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They'd won a contest.
他们刚赢了场选秀
They'd won at the Apollo Theater Amateur Night,
在阿波罗业余选秀中胜出
and their prize was to open the show for the great James Brown.
奖品就是替詹姆斯·布郎开场
Well, he broke out into this James BroWn, l Got the Feelin',
他开始唱詹姆斯·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.
像个詹姆斯发条娃娃似的
And it was amazing.
太不可思议了
He would perform and do the moves and routine that everyone else was doing.
他会模仿所有流行的舞步
He used to do Fred Astaire and James Cagney.
以前还会学佛雷·亚斯坦与詹姆斯·贾克内
Then all of a sudden, he would add a little bit of something in there, different.
然后突然就会加入一点不一样的创意
And that was him feeling what he was doing.
那是他对舞步的感受
He excited me. I saw all of this in him.
他令我满心期待 我在他身上看到了这些天赋
l saw things that he could do that l couldn't.
看到了我所没有的才能
He had the makings of a great singer.
他有当歌手的天赋
Michael had universal appeal back when he was real young.
迈克尔在很小时就很有舞台魅力
l mean, we weren't really into marketing or anything like that,
那时还没有所谓的营销
but it was already there.
但他已经具备那条件
l think the word for it, the phraseology, would be,
我想更贴切的说法是
'A diamond in the rough, ' without very many edges to buff off.
一块璞玉 而且需要磨掉的棱角不多
