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They'd won a contest.
他們剛贏了場選秀
They'd won at the Apollo Theater Amateur Night,
在阿波羅業余選秀中勝出
and their prize was to open the show for the great James Brown.
獎品就是替詹姆斯·布郎開場
Well, he broke out into this James BroWn, l Got the Feelin',
他開始唱詹姆斯·布郎的l Got the Feeling
and doing his little toes and dancing and looking like James,
模仿詹姆斯跳舞
if James were a wind-up toy.
像個詹姆斯發條娃娃似的
And it was amazing.
太不可思議了
He would perform and do the moves and routine that everyone else was doing.
他會模仿所有流行的舞步
He used to do Fred Astaire and James Cagney.
以前還會學佛雷·亞斯坦與詹姆斯·賈克內
Then all of a sudden, he would add a little bit of something in there, different.
然后突然就會加入一點不一樣的創意
And that was him feeling what he was doing.
那是他對舞步的感受
He excited me. I saw all of this in him.
他令我滿心期待 我在他身上看到了這些天賦
l saw things that he could do that l couldn't.
看到了我所沒有的才能
He had the makings of a great singer.
他有當歌手的天賦
Michael had universal appeal back when he was real young.
邁克爾在很小時就很有舞臺魅力
l mean, we weren't really into marketing or anything like that,
那時還沒有所謂的營銷
but it was already there.
但他已經具備那條件
l think the word for it, the phraseology, would be,
我想更貼切的說法是
'A diamond in the rough, ' without very many edges to buff off.
一塊璞玉 而且需要磨掉的棱角不多
