I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
Everybody needs somebody.
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
The trouble with records is that they're too short.