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[Frank]
I know exactly
the day I opened

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my mouth to sing.
It was a Sunday.

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All the relatives were
over at the house.

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It's an old Italian song,
and I didn't know

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what the hell the words were.
I was like six,

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seven years old. It was...
♪ Eh, Cumpari ♪

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And all of a sudden, I just
start singing along with it.

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It just seemed natural.

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For some reason,
it was effortless for me.

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I never had a pitch problem.
I could just sing.

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Please welcome, Frank Stallone.

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-Frank Stallone.
-Frank Stallone.

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-Frank Stallone.
-Frank Stallone.

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-Frank Stallone.
-Frank Stallone.

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[Sylvester]
In his world, and his talent,
he's, you know,

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every bit as good as I am
at what I try to do.

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He's a five tool guy.

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He can sing, he can act,
he can perform,

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he can write, and he could
fight like a son of a bitch.

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When you watch
Frank Stallone perform,

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he fulfills everything.

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It's just talent, man.
It's just pure talent.

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He sings his ass off.
Always did.

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He likes to talk a lot.

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-[laughs]
-He can talk.

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He can tell a story,
and he'll just capture you.

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He's just wonderful.

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[Billy]
It's a combination

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of electric magnetism

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coupled with
this incredible humility.

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It's just a rare cocktail.

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It's what I respect
most about him.

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Frank has style
and Frank has endurance.

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He's very driven. He's talented,
and he's also a sweetheart

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of a guy. He's a winner.

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He's an electric sort of guy,
and, and, uh, funny.

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He's entertaining.
He's got a heart of gold.

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There's never
a dull moment with Frank.

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[Frankie]
He's got a big heart.

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That's what people don't see.
It's that big.

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[Steven]
He's a force.
He's the real deal.

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There's so much more to him
than meets the eye.

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I mean, everybody knows,
yeah, he did a little

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doo-wop thing
in the first Rocky film,

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and you think, "Oh,
that's cute," you know,

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"Sylvester and his brother
sing a little

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thing at the beginning."
And then,

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you dig deeper,
and you found out,

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"Wow, this guy's
a tremendous musical artist

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in his own right."

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He was into music
24 hours a day.

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I knew that was his calling.

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He never quit.

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♪ I know what I'm missing ♪

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♪ I talk ♪

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♪ No one listens ♪

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♪ Now I'm talking to myself ♪

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♪ Reach out, no reaction ♪

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♪ What price? ♪

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♪ Satisfaction ♪

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♪ If you give up ♪

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♪ Or give it all... ♪

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[upbeat jazz music]

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These were actually, uh,

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these were a gift to me.

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These were
Frank Sinatra's cufflinks.

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Maybe that'll bring me a...
bit of good luck.

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See you in the movies.

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[upbeat jazz music continues]

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[announcer]
Welcome back to the stage
Frank Stallone.

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[audience applauds]

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[Frank]
I grew up in a kind
of a strange environment.

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My father was from Italy,
and my mother is a WASP,

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and she was born
in Washington DC.

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So I didn't really grow up in,

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what you would call,
a musical household.

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My father was a hair dresser.

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My mother worked
in the same business,

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and it was a very
tumultuous house.

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It was not a happy household.

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[Jackie]
I remember once
I went to Bloomingdale's,

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he was about five years old,
and he's so quite.

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Were-- He said to Frankie,
"Just sit here, don't move."

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He would not move until
you gave him a command to move.

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When I got home,
I realized I didn't have him.

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He was still sitting
on the bench in Bloomingdale's.

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I went back to the store,
and there you were. [laughs]

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To pick him up,
that's how well-mannered he was.

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[Annette]
He was a good baby.

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Frankie actually was
putty in your hand.

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He was a beautiful little baby,
and very good.

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Growing up, he was just a,
a normal child,

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but he developed a passion,

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and I mean really a passion,
for music.

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[Frank]
I remember to this day,
seeing Elvis Presley.

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All of a sudden,
this wild man comes on.

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At six years old, I'm going,
"Oh, yeah,

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forget 'Eh, Cumpari.'
That, that bullshit,

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that's over.
This is it right here."

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The hair, the look,
just everything about him,

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and that was it, I was hooked.

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When my parents got divorced,

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I moved from Maryland
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which was like night and day.

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But then the doo-wop thing
was always around,

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like The Platters,
The Silhouettes,

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that was like street corner.

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[hums and snaps]

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So I got into that.

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My mother had left.
She disappeared.

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And she came
around Christmas time,

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and I saw
these two like ukuleles.

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I know my brother
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so I guess they're both for me,

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but he ended up breaking it
over my head.

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That was
the beginning and the end

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of like the Italian version
of The Everly Brothers,

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because my brother,
as talented as he is,

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just has no musical talent.

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They tried.
They bought him a trumpet.

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He hammered the mouth piece in,

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but it just wasn't his bag,

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and he didn't know what his bag
was until 20 years later.

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So he was just
kind of a delinquent.

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[Sylvester]
I would torture Frank.

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Everything
from shooting arrows at him,

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and trying
to put him in a barrel,

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and roll him down a hill
while heaving rocks

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onto a freeway
under construction.

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His fingers almost got
cut off in a cement mixer.

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We got into a fight
over a drum stick,

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and I threw it at him, and
it sort of stuck in his head,

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and he's still alive,
which goes to show you,

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he's not normal.

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He has a primitive
neanderthal-type-skull.

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He's eating a bowl of ice cream.

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He goes... [with deep voice]
"Don't touch my ice cream,"

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and he throws
the ice cream in my face.

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I turn around, I hit him,
and I shatter my hand.

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This is the way we've always
conducted our business,

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me attacking my brother,
and then blaming him.

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So it's consistent.
There something nice

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about consistency.

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[Frank]
So then, off to military school.

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I just got wind of The Beatles.
I don't want to go
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and get a buzz haircut.
I can't do this anymore.

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I just don't want to do it,

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because now your hormones
are kind of changing.

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The Beatles, The Stones,
all this stuff is happening,

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and I'm wearing a buzz cut.

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I look like total jerk off.

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I don't fit in at all.

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So I left.
I went to public school.

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I wasn't dumb. I was very smart,

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but I couldn't apply myself.

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Now you would call that ADD,

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but then,
you just called it stupid.

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I think I got one A
in 12 years of school.

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I flunked music all four years.

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Barely got out of high school.

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Frankie and I met
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I had a set of drums,
but most of us,

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we were just doing something
that was part of a trend.

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For Frankie, it was a drive.

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He can't stop himself.

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I felt like a separation
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like he was moving away,
you know?

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He was very serious about that,
and I...

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...couldn't possibly
get serious at that age.

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[Frank]
I remember I worked all summer

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for 150 bucks,
and my stepfather said...

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[with deep voice]
"Well, if you work,
you can buy your own guitar."

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I said, "Okay, great."
I went to 8th Street Music,

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and I bought this bass,

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and he goes, "Oh, I didn't
tell you you could buy that,"

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and he took it away from me.

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I didn't even get
a chance to play it.

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It was so devastating to me,

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because I was so proud
because I worked for it,

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and he just put it away
in the closet,

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and he goes, "Don't you ever
touch that again." I said,

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I said, "You said if I worked
all summer, I could have it."

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I couldn't wait for when
he left town. Of course I'd...

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[imitates a bass strumming]
practice in the front room

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with my band, and stuff
like that. But I couldn't--

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Then I realized
I sucked at bass.

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[Jackie]
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for the simple reason
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pretty organized,
and very neat, and clean.

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He would insist Frankie
get a haircut

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as soon as he'd come home.
Well, that's the worst thing

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you could say to a musician.

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So, they didn't get along
well at all.

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[bright music]

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Got along very well
with his father.