00:07when you first started this and because what we're building to you know is think of the holiday uh
00:12the holiday time of the year this idea that you've got 50 years of feliz navidad this
00:18unbelievable juggernaut of a song and when you when you think about the very beginnings of that
00:25song what do you remember i remember rick gerard again if there hadn't been a rick gerard
00:33there would not have been a feliz navidad rick had said to me jose why don't you write a christmas
00:41song my argument was rick um i don't know if i could write a good christmas song that would be
00:49able to compete with irving berlin and kate smith with god bless america and all those then all of
01:00a sudden one day i was sitting at home with rick in california and i started singing this melody
01:10and then the words came and i thought to myself well i i wanted to make it so the radio
01:18stations
01:18couldn't turn me off by hearing the record and saying oh that's too much spanish uh not enough
01:26that's too much english and not enough spanish for the hispanic community so uh as a matter of fact
01:36one bit of information is that the hispanic heritage award is being awarded to me again for the second
01:47time and isn't it something both times uh i'll be playing and doing a virtual concert with my kids
01:57and that's a thrill they're very good i'm proud of them uh they don't play they even in the beginning
02:04they didn't play like kids i had them playing things like lay down sally uh sunshine of your love
02:13um i had them playing uh born to be wild and uh they were good and at that and i
02:25just i never missed
02:27with them they were good when you first
02:28you
02:29you
02:30you
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