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Whoopi Goldberg Wants to Have Willie Nelson Over to Her Place for Dinner

DATE POSTED:February 7, 2024
Ray Charles, Whoopi Goldberg and Willie Nelson.To hear Whoopi Goldberg tell the story, there is no way a person could grow up the way she did, as a little girl listening to AM radio in New York City in the sixties and seventies, and not become a musical omnivore. Still, the breadth of the artists she cites as formative finds for her young ears—the list ranges from Glen Campbell to the Four Tops to English song-and-dance man Anthony Newley to Willie and Waylon—is impressive, not to mention well-informed. On this episode of One by Willie, she details the exact moment she went from being a casual Willie fan to an abiding devotee.It came a few years later, when she was a young mother scraping by in San Diego’s avant-garde theater scene…

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