Song Sung Blue | Featurette: A Look Inside - video Dailymotion

Two down-on-their-luck musicians form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving its never too late to find love and follow your dreams.

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00:00I'm not a songwriter. I'm not a sex symbol. I just want to entertain people.

00:06Song Sung Blue is about people shooting for the stars and getting there and getting there in their way.

00:14Trying to get by, working two jobs, whilst all the while harboring this dream and desire to play music and to entertain.

00:23Together they go on this journey to become a Neil Diamond tribute band.

00:28I don't want to be a hairdresser. I want to sing. I want to dance. I want to garden. I want a cat.

00:32Their story is wild. There's just things that happened with Mike and Claire that are so wild and funny and it really happened.

00:41In 2009, a documentary came out called Song Sung Blue about the couple Lightning and Thunder.

00:47Claire Sardina sang Patsy Cline songs. Mike Sardina sang rock and roll medleys. But together they are lightning and thunder.

00:55This movie is based on that documentary.

00:59Tell your mama, girl, I can't stay long.

01:04We got things we gotta catch up on.

01:09The script was amazing. The structure, the character, the world, it's true to us.

01:15So it just, it's so much fun for us to be able to play these characters.

01:19Sweet Caroline

01:23The movie opens up into these big set pieces with this incredible soundtrack.

01:30I feel decline

01:34People in the audience are gonna sing along.

01:36This story is about hope. It is about optimism. It is about joy.

01:42And you're gonna want to see it with people you love.

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