The True Story Behind Why Waylon Jennings Walked Out Of The Original 1985 We Are The World Recording
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Yes, good story. Thanks for this classic event video.
❤😊Another great story and thanks for sharing these Bob I enjoy watching them keep up the great work my friend.
Thank you for this video Bob, I enjoyed the song at that time. God Bless.
Great video Bob. Thank you
Melanie
Kenny and Willie were highlighted....
Thanks Bob for this Classic Rock and Country F & T on WJ. This was interesting and he was a man who stood by his beliefs.
Bad move by Waylon
Thanks for the info! I always wondered what the deal was with that.
It was a great song , Wanted to know the back story on Waylon. Thank you for this from a Hip-Hop Head
Lmaooo just seen the documentary he said I’m a good old boy. I don’t speak Swahili lol.
Yeah that was weak
@@kbanghart no it wasnt. Stevie wonder was trippin. No one agreed with his idea to add swahili. Especially due to the fact that in Ethopia the dont even speak swahili. It was a last minute thing. No time to change things up at 4am while quincy jones already had it planned and mapped out
@@FromTheHood2TheWoods I agree there wasn't time to add it. But the excuse that no one speaks it in whatever country is silly excuse BS. Waylon was just pandering to his redneck racist fans, and he probably was a bit racist himself.
Don't apologize for doing country music stuff. 🤷♀️ I had never heard this story before. I too, have a copy of We Are the World 🌎 ❤️
❤❤❤ wow 🎉
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*WAYLON❤JENNINGS*
Waylon rules, I back the boy in all things
Kenny Rogers' then-manager Ken Kragen was one of the organizers. He wrote about it in his book Life Is a Contact Sport. Stevie Wonder was supposed to help write the song. After Lionel and Michael did it, he offered a few suggestions. This was a very bad one. Even great artists can make mistakes.
Look at all the great songwriters on the session. Suppose they'd taken more time and each contributed some lines. My high school class chose this as our graduation song. I had nothing to do with it. In fact, I tried to get a line change. The one about God turning stones to bread misquoted the Bible.
Waylon's actions are consistent with his outlaw character. But it's good to know that other artists also objected. The song did raise a lot of money. Besides the single, they also put out a whole album. Unlike Do They Know It's Christmas, the song wasn't just for one season.
Christian artists later recorded Do Something Now. This group featured Amy Grant, Sandi Patty, Evie Karlsson, Russ Taff, Steve Camp, and Lisa Whelchel. But they only did the one song.
He may have surmised that the language which was the point of the topic at that moment was Swahili, but I’m damn impressed that he said those words while walking out, if he actually did. So many people fully disregard the glory of other cultures simply because it is another culture, not realizing how much spiritual and intellectual growth can be had by just CONSIDERING some attributes of any culture not their own. And this is world wide. Animals are not even so dismissive. In the 80’s, if you asked 1000 random people from the Western Hemisphere, whether they were entertainment stars, lawyers, doctors, ditch diggers, line cooks, it matters not, but ask them to name ANY African language and I’d be blown away if more than 50 people could name one. Swahili is the national language of Kenya. “Jambo”. “Hello to you as well.” But for Waylon to actually call out that by name is impressive. You’d figure some outlaw country badass wouldn’t say the name even if he knew it well, just for the sake of not coming off as conformist. After all, outlaw country guys are the punk rockers of country. But overall, I think it would have been quintessentially important, prescient, and a showing of utmost respect to cement the reputation’s of everyone involved, to have included simple acknowledgements of other cultures, in whatever way they could, obviously assuming it would be done tastefully and d appropriately. For Kenny Roger’s to have sung “We are the world”, in Swahili, for one chorus, would have brought even more gravity to the meaning of the whole thing. Follow that up with Stevie singing the same words in Vietnamese, Cyndi Lauper singing it in decipherable English, that’s a solid joke right there, and have The Boss sing it in Hebrew, and Michael Jackson sing it in Russian, wrapping up with Kim Carnes singing it in Jive. Epic. “Us-in’s been the whole mufuckin crème filled chocolate ball our asses call mutha fuckin Earth, us-in been dem keeids what did suck that tittie, an we ain’t quit dat till we was 14 years old!! Das right you bad mofos!” You know, Jive. Kim Carnes. It wouldn’t be any different than Barbara Billingsley speaking Jive in the movie “Airplane!” “Sheeeeit, poppa don’t want no help, poppa don’t get no help. Sheeeeeit!” But to have included a comprehensive sampling of world culture could have lended much needed and appreciated credence to the whole effort. Authenticity would have been the word of the decade. Ain’t no good ole boy singing no Swahili. Wow. Fuck it. He stood up for what he believed in. He thought they were fake and full of it. Asking EVERYONE to sing ONLY Swahili would have been pretty shitty. Just sayin.
IN THE WORDS OF OLD HOSS
GOOD OLE BOYS DON'T SING IN SWAHILI
Then he left
I always wished they'd included at least one country music female legend...maybe Dolly or Tammy Wynette?
I would have done the same thing hell yeah
He will always be a good old boy 😅
Waylon quit, Willie Nelson didn’t 🤠
I gotta agree and disagree about more country artists, you had every genre represented and I think they could have had a female country singer to the song, but they had pretty much equal amounts of each genre. I definitely dont think the rock guys were over shadowing the country artists. You had Steve, Bruce pretty much for the Rock and Willie and Kenny for Country. You would have had Wayland if his oversized ego didn't come into play. He couldnt suck it up for one night?
And no John Denver?
They didn’t include a lot of country music artists, but the song definitely was not a country sound
The fact thal he couldnt stand Harry Belafonte didnt help
Oh no, anyway, it's just a music video, not a particular banger either.
He was so dam right,,go waylon
Waylon wasn't offered a solo thats why he was salty
No that's not why at all apparently you don't know nothing
Stevie Wonder wanted them to sing a verse in Swahili and learn it
Nobody was on board with it but the funny part was Waylon just basically said
Good Ole Boys Don't sing in Swahili.
And then he left
I have a strong dislike of gossip. true or not
Rockers?? I saw Motown, country, disco, pop artists and some rockers. This dude thinks Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Dionne Warwick, Michael Jackson were rockers?? LOL
Walking out , looses out …
Waylon left and didn't come back.He was being impatient and walked away from doing something very important and fulfilling. Dick move Waylon! This is why Willie is the best!
Dylan is the jam in this. Just you and me
Agreed. Bad move for Waylon.
Nope. He’s just a good ole boy and this makes him a badass
@@uglierclock5447 "badass"... In this context, kinda weak.
REAL badass would have been to do the gig, despite what some silly rac ist fans say.
Willie isn't in the same league as Waylon.
Bad move, Waylon