i mean, the most immediate precedent was mihalia jackson, but she was the end of a long parade of singers that day. peter, paul, mary, joan baez, the student on freedom singers, who gave a performance in the washington monument, and the interesting thing about leading up immediately to king's speech with mihalia jackson is king and jackson knew each other, veryh admired each ote .. we know from the f.b.i. wire taps that they had spoken with each other the week before the march. miss jackson had suggested that maybe people were just jumping on the bandwagon a little late for civil rights now that the cause was picking up steam and can agree with her remark. of course, when king was listening to her, he's calling out to her and encouraging her to go on. of course, she does the same thing to him while he's speaking. so, you know, king being a preacher, raised in the church, had a long experience for the role that the choir of the hymns playing and setting the stage for the day's speakers. >> first of all, i just want to say i appreciate you setting the personalities up in the context of the speech, and part