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[bright music]

[dramatic music]

[whooshing]

[soft clapping]

[soft soulful vocalization]

[phone ringing] [soft soulful vocalization]

♪

[crowd murmuring] [soft guitar music]

Host VO: I'm rolling the tape.

I'm happy to see so many of you here.

Don't forget that each and every night through Saturday night,

we will be recording.

How about a nice round of applause and welcome

for little Jackie Shane!

[upbeat R&B music] [crowd applauding]

["Money" (Live Version) by Jackie Shane]

♪ Ow!

♪ They say the best things in life are free

♪ But you can give em' to the birds and bees

♪ I need money, lord

♪ That's what I want

♪ That's what I want

♪ That's what I want

♪ Ah! That's what I want baby

♪ Ow!

♪ Your love give me such a thrill, babe

♪ But now your lovin can't pay Jackie's bills

♪ Gimme money

♪ That's what I want

♪ That's what I want

♪ That's what I want

♪ Ah! That's what I want baby ♪

♪ Ow!

♪ Now, money can't get everything that's true, listen

♪ But what it can get honey, Jackie can use ♪

Jimmy Church: Jackie, she made her mark on life.

A lot of people don't leave marks,

but she left her mark.

♪ Lord have mercy

♪ That's what I want

Elaine Gaber-Katz: Jackie Shane dared to say the things

that other people didn't say.

It wasn't so easy busting through boundaries.

Makayla Walker: She was growing up in a time where who she was

she knew she could not be.

But she didn't let that hold her back.

You know,

when I'm walking down Yonge Street,

you know some of them funny people have the nerve

to point the finger at me,

and grin and smile and whisper.

But you know that don't worry Jackie

because I know I look good.

[audience laughs]

Jackie: I look good, I got money

and everything else that I need.

You know what my slogan is?

Baby, do what you want,

just know what you are doing.

As long as you don't force your will and your way

on anybody else,

live your life because ain't nobody sanctified and holy.

You see what I mean? [audience applauds]

Oh honey, 'cause baby, when we leave here

we don't know where we're going.

You know, I ain't going for all that stuff.

Elaine Gaber-Katz: I had heard that she had been killed in a knife fight.

I heard that she was drowned in the ocean?

But I definitely heard that he was,

that she was dead.

Bobby Dean Blackburn: The word was she was busted and deported.

But nobody would say anything.

There was no details at all about nothing.

Sandra Caldwell: Something pulled Jackie stronger than music.

It's a mystery that hasn't been unpacked.

Rob Bowman: There's all sorts of rumours.

It became clear over the years

that Jackie Shane was never reappearing.

♪ Money, money, money, baby

♪ Talkin' about money, money, money, woman ♪

♪ Ah, hey!

Host VO: Little Jackie Shane.

[audience cheering]

Host VO: Yeah, Little Jackie Shane!

Little Jackie Shane

would like to say thank you very, very kindly,

ladies and gentlemen.

Give that money. Give that money.

We'd like to take a brief intermission

but we'll be back very, very shortly.

You remember when we was lugging all this stuff in?

Oh my God.

It took me all night.

Our world's turned upside down.

Good lord.

Alrighty.

It was a Friday after work.

My cell phone rang, so when I answered it,

it was a gentleman on the phone,

and he proceeded to say, he says,

"Is this Shavanya Crawford?"

"Yes."

"Did you have an aunt named Joan Crawford?"

I said, "Yes."

And his next words to me was,

"I'm calling to tell you that you have a aunt,

"a very special aunt."

I'm like, "I know all my aunts.

"Who are you talking about?"

And then he gave me her name.

He said, "Her name is Jackie Shane."

I had never heard the name.

I said, "Let me get my cousin on the phone."

And then they said,

"Do you know Joan Crawford?"

And I said, "Well, that's my mother."

And they said, "Well, who are you?"

I said, "I'm her only child."

And, ah, he said, "Well, you're the heir to Jackie Shane."

I said, "Well, who is Jackie Shane?"

[bluesy music] [indiscernible chattering]

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: We inherited madness.

We just found out that we were related to a person

that lived up the street from us for over 40 years

that we had no idea.

We had to go to her house and clean out her possessions

and store them

because we really didn't know the value

and what we were gonna do with the things that we found.

The first initial walk into the house,

we just kinda stood in awe.

♪ I'm all alone

♪ I would bring her back to me ♪

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: When we first came in,

to the left of the door was like a mini dresser

and there was a hat, really large,

like dark, dark sunglasses,

the plastic gloves that you wash dishes with,

and two guns.

I was like, "Okay, what is really going on here?"

Every room was full of vintage looking stuff.

We didn't know what was treasures and what was not.

Her jewellery was just amazing.

Look at all this stuff. -I know.

It's just pretty. Look.

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: She was very stylish and very fashion forward.

She had all kind of styles.

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: We found all kinds of clothes,

boxes and boxes of jewellery.

They were stored as if they were things

that she still used today.

And look at this.

What is this with her monogram on it?

Oh yeah. -A cigarette case.

Did she smoke?

She did.

I seen her in a couple of pictures holding a cigarette,

but did she?

Maybe it was just to be cute.

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: I don't know.

[soul music]

♪

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: We combed every inch of the apartment

because we were told that Aunt Jackie was real private.

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: She was definitely a recluse.

She never left the house.

And we could not figure out why.

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: She kept herself so secluded and no one knew she existed.

Where would she hide stuff?

Actually, we found a lot of treasures in the closet

behind those clothes!

We found Jackie's autobiography.

And when we first turned it over

and it said autobiography, we was like, "Wow!"

And it said, "Let God be my judge."

The opening line is one of the most profound statements

that I've ever read in my life.

It said, "I was born but never lived."

Okay, "I was born, but I have never lived.

"At this time I can only hope and pray

"that somebody will come along

"that will see me as a person that needs love

"just as any other woman and accept me in this way."

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: She said, "I'm gonna try to articulate and tell my story

"in hopes that it will help someone or shed light."

"It is important that someone tell it the way it truly is,

"and I'm trying to do just that.

"Please give me the same respect that I give to you,

"for as long as we do not try to force

"our way of life on another,

"they have no right to force their way of life on us.

"It is live and let live."

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: I said, "Aunt Jackie, you knew."

It's like she knew.

I instantly felt she knew that there was gonna be a time

that her story is gonna be told.

And she preserved herself.

And I'm like, "You are a wise woman."

There's some young person out there now

that needs to hear her story.

There's some person now sitting in the room

feeling the same way she did.

So it has to happen.

It has to!

Because that's what she wanted.

And that's what we gonna do.

[telephone ringing] [solemn music]

[indistinct chattering]

♪ C.C. Rider ♪ Satisfy

♪ C.C. Rider ♪ Satisfy

♪ What's the matter? ♪ Satisfy

♪ I'm gonna work ♪ Satisfy

♪ And I'm tired ♪ Satisfy

♪ And I can't eat ♪ Satisfy

♪ Satisfy, oh ♪ Satisfy

♪ Satisfy

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: What we learned about all the things

Aunt Jackie left behind is

she was born in Nashville, 1940,

during the so-called Jim Crow period.

Her biological mom, Gussie, was only 16 years old.

She was unmarried,

and I guess you could say she was really uninterested

in raising a child.

So Jackie's Aunt Jessie stepped up and raised her,

treated her as her own.

Gave her the love and protection my Aunt Jackie needed.

♪ What's the matter? ♪ Satisfy

♪ I'm gonna

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: And she also had a very strong connection with her grandma.

Aunt Jackie's grandmother had a huge impact

on her as a child.

♪ Satisfy

♪ Satisfy ♪ Satisfy

♪ Satisfy ♪ Satisfy

[soulful music]

[rhythmic humming]

♪ Oh, the land of clown-led state ♪

♪ Far beyond the sky

♪ Oh, for the land of clown-led ♪

Sandra Caldwell: "I remember the first time that someone called me a name

"that had not been given to me by my mother.

"It was 'Sissy'.

"My mother,

"not knowing exactly how to explain what a person meant

"when they called someone a sissy,

"told me just to ignore them when they called me this

"or any other name that was not my own."

Makayla Walker: "I myself had not realized that I was any different

"from other girls.

"My mother had told me that many times

"she would find me at the dressing table

"using her cosmetics

"but, at the time,

"she said all she was able to do

"was let God's will be done,

"because she had noticed that all of my mannerisms

"were feminine,

"just as any other small girl growing up."

I love that specific paragraph

because I-I went,

I had this exact same feeling

when I was in elementary school.

I didn't know that there was boys and girls.

I thought we were all just, like, people.

And so, it wasn't until someone explained that,

you know, you have parts that they don't.

[laughs] And I was like, "What?"

You know?

So just knowing that she had this exact same experience was,

it's beautiful to read.

♪ Oh, they tell me that he smiles on his children ♪

♪ Feel that love healing love on thou did take ♪

Lorenzo Washington: There was a little restaurant

that Jackie told me she used to go up

because this lady made some of the best desserts,

like cakes and pies.

And Jackie went in there one day

and this lady's son was in there.

[upbeat Blues music]

♪

Lorenzo Washington: Jackie came in right when the Blues hit

in the late '50s.

And that's when a bunch of these musicians,

like B.B. King, Little Richard,

came into Nashville.

[upbeat Blues music]

Howard Gentry: Back in the days of Jackie Shane,

Northern Nashville,

particularly Jefferson Street,

was a music mecca.

Clubs and-and music venues all up and down Jefferson Street.

Lorenzo Washington: You had the working people living on Jefferson Street,

so it was always something going on.

It was just one of the most beautiful environments

that you would ever want to see,

because Black folk at that point

was pretty much self-contained.

[upbeat Blues music]

Rob Bowman: Jackie was respected as a very fine R&B drummer.

She played on dozens of Nashville R&B studio cuts.

She was the house drummer at the New Era Club,

which was one of the two most important clubs

on Jefferson Street,

where she's backing up touring stars

like Joe Tex and Big Maybelle.

[rock and roll music]

Rob Bowman: Jackie was drumming and singing at one point.

It electrified crowds.

[audience cheers]

♪ Chickadee, please come back home to babe

♪ Now chickadee, come on back home and stay

♪ You know I'm pleading with you baby

♪ So come back home and stay

♪ I pick up my phone and then I went to do my act

♪ Listen to me baby, I just gotta have you back

♪ Chickadee, why did you leave your happy home

♪ Came home last night, baby, you had packed and gone

♪ Chickadee

Lorenzo Washington: The New Era Club would be packed on the weekends.

That's where most of the locals went.

Jimmy Church played the New Era Club a lot.

And wherever Jimmy Church was playing,

that's where you wanted to go.

Oh man, New Era Club! [laughs]

New Era was the number one club in Nashville.

Whites came in there,

they would be putting the makeup on,

dark makeup on and stuff,

walk in there and

you wouldn't know they was in there.

Be a lot of Whites come in there.

I mean, that was the spot!

That he, I mean, all your great acts,

Black acts, that's where they went.

Lorenzo Washington: Little Richard was a big name here in Nashville.

Jackie and Little Richard was good friends,

and Jackie compared herself

to Little Richard in a lot of ways.

[rock and roll music]

Rob Bowman: When Richard came to Nashville one of his first shows

after he had become a star with "Tutti Frutti",

a local singer, who was also gay and Black,

had a party.

And the gay Black network within Nashville

was at that party.

Jackie is fifteen.

She was invited to the party,

and that's where she first met Richard.

Richard and her get along famously.

Anytime he'd come to Nashville and play,

she'd often be playing at the New Era,

and of course they'd check each other out and hang out.

Jimmy Church: There was something about Jackie

that it just draw you to her.

You know, and then that was something different

to have somebody doing their thing like that.

Actually, she was much more out there than Richard was.

Jackie, just all the way, "This is me."

I think that what put Jackie to the top

'cause it was like, this is what you're getting.

And it was something new and it was something exciting,

and it was something people wanted to see.

♪ Oh, they tell me ♪ They tell me

♪ Of a home ♪ Of a home

♪ Where my friends

Michael Gray: People like Jackie Shane and Little Richard,

who were icons,

I mean, you know, they're,

they made people take 'em on their own terms.

I mean, they were,

they-they demanded respect

and they were brave

and they were confident.

Take me on my own terms or don't take me at all.

Dr. Marisa Richmond: Of course, there was a lot of harassment

here in Nashville.

The term "transgender" wasn't even being used then,

and so trans people were invisible.

There were a lot of communities,

and Nashville was no exception,

that had anti-cross dressing laws.

And so, that became an excuse to arrest people

and harass people.

If you were holding hands with someone of the same sex

or if you were even dancing with someone of the same sex,

you could be arrested.

Rob Bowman: Being Black in the south in the '50s,

that's dangerous every day.

Simply being different from the stereotypical

heterosexual male was another layer of dangerous.

♪ Whoa, the lake of clouds

Rob Bowman: Jackie witnessed a horrific incident of racial violence,

where she was at a bus stop and saw a White mob

take somebody off a bus

and do unspeakable things to that person.

♪ Oh, they tell me ♪ They tell me

♪ They tell me (They tell me) ♪

♪ Of a home (Of a home) ♪

[train rumbles]

[upbeat music]

♪ If I had wings like Noah's dove

♪ I'd fly up the river to the one I love ♪

♪ Fare thee well, oh honey ,

♪ Fare thee well

Rob Bowman: This carnival would have the usual carnival stuff;

some rides, some games, a freak show.

People like Rosalia, a female impersonator,

Iron Jaw, this guy who would take people's drinks

and then eat the glass afterwards.

TV Mama was a stripper.

She was a rather large, large woman.

But they also had a soul tent

where Black artists would perform.

Raymond Summerour: When we went out on the road,

we couldn't stay in the hotel or nothing like that.

And we had to get a boarding house.

Now I'm only 18.

Get a boarding house, you know,

sleep in the orange grove.

You know, but I was young.

Jimmy Church: The South was much worse than the North,

so everybody knew what they were supposed to do.

That was my first time but we all know, hey,

we can't go here, we can't go there,

we can't do this, we can't do that.

We stood in our place, you know?

You know what I'm saying.

As long as you stay in your place,

we had a good time.

Eat bologna sandwich on the side of the road and [laughs].

And right to this day, I love bologna sandwich.

I think bologna sandwich saved my life

because we used to call them highway steaks. [laughs]

Jimmy Church: Now, we're on that carnival tour with Jackie.

Jackie come out and watch us.

We'd go out and watch her.

You could tell Jackie was so talented.

She had that thing going.

Oh man!

[gentle music]

Jimmy Church: Jackie was the main thing

because the way she performed, the charisma,

Jackie was just, you know, a hundred percent cool.

Jackie was the star of the show.

♪ Hey mister cool guy

♪ Take yourself about

♪ Just lost another girl

♪ As only you know how (Only you know how) ♪

♪ One day you'll find out you're much too late

♪ It's no big thing to have a girl, boy

♪ It's no big thing to have a girl, boy

♪ One for every date (One for every date) ♪

Rob Bowman: In 1959, Jackie and the carnival company

crossed the border into Canada

and they went to Cornwall,

a little town part way between Toronto and Montreal.

Rob Bowman: After a week in Cornwall,

Jackie realized that she didn't want to stay working

for this carnival guy,

so she decided to pack up

and go to Montreal.

[jazzy music]

Rob Bowman: Jackie was a young kid in the big city for the first time.

She went club to club and quickly got hired,

got a gig almost immediately within that first week.

Everybody knew the mafia controlled

the club scene in Montreal.

We're talking about people who are packing guns,

moving drugs,

engaged in running women.

A lot of clubs were like that at that time.

Sandra Caldwell: We were kind of much on the same path.

I did come from the States.

I had my first couple of gigs in Montreal.

I worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel

as a showgirl.

It seemed to be the mobsters,

the gangsters,

were attracted to trans women.

I don't understand but it just was the way.

And on top of which,

Jackie was a good entertainer and bringing them in money.

If you're gonna bring money into the club,

why wouldn't it be attractive?

Rob Bowman: Jackie was living in a boarding house in Montreal.

One day doors banged open,

kicked in.

She was kidnapped.

Rob Bowman: These gangsters took her to a farmhouse,

sat Jackie down at a table,

said, "You're beautiful, you're talented.

"I can make you a star, but I own you.

"You cross me, you will be dead."

Now Jackie's trying to figure out,

"How do I get out of this?"

So she very calmly pointed out the fact that she's underage.

[lively music]

♪

[lively music]

[lively music continues] [background chattering]

Rob Bowman: Jackie walks in the club,

Frank Motley was playing there.

Frank Motley was certainly a name on the R&B circuit,

and his shtick was he played two trumpets at once.

People in the audience recognize her

from her earlier performances on the Main,

and they start telling Frank Motley,

"Jackie Shane's here! Jackie Shane's here!

"Gotta get her on stage."

Now Frank didn't know who she was,

but he reluctantly agreed to let her sit in.

Jackie gets up on that stage and shows him what she's got.

♪ I got a new way of loving, baby

♪ Yeah, wanna teach it to you

♪ What you want me to do

♪ Whoa, I love you, baby

♪ I wanna know, I know you gonna love me too

♪ What you want me to do

♪ I got a thing going on, woman ♪

[audience cheers]

♪ Thrill you through and through

♪ All right, baby

♪ Whoa, a thing going on, baby

♪ Said it will thrill you through and through

♪ What you want me to do

♪ Oh, baby

Rob Bowman: Jackie blew Motley away

and he immediately offered her a job.

Now, Motley needed a good front person to carry a show,

and in Jackie he found it.

They played for weeks and weeks at the Esquire,

and audiences just couldn't get enough of her.

From Montreal, they took the show on the road.

♪ Oh baby, so I'll make everything all right

♪ Me and you

[crowd cheers] [lively music]

Rob Bowman: In Boston and Montreal,

the response to Jackie had been tremendous.

But when she hit Toronto, it was a whole 'nother level.

Toronto had never seen anything like Jackie before.

Bobby Dean Blackburn: Frank Motley, he was the first real heavy duty R&B band

that came to Toronto.

I went down to see him,

he was playing at the Holiday Tavern.

And I freaked out,

you know, this was the real rhythm and blues.

And then, "And now ladies and gentlemen,

"Jackie Shane!"

And what a singer,

you know, just tear the,

tear the joint up.

♪ And I'm fine glossy mama

♪ Woman I know you're not the type

♪ Gotta teach you tonight

♪ If it's a wang-dang-do, baby

♪ Everything will be all right ♪

[streetcar bell dings]

Rob Bowman: So in 1961,

Jackie and the band made Toronto their home base.

The way she told it,

she felt an instant connection

to both the city and the audiences.

It was like love at first sight.

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: Aunt Jackie played a lot of places in Toronto.

While looking through her old clippings,

it was just amazing.

She played The Hawks Nest,

it was run by Ronnie Hawkins.

Then there was the club Mimicombo and the Zanzibar.

But the most infamous club she played in was the Saphire.

That was her spot.

[Bluesy music]

Bobby Dean Blackburn: The Saphire was noted for being a little bit underground.

I'm-I'm telling you straight up.

A lot of hookers, a lot of pimps,

you know, it was just off of Yonge Street.

And Yonge Street was a place

that if you wanted to get some drugs

or if you want to get a new suit,

they'd have silk suits and all that stuff.

Yonge Street was a warehouse.

[laughs] You know?

And the Saphire got raided quite often.

"It's a raid." Boom.

And all you'd hear is drugs go on the floor

and knives and razors.

And if you wanted some action,

you'd go down to Saphire late at night.

Rob Bowman: The clubs where gangsters hung out

were in some ways protected spaces.

They allowed Jackie to do her thing

and for the people that weren't part

of the criminal underworld,

they could still come and enjoy Jackie.

And pretty soon,

word of mouth had people coming in droves.

[Bluesy music]

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: My Aunt Jackie played week after week at the Saphire.

The longest run was over ten weeks.

The newspaper clippings we found it said:

"Back for another week, Jackie Shane".

And people just kept coming.

Busloads of people would come from Detroit and Buffalo.

That probably filled that damn club. [laughs]

[audience applauds]

Rob Bowman: By 1963,

Jackie had become a sensation.

And that year she went into the studio with Motley

and recorded and released a single called "Any Other Way."

["Any Other Way" by Jackie Shane]

♪ Here you come again

♪ And you say that you're my friend

♪ But I know why you're here

♪ She wants to know how I feel

♪ Tell her that I'm happy

♪ Tell her that I'm gay

♪ Tell her I wouldn't have it

♪ Any other way

♪ People have been talking

♪ Since we been apart

♪ And when I pass, I hear them whisper

♪ Haha, there he goes with a broken heart ♪

♪ Tell her that I'm happy

♪ Tell her that I'm gay

♪ Tell her I wouldn't have it

♪ Any other way

It's like, girl, yes.

It's like, I don't need you.

I'm doing my thing.

What I'm doing is what I need to do for me.

And if you don't like it, that's fine

'cause I wouldn't have it any other way.

Rodney Diverlus: I think there's something amazing about

how she's really using that double entendre,

and I'm sure that probably to an audience,

that was probably as close as she could get to the line

of speaking about queerness.

I also think about what would it be like

to be a queer person singing that song,

because of how the lyrics are couched,

you could sing it pretty loudly

without actually coming out.

You know, like,

"Tell her that I'm happy.

"Tell her that I'm gay."

And you, if you're a homophobe,

you'd hear that I'm talking about being happy,

and if you know, you know.

Yeah.

♪ Tell her I wouldn't have it

♪ Any other way

Elaine Gaber-Katz: Jackie Shane dared to say the things

that other people didn't say,

so I really wanted to hear

everything she said.

I actually saw her perform a total of fifteen times.

She provided me with a stance,

a way of being in the world.

I was trying to challenge myself

in a number of different ways.

Similar to Jackie, it was really binaries.

Black/white, rich/poor, male/female.

Because I didn't always fit into those binaries,

and clearly Jackie Shane didn't either.

♪ I think you'd better go right now ♪

["Any Other Way" by Jackie Shane continues playing]

Rob Bowman: When Jackie released "Any Other Way,"

CHUM, which was the biggest Top 40 station

in Toronto at the time,

wouldn't play it.

Jackie always said that for some reason CHUM hated her.

Bobby Dean Blackburn: In the '50s, even with payola,

you couldn't get Black music played on CHUM,

none of the the stations.

Any Black music,

you had to go to the States to get it,

you couldn't get it in Toronto.

They were very racist,

they didn't put Black music on the air.

"Any Other Way," when it came out,

they didn't even show the picture

that it was a Black person singing it.

Rob Bowman: It got enough attention that CHUM starts getting calls,

so they've got to play it.

Now you're hearing it on all the Top 40 stations

in the city

and it became a Toronto anthem.

She said it should have gone to number one

but CHUM wouldn't let it.

♪ Any other way

Bobby Dean Blackburn: That song, "Any Other Way,"

it's just incredible.

Jackie Shane was the real deal.

♪ I wouldn't have it, baby

♪ No other way

Bobby Dean Blackburn: She had an entourage,

always surrounded by beautiful women.

And she started wearing silk suits and all that stuff,

and she was riding high, man.

Sandra Caldwell: "It's been said that Jackie Shane

"has never been seen in the same garment twice

"and is known to travel with a wardrobe valued

"in the area of $10,000.

"When he moves across the stage,

"he looks like a giant piece of kinetic sculpture,

"a glimmering shaking mass of light."

This is publicity material that Jackie Shane wrote

for his-self.

She was using "his" and "him" pronouns.

She was known as "he"

when it came to writing the publicity material.

Putting down "him" must have been rough.

You know, it must have been rough

because the "he" and the "him" was garnering success

here in Toronto,

but folks' brains couldn't identify with Jackie Shane

singing with the makeup and the word "she".

That would've been messed up people's heads.

Rob Bowman: After the success of "Any Other Way,"

Jackie was invited to perform at "The Ed Sullivan Show."

Ed Sullivan, at the time,

had the biggest television variety show

in North America.

He broke Elvis Presley.

He broke The Beatles.

Everybody wants to be on Ed Sullivan.

It was the most important way to get exposure.

Elaine Gaber-Katz: Jackie Shane was bold in a way that I was not.

And I love it when musicians are so brave

that the normal discourse that you hear

as part of every day is challenged

in her presentation of herself.

Jackie wasn't trying to challenge the discourse,

she just was a challenge to the discourse.

Rob Bowman: Not only did she refuse to do "Ed Sullivan,"

Jackie refused to do "American Bandstand"

because the show was racist.

Black kids were excluded

and although a lot of the artists on the show were Black,

Black kids weren't allowed initially on the show

and when they were

they were kept strictly segregated.

Black and White weren't allowed to dance together,

and the Black kids got very little camera time.

Rodney Diverlus: "Bandstand" was propping up specific Black artists

without allowing Black folks

to come and be a part of their audience.

Non-Black folks want Black culture often,

without Black people.

And so, she saw right through the effort to tokenize her.

It's incredibly courageous to sit by your convictions

and to sacrifice how that show

could have really launched her career

to being a global superstar.

I think she recognized that in many ways,

her protest and her resistance

can come from the spaces that she chooses to perform in

and the spaces that she chooses not to.

[gentle music]

Vonnie Crawford- Moore: Saying no to those shows

was a powerful statement of her beliefs.

But the show my Aunt Jackie said yes to

was an equally powerful statement.

And when the prodigal daughter returns,

you better watch out.

[train whistle blows]

["Night Train" by Jimmy Forrest]

Announcer: All aboard the Night Train for Club 5,

now boarding.

Let's get rolling to great entertainment.

Michael Gray: "Night Train" was a show that aired late at night.

You know, people talk about hearing that whistle blow

at midnight and they would be glued to their TV,

both Black and White audiences.

Jimmy Church: That was the first Black show in the country,

actually in the world!

Everybody was on that show.

I mean, you got James Brown,

you had Etta James,

Joe Tex.

Michael Gray: The very first TV footage of Jimi Hendrix

was on "Night Train."

And you could see Jimi clearly back there, you know,

going up and down the neck with his elbow.

You know, all those traits you would think of Jimi later,

but this is just when he's just a backing guitarist

for somebody else.

Raymond Summerour: I think every band wanted to get on "Night Train."

It meant a whole lot.

I would have people in the community telling me, say,

"Raymond, we saw y'all on Night Train."

"Say what?"

We always watched "Night Train,"

and when Jackie Shane came on,

that was the talk of Nashville.

And it was a big deal.

I believe there were twenty-six episodes made

and, you know, for the last 30 years,

I've been trying to find all twenty-six episodes.

They were gone, ruined, lost.

But the episode that Jackie's on,

thank goodness we have it

because it's the only moving footage we have of Jackie.

♪ Mary Mack,

♪ dressed in black

♪ Silver buttons all down her back

♪ High low, Gypsy toes

♪ She broke a needle, says she can sew

♪ Walkin' the dog

♪ Just a-walkin' the dog

♪ If you don't know how to do it

♪ I'll show you how to walk the dog

♪ I asked her mother for fifteen cents

♪ See you ever jump the fence

♪ Jumped so high he touched the sky

♪ Never got back 'til the Fourth of July

♪ Walkin' the dog

♪ Just a-walkin' the dog

♪ If you don't know how to do it ♪

♪ I'll show you how to walk the dog ♪

♪ Mary Mary, quite contrary

♪ Tell me, baby, how is your garden growing

♪ You've got silver bells, cockle shells

♪ And pretty maids all in a row

♪ Walkin' the dog

♪ Just a-walkin' the dog

♪ If you don't know how to do it ♪

♪ I'll show you how to walk the dog ♪

Rodney Diverlus: For someone like her to go back to the very place

that you escaped, is cathartic.

And I wonder how liberating it would've been

to just be like,

"Y'all didn't want me,

"but here I am anyways!"

[laughs]

New, better, improved.

And now I'm here as the guest of honour.

♪ Jumped so high he touched the sky

♪ Never got back 'til the Fourth of July

♪ No, he was walking

♪ Just walking the dog, yeah

♪ If you don't know how to do it ♪

♪ I'll show you how to walk the dog ♪

♪ Oh, come on baby

Rob Bowman: Jackie's "Night Train" performance is extraordinary.

I really wish we had more performances like this,

but we don't

'cause Jackie turned down all the other opportunities.

She chose not to do the things that you have to do

to become a big star.

She also didn't tour.

She didn't play Memphis, New York, Philadelphia.

Instead, Jackie did things on her own terms.

She decides to remain in Toronto

and play for the audiences that she loved,

and in turn loved her.

And from that,

we get the most important piece of Jackie's legacy,

her incredible live album.

["Money (Live Version)" by Jackie Shane]

♪ Ow!

♪ They say the best things in life are free

♪ But you can give 'em to the birds and bees

♪ I need money

♪ Lord, that's what I want

♪ That's what I want

♪ That's what I want

♪ Oh, that's what I want baby ♪

♪ Ow!

Rob Bowman: Much of her legend comes down to the live album

recorded at The Saphire.

And there's a week where they record every night

and that becomes the live album.

And that album could rank up

with the greatest solo live albums that existed.

♪ That's what I want

♪ Oh, that's what I want baby ♪

Rob Bowman: The music's fantastic,

but the highlight of the album

were the monologues she was doing.

She was funny, she was clever,

and absolutely fearless in her honesty.

Jackie Shane VO: So now listen baby,

when you see Jackie walking down the street

or I walk into a restaurant that you're in,

I want you to laugh and talk and grin

and point the finger at me

because if I ever walked out

and they didn't point and whisper about me,

I'd go back in and look in the mirror

and stick out my tongue

'cause I thought I was sick or something.

I done lost my touch.

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: I am so grateful

that Aunt Jackie recorded this live album.

It makes me feel like that I am in the room watching her,

and she's speaking to me and I'm just in awe.

Rob Bowman: That live album captures a performance

that's like a little time machine

taking us into another world and another time.

You don't get revue shows like that.

Jackie Shane VO: The multitude that follows me is so great

because they know I go along handing out soul blessings,

satisfying souls,

but I don't satisfy nobody that's a square.

You know, I don't want you coming talking to tell me,

"Jackie, well I ain't never done this,

or "I ain't never done that."

Well if you haven't,

get up and let somebody who can.

Don't hinder my business.

You see what I mean?

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: That album made a very powerful statement.

Live your life.

And that's what I would want people to learn.

Be true to who you are.

Always.

Roger Diverlus: I think a lot about just how nerve-wracking

and how incredibly difficult and dangerous it was to be

an openly queer, trans Black performer.

And how it still is today.

And to just stand in front of hot spotlights

and to say, "This is who I am,"

there is no words to describe the level of assuredness

that it would've taken to do that.

♪ Cruel cruel world

♪ Thought it used all for me

♪ Need someone to love

♪ I don't need your sympathy

♪ I wanna know

♪ If I'll ever be free

♪ Cruel world, see what you can do

♪ You can do for me

Roger Diverlus: Jackie moved north for this promise of freedom.

Now, in hindsight

we know that in many ways

a lot of the fallacies that Canada was a safe haven

has been complicated over time.

Bobby Dean Blackburn: As far as I'm concerned,

Canada is one of the best countries in the world to live.

But I've seen from the time I was four years old

very, very heavy-duty prejudice.

I was mad because of the prejudice that was hidden.

Like there's a smokescreen.

Ah, people say, "Oh no, there's no prejudice in-in-in Canada."

I didn't think that existed in-in Canada,

but, phew, a couple of times going down in the subway,

I don't know,

maybe I tapped somebody or brushed somebody,

and the N word would just jump out real fast, loud!

Loudly!

And I'd-I'd look, keep it moving.

I followed the rules,

keep your head down and keep it moving.

Now, and if I fought back?

In my head I thought,

if I say something to this man

and we get into a scuffle,

the first person they're going to deal with was me.

And then they had, they'll deal with me

because of my race and then if I go to jail

because I struck this man,

we're gonna deal with my gender.

And then you say, "Oh God, I can't do that"

because I don't have any rights.

I have no rights across the board right now.

I have a double-dual thing to deal with

if I fight back for what he just said.

♪ I wanna know

♪ If I'll ever be free

♪ Cruel world, see what

♪ You can do, you can for me ♪

♪ I know, I know

♪ You have a notion

♪ And I know, I know

♪ You possess the seas

Bobby Dean Blackburn: I don't know if you've gone to a concert

and you come out and you're just vibrating.

That's the way it was anytime you seen her.

She had something to give.

And it's really too bad that she had to quit.

I don't know why.

You know?

[stammers] I don't know to this day.

"I have never known the feeling

"of this thing called happiness,

"not being given the chance to show others

"that I am a human being.

"I am forced to live my life

"in an odd and difficult manner."

Whew!

I mean, this wasn't a game

where someone just happens to like

to put on women's clothing.

This wasn't the case.

If you're so invested in your femininity,

in where you know you want to go,

putting on male attire to be a singer, a performer,

it would make you a mess on a daily basis.

Speaking from experience, it would've been hard.

Oh man, it would be hard.

♪ Cruel cruel world

♪ Sometimes being alone and blue

♪ If I don't find me someone

♪ I don't know what I'm gonna do ♪

Rob Bowman: Despite all the success,

all the joy she got from audiences,

and she did love those audiences.

She loved the way she could talk to them.

She loved the relationships she had.

But I think she was just finally broken.

She had just been worn out by the daily grind,

the daily pressures,

and the daily cruelties that were part of

living her authentic self.

♪ Help me, help me

♪ Come on

♪ I need someone

♪ That I can call my very own

♪ Oh, I want you

[gentle music]

♪

[gentle music continues]

♪

Sandra Caldwell: Margaret Anne Daley.

Yes, Margaret Anne Daley.

What a-what a-what a lady name,

you know?

We usually don't pick names like,

what would be? Emily?

I'm sorry, Emilys, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

We don't choose that kinda name.

We choose a name like, um, Margaret Anne Daley

or Sandra Renee Caldwell.

You must choose a name, like it must flow.

And you had to have an ID.

Can you imagine if you've made this decision

and walking around with the other ID looking like this?

She could've kept Jackie Shane,

but this sounds more ladylike.

You know, you go to the extreme of femininity.

This is a housewife name; Margaret.

"Margaret Ann.

"Margaret, I'll call you soon.

"We'll have to have cocktails, Margaret."

This specific photo of Jackie,

I like literally, I was like, wait,

even with the hair flip,

the little lighting in the hair?

Like, this is me.

And I like,

I can feel her energy from it.

She looks like she really has stepped into

the person she wants to be.

Sandra Caldwell: You imagine being that gorgeous?

You wanna be this all the time.

Why not?

Okay, and what, what? Paris is burning.

Paris is burning, honey, right here.

Makayla Walker: "Like most women,

"someday I would like to be a man's wife.

"I need a man to love me.

"I know that I can love the right man

"if I only get the chance."

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: "Pasadena, California. June 6th, 1973.

"Dear Mom,

"I love Dan and I know he loves me,

"but he is a man and it is said

"that a man needs a good woman to love and stand by him.

"And that is what I'm going to do.

"Dan wants you all to know that he'll take good care of me

"because, Mom, he says I'm his reason for living.

"We are very happy,

"and I know you're praying for us and we love you.

"Your daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Matlock."

[birds chirping]

Makayla Walker: I think honestly, with all relationships,

you always start off with the honeymoon phase,

where you're like, yeah, this is the person.

And as you look through these photos,

Jackie stops smiling a little bit,

especially in this one.

I think this one's almost more obvious.

This one in particular,

you can see the difference in her face,

where something's changing.

Sandra Caldwell: Neither one of them look happy right there.

I don't know if I should be saying all these things.

But was he,

was he gay when they met?

You know, what-what they look like, you know?

If Jackie wasn't fully transitioned

when she was in Toronto,

she would've been considered gay.

I imagine that he at the time in Toronto was gay.

And when she transitioned in Los Angeles,

she was a woman.

But he considered it still gay.

So if you can imagine,

I-I'm dating,

I hate to say this,

I'm dating, eee!

I'm-I'm, eee!

I'm dating a man,

and all of a sudden I'm looking at a woman.

That can bring on some uncomfortableness

for the husband.

Sandra Caldwell: I keep matching her life with mine

because I've had it happen to me.

That-that lover is embarrassed

because how do you walk down the street

with a trans woman?

I'm sure he didn't know how to do that.

I'm sure that played into her being unhappy.

You know, you lost your husband,

you lost your partner, you lost your lover,

you lost your friend.

If you lose all of them in one gulp,

that kinda hurts.

That hurts.

[solemn music]

♪

Makayla Walker: "I thank God for my mother,

"for her love and understanding.

"I know it must be very hard for her

"just seeing me this way.

"God bless her because she is all I have on this earth."

I think that like literally speaks to family.

That was the last person she had.

I think Jackie really needed like all of us,

just someone to love in that moment.

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: Somebody said, "Look, they look alike."

They do.

That's Jessie. -There's Jessie.

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: So we all know the story now that

who we thought was her mother

was truly her aunt.

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: Jessie was the one that was there for her

and protected her and guided her

and gave her what she needed.

I believe that her biological mother, Gussie,

being so young,

I think she did the best she could.

I think it was one of those things back in the day,

you followed your husband,

what they wanted.

Versus, you know, really looking at

the protection of her child.

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: But Jessie was the one that treated her like

she wanted to be treated, loved unconditionally.

Whereas her mom didn't, so...

Rob Bowman: Jackie adored Jessie,

felt she owed her life to her.

So when Jessie wanted to come back to Nashville

and help her sister, Gussie, and Jackie's stepfather Elijah,

who were both having medical problems,

Jackie had no choice.

She didn't talk about this much,

but her stepfather, Elijah,

had been incredibly cruel to her when she was a child.

Nevertheless, in May of '78

she agreed to move back to Nashville

and found herself living in a house with Gussie, Jessie

and Elijah, the man who had abused her as a child.

Makayla Walker: "My stepfather,

"who through his ignorance,

"treated me very cruelly.

"There were things that he did to me

"and said to me that I wish I could forget but I can't.

"There were many times when I would look at him,

"the things he had done to me years ago,

"it was just like it had happened the day before

"and all the hurt would come back.

"But all I would do was go to my room until I felt better."

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: Elijah had done some really bad things to her,

and then the fact that with this person

who had mistreated you and bashed you

and embarrassed you all your life,

and then is sick and you gotta care for 'em,

that's a hard pill to swallow.

She did.

Unconditionally.

'Cause that's just who she was.

She did what she had to do.

[solemn music]

♪

Rob Bowman: Eventually, Jessie, Gussie and Elijah all passed on

but Jackie was stuck in Nashville.

She didn't perform again.

She didn't have a lot of money,

had no way of really getting out

of the situation she was in.

Once they passed, then she was just stuck here,

and had to deal with the pain

that she had from her childhood,

and just the pain from fighting to be her true self

out here in the world.

And that's when she went into the seclusion.

Okay, "I move quietly with soft, careful steps

"as I pass over this land of the free,

"quote unquote,

"into what I call the beyond.

"I must live in the beyond

"for I cannot take this inhuman way that others abuse me.

"I want to go out and just feel at ease like other people

"without making me feel like

"I don't have the right to be myself."

She couldn't even feel that she would be protected.

She wants to be a part of the party,

but no, can't do it,

'cause she going, you gonna mess with me, right? No.

She was afraid she was going to have a nervous breakdown.

It had gotten that bad with her

after her mother passed.

She didn't mind being broke and on welfare,

and she was all of that.

Sandra Caldwell: Her comfort zone is in those four walls,

or however many rooms she had.

She could change her clothes,

change her hair twenty times a day.

But her being who she was,

she dare not get out of that box!

Why am I gonna go into some place

where you're gonna make me feel bad or less than?

She had to live in that little box.

Lorenzo Washington: She was used to having people around her,

and now she wasn't amongst a group of folk

that she could feel appreciated.

And especially being able to go out

and wear jewellery and look gorgeous,

like she always said,

"Lorenzo, I was just gorgeous."

[Lorenzo laughs]

And that was just one of her-her attitudes that she,

she was a woman with an attitude.

♪ Raindrops

♪ So many raindrops

♪ Feels like raindrops

♪ I'm all alone

Rob Bowman: Jackie spent the majority of her life,

the vast majority of it,

living alone, not trusting anybody.

She saw virtually nobody after she left California.

Couple close friends,

but virtually nobody's admitted into her life.

Lorenzo Washington: For a long time,

she had nobody to laugh with.

She talked to that cat

like that cat was a human being. [laughs]

Until I come in, you know,

and got to be, uh, one of her sounding boards.

She was a fun person to be around.

She was always joking around.

I never been one that could tell jokes.

I didn't, I never could tell jokes,

but Jackie could bring you a pretty good one

every now and then, you know?

And a very good conversationalist,

could talk about anything you wanted to talk about.

Jimmy Church: We talked for a long time.

You know, I would hold the phone and listen to her.

Jackie told me some things that she had did

and things that she went through.

And when I see people down and need this and need that,

when a musician is down, I automatically go to 'em,

what you need, man? What, you know?

You know, pay their rent for 'em for a month, two months,

whatever they need.

God just sent me to him.

And we know Jackie needed someone out there.

Lorenzo Washington: She wanted me to come around

and take her the first of every month

to all the places she needed to go;

to the bank, the grocery store,

the drug store.

And Jackie always wore sunglasses

and always wore a hat,

and the hat would be down over her eye,

so you couldn't tell who she was.

At that time, nobody knew anyway

because it had passed the time

when she was a known entertainer.

Nobody had seen Jackie Shane in 35, 40 years.

They didn't know she was alive.

Sandra Caldwell: Aw Jackie, I'm sorry.

Do you know what I mean?

No, I'm not sorry for her, I'm just, oh damn,

you didn't get to sample it.

Can you imagine? I mean...

and she had talent, real live talent.

No lip-syncer here, darling.

It was real live talent.

And can you imagine if you had that talent

and she was able to be free free?

Wow.

But she made a choice to just live her life,

even gave up her career,

just so she could live fully in her truth.

[soft humming]

♪

♪ Zombie baby!

[upbeat funky music]

♪

[crowd cheers]

[upbeat funky music continues]

♪

Rob Bowman: In 2016,

I got a call from a small little independent label

and they said they just signed Jackie Shane to a deal

to re-issue all of her recordings,

and I'm going, "What?

"What are you talking about?"

Michael Gray: I just remember thinking,

"So Jackie's alive?

"Jackie's in Nashville?

"What? Really?"

And in my backyard, in my,

in Nashville, where I was living!

And I'm like, you kidding me?

Interview Jackie Shane to write liner notes

for this double CD?

This is a dream come true!

This is wild! This is crazy!

I couldn't believe that Jackie had signed this.

She didn't want anything to do with the music industry,

anything to do with anybody, even talking about it.

♪ Lord, you gotta give me a little money

♪ After I give you my life

Rob Bowman: When the box set was released,

it started selling all over the world.

Jackie started getting fan letters from people

who remembered her from back in the day,

and from young people

discovering her for the first time.

Lorenzo Washington: Jackie called me, "Lorenzo! Lorenzo!

"Guess what?

"I've been nominated for a Grammy."

Oh, she was excited.

Rob Bowman: For Jackie,

this was incredible.

Somebody who'd been out of the music industry

for nearly fifty years

and suddenly gets this level of recognition?

This was so exciting for her.

Rob Bowman: After her Grammy nomination,

she got the front cover of "The New York Times"

Arts & Entertainment section.

She got the front cover of "The Washington Post"

Arts & Entertainment section.

NPR did a big story.

She was doing publicity interviews

and she was out in the world,

without leaving her home,

still not letting anybody see her.

Wouldn't let "The New York Times"

come and photograph her,

that was nearly a deal breaker.

But all this stuff's happening.

She even talked about performing.

She wanted to do select performances: Toronto,

New York, L.A.

But the first one was always gonna be Toronto.

♪ Cruel cruel world

♪ Thought it used all for me

♪ Need someone to love

♪ I don't need your sympathy

♪ I wanna know

♪ If I'll ever be free

♪ Cruel world, see what

♪ You can do, you can do for me ♪

♪ My days are long and lonely

♪ My nights, nights are cold in bed

♪ Please, please won't you buy

♪ Won't you buy me a lover

♪ Stop me, stop, stop me

♪ From wandering in despair

♪ Oh!

Rob Bowman: I phoned her Monday morning,

she didn't answer.

Jackie always answered because Jackie didn't go out.

And so, called her later Monday,

no answer.

Called her three times,

I was worried.

Called her Tuesday three times, no answer.

So Wednesday morning, or maybe Tuesday night,

I called Lorenzo Washington.

And so I said, "I'm really worried.

"Jackie's not answering, have you talked to her?"

He said, "No."

I said, "Please, you've gotta go to her house."

And he went in.

Jackie was dead, lying on her bed.

I was shaking my head, couldn't believe it.

I thought it was so unfair

that so many things were happening for her

that she was so excited about.

All this stuff's coming together,

this woman's gonna have this incredible second act

that she's so happy about,

but death took her away.

♪ Come on

♪ I need someone

♪ That I can call my very own

♪ Oh, Lord

[gentle music]

♪

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: After Aunt Jackie passed,

we had to identify her body.

And... I didn't,

I didn't know what to expect or,

and, um, me and Andrenee we talked about it,

and we just looked at each other,

it was like, this is what we have to do

because if we didn't identify her or didn't claim her,

then she would've become a nobody.

And we weren't, we couldn't have that.

And they handed us a bag of her personal items.

The first thing that I noticed was the name on the bag.

They had "Jack".

The first thing I said was,

"Her name was Jackie and that's what we want on her items."

But of course, by law,

they had to put what was on her legal documents.

The bag contained jewellery.

"She had all this jewellery on?"

They's like, "Yes."

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: I mean, they labelled every single thing she had on.

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: Stuff like this.

Everything she had on, all of these.

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: Two watches,

couple tennis bracelets,

about six rings.

And we hope-

I wonder if she had the watches on both wrists?

Andrenee Majors-Douglas: Probably on both wrists.

It's painful to know that we had a family member

that was alone that didn't have to be alone.

Had I known her,

we would've been there for her.

It's not our fault, but we didn't know.

But it's still painful to know that you had a family member

that really needed you and we weren't there.

Howard Gentry: And when Vonnie called

and asked me if I knew who Jackie Shane was,

I could tell by her question that she didn't.

Ah, I started feeling a little bad

because quickly I realized they don't know

that they have an aunt.

And so I said, "Yeah Vonnie, I know who Jackie Shane is.

"I've been knowing who Jackie Shane is

"for almost 60 years."

She said, "Well, Daddy never told me.

"Nobody, Grandmama, nobody ever told me about Jackie."

I said, "Yeah, well, that was a discussion

"that was not to be had."

You know, when we were young, at that time,

that was just taboo,

you just didn't talk about Jackie.

[solemn music]

Vonnie Crawford-Moore: When we went to the funeral home,

I looked at every feature.

I just looked at her

because I just had to take it in.

It was like, and I just told her, I said,

"I'm sorry we didn't know you."

And that's what I said.

I said, "I'm sorry we didn't know you."

I said, "But...

I said, "But we're gonna protect you now."

I hate that we missed all these years with you.

But we're here now.

It's enough of us to do it, she has an army behind her.

["Any Other Way" by Jackie Shane]

[background chattering]

Lorenzo Washington: Jackie's legacy was totally being forgotten, destroyed.

I stand for the artist and musicians in the past

and trying to pass on the legacy

to the young folk who may be able to do something about

what's going to take place in the future

because we're going to have a future, you know?

James Baley: Just knowing about her and knowing about her history,

knowing what she went through,

and even just how she dealt with life.

She's like, "I am doing me and that's all I need to do,"

But also leading with joy.

It's like that validates

the path that I'm also trying to go on.

I think it's her resilience,

the-the fuck what everyone else says.

I am here to do my art and that's all that matters,

forgetting about what other people have to say about you

and knowing that this is your moment.

Dr. Marisa Richmond: I think it's important to document our history,

as we're doing here.

And it's important that we do document

before we lose people.

Although we only have bits and pieces of Jackie's life,

her music survives,

and as an artist,

I think that's important,

to have their art live beyond them.

That is part of her legacy.

We're glad to be back here in Jackie's hometown,

in Jackie's home neighbourhood,

to celebrate her art, to celebrate her music.

And I certainly don't wanna stand in the way of the music.

So again, I thank you for the opportunity

to share a little bit

and I hope you enjoy the rest of the night. Woo!

[audience cheers]

["Any Other Way" by Jackie Shane]

♪

Makayla Walker [reading]: "This section of the autobiography of Jackie Shane

"is especially dedicated to my many fans, whom I love.

"Many of my fans have told me

"I did not make them feel uncomfortable,

"but more like a friend

"who they had not seen for a long time.

"I will never forget how you made me feel,

"and it was great because I was able to give

"all of you a deep part of myself.

"My heart and soul will always remember

"when you smiled with me and when we cried together.

"I thank God, for truly, Jackie has been blessed."

["Any Other Way" continues playing]

♪

♪ That's all I got to say my friend

♪ Now we better say goodbye

♪ I think you'd better go right now

♪ Or you might see me cry

♪ But when you see my baby

♪ This is what you say

♪ Tell her I wouldn't have it

♪ Any other way

♪ No other way

♪ I wouldn't have it, baby

♪ No other way

♪ I just won't have it, baby

[audience cheers]

Announcer: 'Lil Jackie Shane would like to say thank you

very kindly, ladies and gentlemen.

'Lil Jackie would like to say

he wouldn't have it any other way.