.
-[ Laughs ]
-"Cha Cha Slide" as a '90s R&B song.
Roots, can we do, like, a...
[ Slow R&B music plays ]
-Cha cha slide, baby.
♪♪
-♪ Everybody, clap your hands ♪
♪ Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap your hands ♪
♪ All right, we're gonna do the basic steps, girl ♪
♪ To the left ♪
♪ Take it back, now, y'all, one hop this time ♪
♪ Right foot, left stomp ♪
♪ Left foot, left stomp ♪
♪ Cha-cha real smooth ♪
♪ Real smooth ♪
♪ Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap your hands, girl ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
Out of the two of us, one of us is a real singer.
All right. Charlie, it is your turn.
Go ahead, push the button, and we'll see what you got.
Yeah. [ Beeping ]
-"Truth Hurts," Lizzo. -Oh, wow.
-Broadway. -Oh, my God.
-Broadway, Lizzo.
-Okay. Go with a...
[ Piano plays ]
♪ I just took a DNA test ♪
♪ Turns out I'm 100% that bitch ♪
♪ Even when I'm crying crazy, yeah ♪
♪ Boy problems, that's the human in me ♪
♪ Bling, bling, then I solve them, that's the goddess in me ♪
♪ Why are men great till they gotta be great? ♪
♪ Don't text me, tell it straight to my face ♪
♪ Best friend sat me down in the salon chair ♪
♪ Shampoo press, get you out of my hair ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I want to see that.
I want to go to that play.
I want to see that play. Lizzo, are you watching?
That was fantastic. -Wow.
-Oh, my gosh. All right. I'll go again.
I don't know why, though, 'cause everyone wants to see you.
[ Beeping ] That was great.
Okay.
[ Laughter ]
All right, "I'm Gonna Be." All right, so -- ♪ I would ♪
♪ I would wa-- ♪ That one?
-Yeah.
-Techno. Can you give me a techno beat?
I'll try to do this.
[ Techno music plays ]
♪♪
♪ When I wake up ♪
♪ Well, I know I'm gonna be ♪
♪ I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you ♪
♪ You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, ♪
♪ You, you, you, you, you ♪
♪ You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you ♪
♪ You, you, you, you, you, you ♪
♪ But I would walk 500 miles ♪
♪ And I would walk 500 more ♪
♪ Just to be the man who walks 1,000 miles ♪
♪ To fall down at your door ♪
♪ Da da da da ♪ -♪ Da da da da ♪
-♪ Da da da da ♪ -♪ Da da da da ♪
-♪ Da da dum da-da-dum da-da-dum da-da da da da ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
I like that. We can do that.
When did you realize that you have perfect pitch?
-Right. -Do you know this?
-Yeah.
-Do you know what that is, perfect pitch?
Like, less than 1% of us have this talent.
But basically -- -I think you might have it.
The Roots told me that you might low-key have it.
-Oh, I don't think I have it. -It means you can, like,
hear, like, any note.
Like, if I were to tell you to play an F-sharp,
it would be ♪ Ah ♪
[ Piano plays F-sharp in unison ]
-Wow. -Or a G. ♪ Ah ♪
[ Piano plays G in unison ] -Or C-sharp. ♪ Ah ♪
[ Piano plays C-sharp in unison ]
-What if I gave you, like, B-flat?
-♪ Ah ♪ [ Piano plays B-flat in unison ]
-Is that right? -So, it's almost like
I memorized the notes in my head and I could do it
from when I was like 4 years old.
It's like a weird -- It's a very odd thing.
-That's unbelievable. -Yeah.
I was in a hotel room the other night,
and, usually, when you hear car horns and fire alarms,
they're at minor second intervals, like a...
♪ Ah-ah, ah-ah ♪
Like, "Jaws" is like -- you know,
"get out of the water 'Jaws.'"
[ Vocalizes "Jaws" theme ]
And that's what a fire alarm is sometimes.
And it's two notes rubbing against each other.
And it tells you to get the hell out the building.
And I was on the 11th floor
and I wasn't getting out of the building.
I was, like, rearranging notes in my mind.
And I was like, "What if it was like a..."
[ Imitates alarm ]
Like, there was one time where --
-You're harmonizing with the alarm?
-I'm harmonizing with the alarm.
I let my entire school out early one time,
because there was a digital bell that went like this.
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School.
I got suspended for this.
It went... [ Vocalizes sustained note ]
So I was just -- I wanted -- It was almost summer break.
And I went into the middle of the hall
and went into a very reverberant part of the school
and just went... [ Vocalizes sustained note ]
I let the entire school out early.
-And everyone thought it was a -- No way!
That's awesome!
-I got suspended for that. That was not good.
My whole thing on TikTok is to prove that anything,
anything in this world, can be made into music.
Like, everything has tonality to it.
-I wanted to test this tonight, if you don't mind.
We have stuff here.
But, like, what could we do tonight?
-Well, what has sound to it?
Wait. Let me see that cup.
-This cup? -Is there anything in it?
-Yeah, there's water. -Do you have anything I can tap?
-That has tea in it. That's for you. I have cups.
I have extra cups. Do you want a cup?
-Wait. This is -- Yeah, give me a spoon
because I'm sure you have spoons somewhere.
Take another "Tonight Show" cup.
Yeah. I've marked up your table.
So, okay. I hope this works. But every --
[ Laughter ] Bear with me.
Everything has tonality to it.
So if I were to --
[ Rhythmic tapping ]
[ Humming tone ]
Here we go.
So that's kind of like a -- ♪ Ooh ♪
If I had a way to record something,
I would, like, make a whole song out of this cup right now.
-I have a way to record right now.
-Wait.
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ] No.
[ Laughs ] -We got a setup.
-No. -Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
This is -- -Wait. Hold this.
-I'll hold that.
Charlie, we're always ready for you here at "The Tonight Show."
That's why we love when you come back.
-Okay. -You're just making art.
-What is this? This is Pro Tools, so...
-I don't know how to do Pro Tools.
-I thought your producer was joking when he said that he --
-No, no, no.
If you even mention an idea, we're going to make it happen.
If it makes it on the air or not, we don't know, but...
-Okay, so, everyone bear with us for a second.
I'm gonna -- Okay. So I'm gonna record --
This is what I do on TikTok.
I'm gonna do it on the show that started it all.
You record a little -- [ Tapping ]
That's it. Wait. Hold on.
[ Tapping ] There. Ooh.
[ Tapping ]
I like the little -- Okay. Here. Take that.
You can put that down. -You just got that.
-Okay. So... -♪ Dee-dee, dee-dee ♪
-Here it is. Can we get sound?
[ Tapping ] Ooh.
That's -- Here. Play that again.
This is -- There we go.
So I can put it --
[ Tapping ]
There's the sound of the glass.
But if you pitch it down...
[ Tapping sound played as descending scale ]
♪♪
So that's just one note.
I feel like I'm teaching all of a sudden.
-This is like a master class! I love this.
-[ Vocalizing ]
♪♪
So, this is what that sounds like here.
[ Tapping echoing ]
Ooh. We got reverb.
Ugh.
[ Tapping booms ]
Too much. Wait.
So I can -- Okay. So, that's one layer.
And I can add a little rhythm to it.
Again, that's the cup sound.
♪♪
Okay. And then we need, like, a bass or something.
♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
Oh, I'm not done.
Okay, so that's looping.
Again, these are all just cup sounds pitched down.
If I put a kick drum, then you have a completed...
[ Kick drum thumping ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-What?! -Wow.
And there you go. That's a whole song.
-That's how you do it right there!
I was doing a little digging... -Oh, God.
-...and finding out stuff about you.
And your career got started
kind of during the holiday season.
-Oh, my God. -Do you know what I'm --
-No.
-Do you know what I'm talking about?
-Uh, I think I do. -Your first --
-Did you talk to my mom? [ Laughter ]
-Not only did I talk to her... -My heart's racing.
-...I got photos. -No!
-Well, you -- -Okay.
-This is your first album, technically, I guess, right?
-Yeah. Well, this is --
I made this album -- How did you get this?
[ Laughter ] I made this album in 2003.
I was in sixth grade.
And the piano that I got at the time had a CD burner in it.
And there was no piano that had a CD burner.
This when CDs were popping. And I made an entire album.
You have the album art?!
-This is the album art, here. This is "Very --"
[ cheers and applause ]
-[ Laughs ] -"A Very Charlie Christmas"?
-Yep, it was called, "Have A Very Charlie Christmas."
[ Laughter ]
-What I love about this is all the songs you're doing,
all the songs and you're saying who played piano
and who performed the vocals.
Piano and vocal, Charlie Puth. Piano and vocal, Charlie Puth.
On every -- on every song. [ Laughter ]
"Yeah, we know. It's your album."
[ Cheers and applause ]
Well, it was such a big hit.
How many copies did you give out?
-I gave out a hundred copies. I sold them at this place
called Brooklyn Bagel in -- in Rumson, New Jersey.
And I would go door-to-door, kind of like a Boy Scout,
just selling these CDs.
-So, they are out there. They exist.
If anyone has one, it's probably worth a lot of money right now.
-Oh, someone has tremendous blackmail on me.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
Well, I mean, it was such a giant hit,
you had to come out with a sequel record.
-You are joking! No!
You are kidding me! [ Drumroll ]
-Guys, this is "Have A Very Charlie Christmas 2 --
Volume 2." -No, no.
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-Dude, your mom was very good to us.
-Okay, so -- -You didn't --
So you didn't learn your lesson from the first one.
-So, at this point, I knew I wanted to be, like,
a really famous guy.
I really wanted to be famous at this point.
So, I took a picture of myself by the piano at my home.
And I kind of upped the budget a little bit.
We upgraded to jewel cases I bought at Staples at the time.
[ Laughter ] -Wow!
-Look at this little design that --
-No, you did a great job there.
-That is so embarrassing. [ Laughter ]
-Again, sung by Charlie Puth.
Produced and recorded by Charlie Puth.
Produced by Charlie Puth. Arranged by Charlie Puth.
[ Laughter ] I just love that.
[ Knock on door ] -Charlie?
-Jimmy. -Good to see you, bud.
-Good to see you.
-Congrats on the new album, bud. You got some bops on there.
-Bops? -I love it.
My favorite jam right now is...
♪ You turn me on like a light switch ♪
Charlie? [ Glass shatters ]
-Jimmy, I'm over here. -Where?
[ Crashing ] -Here.
-Here? -Literally right here.
-Let me grab your hand. -Jimmy, that's not my hand.
-I'm so sorry.
[ Crashing ] Oh!
-Where's the walls? -Feel for a wall.
Help! Help us!
I think I'm bleeding. I can feel myself bleeding.
-Jimmy, Jimmy, calm down. Just stay where you are.
Let me try something. [ Clears throat ]
♪ You turn me on like a light switch ♪
-Oh!
I wasn't bleeding.
I was just pouring water in my hand.
-Okay, then. You're good?
-Yep. Let's get started. See you out there.
[ Bang ] Ow!