Speaker 1: Ooo Weed. July came in Hot, Hot, hot hot. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a single spot in the country that
Speaker 1: hasn't been experiencing higher than normal temperatures. How are you
Speaker 1: beating this heat? Do you have air conditioning? Are you
Speaker 1: spending time by a lake or on the river? Are
Speaker 1: you sipping cool drinks a little lemonade while you're sitting
Speaker 1: in front of the fan, and are you chilling out
Speaker 1: with lots of great music? Two legendary music groups are
Speaker 1: going to be turning up the heat even more. The
Speaker 1: Commodores and The Pointer Sisters recently announced an exciting limited
Speaker 1: run co headline tour, an evening of icons celebrating Motown's
Speaker 1: sixty fifth anniversary with a combined legacy that spans across decades,
Speaker 1: over one hundred million albums sold, twenty number one hits,
Speaker 1: ten top ten albums. These icons, these artists are set
Speaker 1: to take audiences on a journey through the very best
Speaker 1: of funk, soul, R and B and pop, with support
Speaker 1: from special guest The Spinners. The first tour leg kicked
Speaker 1: off July eleventh in Illinois and will be making stops
Speaker 1: in Wanta, Raleigh, Tuscaloosa, Tampa, and more before wrapping up
Speaker 1: in prim, Nevada on November thirtieth. One of the greatest
Speaker 1: Motown and R and B funk artists of all time,
Speaker 1: the Commodores. The Commodores have influenced innumerable artists in all
Speaker 1: genres with their classic hits. The Commodore is formed in
Speaker 1: sixty eight while in college at Tuskegee Institute, after being
Speaker 1: discovered by Barry Gordy. The Commodores went on to sell
Speaker 1: over sixty million records for Motown with hits like machine
Speaker 1: Gun and Sale On. They've remained a force in the
Speaker 1: music industry for over five decades, with achievements spanning from
Speaker 1: Grammy Awards to multiple number one singles like Brick House, Easy,
Speaker 1: Night Shift, three Times a Lady. Motown was the place
Speaker 1: where dreams took flight, They've said. Sharing the stage with
Speaker 1: another legend like the Pointer Sisters as Motown celebrates their
Speaker 1: thirty fifth anniversary is truly special. We're proud to continue
Speaker 1: to celebrate the music that brought us all together and
Speaker 1: the Pointer Sisters. They have enjoyed a long and successful
Speaker 1: career in the music industry after starting out with very
Speaker 1: humble beginnings singing in their father's Church in West Oakland, California.
Speaker 1: They went on to achieve worldwide success and secure a
Speaker 1: place in pop music history with numerous Grammys and American
Speaker 1: Music Awards. The eclectic, versatile pop R and B quartet
Speaker 1: was originally formed with sisters June, Anita, Ruth and Bonnie Pointer.
Speaker 1: Bonnie left the group to pursue her solo career in
Speaker 1: the late seventies, and the Pointer Sisters became a trio
Speaker 1: known for their fun songs like I'm So Excited, Jump
Speaker 1: for My Love, and Neutron Dance. They helped pave the
Speaker 1: way for future black artists, being the first for many
Speaker 1: opportunities in the music industry. They were the first black
Speaker 1: female group to perform at the Grand Old Opry. They
Speaker 1: were one of the first black acts to have videos
Speaker 1: played on MTV. In addition, the sisters were part of
Speaker 1: the iconic recording of We Are the World, and they
Speaker 1: hit the big screen in nineteen seventy six with the
Speaker 1: film car Wash starring Richard Pryor. The eldest sister and
Speaker 1: only remaining member of the original group, Ruth Pointer, continues
Speaker 1: to perform the music of the Pointer Sisters all over
Speaker 1: the globe, only instead of with her sisters. She is
Speaker 1: with her daughter is a Pointer, and one of her
Speaker 1: granddaughters Sadako Pointer. So can you guess who might be
Speaker 1: our guest today. I jumped at the chance to spend
Speaker 1: time with Ruth Pointer, and I'm so excited to share
Speaker 1: this conversation with you today, right after I give props
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Speaker 1: twenty four. Welcome aboard, Welcome to Love Someone with Delilah.
Speaker 1: It is a red, red hot summer. And I'm so
Speaker 1: excited to have our guest on today's edition of Love Someone,
Speaker 1: because I have loved you from afar Hi Ruth, and
Speaker 1: now I get to I get to see you in person,
Speaker 1: or well not in person, but in zoom and find
Speaker 1: out about what you're doing, and find out about the
Speaker 1: new addition to the Pointer sisters, and I can't wait
Speaker 1: to talk to you about your daughter and your granddaughter
Speaker 1: and talk to you about this great music that is
Speaker 1: part of the fiber of our DNA, like the music
Speaker 1: of the Pointer Sisters has become a part of the
Speaker 1: DNA of our world, of our generation, of the younger generation.
Speaker 1: When I told my twenty year old daughter, she's at
Speaker 1: work right now, that I got to interview you, she
Speaker 1: started singing and jumping around, and I thought, this is wonderful,
Speaker 1: this music that's become a part of us and binds
Speaker 1: us together with chords of love. So welcome to Ruth
Speaker 1: Pointer and the Pointer Sisters going on tour and going
Speaker 1: to be performing with the Commodores and the Spinners right correct,
Speaker 1: celebrating sixty five years of Motown.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we were with Motown a very brief moment,
Speaker 2: and I think it was during a period when they
Speaker 2: were going through a lot of transitions, you know, I
Speaker 2: think Barry already had left and someone else had taken over,
Speaker 2: and we were excited just to have ourselves attached to
Speaker 2: Motown quite frankly, in any capacity, because we had admired
Speaker 2: them for years and years and years, and all the
Speaker 2: artists that came along with them, the Supremes and the
Speaker 2: Temptations and the Ivy Brothers and Ladys Knight and Tips,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh my god, We're going to
Speaker 2: be a part of this. So it was exciting for us,
Speaker 2: you know, it was exciting for us.
Speaker 1: How did you go from your papa's church singing in
Speaker 1: your dad's church? You girls, you sisters? Who really were
Speaker 1: the Pointer Sisters? I don't know if everybody knows that
Speaker 1: you really are sisters.
Speaker 2: He used to irritate us so much an interview. Are
Speaker 2: you really sisters? Yes, we're really sisters. Why would we
Speaker 2: make up a name like Pointer? I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know, but yeah, and Dad, we grew up
Speaker 2: with my dad, pastor to church in Oakland, California for
Speaker 2: over twenty years, and we, of course, being the pastor's daughters,
Speaker 2: were expected to sort of be role models for the
Speaker 2: other younger girls in the church. You know. My dad always,
Speaker 2: you know, insisted that we'd be part of the choir
Speaker 2: and participate in all of the church activities, you know,
Speaker 2: the summer camp meetings and Bible schools and all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff and youth conventions and and it was
Speaker 2: I mean, the only part I loved about it was
Speaker 2: being in the choir because I could sing, I learned
Speaker 2: early in my life to love music and singing.
Speaker 1: And do you still love the old I'm sure. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you guys put your own unique twist on some
Speaker 1: of those old hymns that I still loved today.
Speaker 2: You know, our church was very I don't know if
Speaker 2: the word is traditional, but it was the Church of God.
Speaker 2: And I know that a lot of singers come out
Speaker 2: of churches that are pretty much Pentecostal and very sort
Speaker 2: of jumping, jumping and gospel. That was not our church.
Speaker 2: And as far as I'm current concerned, my opinion of
Speaker 2: our church was boring.
Speaker 1: Why can I not picture the Pointer Sisters ever being boring?
Speaker 2: We weren't, And that's the church was boring because we
Speaker 2: weren't boring. And I was always looking, you know, just
Speaker 2: from going to other girlfriend's houses that were playing music
Speaker 2: like you mentioned earlier Motown records and you know, different
Speaker 2: songs that I never heard before because my parents were
Speaker 2: very strict about what we listened to at the house.
Speaker 2: And I heard all this different kind of music when
Speaker 2: I would go to my girlfriend's houses, and I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, this is amazing.
Speaker 1: Okay, I gotta ask, how did Dad respond the first
Speaker 1: time I heard you guys your recording of slow Hand.
Speaker 2: My dad wasn't here when we did Slow Hand. He
Speaker 2: was already gone.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine if he was here, how would he
Speaker 1: have responded a pastor of a conservative church.
Speaker 2: My mom, who was still here, had already accepted, and
Speaker 2: my dad had accepted. You know who we were. And
Speaker 2: I have to say that we did make it, make
Speaker 2: a conscious effort to not be totally embarrassing to our parents,
Speaker 2: you know, by our song choices that we picked. I mean,
Speaker 2: some of the things that I hear today, there's no
Speaker 2: way we would have said, oh yeah, we're going to
Speaker 2: sing about that, and and know that my parents would
Speaker 2: have approved. So I was.
Speaker 1: I was in radio back when Slow Hand came out,
Speaker 1: and I remember some of the stations in my town
Speaker 1: wouldn't play it. They thought it was too.
Speaker 2: Heard about, that too really.
Speaker 1: To too sexual. And now you listen to stuff now,
Speaker 1: it's like there's nothing left of the imagination a thing,
Speaker 1: not a thing, and there's nothing sexy about it.
Speaker 2: No, slow Hand is modest compared to what I here today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the boy Back in the day, you guys were
Speaker 1: blazing trails.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I guess we were. And didn't even know it,
Speaker 2: you know, because we just we were just singing what
Speaker 2: we liked, and we we knew the song was kind
Speaker 2: of sexual because me and my sisters had talked about
Speaker 2: the lyrics okay, and had thought, yeah, more men need
Speaker 2: to listen to this song because everybody seemed to be
Speaker 2: in such a damn hurry, you know. Oh absolutely, Oh
Speaker 2: my word.
Speaker 1: So now you're on tour with the Pointer Sisters, only
Speaker 1: it's not your sisters, but it is your family.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely a different experience because no one
Speaker 2: can replace my sisters, you know, and they know that,
Speaker 2: and they knew that coming in, and they were terrified.
Speaker 2: And I would just say, look, just do your best.
Speaker 2: You were born into this, both of them were, and
Speaker 2: because they don't know me any other way. So we
Speaker 2: just rehearsed a lot and they just pretty much get
Speaker 2: up there and have fun is what they do.
Speaker 1: So tell me. Tell me about your daughter and your granddaughter.
Speaker 2: My daughter Issa is a product of me as a
Speaker 2: Pointer sister, and her father was one of the Temptations,
Speaker 2: Dennis Edwards.
Speaker 1: So there is no way that child cannot sing. There
Speaker 1: is no way that child does not have the best voice.
Speaker 1: God ever created.
Speaker 2: Come on, please I created, and I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: she will sing, and she does have a voice and
Speaker 2: personality and stage presence, and she and I have a
Speaker 2: lot of fun up there. My granddaughter is she's more
Speaker 2: of a dancer, and she's younger than my daughter. And
Speaker 2: that's not my daughter's daughter, it's my oldest daughter to Starter,
Speaker 2: and she just brings such a youthful, playful element to
Speaker 2: the lineup, which sort of takes the place of June,
Speaker 2: my baby sister.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: She's just kind of fun and dancing and she'll go
Speaker 2: all out in the audience and she sinks, jump and
Speaker 2: it's just fun, you know.
Speaker 1: So three generations of Pointer women are going to be
Speaker 1: touring the nation and cranking out great music along with
Speaker 1: the Commodores. I know, I know, I love the Commodores.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what a fun, fun show.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I was telling somebody the other day, I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'm going to be able to stay
Speaker 2: in the dressing room when the other acts are on,
Speaker 2: because I want to go out and see what see
Speaker 2: the show, like I'm part of the audience, which I
Speaker 2: do a lot anyway. Whenever we're performing with anybody that
Speaker 2: I've loved. I mean, I just I just love doing that.
Speaker 2: It's my opportunity to see another act up close. Because
Speaker 2: I don't go to a lot of concerts, you know,
Speaker 2: I really never have. But this gives me an opportunity
Speaker 2: to see you know who I love of close. You know,
Speaker 2: didn't have to wait in fine for it.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't go to concerts. I don't want
Speaker 1: to deal with traffic, and I don't want to wait
Speaker 1: in line for restrooms or tickets or anything.
Speaker 2: Parking, all of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I'd rather just you know, come down here
Speaker 1: in my studio and chat with you this way.
Speaker 2: Well there you go, see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and have fun. And so you're going to be
Speaker 1: with the Commodoers and the Spinners, right, yes, yes, And.
Speaker 2: We've always loved the Spinners. Oh my god. All those
Speaker 2: great songs that they had back in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 2: Whoo my god. I'm just they're going through my mind
Speaker 2: right now as much as we speak.
Speaker 1: What people don't understand a lot of people today, I
Speaker 1: think is how hard you had to work back in
Speaker 1: the sixties, the seventies, the eighties for people of color
Speaker 1: to get a fraction of the recognition they deserved. You
Speaker 1: had to work ten times harder, and the obstacles that were.
Speaker 1: You know, now we look at all the top artists
Speaker 1: are women of color, men of color, all of the
Speaker 1: top recording artists today. But when I started in radio,
Speaker 1: I was not allowed to play two black artists in
Speaker 1: the same half hour.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure it was that way, yeah,
Speaker 2: because oh, I mean from my own experience, I just
Speaker 2: say that today's artists are so blessed and they're so
Speaker 2: much much more informed. You know, we were naive and
Speaker 2: nobody told us anything, you know, so we didn't know
Speaker 2: about money being made from songwriting except just the surface
Speaker 2: things about it. We were always told you got to
Speaker 2: go on the road, you got to make your money
Speaker 2: out there in your concerts. And meanwhile, the record companies were.
Speaker 1: Just clean cleaning up, breaking in the dough while they
Speaker 1: pimped you out.
Speaker 2: I mean, the managers were living in mansions and driving
Speaker 2: rolls Roycees. And we we were, the four of us
Speaker 2: girls were still living together in one house and driving one.
Speaker 1: Car and touring on a bus probably with no ac
Speaker 1: not even a bus.
Speaker 2: We were touring on rented car station wagons. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: I was like, oh God, something is wrong. What the picture?
Speaker 1: But thank you for blazing the trail for so many,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah artists today, you really did.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you blazed a trail. You said a standard, you learned,
Speaker 1: you said you were naive, You're not now.
Speaker 2: Nope, nope, not now, Nope nope. I learned how to
Speaker 2: say no, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1: How old were you when you learned that magic word?
Speaker 2: No? Wow? I think probably I al must have been
Speaker 2: in my early forties.
Speaker 1: Felt weird the first dozen times, didn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, early forties. I mean I had Easter when I
Speaker 2: was for third Well, I had East when I was
Speaker 2: thirty one, and then I got married again and I
Speaker 2: have had twins when I was forty seven. What yeah, girls,
Speaker 2: That's why I ended up back here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Twins at forty.
Speaker 2: Seven, whens at forty seven.
Speaker 1: God bless you.
Speaker 2: I was on the cutting edge of in vitro fertilization
Speaker 2: and I had had everything in this body.
Speaker 4: Locked down, tubes tied, I ain't having no more kids,
Speaker 4: and they when I met my husband, who's younger than me,
Speaker 4: much younger than me, and didn't have any children, and
Speaker 4: in vitro fertilization had come around, and they said, oh,
Speaker 4: we can find a way around all of that.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, that's love. By the way,
Speaker 1: that is love. You loved that man. Come on, now,
Speaker 1: that is some kind of amazing love. So how old
Speaker 1: is your oldest and how old is your youngest?
Speaker 2: My oldest is fifty nine.
Speaker 1: And your youngest.
Speaker 2: Youngest is thirty one. My youngest daughter, the twin, she
Speaker 2: just got married last year, had a beautiful wedding in Newport.
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, and her daddy still making you smile? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how many years?
Speaker 2: Thirty five years?
Speaker 1: I'm back thirty five years ago. Did people think you
Speaker 1: were crazy and try to talk you.
Speaker 2: Out of it? They hated it? Oh my god, that's
Speaker 2: wondering why we moved back here. We're like, let's get
Speaker 2: away from these crazy people because they don't understand and
Speaker 2: we don't need their influence, and we don't want to
Speaker 2: raise our kids here anyway, so let's go. And he
Speaker 2: was from Massachusetts, so we came back here. His family
Speaker 2: was back here, his mom, his dad, and so we
Speaker 2: raised the kids back here, and I'm glad we did that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes you just got to get a fresh start.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I did get a fresh start. My twin
Speaker 2: boy is a firefighter and paramedic, and I'm just so
Speaker 2: proud of them, and they're both college graduates, and I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's wonderful. I'm glad I did that.
Speaker 1: And your granddaughter that's singing with you is your oldest
Speaker 1: daughter's daughter. Correct, So it's like a family reunion every
Speaker 1: night that you're on stage.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is, and we have the best time. Is
Speaker 2: some We have got to at some point we're going
Speaker 2: to have to film the dressing room before.
Speaker 1: The The conversation before the show and after the show
Speaker 1: is probably as colorful and fun as the show.
Speaker 2: Oh it is, because we party in the dressing room
Speaker 2: before the show. I bring my boombox and we play songs,
Speaker 2: and sometimes the song gets so good I get up
Speaker 2: and start dancing. My granddaughter starts dancing.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're doing. You got to have somebody. We got
Speaker 1: to find somebody to do a special and to do
Speaker 1: like a whole little documentary because you're family and everything
Speaker 1: you've been through, it's all wonderful stories that will I
Speaker 1: think inspire and encourage a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we do have fun. We do have fun.
Speaker 2: We can't wait to see each other.
Speaker 1: We are going to continue this fun conversation with Ruth
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Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, everything is on there on the website, and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, we're just going to be having a good
Speaker 2: time there in Maryland and go on from there to
Speaker 2: Vancouver and I'm there. From there we go to I
Speaker 2: think Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: And no more riding in a rented station wagon.
Speaker 2: No, that I drove a lot of the time.
Speaker 1: Wow. See, you got to do a movie about this
Speaker 1: toughest thing. Toughest thing you guys face, you four sisters
Speaker 1: faced when you first started out. What's one of the
Speaker 1: toughest challenges you had to deal with back in the day.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess the toughest was the things I just mentioned.
Speaker 2: You know, we didn't know any better.
Speaker 3: So you know, we were driving around in rented station
Speaker 3: wagons that we had to rent from the airport. We were,
Speaker 3: of course flying coach all the time and just traveling.
Speaker 2: It was just tough. We shared rooms when we got
Speaker 2: to the hotel, Me and Anita with chairroom, Bonnie and
Speaker 2: June with share room because we couldn't afford to have
Speaker 2: our own.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the record companies were making millions. How many albums
Speaker 1: did you sell in the seventies, You sold millions, millions,
Speaker 1: And they were.
Speaker 2: Just enjoying themselves and keeping us on the road. You know,
Speaker 2: we would and we would get home and sometimes and
Speaker 2: not be able to pay our rent stuff, and we
Speaker 2: would be like, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 1: We just entertained massive grounds.
Speaker 2: Just did a whole year of touring. What do you mean?
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, it was brutal. It was brutal. It
Speaker 2: was a brutal lesson, but.
Speaker 1: You learned it.
Speaker 2: We learned it.
Speaker 1: You learned it, and today so many young artists are
Speaker 1: so much better off and enjoying such a different life
Speaker 1: because of those ambassadors that paved the way.
Speaker 2: I'll say, I'm so glad that they paid attention.
Speaker 1: They did, they took notes, they learned the lesson, and.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I'm so proud of them, really, all
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 1: Well, I am proud of you. I am happy that
Speaker 1: I can't You're coming to Vancouver, Vancouver, Washington.
Speaker 2: Vancouver, Canada, August twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Fun, fun, Well, hopefully I will be able to come
Speaker 1: and see you.
Speaker 2: And question, is this the same Delilah that I called
Speaker 2: into the radio station at one point because you cut
Speaker 2: off the end of a George Michael song.
Speaker 1: No, I'm sure that was some other Delilah. But you know,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. We used to have to back time
Speaker 1: to get into top of the hour news so you
Speaker 1: had to hit the network at the exact moment, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So you were.
Speaker 1: Supposed to do your math fifteen minutes before the top
Speaker 1: of the hour, so that your last song, you know,
Speaker 1: fit in there. Oh, I sucked at math. I still
Speaker 1: suck at math. So I would sit there with my
Speaker 1: little chart and try to figure it out, and I
Speaker 1: think I would have it timed out perfectly, and then
Speaker 1: i'd have to chop off a minute of the song.
Speaker 1: And it was like thirty six seconds of the song
Speaker 1: that I chopped and and you were listening, Carol, that
Speaker 1: is you.
Speaker 4: It was me.
Speaker 2: The minute I knew I was gonna be talking to you.
Speaker 2: I will never forget that because I was in the
Speaker 2: car with my girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Sing it along and all of a sudden you hear
Speaker 1: beep top of the hour news and the song was chopped.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's so and you you talked about
Speaker 2: it on the air. You said, rooth Pointer just called
Speaker 2: me and read me the right yea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that that was that was me.
Speaker 2: Oh, you know what, I will never forget that. I
Speaker 2: don't forget that time I play the song because I
Speaker 2: still love that song. I tell people that story and
Speaker 2: they love that story.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's this, that's the whole story is. I
Speaker 1: was supposed to back time into the top of the hour,
Speaker 1: and I thought I had worked it out perfectly, and
Speaker 1: I cut off thirty eight seconds of the song.
Speaker 2: Girl. I couldn't believe it. It was like my split,
Speaker 2: my throat had been slit. Oh like, oh no, she didn't.
Speaker 1: No, she no, she did not, Yes she did, yes,
Speaker 1: she did.
Speaker 2: Well. Hey, girl, you know I forgave you for that.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I am so proud of you and your family, And
Speaker 1: have a blessed, bless summer with your daughter and your
Speaker 1: granddaughter and keep us dancing and keep us clapping.
Speaker 2: Thanks oh much, Delilah. Is such a pleasure to be
Speaker 2: talking with you and see you.
Speaker 1: And I promise I will never well now it's all
Speaker 1: it's all computer, it's all digital. We don't have to
Speaker 1: backtime anything. I don't have to worry about it. But
Speaker 1: oh great, God, bless you, and bye.
Speaker 2: Bye, Hi Delilah, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Ruth is the eldest and only surviving Pointer sister and
Speaker 1: now she's touring with her daughter and her granddaughter. This
Speaker 1: has been such a special time for me and I
Speaker 1: know for my listeners too. Thank you Ruth for taking
Speaker 1: the time to be with us. Over the years, the
Speaker 1: Pointer Sisters have received many awards and many accolades, including
Speaker 1: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. They've recorded
Speaker 1: sixteen albums, plus a cat album to highlight their forty
Speaker 1: six week tour of the musical Ain't Misbehaving, as well
Speaker 1: as taking part in the recording of We Are the World.
Speaker 1: In recent years, the group perform all over the globe
Speaker 1: and with some of the greatest symphony orchestra in the world,
Speaker 1: including San Francisco, Jacksonville, Atlanta's Symphony Orchestra, and the renowned
Speaker 1: Boston Pops. You can keep up with them at the
Speaker 1: Pointer Sisters dot Com. An evening of Icon's a limited
Speaker 1: engagement road tour with the Commodorees, The Pointer Sisters and
Speaker 1: the Spinners. Is the celebrations of Motown's best music, and
Speaker 1: it might be coming to you. If it is, don't
Speaker 1: miss it. Produced by Live Nation and represented by Seth
Speaker 1: Scholmes at Day After Day Productions, it will be in
Speaker 1: select cities this summer and into the fall before its
Speaker 1: final performance on November thirtieth in Primnevada. Tickets are available
Speaker 1: at livenation dot com. I hope all of you have
Speaker 1: found ways to enjoy the summer, even as the thermometer's sore.
Speaker 1: Unless it's in excitement, don't get yourself too overheated. I'm
Speaker 1: going to go on record here saying there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with taking a lung cool soak in the bathtub no
Speaker 1: matter what time of day. Bring some snacks, a book,
Speaker 1: pull the laptop up, watch a movie, because if the
Speaker 1: weather forecast is right, we might be in this heat
Speaker 1: for a while. Be wise, be cool, and take some
Speaker 1: time to slow down and love someone