. >> that was a little piece of the interview we did with molly ringwald. >> i asked lie darlene loveardom. >> i haven't felt like i was 20 feet from stardom for a long time. it was doing that movie that brought everything back. ♪ ♪ >> about my life in the business. >> what did it feel like back then? >> well, i was a backup singer. the great thing about being a backup singer when i started, nobody treated me like a backup singer. they always were so excited about me and my group, the blossoms, being on their records, it was always great. you go in the studio, you felt you were one of the stars. the thing about the blossom, we were black and we were the first background singers to ever do recording sessions. it was a white world. the singers were white and they were like we would call the readers. we coulthey could read music. we couldn't read but we had greater ears. sometimes today i don't know why i became an artist. during '60s scail in the union was $22.50 an hour. so i made in a year i could make over $100,000 in a year. >> and residuals? >> we didn't get residuals. we actually