# We Are The World **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-world/187062 "2003-07-08T19:22:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-world/187062/21 "2003-07-10T02:56:37Z")
You’re both right - Daryl Hall sang the line once, and Bob Dylan sang it later on in the song. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-world/187062/22 "2003-07-10T02:59:11Z")
Both I and db4530 posted the same link. If you looked at it, you would see that the line “It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me” is sung three times, the first time by Michael Jackson and Diana Ross, the second time by Daryl Hall. The third time it is apparently sung by everyone. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-world/187062/23 "2003-07-10T04:10:58Z")
Cyndi Lauper and Stevie Wonder truly make WATW listenable–they both give me goosebumps when I hear their voices in that song. Also, wasn’t it Lionel Ritchie who sang the first line? _There comes a time when we heed a certain call…_ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-world/187062/24 "2003-07-10T04:16:09Z")
Can someone explain why the hell Dan Ackroyd was in the chorus? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-world/187062/25 "2003-07-10T04:24:38Z")
Because he was half of the Blues Brothers. ---
**Author:** ![Muldoon\_s\_Squishiness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Muldoon\_s\_Squishiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muldoon_s_Squishiness)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-world/187062/26 "2003-07-10T18:28:34Z")
The website linked to, like 90% of the stuff on the Internet, is wrong. Apparently who ever listened to the song and matched the voices up with the performers never bothered to actually listen to the entire song, but then that’s what happens when you have kids with short attention spans. Bob Dylan does indeed sing the “_There’s a choice we’re makin, Yeah we’re savin’ our own lives…_” bit. **KSG** , _Sigh_ It would be nice if you would stop trying to twist the facts to fit how you feel about someone. Prince was **not** supposed to sing what ended up being Huey Lewis’s line, he had another line to sing. But as he has said in interviews, Prince didn’t feel comfortable being in the same place with all of those superstars, especially Michael Jackson, because Prince was used to being in control of things and he wouldn’t have been in this situation. As for the nightclub incident, what _actually_ happened was that Prince and his party were leaving a nightclub and were in their limo, when a paparrazzi asshole jumped in the limo and started taking pics. Rightly fearing for their safety, Prince’s bodyguards responded. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-world/187062/27 "2003-07-10T21:29:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wendell Wagner \* > \*\*Because he was half of the Blues Brothers. \*\* Yeah, but he was the (mostly) _silent_ half. ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-world/187062/28 "2003-07-10T21:58:14Z")
Sorry, **Jump Out A Tree** , I misread your question. Yes, Daryl Hall sang the “just you and me” part of that line, too. And **Hello Kitty** , you’re right, Lionel Richie sings the first line. My favorite parts of that song were the Bruce Springsteen and Ray Charles solos at the end (during the chorus repeat). ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-world/187062/29 "2003-07-10T22:14:45Z")
Regarding the bodyguard incident, I keep getting the image of that SNL skit in my head. You remember the one… There comes a time when you must heed a certain call Bodyguards, calling to be set free But they went ahead and held the sessions anyway But those mothers aren’t the world without me! I am also the world! I am also the children! something something Now ain’t that givin’? ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-world/187062/30 "2003-07-11T00:04:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BogieBlanca \* > \*\*Prince didn’t feel comfortable being in the same place with all of those superstars, especially Michael Jackson, because _Prince was used to being in control of things_ and he wouldn’t have been in this situation. \*\* [emphasis mine] Thanks for the clarification. So is it okay with you if I call him a “scrawny little CONTROL FREAK fucktard” now? 🆒 And if it wasn’t Huey Lewis’s line he was supposed to sing, whose was it? I’d always heard it was Huey’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-world/187062.md?page=1)