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Always remember your promise to me.
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Never let nobody or nothing
turn you into no cripple.
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All right!
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Rest stop, 45 minutes.
Come on, folks. We gotta move.
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We leave at 2:45 p.m. on the dot.
Can't be late.
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Hot meals and bathrooms inside.
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There's a window out back
for y'all to buy sandwiches.
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And I suggest you make good use
of them outhouses.
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Ain't nothing but bushes for you
in the Carolinas.
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Sir.
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- Can I help you, sir?
- Yes, sir.
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Seattle?
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- Who you riding with?
- Nobody. Just me.
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Boy, I can't take responsibility…
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for some blind nigger
traveling 3,500 miles alone.
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I paid for this here ticket…
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and it says that
you have to take me to Seattle.
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Don't you be
smarting off to me, boy.
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With all due respect, sir,
I earned the right.
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I may have left my eyes
on Omaha Beach…
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but I ain't asking
no charity from Uncle Sam.
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I got a job waiting for me
in Seattle.
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- You were in Normandy?
- Shuttling troopers to the beach.
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We took a direct hit.
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I'm sorry, son.
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I'll keep an eye on you myself.
Come on. Take a seat in the back.
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What the hell do you think
you're doing?
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Don't get your feathers all ruffled.
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I met this ol' boy
over at the O.C. at Clarkfield…
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and he plays a mean jazz piano.
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I don't care if he whistles Dixie
out his ass.
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He ain't gonna do it here.
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Sir.
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- Boy, are you blind?
- Yes, sir. Since I was seven.
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Well, let me help you out then.
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This is a country band.
We don't play no boogie-woogie.
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Yes, I understand.
I love country music.
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All right, go on. Tell me.
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What is it you love
about country music?
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I love the stories.
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You know, about falling in love
and having love knock you around…
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and the pressures of the world
on you.
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It makes you feel small.
You want to give your soul to God.
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You might as well.
Your ass belongs to Him.
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- Boy, are you sure you blind?
- Last time I checked.
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Okay. Come on in.
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Billy, I think you're outvoted.
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Til, one hint of trouble,
and your blind nigra's out of here.
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Damn!
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Here.
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I'm gonna have to
put some glasses…
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before he scares somebody
half to death.
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Seattle, Washington, folks. Change
bus here for all points north:
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Bellingham, Mount Vernon.
Vancouver, Canada.
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That's Diz. Emanon.
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Yeah. But what's it spell backwards?
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Come on, man. Why don't you give me
something difficult? "No Name."
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- Say, daddy-o, what ax you play?
- Piano.
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Just blew in from Tampa, Florida.
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Me and my partner, Gossie McGee,
want to fatten up our style.
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Cop some licks from some
more experienced cats. You dig?
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You know what?
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Why don't you let me
take you inside? Show you around.
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All right. Perfect gentleman.
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This is just like my place.
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- So, what's your name?
- Ray Robinson.
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I'm Quincy Jones.
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Gerry! This here's my man, Ray.
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He's here to see Gossie McGee.
I figured I'll show him inside…
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Don't mess with me, Q.
He can come in, but not you.
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Vice is on my ass
for letting you underage kids in.
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- Get out of here.
- He's blind! I gotta show him in.
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- Get out.
- Jive-ass.
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Ray Robinson,
when am I gonna hear you play, baby?
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That may cost you.
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Welcome, all you cool cats
and fine felines.
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You've come to the place where
the sophisti-cats and hipsters…
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hang their bebop hats.
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So snuggle up and come near…
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for tonight is Talent Night
at The Rocking Chair.
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Let's hear it for Dancin' AI!
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Gossie's been catting around…
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with one of my waitresses
since he got here.
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He never told me that
his partner was a blind 'Bama boy.
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Marlene, Demurs just called.
Thurmond's sick.
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- What about Sassy?
- Flat tire.
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Okay, 'Bama. Why don't you get on
up there and show me what you got?
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I'm not prepared to do my thing
right now, tonight-
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This is the only audition
you'll get.
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So do it, or you and Gossie
can haul your asses back down South.
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Here. Smoke some of this.
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This ain't no tobacco, man.
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Hold it in, it'll calm you down.
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All right, Oberon.
Get on up there and introduce him.
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Yes, ma'am.
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Okay, 'Bama. Let's go.
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Now, I got something special
for all you satin dolls.
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And I don't mean
Oberon's big thunder.
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That's for another show.
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We got some new blood for you.
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Straight off the bus from Florida…
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I give you
Ray "Don't Call Me Sugar" Robinson!
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- How y'all doing tonight?
- Better than you!
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- Relax, Ray.
- I got it.
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What do y'all want to hear?
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How about some Nat King Cole?
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Y'all like Nat King Cole?
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- 'Bama ain't bad.
- I'd say he saved our asses.
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What the hell is Ray doing up there?
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Auditioning for you, Gossie.
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He ain't no good without me.
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How'd you and the 'Bama
like to do a week here at The Chair?
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I know a good bass player.
A nice jazz trio could score big…
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with the right manager.
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Manager?
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Don't be so small-minded.
You know you've got to give to get.
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What exactly do I have to give?
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Twenty-five percent.
But I'll be getting you other gigs.
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All right, next question:
What do I get?
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What do you need?
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Double scale as leader, plus 10%.
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What about the 'Bama?
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He's about as green
as a blade of grass.
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I can handle him.
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Yeah, he's green.
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You don't need to worry about
a hotel room for the 'Bama.
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He can flop at my place.
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You don't never change.
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Ray, you coming back to bed?
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I'm getting some water.
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I can see that,
but mama ain't finished yet.
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For the first time anywhere,
let's hear it for The McSon Trio!
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- When you coming out?
- In a minute.
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Mama's got some more
blackberry cobbler for you, baby.
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Damn.
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If you're gonna send us out on tour,
we're gonna need more than $5 a day.
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Why can't we get paid after each gig?
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Because you'll spend
everything you make.
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The club sends the checks to me,
so as I can bank them.
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I just want to see my own checks,
that's all.
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You don't see, Ray. You're blind,
baby. Or did you forget?
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Now, you want to go out on your own
and see how well you do?
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- Where's Ray?
- He's in the back bedroom.
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And wipe your feet.
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00:12:35,464 --> 00:12:37,424
Six-nine, where you at?
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Lionel Hampton just asked me
to go on the road with him!
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Sure he did.
Then why you still here?
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And dig this:
His wife kicked me off the tour bus.
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Told me to come back when
I started shaving. You believe that?
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Seven-oh, could you do me a favor
and close that bag for me?
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Why? You got two hands.
Close it yourself.
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I got two feet, too.
Could you close it?
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I got it.
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Excuse me, sir!
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Man, we're gonna be late.
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I got to get my own place, Gossie.
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Why? I mean,
you got free rent right now.
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Like hell it's free rent.
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Come on, Ray. Why you gonna
mess with a good thing?
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All I'm saying is you keep
laying that pipe with Marlene…
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and she'll make us all rich.
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Sir, excuse me!
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Just back from their triumphant
tour of the Yakima Valley…
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The McSon Trio!
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They'll be back right here,
same time, same place, next week.
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00:14:12,269 --> 00:14:16,064
Baby, you sound more like Nat
than the King himself.
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00:14:18,150 --> 00:14:20,318
- What's your name?
- Ray Robinson.
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I'm Jack Lauderdale,
Swing Time Records.
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Hey, Jack! How you doing, man?
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How about us
making a record together?
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Hell, yeah! Let's do that.
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- Can I help you?
- I don't think so.
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We're just talking
a little business.
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Then you need to talk to me,
'cause I'm his manager.
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- Whichever way the wind blows.
- It's blowing.
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Jack Lauderdale, Swing Time Records.
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Marlene Andres.
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Gossie McGee.
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Great set, baby. We're going to
talk with Mr. Lauderdale.
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00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,436
- Come on. I'm buying.
- I'm coming to talk to him.
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You are doing a fabulous job!
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Let's talk to him about this record.
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We're gonna let Marlene handle that.
You get Oberon to call you a cab.
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Great set, Ray.
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00:15:06,656 --> 00:15:07,783
Goss?
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00:15:07,991 --> 00:15:10,118
Hey, daddy-o, want a smoke?
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I got some gage, fresh off the boat.
It's clean and seedless.
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So that's how it is?
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You keep me high
while they talk the business?
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00:15:19,503 --> 00:15:21,838
I ain't the one playing you, man.
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00:15:23,173 --> 00:15:24,424
Oberon, listen…
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Marlene and Gossie are the ones
running the game on you, Ray.
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00:15:29,012 --> 00:15:30,097
What?
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00:15:30,180 --> 00:15:32,682
They sliced up the pie
the first night you played.
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35% off the top. Plus Gossie's
double scale as leader.
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00:15:36,686 --> 00:15:40,732
Leader? If anybody's leading the
band, I'm the one that's the leader.
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00:15:40,857 --> 00:15:43,819
Forget the bo' humps.
I'm gonna go my own way.
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00:15:43,902 --> 00:15:47,781
Who's gonna book your gigs?
Marlene's got you locked up.
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00:15:47,864 --> 00:15:50,700
And she ain't gonna give up
her golden goose.
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Ray Robinson, you are fantastic.
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There you go. Give me some skin.
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00:16:03,171 --> 00:16:05,048
- What's that?
- Jack's card.
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00:16:05,590 --> 00:16:07,717
I got his number at the hotel.
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00:16:13,515 --> 00:16:16,685
Come on, Q. It's not that
complicated. Let's play it again.
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00:16:16,768 --> 00:16:19,062
That's a B flat, C seven,
scale it up…
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00:16:19,146 --> 00:16:20,772
and triple it off the back end.
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00:16:23,066 --> 00:16:25,235
Yeah, nigger! That's it.
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00:16:26,778 --> 00:16:29,948
Ray, what did I tell you
about cooking in the dark?
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00:16:30,031 --> 00:16:31,658
Are you trying to
burn the house down?
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00:16:31,741 --> 00:16:34,161
Think about it.
What do I need the light for?
211
00:16:34,244 --> 00:16:37,289
You don't need to be cooking.
We brought you takeout from Oscar's.
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00:16:37,372 --> 00:16:40,208
Get your money back.
I got fried chicken right here.
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00:16:40,292 --> 00:16:43,420
- Come on, Seven-oh, try this.
- Yeah! About time.
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00:16:45,005 --> 00:16:46,631
That's home-cooked, right there.
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00:16:46,715 --> 00:16:49,009
- No, thanks.
- This chicken's the mostest.
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00:16:49,092 --> 00:16:51,845
Just needs a little hot sauce
and it'll be perfect.
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00:16:51,928 --> 00:16:53,805
So, what did Jack Lauderdale
have to say?
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00:16:53,889 --> 00:16:56,975
I clocked him coming out the gate.
He's a two-bit hustler.
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00:16:57,058 --> 00:16:58,185
I see.
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00:16:58,268 --> 00:17:00,437
Turns out the only hit that
Swing Time ever had…
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00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,064
was Open the Door, Richard,
which was a joke record.
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00:17:03,148 --> 00:17:05,025
What about him recording me?
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00:17:05,108 --> 00:17:07,444
He'll record you,
if we pay the freight.
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00:17:07,611 --> 00:17:09,821
Scratch a liar, find a thief.
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00:17:10,614 --> 00:17:13,158
- What's that supposed to mean?
- This.
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00:17:13,950 --> 00:17:15,785
I saw Jack Lauderdale tonight…
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00:17:15,869 --> 00:17:17,871
and he gave me
a $500 advance on my record.
228
00:17:17,954 --> 00:17:20,165
He'll put me on the road
with Lowell Fulson…
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and pay me three times what you pay.
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00:17:21,875 --> 00:17:22,876
That's a lie!
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00:17:22,959 --> 00:17:26,546
He's not gonna put some blind man
on the road. Think about it.
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You need watching out for.
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00:17:28,256 --> 00:17:30,717
He ain't got the time
to look after you the way I do.
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00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,802
Is that what you've been doing?
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00:17:32,886 --> 00:17:35,722
Is that why you get paid
double what I do?
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00:17:36,806 --> 00:17:39,184
- Who told you that?
- It's true, ain't it?
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00:17:39,267 --> 00:17:41,144
You two have been gaming me
since I got here.
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00:17:41,227 --> 00:17:43,063
- Ray, listen-
- I ain't listening to you!
239
00:17:43,146 --> 00:17:45,231
I been meaning to talk to you
about that.
240
00:17:45,315 --> 00:17:47,400
Then why aren't you talking?
241
00:17:50,403 --> 00:17:52,322
Ray, let's not do nothing stupid.
242
00:17:52,405 --> 00:17:54,240
I might be blind,
but I ain't stupid!
243
00:17:54,324 --> 00:17:56,034
Q, get my bag from upstairs.
244
00:17:56,117 --> 00:17:57,243
- What?
- Get it!
245
00:17:57,327 --> 00:17:58,787
- Right now?
- Now.
246
00:17:58,870 --> 00:18:01,081
Ray, we done been through
a whole lot.
247
00:18:01,164 --> 00:18:03,792
Ray, wait.
I can explain everything.
248
00:18:04,417 --> 00:18:06,002
Think about what you're doing.
249
00:18:06,086 --> 00:18:07,545
You're making a big mistake.
250
00:18:07,629 --> 00:18:09,798
That clown is spouting promises
that he can't keep.
251
00:18:09,881 --> 00:18:11,758
You'd be a fool to follow him.
252
00:18:11,841 --> 00:18:14,094
We'll make a new deal!
Whatever makes you happy!
253
00:18:14,177 --> 00:18:16,346
The deal is
you can lay the pipe now.
254
00:18:16,429 --> 00:18:19,849
You'll break your neck
going down these stairs by yourself.
255
00:18:22,060 --> 00:18:25,188
I ain't never seen you
do nothing like that, man. Never.
256
00:18:25,272 --> 00:18:26,982
That ain't nothing, Seven-oh.
257
00:18:39,953 --> 00:18:41,788
Stop cheating, Ray.
258
00:18:42,622 --> 00:18:44,708
George, you can't catch me.
259
00:18:45,333 --> 00:18:46,668
Aretha!
260
00:18:47,377 --> 00:18:48,670
Come on, George.
261
00:18:48,753 --> 00:18:51,256
Aretha Robinson,
have you lost your mind?
262
00:18:51,339 --> 00:18:54,968
You promised to split every wash
basket with me, fair and square!
263
00:18:55,051 --> 00:18:56,553
- I did!
- Hell, you did!
264
00:18:56,636 --> 00:18:59,014
You charge white folks one thing
and pay me another.
265
00:18:59,097 --> 00:19:02,225
- Who's gonna wash these?
- You can. Now pay me my money!
266
00:19:05,770 --> 00:19:07,647
Okay, I'll give you your little $2.
267
00:19:07,731 --> 00:19:09,983
But don't you expect
no more work from me!
268
00:19:10,066 --> 00:19:13,028
I got all I need out of you.
Ray and George, come on!
269
00:19:13,111 --> 00:19:16,781
That's right. Get out of my yard
and don't y'all never come back!
270
00:19:19,492 --> 00:19:22,245
Y'all got to learn
to read and write real good…
271
00:19:22,328 --> 00:19:25,081
so you never have to work
for people like that.
272
00:19:25,165 --> 00:19:26,833
Scratch a liar, find a thief.
273
00:19:26,916 --> 00:19:28,877
- Understand?
- Yes, Mama.
274
00:19:42,098 --> 00:19:44,768
Smell that, Ray. Smell the success.
275
00:19:45,018 --> 00:19:46,394
We're in LA, man…
276
00:19:46,478 --> 00:19:49,189
the place where the Negro comes
to spread his wings.
277
00:19:49,272 --> 00:19:52,150
I know my ears ain't deceiving me.
Is that Art Tatum?
278
00:19:52,233 --> 00:19:54,069
It sure is, baby.
You want to meet him?
279
00:19:54,152 --> 00:19:56,780
I can't. Art Tatum is the most.
280
00:20:02,077 --> 00:20:06,539
So, Ray, we got to talk
about your name: Robinson.
281
00:20:06,623 --> 00:20:09,501
Sugar Ray got the Robinson franchise
all sewed up.
282
00:20:09,584 --> 00:20:13,254
So I'm thinking we go with
your middle name, Charles.
283
00:20:13,797 --> 00:20:15,381
As in, Ray Charles.
284
00:20:15,465 --> 00:20:18,843
I don't care what you call me,
as long as my name's on the record.
285
00:20:18,927 --> 00:20:20,303
We're gonna toast to that.
286
00:20:20,386 --> 00:20:21,679
What's the haps?
287
00:20:21,763 --> 00:20:23,389
- Oh, my goodness.
- Give me some skin.
288
00:20:23,473 --> 00:20:25,517
What's up, baby? How you doing?
289
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,187
Lowell Fulson, meet
your new piano player: Ray Charles.
290
00:20:29,270 --> 00:20:32,107
Ray Charles, the blind sensation.
291
00:20:32,816 --> 00:20:35,693
Damn! I'm gonna use that
on the album cover.
292
00:20:35,777 --> 00:20:39,072
He's really the sensation.
I love your music, Mr. Fulson.
293
00:20:39,155 --> 00:20:40,573
The man's got taste.
294
00:20:40,657 --> 00:20:43,660
And the man ain't been on the road
with a band before…
295
00:20:43,743 --> 00:20:45,245
so you take care of him.
296
00:20:45,328 --> 00:20:46,996
Like my own brother.
297
00:20:52,377 --> 00:20:54,671
- I'm gonna be right back.
- All right.
298
00:20:55,922 --> 00:20:59,551
- You got the one on the left.
- Look here, let me do the talking.
299
00:21:28,496 --> 00:21:31,458
Don't go inside that place.
You know what Mama said.
300
00:21:31,541 --> 00:21:34,043
Go home and don't tell Mama nothing.
301
00:21:34,544 --> 00:21:35,920
Go, George.
302
00:21:40,383 --> 00:21:42,218
George, get out of here!
303
00:22:07,994 --> 00:22:10,830
Hey, boy, who let you in?
304
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,082
You must be Aretha's son, huh?
305
00:22:13,249 --> 00:22:15,335
Yes, sir. Ray Charles Robinson.
306
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,713
I've been seeing you
sneaking around here.
307
00:22:19,047 --> 00:22:20,757
You like the piano?
308
00:22:21,299 --> 00:22:23,343
Come on, you want to learn
how to play?
309
00:22:23,426 --> 00:22:26,512
Come on over here.
Let me show you how to play.
310
00:22:26,596 --> 00:22:28,806
I'm gonna teach you how to play.
311
00:22:28,890 --> 00:22:31,809
What we'll do, I'm gonna teach you
three notes, right?
312
00:22:31,893 --> 00:22:33,978
This is the first note, right here.
313
00:22:35,563 --> 00:22:36,773
Play that.
314
00:22:37,941 --> 00:22:40,151
And here's the second note,
right here.
315
00:22:41,486 --> 00:22:42,737
Play that.
316
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:45,949
Here's the third note.
317
00:22:48,952 --> 00:22:51,788
Now, here's the way it goes.
Listen closely, now.
318
00:22:55,667 --> 00:22:57,001
Play that.
319
00:22:58,586 --> 00:22:59,921
Good!
320
00:23:01,089 --> 00:23:02,840
Try the other notes.
321
00:23:11,474 --> 00:23:15,478
Every club we hit, it's your
responsibility to rehearse the band.
322
00:23:15,812 --> 00:23:17,438
These are some lazy-ass bastards…
323
00:23:17,522 --> 00:23:20,275
so you make sure
they don't slough off.
324
00:23:20,608 --> 00:23:22,735
You gotta be ready and dressed
to open the show.
325
00:23:22,819 --> 00:23:25,154
Lowell likes to take a nap
before he goes on.
326
00:23:25,238 --> 00:23:28,283
You just do your thing
until he feels like coming out.
327
00:23:28,366 --> 00:23:31,244
When Lowell's playing,
you keep the band sharp.
328
00:23:31,327 --> 00:23:33,079
- Just one thing.
- What?
329
00:23:33,162 --> 00:23:35,999
Did Jack tell you that
I have to be paid in singles?
330
00:23:36,082 --> 00:23:38,835
You just do your job,
you're gonna get your money.
331
00:23:59,689 --> 00:24:02,025
How'd you get the name Fathead?
332
00:24:02,108 --> 00:24:05,278
Why do they call me Fathead?
You don't want to hear.
333
00:24:05,361 --> 00:24:07,322
But this is what
I really want to know.
334
00:24:07,405 --> 00:24:09,115
Any of you fine young ladies…
335
00:24:09,198 --> 00:24:11,909
know where we can get
a nice steak this time of night?
336
00:24:11,993 --> 00:24:14,996
You mean something big,
thick, and juicy?
337
00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:17,165
Yeah, that's just what I mean.
338
00:24:18,041 --> 00:24:20,335
Fathead, where you guys headed?
339
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,046
I ain't babysitting no blind cat.
340
00:24:24,047 --> 00:24:27,800
I'm sorry, Ray, but the law says
there's only six to a cab.
341
00:24:28,343 --> 00:24:30,386
Come on, ladies,
let's get out of here.
342
00:25:52,301 --> 00:25:54,554
Pay up, baby!
Yeah, that's all right.
343
00:25:54,637 --> 00:25:56,889
I been shooting craps
since I was 12 years old.
344
00:25:56,973 --> 00:25:59,559
Don't never shoot craps
on a white woman's grave.
345
00:25:59,642 --> 00:26:01,561
- Why not?
- It's bad luck.
346
00:26:17,577 --> 00:26:19,245
That's for being late to the bus.
347
00:26:19,328 --> 00:26:22,373
- Wilbur, you a low-down piece…
- You better move on.
348
00:26:27,837 --> 00:26:30,006
Mr. One-dollar Bill.
349
00:26:31,048 --> 00:26:34,719
$5, $10, $15, $20-
350
00:26:35,845 --> 00:26:38,514
You like to
start counting that again?
351
00:26:39,682 --> 00:26:41,517
All right, damn you.
352
00:26:43,853 --> 00:26:46,022
$284, $285…
353
00:26:46,105 --> 00:26:48,941
Listen, man, I ain't
no damn seeing-eye dog.
354
00:27:05,708 --> 00:27:08,169
Fathead, open up.
I got to take a leak.
355
00:27:11,172 --> 00:27:13,966
What you doing, man?
Close the door, Fat!
356
00:27:14,217 --> 00:27:16,469
We'll be in here for a while.
357
00:27:16,552 --> 00:27:18,971
Use the women's can,
down there on your right.
358
00:27:19,055 --> 00:27:20,515
I don't want to use the women's can.
359
00:27:20,598 --> 00:27:22,141
This way.
360
00:27:41,911 --> 00:27:43,246
Oh, God!
361
00:27:44,163 --> 00:27:46,040
Say, Ray, you all right?
362
00:27:47,208 --> 00:27:48,918
I must have slipped on the wet.
363
00:27:49,001 --> 00:27:51,712
There's a pipe broke. There's
water everywhere. You see it?
364
00:27:51,796 --> 00:27:53,673
Let's go, man. Close the door.
365
00:27:53,756 --> 00:27:57,260
Quit playing, Ray.
We'll be in here a while. Now go on!
366
00:28:05,226 --> 00:28:07,770
- Where you from, Ray?
- North Florida.
367
00:28:08,187 --> 00:28:09,689
North Florida boy.
368
00:28:10,231 --> 00:28:12,692
- Your people still down there?
- No.
369
00:28:13,901 --> 00:28:15,027
All right.
370
00:28:15,528 --> 00:28:19,031
Pardon me for asking,
but how do you get around so good…
371
00:28:19,115 --> 00:28:21,033
without a cane or a dog?
372
00:28:21,784 --> 00:28:24,662
How do you get around so good
without a cane or dog?
373
00:28:25,288 --> 00:28:27,456
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to pry.
374
00:28:28,958 --> 00:28:31,043
My ears got to be my eyes.
375
00:28:31,836 --> 00:28:33,087
Everything sounds different.
376
00:28:33,170 --> 00:28:34,881
That's why
I wear hard-soled shoes…
377
00:28:34,964 --> 00:28:37,300
so I can hear
my footsteps echo off the wall.
378
00:28:37,383 --> 00:28:40,636
So when I pass by an open doorway,
the sound changes.
379
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,138
Wow. That's cool.
380
00:28:42,597 --> 00:28:46,434
You got to learn pretty quick if you
want to get around on your own.
381
00:28:48,019 --> 00:28:51,063
During the war, there was
a whole lot I had to learn fast…
382
00:28:51,147 --> 00:28:52,565
or I wouldn't be here.
383
00:28:55,151 --> 00:28:57,528
Seeing that much death
ain't natural.
384
00:28:59,405 --> 00:29:01,741
Yeah, seeing death ain't natural.
385
00:29:06,203 --> 00:29:09,665
Boys, get from 'round that still.
Y'all know better than that.
386
00:29:09,749 --> 00:29:11,417
Come on, catch me.
387
00:29:16,505 --> 00:29:20,384
Stay from 'round this fire and get
clean. Dinner will be ready soon.
388
00:29:20,468 --> 00:29:21,969
Hear me, Ray?
389
00:29:23,721 --> 00:29:24,972
I got you.
390
00:29:25,056 --> 00:29:27,767
- No, you didn't. You missed me.
- Stop cheating, Ray.
391
00:29:27,850 --> 00:29:30,478
Okay, you got me.
392
00:29:30,561 --> 00:29:32,271
But I got you back.
393
00:29:32,355 --> 00:29:34,106
I'm not playing no more.
394
00:29:34,357 --> 00:29:35,524
Sissy!
395
00:29:37,234 --> 00:29:39,612
Come on, Ray. Let's go swimming.
396
00:29:41,781 --> 00:29:44,325
Let's go swim in Mama's washtub.
397
00:29:45,326 --> 00:29:47,453
Ray, come on, play with me.
398
00:29:47,703 --> 00:29:49,789
You better get down
before Mama sees you.
399
00:29:49,872 --> 00:29:51,374
I'm a giant!
400
00:29:55,503 --> 00:29:56,963
Some giant.
401
00:29:58,047 --> 00:30:00,841
Come on, George.
I ain't playing this game.
402
00:30:01,884 --> 00:30:03,386
That ain't funny.
403
00:30:05,346 --> 00:30:07,973
Boys, I got some field peas
and rice cooking.
404
00:30:08,057 --> 00:30:10,643
And there's that smothered corn
left from yesterday.
405
00:30:10,726 --> 00:30:14,397
And if you're real good, I might
have two pieces of peach cobbler.
406
00:30:15,481 --> 00:30:18,192
Ray, didn't I tell you
to get in this house?
407
00:30:21,570 --> 00:30:23,197
Dear God, no!
408
00:30:27,910 --> 00:30:30,496
- That's Aretha's boy!
- Breathe, baby, breathe.
409
00:30:30,579 --> 00:30:34,041
Just breathe, baby, breathe.
Let it out!
410
00:30:34,125 --> 00:30:35,918
Let it out, please!
411
00:30:36,085 --> 00:30:38,838
- Breathe for your mama, now.
- Come on, George.
412
00:30:39,088 --> 00:30:41,215
Why didn't you do something?
413
00:30:41,716 --> 00:30:43,551
Why didn't you call me?
414
00:30:44,719 --> 00:30:48,097
- Help us, Lord!
- The Lord done took him home.
415
00:30:57,690 --> 00:30:58,941
All right.
416
00:30:59,525 --> 00:31:01,777
Food and piss stop. Open it up.
417
00:31:05,072 --> 00:31:07,783
The food is hot.
You've got 45 minutes.
418
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,413
- I could eat a horse. Where's it?
- Follow your nose. Right over there.
419
00:31:13,497 --> 00:31:14,999
- Wilbur.
- What?
420
00:31:15,082 --> 00:31:17,668
Forty-five minutes
ain't enough time.
421
00:31:17,793 --> 00:31:20,963
- We need more than that, Jack.
- Not to eat, you don't.
422
00:31:21,046 --> 00:31:24,425
If you got other business, choose,
because this bus is rolling on time.
423
00:31:24,508 --> 00:31:27,762
Come on,
Mercedes got a washroom in the back.
424
00:31:28,387 --> 00:31:30,848
And you can smell it.
425
00:31:33,726 --> 00:31:35,853
- Yes, sir?
- Could you help me in there?
426
00:31:35,936 --> 00:31:37,354
Sure thing, Ray.
427
00:31:37,605 --> 00:31:38,773
Hey, Mercedes.
428
00:31:38,856 --> 00:31:42,151
Hey, baby. I hope you wiped
your feet before you came in here.
429
00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:43,277
Take that.
430
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:44,820
The bathroom's
right in front of you.
431
00:31:44,904 --> 00:31:45,905
Okay.
432
00:31:45,988 --> 00:31:48,699
- You want me to fix you a plate?
- No, I'm fine.
433
00:31:48,991 --> 00:31:50,117
All right.
434
00:31:50,201 --> 00:31:52,078
Sweet potato pie it is.
435
00:31:53,496 --> 00:31:54,497
Let's go, man.
436
00:31:54,580 --> 00:31:56,665
That was a long bus ride, wasn't it?
437
00:31:57,708 --> 00:32:00,795
Hey, man! The can's down the hall.
438
00:32:00,878 --> 00:32:02,379
I know where it is.
What y'all doing?
439
00:32:02,463 --> 00:32:04,423
Do yourself a favor and leave.
440
00:32:04,507 --> 00:32:06,133
I'll leave when I'm ready to leave.
441
00:32:06,217 --> 00:32:07,968
Come on, Fathead, I want in.
442
00:32:08,052 --> 00:32:11,639
This ain't weed, Ray.
And we ain't snorting no bitch.
443
00:32:11,889 --> 00:32:13,098
This is boy.
444
00:32:13,182 --> 00:32:15,643
Boy'll make your ass null and void.
445
00:32:15,726 --> 00:32:19,230
- So get on out of here.
- Null and void, just like my life.
446
00:32:19,313 --> 00:32:20,940
I'll be right at home.
447
00:32:21,023 --> 00:32:24,485
I ain't gonna wait all night.
Hell, it's his funeral, man.
448
00:32:26,529 --> 00:32:30,241
- Ray, let's go get something to eat.
- I'll leave when I get a taste.
449
00:32:30,324 --> 00:32:32,910
What you gonna do?
This train's pulling out, brother.
450
00:32:32,993 --> 00:32:34,912
I ain't having
nothing to do with this.
451
00:32:34,995 --> 00:32:37,665
- I warned you, Ray.
- I been warned.
452
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,793
Sit down, Ray.
I'm gonna take you on a little ride.
453
00:32:40,876 --> 00:32:43,546
It'll cost you, though.
You got some cash?
454
00:32:43,712 --> 00:32:45,130
Will this do?
455
00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:46,882
That'll do.
456
00:32:49,135 --> 00:32:50,886
Where you been?
Where them other fools?
457
00:32:50,970 --> 00:32:52,513
Come on, get it while it's hot!
458
00:32:53,889 --> 00:32:56,350
You're going to feel a little pinch.
459
00:32:58,894 --> 00:33:00,521
I ain't giving up on you, boy.
460
00:33:01,939 --> 00:33:03,482
Feel it, baby?
461
00:33:04,650 --> 00:33:06,443
Just take the ride.
462
00:33:07,570 --> 00:33:09,405
It's better than sex.
463
00:33:09,780 --> 00:33:12,116
There ain't nothing better than sex.
464
00:33:17,580 --> 00:33:19,665
We will walk
465
00:33:19,748 --> 00:33:24,670
through the streets of the city
466
00:33:27,756 --> 00:33:31,176
Where our loved ones
467
00:33:31,260 --> 00:33:36,223
have gone on before
468
00:33:38,893 --> 00:33:43,814
We will stand on the banks
469
00:33:44,231 --> 00:33:48,110
of the river
470
00:33:49,904 --> 00:33:52,865
Where we'll meet
471
00:33:52,948 --> 00:33:57,912
to part no more
472
00:35:09,358 --> 00:35:12,403
Ray, let me put this salve on
I got from Dr. McLeod.
473
00:35:12,486 --> 00:35:15,531
- I don't like it. It stings.
- Boy, get up here.
474
00:35:16,115 --> 00:35:19,034
I paid a whole dollar for it.
It better work.
475
00:35:19,118 --> 00:35:21,578
Now hold up your head,
like the doctor says.
476
00:35:21,662 --> 00:35:23,622
This is gonna make you feel better.
477
00:35:28,043 --> 00:35:30,212
Ray, come on in for dinner.
478
00:35:30,296 --> 00:35:32,006
And stop rubbing those eyes.
479
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,313
I won't beat around the bush
with you. You're going blind.
480
00:35:48,397 --> 00:35:51,316
The doctors can't do nothing,
so we got to do it ourselves.
481
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,402
Yes, I know, but…
ARETHA: Stop it.
482
00:35:53,485 --> 00:35:56,822
Stop it right now.
We ain't got no time for no tears.
483
00:35:57,281 --> 00:36:00,242
Nobody's gonna have pity on you
just 'cause you're going blind.
484
00:36:00,325 --> 00:36:02,703
- Now wipe them eyes.
- Yes, ma'am.
485
00:36:04,955 --> 00:36:07,249
I'll show you
how to do something once.
486
00:36:07,332 --> 00:36:08,959
I'll help you if you mess up twice.
487
00:36:09,043 --> 00:36:10,753
But the third time,
you're on your own…
488
00:36:10,836 --> 00:36:13,172
'cause that's the way it is
in the world.
489
00:36:13,255 --> 00:36:14,757
Now get up.
490
00:36:16,592 --> 00:36:19,803
Remember, you're going blind,
but you ain't stupid.
491
00:36:21,930 --> 00:36:23,682
Remember how many stairs there were?
492
00:36:23,766 --> 00:36:24,850
Four.
493
00:36:24,933 --> 00:36:28,437
Good. You're gonna have to learn
how to use your memory.
494
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:29,688
Now turn around.
495
00:36:29,772 --> 00:36:31,482
I want you to hold out your hands…
496
00:36:31,565 --> 00:36:34,026
use them as your eyes,
and find the door.
497
00:36:35,903 --> 00:36:38,947
Good. That's real good, baby.
498
00:37:29,706 --> 00:37:31,291
This fool makes one record…
499
00:37:31,375 --> 00:37:33,585
and you'd think
he's the star of the band.
500
00:37:33,669 --> 00:37:35,671
Well, he's got something.
501
00:37:37,089 --> 00:37:40,968
His wax won't even hit the charts.
You're still the man.
502
00:37:49,101 --> 00:37:51,562
She wasn't that fine.
There's something wrong with you.
503
00:37:51,645 --> 00:37:54,982
No, man, she's fine.
You leave her alone.
504
00:37:55,524 --> 00:37:56,900
Look at Ray.
505
00:37:57,443 --> 00:37:58,569
You see that?
506
00:37:58,652 --> 00:38:01,113
He feels her wrist and figures
that's the way to tell…
507
00:38:01,196 --> 00:38:02,656
if she's good-looking or not.
508
00:38:02,739 --> 00:38:05,367
You know I had my eye on you
all night long.
509
00:38:05,784 --> 00:38:07,786
He's right this time.
510
00:38:09,204 --> 00:38:12,207
See what a little fame does
to Null and Void?
511
00:38:12,541 --> 00:38:15,752
Anybody seen that fine-looking gal
in the yellow dress?
512
00:38:17,296 --> 00:38:19,965
- You hear this man?
- You snooze, you lose.
513
00:38:20,048 --> 00:38:23,719
We're going to dock your pay.
That's $2 off your busride.
514
00:38:53,665 --> 00:38:55,417
All right, who's next?
515
00:38:56,418 --> 00:38:59,838
It's a shame, Jimmy. You're just
gonna piss this up your arm.
516
00:38:59,922 --> 00:39:02,466
Don't tell me what to do
with my money.
517
00:39:03,258 --> 00:39:06,887
Come on. Step up.
The one-dollar sensation.
518
00:39:11,767 --> 00:39:13,769
You want to keep counting?
519
00:39:13,852 --> 00:39:16,855
What's the matter with you, boy?
$50 ain't good enough for you?
520
00:39:16,939 --> 00:39:19,024
That ain't $50. Keep counting.
521
00:39:19,608 --> 00:39:22,945
I guess you want charity, since
that record of yours ain't selling.
522
00:39:32,287 --> 00:39:35,749
Break it up!
What the hell is going on in here?
523
00:39:37,042 --> 00:39:39,127
The blind sensation
don't like his pay!
524
00:39:39,211 --> 00:39:42,256
- He's cheating me! I quit!
- You lying son of a bitch!
525
00:39:42,631 --> 00:39:44,800
Don't be fighting nobody
that can see!
526
00:39:44,883 --> 00:39:47,344
I won't run around
finding singles for this chump!
527
00:39:47,427 --> 00:39:49,388
- There's $50 here.
- You see that, fool?
528
00:39:49,471 --> 00:39:52,349
Shut up, Wilbur! Ray, from now on,
I'll handle your pay myself.
529
00:39:52,432 --> 00:39:55,143
I'm tired of this! I'll tell Jack
to find you somebody else!
530
00:39:55,269 --> 00:39:56,520
You sure? It's cold out there.
531
00:39:56,603 --> 00:39:59,064
Don't worry about me,
I can take care of myself.
532
00:40:00,065 --> 00:40:01,942
- Damn it, Wilbur!
- Let him go!
533
00:40:02,025 --> 00:40:03,527
What are we gonna do now?
534
00:40:11,326 --> 00:40:15,289
"After the death of Moses,
the Lord spake unto Joshua saying:
535
00:40:15,414 --> 00:40:17,499
"'Moses my servant is dead.
536
00:40:17,582 --> 00:40:20,419
'"Now therefore arise.
Go over to Jordan.
537
00:40:20,502 --> 00:40:23,422
'"Be not afraid,
for the Lord thy God is with thee.'"
538
00:40:23,505 --> 00:40:24,715
Mr. Charles?
539
00:40:25,465 --> 00:40:26,842
Who is it?
540
00:40:26,925 --> 00:40:30,262
My name is Ahmet Ertegun.
May I have a moment of your time?
541
00:40:34,016 --> 00:40:35,892
What do you want? I'm at church.
542
00:40:35,976 --> 00:40:38,312
I'm sorry. I'll come back later.
543
00:40:38,395 --> 00:40:40,480
You're here now. What do you want?
544
00:40:41,732 --> 00:40:43,775
My company, Atlantic Records…
545
00:40:43,859 --> 00:40:46,194
has acquired your contract
from Swing Time.
546
00:40:46,612 --> 00:40:48,363
I'd like to discuss your future.
547
00:40:48,447 --> 00:40:51,408
Hold on. Don't jive me now.
I ain't for sale.
548
00:40:51,491 --> 00:40:52,993
May I sit down?
549
00:40:55,621 --> 00:40:57,581
You see, Mr. Charles…
550
00:40:58,290 --> 00:41:00,375
Jack Lauderdale has found himself…
551
00:41:00,459 --> 00:41:02,711
shall we say,
a little overextended…
552
00:41:03,128 --> 00:41:05,922
and has had to unload
some of his talent.
553
00:41:06,006 --> 00:41:08,091
When your name came up, I jumped
at the chance…
554
00:41:08,175 --> 00:41:09,968
to work with you. I'm a big fan.
555
00:41:10,052 --> 00:41:11,928
What if I want to go
to another company?
556
00:41:12,012 --> 00:41:14,681
There's a guy out there
willing to pay me…
557
00:41:14,765 --> 00:41:16,892
seven cents a record.
Can you do that?
558
00:41:17,225 --> 00:41:20,062
Man, I could promise you
15 cents a record…
559
00:41:20,896 --> 00:41:24,316
but you won't get it
any more than he'll pay you seven.
560
00:41:26,068 --> 00:41:29,237
What I will do is promise you
five cents a record…
561
00:41:29,404 --> 00:41:31,698
and pay you five cents a record.
562
00:41:32,449 --> 00:41:35,744
If you think pennies, Mr. Charles,
you get pennies.
563
00:41:36,578 --> 00:41:38,330
You think dollars…
564
00:41:39,331 --> 00:41:40,916
you get dollars.
565
00:41:42,918 --> 00:41:45,670
I like how you
put things together, man.
566
00:41:46,505 --> 00:41:48,006
You know what?
567
00:41:48,173 --> 00:41:50,717
Omelet, you're all right with me.
568
00:41:50,967 --> 00:41:52,177
Ahmet.
569
00:41:52,386 --> 00:41:54,846
- What kind of name is that?
- I'm Turkish.
570
00:41:54,930 --> 00:41:59,184
Well, I guess Jack Lauderdale's
bad luck is my good fortune.
571
00:41:59,267 --> 00:42:02,354
I knew that Atlantic Records
was bigger than Swing Time.
572
00:42:02,437 --> 00:42:05,023
You guys do good music.
I dig Atlantic.
573
00:42:05,107 --> 00:42:06,483
You could have fooled me.
574
00:42:06,566 --> 00:42:09,277
I have to keep my eye on
you city boys.
575
00:42:09,820 --> 00:42:12,280
Down home,
we call it "country dumb."
576
00:42:13,782 --> 00:42:15,617
Hey, man, it ain't Turkish.
577
00:42:34,177 --> 00:42:35,887
What do you think?
578
00:42:35,971 --> 00:42:38,390
Nobody wants another Nat King Cole.
579
00:42:54,906 --> 00:42:57,784
Ahmet, it's just like Charles Brown.
580
00:42:59,911 --> 00:43:02,330
Okay, I'll talk to him.
581
00:43:04,958 --> 00:43:07,836
All right, fellas, that's a cut.
582
00:43:08,462 --> 00:43:09,713
Fellas!
583
00:43:09,796 --> 00:43:12,716
- Band can take five.
- He just don't get it.
584
00:43:12,799 --> 00:43:15,677
You either sound original,
or you got nothing.
585
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,971
Ahmet, what'd you think of that?
586
00:43:18,180 --> 00:43:21,266
I want to tell you something,
and don't take it wrong.
587
00:43:21,349 --> 00:43:22,642
Then give it to me right.
588
00:43:22,726 --> 00:43:26,104
I signed you because
I sensed something special in you…
589
00:43:26,188 --> 00:43:29,399
not because you sound like Nat Cole
or Charles Brown.
590
00:43:29,483 --> 00:43:31,276
I thought you like what I do.
591
00:43:31,359 --> 00:43:33,069
We love the timbre of your voice…
592
00:43:33,153 --> 00:43:35,572
we like your virtuosity,
your energy…
593
00:43:35,655 --> 00:43:38,366
- But not my music.
- Come on, I didn't say that.
594
00:43:38,909 --> 00:43:40,994
Ahmet, this is what I do.
595
00:43:41,453 --> 00:43:43,413
I got to make a living.
People want this.
596
00:43:43,497 --> 00:43:44,790
I don't know no other way.
597
00:43:44,873 --> 00:43:46,625
We got to help you find one.
598
00:43:46,708 --> 00:43:50,712
Let's try a little change of pace.
You're familiar with stride piano?
599
00:43:50,879 --> 00:43:54,132
You kidding? The man who taught me
piano is a stride player.
600
00:43:54,216 --> 00:43:56,968
I got a song.
It's called The Mess Around.
601
00:43:57,052 --> 00:43:58,845
The Mess Around. Cute title.
Who wrote it?
602
00:43:58,929 --> 00:44:00,096
I did.
603
00:44:00,722 --> 00:44:02,390
You wrote it.
604
00:44:03,475 --> 00:44:06,228
- Well, sing it to me.
- Sing it?
605
00:44:06,353 --> 00:44:07,979
I can't read the lyrics.
606
00:44:08,063 --> 00:44:10,690
Okay. Well, it's the key of G.
607
00:44:11,733 --> 00:44:13,401
Key of G.
608
00:44:16,404 --> 00:44:19,241
But it's a kind of
Pete Johnson thing.
609
00:44:22,410 --> 00:44:24,079
Yeah, that's it.
610
00:44:24,162 --> 00:44:26,331
You like that? Here we go.
Two, three, four.
611
00:44:26,414 --> 00:44:29,417
You can talk
about the pit barbecue
612
00:44:29,793 --> 00:44:31,795
The band was jumpin',
the people, too
613
00:44:31,878 --> 00:44:33,672
They're doin' the mess around
614
00:44:34,881 --> 00:44:36,925
They're doin' the mess around
615
00:44:37,759 --> 00:44:41,847
They're doin' the mess around
Everybody doin' the mess around
616
00:44:41,930 --> 00:44:43,598
That's good.
Let me take it from here.
617
00:45:26,850 --> 00:45:29,978
- Now we got something!
- That's all right.
618
00:45:31,479 --> 00:45:33,815
- What do you think, Ahmet?
- Great, Ray!
619
00:45:33,899 --> 00:45:36,234
- Unbelievable!
- Who's that?
620
00:45:37,027 --> 00:45:39,404
Ray, I want you to meet
my new partner, Jerry.
621
00:45:39,487 --> 00:45:41,823
Mr. Ray Charles, Jerry Wexler.
622
00:45:41,990 --> 00:45:45,327
Don't worry, Ray.
I'm going to step back, watch…
623
00:45:45,410 --> 00:45:47,829
and learn how to produce a record.
I'm in awe.
624
00:45:47,912 --> 00:45:51,124
That was out of sight. That's
some running and riffing, man!
625
00:45:51,207 --> 00:45:53,460
Well, this'll make you shout, man.
626
00:46:00,884 --> 00:46:03,762
We're listening to Mess Around…
627
00:46:03,845 --> 00:46:06,139
by Atlantic recording artist,
Ray Charles.
628
00:46:06,222 --> 00:46:09,726
And we have the gentleman live here
in the KCOH studios.
629
00:46:09,809 --> 00:46:11,728
So, when you're not making
your own music…
630
00:46:11,811 --> 00:46:12,854
what do you listen to?
631
00:46:12,938 --> 00:46:16,608
The fact is,
I really and truly love gospel.
632
00:46:16,691 --> 00:46:19,569
One of my favorite groups
is from right here in Houston:
633
00:46:19,653 --> 00:46:21,529
the Cecil Shaw Singers.
634
00:46:21,696 --> 00:46:25,241
You heard it: Ray Charles endorses
Houston's own Cecil Shaw.
635
00:46:25,325 --> 00:46:27,243
We'll be playing gospel
all day Sunday…
636
00:46:27,327 --> 00:46:30,705
but right now, let's hear some more
of that Mess Around by Ray Charles.
637
00:46:30,789 --> 00:46:32,207
K.B., line 1.
638
00:46:34,501 --> 00:46:35,877
King Bee.
639
00:46:39,547 --> 00:46:41,216
Yeah, he's right here.
640
00:46:41,883 --> 00:46:44,427
Miss Delia Antwine
of the Cecil Shaw Singers.
641
00:46:47,889 --> 00:46:49,724
Hello, Miss Antwine.
642
00:46:50,141 --> 00:46:52,894
You sung tenor
in Jesus Is My Shepherd, right?
643
00:46:52,977 --> 00:46:54,229
Yes.
644
00:46:55,021 --> 00:46:56,773
How did you pick me out?
645
00:46:56,856 --> 00:46:59,859
Actually, I hear like you see.
646
00:47:00,568 --> 00:47:03,655
Like that hummingbird
outside the window, for instance.
647
00:47:09,828 --> 00:47:12,497
- I can't hear her.
- You have to listen.
648
00:47:30,473 --> 00:47:31,808
Yes.
649
00:47:32,892 --> 00:47:34,394
Yes, you can.
650
00:47:35,395 --> 00:47:37,230
- You hear that?
- What?
651
00:47:38,064 --> 00:47:40,233
Her heart just skipped a beat.
652
00:47:42,444 --> 00:47:44,320
Did you like my record?
653
00:47:44,404 --> 00:47:46,823
The one that King Bee was playing?
654
00:47:48,450 --> 00:47:50,201
It was very nice.
655
00:47:50,285 --> 00:47:52,495
Different than the others.
656
00:47:53,079 --> 00:47:55,039
I've heard a lot of your music.
657
00:47:55,123 --> 00:47:56,833
Was it very nice, too?
658
00:47:56,916 --> 00:47:58,877
Look, if you don't really
like the record…
659
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:00,879
you ain't got to
beat around the bush with me.
660
00:48:00,962 --> 00:48:02,380
My mama never did.
661
00:48:02,464 --> 00:48:04,716
It's not that
I don't enjoy your music.
662
00:48:04,799 --> 00:48:07,302
It's just that I feel
I've heard it before.
663
00:48:07,385 --> 00:48:09,804
I keep wondering what
the real Ray Charles sounds like.
664
00:48:09,888 --> 00:48:11,389
Ray Charles? Who's he?
665
00:48:11,473 --> 00:48:13,349
Nobody, if you don't know.
666
00:48:15,226 --> 00:48:17,687
Sorry. I should have
kept my mouth shut.
667
00:48:17,771 --> 00:48:19,814
No, then you wouldn't be you.
668
00:48:21,232 --> 00:48:23,485
It's not like
I haven't heard that before.
669
00:48:23,568 --> 00:48:26,905
I guess I just
never really listened, that's all.
670
00:48:29,157 --> 00:48:32,160
Ain't nobody
ever put it that sweet, I guess.
671
00:48:49,344 --> 00:48:51,221
You know what,
Miss Delia Bea Antwine?
672
00:48:51,304 --> 00:48:53,181
You really are a country girl.
673
00:48:53,264 --> 00:48:55,475
Yes. How did you know?
674
00:48:55,558 --> 00:48:57,560
I could tell by the way you ordered.
675
00:48:57,644 --> 00:49:00,063
"Let me get molasses
with my corn bread."
676
00:49:01,105 --> 00:49:02,941
Were you raised on a farm?
677
00:49:03,024 --> 00:49:05,693
My mother did a little sharecropping
in Florida.
678
00:49:05,777 --> 00:49:07,278
Is she still there?
679
00:49:07,362 --> 00:49:10,156
God bless her heart, she passed away
when I went to school.
680
00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:11,741
Ray, I'm sorry.
681
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:13,910
She never was real healthy.
682
00:49:13,993 --> 00:49:16,538
She just worked herself to death,
poor thing.
683
00:49:16,663 --> 00:49:19,541
That's why she didn't want me
carrying around no tin cup.
684
00:49:19,624 --> 00:49:22,794
The kids I went to school with
were doing basket weaving…
685
00:49:22,877 --> 00:49:24,087
and wickerwork.
686
00:49:24,879 --> 00:49:27,173
But not you. Because of your gift.
687
00:49:27,257 --> 00:49:28,883
Because of my ears.
688
00:49:29,259 --> 00:49:31,135
I can mimic damn near anybody…
689
00:49:31,219 --> 00:49:33,847
and I make a pretty decent living
at it.
690
00:49:33,930 --> 00:49:37,600
It's just, if I change my style up
and people really don't dig it…
691
00:49:37,684 --> 00:49:39,686
what am I left with?
692
00:49:40,186 --> 00:49:42,814
I mean,
when you're blind, Miss Antwine…
693
00:49:42,897 --> 00:49:44,649
you ain't got that many choices.
694
00:49:46,234 --> 00:49:49,445
Seems to me like you got
all the choices in the world.
695
00:49:49,696 --> 00:49:53,825
God gave you the gift to sound like
anybody you please, even yourself.
696
00:49:55,577 --> 00:49:58,079
We're here. This is where I live.
697
00:49:58,580 --> 00:50:01,207
Do you think the preacher
would let me in?
698
00:50:01,291 --> 00:50:03,167
I'm a sinner,
but I need a little prayer.
699
00:50:03,251 --> 00:50:05,753
His wife don't like me
having male company.
700
00:50:05,837 --> 00:50:08,923
Tell him there's a soul out here
that needs saving.
701
00:50:09,757 --> 00:50:13,136
You know, Miss Antwine,
you really got me thinking.
702
00:50:14,971 --> 00:50:16,431
About what?
703
00:50:16,556 --> 00:50:19,893
About my life. About my music.
704
00:50:21,978 --> 00:50:23,479
About everything.
705
00:50:25,732 --> 00:50:28,902
Ray, don't you think
we're moving a little fast?
706
00:50:31,404 --> 00:50:33,781
I'm going to go to New York
for a couple of weeks…
707
00:50:33,865 --> 00:50:35,825
and when I get back…
708
00:50:35,909 --> 00:50:38,369
you can take it as slow as you want.
709
00:50:41,039 --> 00:50:42,874
All right, Mr. Charles.
710
00:50:44,250 --> 00:50:47,921
All right, Miss Antwine.
I'll see you in a couple of weeks.
711
00:50:48,213 --> 00:50:50,131
Hold on, let me call you a cab.
712
00:50:50,214 --> 00:50:54,510
I got it. Three blocks up,
left for two, right for one.
713
00:50:54,802 --> 00:50:58,640
Fifteen giant steps, and I'm
at the Crystal White Hotel. Hello.
714
00:51:05,730 --> 00:51:09,734
Mess Around was a positive step
for us, Ray. We're making progress.
715
00:51:09,817 --> 00:51:11,736
Come on, Ahmet,
you've been nice to me.
716
00:51:11,819 --> 00:51:13,738
But I haven't given you guys
any hits.
717
00:51:13,821 --> 00:51:16,824
Atlantic has been good to me,
but if you want something special…
718
00:51:16,908 --> 00:51:18,993
I'm gonna need my own band.
719
00:51:19,077 --> 00:51:22,246
Oh, man. Taking a band out
on the road costs a mint, Ray.
720
00:51:22,330 --> 00:51:25,416
Even Joe Morris is struggling.
His band's had a hit record.
721
00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:27,168
But, Ahmet, I'm not Joe Morris.
722
00:51:27,251 --> 00:51:31,172
You told me if I think pennies,
I get pennies. I'm thinking dollars.
723
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,677
Ruth Brown's
got a tour booked in Georgia.
724
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,055
- She needs a band.
- I'll take it.
725
00:51:39,597 --> 00:51:43,851
I could write the charts for her, do
backup, and also be an opening act.
726
00:51:46,980 --> 00:51:48,356
Okay.
727
00:51:48,564 --> 00:51:50,817
But you're going to be
financially responsible.
728
00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:52,986
You'll have to make it work.
729
00:51:53,069 --> 00:51:55,989
I'm gonna make it do
what it do, baby.
730
00:52:08,793 --> 00:52:10,044
Ray?
731
00:52:10,128 --> 00:52:12,547
Miss Antwine, it's been two weeks.
732
00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:14,382
It's been three.
733
00:52:20,054 --> 00:52:22,515
Where's the preacher at?
And the wife?
734
00:52:22,598 --> 00:52:24,684
They in Dallas till Monday.
735
00:52:24,767 --> 00:52:26,561
Well, hallelujah!
736
00:52:36,738 --> 00:52:38,156
Delia Bea.
737
00:52:39,073 --> 00:52:41,409
Kind of like a honey bee, right?
738
00:52:44,746 --> 00:52:46,414
Can I call you Bea?
739
00:52:47,415 --> 00:52:49,751
Yeah, I'd like that.
740
00:52:52,587 --> 00:52:56,424
There's only been two cats that
I ever really trusted in my life.
741
00:52:58,051 --> 00:53:01,220
There's Jeff Brown,
he's going to be my tour manager…
742
00:53:02,055 --> 00:53:04,390
Fathead Newman, my tenor man…
743
00:53:06,559 --> 00:53:08,019
and now you.
744
00:53:15,902 --> 00:53:19,280
But you gotta do me a favor. You
gotta always tell me the truth…
745
00:53:19,363 --> 00:53:21,365
just like you did before.
746
00:53:22,366 --> 00:53:25,370
Don't feel sorry for me
just 'cause I'm blind.
747
00:53:26,454 --> 00:53:28,956
How could I pity someone I admire?
748
00:53:33,961 --> 00:53:36,547
- Can I play something for you?
- Now?
749
00:53:37,381 --> 00:53:40,134
- No, Ray.
- Yeah, right now.
750
00:53:45,473 --> 00:53:47,308
It's right there. You got it.
751
00:53:49,018 --> 00:53:51,020
Yeah, this will work.
752
00:53:51,104 --> 00:53:53,981
Now you go ahead and play.
I'm going to close these drapes.
753
00:53:54,065 --> 00:53:56,067
I don't want no neighbors
looking in.
754
00:54:11,499 --> 00:54:12,500
Ray.
755
00:54:18,423 --> 00:54:20,341
Ray, that's sacrilegious.
756
00:54:21,092 --> 00:54:22,260
What?
757
00:54:22,343 --> 00:54:24,053
It's a gospel song.
758
00:54:24,804 --> 00:54:26,848
I know what it is. I wrote it.
759
00:54:27,515 --> 00:54:31,477
You told me to find my own voice.
Bea, this is it.
760
00:54:31,686 --> 00:54:35,815
But it ain't right to be changing
gospel music into this.
761
00:54:35,898 --> 00:54:37,775
Into what? Is it devil music?
762
00:54:37,859 --> 00:54:40,528
Evil music?
Do you think I'm evil, Bea?
763
00:54:41,571 --> 00:54:44,615
Look, I've been performing
gospel and blues all my life.
764
00:54:44,699 --> 00:54:46,075
It's who I am.
765
00:54:46,576 --> 00:54:50,246
And if I'm gonna do my own thing,
I got to be natural, right?
766
00:54:51,706 --> 00:54:54,292
I'm singing about
my feelings for you.
767
00:54:54,709 --> 00:54:56,377
About how I love you.
768
00:54:58,921 --> 00:55:01,215
What could be more natural
than that?
769
00:55:04,260 --> 00:55:05,595
Tell me.
770
00:55:06,679 --> 00:55:08,723
More natural than me and you.
771
00:55:09,348 --> 00:55:10,391
Ray.
772
00:55:26,490 --> 00:55:28,659
We bite the bullet,
cancel the tour dates.
773
00:55:28,743 --> 00:55:30,536
But what will we tell Ray?
774
00:55:30,620 --> 00:55:32,455
We'll tell him the truth:
775
00:55:32,538 --> 00:55:34,665
Ruth Brown's pregnant,
so there's no tour.
776
00:55:34,749 --> 00:55:38,669
What about LaVern Baker?
Get her to take the tour.
777
00:55:38,753 --> 00:55:40,880
She has no record.
There's nothing to promote.
778
00:55:40,963 --> 00:55:44,592
You and Jesse write a couple of
songs, let's get her in the studio.
779
00:55:44,675 --> 00:55:46,344
It'll take a month to put that-
780
00:55:46,427 --> 00:55:48,387
What'll we do?
We got to do something.
781
00:55:48,471 --> 00:55:50,056
Ray's got a new band up there.
782
00:55:50,139 --> 00:55:52,517
How'd he put together
a band so fast?
783
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,144
Boss! Boss, they're here.
784
00:55:55,436 --> 00:55:57,855
Come on. Let's get together
so we can show them this.
785
00:55:57,939 --> 00:55:59,607
I'll let you break this to Ray.
786
00:55:59,690 --> 00:56:01,567
You're gonna let me break it to him?
787
00:56:01,651 --> 00:56:04,153
- Why me?
- Because Ruth Brown was your idea.
788
00:56:04,237 --> 00:56:06,239
Ruth Brown is a good idea,
was a good idea…
789
00:56:06,322 --> 00:56:08,074
and still is a good idea.
790
00:56:33,975 --> 00:56:36,227
- Ahmet.
- Yeah.
791
00:56:36,310 --> 00:56:38,145
We got to get this on wax.
792
00:56:38,813 --> 00:56:39,897
Oh, yeah.
793
00:56:41,357 --> 00:56:44,777
Hear that, New York?
The sound is huge!
794
00:56:44,860 --> 00:56:47,571
But there's only seven cats
on this record.
795
00:56:47,655 --> 00:56:50,074
This is the new
Ray Charles, baby…
796
00:56:50,157 --> 00:56:52,201
and there's nothing out there
like it!
797
00:56:52,493 --> 00:56:55,371
And you heard it first
on The Moondog Show!
798
00:57:04,380 --> 00:57:07,008
The Shaw Agency's the best booker
on The Chitlin' Circuit…
799
00:57:07,091 --> 00:57:08,259
that's my opinion.
800
00:57:08,342 --> 00:57:10,344
Milt Shaw, meet Ray Charles.
801
00:57:10,428 --> 00:57:12,179
It was Milt's dad, Billy…
802
00:57:12,263 --> 00:57:14,932
who first drew my attention
to a certain blind pianist…
803
00:57:15,016 --> 00:57:17,018
when he was booking Lowell Fulson.
804
00:57:18,060 --> 00:57:22,148
We believe in your talent. We want
to be in the Ray Charles business.
805
00:57:22,231 --> 00:57:24,358
We've already booked you
on a 10-city tour…
806
00:57:24,442 --> 00:57:26,235
with Roy Milton's Solid Senders…
807
00:57:26,319 --> 00:57:27,486
I love Roy Milton.
808
00:57:27,570 --> 00:57:30,489
…and Tangula
the Exotic Shake Dancer.
809
00:57:30,656 --> 00:57:33,200
She is gorgeous.
810
00:57:33,367 --> 00:57:37,204
Ray, I gotta tell you, we think
you're onto something very big here.
811
00:57:37,288 --> 00:57:40,374
Nobody's ever combined R & B
and gospel before.
812
00:57:40,458 --> 00:57:41,959
I've Got A Woman is a smash.
813
00:57:42,043 --> 00:57:44,754
You better start thinking about
a follow-up.
814
00:57:44,837 --> 00:57:46,631
This sounds good.
I gotta run to Texas…
815
00:57:46,714 --> 00:57:49,550
and take care of some business,
and I'll be back.
816
00:57:49,717 --> 00:57:52,553
Make it fast.
I'm ready to sell, sell, sell.
817
00:57:52,636 --> 00:57:55,639
As long as you book me
in front of Tangula.
818
00:57:55,723 --> 00:57:59,060
Delia, hold on! Let me get
my camera. Let me get one picture.
819
00:57:59,143 --> 00:58:01,312
Y'all stay right there! Ray!
820
00:58:02,313 --> 00:58:06,025
Delia, let me get one picture!
One picture, Delia! Come on.
821
00:58:06,942 --> 00:58:09,904
Be careful, Ray. These are
your last steps of freedom, man.
822
00:58:09,987 --> 00:58:11,364
Don't open that door.
823
00:58:11,447 --> 00:58:14,075
You got to carry her
over the threshold.
824
00:58:21,832 --> 00:58:24,210
To the right, Ray! To the right!
825
00:58:27,338 --> 00:58:30,925
Ray, you need some help?
You sure you know what you're doing?
826
00:58:42,311 --> 00:58:43,312
Ray?
827
00:58:47,441 --> 00:58:49,110
Can I come in?
828
00:58:50,361 --> 00:58:53,656
- Hold on.
- What's going on, Ray?
829
00:58:57,910 --> 00:58:59,578
Open this door.
830
00:59:00,830 --> 00:59:03,541
Why are you locking doors
on me, Ray?
831
00:59:03,624 --> 00:59:06,544
You know the place is small.
We gotta have a little privacy.
832
00:59:06,627 --> 00:59:09,046
What we need is a little more room.
833
00:59:09,130 --> 00:59:12,258
We're gonna need some space
while we start a family.
834
00:59:13,634 --> 00:59:16,804
You know I'll be on the road
for most of the year.
835
00:59:19,181 --> 00:59:22,226
I'm just thinking,
what if I'm not a good father?
836
00:59:22,852 --> 00:59:26,647
My daddy was never around.
He had three different families.
837
00:59:28,524 --> 00:59:30,025
Well, you…
838
00:59:30,860 --> 00:59:34,196
are going to have one,
starting right now.
839
00:59:34,321 --> 00:59:35,656
Right now?
840
00:59:37,032 --> 00:59:38,659
What do you think?
841
00:59:39,535 --> 00:59:42,621
That's what I know.
842
01:00:17,615 --> 01:00:20,743
Stop it! Y'all done lost your minds!
Stop all this stuff!
843
01:00:20,826 --> 01:00:21,952
You need to be saved!
844
01:00:22,036 --> 01:00:23,454
I can't take it no more. Stop it!
845
01:00:23,537 --> 01:00:25,790
- I can't take it!
- Hold on.
846
01:00:25,873 --> 01:00:27,625
Take your hands off me!
847
01:00:27,708 --> 01:00:31,212
- This ain't right!
- Just let the people hear the music.
848
01:00:32,213 --> 01:00:35,132
Y'all sitting here,
listening to this devil!
849
01:00:35,216 --> 01:00:38,385
You're giving your money to Satan,
that's what you're doing.
850
01:00:38,469 --> 01:00:41,847
- Hold on, you got a problem?
- Yeah, I got a problem!
851
01:00:42,056 --> 01:00:45,976
That's gospel you're singing!
You're turning God's music into sex.
852
01:00:46,060 --> 01:00:48,270
You're making money off the Lord!
853
01:00:48,354 --> 01:00:51,232
Don't smile at me!
Y'all are in it, too!
854
01:00:51,315 --> 01:00:53,317
All of y'all
are going straight to hell!
855
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:54,777
She's right.
856
01:00:56,111 --> 01:00:59,114
No, this here's wrong.
The whole thing's wrong.
857
01:00:59,740 --> 01:01:01,909
It's okay. Let him go.
858
01:01:01,992 --> 01:01:04,495
You got a right to believe
in what you believe.
859
01:01:04,578 --> 01:01:06,747
You can go to hell by yourself!
860
01:01:06,830 --> 01:01:08,832
Boss, you want to cancel the show?
861
01:01:08,916 --> 01:01:11,168
No. Just find me
a bari player by tomorrow.
862
01:01:11,252 --> 01:01:13,837
I just want to
ask the folks right now:
863
01:01:13,921 --> 01:01:16,924
If y'all want me to keep playing,
let me hear you say "Amen."
864
01:01:17,007 --> 01:01:19,009
Amen!
865
01:01:19,093 --> 01:01:20,845
While you're at it,
find me a girl…
866
01:01:20,928 --> 01:01:22,513
with church-training
that can sing…
867
01:01:22,596 --> 01:01:24,848
- but without the church attitude.
- All right.
868
01:01:24,932 --> 01:01:27,184
Let's go, y'all. Keep it going.
869
01:01:45,494 --> 01:01:48,038
- Ray, you got your watch?
- Yeah.
870
01:01:48,122 --> 01:01:51,709
Good. All right, baby,
your blue shirts are on top…
871
01:01:51,792 --> 01:01:55,254
the pants in between, and
the white shirts are on the bottom.
872
01:01:55,629 --> 01:01:58,299
Here's your glasses. There you go.
873
01:02:01,468 --> 01:02:03,721
Why don't you come
on the road with us?
874
01:02:03,804 --> 01:02:06,056
Baby, what would I do on the road?
875
01:02:06,140 --> 01:02:08,642
You'd do what I say you do,
that's what.
876
01:02:09,518 --> 01:02:13,272
I've been trying to get
a female voice in the band, anyway.
877
01:02:13,355 --> 01:02:16,066
Can't you just picture me
wobbling around on that stage…
878
01:02:16,150 --> 01:02:17,484
big as a house?
879
01:02:17,568 --> 01:02:21,572
Well, I can't picture you, you
know that. But I know what I can do.
880
01:02:22,823 --> 01:02:26,994
Come on, now. Don't start nothing
you can't finish. Jeff is waiting.
881
01:02:28,537 --> 01:02:30,456
I can't go on the road with you…
882
01:02:30,539 --> 01:02:32,499
not with your baby inside me.
883
01:02:33,500 --> 01:02:35,461
I'm gonna get your shaving kit.
884
01:02:36,462 --> 01:02:38,297
Bea, I got it.
885
01:02:38,923 --> 01:02:40,424
Bea, hold on.
886
01:02:44,970 --> 01:02:46,513
Bea, let me get it.
887
01:02:47,556 --> 01:02:50,142
How long you been
hiding this from me?
888
01:02:54,021 --> 01:02:55,356
I'm your wife!
889
01:02:55,439 --> 01:02:57,274
Bea, I was just so excited
to see you.
890
01:02:57,358 --> 01:02:59,652
I forgot to leave it with the band,
that's all.
891
01:02:59,735 --> 01:03:03,364
Let me get it. It's just
a little medicine, that's all, baby.
892
01:03:03,447 --> 01:03:06,283
That ain't medicine to nobody.
Don't be lying to yourself.
893
01:03:06,367 --> 01:03:09,620
It ain't like I'm dealing it.
I just use it to get a little taste.
894
01:03:09,703 --> 01:03:12,498
You don't taste poison, Ray.
It kills you. You got to stop.
895
01:03:12,581 --> 01:03:14,750
I ain't got to do a goddamn thing!
896
01:03:16,293 --> 01:03:18,921
What about me? What about your baby?
897
01:03:20,881 --> 01:03:23,050
It ain't like I'm new to this.
898
01:03:23,550 --> 01:03:26,220
If I felt like this was
jeopardizing my music, or you…
899
01:03:26,303 --> 01:03:27,721
or providing for that baby…
900
01:03:27,805 --> 01:03:29,932
I'd stop in a minute.
But I know it won't.
901
01:03:30,015 --> 01:03:32,643
How do you know that, Ray?
902
01:03:32,726 --> 01:03:34,978
You can talk till
you're blue in the face…
903
01:03:35,062 --> 01:03:36,980
it don't matter. I'm not gonna stop.
904
01:03:37,064 --> 01:03:38,816
- Then I'm coming with you.
- No.
905
01:03:38,899 --> 01:03:40,401
- But you just said…
- No.
906
01:03:40,484 --> 01:03:43,654
You know what it is, Bea.
I think it's like you said.
907
01:03:44,071 --> 01:03:47,825
I don't think that the road
is a place for you and the baby.
908
01:03:49,993 --> 01:03:51,829
What are you saying to me, Ray?
909
01:03:51,912 --> 01:03:54,081
What I'm saying is that
when I get home…
910
01:03:54,164 --> 01:03:56,709
I hope that you're here at my house.
911
01:03:58,252 --> 01:03:59,586
Your house?
912
01:04:04,174 --> 01:04:07,177
- Jeff, come get this bag.
- All right, Ray.
913
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:11,181
Hey, Delia Bea.
914
01:04:17,187 --> 01:04:18,522
You all right?
915
01:04:52,723 --> 01:04:54,475
That's good, thank you.
916
01:04:54,558 --> 01:04:57,811
- How does she look?
- Very pretty. Brown skin.
917
01:05:04,193 --> 01:05:06,737
Yeah, that's great.
I really dig your sound.
918
01:05:06,820 --> 01:05:08,572
What was your name again,
sweetheart?
919
01:05:08,655 --> 01:05:11,241
Mary Ann Fisher.
920
01:05:12,743 --> 01:05:15,662
How would you feel if
I asked you to sing a torch song…
921
01:05:15,746 --> 01:05:17,581
with a gospel feel to it?
922
01:05:17,664 --> 01:05:20,501
Gospel's all about love anyway,
isn't it?
923
01:05:21,543 --> 01:05:24,129
Would it make you
feel like a sinner?
924
01:05:25,547 --> 01:05:28,008
Mr. Charles, I love the Lord,
the Lord loves me.
925
01:05:28,091 --> 01:05:29,676
But I ain't no hypocrite.
926
01:05:30,844 --> 01:05:34,139
Hello. You know,
it's hard to fool me…
927
01:05:34,223 --> 01:05:37,351
but it's impossible
to fool the Almighty, ain't it?
928
01:05:37,684 --> 01:05:40,062
Why don't we rehearse the song
a little bit?
929
01:05:40,145 --> 01:05:41,146
Okay.
930
01:05:41,230 --> 01:05:43,732
Boss, we got to go.
931
01:05:43,816 --> 01:05:45,943
Go ahead.
I'll be with you in a minute.
932
01:05:46,026 --> 01:05:49,321
- I just really feel your spirit.
- Boss, are you sure?
933
01:05:53,575 --> 01:05:54,743
Let's go.
934
01:06:41,582 --> 01:06:43,167
You're amazing.
935
01:06:43,333 --> 01:06:46,795
So are you, baby.
Come sit next to me.
936
01:06:54,011 --> 01:06:55,679
So, what do you think?
937
01:07:12,821 --> 01:07:15,782
- Ray, telephone.
- Take a message.
938
01:07:18,076 --> 01:07:19,620
It's Delia Bea.
939
01:07:20,078 --> 01:07:21,413
Damn it.
940
01:07:22,956 --> 01:07:24,499
Tell her I'm busy.
941
01:07:24,583 --> 01:07:26,835
Come on, man, I ain't lying to Bea.
942
01:07:28,879 --> 01:07:31,757
- Is that the wife?
- Shut up.
943
01:07:34,301 --> 01:07:36,345
I'll be there in a second.
944
01:07:39,181 --> 01:07:41,058
Don't mess with this junk,
all right?
945
01:07:41,141 --> 01:07:43,310
All it'll do is make you sick.
946
01:07:47,231 --> 01:07:49,816
Does he have
all his fingers and toes?
947
01:07:50,317 --> 01:07:51,818
Yes, he does.
948
01:07:56,198 --> 01:07:57,574
Can he…
949
01:08:01,328 --> 01:08:02,829
Can he see?
950
01:08:04,498 --> 01:08:05,582
Yes.
951
01:08:08,627 --> 01:08:11,505
- You want to hold him?
- No, I can't.
952
01:08:11,672 --> 01:08:13,924
- Come on, Ray.
- I wouldn't know what to do.
953
01:08:14,007 --> 01:08:15,842
That's what you came here for.
954
01:08:15,926 --> 01:08:18,178
Use this hand to hold his head.
955
01:08:19,096 --> 01:08:21,098
Okay. Right there.
956
01:08:31,233 --> 01:08:32,901
That's your daddy.
957
01:08:36,029 --> 01:08:38,699
He ain't no bigger
than a loaf of bread.
958
01:08:39,616 --> 01:08:40,909
Thank you.
959
01:08:41,702 --> 01:08:43,870
He's not my gift to you, Ray.
960
01:08:44,162 --> 01:08:45,831
He's your son.
961
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,543
You know I'm gonna take care
of both of you, right?
962
01:08:52,045 --> 01:08:53,547
I love you.
963
01:08:55,007 --> 01:08:58,802
I love you, too, Ray.
But there's something I got to say.
964
01:08:59,052 --> 01:09:01,763
I know you're a working musician…
965
01:09:02,180 --> 01:09:04,725
but don't bring the road
into our home again.
966
01:09:04,808 --> 01:09:07,477
The home I'm making for you
and our children.
967
01:09:07,728 --> 01:09:09,980
Bea, I promise I won't do that.
968
01:09:10,522 --> 01:09:13,066
- It's just there's some things…
- Don't say no more.
969
01:09:14,151 --> 01:09:15,902
I ain't no fool.
970
01:09:16,528 --> 01:09:18,905
You know, you're the only woman
I'll ever love.
971
01:09:31,918 --> 01:09:34,588
Mama! Mama, help!
972
01:09:35,088 --> 01:09:39,593
Mama, help, please!
973
01:09:39,926 --> 01:09:41,928
I need you!
974
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:49,269
Mama, help!
975
01:11:44,217 --> 01:11:48,221
I hear you, too, Mama.
You're right there.
976
01:11:55,729 --> 01:11:57,397
Yes, I am.
977
01:12:00,901 --> 01:12:02,569
Why are you crying, Mama?
978
01:12:03,069 --> 01:12:04,738
'Cause I'm happy.
979
01:12:08,408 --> 01:12:10,410
It's Uncle Jeff!
980
01:12:10,744 --> 01:12:12,245
Got my camera!
981
01:12:12,495 --> 01:12:14,664
Sarah! Come on in.
982
01:12:14,789 --> 01:12:16,499
Put the flowers
right there behind them.
983
01:12:16,583 --> 01:12:18,501
All right, big smiles, everybody.
984
01:13:16,726 --> 01:13:18,061
Hi, Junior.
985
01:13:18,395 --> 01:13:21,398
Come on, Ray, let's
get this boy home so he can eat.
986
01:13:21,481 --> 01:13:23,233
I have those cookies you like.
987
01:13:33,743 --> 01:13:36,413
We try to make it through these
cracker speed traps…
988
01:13:36,496 --> 01:13:37,706
we'll be a little late.
989
01:13:37,789 --> 01:13:40,417
- Yeah, just stay within the limits.
- All right.
990
01:13:41,209 --> 01:13:44,004
Why don't we
get that spot in Memphis?
991
01:13:44,087 --> 01:13:45,422
We could have our own place.
992
01:13:45,505 --> 01:13:47,507
Baby, I'm not leaving Houston.
993
01:13:48,883 --> 01:13:51,219
I bet she don't do this.
994
01:13:51,845 --> 01:13:52,971
Baby, hold on.
995
01:13:53,054 --> 01:13:57,183
Goodbye don't mean gone, okay?
I'm not gonna leave my family.
996
01:13:57,684 --> 01:14:01,521
Okay, baby, okay.
No need to get sore.
997
01:14:02,188 --> 01:14:06,359
How about we give me
a little more to do in the show?
998
01:14:06,693 --> 01:14:08,111
How about a solo?
999
01:14:08,194 --> 01:14:09,863
You just don't stop, do you?
1000
01:14:10,113 --> 01:14:12,449
Look, I'm going up to New York
to do some publicity.
1001
01:14:12,532 --> 01:14:14,451
You stay here, find some material…
1002
01:14:14,534 --> 01:14:16,828
and when I get back,
we can talk about it.
1003
01:14:16,953 --> 01:14:18,288
Okay.
1004
01:14:39,684 --> 01:14:42,979
I dig New York. Everybody here's
making their own sound.
1005
01:14:43,063 --> 01:14:44,856
They loved it. Ray, they loved you.
1006
01:14:44,939 --> 01:14:46,733
We're gonna
get the cover of Billboard.
1007
01:14:46,816 --> 01:14:49,694
I want to do a session
while I'm here. How about tomorrow?
1008
01:14:49,778 --> 01:14:52,405
- You got the band here?
- Yeah.
1009
01:14:52,489 --> 01:14:54,240
Everybody except Mary Ann…
1010
01:14:54,324 --> 01:14:56,076
because I need
a different background.
1011
01:14:56,159 --> 01:14:58,161
I've been hearing this thing
in my head…
1012
01:14:58,244 --> 01:15:00,705
like a dance between
a man and three women.
1013
01:15:00,789 --> 01:15:02,624
Sounds fun. Can I watch?
1014
01:15:02,749 --> 01:15:04,334
It's a dance of voices, Ahmet.
1015
01:15:04,417 --> 01:15:06,670
What do you have in mind?
Like three Mary Anns?
1016
01:15:06,753 --> 01:15:11,674
No. That's too smooth.
I need something that's more raw.
1017
01:15:12,008 --> 01:15:14,219
The Cookies. What about The Cookies?
1018
01:15:14,302 --> 01:15:15,970
Yeah, Cookies are sweet.
1019
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:54,092
Jesus, he's on fire.
1020
01:15:55,468 --> 01:15:57,762
Maybe we should sign these girls up.
1021
01:15:57,971 --> 01:15:59,973
If I know Ray,
we won't get a chance.
1022
01:16:39,095 --> 01:16:41,931
- It doesn't get better than that.
- I love it!
1023
01:16:42,015 --> 01:16:43,683
We gonna put it out like that.
1024
01:16:43,767 --> 01:16:46,102
I never got a record
in one take before!
1025
01:16:46,186 --> 01:16:47,729
You Cookies sound sweet.
1026
01:16:48,021 --> 01:16:50,607
When it's happening, baby,
it just feels right.
1027
01:16:50,690 --> 01:16:53,610
I know what you mean. I got
the shivers in this studio tonight.
1028
01:16:53,693 --> 01:16:56,196
That's 'cause
they ain't paid the heating bill.
1029
01:16:56,279 --> 01:16:58,114
I have a question for all of you:
1030
01:16:58,198 --> 01:17:00,575
How would you like to
go on the road with me?
1031
01:17:04,162 --> 01:17:05,830
How much you gonna pay us?
1032
01:17:05,955 --> 01:17:09,250
- Ahmet takes care of all of that.
- You mean he don't listen to you?
1033
01:17:09,334 --> 01:17:12,170
You better know he does.
Don't worry about it.
1034
01:17:12,253 --> 01:17:13,838
Brother Ray'll take care of you.
1035
01:17:13,922 --> 01:17:16,424
My mama taught me
to take care of myself.
1036
01:17:17,884 --> 01:17:19,093
Is your mother here?
1037
01:17:19,177 --> 01:17:21,846
- No, she's not, but I speak for us.
- No, you don't.
1038
01:17:22,055 --> 01:17:26,142
Okay, Speak for Us,
how about $20 a week?
1039
01:17:26,226 --> 01:17:28,728
- $20 a week is good.
- We'll take $40. Each.
1040
01:17:29,020 --> 01:17:30,730
- $40 each?
- You heard me.
1041
01:17:31,022 --> 01:17:33,399
No. How about $25?
1042
01:17:33,858 --> 01:17:35,318
We'll take $30.
1043
01:17:35,527 --> 01:17:38,321
I have to say yeah before you
talk me out of my drawers.
1044
01:17:39,072 --> 01:17:40,573
$30 a week!
1045
01:17:40,907 --> 01:17:41,908
Deal?
1046
01:17:41,991 --> 01:17:43,326
Oh! Yeah.
1047
01:17:43,576 --> 01:17:44,911
Margie, right?
1048
01:17:45,745 --> 01:17:47,205
Look, Margie, from now on…
1049
01:17:47,288 --> 01:17:49,874
you guys are going to be called
The Raelettes.
1050
01:17:50,667 --> 01:17:52,835
Does that mean we have to "Let Ray"?
1051
01:17:52,919 --> 01:17:56,339
- What am I going to do with you?
- I'm sure you'll think of something.
1052
01:17:58,675 --> 01:17:59,926
$30 a week!
1053
01:18:00,009 --> 01:18:02,512
We're going to be The Raelettes!
1054
01:18:25,368 --> 01:18:27,328
Fathead, come on,
you're on the clock.
1055
01:18:27,412 --> 01:18:29,205
Come on, Bob, you're late.
1056
01:18:30,290 --> 01:18:32,625
Hold on, Jeff. Listen up.
1057
01:18:32,750 --> 01:18:34,878
From now on, we're gonna sing
four-part harmony.
1058
01:18:34,961 --> 01:18:37,463
Ethel, you sing alto.
1059
01:18:37,797 --> 01:18:41,259
Margie, you sing tenor.
Pat, soprano, and Mary Ann, bass.
1060
01:18:42,010 --> 01:18:43,761
I ain't no bass. I'm a soprano.
1061
01:18:44,262 --> 01:18:48,433
I'll sing bass. Where we come from,
we can sing anything.
1062
01:18:49,267 --> 01:18:52,061
We're talking about singing, sugar,
not hog calling.
1063
01:18:52,145 --> 01:18:53,479
That's cold.
1064
01:18:54,105 --> 01:18:55,607
Who are you calling a hog?
1065
01:18:55,690 --> 01:18:57,358
If the corncob fits…
1066
01:18:57,609 --> 01:19:00,278
You better shut your mouth
before you get-
1067
01:19:01,279 --> 01:19:03,448
What is all the cackling for?
1068
01:19:04,657 --> 01:19:08,411
Mary Ann, sweetheart, I wrote
something special for you: a solo.
1069
01:19:08,578 --> 01:19:09,913
A solo?
1070
01:19:09,996 --> 01:19:12,540
Come on down here,
let me play it for you.
1071
01:19:47,033 --> 01:19:50,119
Ethel! Come here and see
this new piano Ray got.
1072
01:19:50,203 --> 01:19:52,664
- It's called a Wurlitzer.
- A what?
1073
01:19:52,747 --> 01:19:56,084
You got to see this thing.
It's out of sight.
1074
01:19:59,462 --> 01:20:01,631
Baby, I got your drink here for you.
1075
01:20:07,845 --> 01:20:11,808
- Don't play that.
- She want me to play something else.
1076
01:20:40,002 --> 01:20:42,672
We got some hell
going on, gentlemen!
1077
01:20:43,006 --> 01:20:45,967
Now, this is a car. This is a car!
1078
01:20:49,429 --> 01:20:51,931
Looks like a damn Wieniemobile!
1079
01:20:57,729 --> 01:20:59,397
Lookie here!
1080
01:20:59,939 --> 01:21:01,566
Let's take it for a spin.
1081
01:21:01,816 --> 01:21:04,736
Since I'm the boss,
you got to let me drive.
1082
01:21:06,279 --> 01:21:07,780
Don't hit nothing, Ray.
1083
01:21:19,292 --> 01:21:20,626
- You okay?
- Yeah.
1084
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:23,629
- What room are you in?
- 69.
1085
01:21:24,130 --> 01:21:27,049
Honey, you are so nasty.
That's what I love about you.
1086
01:21:27,175 --> 01:21:29,135
No, seriously,
what room are you in?
1087
01:21:29,594 --> 01:21:30,928
I'm in 626.
1088
01:21:31,179 --> 01:21:32,513
624.
1089
01:21:33,806 --> 01:21:36,309
Baby, I can't wait
till we get to your room.
1090
01:21:38,978 --> 01:21:40,980
Here's 626. Right here.
1091
01:21:41,814 --> 01:21:43,566
- Where's the key?
- You have to get it.
1092
01:21:43,649 --> 01:21:44,984
I have to find it?
1093
01:21:45,902 --> 01:21:48,237
- Is that it?
- It might be.
1094
01:21:49,655 --> 01:21:52,909
I'm not going to unbuckle
your pants yet. Let's get you in.
1095
01:22:02,668 --> 01:22:05,171
Miss Mary Ann Fisher,
ladies and gentlemen.
1096
01:22:09,050 --> 01:22:11,260
Wait till you see
what's in the goodie bag.
1097
01:22:11,344 --> 01:22:12,428
Goodie bag?
1098
01:22:12,512 --> 01:22:15,515
Gonna fly you to the moon, baby.
Let me get your hand, Ray.
1099
01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:18,976
There go three. That's for you.
1100
01:22:19,519 --> 01:22:22,230
I thought you was my friend.
The weight is off.
1101
01:22:23,022 --> 01:22:24,398
Don't start with me, Ray.
1102
01:22:24,482 --> 01:22:26,651
- The weight is off.
- It ain't off.
1103
01:22:26,734 --> 01:22:28,820
When you get high and try to cop…
1104
01:22:28,903 --> 01:22:31,614
dealers will spank your ass.
You need discipline.
1105
01:22:32,156 --> 01:22:36,160
You know what? I ain't messing up
my high tonight…
1106
01:22:36,410 --> 01:22:39,080
sitting here with you,
arguing about nothing.
1107
01:22:40,998 --> 01:22:44,043
Look, Fathead, just tie me off.
1108
01:22:45,002 --> 01:22:46,379
Come on, Fathead.
1109
01:22:47,672 --> 01:22:51,008
Take care of your bad self,
you know so damn much.
1110
01:22:52,343 --> 01:22:53,511
Later, Margie.
1111
01:22:53,886 --> 01:22:55,680
Bye, Fathead.
1112
01:22:58,432 --> 01:22:59,725
Damn.
1113
01:23:05,022 --> 01:23:07,400
Ain't nothing free in the world
but Jesus.
1114
01:23:14,782 --> 01:23:16,951
Yeah? What do you want?
1115
01:23:17,743 --> 01:23:20,580
Do me a favor, sweetheart,
and pick that up for me.
1116
01:23:20,663 --> 01:23:22,707
You're going to have to get me off.
1117
01:23:25,334 --> 01:23:27,503
I'll do it, if you let me try some.
1118
01:23:28,421 --> 01:23:30,089
This ain't for no little girls.
1119
01:23:30,173 --> 01:23:32,300
I ain't no little girl!
1120
01:23:32,633 --> 01:23:36,012
I understand. It's just that
this stuff will take you places…
1121
01:23:36,095 --> 01:23:37,597
you don't want to go.
1122
01:23:37,930 --> 01:23:39,682
I want to share that with you.
1123
01:23:39,765 --> 01:23:42,351
Listen to me! If I ever
hear about you doing drugs…
1124
01:23:42,435 --> 01:23:44,187
you're through, you hear me?
1125
01:23:44,937 --> 01:23:47,440
You believe that
more than you believe in Jesus!
1126
01:23:48,316 --> 01:23:50,651
Don't say that, Ray.
1127
01:23:53,821 --> 01:23:56,908
I watch your show
every single night.
1128
01:23:57,825 --> 01:24:02,330
And every night is new to me.
Maybe because it's new to you.
1129
01:24:02,663 --> 01:24:06,292
It's like
you live every single word…
1130
01:24:06,626 --> 01:24:09,629
and then you bend some crazy note…
1131
01:24:11,130 --> 01:24:15,801
and damn if you don't break
my heart. You got genius, baby.
1132
01:24:16,135 --> 01:24:18,638
I just want to be a part of that.
1133
01:25:17,655 --> 01:25:21,993
Look at him. Look at his knees
shaking. He's got that junkie itch.
1134
01:25:23,828 --> 01:25:25,830
He's totally hooked.
1135
01:25:27,832 --> 01:25:29,959
But listen to that sound.
He's brilliant.
1136
01:25:30,042 --> 01:25:31,877
You can never trust a junkie.
1137
01:25:32,169 --> 01:25:34,547
What do you want me to do?
Listen to him.
1138
01:25:46,976 --> 01:25:49,812
- Happy birthday!
- Happy birthday, Ray.
1139
01:25:50,354 --> 01:25:52,148
You know what to do.
1140
01:25:52,231 --> 01:25:54,650
Take a deep breath. Go ahead.
1141
01:25:56,986 --> 01:25:59,280
- He blow them out?
- Every single one.
1142
01:26:16,338 --> 01:26:18,799
I want to thank you so very much.
1143
01:26:19,091 --> 01:26:23,471
Please, another round of applause
for Miss Margie Hendricks.
1144
01:26:23,763 --> 01:26:26,098
Thank you so much, and good night.
1145
01:26:27,892 --> 01:26:30,353
- You see what time it is?
- What's the problem?
1146
01:26:30,436 --> 01:26:32,730
The problem is on the contract.
1147
01:26:32,813 --> 01:26:35,983
Ray! You still got 20 minutes left.
1148
01:26:36,233 --> 01:26:37,401
What you want to do?
1149
01:26:37,485 --> 01:26:40,196
That fool's holding us
to every second of the contract.
1150
01:26:40,279 --> 01:26:42,573
Go baby-sit him.
I'll take care of it.
1151
01:26:42,656 --> 01:26:44,658
It's okay.
1152
01:26:44,742 --> 01:26:46,702
They say we got
a little more work to do.
1153
01:26:46,786 --> 01:26:48,829
That was the last song in the book.
1154
01:26:48,913 --> 01:26:50,331
It's never the last song.
1155
01:26:50,414 --> 01:26:53,542
Band, follow me and do what I do,
say what I say
1156
01:26:53,626 --> 01:26:55,127
This is how we gonna do it.
1157
01:28:37,271 --> 01:28:39,273
Where can I get that record from?
1158
01:28:39,565 --> 01:28:43,277
I don't know. It doesn't exist yet.
I'll tell Ray he should record it.
1159
01:29:13,307 --> 01:29:14,975
Yeah, that's it.
1160
01:29:21,273 --> 01:29:23,943
I'm telling you,
that is out of sight. That's a hit.
1161
01:29:24,026 --> 01:29:27,029
It's fantastic.
But what are we gonna do…
1162
01:29:27,112 --> 01:29:28,614
with this? It's too damn long.
1163
01:29:28,697 --> 01:29:31,533
Every night we play this,
we bring the house down.
1164
01:29:31,617 --> 01:29:32,868
It's guaranteed.
1165
01:29:32,952 --> 01:29:34,745
Tom, cut the playback!
1166
01:29:34,995 --> 01:29:36,330
Come on out here.
1167
01:29:38,874 --> 01:29:41,418
Ray, you're probably right.
I'm sure you're right.
1168
01:29:41,502 --> 01:29:44,880
I've never heard a sound like this
before. But how do we market it?
1169
01:29:44,964 --> 01:29:47,925
We could cut the second verse,
pop back into the chorus.
1170
01:29:48,008 --> 01:29:50,302
You cut that, I'll cut you in half.
1171
01:29:50,803 --> 01:29:52,137
All right, all right.
1172
01:29:53,180 --> 01:29:55,683
We could split it up.
1173
01:29:55,766 --> 01:29:58,143
Do a Side A/Side B type of thing.
1174
01:29:58,227 --> 01:30:00,479
It's been done before.
What the hell, right?
1175
01:30:02,815 --> 01:30:06,402
It's sexual.
It's just too damn sexual for kids.
1176
01:30:06,485 --> 01:30:07,736
Let's do it.
1177
01:30:07,820 --> 01:30:10,114
Yeah! That's why I love y'all.
1178
01:30:10,197 --> 01:30:12,950
All right. What the hell?
It's Atlantic, right?
1179
01:30:13,033 --> 01:30:15,577
We'll release it in the summer.
There's less censorship.
1180
01:30:15,661 --> 01:30:18,956
School's out.
The kids are ready to kick loose.
1181
01:30:21,625 --> 01:30:25,129
Tom, let's see if we can
cut this pumpkin in two.
1182
01:30:25,212 --> 01:30:27,214
Show me what your genius
is all about.
1183
01:30:27,298 --> 01:30:28,549
You got it, boss.
1184
01:30:29,174 --> 01:30:33,596
You put one on Side A, another
on Side B. That's out of sight.
1185
01:30:33,679 --> 01:30:34,930
How you feeling?
1186
01:30:35,014 --> 01:30:36,515
I feel groovy, baby.
1187
01:30:37,016 --> 01:30:39,018
I'm talking about the junk.
1188
01:30:39,685 --> 01:30:41,228
It's starting to show.
1189
01:30:42,396 --> 01:30:44,982
You're scratching all the time.
You can't sit still.
1190
01:30:45,816 --> 01:30:47,568
Have I ever missed a date?
1191
01:30:48,152 --> 01:30:49,820
No, you never have.
1192
01:30:49,945 --> 01:30:52,239
Who's the one who delivers
a record in one take?
1193
01:30:52,323 --> 01:30:54,491
You deliver better than
anybody I know…
1194
01:30:54,575 --> 01:30:56,952
but I'm not talking to you
as a businessman.
1195
01:30:57,119 --> 01:30:59,163
Now come on, listen to me.
1196
01:30:59,997 --> 01:31:01,832
I'm worried about you.
1197
01:31:02,541 --> 01:31:05,794
As a friend, I'm telling you, man,
your slip is hanging.
1198
01:31:06,795 --> 01:31:08,297
"Your slip is hanging."
1199
01:31:08,380 --> 01:31:11,800
You been hanging out
with us country boys too much.
1200
01:31:11,884 --> 01:31:15,304
Don't worry about this. If this
monkey gets too heavy on my back…
1201
01:31:15,387 --> 01:31:18,140
I'll get an organ grinder
and put him to work.
1202
01:31:23,896 --> 01:31:25,356
He's off the Chitlin' Circuit.
1203
01:31:25,439 --> 01:31:28,650
Down Beat voted him Best Male Jazz
Vocalist by a 2-to-1 margin.
1204
01:31:29,068 --> 01:31:30,819
If you want him in Philadelphia…
1205
01:31:30,903 --> 01:31:32,696
you're going to find him
a bigger venue.
1206
01:31:43,415 --> 01:31:44,708
What'd I Say!
1207
01:31:50,923 --> 01:31:53,884
Forget second billing. Ray Charles
headlines at $1,000 per…
1208
01:31:53,967 --> 01:31:55,260
or no deal.
1209
01:31:57,304 --> 01:31:58,347
Terrific.
1210
01:32:17,408 --> 01:32:19,368
I'm having second thoughts
about this.
1211
01:32:19,451 --> 01:32:21,203
I don't know nobody in L.A.
1212
01:32:21,495 --> 01:32:24,164
Bea, I don't want my kids growing up
in the South.
1213
01:32:24,248 --> 01:32:28,419
L.A. is where a Negro
can spread his wings and fly.
1214
01:32:29,378 --> 01:32:33,549
- Ray, my whole family's in Texas.
- That's why we're moving to L.A.
1215
01:32:34,133 --> 01:32:37,970
Tell the boys they can go ahead
and start their vacation right now.
1216
01:32:38,053 --> 01:32:40,556
All right, boss.
Once I get you inside.
1217
01:32:43,559 --> 01:32:46,061
Look at that huge coconut tree!
1218
01:32:46,145 --> 01:32:48,480
That ain't no coconut tree.
That's a palm tree.
1219
01:32:48,647 --> 01:32:50,149
There's thousands of them.
1220
01:32:51,733 --> 01:32:53,986
Here's the keys to your life,
a brand-new life.
1221
01:32:56,655 --> 01:32:58,323
Oh, Ray.
1222
01:33:01,452 --> 01:33:03,454
Ray, this is too much.
1223
01:33:03,704 --> 01:33:05,706
Have you seen the dining room?
1224
01:33:08,834 --> 01:33:10,794
But, baby, it's October.
1225
01:33:11,044 --> 01:33:14,381
I wanted to celebrate early,
because the band will be playing…
1226
01:33:14,465 --> 01:33:16,008
during the holidays.
1227
01:33:17,885 --> 01:33:20,179
- You're unbelievable.
- Look at your presents.
1228
01:33:20,262 --> 01:33:23,307
Baby, look at what Santa brought
you. You must have been good.
1229
01:33:23,390 --> 01:33:25,767
Go ahead! Christmas is early, baby!
1230
01:33:25,851 --> 01:33:27,019
Go get it.
1231
01:33:27,394 --> 01:33:29,021
- What's he taken?
- A guitar.
1232
01:33:29,104 --> 01:33:31,482
- A musician like your daddy.
- Can you play?
1233
01:33:32,691 --> 01:33:34,526
- What else you got?
- Hello?
1234
01:33:36,945 --> 01:33:38,447
How'd you get this number?
1235
01:33:39,156 --> 01:33:42,367
How do you think I got it?
Put Ray on the phone.
1236
01:33:44,036 --> 01:33:46,538
Ray, telephone.
1237
01:33:46,872 --> 01:33:48,123
Deal with it, man.
1238
01:33:48,207 --> 01:33:50,876
Ray, it's important. Telephone.
1239
01:33:52,211 --> 01:33:54,046
- I'll be right back.
- All right.
1240
01:33:54,880 --> 01:33:56,381
Who is it?
1241
01:33:57,049 --> 01:33:58,717
It's Margie.
1242
01:34:02,387 --> 01:34:05,390
Junior, come help your mama
change your brother's diaper.
1243
01:34:05,516 --> 01:34:08,852
I don't want to go.
I want to stay and open my presents.
1244
01:34:08,977 --> 01:34:09,978
I don't want to go.
1245
01:34:10,062 --> 01:34:12,064
I don't care.
Don't let me tell you twice.
1246
01:34:12,147 --> 01:34:13,732
- Hello.
- Hey, baby
1247
01:34:13,857 --> 01:34:17,486
Surprise! I came to L.A.
to surprise you.
1248
01:34:17,569 --> 01:34:20,572
Surprise me? Are you out of your
mind? I'm with my wife and kids.
1249
01:34:20,864 --> 01:34:22,991
On the road, I'm Mrs. Ray Charles.
1250
01:34:23,075 --> 01:34:24,243
That's on the road.
1251
01:34:24,368 --> 01:34:27,871
But, baby, come on,
I got everything set up for us.
1252
01:34:28,247 --> 01:34:30,082
Did you hear
what I just said to you?
1253
01:34:30,207 --> 01:34:32,584
Wait a minute,
I got a bottle of Bols, and…
1254
01:34:32,668 --> 01:34:33,710
Shut up.
1255
01:34:33,794 --> 01:34:36,922
Listen, we record in two weeks.
I'll see you then.
1256
01:34:37,005 --> 01:34:38,674
- Wait a minute, Ray!
- Bye.
1257
01:34:39,007 --> 01:34:40,175
Ray!
1258
01:35:21,008 --> 01:35:22,342
Hold on, wait.
1259
01:35:22,467 --> 01:35:24,886
Cut. You know that sounds off.
1260
01:35:24,970 --> 01:35:26,972
The three-part harmony is off.
1261
01:35:27,055 --> 01:35:29,891
Let's start it all over
from the top with the band.
1262
01:35:35,022 --> 01:35:37,190
Whoa, pardner! What was that?
1263
01:35:37,441 --> 01:35:39,651
I knew you'd like that.
It's an eight-track.
1264
01:35:39,735 --> 01:35:41,862
We can record each part separately.
1265
01:35:42,112 --> 01:35:45,490
Whoa, Nellie!
I can't wait to see that.
1266
01:35:45,991 --> 01:35:49,161
- What's so funny?
- Nothing, "pardner."
1267
01:35:50,454 --> 01:35:51,830
Margie's drunk. Jeff?
1268
01:35:53,790 --> 01:35:55,208
Go home and sleep it off.
1269
01:35:55,292 --> 01:35:56,960
Let me take you home.
1270
01:35:57,044 --> 01:35:59,212
No. I'll leave
when I'm good and ready!
1271
01:35:59,296 --> 01:36:01,048
She's good and ready right now.
1272
01:36:01,131 --> 01:36:03,342
Why don't you make me leave, sucker!
1273
01:36:03,508 --> 01:36:05,969
Teach you to treat me
like some piece of meat!
1274
01:36:06,595 --> 01:36:08,096
I ain't shutting up!
1275
01:36:08,180 --> 01:36:09,931
- Should we get in there?
- No.
1276
01:36:10,015 --> 01:36:11,183
Get them all out, now.
1277
01:36:11,266 --> 01:36:12,476
You'll have to make me leave!
1278
01:36:12,559 --> 01:36:15,395
You know what?
Get all of them out of here.
1279
01:36:15,520 --> 01:36:18,690
You're a cold-ass bastard!
Let go of me, Jeff!
1280
01:36:18,940 --> 01:36:20,776
You're a cold-ass bastard!
1281
01:36:20,859 --> 01:36:24,363
He wouldn't spit on me
if my ass was on fire!
1282
01:36:24,446 --> 01:36:25,530
Damn right I wouldn't.
1283
01:36:25,614 --> 01:36:27,699
Put me down, Jeff! Damn it!
1284
01:36:28,033 --> 01:36:29,534
You dropped your shoe.
1285
01:36:31,370 --> 01:36:33,205
Come on, let's get back to work.
1286
01:36:33,955 --> 01:36:36,500
Tom, this is what I want.
We'll lay my vocals down…
1287
01:36:36,583 --> 01:36:38,168
and finish the harmony parts.
1288
01:36:38,251 --> 01:36:41,797
How will we do the harmonies, Ray?
You sent the girls home.
1289
01:36:41,880 --> 01:36:44,132
I know what I did.
Let me take care of that.
1290
01:36:44,216 --> 01:36:47,344
Turn that eight-track on,
and I'll do the girls' parts myself.
1291
01:36:47,427 --> 01:36:50,055
And go out and find me
an "Oh, Johnny" girl.
1292
01:36:50,722 --> 01:36:52,349
One minute.
1293
01:36:53,350 --> 01:36:55,143
What the hell's
an "Oh, Johnny" girl?
1294
01:36:55,227 --> 01:36:56,687
I think I've got an idea.
1295
01:37:25,757 --> 01:37:29,928
The sky's the limit, Ray
I got you a $5,000-a-night raise.
1296
01:37:30,178 --> 01:37:31,847
They'll up you to 15 per.
1297
01:37:32,180 --> 01:37:33,598
Rehearsal in 10 minutes.
1298
01:37:33,682 --> 01:37:36,059
Jeff, could you
get me some cigarettes?
1299
01:37:36,143 --> 01:37:37,352
Okay, boss.
1300
01:37:39,855 --> 01:37:41,273
Fifteen per?
1301
01:37:41,356 --> 01:37:45,527
Your contract with Atlantic
is expiring in four months.
1302
01:37:46,945 --> 01:37:50,949
I got the contract with me. They're
going to double my royalties.
1303
01:37:51,033 --> 01:37:53,035
Before we jump back in that pond…
1304
01:37:53,118 --> 01:37:55,287
I thought I'd find out
what else was out there.
1305
01:37:55,370 --> 01:37:58,999
I had a very productive chat
with ABC-Paramount yesterday.
1306
01:37:59,291 --> 01:38:01,001
ABC? Who told you to do that?
1307
01:38:01,084 --> 01:38:03,962
Atlantic is family,
just like the Shaw Agency.
1308
01:38:04,171 --> 01:38:08,842
My job is to get you the best deal
possible. ABC is very interested.
1309
01:38:09,301 --> 01:38:10,552
No.
1310
01:38:12,971 --> 01:38:14,306
How interested?
1311
01:38:15,182 --> 01:38:20,061
How about a $50,000 advance
each year for three years?
1312
01:38:20,145 --> 01:38:22,272
You produce your own records.
1313
01:38:22,647 --> 01:38:25,150
They'll deduct recording costs
and give you…
1314
01:38:25,525 --> 01:38:27,194
75%.
1315
01:38:30,697 --> 01:38:33,492
Ahmet and Jerry
are flying in tonight so…
1316
01:38:33,992 --> 01:38:37,621
will you put them off until I can
talk things out with ABC?
1317
01:38:39,664 --> 01:38:42,167
My mama said,
ain't nothing wrong with talking.
1318
01:38:42,834 --> 01:38:46,254
Enough of the formalities.
Let's go back into the office, Ray.
1319
01:38:46,338 --> 01:38:49,257
I hope I can call you Ray.
I want you to be comfortable here.
1320
01:38:49,341 --> 01:38:52,344
I'll tell you something, everything
is gonna be better at ABC.
1321
01:38:52,427 --> 01:38:53,970
Moving from an indie to a major…
1322
01:38:54,054 --> 01:38:55,764
means you can
sell a lot more records…
1323
01:38:55,847 --> 01:38:59,142
as well as attract much larger
crowds, both white and Negro.
1324
01:38:59,226 --> 01:39:02,854
Mr. Clark, I've been
at Atlantic for so long…
1325
01:39:03,355 --> 01:39:07,526
I just want to give them a chance
to at least match the offer.
1326
01:39:08,193 --> 01:39:09,528
Certainly.
1327
01:39:10,320 --> 01:39:11,947
But I doubt they'll be able to.
1328
01:39:12,030 --> 01:39:13,824
We're giving you
a state-of-the-art deal.
1329
01:39:13,907 --> 01:39:16,952
Since I'm producing my own records,
I was wondering if I could…
1330
01:39:17,035 --> 01:39:18,870
own my masters, too.
1331
01:39:27,629 --> 01:39:31,800
Ray, we've never done that before.
No record company has.
1332
01:39:32,092 --> 01:39:34,344
I think I'm going to
have to have it that way…
1333
01:39:34,427 --> 01:39:36,555
for me to leave Atlantic Records.
1334
01:39:46,022 --> 01:39:51,236
Ahmet and I believe we're family
at Atlantic. Obviously, you don't!
1335
01:39:52,445 --> 01:39:53,780
Ahmet wouldn't believe it.
1336
01:39:53,989 --> 01:39:55,699
You know what he said? He said…
1337
01:39:55,782 --> 01:39:57,367
you would never
turn your back on us.
1338
01:39:57,450 --> 01:40:00,495
Never for a schlockmeister
like Sam Clark!
1339
01:40:01,121 --> 01:40:03,248
That's rich.
Sam Clark's a corporate slug…
1340
01:40:03,331 --> 01:40:06,543
who wouldn't know the difference
between Earl Hines and Art Tatum!
1341
01:40:12,716 --> 01:40:14,384
We let you grow here, Ray.
1342
01:40:15,135 --> 01:40:18,805
Nobody's taking credit for
your talent, but we nourished it.
1343
01:40:19,097 --> 01:40:21,099
We let you do your thing.
1344
01:40:22,767 --> 01:40:24,936
God damn it!
We deserve better than this.
1345
01:40:25,520 --> 01:40:28,857
Don't think I don't appreciate
everything you guys have done.
1346
01:40:28,940 --> 01:40:31,526
I'm very proud of the work
that we've done here together.
1347
01:40:31,610 --> 01:40:34,738
Atlantic has done pretty good
money-wise on my records, right?
1348
01:40:34,988 --> 01:40:36,448
Yes, we've done very well.
1349
01:40:36,531 --> 01:40:39,868
You were the ones that taught me
that making a record is business…
1350
01:40:39,951 --> 01:40:42,287
and find the best business deal
you can.
1351
01:40:42,370 --> 01:40:44,581
Seventy-five cents of every dollar,
and owning…
1352
01:40:44,664 --> 01:40:47,792
my own masters
is a pretty damn good deal.
1353
01:40:48,376 --> 01:40:49,961
Can you match it?
1354
01:40:50,962 --> 01:40:55,467
Ray, we would love to match it,
but we just can't.
1355
01:40:56,426 --> 01:40:59,262
That's a better deal
than Sinatra gets.
1356
01:41:02,140 --> 01:41:04,309
I'm very proud of you.
1357
01:41:06,144 --> 01:41:10,148
Looks like those boys are going
to get a taste of country dumb.
1358
01:41:14,152 --> 01:41:15,779
He'll be all right.
1359
01:41:15,862 --> 01:41:18,114
You guys always do find the best.
1360
01:42:11,751 --> 01:42:13,753
Listen to that crap.
1361
01:42:14,796 --> 01:42:18,133
Thought you said that ABC wasn't
going to force nothing on him.
1362
01:42:18,383 --> 01:42:19,718
They didn't.
1363
01:42:20,385 --> 01:42:22,387
It was Ray's idea.
1364
01:42:24,389 --> 01:42:25,348
Something new.
1365
01:42:25,432 --> 01:42:27,934
What are we then, Jeff?
Something old?
1366
01:42:28,059 --> 01:42:31,730
Yeah, what about us?
We got to eat, too.
1367
01:43:08,767 --> 01:43:11,478
It's a hit record.
What is wrong with that?
1368
01:43:11,561 --> 01:43:13,897
Critics say you've gone
middle-of-the-road.
1369
01:43:14,189 --> 01:43:17,275
The orchestra, the choir,
The Perry Como Show?
1370
01:43:17,359 --> 01:43:20,528
If I feel the music,
that means it's real.
1371
01:43:20,945 --> 01:43:23,448
No, it ain't.
Ray Charles is a sellout.
1372
01:43:23,698 --> 01:43:26,785
The blind Liberace, leaving those
Rocking Chair roots behind.
1373
01:43:26,868 --> 01:43:29,537
Quincy Jones.
Can we get a picture of these two?
1374
01:43:29,788 --> 01:43:31,372
- Six-nine!
- Hey, boy.
1375
01:43:31,456 --> 01:43:33,958
Look, this interview is over.
1376
01:43:34,209 --> 01:43:37,212
- I'd love to get you two together.
- Some other time.
1377
01:43:37,879 --> 01:43:40,590
Look at you. How's it going, man?
You look good.
1378
01:43:40,673 --> 01:43:42,634
Let me look at you.
You look good, too.
1379
01:43:42,717 --> 01:43:44,511
You hear what they're saying
about me?
1380
01:43:44,594 --> 01:43:47,222
That I can't do it no more.
I've gone middle-of-the-road.
1381
01:43:47,305 --> 01:43:48,890
So crank out another hit.
1382
01:43:48,973 --> 01:43:52,519
Let me tell you something, it ain't
easy to keep on being greezy, kid.
1383
01:43:53,228 --> 01:43:54,896
Where you blow in from?
1384
01:43:55,855 --> 01:43:56,898
Paris.
1385
01:43:56,981 --> 01:44:00,402
- Bonjour.
- Yeah, man. France is where it's at.
1386
01:44:00,485 --> 01:44:04,697
Yeah. All that stuff you've
been playing is really out of sight.
1387
01:44:05,198 --> 01:44:07,534
We gotta record something together.
1388
01:44:07,784 --> 01:44:10,995
People will really dig it.
Where you going after the Festival?
1389
01:44:11,538 --> 01:44:15,166
I go to D.C.,
Richmond, Virginia, Georgia.
1390
01:44:15,250 --> 01:44:18,086
Once you get the record out there,
you gotta sell It.
1391
01:44:18,169 --> 01:44:19,838
The South, man?
1392
01:44:20,797 --> 01:44:22,257
I'm not doing that no more.
1393
01:44:22,340 --> 01:44:24,551
Come on, kid,
that's where the money is, baby.
1394
01:44:25,009 --> 01:44:27,345
When I left Seattle with Hamp…
1395
01:44:27,846 --> 01:44:31,683
we went down there. It felt like
I walked into a prison cell.
1396
01:44:32,016 --> 01:44:35,436
A black man is a "boy"
in Mississippi, right?
1397
01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:37,230
Even if he's 80 years old.
1398
01:44:40,608 --> 01:44:42,944
I'm never playing to
Jim Crow again. Ever.
1399
01:44:43,194 --> 01:44:44,612
If that's what you feel, baby.
1400
01:44:44,946 --> 01:44:48,616
I'm serious, Ray.
We gotta do something.
1401
01:44:50,493 --> 01:44:52,370
Well, you know, what the hell, man.
1402
01:44:52,453 --> 01:44:55,623
You're just going to leave a lot
more money on the table for me.
1403
01:44:56,374 --> 01:44:58,042
You're welcome to it, man.
1404
01:45:13,057 --> 01:45:14,392
You ready to work?
1405
01:45:14,726 --> 01:45:16,060
Work on what?
1406
01:45:16,853 --> 01:45:18,771
Get over here,
you gotta help me with this.
1407
01:45:18,855 --> 01:45:21,024
Percy just sent me some new music.
1408
01:45:34,662 --> 01:45:36,664
Know what they're saying about me?
1409
01:45:36,998 --> 01:45:39,417
Said I've lost something,
I've gone middle-of-the-road.
1410
01:45:39,500 --> 01:45:41,252
They may as well
say the same about you.
1411
01:45:41,836 --> 01:45:43,171
You were the soul of this band.
1412
01:45:43,254 --> 01:45:45,673
Now every time you're around,
you're drunk.
1413
01:45:47,675 --> 01:45:50,678
Drunk soul of a blind junkie.
What a lovely couple.
1414
01:45:51,179 --> 01:45:53,139
Why don't you just get out of here?
1415
01:45:55,308 --> 01:45:57,310
I ain't drunk, Ray.
1416
01:45:58,269 --> 01:45:59,604
I'm pregnant.
1417
01:46:00,480 --> 01:46:03,483
That's right. I'm having your baby.
1418
01:46:03,608 --> 01:46:06,402
You ain't really…
You can't do that.
1419
01:46:06,861 --> 01:46:09,864
I'm gonna have to talk to
the doctor. You gotta get rid of it.
1420
01:46:11,157 --> 01:46:14,994
My God! What, because I'm not
your precious Bea?
1421
01:46:15,662 --> 01:46:17,872
I'm not good enough
to have this baby?
1422
01:46:19,165 --> 01:46:23,169
You lay up in my bed
every night. My bed!
1423
01:46:24,295 --> 01:46:25,964
I'm gonna have this baby, Ray.
1424
01:46:29,133 --> 01:46:31,261
No, Ray! No!
1425
01:46:31,344 --> 01:46:32,470
Just listen to me.
1426
01:46:32,553 --> 01:46:35,306
You know I care about you.
I won't let nothing happen to you.
1427
01:46:35,390 --> 01:46:37,642
- I'll pay for everything.
- No!
1428
01:46:37,725 --> 01:46:39,477
It'll cost you more than money.
1429
01:46:39,811 --> 01:46:42,605
I want you to leave her, Ray.
Come be with our baby.
1430
01:46:42,689 --> 01:46:46,067
You out of your damn mind. You knew
the rules when you got into this.
1431
01:46:46,150 --> 01:46:48,987
You know goddamn well
I ain't gonna leave my family.
1432
01:46:50,238 --> 01:46:51,906
Leave your family?
1433
01:46:52,240 --> 01:46:55,159
You are a damn fool, you know that?
1434
01:46:55,493 --> 01:46:58,663
Between the dope
and the music and me…
1435
01:46:58,746 --> 01:47:01,082
you already
done left your damn family!
1436
01:47:02,083 --> 01:47:06,004
And the sad part about it is,
Ray, you don't even know it.
1437
01:47:10,883 --> 01:47:12,385
You know what?
1438
01:47:12,468 --> 01:47:16,180
From now on, it's strictly business
between you and me.
1439
01:47:19,017 --> 01:47:21,936
That's it. Keep that anger.
1440
01:48:22,330 --> 01:48:23,998
Ray, it's Sam.
1441
01:48:24,499 --> 01:48:27,168
Can you hear me? It's Sam!
1442
01:48:27,251 --> 01:48:29,671
Hit the Road
is our second number one.
1443
01:48:29,754 --> 01:48:32,924
Yeah. ABC is taking out ads
in all the trades.
1444
01:48:33,174 --> 01:48:35,677
And Congrats
on your Grammy nomination.
1445
01:48:36,260 --> 01:48:38,930
No, I know you're going to win.
1446
01:48:39,681 --> 01:48:41,349
Hey, you feeling all right?
1447
01:48:41,808 --> 01:48:44,394
Come on, baby, be happy.
You're doing good.
1448
01:48:44,477 --> 01:48:48,481
Thank you, Sam.
I really am happy about that.
1449
01:48:49,148 --> 01:48:50,692
Yeah.
1450
01:48:54,404 --> 01:48:57,740
I'll stop by Jeff's room
and get my money on my way out.
1451
01:49:04,789 --> 01:49:05,873
Ray.
1452
01:49:07,542 --> 01:49:09,419
Margie, you ain't gotta leave, baby.
1453
01:49:09,585 --> 01:49:11,754
I'm on your hit record.
1454
01:49:11,838 --> 01:49:14,549
If I'm ever going to go solo,
then now's the time.
1455
01:49:14,632 --> 01:49:18,344
I don't want you…
I don't want you to go solo.
1456
01:49:18,428 --> 01:49:20,596
Ray, for once,
I'm doing something for me.
1457
01:49:21,973 --> 01:49:24,392
You remember the hummingbird?
1458
01:49:25,184 --> 01:49:26,185
What?
1459
01:49:26,853 --> 01:49:28,646
The hummingbird, Bea.
1460
01:49:40,992 --> 01:49:43,161
I don't want you to go.
1461
01:49:57,341 --> 01:50:00,178
Somebody'll fetch you
when your bus gets to St. Augustine.
1462
01:50:00,261 --> 01:50:02,054
When you get there,
show them this sign…
1463
01:50:02,138 --> 01:50:04,432
and tell them
you're Ray Charles Robinson.
1464
01:50:05,641 --> 01:50:07,935
And don't eat them sandwiches I made
all at once.
1465
01:50:08,019 --> 01:50:12,023
Don't make me go away.
I'll keep up with the normal kids.
1466
01:50:12,315 --> 01:50:14,484
I'll be good, just like George.
1467
01:50:14,567 --> 01:50:16,861
This ain't got
nothing to do with George.
1468
01:50:16,944 --> 01:50:19,155
I've taken you as far as I can.
1469
01:50:19,363 --> 01:50:22,742
Them teachers at that blind school
can teach you things I can't.
1470
01:50:22,825 --> 01:50:24,160
You need an education.
1471
01:50:24,243 --> 01:50:26,579
- I don't want no education!
- Don't say that!
1472
01:50:26,829 --> 01:50:28,748
I don't! I want to stay with you!
1473
01:50:28,831 --> 01:50:32,668
Stop it! I won't have you living
hand-to-mouth like me, you hear?
1474
01:50:33,461 --> 01:50:36,881
If you want to do something
to make your mama proud…
1475
01:50:37,173 --> 01:50:40,843
promise me you'll never let nobody
turn you into no cripple.
1476
01:50:41,052 --> 01:50:44,514
You won't become no charity case.
You'll stand on your own two feet.
1477
01:50:44,847 --> 01:50:46,182
I promise.
1478
01:50:46,516 --> 01:50:48,017
I love you, baby.
1479
01:50:49,018 --> 01:50:50,686
I'm so proud of you.
1480
01:51:04,992 --> 01:51:06,536
No more segregation!
1481
01:51:25,930 --> 01:51:29,475
Welcome back to Augusta, Ray!
Good to see you.
1482
01:51:32,770 --> 01:51:34,939
Do you believe in the protest, Ray?
1483
01:51:35,147 --> 01:51:36,274
Get out of here!
1484
01:51:36,440 --> 01:51:38,734
Ray, I'm sorry about this.
Hurry on up inside.
1485
01:51:38,818 --> 01:51:40,444
We got refreshments waiting.
1486
01:51:40,820 --> 01:51:42,446
Mr. Charles!
1487
01:51:42,530 --> 01:51:44,240
You know tonight's show
is segregated?
1488
01:51:44,323 --> 01:51:47,577
The dance floor is whites only.
Negroes can't leave the balcony.
1489
01:51:47,660 --> 01:51:49,537
That's how it is, man.
This is Georgia.
1490
01:51:49,620 --> 01:51:50,788
You think we don't know that?
1491
01:51:50,871 --> 01:51:53,416
Negroes are persecuted in this state
every day!
1492
01:51:53,499 --> 01:51:56,377
Ain't nothing I can do about that.
I'm an entertainer.
1493
01:51:56,460 --> 01:51:58,588
We all play Jim Crow down here.
1494
01:51:58,671 --> 01:52:00,339
Right. Now get out of here, boy.
1495
01:52:00,423 --> 01:52:02,884
It doesn't have to be that way.
You could change things…
1496
01:52:02,967 --> 01:52:04,051
right here and now!
1497
01:52:04,135 --> 01:52:05,845
I'm sorry, son.
Ain't nothing I can do.
1498
01:52:05,928 --> 01:52:08,806
You hear that, boy?
That's the way things are.
1499
01:52:09,098 --> 01:52:12,101
Now get your black ass out,
and take that trash with you!
1500
01:52:12,643 --> 01:52:16,981
Hold on. He's right.
Get them on the bus.
1501
01:52:17,106 --> 01:52:19,066
- You sure?
- Get them back on the bus!
1502
01:52:19,150 --> 01:52:21,152
Y'all heard Ray!
1503
01:52:21,235 --> 01:52:23,821
Back on the bus!
1504
01:52:24,071 --> 01:52:25,323
Are you serious?
1505
01:52:25,823 --> 01:52:28,659
Get them on the bus.
I can't do nothing here.
1506
01:52:28,826 --> 01:52:30,119
Ray, you know me.
1507
01:52:30,202 --> 01:52:33,539
I'm not gonna lose money just
because you suddenly got religion.
1508
01:52:33,623 --> 01:52:34,790
Ain't nothing I can do.
1509
01:52:34,874 --> 01:52:37,251
We have a contract.
You break it, I'll sue you!
1510
01:52:37,335 --> 01:52:39,712
- I'll win!
- You gotta do what you gotta do.
1511
01:52:39,795 --> 01:52:42,298
I'll win big!
I'll own your ass, Ray!
1512
01:52:45,301 --> 01:52:47,637
Thank you, Mr. Charles.
You could be the first.
1513
01:52:47,970 --> 01:52:51,140
No, thank you, son. You were right.
You're right.
1514
01:52:52,850 --> 01:52:54,935
You'll never work Georgia again!
1515
01:52:56,520 --> 01:52:59,982
He filed a lawsuit
and it's more than a fine, Ray.
1516
01:53:00,232 --> 01:53:02,485
This guy's got juice.
He can get you barred from…
1517
01:53:02,568 --> 01:53:04,654
ever playing Georgia again.
1518
01:53:04,737 --> 01:53:08,032
But he's willing to drop the suit
if you'll make up the gig.
1519
01:53:08,532 --> 01:53:09,867
Not if it's segregated.
1520
01:53:13,454 --> 01:53:15,915
I admire what you're doing,
but you can't afford this.
1521
01:53:15,998 --> 01:53:17,917
Georgia is
our highest-grossing state.
1522
01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:21,712
I'm not playing any Jim Crow joints
ever again, you got that?
1523
01:53:22,213 --> 01:53:23,881
Yeah. I got it.
1524
01:53:24,382 --> 01:53:26,884
Jeff, get those people in here
so we can rehearse.
1525
01:53:59,750 --> 01:54:01,127
Go ahead and dance!
1526
01:54:02,586 --> 01:54:04,463
Let's dance, everybody!
1527
01:54:06,257 --> 01:54:07,925
Let's dance now!
1528
01:54:13,639 --> 01:54:15,057
- You okay?
- Yeah. What's going on?
1529
01:54:15,141 --> 01:54:16,809
Just kids onstage dancing.
1530
01:54:16,892 --> 01:54:18,853
Let them dance.
That's what they're here for.
1531
01:54:18,936 --> 01:54:21,230
Please don't hurt them!
Just keep dancing!
1532
01:54:21,313 --> 01:54:22,648
Keep going!
1533
01:55:08,569 --> 01:55:11,739
Mr. Charles, it's Western Union!
We have a telegram for you.
1534
01:55:12,740 --> 01:55:14,909
- You have to sign for it, sir.
- I'm coming.
1535
01:55:19,830 --> 01:55:22,833
Indianapolis police. Got a report
of loud music coming from here.
1536
01:55:22,917 --> 01:55:25,044
Where do you think
you're going, pal?
1537
01:55:26,170 --> 01:55:27,838
I'm just going to the bathroom.
1538
01:55:28,047 --> 01:55:29,715
Handcuff this son of a bitch.
1539
01:55:30,382 --> 01:55:33,552
Recognize this, Ray?
Heroin's a felony.
1540
01:55:33,886 --> 01:55:37,223
It ain't like I'm dealing it, man.
I'm not hurting nobody.
1541
01:55:37,473 --> 01:55:40,893
You're hurting everybody.
Your jungle music is poisoning…
1542
01:55:40,976 --> 01:55:44,355
our kids' minds. I'm gonna
put your black ass away forever.
1543
01:55:44,647 --> 01:55:45,981
You have to understand.
1544
01:55:46,065 --> 01:55:49,235
I got a wife, kids.
I got responsibilities.
1545
01:55:49,318 --> 01:55:52,530
Why don't you tell that story
to these people. Bring them in!
1546
01:55:56,617 --> 01:55:59,578
- Was it a setup?
- How long you been on heroin?
1547
01:55:59,662 --> 01:56:01,872
Come on.
What did they charge you with?
1548
01:56:43,747 --> 01:56:46,083
- Hi, baby.
- David.
1549
01:56:46,250 --> 01:56:49,587
- Bea, he can stay.
- No. Baby, come on.
1550
01:56:49,795 --> 01:56:50,963
- Bea?
- What?
1551
01:56:53,090 --> 01:56:55,301
- Since I got back…
- Since you got out.
1552
01:56:57,595 --> 01:57:00,848
Since I got here, you haven't said
more than two words to me.
1553
01:57:01,223 --> 01:57:03,225
Ray, what am I supposed to say?
1554
01:57:03,726 --> 01:57:07,563
My words don't mean much to you
anymore. Maybe they never did.
1555
01:57:07,813 --> 01:57:11,317
- Come on, Bea, you know I love you.
- Are you gonna stop then?
1556
01:57:14,153 --> 01:57:15,821
Bea, what you don't understand…
1557
01:57:15,905 --> 01:57:18,490
is there's a lot of
mean-spirited people out there.
1558
01:57:19,533 --> 01:57:20,534
Yeah.
1559
01:57:25,581 --> 01:57:26,665
Ray?
1560
01:57:30,127 --> 01:57:33,047
I had to bring Junior home
from school today…
1561
01:57:33,130 --> 01:57:34,548
because of what the other kids said.
1562
01:57:34,632 --> 01:57:37,885
They got mean-ass kids here.
We should move to Beverly Hills.
1563
01:57:37,968 --> 01:57:39,720
No, Ray, we're not moving.
1564
01:57:39,803 --> 01:57:43,432
It's not about where we live. It's
about what you're doing to yourself.
1565
01:57:44,391 --> 01:57:46,685
Those boys worship you.
1566
01:57:46,769 --> 01:57:48,812
You want them to end up
using that poison, too?
1567
01:57:48,896 --> 01:57:50,564
Bea, that's not fair.
1568
01:57:50,814 --> 01:57:53,233
What's not fair, Ray?
1569
01:57:53,317 --> 01:57:55,236
That's a low blow.
1570
01:58:00,574 --> 01:58:03,577
Don't jive me, Milt.
Don't jive me, man!
1571
01:58:03,911 --> 01:58:08,707
Really? Good.
Tell Sam I said thank you.
1572
01:58:09,041 --> 01:58:11,043
All right, then.
1573
01:58:13,712 --> 01:58:18,050
What, Ray? What? Come on, now.
Tell me what happened.
1574
01:58:18,384 --> 01:58:22,179
ABC got the case dropped.
The police didn't have a warrant.
1575
01:58:22,513 --> 01:58:23,555
They bought them off.
1576
01:58:23,639 --> 01:58:25,641
Damn it, Bea,
do you want me to go to prison?
1577
01:58:25,724 --> 01:58:28,143
No. I want you
to stop lying to yourself…
1578
01:58:28,227 --> 01:58:30,229
and they are making that impossible.
1579
01:58:30,479 --> 01:58:31,981
You don't understand.
1580
01:58:32,064 --> 01:58:33,732
Then make me understand!
1581
01:58:33,983 --> 01:58:37,194
When I walk out that door,
I walk out alone in the dark!
1582
01:58:37,528 --> 01:58:39,780
I'm trying to do something
nobody's ever done…
1583
01:58:39,863 --> 01:58:41,448
in music and business.
1584
01:58:41,532 --> 01:58:44,201
But I can't do it if I'm alone
everywhere I go.
1585
01:58:45,077 --> 01:58:48,414
I don't want to be alone here, Bea.
Not in my own home.
1586
01:58:52,626 --> 01:58:55,295
Bea, if you don't understand me…
1587
01:58:56,171 --> 01:58:57,840
then who will?
1588
01:59:04,221 --> 01:59:06,098
I don't know, Ray.
1589
01:59:09,435 --> 01:59:11,770
David? I'm coming!
1590
01:59:12,896 --> 01:59:14,356
Mama's coming!
1591
01:59:18,152 --> 01:59:22,656
Ray, we pull you out of the fire,
and you want country music?
1592
01:59:22,740 --> 01:59:25,159
I've sung country music all my life.
1593
01:59:25,242 --> 01:59:27,411
I used to play
with the Florida Playboys.
1594
01:59:27,703 --> 01:59:30,914
We made a big investment in you and
it's paying off handsomely.
1595
01:59:30,998 --> 01:59:32,332
For both of us.
1596
01:59:32,583 --> 01:59:34,293
We don't want to lose your fan base.
1597
01:59:34,418 --> 01:59:37,171
You got a point there,
but I actually think…
1598
01:59:37,254 --> 01:59:38,756
that we have more to gain…
1599
01:59:38,839 --> 01:59:40,507
than we do to lose.
1600
01:59:40,924 --> 01:59:43,594
Ray, it's a bad idea.
1601
01:59:46,055 --> 01:59:48,265
When I came to ABC,
you put in the contract…
1602
01:59:48,348 --> 01:59:50,434
that I can choose my own music.
1603
01:59:51,268 --> 01:59:53,103
You want to read that paragraph?
1604
01:59:57,024 --> 01:59:59,026
It's on Page 3.
1605
02:00:00,110 --> 02:00:01,653
I don't need to see it.
1606
02:00:11,038 --> 02:00:13,248
Good evening, Saint Louis.
1607
02:00:13,332 --> 02:00:15,709
It's time for the main attraction.
1608
02:00:15,793 --> 02:00:19,338
The innovator of soul.
The genius himself.
1609
02:00:19,671 --> 02:00:21,465
Ray Charles!
1610
02:00:47,282 --> 02:00:51,954
Thank you so much. I know that
a lot of y'all don't know…
1611
02:00:52,162 --> 02:00:55,332
that I was brought up in the South.
1612
02:00:55,666 --> 02:00:59,461
Every time you turn on the radio
there, you hear the Grand Ole Opry.
1613
02:00:59,670 --> 02:01:03,340
That's what I grew up singing,
so I hope you don't mind…
1614
02:01:03,674 --> 02:01:07,845
I want to sing something to give you
a taste of my country roots.
1615
02:01:08,137 --> 02:01:09,429
Unchain My Heart!
1616
02:01:09,680 --> 02:01:11,265
Georgia On My Mind!
1617
02:01:16,436 --> 02:01:19,606
The lights up top
and on the mezzanine…
1618
02:01:19,857 --> 02:01:23,193
let's take everything down
and hit Ray with a follow spot.
1619
02:01:23,277 --> 02:01:24,611
Do it on my count.
1620
02:01:28,031 --> 02:01:30,200
In five, four…
1621
02:02:17,873 --> 02:02:19,416
Jeff's here.
1622
02:02:20,375 --> 02:02:24,755
Dad, if you can't see, how can you
choose the right color socks?
1623
02:02:25,047 --> 02:02:27,716
I'll show you.
Let me show you something.
1624
02:02:28,050 --> 02:02:30,219
See? Right here?
1625
02:02:30,552 --> 02:02:33,180
The two, I got it sewn in thick,
so I can feel it.
1626
02:02:33,430 --> 02:02:34,598
Two is brown.
1627
02:02:35,182 --> 02:02:37,684
One is black. Three is blue.
1628
02:02:37,935 --> 02:02:39,269
Where's four?
1629
02:02:39,519 --> 02:02:40,938
Nowhere.
1630
02:02:41,188 --> 02:02:43,357
There ain't no four. You're right.
1631
02:03:20,310 --> 02:03:23,689
Guys, we got 10 minutes to load out!
Change back at the hotel.
1632
02:03:23,772 --> 02:03:26,066
They bought that country jive
hook, line and sinker.
1633
02:03:26,149 --> 02:03:27,693
Ray, man, you're amazing.
1634
02:03:27,776 --> 02:03:30,279
You know why they like
country music?
1635
02:03:30,362 --> 02:03:32,572
The stories. They got great stories.
1636
02:03:32,656 --> 02:03:33,740
Hey, Joe.
1637
02:03:33,824 --> 02:03:36,994
Ray, meet Joe Adams.
Hal Ziegler hired Joe…
1638
02:03:37,077 --> 02:03:39,329
as the announcer
for the rest of the tour.
1639
02:03:39,788 --> 02:03:42,207
I know you, Mayor of Melody.
1640
02:03:42,291 --> 02:03:44,585
I listened to your radio show
in L.A. in the '50s.
1641
02:03:44,668 --> 02:03:47,129
We've both come a ways since then.
1642
02:03:47,337 --> 02:03:49,840
What was that counting
you were doing back there?
1643
02:03:50,090 --> 02:03:52,551
Cueing down the lights.
That shuts up the audience…
1644
02:03:52,634 --> 02:03:55,345
so you can sing your ballad
instead of having to scream it.
1645
02:03:55,429 --> 02:03:58,098
I'll be damned.
Who told you to do that?
1646
02:03:58,181 --> 02:03:59,600
No one. It just needed to be done.
1647
02:03:59,683 --> 02:04:02,602
That's what I'm talking about.
I like to hear a person say:
1648
02:04:02,686 --> 02:04:04,604
"It needed to be done"…
1649
02:04:04,688 --> 02:04:07,441
as opposed to a person saying,
"It ain't my job."
1650
02:04:07,691 --> 02:04:11,361
Tell me about Central Avenue.
I know you know Jack Lauderdale.
1651
02:04:12,446 --> 02:04:13,613
Hello, New York!
1652
02:04:13,697 --> 02:04:15,032
Hello, Boston!
1653
02:04:15,282 --> 02:04:16,450
Hello, Saint Louis!
1654
02:04:16,700 --> 02:04:18,702
Good evening, San Francisco!
1655
02:04:26,043 --> 02:04:29,046
Ray, I got some good news for you.
We got the cover of Cash Box.
1656
02:04:29,254 --> 02:04:32,382
"The nation's hottest album:
Modern Sounds of Country & Western."
1657
02:04:32,549 --> 02:04:34,676
- You are hotter than hell.
- That's what they say.
1658
02:04:34,760 --> 02:04:37,346
Your albums
are going through the roof…
1659
02:04:37,429 --> 02:04:38,972
your concerts
are always selling out.
1660
02:04:39,056 --> 02:04:42,184
You'll need shelters for your money.
You're in a new tax bracket.
1661
02:04:42,267 --> 02:04:44,936
Keep your drawers on, Fathead!
I got the instruments!
1662
02:04:45,187 --> 02:04:47,898
Jeff, Joe was
in the film Carmen Jones.
1663
02:04:47,981 --> 02:04:49,316
Who was the director again?
1664
02:04:49,399 --> 02:04:50,359
Otto Preminger.
1665
02:04:50,442 --> 02:04:53,278
He was also on Broadway
with Lena Home.
1666
02:04:53,612 --> 02:04:55,906
She was the star. I was supporting.
1667
02:04:56,281 --> 02:04:57,866
Is that a fact?
1668
02:04:58,033 --> 02:05:01,244
Prepare for an extraordinary
evening of music.
1669
02:05:01,328 --> 02:05:05,248
Perhaps the most innovative, unique
and energetic musical voice today.
1670
02:05:05,332 --> 02:05:06,625
Please welcome to the stage…
1671
02:05:06,708 --> 02:05:07,959
It is my pleasure…
1672
02:05:08,043 --> 02:05:09,920
Please welcome the one-of-a-kind…
1673
02:05:10,212 --> 02:05:13,882
I present Mr. Ray Charles!
1674
02:05:51,294 --> 02:05:53,964
There's a park
at the end of the street.
1675
02:05:54,047 --> 02:05:55,882
You can see the L.A. basin
from there.
1676
02:05:55,966 --> 02:05:58,051
Even Beverly Hills
doesn't have these views.
1677
02:05:58,135 --> 02:06:00,804
How does it look, Bea?
Do you like it?
1678
02:06:01,304 --> 02:06:04,057
- I don't know. I haven't seen it.
- You got to like it.
1679
02:06:04,141 --> 02:06:05,100
Voila.
1680
02:06:05,183 --> 02:06:08,520
This foyer is designed to impress
anybody who walks through the door.
1681
02:06:08,603 --> 02:06:11,606
It has a big winding staircase,
just like Gone With the Wind.
1682
02:06:11,690 --> 02:06:14,860
We should get our portraits painted,
like Rhett and Scarlett.
1683
02:06:15,110 --> 02:06:16,653
Bea, bring him in here.
1684
02:06:16,736 --> 02:06:19,072
Wait till you hear
what's waiting in the living room.
1685
02:06:19,156 --> 02:06:20,157
What is it?
1686
02:06:20,240 --> 02:06:24,077
I had them build you a solid marble
fireplace, two stories high.
1687
02:06:24,161 --> 02:06:26,246
Hot damn! How do you like it?
1688
02:06:26,413 --> 02:06:27,581
It's awful big.
1689
02:06:27,664 --> 02:06:31,001
- Sure is: 8,500 square feet.
- Biggest house in the neighborhood.
1690
02:06:31,126 --> 02:06:33,003
So, does this meet
with your approval?
1691
02:06:33,086 --> 02:06:34,421
Man, this is a palace.
1692
02:06:34,504 --> 02:06:35,756
You think this is big?
1693
02:06:35,839 --> 02:06:39,009
Wait until you see 30,000
square feet of RPM Incorporated.
1694
02:06:39,342 --> 02:06:41,178
Yeah, headquarters!
1695
02:06:41,470 --> 02:06:43,638
This is it, Ray.
Your brand-new recording studio.
1696
02:06:43,722 --> 02:06:45,265
Did you get everything I asked for?
1697
02:06:45,348 --> 02:06:47,476
Totally state-of-the-art.
Tom Dowd built…
1698
02:06:47,559 --> 02:06:50,604
an eight-track mixing console,
two recorders, the works.
1699
02:06:50,896 --> 02:06:53,190
This room is bigger than
most people's houses.
1700
02:06:53,273 --> 02:06:55,317
Your private bathroom
is to your left.
1701
02:06:55,400 --> 02:06:57,944
Behind you is my adjoining office.
1702
02:06:58,195 --> 02:07:02,199
Your private bar is to your left.
Bottle of Bols in the center.
1703
02:07:02,449 --> 02:07:03,950
You know me pretty good.
1704
02:07:04,034 --> 02:07:06,369
If you run out, shout,
I'm right next door.
1705
02:07:06,870 --> 02:07:08,205
This is nice, right here.
1706
02:07:08,288 --> 02:07:10,540
- It's the house that Ray built.
- Yes, it is.
1707
02:07:22,761 --> 02:07:26,598
Ray Junior, slowdown!
This ain't no baseball diamond!
1708
02:07:29,059 --> 02:07:30,727
Charles residence.
1709
02:07:31,061 --> 02:07:32,687
Mr. Charles?
1710
02:07:33,855 --> 02:07:37,359
Bring that boy over here!
I got a hot dog with his name on it!
1711
02:07:37,901 --> 02:07:38,902
Hello.
1712
02:07:39,528 --> 02:07:41,363
Yes, I know who you are.
1713
02:07:42,864 --> 02:07:45,075
What? Oh, God, no.
1714
02:07:46,701 --> 02:07:50,038
I'll get on a plane and be there
as soon as I can.
1715
02:07:50,247 --> 02:07:51,581
What happened?
1716
02:07:53,583 --> 02:07:54,918
Margie's dead.
1717
02:07:55,252 --> 02:07:56,920
Oh, God! How?
1718
02:07:58,713 --> 02:07:59,923
She overdosed.
1719
02:08:03,718 --> 02:08:05,512
I didn't start her, Bea.
1720
02:08:06,847 --> 02:08:10,016
I didn't let her do dope around me.
I wouldn't let that happen.
1721
02:08:10,100 --> 02:08:13,770
I'm sure, Ray.
I'm sure you set a fine example.
1722
02:08:17,524 --> 02:08:18,858
What about her baby?
1723
02:08:23,864 --> 02:08:25,115
You knew?
1724
02:08:25,866 --> 02:08:27,701
His name is Charles Wayne.
1725
02:08:28,285 --> 02:08:32,163
He was born October 1,
in New York City. He's 3 years old.
1726
02:08:33,039 --> 02:08:34,541
The baby's fine.
1727
02:08:35,375 --> 02:08:36,793
He's at her sister's.
1728
02:08:39,254 --> 02:08:41,089
I'll start sending them some money.
1729
02:08:41,172 --> 02:08:43,633
You don't have to.
I send them money every month.
1730
02:09:08,700 --> 02:09:11,870
In five minutes, Mr. Charles will
be here. He'll be ready to go.
1731
02:09:11,953 --> 02:09:13,913
The charts Jeff is handing out…
1732
02:09:13,997 --> 02:09:16,207
should be turned in
at the conclusion of…
1733
02:09:17,167 --> 02:09:19,336
You're late, that's a $50 fine.
1734
02:09:19,920 --> 02:09:21,171
I ain't late.
1735
02:09:21,379 --> 02:09:23,465
I give them
a 10-minute grace period, Joe.
1736
02:09:23,548 --> 02:09:26,968
2:05. He's late.
He'll be charged $50.
1737
02:09:27,052 --> 02:09:29,429
What? Where's Ray?
1738
02:09:29,512 --> 02:09:31,806
You don't have to talk to Ray,
you're talking to me.
1739
02:09:31,890 --> 02:09:33,933
I'll talk to whoever
I damn well please…
1740
02:09:34,017 --> 02:09:35,644
and it sure as hell ain't you.
1741
02:09:36,102 --> 02:09:37,437
Jive jerk.
1742
02:09:42,400 --> 02:09:47,364
Ray, this fool Joe Adams
is trying to fine me for being late.
1743
02:09:48,031 --> 02:09:49,491
What time did you get here?
1744
02:09:49,574 --> 02:09:53,578
What? Just now.
The band's still setting up.
1745
02:09:54,287 --> 02:09:55,789
- Jeff don't…
- I'm not Jeff.
1746
02:09:55,872 --> 02:09:57,207
That's a fact, Jack!
1747
02:09:58,875 --> 02:10:01,544
Ray, you said the band was my thing.
1748
02:10:01,878 --> 02:10:03,004
It is.
1749
02:10:03,088 --> 02:10:06,091
Then, Fathead,
go on back to rehearsal.
1750
02:10:08,760 --> 02:10:10,929
You know how it is,
you've been there.
1751
02:10:11,429 --> 02:10:13,515
Go on now. Let me handle this.
1752
02:10:13,848 --> 02:10:15,767
Fathead, go on now.
1753
02:10:19,187 --> 02:10:21,106
What the hell is going on, Ray?
1754
02:10:21,189 --> 02:10:23,274
I'm not doing anything
I haven't been asked to.
1755
02:10:23,358 --> 02:10:24,984
Ray's running a business.
1756
02:10:25,068 --> 02:10:28,113
He shouldn't have to waste time
hearing why people were late.
1757
02:10:28,196 --> 02:10:31,366
I'm not talking to you, Joe.
I'm talking to Ray.
1758
02:10:37,664 --> 02:10:39,791
I know you think
I'm soft on the band…
1759
02:10:39,874 --> 02:10:42,001
but those cats would do
whatever I ask.
1760
02:10:42,252 --> 02:10:44,671
If you come in with this
"running a business" crap…
1761
02:10:44,754 --> 02:10:46,589
you'll lose some good people.
1762
02:10:46,923 --> 02:10:49,342
There are musicians waiting in line
to play with Ray.
1763
02:10:49,426 --> 02:10:51,845
Not for long,
once they get a taste of you.
1764
02:10:53,096 --> 02:10:55,598
Ray, you're the leader.
Be one! Come on.
1765
02:10:55,849 --> 02:10:57,392
Things have changed, Jeff.
1766
02:10:57,475 --> 02:11:00,395
It ain't like the days of
The Chitlin' Circuit.
1767
02:11:00,478 --> 02:11:03,481
If you weren't busy building
a bowling alley, you'd see that.
1768
02:11:04,607 --> 02:11:05,942
So you know about that?
1769
02:11:06,860 --> 02:11:08,862
I know about everything.
1770
02:11:09,154 --> 02:11:11,364
I'm just trying to figure out
how you did it.
1771
02:11:11,448 --> 02:11:13,074
You think I'm stealing from you?
1772
02:11:13,158 --> 02:11:16,161
If the Shaw Agency gives you a cut
of the 10% I pay them…
1773
02:11:16,244 --> 02:11:18,788
I might as well keep
the goddamn money in my pocket.
1774
02:11:19,622 --> 02:11:21,458
Leave us alone. We need to talk.
1775
02:11:23,126 --> 02:11:24,127
Ray?
1776
02:11:24,627 --> 02:11:26,004
You can step outside, Joe.
1777
02:11:28,256 --> 02:11:30,091
I'll be in my office.
1778
02:11:36,765 --> 02:11:40,101
I know that jealous bastard planted
that lie in your head…
1779
02:11:40,435 --> 02:11:43,063
but I have never stolen
from you, Ray, and I never will.
1780
02:11:43,146 --> 02:11:45,523
I got a small business loan…
1781
02:11:45,607 --> 02:11:48,485
and Milt Shaw gave me
a little extra, but I'm no thief.
1782
02:11:48,568 --> 02:11:50,153
Then what about that?
1783
02:11:50,278 --> 02:11:54,407
A promoter swearing you did side
deals with him to split my overages!
1784
02:11:54,491 --> 02:11:55,867
How could you do that to me?
1785
02:11:55,950 --> 02:11:58,536
We've been through so much,
we're like brothers.
1786
02:11:58,620 --> 02:11:59,913
You know what?
1787
02:12:01,414 --> 02:12:04,417
If we were like brothers…
1788
02:12:04,751 --> 02:12:07,086
why are you paying Joe
more than you're paying me?
1789
02:12:07,170 --> 02:12:08,922
Damn that! You broke my heart.
1790
02:12:09,589 --> 02:12:13,843
You know what, Ray? You broke mine
a long goddamn time ago!
1791
02:12:14,886 --> 02:12:16,721
Well, then there it is.
1792
02:12:23,269 --> 02:12:26,606
You know something, Ray?
You're going to get yours one day.
1793
02:12:26,856 --> 02:12:30,610
And I pray God has mercy
on your soul, you son of a bitch!
1794
02:12:38,535 --> 02:12:40,286
Everything all right, Ray?
1795
02:12:41,579 --> 02:12:43,748
How the hell do you think it is?
1796
02:12:54,843 --> 02:12:58,179
Go tell him. Tell him!
1797
02:12:59,764 --> 02:13:03,059
Dad, I made the all-star team!
The game's on Thursday.
1798
02:13:03,268 --> 02:13:06,938
That's great. Damn! I'm not gonna
be in town. I'm on tour.
1799
02:13:07,230 --> 02:13:09,774
What if I buy you guys new uniforms?
1800
02:13:09,858 --> 02:13:11,943
Tell the coach I don't care
how much they cost.
1801
02:13:12,026 --> 02:13:13,319
- Okay.
- All right.
1802
02:13:13,403 --> 02:13:15,446
Take your dad's briefcase inside.
1803
02:13:15,530 --> 02:13:19,158
The plane to Montreal leaves
at 11:00. I'll pick you up at 8:30.
1804
02:13:20,076 --> 02:13:22,161
Did you hear
what Ray Junior said to you?
1805
02:13:22,245 --> 02:13:24,789
You know how much making
the all-star team means to him?
1806
02:13:24,873 --> 02:13:27,667
I know, but I got things on my mind.
We had to fire Jeff.
1807
02:13:27,750 --> 02:13:29,711
- What?
- He was stealing.
1808
02:13:29,919 --> 02:13:32,380
Jeff? I don't believe it.
1809
02:13:33,298 --> 02:13:35,008
We're better without him.
1810
02:14:35,276 --> 02:14:36,694
Excuse me!
1811
02:14:37,403 --> 02:14:39,072
U.S. customs!
1812
02:14:39,155 --> 02:14:41,157
We'll need identification, please.
1813
02:14:41,449 --> 02:14:43,409
You just arrived from Montreal?
1814
02:14:43,493 --> 02:14:44,619
Is there a problem?
1815
02:14:44,702 --> 02:14:47,121
We were alerted there might be drugs
on this plane.
1816
02:14:47,205 --> 02:14:49,415
That's outrageous!
I'm calling our lawyer.
1817
02:14:49,499 --> 02:14:51,834
No lawyers
at international checkpoints.
1818
02:14:51,960 --> 02:14:54,295
We'll have to search everyone
on this plane.
1819
02:14:54,545 --> 02:14:57,090
Mr. Charles,
we'd like to start with you.
1820
02:14:57,173 --> 02:14:58,967
I'd like to see your overcoat.
1821
02:14:59,300 --> 02:15:01,552
- I don't mind.
- Don't say anything.
1822
02:15:03,054 --> 02:15:04,389
What's this?
1823
02:15:05,682 --> 02:15:08,017
Ray, this isn't some judge
in Indiana.
1824
02:15:08,101 --> 02:15:10,144
It's federal.
A charge of smuggling…
1825
02:15:10,228 --> 02:15:11,688
can mean real prison time.
1826
02:15:13,231 --> 02:15:15,692
Our lawyers
will do what they can, but…
1827
02:15:35,670 --> 02:15:37,005
Hello.
1828
02:15:39,674 --> 02:15:41,467
You can't hide out in here forever.
1829
02:15:41,551 --> 02:15:43,136
It's my house.
I'm not in prison yet.
1830
02:15:43,219 --> 02:15:45,888
No, it's my house. You ain't
been here more than six days…
1831
02:15:45,972 --> 02:15:47,223
since we moved in.
1832
02:15:47,390 --> 02:15:49,809
No, Ray, no! A needle
ain't gonna solve this!
1833
02:15:49,934 --> 02:15:51,894
Only thing that can help you is God.
1834
02:15:52,061 --> 02:15:54,397
God? Do you know how it feels
to go blind…
1835
02:15:54,939 --> 02:15:56,649
and still be afraid of the dark?
1836
02:15:56,733 --> 02:16:00,153
Every day, you pray for just
a little light, and you get nothing.
1837
02:16:00,320 --> 02:16:02,613
- God don't listen to people like me.
- Stop it.
1838
02:16:02,697 --> 02:16:05,825
As far as I'm concerned, me and God
is even and I do what I please.
1839
02:16:05,908 --> 02:16:07,994
If I want to shoot up,
I'll shoot up.
1840
02:16:08,077 --> 02:16:10,163
Then go ahead!
But you walk out that door…
1841
02:16:10,246 --> 02:16:12,999
and I'm doing something
I should have done a long time ago.
1842
02:16:13,082 --> 02:16:14,667
I'm taking my boys and leaving!
1843
02:16:14,751 --> 02:16:16,961
You are not.
You have no place to go.
1844
02:16:17,086 --> 02:16:18,421
- No place?
- No.
1845
02:16:18,755 --> 02:16:20,673
You think I'm scared of losing this?
1846
02:16:20,923 --> 02:16:23,634
The only thing I was
ever scared of losing was you.
1847
02:16:23,926 --> 02:16:27,096
Because where was I ever gonna find
another Ray Robinson?
1848
02:16:28,473 --> 02:16:31,184
So I put up with
some terrible stuff.
1849
02:16:31,267 --> 02:16:32,769
Maybe that makes me part to blame.
1850
02:16:32,852 --> 02:16:34,604
But I ain't scared no more.
1851
02:16:34,687 --> 02:16:37,357
You know I love you and those boys
more than anything.
1852
02:16:37,440 --> 02:16:40,193
That is a damn lie and you know it!
1853
02:16:41,444 --> 02:16:43,112
You ever look at this?
1854
02:16:43,321 --> 02:16:45,615
Really look at it, Ray!
1855
02:16:45,948 --> 02:16:49,410
Ray Charles Junior's
"Most Valuable Player."
1856
02:16:50,453 --> 02:16:52,955
He was so proud this day…
1857
02:16:53,664 --> 02:16:57,543
until you came home too loaded
to go to his banquet.
1858
02:16:57,627 --> 02:17:00,755
No! There is something you love
more than me and them boys…
1859
02:17:00,922 --> 02:17:03,591
more than all the women
you ever slept with on the road…
1860
02:17:03,674 --> 02:17:05,301
more than all the dope
you ever took.
1861
02:17:05,384 --> 02:17:07,512
- What are you talking about?
- Your music.
1862
02:17:09,639 --> 02:17:11,974
And if you don't stop
using that needle…
1863
02:17:12,058 --> 02:17:15,186
they're gonna take away your music
and put you in jail.
1864
02:17:19,107 --> 02:17:21,442
Is that poison
worth losing everything?
1865
02:18:03,526 --> 02:18:05,194
Mr. Charles?
1866
02:18:17,582 --> 02:18:18,916
Mr. Charles.
1867
02:18:19,750 --> 02:18:21,544
You don't have to go through this.
1868
02:18:22,420 --> 02:18:26,507
We have a substitute
that can help wean you off heroin.
1869
02:18:26,591 --> 02:18:30,803
I have to do it on my own.
I can do it.
1870
02:18:31,929 --> 02:18:33,389
Don't touch me.
1871
02:18:36,309 --> 02:18:37,643
All right.
1872
02:18:38,186 --> 02:18:39,562
We'll do it your way.
1873
02:18:50,948 --> 02:18:52,283
Doctor?
1874
02:18:52,575 --> 02:18:55,578
Mr. Charles, I'm coming.
1875
02:18:56,329 --> 02:18:59,916
He's got no fluids left.
Get an I.V. in him right away.
1876
02:19:00,124 --> 02:19:02,168
- I'll insert the needle.
- No needles.
1877
02:19:02,251 --> 02:19:04,170
Yes. It's very important.
You need this.
1878
02:19:04,253 --> 02:19:06,214
I've got a runner!
1879
02:19:09,425 --> 02:19:10,760
Get him on the bed.
1880
02:19:12,428 --> 02:19:14,138
Put those restraints on him.
1881
02:19:15,431 --> 02:19:17,016
No needles.
1882
02:19:43,125 --> 02:19:47,922
George, I miss you.
I miss you, George. I miss you.
1883
02:20:08,734 --> 02:20:10,903
You might be in trouble
right there, Doc.
1884
02:20:19,996 --> 02:20:22,498
Hot damn, you whupped my ass again!
1885
02:20:22,581 --> 02:20:25,167
I won't lose again
the same way twice.
1886
02:20:25,251 --> 02:20:28,754
I spoke with the judge in Boston,
and he'll agree to probation.
1887
02:20:28,838 --> 02:20:31,257
He was impressed
with your attorney's arguments…
1888
02:20:31,340 --> 02:20:33,426
and he believes
you deserve one more chance.
1889
02:20:33,509 --> 02:20:34,885
Oh, that's great.
1890
02:20:34,969 --> 02:20:37,096
But you must complete
our program…
1891
02:20:37,179 --> 02:20:39,098
and agree to take
periodic drug tests.
1892
02:20:39,181 --> 02:20:40,516
I'll do it.
1893
02:20:40,600 --> 02:20:43,978
I know people don't believe I'm done
with this dope, but I'm finished.
1894
02:20:44,604 --> 02:20:45,938
Who's George?
1895
02:20:50,776 --> 02:20:51,861
Ray…
1896
02:20:52,445 --> 02:20:55,239
you've come through
the worst of the physical reactions.
1897
02:20:55,865 --> 02:20:58,909
We should begin
psychotherapy sessions.
1898
02:20:59,076 --> 02:21:02,496
Look, forget the headshrinking, Doc.
I can handle this.
1899
02:21:07,293 --> 02:21:11,589
Mr. Charles, you're not the first
celebrity junkie I've treated.
1900
02:21:11,672 --> 02:21:12,798
Junkie? What-
1901
02:21:12,882 --> 02:21:15,968
- Nobody cons me at any price.
- I'm not trying to do that.
1902
02:21:16,052 --> 02:21:19,263
If you want me to give that judge
a positive report…
1903
02:21:19,347 --> 02:21:20,931
you will have to earn it.
1904
02:21:24,769 --> 02:21:25,770
Doc?
1905
02:21:26,562 --> 02:21:28,064
Dr. Hacker?
1906
02:22:02,264 --> 02:22:05,101
Ray, come on, play with me!
1907
02:22:09,105 --> 02:22:10,773
He ain't there.
1908
02:22:19,156 --> 02:22:20,991
Talk to me, son.
1909
02:22:21,951 --> 02:22:25,496
I ain't no bad dream.
I'm a part of you.
1910
02:22:25,830 --> 02:22:28,332
Even all that dope
couldn't keep me away.
1911
02:22:31,168 --> 02:22:32,586
Mama, I kept my promise.
1912
02:22:33,754 --> 02:22:37,508
You got strong all right.
Went places I never dreamed of.
1913
02:22:37,967 --> 02:22:40,219
But you still became a cripple.
1914
02:22:45,933 --> 02:22:48,269
Come here, baby. Come here.
1915
02:22:55,609 --> 02:22:56,777
Ray?
1916
02:23:03,284 --> 02:23:04,785
It wasn't your fault.
1917
02:23:10,416 --> 02:23:11,584
Now promise us…
1918
02:23:12,168 --> 02:23:16,088
you'll never let nobody or nothing
turn you into no cripple ever again.
1919
02:23:16,547 --> 02:23:19,759
That you'll always stand
on your own two feet.
1920
02:23:20,593 --> 02:23:21,760
Promise.
1921
02:23:46,035 --> 02:23:49,288
We're here to right a wrong done to
one of our own 20 years ago.
1922
02:23:49,371 --> 02:23:50,664
In 1961…
1923
02:23:50,748 --> 02:23:52,666
Ray Charles
was banned from performing…
1924
02:23:52,750 --> 02:23:53,918
in the state of Georgia…
1925
02:23:54,043 --> 02:23:57,171
because he refused to play before
a segregated audience.
1926
02:23:57,421 --> 02:24:00,591
Thankfully,
we've come a long way since then.
1927
02:24:00,841 --> 02:24:04,178
Some of us have fought for equality
through the political process…
1928
02:24:04,428 --> 02:24:07,014
but Ray Charles
changed American culture…
1929
02:24:07,097 --> 02:24:08,766
by touching people's hearts.
1930
02:24:09,099 --> 02:24:13,103
So on this day, March 7, 1979…
1931
02:24:13,395 --> 02:24:16,565
we, the duly elected representatives
of the state of Georgia…
1932
02:24:16,899 --> 02:24:20,903
not only proclaim Georgia On My Mind
our official state song…
1933
02:24:21,237 --> 02:24:24,490
we also offer Mr. Ray Charles
a public apology…
1934
02:24:24,573 --> 02:24:26,367
and welcome him back home.
1935
02:24:46,262 --> 02:24:48,430
If only your mama was here.
1936
02:24:49,098 --> 02:24:50,432
She's here.
1937
02:24:51,100 --> 02:24:53,060
She ain't never left.