Spectacle: Elvis Costello with Diana Krall; Elton John interviews and sings with Diana

[Applause] welcome to spectacle and as a substitute host we had to get someone who also wore spectacles so i was a shoe-in for the job anyway without wasting any more time i'd like to bring out our featured guest my dear friend diana crawl [Applause] wow now this is the first time i've ever interviewed anybody on television so i hope it goes really well because you are one of my dearest friends and also one of my favorite artists so as we both play the piano i want to talk about the piano first when was the first time you ever played the piano can you remember um i can remember being an eyesight uh i guess about four years old because i remember the keys being about here and i remember picking out um [Music] so that's what i heard is i don't know enough the way you play i thought it might have been flight of the bumblebee that came out first yeah there's a very slow battle hey jude was the first thing yeah but you played bayer right first of all yes yes but my family my dad played by ear and my um my great-great-aunt was in vaudeville in new york in the 20s so it was everybody had a piano and very modest uh growing up my my dad uh his father was a coal miner but they loved music and they had sheet music and collected sheet music so um my dad started collecting 78 records so i grew up listening to uh cylinders and 78s before cylinders that free dates so but did you learn to read music at an early age i did i started uh the royal conservatory of music in um my hometown of nanaimo british columbia i started in the in the conservatory program i mean i grew up in things like lydia lydia say have you i i tried doing i tried dressing up as grocery marks for halloween when you're 13. it doesn't go over well you know but um it was it was great to discover those songs as kids so for me to teach i think my kids are going to learn wheels on the bus the tv spider first because i don't think they should go to preschool learning show tunes you know dance you know hey unless you want them to turn out like me well fortunately fortunately they're fortunately they're singing pump it up now pump it up you know yeah so they're we're all we're all we're all covered uh well you were listening to all sorts of music but you were drawn to jazz first or pop music i guess uh both jazz and pop music but pop music that was that was soulful and and interesting to me that mostly you know singer piano players like yourself but i was also listening to fat swallower from the time i was born and um i did have your song book you and bernie talpin and i remember flipping the pages to um [Music] and i i thought call this jesus that's pretty cool so i remember um it's kind of funny because in high school all my friends were listening to elvis costello and um i was uh but i was listening to i was listening to i remember driving with my mom and hearing allison and thinking well that's really cool but um i was listening to jazz and in the in the band program and um you know trying to figure out all the 251 chords and and you know being interested in oscar peterson i think that was the real thing that hearing bill evans first and then oscar peterson really changed my in my life there was a lot of criticism um from the purists in the jazz world they couldn't take you as seriously as they would like to because you were having glamorous album sleeves done it's that cliche uh idea of what a jazz artist should be like people like billy holliday and ella fitzgerald and um they they went through a lot that that and and remained beautiful and true to their art but i'm not living in that lifetime and i'm grateful to those artists i just i don't really have time for it i think if you if you're not good if you're not a good artist then there's another story where you can go well you know that'll be but but you you have to um you're an entertainer and or i'm an entertainer and i see the entertainment also in what i do as as and i also love fashion and i'm a i enjoy being a girl you know so do i love yes um give me five i don't have my tiara thank you um i know you taught me but um when what what wage did you start to sing 26 really i think i was really caught up with having a high voice i remember being on auditioning for the youth choir and it was like ah and they were trying to get ah and i i had a very kind of um uh scotch-infused voice when i was 12. so i didn't um what they should have done is that's canada for you but yeah yeah maple syrup infused scotch um but i um you're an alcoholic right yeah well i don't know they should have just put me in the in the back with the boys and i would have been happy fine with that and um so i got my confidence was a little um shaken because i didn't pass the audition for the youth choir and probably rightly so because they needed you know a different kind of voice if i was going to say that you had a voice like julie london perhaps or peggy lee um you have a very beautiful breathy intonation so i would say they're two singers there then i would say influenced jerusalem i'm really into julie london um i would say i was i mean i love peggy lee and she's great and i like her more as a i play a lot of her songs but i i listen more to julie london i think julie london is just so uh womanly sexy i've just recorded an album actually and i i listen to a lot of julie london there's a an economy of style when you sing i mean you don't waste a word the hardest thing for a singer to be sometimes is to interpret someone else's lyrics it's the hardest and most difficult craft to do and you do it so exceptionally well that i'm quite envious about you and i might kill you later but it is extremely hard thing to do because you stamped your own personality on these really wonderful songs that most people really know but you give them a new lease of life and i think that's pretty amazing so um cue those to you i am i've accepted the fact that that's where i feel at the moment this moment in my life the most creatively um challenge satisfied inspired is getting into a character and singing these short little plays that are written by gershwin irving berlin and cole porter and i think the it's very i get a lot of people interviewing an interview saying well don't you feel like you should be more of a singer-songwriter and i'm not a singer-songwriter and and i am an interpreter of these of these uh like i like i get into a character and i have the whole story and the movie in my head what it's about and to be able to tell that story in very um different ways i've always liked taking something that is known to be up tempo sort of swinging and then you can just by just the simple simple simple um hair splitting of tempo and feel changed the story even though the words are the same can you give me an example yeah something like uh like but not for me which is one of my favorite songs and i always listen to amma jamal plan [Music] they're writing songs of love but not for me all lucky stars up above but not for me with love to lead the way i found more clouds of gray than any russian plane could guarantee and um there's some kind of gene like something moses supposes his toes are the rose of this class here we go um [Music] they're writing songs of love [Music] but not for me lucky stars above but for north [Music] with love to lead the way i found more clouds [Music] than any russian plane could guarantee [Music] and get that way [Music] higher [Music] [Music] when every happy plot turns into a mirage i guess he's not [Music] i guess he's not for [Music] me i guess he's known for [Music] me [Music] let's talk about knacking carl a minute because nat king cole was one of the as we all know the greatest singers of all time but not many people know and i know because i was brought up with it that he was one of the great piano players of all time yes the nat king coltrio was someone i know that's very close to your heart right yes yes if there's anybody anybody i would say is my biggest biggest influence would be as a pianist and as a singer as an entertainer as a human being um it would be nat king cole wow in in every way as a jazz musician because he um just embodied all the things that i will never accomplish but and he's almost like two different people if he watches jazz at the philharmonic he just plays the piano he's like hey and then he talks and he sings these beautiful ballads and pop songs sometimes pop songs that weren't so great but there was always a bit of magic and beauty and everything that he that he touched you know i have a beautiful children's album that he did and um yeah i just i'm still listening to my tanak cole for inspiration and finding new tunes that he i remember he did a beautiful version of when i fall in love which is one of my favorite songs and i'm sure one that you've sung many times right i haven't actually seen that and i love it you could really make that one miserable yeah i can i can i can i can find i can find uh i can find i can find death and loss and happy birthday i don't know it's always true can you give me an example in that king cold singing i can call song and i can call us okay um exactly like you okay [Music] i know why i waited why i've been blue prayed each night for someone exactly like you why should we spend money on a show i do no one plays those love scenes exactly like you you make me feel so grand i want to give the world to you you make me understand every little foolish little dream i'm dreaming every scheme i'm scheming i know why my mother didn't do taught me to be true she met me for someone exactly [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] no one plays those love scenes exactly like you you make me feel so grand i want to give the world to you you make me understand every foolish little dream i am dreaming ever ski my scheme i know why my mother taught me to be true she met me for someone my baby's exactly like you so let me talk about the year 2000 the first year that i actually met diana we were i was on holiday in um well i was actually on holiday in honolulu but i was also playing a couple of shows to pay for the holiday and dinah was also playing at the same time in honolulu and she came to my show and i've been a big big fan of hers as far as records go and i was so pleased to meet her but i'd never seen her live and i didn't on that occasion in 2000 the year 2000 because we were playing at the same time how many records have you made by then it was when i made when i look in your eyes because i remembered i had just come from antarctica to hawaii as you do yeah yes i played in antarctica yeah yeah big audience of penguins they're all in their tuxedos for new year's so it was fine but um we became friends pretty quickly right and then you also because i feel like i've known you for you know a long time and then you became friends with my lyricist bernie topping as well which was kind of nice because um we both get to get the pleasure of you like to go to his ranch and ride horses and i like to hang out with you in london and when you come there or see you whenever um and i like the fact that you sometimes sing some of my songs if i may insist would you um sing one of them now with me yes i'd be honest a gratuity is is customary sir yes okay no you make a thank you thank you [Music] what i gonna do to make [Music] what do i do when lightning strikes me [Music] it'll wait to find you're not there what do i do to make you want me [Music] what have i got to do to be what i'd say when it's all over and sorry seems to be the hardest word [Applause] [Music] it's a sad sad situation and it's getting more and more absurd [Music] oh it seems to me sorry it seems to be the hardest word [Music] situations and it's getting more and more absurd it said so sad why can't we talk it over oh it seems to me sorry seems to be the hardest word what have i got to do to make you love me [Applause] [Music] what have i got to do [Music] what have i got to do when sorry seems to be [Applause] the heart [Music] seems to be hardest as i as i as i said to you earlier backstage you know you're you're as important to me as as oscar peterson and nat king cole and when i was practicing uh with the wurlitzer organ downstairs i never i never thought i'd be practicing for this it was pretty pretty cool for me [Music] you

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Length: 23min 12sec (1392 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 27 2019