Watch The Roots & ‘Cats’ Costars Perform “Memory” With Toy Instruments On ‘Fallon’

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Source: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Source: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo, Taylor Swift and James Corden also make appearances alongside The Roots.

With Cats set to be released on December 20, members of the cast took to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform a song from the popular musical.

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Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo, Taylor Swift, James Corden, and Francesca Hayward (all of them appear in the film) performed the song “Memory” alongside The Roots and Fallon. The performance can be watched below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJ326AqPXE&feature=emb_title

In related news, The Roots released a news song titled “Feel It (You Got It),” which the group made for Citizens Bank’s Made Ready campaign. Questlove explained how the song came together via an Instagram post.

 

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So earlier this fall I gave a preview of a new song at @capahs & thought as a holiday treat I’d share what we been working on for the past few 🥳 Thank you @citizensbank for putting together that amazing event at my alma mater CAPA. The kids loved it and I always love giving back to the school that gave so much to me. As i said earlier i played a snippet of a new Roots song called “Feel It (You Got It)” that we created for the #madeready campaign. We collabed with the talented #TIshHyman (follow @listen2tish) for this gem. You can click the bio link on @TheRoots page to hear is the fulll song on @spotify (it’s on all the streaming formats btw) thank you for listening #ad

A post shared by Questlove Froman, (@questlove) on Dec 7, 2019 at 3:10pm PST

The song is The Roots’ first official release since the Bilal-featured “It Ain’t Fair,” which appeared on the Detroit soundtrack. Previously, Questlove previewed “Feel It (You Got It)” during a DJ set at Philly’s Made Ready for Music event, presented by Citizens Bank.