The Importance of Singing Live

I wanted everybody to sing live. If they felt they couldn't sing live, I couldn't put them on the show. And that's what I did. Everybody sang live except just a couple of over the years,. A couple of acts were in another country or somewhere. So they sent me a tape, a tape of them doing it. And I knew that one or two or three of those tapes, they were lip syncing on their own tapes. They basically came after me. There was one before me and that was Dick Clark's show. That's how I felt.