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[Slow jazzy instrumental music]

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[Upbeat jazzy instrumental music]

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[Surreal instrumental music]

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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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DRIVER: All right!

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DRIVER: Rest stop, 45 minutes.
Come on, folks. We gotta move.

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DRIVER: 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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DRIVER: 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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RAY: 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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[Bluesy music playing on stereo]

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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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BlLLY: 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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RAY: 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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[Country piano music playing]

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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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BlLLY: Damn!

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BlLLY: 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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DRIVER: Seattle, Washington, folks. Change
bus here for all points north:

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Bellingham, Mount Vernon.
Vancouver, Canada.

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[Jazzy trumpet music playing]

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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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QUlNCY: Say, daddy-o, what ax you play?
RAY: 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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BOUNCER: Get out.
QUlNCY: 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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OBERON: 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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<i>So snuggle up and come near...</i>

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for tonight is Talent Night
at The Rocking Chair.

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<i>Let's hear it for Dancin' Al!</i>

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[Muted applause]

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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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[Rhythmic drumbeats]

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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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OBERON: 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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OBERON: 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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OBERON: 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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ARETHA: [Voiceover] How about
<i>some Nat King Cole?</i>

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RAY: Y'all like Nat King Cole?

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[Singing lively jazz song]

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MARLENE: 'Bama ain't bad.
OBERON: 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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GOSSlE: 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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MARLENE: Ray, you coming back to bed?

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RAY: I'm getting some water.

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I can see that,
but mama ain't finished yet.

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<i>OBERON: For the first time anywhere,</i>
<i>let's hear it for The McSon Trio!</i>

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[Singing lively song]

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MARLENE: When you coming out?
RAY: In a minute.

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MARLENE: Mama's got some more
blackberry cobbler for you, baby.

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Damn.

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[Lively jazz music playing]

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RAY: If you're gonna send us out on tour,
we're gonna need more than $5 a day.

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RAY: Why can't we get paid after each gig?

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MARLENE: 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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QUlNCY: Where's Ray?
MARLENE: He's in the back bedroom.

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<i>And wipe your feet.</i>

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QUlNCY: 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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GOSSlE: Excuse me, sir!

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GOSSlE: 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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GOSSlE: 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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[People clamoring]

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[Singing jazz song]

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[Crowd cheering and whistling]

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<i>OBERON: Just back from their triumphant</i>
<i>tour of the Yakima Valley...</i>

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<i>The McSon Trio!</i>

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<i>They'll be back right here,</i>
<i>same time, same place, next week.</i>

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Baby, you sound more like Nat
than the King himself.

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JACK: What's your name?
RAY: 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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MARLENE: Can I help you?
JACK: 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: Jack Lauderdale, Swing Time Records.

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MARLENE: Marlene Andres.

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GOSSlE: Gossie McGee.

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Great set, baby. We're going to
talk with Mr. Lauderdale.

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MARLENE: Come on. I'm buying.
RAY: I'm coming to talk to him.

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GOSSlE: 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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MAN: Great set, Ray.

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Goss?

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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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00:15:16,207 --> 00:15:19,001
You keep me high
while they talk the business?

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00:15:19,502 --> 00:15:21,837
I ain't the one playing you, man.

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00:15:23,172 --> 00:15:24,423
Oberon, listen....

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OBERON: Marlene and Gossie are the ones
running the game on you, Ray.

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What?

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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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Leader? If anybody's leading the
band, I'm the one that's the leader.

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Forget the bo' humps.
I'm gonna go my own way.

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Who's gonna book your gigs?
Marlene's got you locked up.

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And she ain't gonna give up
her golden goose.

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[Woman singing]

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Ray Robinson, you are fantastic.

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There you go. Give me some skin.

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RAY: What's that?
OBERON: Jack's card.

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I got his number at the hotel.

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[Trumpet playing off-key]

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RAY: Come on, Q. It's not that
complicated. Let's play it again.

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RAY: That's a B flat, C seven,
scale it up...

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and triple it off the back end.

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Yeah, nigger! That's it.

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Ray, what did I tell you
about cooking in the dark?

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<i>Are you trying to</i>
<i>burn the house down?</i>

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Think about it.
What do I need the light for?

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You don't need to be cooking.
We brought you takeout from Oscar's.

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Get your money back.
I got fried chicken right here.

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RAY: Come on, Seven-oh, try this.
QUlNCY: Yeah! About time.

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That's home-cooked, right there.

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MARLENE: No, thanks.
QUlNCY: This chicken's the mostest.

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Just needs a little hot sauce
and it'll be perfect.

233
00:16:51,928 --> 00:16:53,804
So, what did Jack Lauderdale
have to say?

234
00:16:53,888 --> 00:16:56,973
I clocked him coming out the gate.
He's a two-bit hustler.

235
00:16:57,058 --> 00:16:58,183
I see.

236
00:16:58,267 --> 00:17:00,435
Turns out the only hit that
Swing Time ever had...

237
00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,063
<i>was Open the Door, Richard,</i>
which was a joke record.

238
00:17:03,147 --> 00:17:05,023
What about him recording me?

239
00:17:05,108 --> 00:17:07,442
He'll record you,
if we pay the freight.

240
00:17:07,610 --> 00:17:09,820
Scratch a liar, find a thief.

241
00:17:10,613 --> 00:17:13,156
-What's that supposed to mean?
-This.

242
00:17:13,950 --> 00:17:15,784
<i>I saw Jack Lauderdale tonight...</i>

243
00:17:15,868 --> 00:17:17,869
and he gave me
a $500 advance on my record.

244
00:17:17,954 --> 00:17:20,163
He'll put me on the road
with Lowell Fulson...

245
00:17:20,248 --> 00:17:21,790
and pay me three times what you pay.

246
00:17:21,874 --> 00:17:22,874
That's a lie!

247
00:17:22,959 --> 00:17:26,545
He's not gonna put some blind man
on the road. Think about it.

248
00:17:26,629 --> 00:17:28,171
You need watching out for.

249
00:17:28,256 --> 00:17:30,716
He ain't got the time
to look after you the way I do.

250
00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,801
ls that what you've been doing?

251
00:17:32,885 --> 00:17:35,721
ls that why you get paid
double what I do?

252
00:17:36,806 --> 00:17:39,182
-Who told you that?
-It's true, ain't it?

253
00:17:39,267 --> 00:17:41,143
You two have been gaming me
since I got here.

254
00:17:41,227 --> 00:17:43,061
-Ray, listen--
-I ain't listening to you!

255
00:17:43,146 --> 00:17:45,230
I been meaning to talk to you
about that.

256
00:17:45,314 --> 00:17:47,399
Then why aren't you talking?

257
00:17:50,403 --> 00:17:52,320
Ray, let's not do nothing stupid.

258
00:17:52,405 --> 00:17:54,239
I might be blind,
but I ain't stupid!

259
00:17:54,323 --> 00:17:56,032
Q, get my bag from upstairs.

260
00:17:56,117 --> 00:17:57,242
-What?
-Get it!

261
00:17:57,326 --> 00:17:58,785
-Right now?
-Now.

262
00:17:58,870 --> 00:18:01,079
Ray, we done been through
a whole lot.

263
00:18:01,164 --> 00:18:03,790
MARLENE: Ray, wait.
I can explain everything.

264
00:18:04,417 --> 00:18:06,001
GOSSlE: Think about what you're doing.

265
00:18:06,085 --> 00:18:07,544
You're making a big mistake.

266
00:18:07,628 --> 00:18:09,796
That clown is spouting promises
that he can't keep.

267
00:18:09,881 --> 00:18:11,757
You'd be a fool to follow him.

268
00:18:11,841 --> 00:18:14,092
We'll make a new deal!
Whatever makes you happy!

269
00:18:14,177 --> 00:18:16,344
The deal is
you can lay the pipe now.

270
00:18:16,429 --> 00:18:19,848
You'll break your neck
going down these stairs by yourself.

271
00:18:22,059 --> 00:18:25,187
I ain't never seen you
do nothing like that, man. Never.

272
00:18:25,271 --> 00:18:26,980
That ain't nothing, Seven-oh.

273
00:18:28,524 --> 00:18:31,568
[Children laughing excitedly]

274
00:18:39,952 --> 00:18:41,787
GEORGE: Stop cheating, Ray.

275
00:18:42,622 --> 00:18:44,706
RAY: George, you can't catch me.

276
00:18:45,333 --> 00:18:46,666
Aretha!

277
00:18:47,376 --> 00:18:48,668
RAY: Come on, George.

278
00:18:48,753 --> 00:18:51,254
Aretha Robinson,
have you lost your mind?

279
00:18:51,339 --> 00:18:54,966
You promised to split every wash
basket with me, fair and square!

280
00:18:55,051 --> 00:18:56,551
EULA: I did!
ARETHA: Hell, you did!

281
00:18:56,636 --> 00:18:59,012
You charge white folks one thing
and pay me another.

282
00:18:59,096 --> 00:19:02,224
-Who's gonna wash these?
-You can. Now pay me my money!

283
00:19:05,770 --> 00:19:07,646
Okay, I'll give you your little $2.

284
00:19:07,730 --> 00:19:09,981
But don't you expect
no more work from me!

285
00:19:10,066 --> 00:19:13,026
I got all I need out of you.
Ray and George, come on!

286
00:19:13,110 --> 00:19:16,780
EULA: That's right. Get out of my yard
and don't y'all never come back!

287
00:19:19,492 --> 00:19:22,244
Y'all got to learn
to read and write real good...

288
00:19:22,328 --> 00:19:25,080
so you never have to work
for people like that.

289
00:19:25,164 --> 00:19:26,832
Scratch a liar, find a thief.

290
00:19:26,916 --> 00:19:28,875
ARETHA: Understand?
BOTH: Yes, Mama.

291
00:19:35,591 --> 00:19:37,801
[Lively jazz instrumental music playing]

292
00:19:42,098 --> 00:19:44,766
JACK: Smell that, Ray. Smell the success.

293
00:19:45,017 --> 00:19:46,393
JACK: We're in LA, man...

294
00:19:46,477 --> 00:19:49,187
the place where the Negro comes
to spread his wings.

295
00:19:49,272 --> 00:19:52,148
RAY: I know my ears ain't deceiving me.
ls that Art Tatum?

296
00:19:52,233 --> 00:19:54,067
It sure is, baby.
You want to meet him?

297
00:19:54,151 --> 00:19:56,778
I can't. Art Tatum is the most.

298
00:20:02,076 --> 00:20:06,538
So, Ray, we got to talk
about your name: Robinson.

299
00:20:06,622 --> 00:20:09,499
Sugar Ray got the Robinson franchise
all sewed up.

300
00:20:09,584 --> 00:20:13,253
So I'm thinking we go with
your middle name, Charles.

301
00:20:13,796 --> 00:20:15,380
As in, Ray Charles.

302
00:20:15,464 --> 00:20:18,842
I don't care what you call me,
as long as my name's on the record.

303
00:20:18,926 --> 00:20:20,302
We're gonna toast to that.

304
00:20:20,386 --> 00:20:21,678
What's the haps?

305
00:20:21,762 --> 00:20:23,388
-Oh, my goodness.
-Give me some skin.

306
00:20:23,472 --> 00:20:25,515
What's up, baby? How you doing?

307
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,185
JACK: Lowell Fulson, meet
your new piano player: Ray Charles.

308
00:20:29,270 --> 00:20:32,105
Ray Charles, the blind sensation.

309
00:20:32,815 --> 00:20:35,692
Damn! I'm gonna use that
on the album cover.

310
00:20:35,776 --> 00:20:39,070
He's really the sensation.
I love your music, Mr. Fulson.

311
00:20:39,155 --> 00:20:40,572
The man's got taste.

312
00:20:40,656 --> 00:20:43,658
And the man ain't been on the road
with a band before...

313
00:20:43,743 --> 00:20:45,243
so you take care of him.

314
00:20:45,328 --> 00:20:46,995
Like my own brother.

315
00:20:52,376 --> 00:20:54,669
-I'm gonna be right back.
-All right.

316
00:20:55,922 --> 00:20:59,549
LOWELL: You got the one on the left.
JACK: Look here, let me do the talking.

317
00:21:01,218 --> 00:21:03,762
[Lively jazz instrumental music
continues playing]

318
00:21:28,496 --> 00:21:31,456
GEORGE: Don't go inside that place.
You know what Mama said.

319
00:21:31,540 --> 00:21:34,042
RAY: Go home and don't tell Mama nothing.

320
00:21:34,543 --> 00:21:35,919
RAY: Go, George.

321
00:21:40,383 --> 00:21:42,217
George, get out of here!

322
00:21:46,222 --> 00:21:48,473
[Lively piano music playing]

323
00:22:07,994 --> 00:22:10,829
Hey, boy, who let you in?

324
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,081
PlTT: You must be Aretha's son, huh?

325
00:22:13,249 --> 00:22:15,333
Yes, sir. Ray Charles Robinson.

326
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,712
I've been seeing you
sneaking around here.

327
00:22:19,046 --> 00:22:20,755
You like the piano?

328
00:22:21,298 --> 00:22:23,341
Come on, you want to learn
how to play?

329
00:22:23,426 --> 00:22:26,511
<i>Come on over here.</i>
<i>Let me show you how to play.</i>

330
00:22:26,595 --> 00:22:28,805
I'm gonna teach you how to play.

331
00:22:28,889 --> 00:22:31,808
What we'll do, I'm gonna teach you
three notes, right?

332
00:22:31,892 --> 00:22:33,977
This is the first note, right here.

333
00:22:35,563 --> 00:22:36,771
Play that.

334
00:22:37,940 --> 00:22:40,150
And here's the second note,
right here.

335
00:22:41,485 --> 00:22:42,736
Play that.

336
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:45,947
Here's the third note.

337
00:22:48,951 --> 00:22:51,786
Now, here's the way it goes.
Listen closely, now.

338
00:22:55,666 --> 00:22:57,000
Play that.

339
00:22:58,586 --> 00:22:59,919
Good!

340
00:23:01,088 --> 00:23:02,839
<i>Try the other notes.</i>

341
00:23:11,474 --> 00:23:15,477
WlLBUR: Every club we hit, it's your
responsibility to rehearse the band.

342
00:23:15,811 --> 00:23:17,437
These are some lazy-ass bastards...

343
00:23:17,521 --> 00:23:20,273
so you make sure
they don't slough off.

344
00:23:20,608 --> 00:23:22,734
You gotta be ready and dressed
to open the show.

345
00:23:22,818 --> 00:23:25,153
Lowell likes to take a nap
before he goes on.

346
00:23:25,237 --> 00:23:28,281
You just do your thing
until he feels like coming out.

347
00:23:28,365 --> 00:23:31,242
When Lowell's playing,
you keep the band sharp.

348
00:23:31,327 --> 00:23:33,078
-Just one thing.
-What?

349
00:23:33,162 --> 00:23:35,997
Did Jack tell you that
I have to be paid in singles?

350
00:23:36,082 --> 00:23:38,833
You just do your job,
you're gonna get your money.

351
00:23:44,048 --> 00:23:46,508
[Jazzy music playing]

352
00:23:53,974 --> 00:23:55,558
[Girls giggling]

353
00:23:56,185 --> 00:23:57,852
[Man talking indistinctly]

354
00:23:59,688 --> 00:24:02,023
How'd you get the name Fathead?

355
00:24:02,108 --> 00:24:05,276
FATHEAD: Why do they call me Fathead?
You don't want to hear.

356
00:24:05,361 --> 00:24:07,320
But this is what
I really want to know.

357
00:24:07,404 --> 00:24:09,114
Any of you fine young ladies...

358
00:24:09,198 --> 00:24:11,908
know where we can get
a nice steak this time of night?

359
00:24:11,992 --> 00:24:14,994
You mean something big,
thick, and juicy?

360
00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:17,163
Yeah, that's just what I mean.

361
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,333
Fathead, where you guys headed?

362
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,044
I ain't babysitting no blind cat.

363
00:24:24,046 --> 00:24:27,799
I'm sorry, Ray, but the law says
there's only six to a cab.

364
00:24:28,342 --> 00:24:30,385
Come on, ladies,
let's get out of here.

365
00:24:51,532 --> 00:24:54,492
[Slow piano music]

366
00:25:12,511 --> 00:25:14,762
[Slow piano music continues]

367
00:25:31,697 --> 00:25:34,574
[Singing slow blues song]

368
00:25:52,301 --> 00:25:54,552
Pay up, baby!
Yeah, that's all right.

369
00:25:54,637 --> 00:25:56,888
I been shooting craps
since I was 12 years old.

370
00:25:56,972 --> 00:25:59,557
JlMMY: Don't never shoot craps
on a white woman's grave.

371
00:25:59,642 --> 00:26:01,559
DRUMMER: Why not?
JlMMY: It's bad luck.

372
00:26:01,644 --> 00:26:02,644
[All laughing]

373
00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:19,244
That's for being late to the bus.

374
00:26:19,328 --> 00:26:22,372
-Wilbur, you a low-down piece--
-You better move on.

375
00:26:27,836 --> 00:26:30,004
Mr. One-dollar Bill.

376
00:26:31,048 --> 00:26:34,717
$5, $1 0, $15, $20--

377
00:26:35,844 --> 00:26:38,513
You like to
start counting that again?

378
00:26:39,682 --> 00:26:41,516
All right, damn you.

379
00:26:43,852 --> 00:26:46,020
$284, $285....

380
00:26:46,105 --> 00:26:48,940
Listen, man, I ain't
no damn seeing-eye dog.

381
00:26:55,531 --> 00:26:58,366
[Singing blues song]

382
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,206
[Men laughing and talking]

383
00:27:05,708 --> 00:27:08,167
RAY: Fathead, open up.
I got to take a leak.

384
00:27:11,171 --> 00:27:13,965
What you doing, man?
Close the door, Fat!

385
00:27:14,216 --> 00:27:16,467
We'll be in here for a while.

386
00:27:16,552 --> 00:27:18,970
Use the women's can,
down there on your right.

387
00:27:19,054 --> 00:27:20,513
I don't want to use the women's can.

388
00:27:20,597 --> 00:27:22,140
This way.

389
00:27:41,910 --> 00:27:43,244
Oh, God!

390
00:27:44,163 --> 00:27:46,039
Say, Ray, you all right?

391
00:27:47,207 --> 00:27:48,916
I must have slipped on the wet.

392
00:27:49,001 --> 00:27:51,711
There's a pipe broke. There's
water everywhere. You see it?

393
00:27:51,795 --> 00:27:53,671
JlMMY: Let's go, man. Close the door.

394
00:27:53,756 --> 00:27:57,258
Quit playing, Ray.
We'll be in here a while. Now go on!

395
00:28:05,225 --> 00:28:07,769
JEFF: Where you from, Ray?
RAY: North Florida.

396
00:28:08,187 --> 00:28:09,687
North Florida boy.

397
00:28:10,230 --> 00:28:12,690
-Your people still down there?
-No.

398
00:28:13,901 --> 00:28:15,026
JEFF: All right.

399
00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:19,030
JEFF: Pardon me for asking,
but how do you get around so good...

400
00:28:19,114 --> 00:28:21,032
without a cane or a dog?

401
00:28:21,784 --> 00:28:24,660
How do you get around so good
without a cane or dog?

402
00:28:25,287 --> 00:28:27,455
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to pry.

403
00:28:28,957 --> 00:28:31,042
My ears got to be my eyes.

404
00:28:31,835 --> 00:28:33,086
Everything sounds different.

405
00:28:33,170 --> 00:28:34,879
That's why
I wear hard-soled shoes...

406
00:28:34,963 --> 00:28:37,298
so I can hear
my footsteps echo off the wall.

407
00:28:37,383 --> 00:28:40,635
So when I pass by an open doorway,
the sound changes.

408
00:28:40,719 --> 00:28:42,136
Wow. That's cool.

409
00:28:42,596 --> 00:28:46,432
You got to learn pretty quick if you
want to get around on your own.

410
00:28:48,018 --> 00:28:51,062
During the war, there was
a whole lot I had to learn fast...

411
00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:52,563
or I wouldn't be here.

412
00:28:55,150 --> 00:28:57,527
Seeing that much death
ain't natural.

413
00:28:59,405 --> 00:29:01,739
Yeah, seeing death ain't natural.

414
00:29:06,203 --> 00:29:09,664
Boys, get from 'round that still.
Y'all know better than that.

415
00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:11,416
Come on, catch me.

416
00:29:16,505 --> 00:29:20,383
ARETHA: Stay from 'round this fire and get
clean. Dinner will be ready soon.

417
00:29:20,467 --> 00:29:21,968
ARETHA: Hear me, Ray?

418
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:24,971
I got you.

419
00:29:25,055 --> 00:29:27,765
-No, you didn't. You missed me.
-Stop cheating, Ray.

420
00:29:27,850 --> 00:29:30,476
Okay, you got me.

421
00:29:30,561 --> 00:29:32,270
But I got you back.

422
00:29:32,354 --> 00:29:34,105
I'm not playing no more.

423
00:29:34,356 --> 00:29:35,523
RAY: Sissy!

424
00:29:37,234 --> 00:29:39,610
GEORGE: Come on, Ray. Let's go swimming.

425
00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:44,323
GEORGE: Let's go swim in Mama's washtub.

426
00:29:45,325 --> 00:29:47,452
GEORGE: Ray, come on, play with me.

427
00:29:47,703 --> 00:29:49,787
You better get down
before Mama sees you.

428
00:29:49,872 --> 00:29:51,372
I'm a giant!

429
00:29:55,502 --> 00:29:56,961
Some giant.

430
00:29:58,046 --> 00:30:00,840
Come on, George.
I ain't playing this game.

431
00:30:01,884 --> 00:30:03,384
That ain't funny.

432
00:30:05,345 --> 00:30:07,972
Boys, I got some field peas
and rice cooking.

433
00:30:08,056 --> 00:30:10,641
ARETHA: And there's that smothered corn
left from yesterday.

434
00:30:10,726 --> 00:30:14,395
And if you're real good, I might
have two pieces of peach cobbler.

435
00:30:15,481 --> 00:30:18,191
Ray, didn't I tell you
to get in this house?

436
00:30:21,570 --> 00:30:23,196
Dear God, no!

437
00:30:24,823 --> 00:30:26,908
[People screaming]

438
00:30:27,910 --> 00:30:30,495
MAN 1: That's Aretha's boy!
ARETHA: Breathe, baby, breathe.

439
00:30:30,579 --> 00:30:34,040
Just breathe, baby, breathe.
Let it out!

440
00:30:34,124 --> 00:30:35,917
ARETHA: Let it out, please!

441
00:30:36,084 --> 00:30:38,836
WOMAN 1: Breathe for your mama, now.
MAN 2: Come on, George.

442
00:30:39,087 --> 00:30:41,214
Why didn't you do something?

443
00:30:41,715 --> 00:30:43,549
Why didn't you call me?

444
00:30:44,718 --> 00:30:48,095
WOMAN 2: Help us, Lord!
WOMAN 3: The Lord done took him home.

445
00:30:49,264 --> 00:30:51,516
[Aretha wailing]

446
00:30:57,689 --> 00:30:58,940
WlLBUR: All right.

447
00:30:59,525 --> 00:31:01,776
Food and piss stop. Open it up.

448
00:31:05,072 --> 00:31:07,782
The food is hot.
You've got 45 minutes.

449
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,411
-I could eat a horse. Where's it?
-Follow your nose. Right over there.

450
00:31:13,497 --> 00:31:14,997
FATHEAD: Wilbur.
WlLBUR: What?

451
00:31:15,082 --> 00:31:17,667
FATHEAD: Forty-five minutes
ain't enough time.

452
00:31:17,793 --> 00:31:20,962
-We need more than that, Jack.
-Not to eat, you don't.

453
00:31:21,046 --> 00:31:24,423
If you got other business, choose,
because this bus is rolling on time.

454
00:31:24,508 --> 00:31:27,760
Come on,
Mercedes got a washroom in the back.

455
00:31:28,387 --> 00:31:30,846
And you can smell it.

456
00:31:33,725 --> 00:31:35,851
-Yes, sir?
-Could you help me in there?

457
00:31:35,936 --> 00:31:37,353
Sure thing, Ray.

458
00:31:37,604 --> 00:31:38,771
WlLBUR: Hey, Mercedes.

459
00:31:38,855 --> 00:31:42,149
Hey, baby. I hope you wiped
your feet before you came in here.

460
00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:43,276
Take that.

461
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:44,819
The bathroom's
right in front of you.

462
00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:45,903
RAY: Okay.

463
00:31:45,988 --> 00:31:48,698
-You want me to fix you a plate?
-No, I'm fine.

464
00:31:48,991 --> 00:31:50,116
JEFF: All right.

465
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,076
Sweet potato pie it is.

466
00:31:53,495 --> 00:31:54,495
JlMMY: Let's go, man.

467
00:31:54,580 --> 00:31:56,664
That was a long bus ride, wasn't it?

468
00:31:57,708 --> 00:32:00,793
Hey, man! The can's down the hall.

469
00:32:00,877 --> 00:32:02,378
I know where it is.
What y'all doing?

470
00:32:02,462 --> 00:32:04,422
Do yourself a favor and leave.

471
00:32:04,506 --> 00:32:06,132
I'll leave when I'm ready to leave.

472
00:32:06,216 --> 00:32:07,967
Come on, Fathead, I want in.

473
00:32:08,051 --> 00:32:11,637
This ain't weed, Ray.
And we ain't snorting no bitch.

474
00:32:11,888 --> 00:32:13,097
This is boy.

475
00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:15,641
Boy'll make your ass null and void.

476
00:32:15,726 --> 00:32:19,228
-So get on out of here.
-Null and void, just like my life.

477
00:32:19,313 --> 00:32:20,938
I'll be right at home.

478
00:32:21,023 --> 00:32:24,483
I ain't gonna wait all night.
Hell, it's his funeral, man.

479
00:32:26,528 --> 00:32:30,239
FATHEAD: Ray, let's go get something to eat.
RAY: I'll leave when I get a taste.

480
00:32:30,324 --> 00:32:32,908
What you gonna do?
This train's pulling out, brother.

481
00:32:32,993 --> 00:32:34,910
I ain't having
nothing to do with this.

482
00:32:34,995 --> 00:32:37,663
-I warned you, Ray.
-I been warned.

483
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,791
Sit down, Ray.
I'm gonna take you on a little ride.

484
00:32:40,876 --> 00:32:43,544
JlMMY: It'll cost you, though.
You got some cash?

485
00:32:43,712 --> 00:32:45,129
Will this do?

486
00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:46,881
That'll do.

487
00:32:49,134 --> 00:32:50,885
Where you been?
Where them other fools?

488
00:32:50,969 --> 00:32:52,511
Come on, get it while it's hot!

489
00:32:53,889 --> 00:32:56,349
JlMMY: You're going to feel a little pinch.

490
00:32:58,894 --> 00:33:00,519
I ain't giving up on you, boy.

491
00:33:01,938 --> 00:33:03,481
JlMMY: Feel it, baby?

492
00:33:04,650 --> 00:33:06,442
<i>Just take the ride.</i>

493
00:33:07,569 --> 00:33:09,403
JlMMY: It's better than sex.

494
00:33:09,780 --> 00:33:12,114
There ain't nothing better than sex.

495
00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:15,785
[Tense instrumental music]

496
00:33:16,453 --> 00:33:17,495
[Congregation singing]

497
00:33:17,579 --> 00:33:19,664
<i>We will walk</i>

498
00:33:19,748 --> 00:33:24,669
<i>through the streets of the city</i>

499
00:33:27,756 --> 00:33:31,175
<i>Where our loved ones</i>

500
00:33:31,259 --> 00:33:36,222
<i>have gone on before</i>

501
00:33:38,892 --> 00:33:43,813
<i>We will stand on the banks</i>

502
00:33:44,231 --> 00:33:48,109
<i>of the river</i>

503
00:33:49,903 --> 00:33:52,863
<i>Where we'll meet</i>

504
00:33:52,948 --> 00:33:57,910
<i>to part no more</i>

505
00:33:59,996 --> 00:34:02,873
[Aretha sobbing]

506
00:34:18,765 --> 00:34:20,808
[All continue singing]

507
00:35:09,357 --> 00:35:12,401
ARETHA: Ray, let me put this salve on
I got from Dr. McLeod.

508
00:35:12,486 --> 00:35:15,529
-I don't like it. It stings.
-Boy, get up here.

509
00:35:16,114 --> 00:35:19,033
I paid a whole dollar for it.
It better work.

510
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:21,577
Now hold up your head,
like the doctor says.

511
00:35:21,661 --> 00:35:23,621
ARETHA: This is gonna make you feel better.

512
00:35:28,043 --> 00:35:30,211
Ray, come on in for dinner.

513
00:35:30,295 --> 00:35:32,004
<i>And stop rubbing those eyes.</i>

514
00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:48,312
ARETHA: I won't beat around the bush
with you. You're going blind.

515
00:35:48,396 --> 00:35:51,315
ARETHA: The doctors can't do nothing,
so we got to do it ourselves.

516
00:35:51,399 --> 00:35:53,400
RAY: Yes, I know, but--
ARETHA: Stop it.

517
00:35:53,485 --> 00:35:56,821
Stop it right now.
We ain't got no time for no tears.

518
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,241
Nobody's gonna have pity on you
just 'cause you're going blind.

519
00:36:00,325 --> 00:36:02,701
ARETHA: Now wipe them eyes.
RAY: Yes, ma'am.

520
00:36:04,955 --> 00:36:07,248
I'll show you
how to do something once.

521
00:36:07,332 --> 00:36:08,958
I'll help you if you mess up twice.

522
00:36:09,042 --> 00:36:10,751
But the third time,
you're on your own...

523
00:36:10,836 --> 00:36:13,170
'cause that's the way it is
in the world.

524
00:36:13,255 --> 00:36:14,755
Now get up.

525
00:36:16,591 --> 00:36:19,802
Remember, you're going blind,
but you ain't stupid.

526
00:36:21,930 --> 00:36:23,681
Remember how many stairs there were?

527
00:36:23,765 --> 00:36:24,849
Four.

528
00:36:24,933 --> 00:36:28,435
Good. You're gonna have to learn
how to use your memory.

529
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:29,687
Now turn around.

530
00:36:29,771 --> 00:36:31,480
I want you to hold out your hands...

531
00:36:31,565 --> 00:36:34,024
use them as your eyes,
and find the door.

532
00:36:35,902 --> 00:36:38,946
Good. That's real good, baby.

533
00:36:48,707 --> 00:36:51,333
[Soft piano music]

534
00:36:57,090 --> 00:36:58,799
[Singing slow jazzy song]

535
00:37:29,706 --> 00:37:31,290
WlLBUR: This fool makes one record...

536
00:37:31,374 --> 00:37:33,584
and you'd think
he's the star of the band.

537
00:37:33,668 --> 00:37:35,669
Well, he's got something.

538
00:37:37,088 --> 00:37:40,966
His wax won't even hit the charts.
You're still the man.

539
00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:51,560
She wasn't that fine.
There's something wrong with you.

540
00:37:51,645 --> 00:37:54,980
No, man, she's fine.
You leave her alone.

541
00:37:55,523 --> 00:37:56,899
Look at Ray.

542
00:37:57,442 --> 00:37:58,567
<i>You see that?</i>

543
00:37:58,652 --> 00:38:01,111
<i>He feels her wrist and figures</i>
<i>that's the way to tell...</i>

544
00:38:01,196 --> 00:38:02,655
<i>if she's good-Iooking or not.</i>

545
00:38:02,739 --> 00:38:05,366
You know I had my eye on you
all night long.

546
00:38:05,784 --> 00:38:07,785
He's right this time.

547
00:38:09,204 --> 00:38:12,206
FATHEAD: See what a little fame does
to Null and Void?

548
00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:15,751
Anybody seen that fine-Iooking gal
in the yellow dress?

549
00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:19,964
-You hear this man?
-You snooze, you lose.

550
00:38:20,048 --> 00:38:23,717
JlMMY: We're going to dock your pay.
That's $2 off your busride.

551
00:38:28,556 --> 00:38:31,058
[Slow jazzy music]

552
00:38:53,665 --> 00:38:55,416
WlLBUR: All right, who's next?

553
00:38:56,418 --> 00:38:59,837
It's a shame, Jimmy. You're just
gonna piss this up your arm.

554
00:38:59,921 --> 00:39:02,464
Don't tell me what to do
with my money.

555
00:39:03,258 --> 00:39:06,885
Come on. Step up.
The one-dollar sensation.

556
00:39:11,766 --> 00:39:13,767
You want to keep counting?

557
00:39:13,852 --> 00:39:16,854
What's the matter with you, boy?
$50 ain't good enough for you?

558
00:39:16,938 --> 00:39:19,023
That ain't $50. Keep counting.

559
00:39:19,607 --> 00:39:22,943
I guess you want charity, since
that record of yours ain't selling.

560
00:39:25,613 --> 00:39:28,365
[Men yelling]

561
00:39:32,287 --> 00:39:35,748
Break it up!
What the hell is going on in here?

562
00:39:37,042 --> 00:39:39,126
The blind sensation
don't like his pay!

563
00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:42,254
-He's cheating me! I quit!
-You lying son of a bitch!

564
00:39:42,630 --> 00:39:44,798
Don't be fighting nobody
that can see!

565
00:39:44,883 --> 00:39:47,342
I won't run around
finding singles for this chump!

566
00:39:47,427 --> 00:39:49,386
-There's $50 here.
-You see that, fool?

567
00:39:49,471 --> 00:39:52,347
Shut up, Wilbur! Ray, from now on,
I'll handle your pay myself.

568
00:39:52,432 --> 00:39:55,142
I'm tired of this! I'll tell Jack
to find you somebody else!

569
00:39:55,268 --> 00:39:56,518
You sure? It's cold out there.

570
00:39:56,603 --> 00:39:59,063
Don't worry about me,
I can take care of myself.

571
00:40:00,065 --> 00:40:01,940
LOWELL: Damn it, Wilbur!
WlLBUR: Let him go!

572
00:40:02,025 --> 00:40:03,525
What are we gonna do now?

573
00:40:11,326 --> 00:40:15,287
RAY: "After the death of Moses,
the Lord spake unto Joshua saying:

574
00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:17,498
"'Moses my servant is dead.

575
00:40:17,582 --> 00:40:20,417
RAY: "'Now therefore arise.
Go over to Jordan.

576
00:40:20,502 --> 00:40:23,420
"'Be not afraid,
for the Lord thy God is with thee."'

577
00:40:23,505 --> 00:40:24,713
AHMET: Mr. Charles?

578
00:40:25,465 --> 00:40:26,840
Who is it?

579
00:40:26,925 --> 00:40:30,260
AHMET: My name is Ahmet Ertegun.
May I have a moment of your time?

580
00:40:34,015 --> 00:40:35,891
What do you want? I'm at church.

581
00:40:35,975 --> 00:40:38,310
I'm sorry. I'll come back later.

582
00:40:38,394 --> 00:40:40,479
You're here now. What do you want?

583
00:40:41,731 --> 00:40:43,774
My company, Atlantic Records...

584
00:40:43,858 --> 00:40:46,193
has acquired your contract
from Swing Time.

585
00:40:46,611 --> 00:40:48,362
<i>I'd like to discuss your future.</i>

586
00:40:48,446 --> 00:40:51,406
Hold on. Don't jive me now.
I ain't for sale.

587
00:40:51,491 --> 00:40:52,991
May I sit down?

588
00:40:55,620 --> 00:40:57,579
You see, Mr. Charles...

589
00:40:58,289 --> 00:41:00,374
Jack Lauderdale has found himself...

590
00:41:00,458 --> 00:41:02,709
shall we say,
a little overextended...

591
00:41:03,128 --> 00:41:05,921
and has had to unload
some of his talent.

592
00:41:06,005 --> 00:41:08,090
When your name came up, I jumped
at the chance...

593
00:41:08,174 --> 00:41:09,967
to work with you. I'm a big fan.

594
00:41:10,051 --> 00:41:11,927
What if I want to go
to another company?

595
00:41:12,011 --> 00:41:14,680
RAY: There's a guy out there
willing to pay me...

596
00:41:14,764 --> 00:41:16,890
seven cents a record.
Can you do that?

597
00:41:17,225 --> 00:41:20,060
Man, I could promise you
15 cents a record...

598
00:41:20,895 --> 00:41:24,314
but you won't get it
any more than he'll pay you seven.

599
00:41:26,067 --> 00:41:29,236
What I will do is promise you
five cents a record...

600
00:41:29,404 --> 00:41:31,697
and pay you five cents a record.

601
00:41:32,448 --> 00:41:35,742
If you think pennies, Mr. Charles,
you get pennies.

602
00:41:36,578 --> 00:41:38,328
You think dollars...

603
00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:40,914
you get dollars.

604
00:41:42,917 --> 00:41:45,669
I like how you
put things together, man.

605
00:41:46,504 --> 00:41:48,005
RAY: You know what?

606
00:41:48,173 --> 00:41:50,716
Omelet, you're all right with me.

607
00:41:50,967 --> 00:41:52,176
Ahmet.

608
00:41:52,385 --> 00:41:54,845
-What kind of name is that?
-I'm Turkish.

609
00:41:54,929 --> 00:41:59,183
Well, I guess Jack Lauderdale's
bad luck is my good fortune.

610
00:41:59,267 --> 00:42:02,352
I knew that Atlantic Records
was bigger than Swing Time.

611
00:42:02,437 --> 00:42:05,022
You guys do good music.
I dig Atlantic.

612
00:42:05,106 --> 00:42:06,481
You could have fooled me.

613
00:42:06,566 --> 00:42:09,276
I have to keep my eye on
you city boys.

614
00:42:09,819 --> 00:42:12,279
Down home,
we call it "country dumb."

615
00:42:12,614 --> 00:42:13,697
[Ray laughs heartily]

616
00:42:13,781 --> 00:42:15,616
Hey, man, it ain't Turkish.

617
00:42:23,082 --> 00:42:25,459
[Ray singing romantic jazz song]

618
00:42:34,177 --> 00:42:35,886
What do you think?

619
00:42:35,970 --> 00:42:38,388
Nobody wants another Nat King Cole.

620
00:42:42,393 --> 00:42:44,645
[Ray singing bluesy song]

621
00:42:54,906 --> 00:42:57,783
Ahmet, it's just like Charles Brown.

622
00:42:59,911 --> 00:43:02,329
Okay, I'll talk to him.

623
00:43:04,958 --> 00:43:07,834
All right, fellas, that's a cut.

624
00:43:08,461 --> 00:43:09,711
<i>Fellas!</i>

625
00:43:09,796 --> 00:43:12,714
TOM: [On intercom] Band can take five.
JESSE: He just don't get it.

626
00:43:12,799 --> 00:43:15,676
You either sound original,
or you got nothing.

627
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,970
RAY: Ahmet, what'd you think of that?

628
00:43:18,179 --> 00:43:21,265
I want to tell you something,
and don't take it wrong.

629
00:43:21,349 --> 00:43:22,641
Then give it to me right.

630
00:43:22,725 --> 00:43:26,103
I signed you because
I sensed something special in you...

631
00:43:26,187 --> 00:43:29,398
not because you sound like Nat Cole
or Charles Brown.

632
00:43:29,482 --> 00:43:31,275
I thought you like what I do.

633
00:43:31,359 --> 00:43:33,068
We love the timbre of your voice...

634
00:43:33,152 --> 00:43:35,570
we like your virtuosity,
your energy--

635
00:43:35,655 --> 00:43:38,365
-But not my music.
-Come on, I didn't say that.

636
00:43:38,908 --> 00:43:40,993
Ahmet, this is what I do.

637
00:43:41,452 --> 00:43:43,412
I got to make a living.
People want this.

638
00:43:43,496 --> 00:43:44,788
I don't know no other way.

639
00:43:44,872 --> 00:43:46,623
We got to help you find one.

640
00:43:46,708 --> 00:43:50,711
Let's try a little change of pace.
You're familiar with stride piano?

641
00:43:50,878 --> 00:43:54,131
You kidding? The man who taught me
piano is a stride player.

642
00:43:54,215 --> 00:43:56,967
I got a song.
It's called The Mess Around.

643
00:43:57,051 --> 00:43:58,844
The Mess Around. Cute title.
Who wrote it?

644
00:43:58,928 --> 00:44:00,095
I did.

645
00:44:00,722 --> 00:44:02,389
You wrote it.

646
00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:06,226
-Well, sing it to me.
-Sing it?

647
00:44:06,352 --> 00:44:07,978
I can't read the lyrics.

648
00:44:08,062 --> 00:44:10,689
Okay. Well, it's the key of G.

649
00:44:11,733 --> 00:44:13,400
Key of G.

650
00:44:13,776 --> 00:44:15,819
[Slow piano music playing]

651
00:44:16,404 --> 00:44:19,239
But it's a kind of
Pete Johnson thing.

652
00:44:20,491 --> 00:44:22,326
[Lively piano music playing]

653
00:44:22,410 --> 00:44:24,077
Yeah, that's it.

654
00:44:24,162 --> 00:44:26,330
RAY: You like that? Here we go.
Two, three, four.

655
00:44:26,414 --> 00:44:29,416
[Singing] You can talk about the pit barbecue

656
00:44:29,792 --> 00:44:31,793
<i>The band was jumpin',</i>
<i>the people, too</i>

657
00:44:31,878 --> 00:44:36,923
<i>They're doin' the mess around</i>

658
00:44:37,759 --> 00:44:41,845
<i>They're doin' the mess around</i>
<i>Everybody doin' the mess around</i>

659
00:44:41,929 --> 00:44:43,597
That's good.
Let me take it from here.

660
00:44:43,806 --> 00:44:45,932
[Singing lively jazzy song]

661
00:45:26,849 --> 00:45:29,976
-Now we got something!
-That's all right.

662
00:45:31,479 --> 00:45:33,814
RAY: What do you think, Ahmet?
AHMET: Great, Ray!

663
00:45:33,898 --> 00:45:36,233
-Unbelievable!
-Who's that?

664
00:45:37,026 --> 00:45:39,403
Ray, I want you to meet
my new partner, Jerry.

665
00:45:39,487 --> 00:45:41,822
Mr. Ray Charles, Jerry Wexler.

666
00:45:41,989 --> 00:45:45,325
Don't worry, Ray.
I'm going to step back, watch...

667
00:45:45,410 --> 00:45:47,828
and learn how to produce a record.
I'm in awe.

668
00:45:47,912 --> 00:45:51,123
That was out of sight. That's
some running and riffing, man!

669
00:45:51,207 --> 00:45:53,458
Well, this'll make you shout, man.

670
00:45:53,584 --> 00:45:56,211
[Upbeat piano music playing]

671
00:46:00,883 --> 00:46:03,760
KlNG BEE: We're listening to Mess Around...

672
00:46:03,845 --> 00:46:06,138
<i>by Atlantic recording artist,</i>
<i>Ray Charles.</i>

673
00:46:06,222 --> 00:46:09,724
And we have the gentleman live here
in the KCOH studios.

674
00:46:09,809 --> 00:46:11,726
So, when you're not making
your own music...

675
00:46:11,811 --> 00:46:12,853
what do you listen to?

676
00:46:12,937 --> 00:46:16,606
The fact is,
I really and truly love gospel.

677
00:46:16,691 --> 00:46:19,568
RAY: One of my favorite groups
is from right here in Houston:

678
00:46:19,652 --> 00:46:21,528
the Cecil Shaw Singers.

679
00:46:21,696 --> 00:46:25,240
You heard it: Ray Charles endorses
Houston's own Cecil Shaw.

680
00:46:25,324 --> 00:46:27,242
We'll be playing gospel
all day Sunday...

681
00:46:27,326 --> 00:46:30,704
but right now, let's hear some more
of that Mess Around by Ray Charles.

682
00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:32,205
TECHNlClAN: K.B., line 1.

683
00:46:34,500 --> 00:46:35,876
KlNG BEE: King Bee.

684
00:46:39,547 --> 00:46:41,214
KlNG BEE: Yeah, he's right here.

685
00:46:41,883 --> 00:46:44,426
Miss Della Antwine
of the Cecil Shaw Singers.

686
00:46:47,889 --> 00:46:49,723
Hello, Miss Antwine.

687
00:46:50,141 --> 00:46:52,893
RAY: You sung tenor
<i>in Jesus Is My Shepherd, right?</i>

688
00:46:52,977 --> 00:46:54,227
Yes.

689
00:46:55,021 --> 00:46:56,771
How did you pick me out?

690
00:46:56,856 --> 00:46:59,858
Actually, I hear like you see.

691
00:47:00,568 --> 00:47:03,653
Like that hummingbird
outside the window, for instance.

692
00:47:09,827 --> 00:47:12,496
-I can't hear her.
-You have to listen.

693
00:47:30,473 --> 00:47:31,806
Yes.

694
00:47:32,892 --> 00:47:34,392
RAY: Yes, you can.

695
00:47:35,394 --> 00:47:37,229
-You hear that?
-What?

696
00:47:38,064 --> 00:47:40,232
Her heart just skipped a beat.

697
00:47:42,443 --> 00:47:44,319
Did you like my record?

698
00:47:44,403 --> 00:47:46,821
RAY: The one that King Bee was playing?

699
00:47:48,449 --> 00:47:50,200
It was very nice.

700
00:47:50,284 --> 00:47:52,494
DELLA: Different than the others.

701
00:47:53,079 --> 00:47:55,038
I've heard a lot of your music.

702
00:47:55,122 --> 00:47:56,831
Was it very nice, too?

703
00:47:56,916 --> 00:47:58,875
RAY: Look, if you don't really
like the record...

704
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:00,877
you ain't got to
beat around the bush with me.

705
00:48:00,962 --> 00:48:02,379
My mama never did.

706
00:48:02,463 --> 00:48:04,714
DELLA: It's not that
I don't enjoy your music.

707
00:48:04,799 --> 00:48:07,300
It's just that I feel
I've heard it before.

708
00:48:07,385 --> 00:48:09,803
I keep wondering what
the real Ray Charles sounds like.

709
00:48:09,887 --> 00:48:11,388
Ray Charles? Who's he?

710
00:48:11,472 --> 00:48:13,348
Nobody, if you don't know.

711
00:48:15,226 --> 00:48:17,686
Sorry. I should have
kept my mouth shut.

712
00:48:17,770 --> 00:48:19,813
No, then you wouldn't be you.

713
00:48:21,232 --> 00:48:23,483
It's not like
I haven't heard that before.

714
00:48:23,568 --> 00:48:26,903
I guess I just
never really listened, that's all.

715
00:48:29,156 --> 00:48:32,158
Ain't nobody
ever put it that sweet, I guess.

716
00:48:49,343 --> 00:48:51,219
RAY: You know what,
Miss Della Bea Antwine?

717
00:48:51,304 --> 00:48:53,179
RAY: You really are a country girl.

718
00:48:53,264 --> 00:48:55,473
Yes. How did you know?

719
00:48:55,558 --> 00:48:57,559
I could tell by the way you ordered.

720
00:48:57,643 --> 00:49:00,061
"Let me get molasses
with my cornbread."

721
00:49:01,105 --> 00:49:02,939
Were you raised on a farm?

722
00:49:03,024 --> 00:49:05,692
My mother did a little sharecropping
in Florida.

723
00:49:05,776 --> 00:49:07,277
ls she still there?

724
00:49:07,361 --> 00:49:10,155
God bless her heart, she passed away
when I went to school.

725
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:11,740
Ray, I'm sorry.

726
00:49:12,199 --> 00:49:13,908
RAY: She never was real healthy.

727
00:49:13,993 --> 00:49:16,536
RAY: She just worked herself to death,
poor thing.

728
00:49:16,662 --> 00:49:19,539
RAY: That's why she didn't want me
carrying around no tin cup.

729
00:49:19,624 --> 00:49:22,792
The kids I went to school with
were doing basket weaving...

730
00:49:22,877 --> 00:49:24,085
and wickerwork.

731
00:49:24,879 --> 00:49:27,172
But not you. Because of your gift.

732
00:49:27,256 --> 00:49:28,882
Because of my ears.

733
00:49:29,258 --> 00:49:31,134
I can mimic damn near anybody...

734
00:49:31,218 --> 00:49:33,845
and I make a pretty decent living
at it.

735
00:49:33,929 --> 00:49:37,599
It's just, if I change my style up
and people really don't dig it...

736
00:49:37,683 --> 00:49:39,684
what am I left with?

737
00:49:40,186 --> 00:49:42,812
I mean,
when you're blind, Miss Antwine...

738
00:49:42,897 --> 00:49:44,648
you ain't got that many choices.

739
00:49:46,233 --> 00:49:49,444
Seems to me like you got
all the choices in the world.

740
00:49:49,695 --> 00:49:53,823
God gave you the gift to sound like
anybody you please, even yourself.

741
00:49:55,576 --> 00:49:58,078
<i>We're here. This is where I live.</i>

742
00:49:58,579 --> 00:50:01,206
Do you think the preacher
would let me in?

743
00:50:01,290 --> 00:50:03,166
I'm a sinner,
but I need a little prayer.

744
00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:05,752
His wife don't like me
having male company.

745
00:50:05,836 --> 00:50:08,922
Tell him there's a soul out here
that needs saving.

746
00:50:09,757 --> 00:50:13,134
RAY: You know, Miss Antwine,
you really got me thinking.

747
00:50:14,970 --> 00:50:16,429
About what?

748
00:50:16,555 --> 00:50:19,891
About my life. About my music.

749
00:50:21,977 --> 00:50:23,478
RAY: About everything.

750
00:50:25,731 --> 00:50:28,900
Ray, don't you think
we're moving a little fast?

751
00:50:31,404 --> 00:50:33,780
I'm going to go to New York
for a couple of weeks...

752
00:50:33,864 --> 00:50:35,824
and when I get back...

753
00:50:35,908 --> 00:50:38,368
you can take it as slow as you want.

754
00:50:41,038 --> 00:50:42,872
All right, Mr. Charles.

755
00:50:44,250 --> 00:50:47,919
All right, Miss Antwine.
I'll see you in a couple of weeks.

756
00:50:48,212 --> 00:50:50,130
Hold on, let me call you a cab.

757
00:50:50,214 --> 00:50:54,509
RAY: I got it. Three blocks up,
left for two, right for one.

758
00:50:54,802 --> 00:50:58,638
RAY: Fifteen giant steps, and I'm
at the Crystal White Hotel. Hello.

759
00:51:05,730 --> 00:51:09,733
AHMET: Mess Around was a positive step
<i>for us, Ray. We're making progress.</i>

760
00:51:09,817 --> 00:51:11,735
RAY: Come on, Ahmet,
you've been nice to me.

761
00:51:11,819 --> 00:51:13,737
RAY: But I haven't given you guys
any hits.

762
00:51:13,821 --> 00:51:16,823
Atlantic has been good to me,
but if you want something special...

763
00:51:16,907 --> 00:51:18,992
I'm gonna need my own band.

764
00:51:19,076 --> 00:51:22,245
Oh, man. Taking a band out
on the road costs a mint, Ray.

765
00:51:22,329 --> 00:51:25,415
Even Joe Morris is struggling.
His band's had a hit record.

766
00:51:25,499 --> 00:51:27,167
But, Ahmet, I'm not Joe Morris.

767
00:51:27,251 --> 00:51:31,171
You told me if I think pennies,
I get pennies. I'm thinking dollars.

768
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,675
Ruth Brown's
got a tour booked in Georgia.

769
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,053
JERRY: She needs a band.
RAY: I'll take it.

770
00:51:39,597 --> 00:51:43,850
I could write the charts for her, do
backup, and also be an opening act.

771
00:51:46,979 --> 00:51:48,354
Okay.

772
00:51:48,564 --> 00:51:50,815
AHMET: But you're going to be
financially responsible.

773
00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:52,984
You'll have to make it work.

774
00:51:53,068 --> 00:51:55,987
I'm gonna make it do
what it do, baby.

775
00:52:08,793 --> 00:52:10,043
Ray?

776
00:52:10,127 --> 00:52:12,545
Miss Antwine, it's been two weeks.

777
00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:14,380
It's been three.

778
00:52:20,054 --> 00:52:22,514
Where's the preacher at?
And the wife?

779
00:52:22,598 --> 00:52:24,682
They in Dallas till Monday.

780
00:52:24,767 --> 00:52:26,559
RAY: Well, hallelujah!

781
00:52:36,737 --> 00:52:38,154
Della Bea.

782
00:52:39,073 --> 00:52:41,407
Kind of like a honey bee, right?

783
00:52:44,745 --> 00:52:46,412
Can I call you Bea?

784
00:52:47,414 --> 00:52:49,749
Yeah, I'd like that.

785
00:52:52,586 --> 00:52:56,422
There's only been two cats that
I ever really trusted in my life.

786
00:52:58,050 --> 00:53:01,219
There's Jeff Brown,
he's going to be my tour manager...

787
00:53:02,054 --> 00:53:04,389
Fathead Newman, my tenor man...

788
00:53:06,559 --> 00:53:08,017
and now you.

789
00:53:15,901 --> 00:53:19,279
But you gotta do me a favor. You
gotta always tell me the truth...

790
00:53:19,363 --> 00:53:21,364
just like you did before.

791
00:53:22,366 --> 00:53:25,368
Don't feel sorry for me
just 'cause I'm blind.

792
00:53:26,453 --> 00:53:28,955
How could I pity someone I admire?

793
00:53:33,961 --> 00:53:36,546
-Can I play something for you?
-Now?

794
00:53:37,381 --> 00:53:40,133
-No, Ray.
-Yeah, right now.

795
00:53:45,472 --> 00:53:47,307
DELLA: It's right there. You got it.

796
00:53:49,018 --> 00:53:51,019
RAY: Yeah, this will work.

797
00:53:51,103 --> 00:53:53,980
Now you go ahead and play.
I'm going to close these drapes.

798
00:53:54,064 --> 00:53:56,065
DELLA: I don't want no neighbors
looking in.

799
00:53:56,191 --> 00:53:58,735
[Singing upbeat song]

800
00:54:11,498 --> 00:54:12,498
Ray.

801
00:54:18,422 --> 00:54:20,340
Ray, that's sacrilegious.

802
00:54:21,091 --> 00:54:22,258
What?

803
00:54:22,343 --> 00:54:24,052
It's a gospel song.

804
00:54:24,803 --> 00:54:26,846
I know what it is. I wrote it.

805
00:54:27,514 --> 00:54:31,476
You told me to find my own voice.
Bea, this is it.

806
00:54:31,685 --> 00:54:35,813
But it ain't right to be changing
gospel music into this.

807
00:54:35,898 --> 00:54:37,774
Into what? ls it devil music?

808
00:54:37,858 --> 00:54:40,526
Evil music?
Do you think I'm evil, Bea?

809
00:54:41,570 --> 00:54:44,614
Look, I've been performing
gospel and blues all my life.

810
00:54:44,698 --> 00:54:46,074
It's who I am.

811
00:54:46,575 --> 00:54:50,244
And if I'm gonna do my own thing,
I got to be natural, right?

812
00:54:51,705 --> 00:54:54,290
I'm singing about
my feelings for you.

813
00:54:54,708 --> 00:54:56,376
About how I love you.

814
00:54:58,921 --> 00:55:01,214
What could be more natural
than that?

815
00:55:04,259 --> 00:55:05,593
<i>Tell me.</i>

816
00:55:06,679 --> 00:55:08,721
<i>More natural than me and you.</i>

817
00:55:09,348 --> 00:55:10,390
Ray.

818
00:55:14,937 --> 00:55:16,771
[Singing softly]

819
00:55:26,490 --> 00:55:28,658
JERRY: We bite the bullet,
cancel the tour dates.

820
00:55:28,742 --> 00:55:30,535
<i>But what will we tell Ray?</i>

821
00:55:30,619 --> 00:55:32,453
AHMET: We'll tell him the truth:

822
00:55:32,538 --> 00:55:34,664
Ruth Brown's pregnant,
so there's no tour.

823
00:55:34,748 --> 00:55:38,668
What about LaVern Baker?
Get her to take the tour.

824
00:55:38,752 --> 00:55:40,878
She has no record.
There's nothing to promote.

825
00:55:40,963 --> 00:55:44,590
You and Jesse write a couple of
songs, let's get her in the studio.

826
00:55:44,675 --> 00:55:46,342
AHMET: It'll take a month to put that--

827
00:55:46,427 --> 00:55:48,386
JERRY: What'll we do?
We got to do something.

828
00:55:48,470 --> 00:55:50,054
JERRY: Ray's got a new band up there.

829
00:55:50,139 --> 00:55:52,515
JERRY: How'd he put together
a band so fast?

830
00:55:52,599 --> 00:55:55,143
Boss! Boss, they're here.

831
00:55:55,436 --> 00:55:57,854
RAY: Come on. Let's get together
so we can show them this.

832
00:55:57,938 --> 00:55:59,605
AHMET: I'll let you break this to Ray.

833
00:55:59,690 --> 00:56:01,566
You're gonna let me break it to him?

834
00:56:01,650 --> 00:56:04,152
-Why me?
-Because Ruth Brown was your idea.

835
00:56:04,236 --> 00:56:06,237
Ruth Brown is a good idea,
was a good idea...

836
00:56:06,321 --> 00:56:08,072
and still is a good idea.

837
00:56:08,157 --> 00:56:09,866
[Ray singing R & B song]

838
00:56:33,974 --> 00:56:36,225
-Ahmet.
-Yeah.

839
00:56:36,310 --> 00:56:38,144
We got to get this on wax.

840
00:56:38,812 --> 00:56:39,896
Oh, yeah.

841
00:56:41,356 --> 00:56:44,776
Hear that, New York?
The sound is huge!

842
00:56:44,860 --> 00:56:47,570
But there's only seven cats
on this record.

843
00:56:47,654 --> 00:56:50,073
ALAN FREED: This is the new
Ray Charles, baby...

844
00:56:50,157 --> 00:56:52,200
and there's nothing out there
like it!

845
00:56:52,493 --> 00:56:55,369
And you heard it first
<i>on The Moondog Show!</i>

846
00:56:56,997 --> 00:56:59,082
[Upbeat R & B song playing]

847
00:57:04,379 --> 00:57:07,006
The Shaw Agency's the best booker
on The Chitlin' Circuit...

848
00:57:07,091 --> 00:57:08,257
that's my opinion.

849
00:57:08,342 --> 00:57:10,343
Milt Shaw, meet Ray Charles.

850
00:57:10,427 --> 00:57:12,178
AHMET: It was Milt's dad, Billy...

851
00:57:12,262 --> 00:57:14,931
who first drew my attention
to a certain blind pianist...

852
00:57:15,015 --> 00:57:17,016
when he was booking Lowell Fulson.

853
00:57:18,060 --> 00:57:22,146
We believe in your talent. We want
to be in the Ray Charles business.

854
00:57:22,231 --> 00:57:24,357
<i>We've already booked you</i>
<i>on a 1 0-city tour...</i>

855
00:57:24,441 --> 00:57:26,234
with Roy Milton's Solid Senders...

856
00:57:26,318 --> 00:57:27,485
I love Roy Milton.

857
00:57:27,569 --> 00:57:30,488
...and Tangula
the Exotic Shake Dancer.

858
00:57:30,656 --> 00:57:33,199
She is gorgeous.

859
00:57:33,367 --> 00:57:37,203
Ray, I gotta tell you, we think
you're onto something very big here.

860
00:57:37,287 --> 00:57:40,373
Nobody's ever combined R & B
and gospel before.

861
00:57:40,457 --> 00:57:41,958
I've Got A Woman is a smash.

862
00:57:42,042 --> 00:57:44,752
You better start thinking about
a follow-up.

863
00:57:44,837 --> 00:57:46,629
This sounds good.
I gotta run to Texas...

864
00:57:46,713 --> 00:57:49,549
and take care of some business,
and I'll be back.

865
00:57:49,716 --> 00:57:52,552
Make it fast.
I'm ready to sell, sell, sell.

866
00:57:52,636 --> 00:57:55,638
As long as you book me
in front of Tangula.

867
00:57:55,722 --> 00:57:59,058
JEFF: Della, hold on! Let me get
my camera. Let me get one picture.

868
00:57:59,143 --> 00:58:01,310
JEFF: Y'all stay right there! Ray!

869
00:58:02,312 --> 00:58:06,023
Della, let me get one picture!
One picture, Della! Come on.

870
00:58:06,942 --> 00:58:09,902
FATHEAD: Be careful, Ray. These are
your last steps of freedom, man.

871
00:58:09,987 --> 00:58:11,362
FATHEAD: Don't open that door.

872
00:58:11,446 --> 00:58:14,073
FATHEAD: You got to carry her
over the threshold.

873
00:58:14,408 --> 00:58:16,701
[All talking excitedly]

874
00:58:21,832 --> 00:58:24,208
To the right, Ray! To the right!

875
00:58:27,337 --> 00:58:30,923
FATHEAD: Ray, you need some help?
You sure you know what you're doing?

876
00:58:32,593 --> 00:58:35,094
[Upbeat R & B song]

877
00:58:42,311 --> 00:58:43,311
DELLA: Ray?

878
00:58:43,395 --> 00:58:44,562
[Knocking on door]

879
00:58:47,441 --> 00:58:49,108
DELLA: Can I come in?

880
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,654
RAY: Hold on.
DELLA: What's going on, Ray?

881
00:58:57,910 --> 00:58:59,577
<i>Open this door.</i>

882
00:59:00,829 --> 00:59:03,539
Why are you locking doors
on me, Ray?

883
00:59:03,624 --> 00:59:06,542
You know the place is small.
We gotta have a little privacy.

884
00:59:06,627 --> 00:59:09,045
What we need is a little more room.

885
00:59:09,129 --> 00:59:12,256
We're gonna need some space
while we start a family.

886
00:59:13,634 --> 00:59:16,802
You know I'll be on the road
for most of the year.

887
00:59:19,181 --> 00:59:22,225
I'm just thinking,
what if I'm not a good father?

888
00:59:22,851 --> 00:59:26,646
My daddy was never around.
He had three different families.

889
00:59:28,523 --> 00:59:30,024
Well, you...

890
00:59:30,859 --> 00:59:34,195
are going to have one,
starting right now.

891
00:59:34,321 --> 00:59:35,655
Right now?

892
00:59:37,032 --> 00:59:38,658
What do you think?

893
00:59:39,534 --> 00:59:42,620
That's what I know.

894
00:59:43,497 --> 00:59:45,164
[Singing jazzy song]

895
01:00:17,614 --> 01:00:20,741
MAN: Stop it! Y'all done lost your minds!
Stop all this stuff!

896
01:00:20,826 --> 01:00:21,951
WOMAN: You need to be saved!

897
01:00:22,035 --> 01:00:23,452
I can't take it no more. Stop it!

898
01:00:23,537 --> 01:00:25,788
MAN: I can't take it!
JEFF: Hold on.

899
01:00:25,872 --> 01:00:27,623
Take your hands off me!

900
01:00:27,708 --> 01:00:31,210
MAN: This ain't right!
JEFF: Just let the people hear the music.

901
01:00:32,212 --> 01:00:35,131
Y'all sitting here,
listening to this devil!

902
01:00:35,215 --> 01:00:38,384
You're giving your money to Satan,
that's what you're doing.

903
01:00:38,468 --> 01:00:41,846
<i>RAY: HoId on, you got a problem?</i>
MAN: Yeah, I got a problem!

904
01:00:42,055 --> 01:00:45,975
That's gospel you're singing!
You're turning God's music into sex.

905
01:00:46,059 --> 01:00:48,269
<i>You're making money off the Lord!</i>

906
01:00:48,353 --> 01:00:51,230
WOMAN: Don't smile at me!
Y'all are in it, too!

907
01:00:51,315 --> 01:00:53,316
All of y'all
are going straight to hell!

908
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:54,775
She's right.

909
01:00:56,111 --> 01:00:59,113
No, this here's wrong.
The whole thing's wrong.

910
01:00:59,740 --> 01:01:01,907
<i>RAY: It's okay. Let him go.</i>

911
01:01:01,992 --> 01:01:04,493
<i>You got a right to believe</i>
<i>in what you believe.</i>

912
01:01:04,578 --> 01:01:06,746
You can go to hell by yourself!

913
01:01:06,830 --> 01:01:08,831
Boss, you want to cancel the show?

914
01:01:08,915 --> 01:01:11,167
No. Just find me
a bari player by tomorrow.

915
01:01:11,251 --> 01:01:13,836
<i>I just want to</i>
<i>ask the foIks right now:</i>

916
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,922
<i>If y'all want me to keep playing,</i>
<i>let me hear you say "Amen."</i>

917
01:01:17,007 --> 01:01:19,008
ALL: Amen!

918
01:01:19,092 --> 01:01:20,843
While you're at it,
find me a girl...

919
01:01:20,927 --> 01:01:22,511
with church-training
that can sing...

920
01:01:22,596 --> 01:01:24,847
-but without the church attitude.
-All right.

921
01:01:24,931 --> 01:01:27,183
Let's go, y'all. Keep it going.

922
01:01:27,434 --> 01:01:29,935
[Upbeat jazzy music]

923
01:01:41,907 --> 01:01:43,074
[Car horn honking]

924
01:01:45,494 --> 01:01:48,037
DELLA: Ray, you got your watch?
RAY: Yeah.

925
01:01:48,121 --> 01:01:51,707
DELLA: Good. All right, baby,
your blue shirts are on top...

926
01:01:51,792 --> 01:01:55,252
the pants in between, and
the white shirts are on the bottom.

927
01:01:55,629 --> 01:01:58,297
Here's your glasses. There you go.

928
01:01:59,674 --> 01:02:01,050
[Car horn honking]

929
01:02:01,468 --> 01:02:03,719
Why don't you come
on the road with us?

930
01:02:03,804 --> 01:02:06,055
Baby, what would I do on the road?

931
01:02:06,139 --> 01:02:08,641
You'd do what I say you do,
that's what.

932
01:02:09,518 --> 01:02:13,270
I've been trying to get
a female voice in the band, anyway.

933
01:02:13,355 --> 01:02:16,065
Can't you just picture me
wobbling around on that stage...

934
01:02:16,149 --> 01:02:17,483
big as a house?

935
01:02:17,567 --> 01:02:21,570
Well, I can't picture you, you
know that. But I know what I can do.

936
01:02:22,823 --> 01:02:26,992
DELLA: Come on, now. Don't start nothing
you can't finish. Jeff is waiting.

937
01:02:28,537 --> 01:02:30,454
DELLA: I can't go on the road with you...

938
01:02:30,539 --> 01:02:32,498
not with your baby inside me.

939
01:02:33,500 --> 01:02:35,459
I'm gonna get your shaving kit.

940
01:02:36,461 --> 01:02:38,295
Bea, I got it.

941
01:02:38,922 --> 01:02:40,423
Bea, hold on.

942
01:02:44,970 --> 01:02:46,512
Bea, let me get it.

943
01:02:47,556 --> 01:02:50,141
How long you been
hiding this from me?

944
01:02:54,020 --> 01:02:55,354
I'm your wife!

945
01:02:55,439 --> 01:02:57,273
Bea, I was just so excited
to see you.

946
01:02:57,357 --> 01:02:59,650
I forgot to leave it with the band,
that's all.

947
01:02:59,734 --> 01:03:03,362
Let me get it. It's just
a little medicine, that's all, baby.

948
01:03:03,447 --> 01:03:06,282
That ain't medicine to nobody.
Don't be lying to yourself.

949
01:03:06,366 --> 01:03:09,618
It ain't like I'm dealing it.
I just use it to get a little taste.

950
01:03:09,703 --> 01:03:12,496
You don't taste poison, Ray.
It kills you. You got to stop.

951
01:03:12,581 --> 01:03:14,748
I ain't got to do a goddamn thing!

952
01:03:16,293 --> 01:03:18,919
What about me? What about your baby?

953
01:03:20,881 --> 01:03:23,048
It ain't like I'm new to this.

954
01:03:23,550 --> 01:03:26,218
If I felt like this was
jeopardizing my music, or you...

955
01:03:26,303 --> 01:03:27,720
or providing for that baby...

956
01:03:27,804 --> 01:03:29,930
I'd stop in a minute.
But I know it won't.

957
01:03:30,015 --> 01:03:32,641
How do you know that, Ray?

958
01:03:32,726 --> 01:03:34,977
You can talk till
you're blue in the face...

959
01:03:35,061 --> 01:03:36,979
it don't matter. I'm not gonna stop.

960
01:03:37,063 --> 01:03:38,814
DELLA: Then I'm coming with you.
RAY: No.

961
01:03:38,899 --> 01:03:40,399
-But you just said--
-No.

962
01:03:40,484 --> 01:03:43,652
You know what it is, Bea.
I think it's like you said.

963
01:03:44,070 --> 01:03:47,823
I don't think that the road
is a place for you and the baby.

964
01:03:49,993 --> 01:03:51,827
What are you saying to me, Ray?

965
01:03:51,912 --> 01:03:54,079
What I'm saying is that
when I get home...

966
01:03:54,164 --> 01:03:56,707
I hope that you're here at my house.

967
01:03:58,251 --> 01:03:59,585
Your house?

968
01:04:04,174 --> 01:04:07,176
RAY: Jeff, come get this bag.
JEFF: All right, Ray.

969
01:04:09,679 --> 01:04:11,180
Hey, Della Bea.

970
01:04:17,187 --> 01:04:18,521
You all right?

971
01:04:45,298 --> 01:04:47,716
[Singing upbeat song]

972
01:04:52,722 --> 01:04:54,473
That's good, thank you.

973
01:04:54,558 --> 01:04:57,810
-How does she look?
-Very pretty. Brown skin.

974
01:05:02,148 --> 01:05:03,732
[Ray cheers and claps]

975
01:05:04,192 --> 01:05:06,735
Yeah, that's great.
I really dig your sound.

976
01:05:06,820 --> 01:05:08,571
What was your name again,
sweetheart?

977
01:05:08,655 --> 01:05:11,240
Mary Ann Fisher.

978
01:05:12,742 --> 01:05:15,661
How would you feel if
I asked you to sing a torch song...

979
01:05:15,745 --> 01:05:17,580
with a gospel feel to it?

980
01:05:17,664 --> 01:05:20,499
Gospel's all about love anyway,
isn't it?

981
01:05:21,543 --> 01:05:24,128
Would it make you
feel like a sinner?

982
01:05:25,547 --> 01:05:28,007
Mr. Charles, I love the Lord,
the Lord loves me.

983
01:05:28,091 --> 01:05:29,675
But I ain't no hypocrite.

984
01:05:30,844 --> 01:05:34,138
Hello. You know,
it's hard to fool me...

985
01:05:34,222 --> 01:05:37,349
but it's impossible
to fool the Almighty, ain't it?

986
01:05:37,684 --> 01:05:40,060
RAY: Why don't we rehearse the song
a little bit?

987
01:05:40,145 --> 01:05:41,145
MARY ANN: Okay.

988
01:05:41,229 --> 01:05:43,731
Boss, we got to go.

989
01:05:43,815 --> 01:05:45,941
Go ahead.
I'll be with you in a minute.

990
01:05:46,026 --> 01:05:49,320
RAY: I just really feel your spirit.
JEFF: Boss, are you sure?

991
01:05:53,575 --> 01:05:54,742
Let's go.

992
01:05:58,455 --> 01:06:00,956
[Ray singing soulful tune]

993
01:06:41,581 --> 01:06:43,165
You're amazing.

994
01:06:43,333 --> 01:06:46,794
So are you, baby.
Come sit next to me.

995
01:06:54,010 --> 01:06:55,678
So, what do you think?

996
01:07:11,236 --> 01:07:12,528
[Knocking on door]

997
01:07:12,821 --> 01:07:15,781
JEFF: Ray, telephone.
RAY: Take a message.

998
01:07:18,076 --> 01:07:19,618
It's Della Bea.

999
01:07:20,078 --> 01:07:21,412
Damn it.

1000
01:07:22,956 --> 01:07:24,498
Tell her I'm busy.

1001
01:07:24,582 --> 01:07:26,834
Come on, man, I ain't lying to Bea.

1002
01:07:28,878 --> 01:07:31,755
-Is that the wife?
-Shut up.

1003
01:07:34,300 --> 01:07:36,343
I'll be there in a second.

1004
01:07:39,180 --> 01:07:41,056
Don't mess with this junk,
all right?

1005
01:07:41,141 --> 01:07:43,308
All it'll do is make you sick.

1006
01:07:47,230 --> 01:07:49,815
Does he have
all his fingers and toes?

1007
01:07:50,316 --> 01:07:51,817
Yes, he does.

1008
01:07:56,197 --> 01:07:57,573
Can he....

1009
01:08:01,327 --> 01:08:02,828
Can he see?

1010
01:08:04,497 --> 01:08:05,581
Yes.

1011
01:08:08,626 --> 01:08:11,503
-You want to hold him?
-No, I can't.

1012
01:08:11,671 --> 01:08:13,922
-Come on, Ray.
-I wouldn't know what to do.

1013
01:08:14,007 --> 01:08:15,841
That's what you came here for.

1014
01:08:15,925 --> 01:08:18,177
Use this hand to hold his head.

1015
01:08:19,095 --> 01:08:21,096
Okay. Right there.

1016
01:08:22,766 --> 01:08:24,600
[Baby crying]

1017
01:08:25,810 --> 01:08:27,644
[Della shushing]

1018
01:08:31,232 --> 01:08:32,900
That's your daddy.

1019
01:08:36,029 --> 01:08:38,697
He ain't no bigger
than a loaf of bread.

1020
01:08:39,616 --> 01:08:40,908
Thank you.

1021
01:08:41,701 --> 01:08:43,869
He's not my gift to you, Ray.

1022
01:08:44,162 --> 01:08:45,829
He's your son.

1023
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,541
You know I'm gonna take care
of both of you, right?

1024
01:08:52,045 --> 01:08:53,545
I love you.

1025
01:08:55,006 --> 01:08:58,801
I love you, too, Ray.
But there's something I got to say.

1026
01:08:59,052 --> 01:09:01,762
I know you're a working musician...

1027
01:09:02,180 --> 01:09:04,723
but don't bring the road
into our home again.

1028
01:09:04,808 --> 01:09:07,476
<i>The home I'm making for you</i>
<i>and our children.</i>

1029
01:09:07,727 --> 01:09:09,978
Bea, I promise I won't do that.

1030
01:09:10,522 --> 01:09:13,065
-It's just there's some things--
-Don't say no more.

1031
01:09:14,150 --> 01:09:15,901
I ain't no fool.

1032
01:09:16,528 --> 01:09:18,904
You know, you're the only woman
I'll ever love.

1033
01:09:31,918 --> 01:09:34,586
RAY: Mama! Mama, help!

1034
01:09:35,088 --> 01:09:39,591
Mama, help, please!

1035
01:09:39,926 --> 01:09:41,927
I need you!

1036
01:09:46,599 --> 01:09:49,268
Mama, help!

1037
01:10:12,292 --> 01:10:13,750
[Cow mooing]

1038
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:08,680
[Cricket chirps]

1039
01:11:39,003 --> 01:11:40,754
[Cricket chirping]

1040
01:11:44,217 --> 01:11:48,220
I hear you, too, Mama.
You're right there.

1041
01:11:55,728 --> 01:11:57,396
ARETHA: Yes, I am.

1042
01:12:00,900 --> 01:12:02,567
Why are you crying, Mama?

1043
01:12:03,069 --> 01:12:04,736
'Cause I'm happy.

1044
01:12:08,408 --> 01:12:10,409
JEFF: It's Uncle Jeff!

1045
01:12:10,743 --> 01:12:12,244
Got my camera!

1046
01:12:12,495 --> 01:12:14,663
JEFF: Sarah! Come on in.

1047
01:12:14,789 --> 01:12:16,498
Put the flowers
right there behind them.

1048
01:12:16,582 --> 01:12:18,500
JEFF: All right, big smiles, everybody.

1049
01:12:19,085 --> 01:12:20,919
[Upbeat jazzy song playing]

1050
01:13:16,726 --> 01:13:18,060
Hi, Junior.

1051
01:13:18,394 --> 01:13:21,396
Come on, Ray, let's
get this boy home so he can eat.

1052
01:13:21,481 --> 01:13:23,231
I have those cookies you like.

1053
01:13:33,743 --> 01:13:36,411
We try to make it through these
cracker speed traps...

1054
01:13:36,496 --> 01:13:37,704
we'll be a little late.

1055
01:13:37,789 --> 01:13:40,415
RAY: Yeah, just stay within the limits.
JEFF: All right.

1056
01:13:41,209 --> 01:13:44,002
Why don't we
get that spot in Memphis?

1057
01:13:44,087 --> 01:13:45,420
We could have our own place.

1058
01:13:45,505 --> 01:13:47,506
Baby, I'm not leaving Houston.

1059
01:13:48,883 --> 01:13:51,218
I bet she don't do this.

1060
01:13:51,844 --> 01:13:52,969
Baby, hold on.

1061
01:13:53,054 --> 01:13:57,182
Goodbye don't mean gone, okay?
I'm not gonna leave my family.

1062
01:13:57,683 --> 01:14:01,520
Okay, baby, okay.
No need to get sore.

1063
01:14:02,188 --> 01:14:06,358
How about we give me
a little more to do in the show?

1064
01:14:06,692 --> 01:14:08,110
How about a solo?

1065
01:14:08,194 --> 01:14:09,861
You just don't stop, do you?

1066
01:14:10,113 --> 01:14:12,447
Look, I'm going up to New York
to do some publicity.

1067
01:14:12,532 --> 01:14:14,449
You stay here, find some material...

1068
01:14:14,534 --> 01:14:16,827
and when I get back,
we can talk about it.

1069
01:14:16,953 --> 01:14:18,286
Okay.

1070
01:14:22,375 --> 01:14:24,417
[Upbeat jazzy song continues]

1071
01:14:32,176 --> 01:14:34,636
[All cheering and clapping]

1072
01:14:39,684 --> 01:14:42,978
RAY: I dig New York. Everybody here's
making their own sound.

1073
01:14:43,062 --> 01:14:44,855
JERRY: They loved it. Ray, they loved you.

1074
01:14:44,939 --> 01:14:46,731
We're gonna
get the cover of Billboard.

1075
01:14:46,816 --> 01:14:49,693
I want to do a session
while I'm here. How about tomorrow?

1076
01:14:49,777 --> 01:14:52,404
-You got the band here?
-Yeah.

1077
01:14:52,488 --> 01:14:54,239
Everybody except Mary Ann...

1078
01:14:54,323 --> 01:14:56,074
because I need
a different background.

1079
01:14:56,159 --> 01:14:58,160
I've been hearing this thing
in my head...

1080
01:14:58,244 --> 01:15:00,704
like a dance between
a man and three women.

1081
01:15:00,788 --> 01:15:02,622
Sounds fun. Can I watch?

1082
01:15:02,748 --> 01:15:04,332
It's a dance of voices, Ahmet.

1083
01:15:04,417 --> 01:15:06,668
What do you have in mind?
Like three Mary Anns?

1084
01:15:06,752 --> 01:15:11,673
No. That's too smooth.
I need something that's more raw.

1085
01:15:12,008 --> 01:15:14,217
The Cookies. What about The Cookies?

1086
01:15:14,302 --> 01:15:15,969
Yeah, Cookies are sweet.

1087
01:15:18,890 --> 01:15:20,807
[Lively music]

1088
01:15:51,839 --> 01:15:54,090
Jesus, he's on fire.

1089
01:15:55,468 --> 01:15:57,761
Maybe we should sign these girls up.

1090
01:15:57,970 --> 01:15:59,971
If I know Ray,
we won't get a chance.

1091
01:16:39,095 --> 01:16:41,930
<i>TOM: It doesn't get better than that.</i>
RAY: I love it!

1092
01:16:42,014 --> 01:16:43,682
RAY: We gonna put it out like that.

1093
01:16:43,766 --> 01:16:46,101
I never got a record
in one take before!

1094
01:16:46,185 --> 01:16:47,727
You Cookies sound sweet.

1095
01:16:48,020 --> 01:16:50,605
When it's happening, baby,
it just feels right.

1096
01:16:50,690 --> 01:16:53,608
I know what you mean. I got
the shivers in this studio tonight.

1097
01:16:53,693 --> 01:16:56,194
That's 'cause
they ain't paid the heating bill.

1098
01:16:56,279 --> 01:16:58,113
RAY: I have a question for all of you:

1099
01:16:58,197 --> 01:17:00,573
How would you like to
go on the road with me?

1100
01:17:02,618 --> 01:17:04,077
[Screaming excitedly]

1101
01:17:04,161 --> 01:17:05,829
How much you gonna pay us?

1102
01:17:05,955 --> 01:17:09,249
-Ahmet takes care of all of that.
-You mean he don't listen to you?

1103
01:17:09,333 --> 01:17:12,168
You better know he does.
Don't worry about it.

1104
01:17:12,253 --> 01:17:13,837
Brother Ray'll take care of you.

1105
01:17:13,921 --> 01:17:16,423
My mama taught me
to take care of myself.

1106
01:17:17,883 --> 01:17:19,092
ls your mother here?

1107
01:17:19,176 --> 01:17:21,845
-No, she's not, but I speak for us.
-No, you don't.

1108
01:17:22,054 --> 01:17:26,141
Okay, Speak for Us,
how about $20 a week?

1109
01:17:26,225 --> 01:17:28,727
-$20 a week is good.
-We'll take $40. Each.

1110
01:17:29,020 --> 01:17:30,729
RAY: $40 each?
MARGlE: You heard me.

1111
01:17:31,022 --> 01:17:33,398
No. How about $25?

1112
01:17:33,858 --> 01:17:35,317
We'll take $30.

1113
01:17:35,526 --> 01:17:38,320
I have to say yeah before you
talk me out of my drawers.

1114
01:17:39,071 --> 01:17:40,572
MARGlE: $30 a week!

1115
01:17:40,906 --> 01:17:41,906
Deal?

1116
01:17:41,991 --> 01:17:43,325
Oh! Yeah.

1117
01:17:43,576 --> 01:17:44,909
Margie, right?

1118
01:17:45,745 --> 01:17:47,203
RAY: Look, Margie, from now on...

1119
01:17:47,288 --> 01:17:49,873
you guys are going to be called
The Raelettes.

1120
01:17:50,666 --> 01:17:52,834
Does that mean we have to "Let Ray"?

1121
01:17:52,918 --> 01:17:56,338
-What am I going to do with you?
-I'm sure you'll think of something.

1122
01:17:58,674 --> 01:17:59,924
PAT: $30 a week!

1123
01:18:00,009 --> 01:18:02,510
MARGlE: We're going to be The Raelettes!

1124
01:18:07,850 --> 01:18:09,976
[Playing classical piano music]

1125
01:18:12,605 --> 01:18:15,273
[Girls chattering]

1126
01:18:25,368 --> 01:18:27,327
JEFF: Fathead, come on,
you're on the clock.

1127
01:18:27,411 --> 01:18:29,204
<i>Come on, Bob, you're late.</i>

1128
01:18:30,289 --> 01:18:32,624
RAY: Hold on, Jeff. Listen up.

1129
01:18:32,750 --> 01:18:34,876
From now on, we're gonna sing
four-part harmony.

1130
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:37,462
Ethel, you sing alto.

1131
01:18:37,797 --> 01:18:41,257
<i>Margie, you sing tenor.</i>
<i>Pat, soprano, and Mary Ann, bass.</i>

1132
01:18:42,009 --> 01:18:43,760
I ain't no bass. I'm a soprano.

1133
01:18:44,261 --> 01:18:48,431
I'll sing bass. Where we come from,
we can sing anything.

1134
01:18:49,266 --> 01:18:52,060
We're talking about singing, sugar,
not hog calling.

1135
01:18:52,144 --> 01:18:53,478
That's cold.

1136
01:18:54,105 --> 01:18:55,605
Who are you calling a hog?

1137
01:18:55,689 --> 01:18:57,357
If the corncob fits....

1138
01:18:57,608 --> 01:19:00,276
You better shut your mouth
before you get--

1139
01:19:01,278 --> 01:19:03,446
RAY: What is all the cackling for?

1140
01:19:04,657 --> 01:19:08,410
Mary Ann, sweetheart, I wrote
something special for you: a solo.

1141
01:19:08,577 --> 01:19:09,911
A solo?

1142
01:19:09,995 --> 01:19:12,539
Come on down here,
let me play it for you.

1143
01:19:16,419 --> 01:19:18,586
[Slow piano music playing]

1144
01:19:29,306 --> 01:19:32,350
[Singing soulful song]

1145
01:19:47,032 --> 01:19:50,118
JEFF: Ethel! Come here and see
this new piano Ray got.

1146
01:19:50,202 --> 01:19:52,662
-It's called a Wurlitzer.
-A what?

1147
01:19:52,746 --> 01:19:56,082
JEFF: You got to see this thing.
It's out of sight.

1148
01:19:59,462 --> 01:20:01,629
Baby, I got your drink here for you.

1149
01:20:07,845 --> 01:20:11,806
MARGlE: Don't play that.
RAY: She want me to play something else.

1150
01:20:17,730 --> 01:20:20,315
[Soulful singing continues]

1151
01:20:40,002 --> 01:20:42,670
We got some hell
going on, gentlemen!

1152
01:20:43,005 --> 01:20:45,965
Now, this is a car. This is a car!

1153
01:20:49,428 --> 01:20:51,930
Looks like a damn Wieniemobile!

1154
01:20:57,728 --> 01:20:59,395
MARGlE: Lookie here!

1155
01:20:59,939 --> 01:21:01,564
JEFF: Let's take it for a spin.

1156
01:21:01,815 --> 01:21:04,734
RAY: Since I'm the boss,
you got to let me drive.

1157
01:21:06,278 --> 01:21:07,779
Don't hit nothing, Ray.

1158
01:21:19,291 --> 01:21:20,625
-You okay?
-Yeah.

1159
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:23,628
-What room are you in?
-69.

1160
01:21:24,129 --> 01:21:27,048
Honey, you are so nasty.
That's what I love about you.

1161
01:21:27,174 --> 01:21:29,133
MARGlE: No, seriously,
what room are you in?

1162
01:21:29,593 --> 01:21:30,927
RAY: I'm in 626.

1163
01:21:31,178 --> 01:21:32,512
MARGlE: 624.

1164
01:21:33,806 --> 01:21:36,307
MARGlE: Baby, I can't wait
till we get to your room.

1165
01:21:38,978 --> 01:21:40,979
Here's 626. Right here.

1166
01:21:41,814 --> 01:21:43,565
-Where's the key?
-You have to get it.

1167
01:21:43,649 --> 01:21:44,983
I have to find it?

1168
01:21:45,901 --> 01:21:48,236
-Is that it?
-It might be.

1169
01:21:49,655 --> 01:21:52,907
MARGlE: I'm not going to unbuckle
your pants yet. Let's get you in.

1170
01:22:02,668 --> 01:22:05,169
<i>RAY: Miss Mary Ann Fisher,</i>
<i>ladies and gentlemen.</i>

1171
01:22:09,049 --> 01:22:11,259
FATHEAD: Wait till you see
what's in the goodie bag.

1172
01:22:11,343 --> 01:22:12,427
RAY: Goodie bag?

1173
01:22:12,511 --> 01:22:15,513
FATHEAD: Gonna fly you to the moon, baby.
Let me get your hand, Ray.

1174
01:22:15,639 --> 01:22:18,975
FATHEAD: There go three. That's for you.

1175
01:22:19,518 --> 01:22:22,228
I thought you was my friend.
The weight is off.

1176
01:22:23,022 --> 01:22:24,397
Don't start with me, Ray.

1177
01:22:24,481 --> 01:22:26,649
-The weight is off.
-It ain't off.

1178
01:22:26,734 --> 01:22:28,818
When you get high and try to cop...

1179
01:22:28,902 --> 01:22:31,613
dealers will spank your ass.
You need discipline.

1180
01:22:32,156 --> 01:22:36,159
You know what? I ain't messing up
my high tonight...

1181
01:22:36,410 --> 01:22:39,078
sitting here with you,
arguing about nothing.

1182
01:22:40,998 --> 01:22:44,042
Look, Fathead, just tie me off.

1183
01:22:45,002 --> 01:22:46,377
Come on, Fathead.

1184
01:22:47,671 --> 01:22:51,007
Take care of your bad self,
you know so damn much.

1185
01:22:52,343 --> 01:22:53,509
FATHEAD: Later, Margie.

1186
01:22:53,886 --> 01:22:55,678
MARGlE: Bye, Fathead.

1187
01:22:58,432 --> 01:22:59,724
Damn.

1188
01:23:05,022 --> 01:23:07,398
Ain't nothing free in the world
but Jesus.

1189
01:23:08,108 --> 01:23:09,359
[Ray gasps in fear]

1190
01:23:14,782 --> 01:23:16,949
Yeah? What do you want?

1191
01:23:17,743 --> 01:23:20,578
RAY: Do me a favor, sweetheart,
and pick that up for me.

1192
01:23:20,663 --> 01:23:22,705
RAY: You're going to have to get me off.

1193
01:23:25,334 --> 01:23:27,502
I'll do it, if you let me try some.

1194
01:23:28,420 --> 01:23:30,088
This ain't for no little girls.

1195
01:23:30,172 --> 01:23:32,298
I ain't no little girl!

1196
01:23:32,633 --> 01:23:36,010
I understand. It's just that
this stuff will take you places...

1197
01:23:36,095 --> 01:23:37,595
you don't want to go.

1198
01:23:37,930 --> 01:23:39,681
I want to share that with you.

1199
01:23:39,765 --> 01:23:42,350
Listen to me! If I ever
hear about you doing drugs...

1200
01:23:42,434 --> 01:23:44,185
you're through, you hear me?

1201
01:23:44,937 --> 01:23:47,438
You believe that
more than you believe in Jesus!

1202
01:23:48,315 --> 01:23:50,650
Don't say that, Ray.

1203
01:23:53,821 --> 01:23:56,906
I watch your show
every single night.

1204
01:23:57,825 --> 01:24:02,328
And every night is new to me.
Maybe because it's new to you.

1205
01:24:02,663 --> 01:24:06,290
It's like
you live every single word...

1206
01:24:06,625 --> 01:24:09,627
and then you bend some crazy note...

1207
01:24:11,130 --> 01:24:15,800
and damn if you don't break
my heart. You got genius, baby.

1208
01:24:16,135 --> 01:24:18,636
I just want to be a part of that.

1209
01:24:22,141 --> 01:24:24,726
[lnviting jazzy song]

1210
01:24:33,485 --> 01:24:35,695
[Singing inviting jazzy song]

1211
01:25:17,654 --> 01:25:21,991
Look at him. Look at his knees
shaking. He's got that junkie itch.

1212
01:25:23,827 --> 01:25:25,828
<i>He's totally hooked.</i>

1213
01:25:27,831 --> 01:25:29,957
But listen to that sound.
He's brilliant.

1214
01:25:30,042 --> 01:25:31,876
You can never trust a junkie.

1215
01:25:32,169 --> 01:25:34,545
What do you want me to do?
Listen to him.

1216
01:25:34,838 --> 01:25:37,381
[Continues singing inviting song]

1217
01:25:46,975 --> 01:25:49,811
-Happy birthday!
-Happy birthday, Ray.

1218
01:25:50,354 --> 01:25:52,146
You know what to do.

1219
01:25:52,231 --> 01:25:54,649
Take a deep breath. Go ahead.

1220
01:25:56,985 --> 01:25:59,278
-He blow them out?
-Every single one.

1221
01:26:01,198 --> 01:26:03,825
[lnviting jazzy song continues]

1222
01:26:13,877 --> 01:26:15,795
[All cheering and clapping]

1223
01:26:16,338 --> 01:26:18,798
<i>I want to thank you so very much.</i>

1224
01:26:19,091 --> 01:26:23,469
<i>Please, another round of applause</i>
<i>for Miss Margie Hendricks.</i>

1225
01:26:23,762 --> 01:26:26,097
<i>Thank you so much, and good night.</i>

1226
01:26:27,891 --> 01:26:30,351
MANAGER: You see what time it is?
JEFF: What's the problem?

1227
01:26:30,435 --> 01:26:32,728
The problem is on the contract.

1228
01:26:32,813 --> 01:26:35,982
Ray! You still got 20 minutes left.

1229
01:26:36,233 --> 01:26:37,400
RAY: What you want to do?

1230
01:26:37,484 --> 01:26:40,194
That fool's holding us
to every second of the contract.

1231
01:26:40,279 --> 01:26:42,572
Go baby-sit him.
I'll take care of it.

1232
01:26:42,656 --> 01:26:44,657
It's okay.

1233
01:26:44,741 --> 01:26:46,701
<i>They say we got</i>
<i>a little more work to do.</i>

1234
01:26:46,785 --> 01:26:48,828
That was the last song in the book.

1235
01:26:48,912 --> 01:26:50,329
<i>It's never the last song.</i>

1236
01:26:50,414 --> 01:26:53,541
<i>Band, follow me and do what I do,</i>
<i>say what I say.</i>

1237
01:26:53,625 --> 01:26:55,126
<i>This is how we gonna do it.</i>

1238
01:26:56,378 --> 01:26:59,755
[Lively piano music playing]

1239
01:27:29,494 --> 01:27:31,621
[Singing lively song]

1240
01:28:37,270 --> 01:28:39,271
Where can I get that record from?

1241
01:28:39,564 --> 01:28:43,275
I don't know. It doesn't exist yet.
I'll tell Ray he should record it.

1242
01:29:11,763 --> 01:29:13,222
[Lively song playing back]

1243
01:29:13,306 --> 01:29:14,974
Yeah, that's it.

1244
01:29:21,273 --> 01:29:23,941
I'm telling you,
that is out of sight. That's a hit.

1245
01:29:24,026 --> 01:29:27,028
It's fantastic.
But what are we gonna do...

1246
01:29:27,112 --> 01:29:28,612
with this? It's too damn long.

1247
01:29:28,697 --> 01:29:31,532
Every night we play this,
we bring the house down.

1248
01:29:31,616 --> 01:29:32,867
It's guaranteed.

1249
01:29:32,951 --> 01:29:34,744
Tom, cut the playback!

1250
01:29:34,995 --> 01:29:36,328
<i>Come on out here.</i>

1251
01:29:38,874 --> 01:29:41,417
Ray, you're probably right.
I'm sure you're right.

1252
01:29:41,501 --> 01:29:44,879
I've never heard a sound like this
before. But how do we market it?

1253
01:29:44,963 --> 01:29:47,923
We could cut the second verse,
pop back into the chorus.

1254
01:29:48,008 --> 01:29:50,301
You cut that, I'll cut you in half.

1255
01:29:50,802 --> 01:29:52,136
All right, all right.

1256
01:29:53,180 --> 01:29:55,681
We could split it up.

1257
01:29:55,766 --> 01:29:58,142
Do a Side A/Side B type of thing.

1258
01:29:58,226 --> 01:30:00,478
It's been done before.
What the hell, right?

1259
01:30:02,814 --> 01:30:06,400
It's sexual.
It's just too damn sexual for kids.

1260
01:30:06,485 --> 01:30:07,735
Let's do it.

1261
01:30:07,819 --> 01:30:10,112
Yeah! That's why I love y'all.

1262
01:30:10,197 --> 01:30:12,948
JERRY: All right. What the hell?
It's Atlantic, right?

1263
01:30:13,033 --> 01:30:15,576
<i>We'll release it in the summer.</i>
<i>There's less censorship.</i>

1264
01:30:15,660 --> 01:30:18,954
School's out.
The kids are ready to kick loose.

1265
01:30:21,625 --> 01:30:25,127
Tom, let's see if we can
cut this pumpkin in two.

1266
01:30:25,212 --> 01:30:27,213
Show me what your genius
is all about.

1267
01:30:27,297 --> 01:30:28,547
TOM: You got it, boss.

1268
01:30:29,174 --> 01:30:33,594
You put one on Side A, another
on Side B. That's out of sight.

1269
01:30:33,678 --> 01:30:34,929
How you feeling?

1270
01:30:35,013 --> 01:30:36,514
I feel groovy, baby.

1271
01:30:37,015 --> 01:30:39,016
I'm talking about the junk.

1272
01:30:39,684 --> 01:30:41,227
AHMET: It's starting to show.

1273
01:30:42,395 --> 01:30:44,980
You're scratching all the time.
You can't sit still.

1274
01:30:45,816 --> 01:30:47,566
Have I ever missed a date?

1275
01:30:48,151 --> 01:30:49,819
No, you never have.

1276
01:30:49,945 --> 01:30:52,238
Who's the one who delivers
a record in one take?

1277
01:30:52,322 --> 01:30:54,490
AHMET: You deliver better than
anybody I know...

1278
01:30:54,574 --> 01:30:56,951
but I'm not talking to you
as a businessman.

1279
01:30:57,119 --> 01:30:59,161
AHMET: Now come on, listen to me.

1280
01:30:59,996 --> 01:31:01,831
I'm worried about you.

1281
01:31:02,541 --> 01:31:05,793
As a friend, I'm telling you, man,
your slip is hanging.

1282
01:31:06,795 --> 01:31:08,295
"Your slip is hanging."

1283
01:31:08,380 --> 01:31:11,799
You been hanging out
with us country boys too much.

1284
01:31:11,883 --> 01:31:15,302
Don't worry about this. If this
monkey gets too heavy on my back...

1285
01:31:15,387 --> 01:31:18,139
I'll get an organ grinder
and put him to work.

1286
01:31:23,895 --> 01:31:25,354
MlLT: He's off the Chitlin' Circuit.

1287
01:31:25,438 --> 01:31:28,649
Down Beat voted him Best Male Jazz
Vocalist by a 2-to-1 margin.

1288
01:31:29,067 --> 01:31:30,818
If you want him in Philadelphia...

1289
01:31:30,902 --> 01:31:32,695
you're going to find him
a bigger venue.

1290
01:31:43,415 --> 01:31:44,707
<i>What'd I Say!</i>

1291
01:31:50,922 --> 01:31:53,883
Forget second billing. Ray Charles
headlines at $1,000 per...

1292
01:31:53,967 --> 01:31:55,259
or no deal.

1293
01:31:57,304 --> 01:31:58,345
Terrific.

1294
01:31:58,555 --> 01:32:00,848
[Upbeat lively music]

1295
01:32:17,407 --> 01:32:19,366
<i>DELLA: I'm having second thoughts</i>
<i>about this.</i>

1296
01:32:19,451 --> 01:32:21,202
<i>I don't know nobody in L.A.</i>

1297
01:32:21,494 --> 01:32:24,163
<i>RAY: Bea, I don't want my kids growing up</i>
<i>in the South.</i>

1298
01:32:24,247 --> 01:32:28,417
<i>L.A. is where a Negro</i>
<i>can spread his wings and fly.</i>

1299
01:32:29,377 --> 01:32:33,547
<i>DELLA: Ray, my whole family's in Texas.</i>
<i>RAY: That's why we're moving to L.A.</i>

1300
01:32:34,132 --> 01:32:37,968
<i>Tell the boys they can go ahead</i>
<i>and start their vacation right now.</i>

1301
01:32:38,053 --> 01:32:40,554
<i>JEFF: All right, boss.</i>
<i>Once I get you inside.</i>

1302
01:32:43,558 --> 01:32:46,060
DELLA: Look at that huge coconut tree!

1303
01:32:46,144 --> 01:32:48,479
That ain't no coconut tree.
That's a palm tree.

1304
01:32:48,647 --> 01:32:50,147
There's thousands of them.

1305
01:32:51,733 --> 01:32:53,984
Here's the keys to your life,
a brand-new life.

1306
01:32:56,655 --> 01:32:58,322
Oh, Ray.

1307
01:33:01,451 --> 01:33:03,452
Ray, this is too much.

1308
01:33:03,703 --> 01:33:05,704
Have you seen the dining room?

1309
01:33:08,833 --> 01:33:10,793
But, baby, it's October.

1310
01:33:11,044 --> 01:33:14,380
RAY: I wanted to celebrate early,
because the band will be playing...

1311
01:33:14,464 --> 01:33:16,006
during the holidays.

1312
01:33:17,884 --> 01:33:20,177
DELLA: You're unbelievable.
RAY: Look at your presents.

1313
01:33:20,262 --> 01:33:23,305
Baby, look at what Santa brought
you. You must have been good.

1314
01:33:23,390 --> 01:33:25,766
Go ahead! Christmas is early, baby!

1315
01:33:25,850 --> 01:33:27,017
RAY: Go get it.

1316
01:33:27,394 --> 01:33:29,019
RAY: What's he taken?
DELLA: A guitar.

1317
01:33:29,104 --> 01:33:31,480
RAY: A musician like your daddy.
DELLA: Can you play?

1318
01:33:31,564 --> 01:33:32,564
[Phone ringing]

1319
01:33:32,691 --> 01:33:34,525
DELLA: What else you got?
JEFF: Hello?

1320
01:33:36,945 --> 01:33:38,445
How'd you get this number?

1321
01:33:39,155 --> 01:33:42,366
How do you think I got it?
Put Ray on the phone.

1322
01:33:44,035 --> 01:33:46,537
Ray, telephone.

1323
01:33:46,871 --> 01:33:48,122
Deal with it, man.

1324
01:33:48,206 --> 01:33:50,874
Ray, it's important. Telephone.

1325
01:33:52,210 --> 01:33:54,044
-I'll be right back.
-All right.

1326
01:33:54,879 --> 01:33:56,380
Who is it?

1327
01:33:57,048 --> 01:33:58,716
[Whispering] It's Margie.

1328
01:34:02,387 --> 01:34:05,389
Junior, come help your mama
change your brother's diaper.

1329
01:34:05,515 --> 01:34:08,851
RAY JR.: I don't want to go.
I want to stay and open my presents.

1330
01:34:08,977 --> 01:34:09,977
I don't want to go.

1331
01:34:10,061 --> 01:34:12,062
DELLA: I don't care.
Don't let me tell you twice.

1332
01:34:12,147 --> 01:34:13,731
RAY: Hello.
MARGlE: Hey, baby.

1333
01:34:13,857 --> 01:34:17,484
Surprise! I came to L.A.
to surprise you.

1334
01:34:17,569 --> 01:34:20,571
Surprise me? Are you out of your
mind? I'm with my wife and kids.

1335
01:34:20,864 --> 01:34:22,990
On the road, I'm Mrs. Ray Charles.

1336
01:34:23,074 --> 01:34:24,241
That's on the road.

1337
01:34:24,367 --> 01:34:27,870
But, baby, come on,
I got everything set up for us.

1338
01:34:28,246 --> 01:34:30,080
Did you hear
what I just said to you?

1339
01:34:30,206 --> 01:34:32,583
Wait a minute,
I got a bottle of Bols, and--

1340
01:34:32,667 --> 01:34:33,709
<i>RAY: Shut up.</i>

1341
01:34:33,793 --> 01:34:36,920
Listen, we record in two weeks.
I'll see you then.

1342
01:34:37,005 --> 01:34:38,672
MARGlE: Wait a minute, Ray!
RAY: Bye.

1343
01:34:39,007 --> 01:34:40,174
Ray!

1344
01:34:42,969 --> 01:34:44,470
[Soulful song]

1345
01:35:06,409 --> 01:35:08,577
[Singing soulful song]

1346
01:35:21,007 --> 01:35:22,341
Hold on, wait.

1347
01:35:22,467 --> 01:35:24,885
RAY: Cut. You know that sounds off.

1348
01:35:24,969 --> 01:35:26,970
The three-part harmony is off.

1349
01:35:27,055 --> 01:35:29,890
Let's start it all over
from the top with the band.

1350
01:35:31,309 --> 01:35:33,143
[Singing]

1351
01:35:35,021 --> 01:35:37,189
Whoa, pardner! What was that?

1352
01:35:37,440 --> 01:35:39,650
TOM: I knew you'd like that.
It's an eight-track.

1353
01:35:39,734 --> 01:35:41,860
We can record each part separately.

1354
01:35:42,112 --> 01:35:45,489
Whoa, Nellie!
I can't wait to see that.

1355
01:35:45,990 --> 01:35:49,159
RAY: What's so funny?
MARGlE: Nothing, "pardner."

1356
01:35:50,453 --> 01:35:51,829
Margie's drunk. Jeff?

1357
01:35:53,790 --> 01:35:55,207
Go home and sleep it off.

1358
01:35:55,291 --> 01:35:56,959
Let me take you home.

1359
01:35:57,043 --> 01:35:59,211
No. I'll leave
when I'm good and ready!

1360
01:35:59,295 --> 01:36:01,046
She's good and ready right now.

1361
01:36:01,131 --> 01:36:03,340
Why don't you make me leave, sucker!

1362
01:36:03,508 --> 01:36:05,968
Teach you to treat me
like some piece of meat!

1363
01:36:06,594 --> 01:36:08,095
I ain't shutting up!

1364
01:36:08,179 --> 01:36:09,930
-Should we get in there?
-No.

1365
01:36:10,014 --> 01:36:11,181
RAY: Get them all out, now.

1366
01:36:11,266 --> 01:36:12,474
You'll have to make me leave!

1367
01:36:12,559 --> 01:36:15,394
You know what?
Get all of them out of here.

1368
01:36:15,520 --> 01:36:18,689
You're a cold-ass bastard!
Let go of me, Jeff!

1369
01:36:18,940 --> 01:36:20,774
You're a cold-ass bastard!

1370
01:36:20,859 --> 01:36:24,361
He wouldn't spit on me
if my ass was on fire!

1371
01:36:24,446 --> 01:36:25,529
Damn right I wouldn't.

1372
01:36:25,613 --> 01:36:27,698
MARGlE: Put me down, Jeff! Damn it!

1373
01:36:28,032 --> 01:36:29,533
You dropped your shoe.

1374
01:36:31,369 --> 01:36:33,203
Come on, let's get back to work.

1375
01:36:33,955 --> 01:36:36,498
RAY: Tom, this is what I want.
We'll lay my vocals down...

1376
01:36:36,583 --> 01:36:38,167
and finish the harmony parts.

1377
01:36:38,251 --> 01:36:41,795
<i>How will we do the harmonies, Ray?</i>
<i>You sent the girIs home.</i>

1378
01:36:41,880 --> 01:36:44,131
I know what I did.
Let me take care of that.

1379
01:36:44,215 --> 01:36:47,342
<i>Turn that eight-track on,</i>
<i>and I'll do the girIs' parts myself.</i>

1380
01:36:47,427 --> 01:36:50,053
And go out and find me
an "Oh, Johnny" girl.

1381
01:36:50,722 --> 01:36:52,347
<i>One minute.</i>

1382
01:36:53,349 --> 01:36:55,142
What the hell's
an "Oh, Johnny" girl?

1383
01:36:55,226 --> 01:36:56,685
I think I've got an idea.

1384
01:36:57,187 --> 01:36:58,979
[Singing soulful song]

1385
01:37:12,785 --> 01:37:14,286
[Singing in female voice]

1386
01:37:25,757 --> 01:37:29,927
<i>MILT: The sky's the limit, Ray.</i>
<i>I got you a $5,000-a-night raise.</i>

1387
01:37:30,178 --> 01:37:31,845
They'll up you to 15 per.

1388
01:37:32,180 --> 01:37:33,597
Rehearsal in 1 0 minutes.

1389
01:37:33,681 --> 01:37:36,058
Jeff, could you
get me some cigarettes?

1390
01:37:36,142 --> 01:37:37,351
Okay, boss.

1391
01:37:39,854 --> 01:37:41,271
Fifteen per?

1392
01:37:41,356 --> 01:37:45,526
Your contract with Atlantic
is expiring in four months.

1393
01:37:46,945 --> 01:37:50,948
I got the contract with me. They're
going to double my royalties.

1394
01:37:51,032 --> 01:37:53,033
Before we jump back in that pond...

1395
01:37:53,117 --> 01:37:55,285
I thought I'd find out
what else was out there.

1396
01:37:55,370 --> 01:37:58,997
I had a very productive chat
with ABC-Paramount yesterday.

1397
01:37:59,290 --> 01:38:00,999
ABC? Who told you to do that?

1398
01:38:01,084 --> 01:38:03,961
Atlantic is family,
just like the Shaw Agency.

1399
01:38:04,170 --> 01:38:08,840
My job is to get you the best deal
possible. ABC is very interested.

1400
01:38:09,300 --> 01:38:10,551
No.

1401
01:38:12,971 --> 01:38:14,304
How interested?

1402
01:38:15,181 --> 01:38:20,060
How about a $50,000 advance
each year for three years?

1403
01:38:20,144 --> 01:38:22,271
You produce your own records.

1404
01:38:22,647 --> 01:38:25,148
They'll deduct recording costs
and give you...

1405
01:38:25,525 --> 01:38:27,192
75%.

1406
01:38:30,697 --> 01:38:33,490
Ahmet and Jerry
are flying in tonight so...

1407
01:38:33,992 --> 01:38:37,619
will you put them off until I can
talk things out with ABC?

1408
01:38:39,664 --> 01:38:42,165
My mama said,
ain't nothing wrong with talking.

1409
01:38:42,834 --> 01:38:46,253
SAM: Enough of the formalities.
Let's go back into the office, Ray.

1410
01:38:46,337 --> 01:38:49,256
I hope I can call you Ray.
I want you to be comfortable here.

1411
01:38:49,340 --> 01:38:52,342
I'll tell you something, everything
is gonna be better at ABC.

1412
01:38:52,427 --> 01:38:53,969
Moving from an indie to a major...

1413
01:38:54,053 --> 01:38:55,762
means you can
sell a lot more records...

1414
01:38:55,847 --> 01:38:59,141
as well as attract much larger
crowds, both white and Negro.

1415
01:38:59,225 --> 01:39:02,853
Mr. Clark, I've been
at Atlantic for so long...

1416
01:39:03,354 --> 01:39:07,524
I just want to give them a chance
to at least match the offer.

1417
01:39:08,192 --> 01:39:09,526
Certainly.

1418
01:39:10,320 --> 01:39:11,945
But I doubt they'll be able to.

1419
01:39:12,030 --> 01:39:13,822
We're giving you
a state-of-the-art deal.

1420
01:39:13,906 --> 01:39:16,950
Since I'm producing my own records,
I was wondering if I could...

1421
01:39:17,035 --> 01:39:18,869
own my masters, too.

1422
01:39:27,629 --> 01:39:31,798
Ray, we've never done that before.
No record company has.

1423
01:39:32,091 --> 01:39:34,343
I think I'm going to
have to have it that way...

1424
01:39:34,427 --> 01:39:36,553
for me to leave Atlantic Records.

1425
01:39:46,022 --> 01:39:51,234
JERRY: Ahmet and I believe we're family
at Atlantic. Obviously, you don't!

1426
01:39:52,445 --> 01:39:53,779
Ahmet wouldn't believe it.

1427
01:39:53,988 --> 01:39:55,697
JERRY: You know what he said? He said...

1428
01:39:55,782 --> 01:39:57,366
you would never
turn your back on us.

1429
01:39:57,450 --> 01:40:00,494
<i>Never for a schlockmeister</i>
<i>like Sam Clark!</i>

1430
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:03,246
That's rich.
Sam Clark's a corporate slug...

1431
01:40:03,331 --> 01:40:06,541
who wouldn't know the difference
between Earl Hines and Art Tatum!

1432
01:40:12,715 --> 01:40:14,383
We let you grow here, Ray.

1433
01:40:15,134 --> 01:40:18,804
<i>Nobody's taking credit for</i>
<i>уour talent, but we nourished it.</i>

1434
01:40:19,097 --> 01:40:21,098
We let you do your thing.

1435
01:40:22,767 --> 01:40:24,935
God damn it!
We deserve better than this.

1436
01:40:25,520 --> 01:40:28,855
Don't think I don't appreciate
everything you guys have done.

1437
01:40:28,940 --> 01:40:31,525
I'm very proud of the work
that we've done here together.

1438
01:40:31,609 --> 01:40:34,736
Atlantic has done pretty good
money-wise on my records, right?

1439
01:40:34,987 --> 01:40:36,446
Yes, we've done very well.

1440
01:40:36,531 --> 01:40:39,866
You were the ones that taught me
that making a record is business...

1441
01:40:39,951 --> 01:40:42,285
and find the best business deal
you can.

1442
01:40:42,370 --> 01:40:44,579
Seventy-five cents of every dollar,
and owning...

1443
01:40:44,664 --> 01:40:47,791
my own masters
is a pretty damn good deal.

1444
01:40:48,376 --> 01:40:49,960
Can you match it?

1445
01:40:50,962 --> 01:40:55,465
Ray, we would love to match it,
but we just can't.

1446
01:40:56,426 --> 01:40:59,261
That's a better deal
than Sinatra gets.

1447
01:41:02,140 --> 01:41:04,307
I'm very proud of you.

1448
01:41:06,144 --> 01:41:10,147
Looks like those boys are going
to get a taste of country dumb.

1449
01:41:14,152 --> 01:41:15,777
He'll be all right.

1450
01:41:15,862 --> 01:41:18,113
You guys always do find the best.

1451
01:41:21,284 --> 01:41:23,618
[Slow instrumental music playing]

1452
01:41:34,964 --> 01:41:37,007
[Singing sentimental song]

1453
01:42:11,751 --> 01:42:13,752
Listen to that crap.

1454
01:42:14,796 --> 01:42:18,131
Thought you said that ABC wasn't
going to force nothing on him.

1455
01:42:18,382 --> 01:42:19,716
They didn't.

1456
01:42:20,384 --> 01:42:22,385
It was Ray's idea.

1457
01:42:24,388 --> 01:42:25,347
Something new.

1458
01:42:25,431 --> 01:42:27,933
What are we then, Jeff?
Something old?

1459
01:42:28,059 --> 01:42:31,728
Yeah, what about us?
We got to eat, too.

1460
01:42:42,907 --> 01:42:45,283
[Continues singing sentimental song]

1461
01:43:04,095 --> 01:43:06,513
[People cheering and whistling]

1462
01:43:08,766 --> 01:43:11,476
<i>RAY: It's a hit record.</i>
<i>What is wrong with that?</i>

1463
01:43:11,561 --> 01:43:13,895
REPORTER: Critics say you've gone
middle-of-the-road.

1464
01:43:14,188 --> 01:43:17,274
The orchestra, the choir,
<i>The Perry Como Show?</i>

1465
01:43:17,358 --> 01:43:20,527
If I feel the music,
that means it's real.

1466
01:43:20,945 --> 01:43:23,446
No, it ain't.
Ray Charles is a sellout.

1467
01:43:23,698 --> 01:43:26,783
The blind Liberace, leaving those
Rocking Chair roots behind.

1468
01:43:26,868 --> 01:43:29,536
Quincy Jones.
Can we get a picture of these two?

1469
01:43:29,787 --> 01:43:31,371
-Six-nine!
-Hey, boy.

1470
01:43:31,455 --> 01:43:33,957
Look, this interview is over.

1471
01:43:34,208 --> 01:43:37,210
REPORTER: I'd love to get you two together.
QUlNCY: Some other time.

1472
01:43:37,879 --> 01:43:40,589
Look at you. How's it going, man?
You look good.

1473
01:43:40,673 --> 01:43:42,632
RAY: Let me look at you.
You look good, too.

1474
01:43:42,717 --> 01:43:44,509
You hear what they're saying
about me?

1475
01:43:44,594 --> 01:43:47,220
That I can't do it no more.
I've gone middle-of-the-road.

1476
01:43:47,305 --> 01:43:48,889
QUlNCY: So crank out another hit.

1477
01:43:48,973 --> 01:43:52,517
Let me tell you something, it ain't
easy to keep on being greezy, kid.

1478
01:43:53,227 --> 01:43:54,895
RAY: Where you blow in from?

1479
01:43:55,855 --> 01:43:56,897
Paris.

1480
01:43:56,981 --> 01:44:00,400
<i>RAY: Bonjour.</i>
QUlNCY: Yeah, man. France is where it's at.

1481
01:44:00,484 --> 01:44:04,696
Yeah. All that stuff you've
been playing is really out of sight.

1482
01:44:05,197 --> 01:44:07,532
We gotta record something together.

1483
01:44:07,783 --> 01:44:10,994
People will really dig it.
Where you going after the Festival?

1484
01:44:11,537 --> 01:44:15,165
I go to D.C.,
Richmond, Virginia, Georgia.

1485
01:44:15,249 --> 01:44:18,084
<i>Once you get the record out there,</i>
<i>уou gotta sell it.</i>

1486
01:44:18,169 --> 01:44:19,836
The South, man?

1487
01:44:20,796 --> 01:44:22,255
I'm not doing that no more.

1488
01:44:22,340 --> 01:44:24,549
Come on, kid,
that's where the money is, baby.

1489
01:44:25,009 --> 01:44:27,344
When I left Seattle with Hamp...

1490
01:44:27,845 --> 01:44:31,681
we went down there. It felt like
I walked into a prison cell.

1491
01:44:32,016 --> 01:44:35,435
A black man is a "boy"
in Mississippi, right?

1492
01:44:35,519 --> 01:44:37,228
Even if he's 80 years old.

1493
01:44:40,608 --> 01:44:42,943
I'm never playing to
Jim Crow again. Ever.

1494
01:44:43,194 --> 01:44:44,611
If that's what you feel, baby.

1495
01:44:44,946 --> 01:44:48,615
I'm serious, Ray.
We gotta do something.

1496
01:44:50,493 --> 01:44:52,369
Well, you know, what the hell, man.

1497
01:44:52,453 --> 01:44:55,622
<i>You're just going to leave a lot</i>
<i>more money on the table for me.</i>

1498
01:44:56,374 --> 01:44:58,041
QUlNCY: You're welcome to it, man.

1499
01:45:06,342 --> 01:45:09,052
[Piano music playing]

1500
01:45:13,057 --> 01:45:14,391
You ready to work?

1501
01:45:14,725 --> 01:45:16,059
Work on what?

1502
01:45:16,852 --> 01:45:18,770
Get over here,
you gotta help me with this.

1503
01:45:18,854 --> 01:45:21,022
Percy just sent me some new music.

1504
01:45:29,323 --> 01:45:30,865
[Margie vomiting]

1505
01:45:34,662 --> 01:45:36,663
Know what they're saying about me?

1506
01:45:36,998 --> 01:45:39,416
Said I've lost something,
I've gone middle-of-the-road.

1507
01:45:39,500 --> 01:45:41,251
They may as well
say the same about you.

1508
01:45:41,836 --> 01:45:43,169
<i>You were the souI of this band.</i>

1509
01:45:43,254 --> 01:45:45,672
<i>Now every time уou're around,</i>
<i>уou're drunk.</i>

1510
01:45:47,675 --> 01:45:50,677
Drunk soul of a blind junkie.
What a lovely couple.

1511
01:45:51,178 --> 01:45:53,138
Why don't you just get out of here?

1512
01:45:55,307 --> 01:45:57,308
I ain't drunk, Ray.

1513
01:45:58,269 --> 01:45:59,602
I'm pregnant.

1514
01:46:00,479 --> 01:46:03,481
That's right. I'm having your baby.

1515
01:46:03,607 --> 01:46:06,401
You ain't really....
You can't do that.

1516
01:46:06,861 --> 01:46:09,863
I'm gonna have to talk to
the doctor. You gotta get rid of it.

1517
01:46:11,157 --> 01:46:14,993
My God! What, because I'm not
your precious Bea?

1518
01:46:15,661 --> 01:46:17,871
<i>I'm not good enough</i>
<i>to have this baby?</i>

1519
01:46:19,165 --> 01:46:23,168
You lay up in my bed
every night. My bed!

1520
01:46:24,295 --> 01:46:25,962
I'm gonna have this baby, Ray.

1521
01:46:29,133 --> 01:46:31,259
No, Ray! No!

1522
01:46:31,343 --> 01:46:32,469
RAY: Just listen to me.

1523
01:46:32,553 --> 01:46:35,305
You know I care about you.
I won't let nothing happen to you.

1524
01:46:35,389 --> 01:46:37,640
-I'll pay for everything.
-No!

1525
01:46:37,725 --> 01:46:39,476
MARGlE: It'll cost you more than money.

1526
01:46:39,810 --> 01:46:42,604
I want you to leave her, Ray.
Come be with our baby.

1527
01:46:42,688 --> 01:46:46,066
You out of your damn mind. You knew
the rules when you got into this.

1528
01:46:46,150 --> 01:46:48,985
You know goddamn well
I ain't gonna leave my family.

1529
01:46:50,237 --> 01:46:51,905
Leave your family?

1530
01:46:52,239 --> 01:46:55,158
You are a damn fool, you know that?

1531
01:46:55,493 --> 01:46:58,661
Between the dope
and the music and me...

1532
01:46:58,746 --> 01:47:01,081
you already
done left your damn family!

1533
01:47:02,083 --> 01:47:06,002
<i>And the sad part about it is,</i>
<i>Ray, уou don't even know it.</i>

1534
01:47:10,883 --> 01:47:12,383
You know what?

1535
01:47:12,468 --> 01:47:16,179
From now on, it's strictly business
between you and me.

1536
01:47:19,016 --> 01:47:21,935
That's it. Keep that anger.

1537
01:47:22,478 --> 01:47:25,021
[Singing fast-paced song]

1538
01:47:31,612 --> 01:47:33,863
[Singing angrily]

1539
01:47:45,960 --> 01:47:49,462
[Fast-paced song continues]

1540
01:48:22,329 --> 01:48:23,997
Ray, it's Sam.

1541
01:48:24,498 --> 01:48:27,167
Can you hear me? It's Sam!

1542
01:48:27,251 --> 01:48:29,669
<i>Hit the Road</i>
is our second number one.

1543
01:48:29,753 --> 01:48:32,922
Yeah. ABC is taking out ads
in all the trades.

1544
01:48:33,174 --> 01:48:35,675
And congrats
on your Grammy nomination.

1545
01:48:36,260 --> 01:48:38,928
No, I know you're going to win.

1546
01:48:39,680 --> 01:48:41,347
Hey, you feeling all right?

1547
01:48:41,807 --> 01:48:44,392
Come on, baby, be happy.
You're doing good.

1548
01:48:44,476 --> 01:48:48,479
[Drunkenly] Thank you, Sam.
I really am happy about that.

1549
01:48:49,148 --> 01:48:50,690
Yeah.

1550
01:48:54,403 --> 01:48:57,739
I'll stop by Jeff's room
and get my money on my way out.

1551
01:49:04,788 --> 01:49:05,872
Ray.

1552
01:49:07,541 --> 01:49:09,417
Margie, you ain't gotta leave, baby.

1553
01:49:09,585 --> 01:49:11,753
I'm on your hit record.

1554
01:49:11,837 --> 01:49:14,547
If I'm ever going to go solo,
then now's the time.

1555
01:49:14,632 --> 01:49:18,343
I don't want you....
I don't want you to go solo.

1556
01:49:18,427 --> 01:49:20,595
Ray, for once,
I'm doing something for me.

1557
01:49:21,972 --> 01:49:24,390
You remember the hummingbird?

1558
01:49:25,184 --> 01:49:26,184
What?

1559
01:49:26,852 --> 01:49:28,645
The hummingbird, Bea.

1560
01:49:40,991 --> 01:49:43,159
I don't want you to go.

1561
01:49:43,369 --> 01:49:45,870
[Melancholic instrumental music]

1562
01:49:57,341 --> 01:50:00,176
ARETHA: Somebody'll fetch you
when your bus gets to St. Augustine.

1563
01:50:00,261 --> 01:50:02,053
When you get there,
show them this sign...

1564
01:50:02,137 --> 01:50:04,430
and tell them
you're Ray Charles Robinson.

1565
01:50:05,641 --> 01:50:07,934
And don't eat them sandwiches I made
all at once.

1566
01:50:08,018 --> 01:50:12,021
Don't make me go away.
I'll keep up with the normal kids.

1567
01:50:12,314 --> 01:50:14,482
I'll be good, just like George.

1568
01:50:14,566 --> 01:50:16,859
This ain't got
nothing to do with George.

1569
01:50:16,944 --> 01:50:19,153
I've taken you as far as I can.

1570
01:50:19,363 --> 01:50:22,740
ARETHA: Them teachers at that blind school
can teach you things I can't.

1571
01:50:22,825 --> 01:50:24,158
You need an education.

1572
01:50:24,243 --> 01:50:26,577
-I don't want no education!
-Don't say that!

1573
01:50:26,829 --> 01:50:28,746
I don't! I want to stay with you!

1574
01:50:28,831 --> 01:50:32,667
Stop it! I won't have you living
hand-to-mouth like me, you hear?

1575
01:50:33,460 --> 01:50:36,879
If you want to do something
to make your mama proud...

1576
01:50:37,172 --> 01:50:40,842
promise me you'll never let nobody
turn you into no cripple.

1577
01:50:41,051 --> 01:50:44,512
ARETHA: You won't become no charity case.
You'll stand on your own two feet.

1578
01:50:44,847 --> 01:50:46,180
I promise.

1579
01:50:46,515 --> 01:50:48,016
I love you, baby.

1580
01:50:49,018 --> 01:50:50,685
I'm so proud of you.

1581
01:50:58,360 --> 01:51:00,945
[Sobbing]

1582
01:51:04,992 --> 01:51:06,534
PROTESTORS: No more segregation!

1583
01:51:13,375 --> 01:51:14,917
[Police siren wailing]

1584
01:51:25,929 --> 01:51:29,474
PROMOTER: Welcome back to Augusta, Ray!
Good to see you.

1585
01:51:32,770 --> 01:51:34,937
Do you believe in the protest, Ray?

1586
01:51:35,147 --> 01:51:36,272
Get out of here!

1587
01:51:36,440 --> 01:51:38,733
Ray, I'm sorry about this.
Hurry on up inside.

1588
01:51:38,817 --> 01:51:40,443
We got refreshments waiting.

1589
01:51:40,819 --> 01:51:42,445
PROTESTOR: Mr. Charles!

1590
01:51:42,529 --> 01:51:44,238
You know tonight's show
is segregated?

1591
01:51:44,323 --> 01:51:47,575
The dance floor is whites only.
Negroes can't leave the balcony.

1592
01:51:47,659 --> 01:51:49,535
That's how it is, man.
This is Georgia.

1593
01:51:49,620 --> 01:51:50,787
You think we don't know that?

1594
01:51:50,871 --> 01:51:53,414
Negroes are persecuted in this state
every day!

1595
01:51:53,499 --> 01:51:56,376
Ain't nothing I can do about that.
I'm an entertainer.

1596
01:51:56,460 --> 01:51:58,586
We all play Jim Crow down here.

1597
01:51:58,670 --> 01:52:00,338
Right. Now get out of here, boy.

1598
01:52:00,422 --> 01:52:02,882
It doesn't have to be that way.
You could change things...

1599
01:52:02,966 --> 01:52:04,050
right here and now!

1600
01:52:04,134 --> 01:52:05,843
I'm sorry, son.
Ain't nothing I can do.

1601
01:52:05,928 --> 01:52:08,805
You hear that, boy?
That's the way things are.

1602
01:52:09,098 --> 01:52:12,100
Now get your black ass out,
and take that trash with you!

1603
01:52:12,643 --> 01:52:16,979
Hold on. He's right.
Get them on the bus.

1604
01:52:17,106 --> 01:52:19,065
JEFF: You sure?
RAY: Get them back on the bus!

1605
01:52:19,149 --> 01:52:21,150
Y'all heard Ray!

1606
01:52:21,235 --> 01:52:23,820
Back on the bus!

1607
01:52:24,071 --> 01:52:25,321
Are you serious?

1608
01:52:25,823 --> 01:52:28,658
Get them on the bus.
I can't do nothing here.

1609
01:52:28,826 --> 01:52:30,118
Ray, you know me.

1610
01:52:30,202 --> 01:52:33,538
I'm not gonna lose money just
because you suddenly got religion.

1611
01:52:33,622 --> 01:52:34,789
Ain't nothing I can do.

1612
01:52:34,873 --> 01:52:37,250
PROMOTER: We have a contraсt.
You break it, I'll sue you!

1613
01:52:37,334 --> 01:52:39,710
PROMOTER: I'll win!
RAY: You gotta do what you gotta do.

1614
01:52:39,795 --> 01:52:42,296
I'll win big!
I'll own your ass, Ray!

1615
01:52:42,673 --> 01:52:44,507
[Protestors yelling]

1616
01:52:45,300 --> 01:52:47,635
Thank you, Mr. Charles.
You could be the first.

1617
01:52:47,970 --> 01:52:51,139
No, thank you, son. You were right.
You're right.

1618
01:52:52,850 --> 01:52:54,934
You'll never work Georgia again!

1619
01:52:56,520 --> 01:52:59,981
MlLT: He filed a lawsuit
and it's more than a fine, Ray.

1620
01:53:00,232 --> 01:53:02,483
This guy's got juice.
He can get you barred from...

1621
01:53:02,568 --> 01:53:04,652
ever playing Georgia again.

1622
01:53:04,736 --> 01:53:08,030
But he's willing to drop the suit
if you'll make up the gig.

1623
01:53:08,532 --> 01:53:09,866
Not if it's segregated.

1624
01:53:13,454 --> 01:53:15,913
I admire what you're doing,
but you can't afford this.

1625
01:53:15,998 --> 01:53:17,915
Georgia is
our highest-grossing state.

1626
01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:21,711
I'm not playing any Jim Crow joints
ever again, you got that?

1627
01:53:22,212 --> 01:53:23,880
Yeah. I got it.

1628
01:53:24,381 --> 01:53:26,883
Jeff, get those people in here
so we can rehearse.

1629
01:53:38,979 --> 01:53:40,229
[Jazzy music]

1630
01:53:50,157 --> 01:53:52,158
[People cheering and whistling]

1631
01:53:59,750 --> 01:54:01,125
<i>Go ahead and dance!</i>

1632
01:54:02,586 --> 01:54:04,462
<i>Let's dance, everybody!</i>

1633
01:54:06,256 --> 01:54:07,924
<i>Let's dance now!</i>

1634
01:54:13,639 --> 01:54:15,056
-You okay?
-Yeah. What's going on?

1635
01:54:15,140 --> 01:54:16,807
Just kids onstage dancing.

1636
01:54:16,892 --> 01:54:18,851
Let them dance.
That's what they're here for.

1637
01:54:18,936 --> 01:54:21,229
Please don't hurt them!
Just keep dancing!

1638
01:54:21,313 --> 01:54:22,647
Keep going!

1639
01:54:23,649 --> 01:54:25,483
[Singing upbeat song]

1640
01:54:55,180 --> 01:54:57,515
[People cheering]

1641
01:55:08,569 --> 01:55:11,737
COP 1: Mr. Charles, it's Western Union!
We have a telegram for you.

1642
01:55:12,739 --> 01:55:14,907
COP 1: You have to sign for it, sir.
RAY: I'm coming.

1643
01:55:19,830 --> 01:55:22,832
Indianapolis police. Got a report
of loud music coming from here.

1644
01:55:22,916 --> 01:55:25,042
COP 2: Where do you think
you're going, pal?

1645
01:55:26,169 --> 01:55:27,837
I'm just going to the bathroom.

1646
01:55:28,046 --> 01:55:29,714
Handcuff this son of a bitch.

1647
01:55:30,382 --> 01:55:33,551
Recognize this, Ray?
Heroin's a felony.

1648
01:55:33,885 --> 01:55:37,221
It ain't like I'm dealing it, man.
I'm not hurting nobody.

1649
01:55:37,472 --> 01:55:40,891
You're hurting everybody.
Your jungle music is poisoning...

1650
01:55:40,976 --> 01:55:44,353
our kids' minds. I'm gonna
put your black ass away forever.

1651
01:55:44,646 --> 01:55:45,980
You have to understand.

1652
01:55:46,064 --> 01:55:49,233
I got a wife, kids.
I got responsibilities.

1653
01:55:49,318 --> 01:55:52,528
Why don't you tell that story
to these people. Bring them in!

1654
01:55:56,617 --> 01:55:59,577
REPORTER 1: Was it a setup?
REPORTER 2: How long you been on heroin?

1655
01:55:59,661 --> 01:56:01,871
REPORTER 3: Come on.
What did they charge you with?

1656
01:56:03,165 --> 01:56:05,583
[Reporters clamoring]

1657
01:56:12,466 --> 01:56:16,052
[Bluesy music]

1658
01:56:30,359 --> 01:56:32,693
[Singing bluesy song]

1659
01:56:43,747 --> 01:56:46,082
-Hi, baby.
-David.

1660
01:56:46,249 --> 01:56:49,585
RAY: Bea, he can stay.
DELLA: No. Baby, come on.

1661
01:56:49,795 --> 01:56:50,961
RAY: Bea?
DELLA: What?

1662
01:56:53,090 --> 01:56:55,299
-Since I got back--
-Since you got out.

1663
01:56:57,594 --> 01:57:00,846
Since I got here, you haven't said
more than two words to me.

1664
01:57:01,223 --> 01:57:03,224
Ray, what am I supposed to say?

1665
01:57:03,725 --> 01:57:07,561
My words don't mean much to you
anymore. Maybe they never did.

1666
01:57:07,813 --> 01:57:11,315
-Come on, Bea, you know I love you.
-Are you gonna stop then?

1667
01:57:14,152 --> 01:57:15,820
Bea, what you don't understand...

1668
01:57:15,904 --> 01:57:18,489
is there's a lot of
mean-spirited people out there.

1669
01:57:19,533 --> 01:57:20,533
Yeah.

1670
01:57:25,580 --> 01:57:26,664
Ray?

1671
01:57:30,127 --> 01:57:33,045
I had to bring Junior home
from school today...

1672
01:57:33,130 --> 01:57:34,547
because of what the other kids said.

1673
01:57:34,631 --> 01:57:37,883
They got mean-ass kids here.
We should move to Beverly Hills.

1674
01:57:37,968 --> 01:57:39,719
No, Ray, we're not moving.

1675
01:57:39,803 --> 01:57:43,431
It's not about where we live. It's
about what you're doing to yourself.

1676
01:57:44,391 --> 01:57:46,684
<i>Those boys worship уou.</i>

1677
01:57:46,768 --> 01:57:48,811
You want them to end up
using that poison, too?

1678
01:57:48,895 --> 01:57:50,563
Bea, that's not fair.

1679
01:57:50,814 --> 01:57:53,232
What's not fair, Ray?

1680
01:57:53,316 --> 01:57:55,234
That's a low blow.

1681
01:58:00,574 --> 01:58:03,576
RAY: Don't jive me, Milt.
Don't jive me, man!

1682
01:58:03,910 --> 01:58:08,706
RAY: Really? Good.
Tell Sam I said thank you.

1683
01:58:09,040 --> 01:58:11,041
RAY: All right, then.

1684
01:58:13,712 --> 01:58:18,048
What, Ray? What? Come on, now.
Tell me what happened.

1685
01:58:18,383 --> 01:58:22,178
ABC got the case dropped.
The police didn't have a warrant.

1686
01:58:22,512 --> 01:58:23,554
They bought them off.

1687
01:58:23,638 --> 01:58:25,639
Damn it, Bea,
do you want me to go to prison?

1688
01:58:25,724 --> 01:58:28,142
No. I want you
to stop lying to yourself...

1689
01:58:28,226 --> 01:58:30,227
and they are making that impossible.

1690
01:58:30,479 --> 01:58:31,979
You don't understand.

1691
01:58:32,063 --> 01:58:33,731
Then make me understand!

1692
01:58:33,982 --> 01:58:37,193
When I walk out that door,
I walk out alone in the dark!

1693
01:58:37,527 --> 01:58:39,779
RAY: I'm trying to do something
nobody's ever done...

1694
01:58:39,863 --> 01:58:41,447
in music and business.

1695
01:58:41,531 --> 01:58:44,200
But I can't do it if I'm alone
everywhere I go.

1696
01:58:45,076 --> 01:58:48,412
I don't want to be alone here, Bea.
Not in my own home.

1697
01:58:52,626 --> 01:58:55,294
Bea, if you don't understand me...

1698
01:58:56,171 --> 01:58:57,838
then who will?

1699
01:58:58,465 --> 01:58:59,882
[David crying]

1700
01:59:04,221 --> 01:59:06,096
I don't know, Ray.

1701
01:59:09,434 --> 01:59:11,769
<i>David? I'm coming!</i>

1702
01:59:12,896 --> 01:59:14,355
<i>Mama's coming!</i>

1703
01:59:18,151 --> 01:59:22,655
Ray, we pull you out of the fire,
and you want country music?

1704
01:59:22,739 --> 01:59:25,157
I've sung country music all my life.

1705
01:59:25,242 --> 01:59:27,409
I used to play
with the Florida Playboys.

1706
01:59:27,702 --> 01:59:30,913
We made a big investment in you and
it's paying off handsomely.

1707
01:59:30,997 --> 01:59:32,331
For both of us.

1708
01:59:32,582 --> 01:59:34,291
<i>We don't want to lose уour fan base.</i>

1709
01:59:34,417 --> 01:59:37,169
You got a point there,
but I actually think...

1710
01:59:37,254 --> 01:59:38,754
that we have more to gain...

1711
01:59:38,839 --> 01:59:40,506
than we do to lose.

1712
01:59:40,924 --> 01:59:43,592
Ray, it's a bad idea.

1713
01:59:46,054 --> 01:59:48,264
When I came to ABC,
you put in the contract...

1714
01:59:48,348 --> 01:59:50,432
that I can choose my own music.

1715
01:59:51,268 --> 01:59:53,102
You want to read that paragraph?

1716
01:59:57,023 --> 01:59:59,024
RAY: It's on Page 3.

1717
02:00:00,110 --> 02:00:01,652
I don't need to see it.

1718
02:00:06,700 --> 02:00:08,951
[Upbeat jazz instrumental music]

1719
02:00:11,037 --> 02:00:13,247
JOE: Good evening, Saint Louis.

1720
02:00:13,331 --> 02:00:15,708
JOE: It's time for the main attraсtion.

1721
02:00:15,792 --> 02:00:19,336
The innovator of soul.
The genius himself.

1722
02:00:19,671 --> 02:00:21,463
Ray Charles!

1723
02:00:22,048 --> 02:00:24,133
[People cheering]

1724
02:00:47,282 --> 02:00:51,952
<i>Thank уou so much. I know that</i>
<i>a lot of y'all don't know...</i>

1725
02:00:52,162 --> 02:00:55,331
<i>that I was brought up in the South.</i>

1726
02:00:55,665 --> 02:00:59,460
<i>Every time уou turn on the radio</i>
there, you hear the Grand Ole Opry.

1727
02:00:59,669 --> 02:01:03,339
<i>That's what I grew up singing,</i>
<i>so I hope уou don't mind...</i>

1728
02:01:03,673 --> 02:01:07,843
<i>I want to sing something to give уou</i>
<i>a taste of my country roots.</i>

1729
02:01:08,136 --> 02:01:09,428
<i>MAN: Unchain My Heart!</i>

1730
02:01:09,679 --> 02:01:11,263
<i>Georgia On My Mind!</i>

1731
02:01:16,436 --> 02:01:19,605
The lights up top
and on the mezzanine...

1732
02:01:19,856 --> 02:01:23,192
let's take everything down
and hit Ray with a follow spot.

1733
02:01:23,276 --> 02:01:24,610
Do it on my count.

1734
02:01:25,487 --> 02:01:27,529
[Singing slow country song]

1735
02:01:28,031 --> 02:01:30,199
In five, four....

1736
02:02:16,579 --> 02:02:17,788
[Car horn honking]

1737
02:02:17,872 --> 02:02:19,415
RAY JR.: Jeff's here.

1738
02:02:20,375 --> 02:02:24,753
Dad, if you can't see, how can you
choose the right color socks?

1739
02:02:25,046 --> 02:02:27,715
RAY: I'll show you.
Let me show you something.

1740
02:02:28,049 --> 02:02:30,217
See? Right here?

1741
02:02:30,552 --> 02:02:33,178
RAY: The two, I got it sewn in thick,
so I can feel it.

1742
02:02:33,430 --> 02:02:34,596
RAY: Two is brown.

1743
02:02:35,181 --> 02:02:37,683
RAY: One is black. Three is blue.

1744
02:02:37,934 --> 02:02:39,268
Where's four?

1745
02:02:39,519 --> 02:02:40,936
Nowhere.

1746
02:02:41,187 --> 02:02:43,355
<i>There ain't no four. You're right.</i>

1747
02:02:46,192 --> 02:02:48,610
[Continues singing slow country song]

1748
02:03:06,129 --> 02:03:08,130
[Audience cheering]

1749
02:03:20,310 --> 02:03:23,687
JEFF: Guys, we got 1 0 minutes to load out!
Change back at the hotel.

1750
02:03:23,772 --> 02:03:26,065
They bought that country jive
hook, line and sinker.

1751
02:03:26,149 --> 02:03:27,691
Ray, man, you're amazing.

1752
02:03:27,776 --> 02:03:30,277
You know why they like
country music?

1753
02:03:30,361 --> 02:03:32,571
The stories. They got great stories.

1754
02:03:32,655 --> 02:03:33,739
Hey, Joe.

1755
02:03:33,823 --> 02:03:36,992
Ray, meet Joe Adams.
Hal Ziegler hired Joe...

1756
02:03:37,077 --> 02:03:39,328
as the announcer
for the rest of the tour.

1757
02:03:39,788 --> 02:03:42,206
I know you, Mayor of Melody.

1758
02:03:42,290 --> 02:03:44,583
I listened to your radio show
in L.A. in the '50s.

1759
02:03:44,667 --> 02:03:47,127
We've both come a ways since then.

1760
02:03:47,337 --> 02:03:49,838
What was that counting
you were doing back there?

1761
02:03:50,090 --> 02:03:52,549
Cueing down the lights.
That shuts up the audience...

1762
02:03:52,634 --> 02:03:55,344
so you can sing your ballad
instead of having to scream it.

1763
02:03:55,428 --> 02:03:58,097
I'll be damned.
Who told you to do that?

1764
02:03:58,181 --> 02:03:59,598
No one. It just needed to be done.

1765
02:03:59,682 --> 02:04:02,601
That's what I'm talking about.
I like to hear a person say:

1766
02:04:02,685 --> 02:04:04,603
"It needed to be done"...

1767
02:04:04,687 --> 02:04:07,439
as opposed to a person saying,
"It ain't my job."

1768
02:04:07,690 --> 02:04:11,360
<i>Tell me about Central Avenue.</i>
<i>I know уou know Jack Lauderdale.</i>

1769
02:04:12,445 --> 02:04:13,612
Hello, New York!

1770
02:04:13,696 --> 02:04:15,030
Hello, Boston!

1771
02:04:15,281 --> 02:04:16,448
JOE: Hello, Saint Louis!

1772
02:04:16,699 --> 02:04:18,700
Good evening, San Francisco!

1773
02:04:26,042 --> 02:04:29,044
Ray, I got some good news for you.
We got the cover of Cash Box.

1774
02:04:29,254 --> 02:04:32,381
JOE: "The nation's hottest album:
Modern Sounds of Country & Western."

1775
02:04:32,549 --> 02:04:34,675
-You are hotter than hell.
-That's what they say.

1776
02:04:34,759 --> 02:04:37,344
Your albums
are going through the roof...

1777
02:04:37,428 --> 02:04:38,971
your concerts
are always selling out.

1778
02:04:39,055 --> 02:04:42,182
You'll need shelters for your money.
You're in a new tax bracket.

1779
02:04:42,267 --> 02:04:44,935
JEFF: Keep your drawers on, Fathead!
I got the instruments!

1780
02:04:45,186 --> 02:04:47,896
Jeff, Joe was
in the film Carmen Jones.

1781
02:04:47,981 --> 02:04:49,314
Who was the director again?

1782
02:04:49,399 --> 02:04:50,357
Otto Preminger.

1783
02:04:50,441 --> 02:04:53,277
He was also on Broadway
with Lena Horne.

1784
02:04:53,611 --> 02:04:55,904
She was the star. I was supporting.

1785
02:04:56,281 --> 02:04:57,865
ls that a faсt?

1786
02:04:58,032 --> 02:05:01,243
<i>JOE: Prepare for an extraordinary</i>
<i>evening of music.</i>

1787
02:05:01,327 --> 02:05:05,247
Perhaps the most innovative, unique
and energetic musical voice today.

1788
02:05:05,331 --> 02:05:06,623
Please welcome to the stage....

1789
02:05:06,708 --> 02:05:07,958
It is my pleasure....

1790
02:05:08,042 --> 02:05:09,918
Please welcome the one-of-a-kind....

1791
02:05:10,211 --> 02:05:13,881
I present Mr. Ray Charles!

1792
02:05:15,758 --> 02:05:18,635
[Singing lively country song]

1793
02:05:26,394 --> 02:05:28,103
[Joe speaking in French]

1794
02:05:31,107 --> 02:05:32,900
[Joe speaking in Italian]

1795
02:05:38,114 --> 02:05:39,448
[Joe speaking in Japanese]

1796
02:05:44,954 --> 02:05:46,663
[Audience cheering]

1797
02:05:51,294 --> 02:05:53,962
JOE: There's a park
at the end of the street.

1798
02:05:54,047 --> 02:05:55,881
JOE: You can see the L.A. basin
from there.

1799
02:05:55,965 --> 02:05:58,050
JOE: Even Beverly Hills
doesn't have these views.

1800
02:05:58,134 --> 02:06:00,802
RAY: How does it look, Bea?
Do you like it?

1801
02:06:01,304 --> 02:06:04,056
DELLA: I don't know. I haven't seen it.
RAY: You got to like it.

1802
02:06:04,140 --> 02:06:05,098
JOE: Voilà.

1803
02:06:05,183 --> 02:06:08,518
This foyer is designed to impress
anybody who walks through the door.

1804
02:06:08,603 --> 02:06:11,605
It has a big winding staircase,
just like Gone With the Wind.

1805
02:06:11,689 --> 02:06:14,858
We should get our portraits painted,
like Rhett and Scarlett.

1806
02:06:15,109 --> 02:06:16,652
Bea, bring him in here.

1807
02:06:16,736 --> 02:06:19,071
Wait till you hear
what's waiting in the living room.

1808
02:06:19,155 --> 02:06:20,155
RAY: What is it?

1809
02:06:20,240 --> 02:06:24,076
I had them build you a solid marble
fireplace, two stories high.

1810
02:06:24,160 --> 02:06:26,245
Hot damn! How do you like it?

1811
02:06:26,412 --> 02:06:27,579
It's awful big.

1812
02:06:27,664 --> 02:06:30,999
JOE: Sure is: 8,500 square feet.
RAY: Biggest house in the neighborhood.

1813
02:06:31,125 --> 02:06:33,001
JOE: So, does this meet
with your approval?

1814
02:06:33,086 --> 02:06:34,419
Man, this is a palace.

1815
02:06:34,504 --> 02:06:35,754
JOE: You think this is big?

1816
02:06:35,838 --> 02:06:39,007
<i>Wait until уou see 30,000</i>
<i>square feet of RPM Incorporated.</i>

1817
02:06:39,342 --> 02:06:41,176
RAY: Yeah, headquarters!

1818
02:06:41,469 --> 02:06:43,637
This is it, Ray.
Your brand-new recording studio.

1819
02:06:43,721 --> 02:06:45,264
Did you get everything I asked for?

1820
02:06:45,348 --> 02:06:47,474
Totally state-of-the-art.
Tom Dowd built...

1821
02:06:47,558 --> 02:06:50,602
an eight-track mixing console,
two recorders, the works.

1822
02:06:50,895 --> 02:06:53,188
<i>This room is bigger than</i>
<i>most people's houses.</i>

1823
02:06:53,273 --> 02:06:55,315
Your private bathroom
is to your left.

1824
02:06:55,400 --> 02:06:57,943
Behind you is my adjoining office.

1825
02:06:58,194 --> 02:07:02,197
JOE: Your private bar is to your left.
Bottle of Bols in the center.

1826
02:07:02,448 --> 02:07:03,949
RAY: You know me pretty good.

1827
02:07:04,033 --> 02:07:06,368
JOE: If you run out, shout,
I'm right next door.

1828
02:07:06,869 --> 02:07:08,203
RAY: This is nice, right here.

1829
02:07:08,288 --> 02:07:10,539
-It's the house that Ray built.
-Yes, it is.

1830
02:07:11,582 --> 02:07:13,959
[Soulful song]

1831
02:07:22,760 --> 02:07:26,596
DELLA: Ray Junior, slow down!
This ain't no baseball diamond!

1832
02:07:29,058 --> 02:07:30,726
HOUSEKEEPER: Charles residence.

1833
02:07:31,060 --> 02:07:32,686
<i>Mr. Charles?</i>

1834
02:07:33,855 --> 02:07:37,357
Bring that boy over here!
I got a hot dog with his name on it!

1835
02:07:37,900 --> 02:07:38,900
Hello.

1836
02:07:39,527 --> 02:07:41,361
Yes, I know who you are.

1837
02:07:42,864 --> 02:07:45,073
What? Oh, God, no.

1838
02:07:46,701 --> 02:07:50,037
I'll get on a plane and be there
as soon as I can.

1839
02:07:50,246 --> 02:07:51,580
What happened?

1840
02:07:53,583 --> 02:07:54,916
Margie's dead.

1841
02:07:55,251 --> 02:07:56,918
Oh, God! How?

1842
02:07:58,713 --> 02:07:59,921
She overdosed.

1843
02:08:03,718 --> 02:08:05,510
I didn't start her, Bea.

1844
02:08:06,846 --> 02:08:10,015
I didn't let her do dope around me.
I wouldn't let that happen.

1845
02:08:10,099 --> 02:08:13,769
I'm sure, Ray.
I'm sure you set a fine example.

1846
02:08:17,523 --> 02:08:18,857
What about her baby?

1847
02:08:23,863 --> 02:08:25,113
You knew?

1848
02:08:25,865 --> 02:08:27,699
His name is Charles Wayne.

1849
02:08:28,284 --> 02:08:32,162
<i>He was born October 1,</i>
<i>in New York City. He's 3 years oId.</i>

1850
02:08:33,039 --> 02:08:34,539
The baby's fine.

1851
02:08:35,375 --> 02:08:36,792
He's at her sister's.

1852
02:08:39,253 --> 02:08:41,088
I'll start sending them some money.

1853
02:08:41,172 --> 02:08:43,632
You don't have to.
I send them money every month.

1854
02:08:52,266 --> 02:08:53,642
[Ray sobbing]

1855
02:09:08,699 --> 02:09:11,868
JOE: In five minutes, Mr. Charles will
be here. He'll be ready to go.

1856
02:09:11,953 --> 02:09:13,912
JOE: The charts Jeff is handing out...

1857
02:09:13,996 --> 02:09:16,206
should be turned in
at the conclusion of....

1858
02:09:17,166 --> 02:09:19,334
You're late, that's a $50 fine.

1859
02:09:19,919 --> 02:09:21,169
I ain't late.

1860
02:09:21,379 --> 02:09:23,463
I give them
a 1 0-minute grace period, Joe.

1861
02:09:23,548 --> 02:09:26,967
2:05. He's late.
He'll be charged $50.

1862
02:09:27,051 --> 02:09:29,428
What? Where's Ray?

1863
02:09:29,512 --> 02:09:31,805
You don't have to talk to Ray,
you're talking to me.

1864
02:09:31,889 --> 02:09:33,932
I'll talk to whoever
I damn well please...

1865
02:09:34,016 --> 02:09:35,642
and it sure as hell ain't you.

1866
02:09:36,102 --> 02:09:37,436
FATHEAD: Jive jerk.

1867
02:09:42,400 --> 02:09:47,362
Ray, this fool Joe Adams
is trying to fine me for being late.

1868
02:09:48,030 --> 02:09:49,489
What time did you get here?

1869
02:09:49,574 --> 02:09:53,577
What? Just now.
The band's still setting up.

1870
02:09:54,287 --> 02:09:55,787
-Jeff don't--
-I'm not Jeff.

1871
02:09:55,872 --> 02:09:57,205
That's a fact, Jack!

1872
02:09:58,875 --> 02:10:01,543
Ray, you said the band was my thing.

1873
02:10:01,878 --> 02:10:03,003
It is.

1874
02:10:03,087 --> 02:10:06,089
Then, Fathead,
go on back to rehearsal.

1875
02:10:07,300 --> 02:10:08,300
[Scoffs]

1876
02:10:08,759 --> 02:10:10,927
You know how it is,
you've been there.

1877
02:10:11,429 --> 02:10:13,513
JEFF: Go on now. Let me handle this.

1878
02:10:13,848 --> 02:10:15,765
<i>Fathead, go on now.</i>

1879
02:10:19,187 --> 02:10:21,104
What the hell is going on, Ray?

1880
02:10:21,189 --> 02:10:23,273
I'm not doing anything
I haven't been asked to.

1881
02:10:23,357 --> 02:10:24,983
Ray's running a business.

1882
02:10:25,067 --> 02:10:28,111
He shouldn't have to waste time
hearing why people were late.

1883
02:10:28,196 --> 02:10:31,364
I'm not talking to you, Joe.
I'm talking to Ray.

1884
02:10:37,663 --> 02:10:39,789
I know you think
I'm soft on the band...

1885
02:10:39,874 --> 02:10:42,000
but those cats would do
whatever I ask.

1886
02:10:42,251 --> 02:10:44,669
If you come in with this
"running a business" crap...

1887
02:10:44,754 --> 02:10:46,588
you'll lose some good people.

1888
02:10:46,923 --> 02:10:49,341
There are musicians waiting in line
to play with Ray.

1889
02:10:49,425 --> 02:10:51,843
Not for long,
once they get a taste of you.

1890
02:10:53,095 --> 02:10:55,597
Ray, you're the leader.
Be one! Come on.

1891
02:10:55,848 --> 02:10:57,390
Things have changed, Jeff.

1892
02:10:57,475 --> 02:11:00,393
It ain't like the days of
The Chitlin' Circuit.

1893
02:11:00,478 --> 02:11:03,480
If you weren't busy building
a bowling alley, you'd see that.

1894
02:11:04,607 --> 02:11:05,941
So you know about that?

1895
02:11:06,859 --> 02:11:08,860
I know about everything.

1896
02:11:09,153 --> 02:11:11,363
I'm just trying to figure out
how you did it.

1897
02:11:11,447 --> 02:11:13,073
You think I'm stealing from you?

1898
02:11:13,157 --> 02:11:16,159
If the Shaw Agency gives you a cut
of the 1 0% I pay them...

1899
02:11:16,244 --> 02:11:18,787
I might as well keep
the goddamn money in my pocket.

1900
02:11:19,622 --> 02:11:21,456
Leave us alone. We need to talk.

1901
02:11:23,125 --> 02:11:24,125
Ray?

1902
02:11:24,627 --> 02:11:26,002
You can step outside, Joe.

1903
02:11:28,256 --> 02:11:30,090
I'll be in my office.

1904
02:11:36,764 --> 02:11:40,100
I know that jealous bastard planted
that lie in your head...

1905
02:11:40,434 --> 02:11:43,061
but I have never stolen
from you, Ray, and I never will.

1906
02:11:43,145 --> 02:11:45,522
I got a small business loan...

1907
02:11:45,606 --> 02:11:48,483
and Milt Shaw gave me
a little extra, but I'm no thief.

1908
02:11:48,568 --> 02:11:50,151
Then what about that?

1909
02:11:50,278 --> 02:11:54,406
RAY: A promoter swearing you did side
deals with him to split my overages!

1910
02:11:54,490 --> 02:11:55,865
How could you do that to me?

1911
02:11:55,950 --> 02:11:58,535
We've been through so much,
we're like brothers.

1912
02:11:58,619 --> 02:11:59,911
You know what?

1913
02:12:01,414 --> 02:12:04,416
If we were like brothers...

1914
02:12:04,750 --> 02:12:07,085
why are you paying Joe
more than you're paying me?

1915
02:12:07,169 --> 02:12:08,920
Damn that! You broke my heart.

1916
02:12:09,589 --> 02:12:13,842
You know what, Ray? You broke mine
a long goddamn time ago!

1917
02:12:14,885 --> 02:12:16,720
Well, then there it is.

1918
02:12:23,269 --> 02:12:26,605
You know something, Ray?
You're going to get yours one day.

1919
02:12:26,856 --> 02:12:30,609
And I pray God has mercy
on your soul, you son of a bitch!

1920
02:12:30,693 --> 02:12:31,693
[Door slamming shut]

1921
02:12:38,534 --> 02:12:40,285
Everything all right, Ray?

1922
02:12:41,579 --> 02:12:43,747
How the hell do you think it is?

1923
02:12:50,630 --> 02:12:52,047
[Car horn honking]

1924
02:12:54,842 --> 02:12:58,178
Go tell him. Tell him!

1925
02:12:59,764 --> 02:13:03,058
Dad, I made the all-star team!
The game's on Thursday.

1926
02:13:03,267 --> 02:13:06,936
That's great. Damn! I'm not gonna
be in town. I'm on tour.

1927
02:13:07,229 --> 02:13:09,773
<i>What if I buy уou guys new uniforms?</i>

1928
02:13:09,857 --> 02:13:11,941
Tell the coach I don't care
how much they cost.

1929
02:13:12,026 --> 02:13:13,318
-Okay.
-All right.

1930
02:13:13,402 --> 02:13:15,445
Take your dad's briefcase inside.

1931
02:13:15,529 --> 02:13:19,157
The plane to Montreal leaves
at 11:00. I'll pick you up at 8:30.

1932
02:13:20,076 --> 02:13:22,160
Did you hear
what Ray Junior said to you?

1933
02:13:22,244 --> 02:13:24,788
You know how much making
the all-star team means to him?

1934
02:13:24,872 --> 02:13:27,666
I know, but I got things on my mind.
We had to fire Jeff.

1935
02:13:27,750 --> 02:13:29,709
-What?
-He was stealing.

1936
02:13:29,919 --> 02:13:32,379
Jeff? I don't believe it.

1937
02:13:33,297 --> 02:13:35,006
We're better without him.

1938
02:13:41,889 --> 02:13:43,848
[Singing soulful song]

1939
02:14:19,301 --> 02:14:21,720
[Jazzy instrumental music]

1940
02:14:35,276 --> 02:14:36,693
CUSTOMS AGENT: Excuse me!

1941
02:14:37,403 --> 02:14:39,070
<i>U.S. customs!</i>

1942
02:14:39,155 --> 02:14:41,156
We'll need identification, please.

1943
02:14:41,449 --> 02:14:43,408
CUSTOMS AGENT: You just arrived
from Montreal?

1944
02:14:43,492 --> 02:14:44,617
ls there a problem?

1945
02:14:44,702 --> 02:14:47,120
We were alerted there might be drugs
on this plane.

1946
02:14:47,204 --> 02:14:49,414
That's outrageous!
I'm calling our lawyer.

1947
02:14:49,498 --> 02:14:51,833
No lawyers
at international checkpoints.

1948
02:14:51,959 --> 02:14:54,294
We'll have to search everyone
on this plane.

1949
02:14:54,545 --> 02:14:57,088
<i>Mr. Charles,</i>
<i>we'd like to start with уou.</i>

1950
02:14:57,173 --> 02:14:58,965
I'd like to see your overcoat.

1951
02:14:59,300 --> 02:15:01,551
-I don't mind.
-Don't say anything.

1952
02:15:03,053 --> 02:15:04,387
What's this?

1953
02:15:05,681 --> 02:15:08,016
Ray, this isn't some judge
in Indiana.

1954
02:15:08,100 --> 02:15:10,143
It's federal.
A charge of smuggling...

1955
02:15:10,227 --> 02:15:11,686
can mean real prison time.

1956
02:15:13,230 --> 02:15:15,690
<i>Our lawyers</i>
<i>will do what they can, but....</i>

1957
02:15:19,361 --> 02:15:21,196
[Phone ringing]

1958
02:15:35,669 --> 02:15:37,003
Hello.

1959
02:15:39,673 --> 02:15:41,466
You can't hide out in here forever.

1960
02:15:41,550 --> 02:15:43,134
It's my house.
I'm not in prison yet.

1961
02:15:43,219 --> 02:15:45,887
No, it's my house. You ain't
been here more than six days...

1962
02:15:45,971 --> 02:15:47,222
since we moved in.

1963
02:15:47,389 --> 02:15:49,808
No, Ray, no! A needle
ain't gonna solve this!

1964
02:15:49,934 --> 02:15:51,893
Only thing that can help you is God.

1965
02:15:52,061 --> 02:15:54,395
God? Do you know how it feels
to go blind...

1966
02:15:54,939 --> 02:15:56,648
and still be afraid of the dark?

1967
02:15:56,732 --> 02:16:00,151
Every day, you pray for just
a little light, and you get nothing.

1968
02:16:00,319 --> 02:16:02,612
-God don't listen to people like me.
-Stop it.

1969
02:16:02,696 --> 02:16:05,824
As far as I'm concerned, me and God
is even and I do what I please.

1970
02:16:05,908 --> 02:16:07,992
If I want to shoot up,
I'll shoot up.

1971
02:16:08,077 --> 02:16:10,161
Then go ahead!
But you walk out that door...

1972
02:16:10,246 --> 02:16:12,997
and I'm doing something
I should have done a long time ago.

1973
02:16:13,082 --> 02:16:14,666
DELLA: I'm taking my boys and leaving!

1974
02:16:14,750 --> 02:16:16,960
You are not.
You have no place to go.

1975
02:16:17,086 --> 02:16:18,419
DELLA: No place?
RAY: No.

1976
02:16:18,754 --> 02:16:20,672
You think I'm scared of losing this?

1977
02:16:20,923 --> 02:16:23,633
DELLA: The only thing I was
ever scared of losing was you.

1978
02:16:23,926 --> 02:16:27,095
Because where was I ever gonna find
another Ray Robinson?

1979
02:16:28,472 --> 02:16:31,182
So I put up with
some terrible stuff.

1980
02:16:31,267 --> 02:16:32,767
Maybe that makes me part to blame.

1981
02:16:32,852 --> 02:16:34,602
But I ain't scared no more.

1982
02:16:34,687 --> 02:16:37,355
You know I love you and those boys
more than anything.

1983
02:16:37,439 --> 02:16:40,191
DELLA: That is a damn lie and you know it!

1984
02:16:41,443 --> 02:16:43,111
You ever look at this?

1985
02:16:43,320 --> 02:16:45,613
DELLA: Really look at it, Ray!

1986
02:16:45,948 --> 02:16:49,409
Ray Charles Junior's
"Most Valuable Player."

1987
02:16:50,452 --> 02:16:52,954
He was so proud this day...

1988
02:16:53,664 --> 02:16:57,542
until you came home too loaded
to go to his banquet.

1989
02:16:57,626 --> 02:17:00,753
No! There is something you love
more than me and them boys...

1990
02:17:00,921 --> 02:17:03,590
more than all the women
you ever slept with on the road...

1991
02:17:03,674 --> 02:17:05,300
more than all the dope
you ever took.

1992
02:17:05,384 --> 02:17:07,510
RAY: What are you talking about?
DELLA: Your music.

1993
02:17:09,638 --> 02:17:11,973
And if you don't stop
using that needle...

1994
02:17:12,057 --> 02:17:15,184
they're gonna take away your music
and put you in jail.

1995
02:17:19,106 --> 02:17:21,441
ls that poison
worth losing everything?

1996
02:17:41,837 --> 02:17:43,796
[Ray sobbing]

1997
02:17:50,429 --> 02:17:52,847
[Ray panting]

1998
02:17:57,353 --> 02:17:59,062
[Ray vomiting]

1999
02:18:03,525 --> 02:18:05,193
NURSE: Mr. Charles?

2000
02:18:08,781 --> 02:18:10,281
[Ray groaning]

2001
02:18:17,581 --> 02:18:18,915
HACKER: Mr. Charles.

2002
02:18:19,750 --> 02:18:21,542
HACKER: You don't have to go through this.

2003
02:18:22,419 --> 02:18:26,506
We have a substitute
that can help wean you off heroin.

2004
02:18:26,590 --> 02:18:30,802
I have to do it on my own.
I can do it.

2005
02:18:31,929 --> 02:18:33,388
<i>Don't touch me.</i>

2006
02:18:36,308 --> 02:18:37,642
HACKER: All right.

2007
02:18:38,185 --> 02:18:39,560
We'll do it your way.

2008
02:18:44,817 --> 02:18:46,693
[Ray coughing and groaning]

2009
02:18:50,948 --> 02:18:52,281
NURSE: Doсtor?

2010
02:18:52,574 --> 02:18:55,576
Mr. Charles, I'm coming.

2011
02:18:56,328 --> 02:18:59,914
He's got no fluids left.
Get an l.V. in him right away.

2012
02:19:00,124 --> 02:19:02,166
NURSE 1: I'll insert the needle.
RAY: No needles.

2013
02:19:02,251 --> 02:19:04,168
Yes. It's very important.
You need this.

2014
02:19:04,253 --> 02:19:06,212
NURSE 2: I've got a runner!

2015
02:19:07,756 --> 02:19:09,340
[Ray panting and grunting]

2016
02:19:09,425 --> 02:19:10,758
NURSE 1: Get him on the bed.

2017
02:19:12,428 --> 02:19:14,137
ORDERLY: Put those restraints on him.

2018
02:19:15,431 --> 02:19:17,015
No needles.

2019
02:19:24,732 --> 02:19:26,774
[Ray crying]

2020
02:19:43,125 --> 02:19:47,920
George, I miss you.
I miss you, George. I miss you.

2021
02:20:08,734 --> 02:20:10,902
RAY: You might be in trouble
right there, Doc.

2022
02:20:19,995 --> 02:20:22,497
Hot damn, you whupped my ass again!

2023
02:20:22,581 --> 02:20:25,166
I won't lose again
the same way twice.

2024
02:20:25,250 --> 02:20:28,753
I spoke with the judge in Boston,
and he'll agree to probation.

2025
02:20:28,837 --> 02:20:31,255
HACKER: He was impressed
with your attorney's arguments...

2026
02:20:31,340 --> 02:20:33,424
and he believes
you deserve one more chance.

2027
02:20:33,509 --> 02:20:34,884
Oh, that's great.

2028
02:20:34,968 --> 02:20:37,095
HACKER: But you must complete
our program...

2029
02:20:37,179 --> 02:20:39,097
and agree to take
periodic drug tests.

2030
02:20:39,181 --> 02:20:40,515
RAY: I'll do it.

2031
02:20:40,599 --> 02:20:43,976
I know people don't believe I'm done
with this dope, but I'm finished.

2032
02:20:44,603 --> 02:20:45,937
Who's George?

2033
02:20:50,776 --> 02:20:51,859
Ray...

2034
02:20:52,444 --> 02:20:55,238
you've come through
the worst of the physical reactions.

2035
02:20:55,864 --> 02:20:58,908
We should begin
psychotherapy sessions.

2036
02:20:59,076 --> 02:21:02,495
Look, forget the headshrinking, Doc.
I can handle this.

2037
02:21:07,292 --> 02:21:11,587
Mr. Charles, you're not the first
celebrity junkie I've treated.

2038
02:21:11,672 --> 02:21:12,797
Junkie? What--

2039
02:21:12,881 --> 02:21:15,967
HACKER: Nobody cons me at any price.
RAY: I'm not trying to do that.

2040
02:21:16,051 --> 02:21:19,262
HACKER: If you want me to give that judge
a positive report...

2041
02:21:19,346 --> 02:21:20,930
you will have to earn it.

2042
02:21:24,768 --> 02:21:25,768
RAY: Doc?

2043
02:21:26,562 --> 02:21:28,062
Dr. Hacker?

2044
02:21:44,413 --> 02:21:45,872
[Ray grunts]

2045
02:22:02,264 --> 02:22:05,099
GEORGE: [Voiceover] Ray, come on,
<i>play with me!</i>

2046
02:22:09,104 --> 02:22:10,771
ARETHA: He ain't there.

2047
02:22:19,156 --> 02:22:20,990
ARETHA: Talk to me, son.

2048
02:22:21,950 --> 02:22:25,494
I ain't no bad dream.
I'm a part of you.

2049
02:22:25,829 --> 02:22:28,331
Even all that dope
couldn't keep me away.

2050
02:22:31,168 --> 02:22:32,585
Mama, I kept my promise.

2051
02:22:33,754 --> 02:22:37,506
You got strong all right.
Went places I never dreamed of.

2052
02:22:37,966 --> 02:22:40,218
But you still became a cripple.

2053
02:22:45,933 --> 02:22:48,267
Come here, baby. Come here.

2054
02:22:50,854 --> 02:22:52,563
[Ray sobbing]

2055
02:22:55,609 --> 02:22:56,776
GEORGE: Ray?

2056
02:23:03,283 --> 02:23:04,784
It wasn't your fault.

2057
02:23:10,415 --> 02:23:11,582
ARETHA: Now promise us...

2058
02:23:12,167 --> 02:23:16,087
you'll never let nobody or nothing
turn you into no cripple ever again.

2059
02:23:16,546 --> 02:23:19,757
That you'll always stand
on your own two feet.

2060
02:23:20,592 --> 02:23:21,759
Promise.

2061
02:23:25,931 --> 02:23:27,223
[Sentimental instrumental music]

2062
02:23:46,034 --> 02:23:49,287
BOND: We're here to right a wrong done to
<i>one of our own 20 уears ago.</i>

2063
02:23:49,371 --> 02:23:50,663
BOND: In 1961...

2064
02:23:50,747 --> 02:23:52,665
<i>Ray Charles</i>
<i>was banned from performing...</i>

2065
02:23:52,749 --> 02:23:53,916
<i>in the state of Georgia...</i>

2066
02:23:54,042 --> 02:23:57,169
<i>because he refused to play before</i>
<i>a segregated audience.</i>

2067
02:23:57,421 --> 02:24:00,589
<i>ThankfuIly,</i>
<i>we've come a long way since then.</i>

2068
02:24:00,841 --> 02:24:04,176
<i>Some of us have fought for equality</i>
<i>through the political process...</i>

2069
02:24:04,428 --> 02:24:07,013
<i>but Ray Charles</i>
<i>changed American cuIture...</i>

2070
02:24:07,097 --> 02:24:08,764
<i>by touching people's hearts.</i>

2071
02:24:09,099 --> 02:24:13,102
<i>So on this day, March 7, 1979...</i>

2072
02:24:13,395 --> 02:24:16,564
<i>we, the duly elected representatives</i>
<i>of the state of Georgia...</i>

2073
02:24:16,898 --> 02:24:20,901
not only proclaim Georgia On My Mind
<i>our official state song...</i>

2074
02:24:21,236 --> 02:24:24,488
<i>we also offer Mr. Ray Charles</i>
<i>a public apology...</i>

2075
02:24:24,573 --> 02:24:26,365
<i>and welcome him back home.</i>

2076
02:24:28,410 --> 02:24:30,411
[All cheering]

2077
02:24:46,261 --> 02:24:48,429
If only your mama was here.

2078
02:24:49,097 --> 02:24:50,431
She's here.

2079
02:24:51,099 --> 02:24:53,059
She ain't never left.

2080
02:25:09,743 --> 02:25:11,994
[Sentimental song]

2081
02:25:42,943 --> 02:25:45,194
[Sentimental song continues]

2082
02:28:29,609 --> 02:28:32,653
[Upbeat song]

2083
02:30:36,778 --> 02:30:39,988
[Surreal instrumental music]