Greetings ladies Marmalade.

Marmalade. Marmalade.

Woothe, a vouche a bit more.

I am so grateful that pop music hasn't tried to do a reboot. Like leave it to

La Bell and like leave it to Christina, Maya, Pink, Missy Elliott, Lil Kim. Yes.

That's it. You know what I mean? I am not Patty LaBelle. I'm Sam Sanders.

I am not Maya, but I am Saeed Jones.

And I am not Christine Aguilera, but I am Zach Snaffer.

And you were listening to vibe check.

Hey, hey!

You know, I've been thinking about Patty LaBelle recently because my Aunt Betty was here for Thanksgiving,

and I was like, you have to hear all of my records.

I do records now, and I'm playing this old La Bell record and we're loving it and then I was like

Betty have you ever seen the Patt and La Bell where my background singers clip and she was like

no and I said oh girl you got to see it's incredible and she loved it. And I said, oh, girl, you got to see it.

And she loved it.

For those who don't know, this Patty video in question, in the early 90s when Bill Clinton was president,

Patty LaBelle was supposed to sing at the annual White House Christmas tree lighting,

which is run live on TV, like in November or December.

Because Bill Clinton was late, it threw off the Secret Service protocol and they tried to have

Patty open the show to stall for Bill, but the background singers couldn't make it up to the stage with Patty because while they had to lockdown to wait for Bill

The background singers were stuck outside so there's this video of Patty by herself. This is great. I didn't know the whole story.

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