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And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 709 newfoundland steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, my goodness i love you, hey hot crowd hot friday night crowd, right here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] here in new york city. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it [ cheers and applause ] this is it oh, im so happy. Thank you for being here. Welcome. And heres what everybodys talking about. It was...

And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 709 newfoundland steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, my goodness i love you, hey hot crowd hot friday night crowd, right here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] here in new york city. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it [ cheers and applause ] this is it oh, im so happy. Thank you for being here. Welcome. And heres what everybodys talking about. It was...

Comedian Nate Bargatze, and featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 709 newfoundland steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, my goodness i love you, hey hot crowd hot friday night crowd, right here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] here in new york city. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it [ cheers and applause ] this is it oh, im so happy. Thank you for being here. Welcome. And heres what everybod...

And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 709 newfoundland steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, my goodness i love you, hey hot crowd hot friday night crowd, right here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] here in new york city. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it [ cheers and applause ] this is it oh, im so happy. Thank you for being here. Welcome. And heres what everybodys talking about. It was...

The trip back in time. Were surrounded in this room by gifts of state that president wilson received. One of the reasons he received so many spectacular gifts, frankly, is first, because he was the First American president to go to europe while he was in office. But secondly, because the world so fervently hoped for him to succeed in the mission he had taken on, of ending the catastrophe that was world war i. I think its hard for us to think now about how shocking world war i was to the people w...

And im not being snotty. It was a different kind of war. The people were not engaged by it. In vietnam, you had some songs, but theyre songs in which two groups are warring with one another. Give peace a chance, and whats the im an oaky from ma skokie. Iraq and afghanistan dont produce a lot of songs. Again, because in a way they were invisible, and in a way, we know about them, were not as a nation engaged in it. We dont have a citizen army anymore. That gets in the way of that. So in world war...

Dillon, we learned blowing in the wind. The answer, my freiend, is blowing in the wind. Pop could literally live it because it was real with him. He would tell us a lot of stories. Between pops and my grandmother, man, those were the best times sitting on the floor listening to stories. But hed sing, if i had a hammer, id hammer in the oh, he was something. Just genius. Just genius. And it was such an honor to meet a man like pete seger. Just like we were invited to blues festivals, we were invi...

Hes going over there to do his share when alexander takes him ragtime band to france hell capture everyone and take them one by one the ragtime tunes will put the germans in a trans theyll sing hip hip hooray theyll get so excited theyll come over the top two steps back to berlin with a hip and a hop hitler will know when alexander takes his ragtime band to france now, i came in here and rehearsed. So imagine how bad it would be if i hadnt rehearsed. That song obviously comes once weve gone into...

Endited. Please welcome mavis staples. And moderating the Panel Discussion today as a catalyst for social change, hes the executive director of the Grammy Museum in los angeles. Noted music authorities, specifically on music in the 1960s, and author of more than a dozen books. His most recent, this land is your land, Woody Guthrie and the journey of an american folk song. Frequent lecturer at the white house and performance at the white house. Please welcome bob santelli. Thank you for doing thi...

Are a few mother songs, mothers proud that youre in uniform, sonny, that sort of thing, that unfortunately had not survived. The songs are the love songs of the war are largely about a couple, whether married or not, separated. So the emotions of warfare in song are in the love songs, and youll see this a little bit later, are about separation, parting, loneliness, longing, the hope of return. You find those in the love songs of world war i, and you find them in the love songs of world war ii. A...