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I recently watched a terrific

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90-minute Netflix documentary called The

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Greatest Night in Pop. Here's

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the description. On a January night in

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1985, music's biggest

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stars gathered to record We Are

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the World. This documentary goes behind

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the scenes of the historic event.

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Now, if you don't know, the song

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We Are the World was a charity

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single recorded for USA for Africa in

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1985. The

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song was written by Michael Jackson and

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Lionel Richie and was produced by Quincy

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Jones. It sold more than 20 million

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copies and is the eighth

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best-selling physical single of all

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time. To record the

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song, an unbelievable group of more

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than 45 taught musicians came together

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for this one-night event to work

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together, even though every one

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of them was a huge star in

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their own right. Here is a list of

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just some of the people who were there. Lionel

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Richie, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder,

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John Oates, Diana Ross, Tina

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Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis,

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Cindy Lauper, Sheila E., Willie

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Nelson, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen,

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Daryl Hall, Dionne Warwick, Bette

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Midler, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan,

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Al Giro, Billy Joel, Kenny

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Rogers, Smokey Robinson, and

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many others. For instance,

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bizarrely, Dan Aykroyd was

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also there singing. There

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was a moment that particularly

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stood out to me and

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made me so happy. At

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the beginning of the documentary, we

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learned that the inspiration for doing

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the song came from the legendary

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musician, actor, and activist, Harry Belafonte.

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After the British supergroup Band Aid released

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the song Do They Know It's Christmas

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in December 1984 to

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raise money for the famine in

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Ethiopia, Belafonte decided to try to

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create an American benefit single for

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famine relief in Africa. Once

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he started trying to organize the effort,

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because of the respect and admiration that

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everyone had for Harry Belafonte, this

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extraordinary group of musicians came together.

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arriving at the studio. We hear them

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it takes place after the American Music

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the evening and proceeds into the morning.

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and draining experience for everyone. When

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they'd finished the hard work of singing the

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chorus together, Quincy Jones, one of the central

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figures in this effort, addresses

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the group from the podium to recognize

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Harry Belafonte as the person who had

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the original idea for this effort. They're

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all clapping, and then suddenly from the

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side, Al Giro sings out,

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Deyo, Deyo,

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which of course is the unforgettable

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line from Harry Belafonte's best-known song,

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Deyo, which is also called the

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Banana Boat Song. Then

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all the singers join in. They're singing

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together, they're clapping along with the beat,

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smiling, making up new lines to the

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song. Harry Belafonte

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is visibly moved. It

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makes me so happy to think of these great

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artists reveling in their own

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mastery, paying tribute to

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the humanitarian work of a

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fellow musician through his signature

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song. If you want

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to see a clip of Harry Belafonte singing Deyo,

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I'll post a link in the show notes. I'm

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