Hi everyone, Please enjoy the following transcript from Good Morning TV (ITV London) Shown last Tuesday at 7:20 am all regions:
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Host: In part one Shania Twain told us how she couldn't be happier. She is now a multi millionaire, but as we know money can't buy you happiness, As a child she told Carla Ramala how her mother struggled to feed the family:
Intro: Video clip Man I feel like a Woman with inserts from IGGG, From this Moment on and That Don't Impress me much:
Carla: Life for you now is pretty good, but as you have said, it was not always that way, you had a bit of a turbulent Childhood, tell me a little about that?
Shania: We didn't have a lot of Money growing up so ... I struggled with ..... (pause) well we all did just wondering if, any given week were were going to go grocery shopping and just, the horrible feeling of... You know you should'nt ask, you know there is no food in the house and you're just working up the courage to ask Mum and Dad if there going to go for Groceries, we have nothing to eat, nothing for Breakfast, nothing for Lunch - You almost feel Guilty for asking, 'cause you know they just can't. There is no money.
Carla: Now you were always brought up with Music and from an very, very early age - I think from the age of three your Mother was very encouraging. What was the sort of Music you were singing and that you were into?
Shania: It was the Bee Gees, Supertramp, the Eagles, and uh Steve Wonder was a big influence.
Carla: (interrupts) And a big fan of Dolly Parton's?
Shania: And a big fan of Dolly Parton. Actually there is one song that really comes to mind of Dolly Parton's and that's "Coat of Many Colours" which I think is a beautiful song and I can relate to that as a Kid.
Carla: Do you think you could give us a few lines from that, do you think you wanna do that?
Shania: Umm (Sings without backing using her hands and voice to express)
A coat of many colours that my Mama made for me
made only from Rags, but I wore it so - proudly
although we had no Money, I was rich as I could be
in my Coat of many colours that my Mama made for me.
Carla: Everything was going fine at that time, well as much as it could be, but then tragedy struck and you parents were killed.
Shania: Well my parents died in a car accident together, and (sigh) err (

) and life changed quite drastically, as this was actually a point where I thought of seriously giving up music altogether, um my younger Sister and two younger brothers moved in with me, as I thought it was best to just (pause) stick together.
Video clip - you're still the one live performance from the Specials DVD
Carla: (Talkover during above clip) fortunately Shania did'nt give up music and after singing at a local resort, landed a record deal in Nashville and caught the attention of record producer Mutt Lange, the rock producer who was to become her husband.
Video clip fades
Shania: He called me up and said em, you know, er "what are you writing, what sort of things are you doing, can I hear some things"? (Shania) Well I will send you a Demo Tape (Mutt) "No - Can't you just Sing something to me down the phone" (Shania laughs and tosses her head in the Studio) Well sure, so I got my guitar and sang a few things to him down the phone, and he just loved it, he fell in love with my voice from that moment on. He said let's get together and write some songs, so we did - it happened very quickly, from the time we first met to the time we married was only six months.
Carla: I would like to find out lastly, what impresses you?
Shania: Hmm I have to say, Honestly and Humility and er, Yes those are the things that impresses me most.
Video Clip - That Don't Impress me much..
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Shania wore a nice plain black top with bare shoulders and a necklace and pendent. Her hair was her own colour and length, just below her neck, looked very relaxed and - well you know, just Shania!
The interview had been edited, though few would know or notice as it was very well done indeed. I thought she had lost a little bit of her Timmins Accent?
When she sang "Coat of Many Colours" it was spellbinding, a song sung right from her heart. Very moving.