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Once I had a pretty little girl
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I lose my baby, ain't that sad?
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Once I had a pretty little girl
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I lose my baby, ain't that sad?
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You know you can't spendWhat you ain't got
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You can't loseWhat you ain't never had
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Well you know you can't spendWhat you ain't got
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You can't loseWhat you ain't never had
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The piano is the mostimportant musical instrument.
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George Bernard Shaw wrote...
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its invention was to music whatthe printing press was to poetry.
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Bartholomeu Christophory,an Italian...
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invented the pianoat the beginning of the 18th century.
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Evolving from the harpsichord...
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the piano emerged at the dawnof the industrial revolution.
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With some 20,000 parts, the pianohas been able to produce a sound...
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that inspired the likes of Bach,Mozart, Beethoven.
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The piano has continued to remain...
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one of the most valuedmusical instruments to this day.
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At the beginning of the 20th centurythe piano began to make its way...
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to the roots of American music.
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Becoming one of the key instrumentsin playing the blues.
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Piano blues could be heardin the saloons, lumber camps, brothels...
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churches, honkey talks, all the waydown the Mississippi to Louisiana...
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Alabama and Texas.
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Soon it settled in New Orleans...
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quickly spreading to Chicago andHarlem and Kansas City.
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From the 1920s to the present...
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Piano blues has remaineda steadfast foundation...
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and the fountainof American music.
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It has embraced boogie woogie,jump blues, stried, gospel blues...
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the Spanish tinge, rhythm and blues,urban blues and all kinds of jazz.
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Many piano players have madetheir deep mark in the blues...
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and this is their story.
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- Hey, Ray.
- Hey.
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What's up?
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- How you doing?
- Here's to you old amigo...
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and all the good times.
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- That's right, you got it, brother.
- And here's to all those women.
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- Here's to all the women.
- That we been through.
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So set 'em up my amigo.
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Oh, man.
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What got you interested in music.
How'd you start?
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When I was three years old...
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there was a man living
next door.
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And he had like
a little Jones' store, you know...
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where you buy carrots, candy,
bread and stuff like that.
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This small village town in Florida.
Well, anyway...
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when I was three,
I don't know why but...
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every time when
he'd start to practice...
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I was... I couldn't help myself,
I had to stop and listen.
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And he would play
that boogie woogie.
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You know, and I just loved it.
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And I would jump on the stew
and he...
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and he would say...
No, no, no, no, no...
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and every time, every time,
I mean...
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I don't care if I was playing
with my buddies. Whatever I was doing...
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when he played that piano
I would stop in my tracks.
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- And so eventually...
- He taught you something.
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What he did. You don't hit the piano
with your full fists son.
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I'm gonna teach you how to play
a melody with one finger.
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That's how he did it, I started.
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Like that. That's how I got started.
And I was fascinated.
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I could hit a key and make a sound.
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I was very impressed.
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Hey mamaDon't you treat me wrong
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Come and love your daddyAll night long
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Come and love your daddyAll night long
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When you see me in misery
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Come on babySee about me
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Now yeah, all right yeah
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Come on babySee about me
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See the girlWith the red dress on
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She can put it downAll night long
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All night longNow yeah
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Tell your mamaTell your pa
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I'm gonna send you backTo Arkansas
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That's really how I got started.
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This guy was practicing.
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You know, the thing is Clint,
it shows you about people though.
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He could've said 'Get away from me
kid don't you see I'm practicing'.
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And I would've had to go.
Cause I was taught to mind old people.
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But he didn't say that.
He musta saw...
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I guess he felt that any kid that was
willing to give up his playing time...
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to come to listen to him,
he must love music.
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I think that's what
he must have thought.
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Do you remember his name?
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Wally Pitman.
I'll never forget...
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- Wally Pitman?
- Yeah, Wally Pitman.
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- And he was a boogie piano player.
- That's right.
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Those guys were great.
It's funny...
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Almost every piano player I talked to
started out that way...
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with something like that.
Because that was the intriguing music.
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Either that or a lot of them
get it in church.
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- That's right.
- Gospel players that play like that.
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- I grew up with.
- Meade Lux Lewis
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- Oh, we said it at the same time.
- The same time.
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And Albert Ammons.
Pete Johnson and all those guys.
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Pete Johnson, Sears cash played
the hell out of the boogie woogie.
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- Different styles. Different kinds.
- Yeah.
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Going up.
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A little bit higher,
a little bit higher.
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Hold it. Hold it.
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As time went on.
You know as I said...
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he started me out picking
out a little melody...
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with one, two finger.
I became so interested...
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in the sound that I was creating myself.
I was so fascinated with that.
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And then as time went on...
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he was able to tell me now...
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you know, you got two hands.
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Well, you have to learn
how to use the other hand.
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The man was so nice to me.
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The reason I appreciated him
so much 'cause...
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as I became a grown man...
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I realized the one thing
that impressed me...
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was that he didn't throw me out.
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He didn't say
'I'm practicing, get away from here'.
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He could've said that
but he didn't.
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Now kids starting out they do blues.
Because it's the easiest.
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It's the easiest thing to play.
You play two notes.
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- That's it.
- Two keys.
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But then you got interested
in Tatum of course.
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Well, you know, as time goes on
you start listening to these guys.
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You know being in this village
I listened to a lot of blues.
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There are people like Tamper Red,
Lux Lewis.
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- I listened to those guys too.
- Big Joe Turner.
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Oh, I've been
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Oh, look at me
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Oh, you been relieved
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Before somebody start to cry
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Everybody prays
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Lord Almighty
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Might be running free to you
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California rain
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Take it down, take it down
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Make that same themeTake it down
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Jay is playing.
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The thing was with me.
I just loved the music.
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If it sounded good it was
all right with me.
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And of course,
in the south in those days...
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you had two kinds of music.
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You had blues in your
own neighborhood...
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and if you turned on the radio
you got country and western.
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- That's it.
- Yeah, right.
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My mom would let me stay up
on Saturday.
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That's the only time I could stay up
past 9 o'clock on Saturday night.
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Because I loved
the Grand Ole Opry.
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- I mean, I was fascinated.
- The Grand Ole Opry.
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- The Rymann Auditorium.
- That's right. You got it.
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We filmed in there one time.Kind of a classical place.
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Is all about
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If you got yourself
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That's what the bluesIs all about
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You know you can't getThe famous men around me
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And I pray my womanIs steppin' out
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Yeah, you gotta live
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Yes, oh Lord
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So with this whole documentary were doing
is sort of the history of the blues...
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with how it started and trying
to find people like yourself.
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How did they get interested in and
a lot of people say out of the church...
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and a lot of people say boogie woogie
like what you're saying or some little...
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some kind of tunes.
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But see in the neighborhood I was in,
I mean, that's what you heard...
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you know, you hear the blues
all the time. Muddy Waters.
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- We had T Bone Walker.
- Yes. There you go.
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- Joe Houston.
- C'mon. Well, You know what's going on.
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In fact, I was talking to Joe Adams
out there...
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and I said I used to listen to you
on the air all the time...
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when I was going to college
down here.
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When I first came to California
in 1949...
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he was the king...
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anywhere you went in the city,
I don't care where it was...
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the gas station, grocery store,
wherever...
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you'd go you heard him on the radio
from 12 to 3. No way I'd forget that.
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I'm drifting and drifting
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Like a ship out on the sea
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Well I'm drifting and drifting
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Like a ship out on the sea
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Well I ain't got nobody
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In this world to care for me
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But the blues was something
that was just there...
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and of course my mom was a Baptist
so I went to church...
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all the revival meetings,
and BYPU.
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And the Sunday morning
service and Sunday night service...
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and revival meeting.
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People love that music.
I love that music.
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I used to go to them even,
if I wasn't a member of the church...
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I would go and sit in the back.
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In those days
they didn't have no instruments.
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They just walk in and they...
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and the chorus sang...
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- Hey
- Huh
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- Ho
- Ho
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- Hey
- Huh
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- Ho
- Ho
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- Hey
- Huh
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It's all right
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You know it's all right
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Baby it's all right
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It's all right
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You know it's all right
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You know it's all right
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- Hey
- Huh
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- Ho
- Ho
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- Hey
- Huh
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- Ho
- Ho
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- Hey
- Huh
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Baby shake that thing
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Baby shake that thing
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Baby shake that thing
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Baby shake that thing
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Shake it, baby
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Baby shake that thing
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- Hey
- Huh
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- Ho
- Ho
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- Hey
- Huh
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- Ho
- Huh
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Make me feel so good
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Make me feel so good
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Make me feel so good
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Make me feel so good
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Make me feel so good
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Then one more time
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Then one more time
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Oh one more,One more time, baby
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Say it one more timeSay it one more time
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One more timeOne more time
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Take me home
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Take me home
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Said I wanna go home
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Baby it's all right
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Bless your heart.
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Sit down, Dave, and I'll just ask you
a little bit about the blues.
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The origin, in your mind,
how did you get interested in it...
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and who influenced you
when you were a young guy?
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You know,
the spirituals and the blues...
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are all kind of connected.
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And I had a friend
from New Orleans...
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and she, when there was trouble
she would say "Lord, Lord...
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what will tomorrow bring.
Today...
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I felt a narrow stinging
in the womb so deep...
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my eyes refuse to weep.
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And this is the blues spiritual.
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Beautiful.
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Who was your biggest influence
when you were young? What piano player?
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Well, when I was a kid going
to school, college...
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I got a chance
to be intermission pianist...
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for a great pianist,
a woman named Cleo Brown.
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She's the one that gave me a note
to introduce me to Art Tatum...
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the greatest pianist, one of
the greatest musicians we've ever had.
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Dave Brubeck told a great story about
Cleo Brown. Did you know Cleo Brown?
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- No.
- Cleo Brown turned him onto art.
253
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And once he heard Art Tatum
and of course...
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everybody else like Pat Swoller...
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everybody else said
that's God right there.
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That's right. You get it.
But at least it was true, man.
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You just couldn't believe.
258
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Piano got 88 keys and
he ain't got but 10 fingers.
259
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But he made it sound like
there were two people playing.
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Like two people playing.
261
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And sometimes he would have
his beer with him.
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And when he's drinking a sip of beer
he would use his left hand...
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and you wouldn't know
the difference.
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Didn't make no difference.
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We were joking about it
the other day...
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saying he had the fastest
left hand in the west.
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That's right.
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But my God.
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You just sit back and listen
to Art Tatum...
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and you just don't believe
what you hear.
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I find that pretty impressive to me.
272
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And the closest person that
I've heard to him is Oscar Peterson.
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- Oscar can play.
- Oscar can play.
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Motherfucker can play his ass off.
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Can we use motherfucker on the air.
276
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Of course we can.
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Play us one of your earliest
blues things if you want.
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What you grew up with,
something that influenced you.
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- Beautiful. Tell me about Nat.
- Nat Cole was my man.
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He was a great player.
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And a lot of people don't know that.
They know him for his singing.
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- He was a great player.
- That's right, you got it.
283
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That's what I wanted
to be as a kid coming up.
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I wanted to sing...
285
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and play the little tasty things
behind my singing like he does.
286
00:32:25,810 --> 00:32:27,471
That's why I tried to imitate him.
287
00:32:27,545 --> 00:32:32,983
Eat Nat King Cole,
slept Nate King Cole...
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drink Nat Cole.
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Well, those early records
of his too where he played.
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Later on he became such
a big singing star with Nelson Riddle.
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That's why a lot of people
don't know he can play.
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But I knew he could play...
293
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because I heard him whenhe had his first group.
294
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And his stuff, the way he put ittogether with the guitar...
295
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and himself and the piano.
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00:32:55,873 --> 00:32:57,135
It is better
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To be on the shelf
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00:33:02,447 --> 00:33:05,575
Be just like a hermitLiving in a cave
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00:33:05,650 --> 00:33:09,313
You don't get much loveBut do you save
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00:33:09,387 --> 00:33:10,411
It is better
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00:33:11,456 --> 00:33:13,720
To be by yourself
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00:33:51,129 --> 00:33:53,893
There's a story that's toldBy this man, mate
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With a changeAnd I see you gig
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He works all dayAnd come home at night
305
00:34:00,772 --> 00:34:04,139
Stare at little bit dippyAll she wants to do is fight
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00:34:04,208 --> 00:34:07,735
So it's better to beBy yourself, boy
307
00:34:07,812 --> 00:34:11,049
It's better to beBy yourself, man
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So it's better to beBy yourself, boy
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Real tasty stuff.
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Nat Cole don't fool yourself
my friend he can play...
311
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- He can play.
- And with feeling.
312
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:40,504
It's not running up and down
the keyboard. It's playing with feeling.
313
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And knowing what you're doing.
314
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Baby let me hold your hand
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'Till I make you understand
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Oh, baby
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00:35:08,473 --> 00:35:11,670
Please let me hold your hand
318
00:35:21,552 --> 00:35:24,112
I wanna you to know, girl
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And make you understand
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00:35:33,631 --> 00:35:36,259
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you, Raymond.
321
00:35:41,339 --> 00:35:44,502
Piano players out of new Orleanshave been continuous contributors...
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to the world of the blues...
323
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from it's first hero,Jolly Row Morton...
324
00:35:49,113 --> 00:35:52,276
Professor Longhair,Fats Domino, Dr. John...
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the celebratory sound emanatingfrom new Orleans...
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is a joy to behold.
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Right on, very nice, Mac.
Tell me who was your first influence?
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00:36:24,282 --> 00:36:26,876
Well, when I was a little weed...
329
00:36:26,951 --> 00:36:29,647
my aunt Audrey taught me
how to play the Texas boogie.
330
00:36:30,321 --> 00:36:33,984
- The Texas boogie?
- A little kid I used to do that.
331
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,527
- Two hands.
- I put the whole thing together later.
332
00:36:40,298 --> 00:36:45,600
I tell you the guy I like
was Pete Johnson...
333
00:36:45,670 --> 00:36:49,504
his old records
with Joe Turner stuff like that.
334
00:36:49,574 --> 00:36:50,973
Rolling Pete.
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00:36:51,142 --> 00:36:54,634
I like that, what was it?
Barney Brown.
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00:36:54,712 --> 00:36:57,909
That's the one I can remember.
I liked...
337
00:36:57,982 --> 00:37:01,850
Iocal artist in New Orleans
like Jake and Jack Dupree.
338
00:37:01,919 --> 00:37:05,047
I loved him he playedthe junkie blues.
339
00:37:05,389 --> 00:37:06,515
It was kind...
340
00:37:07,758 --> 00:37:10,124
you know, of all them local cats
would be doing.
341
00:37:16,367 --> 00:37:20,235
That whole little style of that
was a whole part of New Orleans...
342
00:37:20,571 --> 00:37:24,007
and it was a cat play the very
same thing with whole other day...
343
00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:27,340
and I got to hear those cats
as a kid.
344
00:37:27,411 --> 00:37:30,039
That's what made me what
to be a guitar player.
345
00:37:32,116 --> 00:37:35,711
There was a cat used to play
the junkie blues. Like...
346
00:37:58,843 --> 00:38:04,748
Them styles it was all like
the same thing.
347
00:38:04,815 --> 00:38:07,648
But why did you want to be
a guitar player?
348
00:38:07,718 --> 00:38:09,948
I heard so many bad piano players.
349
00:38:10,154 --> 00:38:15,990
I just decided I'll never get a job
playing music, as a piano player.
350
00:38:16,527 --> 00:38:20,395
There was so many cats that were...
351
00:38:20,464 --> 00:38:23,865
Like I said,
there was Jack Dupree...
352
00:38:23,934 --> 00:38:28,564
there was Hughie Smith,
he got famous for doing...
353
00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:31,870
that rock Rollin and boogie woogie
all that stuff later...
354
00:38:32,209 --> 00:38:37,704
when I first met him he was playing
the blues all that bad stuff.
355
00:38:37,948 --> 00:38:41,816
- By bad you mean good.
- I mean seriously hip stuff.
356
00:38:41,886 --> 00:38:43,353
Bad meaning good.
357
00:38:46,457 --> 00:38:49,085
The thing was, Professor Long Hair
was one of my all time.
358
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,526
He goes back.
As a kid I got to meet him a little...
359
00:38:51,595 --> 00:38:54,155
because my father
wasn't selling records...
360
00:38:54,231 --> 00:38:59,567
but doing fixings, pa systems
and stuff round town.
361
00:38:59,904 --> 00:39:02,304
We'd used take old pianos
like this one.
362
00:39:02,373 --> 00:39:05,672
They couldn't really put 'em together
so they set 'em out on the street.
363
00:39:06,577 --> 00:39:10,206
Trash pick em up,
but we'd drag 'em in the house...
364
00:39:10,314 --> 00:39:12,145
or in the alleys
in different places.
365
00:39:12,917 --> 00:39:17,047
I learned how to fix pianos this way.
Different player...
366
00:39:17,121 --> 00:39:20,557
get handles off of one piano
and put 'em in the other...
367
00:39:21,425 --> 00:39:23,825
get the little pad that make
the action down here.
368
00:39:23,894 --> 00:39:26,419
If it wouldn't work I'd tie a chord
string or three in it...
369
00:39:26,497 --> 00:39:30,331
and bring it to the next notch where
the action would work to get it to work.
370
00:39:30,935 --> 00:39:34,837
I'd play. Some keys work
and some keys didn't...
371
00:39:35,439 --> 00:39:39,034
just with a broken piano
in the house it taught me a lot.
372
00:39:39,110 --> 00:39:41,374
This is how
I started cross chording...
373
00:39:41,445 --> 00:39:45,313
if one key didn't play it didn't matter
to me I'd find other key to skip to.
374
00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:08,228
Tipitina tipa tipaTipitina, little mama
375
00:41:19,810 --> 00:41:25,612
Tipitina tipa tipaTipitina, little mama
376
00:42:05,055 --> 00:42:07,421
Who was your influence
beside your uncle.
377
00:42:07,491 --> 00:42:09,288
Was it all in your family,
your aunt and uncle?
378
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,554
To start with...
379
00:42:10,728 --> 00:42:14,755
and then I grew up
in blues country...
380
00:42:14,832 --> 00:42:16,732
and I had piano players
in my family.
381
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,327
So first, my grandmother
who played ragtime piano...
382
00:42:20,404 --> 00:42:22,634
was an influence on me.
383
00:42:22,706 --> 00:42:26,870
She had a pile of ten pan alley
sheet music...
384
00:42:26,944 --> 00:42:28,878
so I got hear a lot of that.
385
00:42:29,246 --> 00:42:33,307
My aunt played beautiful piano
a certain amount of boogie woogie.
386
00:42:33,517 --> 00:42:37,453
So as I started
exploring piano really...
387
00:42:38,522 --> 00:42:43,892
professor Longhair and the New Orleans
sound playing...
388
00:42:43,961 --> 00:42:46,691
but he in particular because
he was such an innovator...
389
00:42:46,764 --> 00:42:50,996
he invented and created
that polyrhythmic style that...
390
00:42:52,236 --> 00:42:57,230
that so many of us do and carried on
through Dr. John and James Bleeker...
391
00:42:57,975 --> 00:42:59,670
and now
a whole other generation.
392
00:43:00,511 --> 00:43:03,912
Well give us a little shot.
Play us something.
393
00:43:03,981 --> 00:43:07,439
Well,
my favorite 'fess kind of stuff.
394
00:43:47,925 --> 00:43:50,189
I got my red beans cooking
395
00:43:51,161 --> 00:43:53,391
I got my red beans cooking
396
00:43:54,531 --> 00:43:56,396
I got my red beans cooking
397
00:43:57,901 --> 00:43:59,892
I got my red beans cooking
398
00:44:01,372 --> 00:44:03,397
I got my red beans cooking
399
00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:06,102
Then when they get doneWon't give me some?
400
00:44:29,433 --> 00:44:31,594
Fabulous.
401
00:44:34,538 --> 00:44:36,631
Yeah fabulous, that was fabulous.
402
00:44:37,174 --> 00:44:40,405
Fats Domino. He was bad.
403
00:44:40,477 --> 00:44:45,278
He was playing stuff that made
him famous and he was playing the blues.
404
00:45:17,981 --> 00:45:20,381
They call meCall me the Fat Man
405
00:45:20,951 --> 00:45:23,545
Cause I weigh two hundred pounds
406
00:45:24,088 --> 00:45:25,953
All the girls they love me
407
00:45:26,490 --> 00:45:28,424
Cause I know my way around
408
00:45:30,494 --> 00:45:33,156
I was standing, was standingOn the corner
409
00:45:33,697 --> 00:45:36,325
Of Rampart and Canal
410
00:45:36,967 --> 00:45:38,832
I was watching, watching
411
00:45:39,203 --> 00:45:41,068
Watching those people go
412
00:46:13,971 --> 00:46:16,337
I'm going, going away
413
00:46:17,174 --> 00:46:19,768
And I'm going to stay
414
00:46:20,511 --> 00:46:24,140
Cause we be in this fast lifeCan't stand this
415
00:46:32,156 --> 00:46:35,956
Fats Domino is amazing.
One time we took him out...
416
00:46:36,026 --> 00:46:41,464
on the plains of the Grand Tetons
in Wyoming...
417
00:46:41,532 --> 00:46:43,523
and we put a huge grand piano
out there...
418
00:46:44,701 --> 00:46:49,229
and had Fats Domino play and so he
started playing one of these things...
419
00:46:49,306 --> 00:46:51,968
I Wanna Walk You Home,
one of these songs...
420
00:46:52,042 --> 00:46:55,705
and all of a sudden everyone stopped
and I look over the side of the hill...
421
00:46:55,779 --> 00:46:58,543
and there were ten elk and
they were all sitting there...
422
00:46:58,615 --> 00:47:00,310
with their heads titled like this.
423
00:47:00,384 --> 00:47:02,352
And as soon as he stopped,
they left.
424
00:47:03,153 --> 00:47:04,620
They were fascinated.
425
00:47:06,089 --> 00:47:09,354
- Everybody likes the blues.
- No critics there.
426
00:48:29,139 --> 00:48:30,106
My own gimme.
427
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,440
Me got fire, me can't put out
428
00:49:07,110 --> 00:49:10,079
Firewater gonna make me shout
429
00:49:11,248 --> 00:49:13,739
Going down and get my squaw
430
00:49:15,285 --> 00:49:17,753
And may come well in a car
431
00:49:19,523 --> 00:49:21,923
Me big chief, me feeling good
432
00:49:23,493 --> 00:49:25,927
Me gonna do everything me could
433
00:49:27,764 --> 00:49:30,062
Me big chief, me got my day
434
00:49:31,702 --> 00:49:34,432
Ain't that the way some say
435
00:49:35,839 --> 00:49:38,467
Getting on down the 6th Avenue
436
00:49:39,910 --> 00:49:42,606
Small boy running in a battle field
437
00:49:44,147 --> 00:49:46,513
Me whole tribe having fun
438
00:49:48,218 --> 00:49:51,278
Is it going the whole night long?
439
00:50:44,041 --> 00:50:47,477
You can shake it, you can break itHang it on the wall
440
00:50:48,545 --> 00:50:52,072
Throw it up in the little kitchenIn a little ball
441
00:50:52,315 --> 00:50:53,839
You can mess around
442
00:50:56,787 --> 00:50:58,118
Mess around
443
00:51:00,057 --> 00:51:02,685
Do what you wantwhere and when you feel like
444
00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:05,961
Everybody is doing the mess around
445
00:51:43,066 --> 00:51:44,124
Thank you.
446
00:51:44,334 --> 00:51:46,427
My name is Willy.
447
00:51:46,703 --> 00:51:48,568
- Willy.
- Willy Perkins.
448
00:51:50,140 --> 00:51:51,869
We started calling me Pinetop.
449
00:51:52,576 --> 00:51:55,170
Where do you think the blues sort
of evolved from?
450
00:51:55,245 --> 00:51:59,306
What do you think the beginning
did it out of gospel, out of churches?
451
00:51:59,783 --> 00:52:03,048
I tell you I think what muddy
said about it...
452
00:52:04,688 --> 00:52:07,521
if the blues had a baby
they'd name it be rock 'n roll.
453
00:52:07,891 --> 00:52:10,621
Two things that give the man
the blues.
454
00:52:12,129 --> 00:52:16,031
You ain't got no bread
and love sick.
455
00:52:16,733 --> 00:52:19,201
That's two blues in one.
456
00:52:19,436 --> 00:52:20,368
I agree with you there, Muddy.
457
00:52:20,737 --> 00:52:26,073
I would do the same thing
like because I know...
458
00:52:26,309 --> 00:52:29,039
If time ain't get no better
459
00:52:29,579 --> 00:52:31,342
Up the road I'm going
460
00:52:31,648 --> 00:52:34,173
The blues is like a doctor...
461
00:52:35,218 --> 00:52:37,311
it can heal you...
462
00:52:37,554 --> 00:52:40,079
and it can pull you down some.
463
00:52:40,790 --> 00:52:43,725
Where do we all get
our blues from...
464
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,690
mostly, is our beautiful ladies.
465
00:52:49,833 --> 00:52:51,198
Let me sing a song.
466
00:53:03,847 --> 00:53:08,284
In the 1950 an urban blues soundcame together in Chicago.
467
00:53:08,518 --> 00:53:12,352
Men like Muddy Waters and Howling Wolfelectrified the music...
468
00:53:12,589 --> 00:53:14,614
that had been brought upfrom the Delta.
469
00:53:15,358 --> 00:53:18,020
Contributing to this life forceof deep blues...
470
00:53:18,261 --> 00:53:20,559
were piano players like Otis Spann.
471
00:53:49,826 --> 00:53:51,691
Let me tell you something now.
472
00:53:53,763 --> 00:53:54,752
One day
473
00:53:57,534 --> 00:54:03,370
I'm gonna miss againAnd I say
474
00:54:05,108 --> 00:54:07,838
Ain't nothing to say gal
475
00:54:09,145 --> 00:54:13,707
Ain't nobody's businessYou hear me?
476
00:54:14,751 --> 00:54:15,911
What I do
477
00:54:23,793 --> 00:54:25,454
Me and my baby
478
00:54:27,764 --> 00:54:29,823
We fought and fight
479
00:54:31,468 --> 00:54:33,800
Just the next morning
480
00:54:35,171 --> 00:54:37,537
Are we lovin' right
481
00:54:39,075 --> 00:54:42,806
Ain't nobody's business
482
00:54:45,382 --> 00:54:46,440
If I do
483
00:55:22,352 --> 00:55:23,580
All lie
484
00:55:25,922 --> 00:55:28,083
To save a notion
485
00:55:29,826 --> 00:55:31,657
Call a gal
486
00:55:33,163 --> 00:55:36,189
Dropping older
487
00:55:36,700 --> 00:55:40,329
Ain't nobody's business
488
00:55:42,272 --> 00:55:43,603
If I do
489
00:55:52,015 --> 00:55:56,975
I give up tryingTo find my red rooster
490
00:55:57,454 --> 00:56:01,220
I'm telling youI've been waiting him
491
00:56:05,628 --> 00:56:07,994
If you see my little red rooster
492
00:56:10,166 --> 00:56:13,397
Please drive him home
493
00:56:19,409 --> 00:56:22,003
Dogs start barking
494
00:56:23,413 --> 00:56:26,974
And hounds begin to howl
495
00:56:31,921 --> 00:56:34,788
If you see my little red rooster
496
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,524
Drive him home
497
00:56:49,105 --> 00:56:52,472
Well there was a lady who lived
up the street from me called...
498
00:56:52,542 --> 00:56:57,206
her name was White
and I got a lot of influence from her.
499
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:01,075
Cause I couldn't play the blues
in my daddy's house.
500
00:57:01,418 --> 00:57:05,548
See my mother was in church and
my dad was the deacon of the church...
501
00:57:05,789 --> 00:57:10,658
and I couldn't play no blues. I had
to go to her house to play the blues.
502
00:57:11,127 --> 00:57:14,426
- Sneak out.
- I got a few whoopings behind it too.
503
00:57:16,166 --> 00:57:20,660
I was supposed to be in school
but I wasn't. I was playing the blues.
504
00:57:46,563 --> 00:57:48,360
You know the blues
505
00:57:49,199 --> 00:57:51,963
Don't like nobody
506
00:57:54,471 --> 00:57:56,996
You know the blues
507
00:57:58,641 --> 00:58:00,700
Don't like nobody
508
00:58:02,979 --> 00:58:05,447
But you can find the blues, baby
509
00:58:06,216 --> 00:58:08,650
Only for a dollar a bottle
510
00:58:11,421 --> 00:58:13,821
You know the blues
511
00:58:14,357 --> 00:58:16,587
Hates everybody
512
00:58:19,329 --> 00:58:22,059
You know the blues, baby
513
00:58:23,399 --> 00:58:25,424
Hates everybody
514
00:58:27,570 --> 00:58:29,970
But you can find the blues, baby
515
00:58:31,207 --> 00:58:34,040
Only for a dollar a bottle
516
00:58:36,846 --> 00:58:40,907
Never for a baby would I
Knock down this soul
517
00:58:40,984 --> 00:58:46,012
Cause she wants me no moreCause I had the blues
518
00:58:48,224 --> 00:58:50,215
It don't like nobody
519
00:58:52,829 --> 00:58:55,161
You know the bluesYou know the blues
520
00:58:55,832 --> 00:58:58,699
Blues don't like nobody
521
00:58:59,402 --> 00:59:00,733
I'm going
522
00:59:25,528 --> 00:59:28,759
Only this morning 'boutFour o'clock
523
00:59:29,732 --> 00:59:32,997
Stopped by her houseFeeling really low
524
00:59:33,503 --> 00:59:34,765
Cause the blues
525
00:59:36,239 --> 00:59:39,333
And the blues don't like nobody
526
00:59:40,810 --> 00:59:43,472
You know the bluesYou know the blues
527
00:59:44,247 --> 00:59:46,875
Blues don't like nobody
528
00:59:49,252 --> 00:59:50,480
You know the blues
529
00:59:52,455 --> 00:59:54,116
Hates everybody
530
00:59:57,060 --> 00:59:59,722
You know the blues
531
01:00:00,463 --> 01:00:02,431
Hates everybody
532
01:00:05,034 --> 01:00:07,559
You know the bluesYou know the blues
533
01:00:08,571 --> 01:00:10,937
The blues don't like nobody
534
01:00:29,359 --> 01:00:31,691
You know the bluesYou know the blues
535
01:00:32,261 --> 01:00:34,559
The blues don't like nobody
536
01:00:40,970 --> 01:00:45,202
Today is very much
influenced by blues and...
537
01:00:45,274 --> 01:00:49,472
but then before that it seems like
music and rock 'n roll...
538
01:00:49,545 --> 01:00:50,910
is getting less complicated...
539
01:00:51,414 --> 01:00:55,544
while blues had more gospel
and soul in it.
540
01:00:55,785 --> 01:01:01,690
I never draw
any difference between...
541
01:01:04,293 --> 01:01:06,318
blues and any of that stuff.
542
01:01:06,729 --> 01:01:12,827
I thought it was all related first
cousin, second cousin, third cousin.
543
01:01:13,169 --> 01:01:16,764
All those jump blues guys
they all sort of like rockers...
544
01:01:16,873 --> 01:01:19,865
- Joe Houston all those guys.
- Those jump rockers...
545
01:01:19,942 --> 01:01:25,642
they would once in a while would veer off
and go off into what we call jazz.
546
01:01:25,715 --> 01:01:28,912
That's what we called jazz back then.
547
01:01:30,386 --> 01:01:34,220
They'd go into jazz, jazz, jazz.
548
01:01:34,557 --> 01:01:39,460
Then so that way I never
did know what it meant...
549
01:01:39,696 --> 01:01:42,221
to say this was that,
that was that.
550
01:01:42,465 --> 01:01:44,729
Everybody trying to play everything.
551
01:01:45,034 --> 01:01:50,666
I just made it one thing.
This was the blues.
552
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:56,637
Well it can be fast blues, slow blues,
that was the only difference I knew...
553
01:01:56,713 --> 01:01:58,180
slow, fast.
554
01:01:58,648 --> 01:02:01,378
What's the tempo your playing
it in and let it go.
555
01:02:01,451 --> 01:02:02,577
Right.
556
01:02:08,791 --> 01:02:10,452
This is very beautiful.
557
01:02:42,658 --> 01:02:45,126
Hello little girl
558
01:02:46,162 --> 01:02:48,596
Don't you remember me?
559
01:02:51,801 --> 01:02:54,793
Hello, hello, little girl
560
01:02:55,605 --> 01:02:57,766
Don't you remember me?
561
01:03:01,344 --> 01:03:03,904
A lot of timeIt's been so long
562
01:03:04,580 --> 01:03:07,071
But I had a little breakYou see
563
01:03:10,253 --> 01:03:13,017
Well, I'm doing alright
564
01:03:13,823 --> 01:03:17,554
Well, I found a little cupid doll
565
01:03:19,462 --> 01:03:22,090
Yes, I'm doing alright
566
01:03:22,932 --> 01:03:25,924
Yes, I found a little cupid doll
567
01:03:28,671 --> 01:03:30,935
When she loses three flags
568
01:03:32,141 --> 01:03:34,837
Then she sends me with a smile
569
01:03:37,847 --> 01:03:40,714
Well, she calls me her lover
570
01:03:41,083 --> 01:03:43,574
Yes, and her beggar too
571
01:03:46,689 --> 01:03:49,487
Well, she calls me her lover
572
01:03:50,059 --> 01:03:52,755
Yes, and her beggar too
573
01:03:55,565 --> 01:03:58,261
Now ain't you sorry little girl
574
01:03:59,001 --> 01:04:01,936
That my new little girl ain't you
575
01:04:40,309 --> 01:04:41,537
Very good.
576
01:04:43,412 --> 01:04:45,141
Beautiful...
577
01:04:45,214 --> 01:04:47,978
- thanks very much, Jay.
- Thank you.
578
01:04:48,050 --> 01:04:52,919
Thanks for talking a little bit about
your life and the blues.
579
01:04:53,890 --> 01:04:55,118
That was splendid...
580
01:04:55,725 --> 01:04:59,320
"She called me her lover,
she called me her beggar too."
581
01:05:01,297 --> 01:05:04,198
I know those words,
I've used them many times.
582
01:05:10,139 --> 01:05:12,937
Piano blues embracesall modes of jazz.
583
01:05:13,542 --> 01:05:18,002
The solitary player of the night club,the sophistication of Duke Ellington...
584
01:05:18,247 --> 01:05:22,741
and the energy of beep bob.The blues is the basis of everything.
585
01:08:02,812 --> 01:08:04,871
So Pete,
tell me how you started out.
586
01:08:05,081 --> 01:08:09,450
My father brought home these records
of like Meade Lux and Albert Ammons...
587
01:08:09,685 --> 01:08:11,778
and that turned me on immediately.
588
01:08:12,588 --> 01:08:16,957
It seems like I had a natural
ability to improvise...
589
01:08:17,393 --> 01:08:20,885
for some odd reason, like a gift.
590
01:08:21,730 --> 01:08:24,631
People say how to play jazz.
I say well...
591
01:08:24,967 --> 01:08:26,901
you want to learn
how to play your instrument...
592
01:08:26,969 --> 01:08:30,871
and then if your fingers go there,
whatever you hear comes out.
593
01:08:31,107 --> 01:08:34,543
Did you learn by reading
or by imitating?
594
01:08:34,777 --> 01:08:38,713
Well I imitated the records
and then I took piano lessons.
595
01:09:50,319 --> 01:09:53,447
I've always felt
that jazz and blues...
596
01:09:53,689 --> 01:09:55,987
were a true American art form...
597
01:09:56,292 --> 01:09:59,750
maybe the only real original
American art form we have.
598
01:10:32,161 --> 01:10:34,755
I just have always been fascinated
with the music...
599
01:10:34,997 --> 01:10:38,228
I grew up listening to that
rather than pop tunes.
600
01:10:38,467 --> 01:10:42,494
My mom thought I was kind of crazy.
But it's her fault.
601
01:10:42,738 --> 01:10:45,866
Because she brought home a bunch
of Fat Swaller records and said...
602
01:10:45,941 --> 01:10:50,810
This is what I call real piano playing
and I thought well that's the way it is.
603
01:10:51,113 --> 01:10:54,708
I'd tried to play stride piano
but it didn't come out...
604
01:10:56,185 --> 01:10:58,119
it didn't come out very stridy...
605
01:10:58,187 --> 01:11:02,214
so I kinda played
a three cord beat thing.
606
01:11:02,458 --> 01:11:06,121
But I've always been interested in it
and later on jazz, beep bob.
607
01:11:06,562 --> 01:11:10,293
Society sort of dictates
what people start playing.
608
01:11:10,332 --> 01:11:13,267
Like Beep bop in the 40s
came out of...
609
01:11:13,502 --> 01:11:15,595
people searching
for something...
610
01:11:15,838 --> 01:11:18,966
something new or some new way
to go after things.
611
01:11:19,241 --> 01:11:24,873
You had to open up some doors.
612
01:11:26,548 --> 01:11:32,953
Everybody is like,
if your listening to some of the things.
613
01:11:35,624 --> 01:11:37,524
That little thing.
614
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:40,354
There something else in soft peanut.
615
01:11:40,663 --> 01:11:42,494
There was something in there...
616
01:11:42,564 --> 01:11:45,829
if you are listen at it
and slow it down a little bit...
617
01:11:46,101 --> 01:11:50,765
if forget, I can't think of it right now.
But it's like it...
618
01:11:51,006 --> 01:11:54,464
really sounds like something
Louis Armstrong played way back...
619
01:11:54,543 --> 01:11:57,444
in the game like
one of them Call thing.
620
01:11:57,646 --> 01:12:01,844
Beside that famous
melody of that piece.
621
01:12:02,117 --> 01:12:04,813
You heard, I mean,
you heard...
622
01:12:05,087 --> 01:12:09,353
to me it took something like that...
623
01:12:09,591 --> 01:12:13,652
and he took it to a whole other place
and kept rolling stuff like that.
624
01:12:36,585 --> 01:12:38,951
My first time I heard
Thelonius Monk record...
625
01:12:39,054 --> 01:12:43,354
I thought he was local cat.
I almost turned that off.
626
01:12:59,141 --> 01:13:01,234
I didn't know
Monk was from Carolina.
627
01:13:01,510 --> 01:13:04,775
You just heard music and it
reminded me of stuff I heard.
628
01:13:05,047 --> 01:13:07,242
Well, everybody is influenced
from somewhere.
629
01:14:40,442 --> 01:14:44,572
Back when we did that very last record
he did. And he said so you know...
630
01:14:44,980 --> 01:14:48,381
play me some old, this old tune.
Old cousin Joe's song...
631
01:14:48,717 --> 01:14:52,380
a guy from new Orleans. A guy he always
recording with from new Orleans...
632
01:14:52,654 --> 01:14:56,351
all these bebop cats.
I thought he was jibbing...
633
01:14:56,625 --> 01:14:59,321
the fact is I remembered
this line of this song...
634
01:14:59,394 --> 01:15:04,093
I didn't know the words,
and it ended with...
635
01:15:04,399 --> 01:15:07,061
If you get your handsOn some money
636
01:15:09,037 --> 01:15:11,733
You can buy everythingYou can get
637
01:15:17,012 --> 01:15:20,709
If you get your handsOn some money
638
01:15:21,517 --> 01:15:24,975
You can buy everythingYou can get
639
01:15:30,192 --> 01:15:32,285
You knowYou can't take it with you
640
01:15:33,462 --> 01:15:37,796
I ain't never seen no armored carFollow a funeral yeah
641
01:15:38,867 --> 01:15:42,769
That line never seen an armored
car follow a funeral yeah...
642
01:15:43,005 --> 01:15:45,439
was all that Art remembered
of the song.
643
01:17:05,554 --> 01:17:09,854
You want to play a little of
Pinetop's boogie for us.
644
01:17:09,958 --> 01:17:13,325
I can't play it like I used to
because...
645
01:17:13,795 --> 01:17:17,231
I got stabbed in this arm
here and I can't get the base...
646
01:17:17,466 --> 01:17:19,593
rolling like I want.
647
01:17:19,868 --> 01:17:23,395
I can't play it like I used to
and I didn't even get stabbed.
648
01:17:23,639 --> 01:17:25,732
I used to play that thing.
649
01:17:27,709 --> 01:17:30,269
Give us just a little taste.
650
01:19:43,345 --> 01:19:44,710
Very good.
651
01:19:44,980 --> 01:19:46,447
- It was nice.
- Thank you.
652
01:19:46,515 --> 01:19:50,349
This guy is wonderful.
He's still got it.
653
01:19:50,786 --> 01:19:52,344
Beautiful.
654
01:19:57,025 --> 01:20:00,483
Playing the blues evokes joy,sorrow happiness...
655
01:20:00,762 --> 01:20:04,163
despair and truth ina timeless fashion.
656
01:24:12,580 --> 01:24:14,946
Hey mamaDon't you treat me wrong
657
01:24:15,517 --> 01:24:18,486
Come and love your daddyAll night long
658
01:24:19,020 --> 01:24:20,578
Tell me what'd I say
659
01:24:22,290 --> 01:24:25,782
Tell me what'd I say, baby
660
01:24:27,929 --> 01:24:30,124
- Thank you, Ray.
- That's alright, man.
661
01:24:31,633 --> 01:24:35,160
Even patriotic songscan become the blues.
662
01:24:46,481 --> 01:24:48,244
Oh beautiful
663
01:24:51,286 --> 01:24:54,687
For heroes proved
664
01:24:57,092 --> 01:24:57,990
In
665
01:24:58,860 --> 01:25:01,658
Liberating strife
666
01:25:07,168 --> 01:25:08,965
Who more than self
667
01:25:12,540 --> 01:25:15,941
Their country loved
668
01:25:19,247 --> 01:25:24,310
And mercy moreThan life, life
669
01:25:26,054 --> 01:25:27,885
What am I singing about tonight?
670
01:25:30,058 --> 01:25:37,157
This AmericaSweet America
671
01:25:41,136 --> 01:25:44,731
May God thy gold refine
672
01:25:51,045 --> 01:25:53,172
Till all success
673
01:25:56,918 --> 01:25:58,909
Be nobleness
674
01:26:00,889 --> 01:26:02,117
And
675
01:26:03,591 --> 01:26:07,618
Every gain divined
676
01:26:07,862 --> 01:26:10,387
And you know,when I was a little boy...
677
01:26:10,465 --> 01:26:12,899
I remember we used to sing itlike this...
678
01:26:15,603 --> 01:26:17,696
Oh beautiful
679
01:26:20,341 --> 01:26:23,708
For spacious skies
680
01:26:25,613 --> 01:26:26,705
For
681
01:26:27,415 --> 01:26:32,114
Amber waves of grain
682
01:26:36,124 --> 01:26:43,929
For purple mountain majesties
683
01:26:47,835 --> 01:26:53,467
AboveAbove the fruited plain
684
01:26:55,009 --> 01:26:56,135
Listen to me now
685
01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:00,672
America
686
01:27:04,619 --> 01:27:06,211
America
687
01:27:11,626 --> 01:27:15,084
GodDone shed his grace on thee
688
01:27:17,198 --> 01:27:19,928
Yes He did
689
01:27:20,168 --> 01:27:22,363
And He crowned thy good
690
01:27:23,137 --> 01:27:25,071
Oh don't you remember?
691
01:27:26,207 --> 01:27:28,471
Singing brotherhood
692
01:27:29,944 --> 01:27:31,070
From
693
01:27:31,379 --> 01:27:32,744
Sea
694
01:27:32,914 --> 01:27:34,279
To
695
01:27:34,882 --> 01:27:37,077
Shining sea
696
01:27:37,252 --> 01:27:41,348
You know, I wish I had somebodyto help me sing this.
697
01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:46,759
America
698
01:27:48,363 --> 01:27:51,526
Oh America
699
01:27:55,003 --> 01:27:56,402
My God
700
01:27:56,638 --> 01:27:59,869
He shedHis grace on me
701
01:28:00,708 --> 01:28:04,041
I love you America, cause He
702
01:28:04,612 --> 01:28:07,172
He crowned thy good
703
01:28:07,482 --> 01:28:09,507
He told me he would
704
01:28:10,485 --> 01:28:12,749
With brotherhood
705
01:28:14,455 --> 01:28:15,683
From
706
01:28:15,857 --> 01:28:16,881
Sea
707
01:28:17,158 --> 01:28:18,182
To
708
01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:21,954
Shining sea
709
01:28:24,098 --> 01:28:26,328
Yeah, listen
710
01:28:26,901 --> 01:28:31,668
I wanna thank you, Lord
57854
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