In an attempt to chit-chat with the waitress, Barrett expounded on Bird’s greatness. Larry Bird highlights were playing on the barroom TV. “She was more beautiful than Helen of Troy,” Barrett says. He couldn’t help but notice the waitress next to him. In 1986, after finishing a gig at the Varsity Inn in East Lansing, Michigan, David Barrett - who a few months later would be described in a CBS press release as a “modestly successful club singer” - took a seat at the bar. Like for so many endeavors, its inspiration came in a bar. How did this song become the soundtrack of March Madness? The 2016 montage, which will run on TBS for the first time, will mark the 30th straight year it has aired (CBS aired the prior 29 editions). Last year over 10 million people watched “One Shining Moment” on CBS. Players dream of appearing in it, and fans can’t get enough of it. For three decades, “One Shining Moment” has followed the men’s national title game: with keyboards, trumpet filigrees and R&B stars like Pendergrass and Luther Vandross crooning lyrics such as “And when it’s done/win or lose/you always did your best/cause inside you knew,” the tune doesn’t skimp on the schmaltz. In most sports, after a championship game TV viewers flip the channel or head to bed.
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