All language subtitles for Family Ties s06e20 The Blues Brother

What would we do, baby, without us?

And there

ain't no nothing we can't love each
other through.

What would we do, baby, without us?

My stardust melody.

The memory of love's refrain.

Okay, that was a Hoagy Carmichael
standard stardust sung by the great Mel

on the Master Seal label.

This is W .L .E .L., voice of Leland
University, and you're listening to

Syncopated Money.

The only radio show that combines
classic American music with in -depth

of the business scene.

I'm Alex Keaton.

Alex Keaton, how can you miss him? He's
so cute!

Okay. Hey, we've got a guest here in the
WLEL studio. This is Lauren Miller,

psychology student here at Leland
University, lover of American music, and

hopelessly devoted girlfriend of yours
truly, Alex Keaton.

Alex Keaton, he's so cute.

Alex, please, I don't want to go on the
radio.

Help me out, help me out. Well, you can
talk about anything you want. Just try

to tie it into music.

So, honey bunch, what you got in your
mind?

Do you want to go to the movies tonight?

Bebop, bebop, doo -wah, doo -wah.

Okay, well, honey, actually, I'm going
to be busy tonight. But, listen, I don't

think the listeners are interested in
hearing about our personal life.

Oh, hey.

W -L -E -L, you're on the air.

Hi, this is Bill from Alpha Lambda Phi.

I'll go to the movies with you, Lauren.

In fact, our whole third floor will go
with you.

Well, Bill, I think that's going to be a
tough one for her to pass up, but I'll

let her handle it for herself.

What movie would you guys like to see?

Shade, time to spin a little wax with a
blue tint as we get aboard the Keaton

Blues train and chug on up to a station
marked Blues.

Okay, this is I Feel So Good by the
late, great, legendary Eddie Dupree.

knows we miss him so.

I got a letter and it come to me by
mail.

My baby said she's coming home and I
hope that she don't.

Yeah, hello, W -L -E -L.

Is this Keaton?

Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Alex Keaton, the
only DJ with a sound fiscal policy.

Do you have a request?

Yes, I have a request.

I'm Eddie Dupree.

My request is before you go around
burying people, I wish you'd get their

permission first.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You're
really Eddie Dupree?

That's right.

You're still alive?

and listen to you on the radio.

Mr. Dupree, I haven't seen your name on
a record in, it's got to be, 15 years.

Close to 25.

Wow.

I'm sorry.

I apologize.

I'm a really big fan of yours. I had no
idea that you weren't dead, you know,

that you were just washed up.

What I am is a bus dropper right here in
Columbus.

Listen,

I'd love to talk to you sometime.

Maybe have you right here on the show.

We could discuss your views on music.

I have no views on music.

There is a fee involved.

Time and place, please.

Terraplane Blues, what year?

Terraplane Blues, 1928.

Who was on the session?

Okay, let me see. That'd be Robert
Johnson, Random Knowings, and

Popcorn Ferguson on bass.

Very good.

Okay, okay. Keep them coming. Keep them
coming.

Come on, Alex. Enough already. We've
been at this for an hour.

Jen, come on. It's important we be
knowledgeable here. Now, when Eddie

walks in that door, we got to show him
we know a lot about the blues.

Alex, having you as a brother is all I
need to know about the blues.

All right, Alex.

Here's all our old college stuff.
Whatever old blues albums we have would

here. Thanks, Dan. This is great.

Oh, look at this old term paper.

Flower power, an alternative to
hydroelectric power.

I remember that. That was the project to
see if we could like the city of

Berkeley exclusively through geranium
friction.

How'd that turn out?

At best, it's a backup.

I guess no Eddie Dupree album.

Eddie Dupree at the Monterey Blues
Festival.

Perhaps the highlight of the festival
was Dupree's classic rendition of Keys

the Highway, in which he showed why many
consider him to be the king of the

Delta Blues.

It's hard to believe that such a great
musician could just disappear from the

music scene.

None of these guys own the publishing
rights to their song. They'd come in,

a record, get some lunch if they were
lucky. Maybe 50 bucks for the day.

Somebody else got rich.

What about the videos? Didn't they own
the rights to those?

Mel.

Mel, this is before videos.

Before videos? Then what'd they show on
MTV?

The same thing that's in your head, Mel.

What's this?

Going to Berkeley Blues.

Living in Berkeley Blues.

Leaving Berkeley Blues. That's the
Berkeley Blues trilogy.

I wrote this.

Lisa and I would perform in the local
coffee houses.

Yeah, and seeing as Eddie Dupree is
coming tonight, we thought maybe we'd

a little show. Oh, no, no, no, no. No,
Mom.

No, no, don't you even think about it. I
think Mr.

Dupree might enjoy hearing it.

Shh.

Gone to Berkeley.

Gone to Berkeley.

Gone to Berkeley.

Now. You wrote that all by yourself,
Dad?

I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it.

Hello, I'm Eddie Dupree.

Hi, I'm Alex Keaton. I'm Alex Keaton.
Please come in. Can I take your coat?

Mr. Dupree, I can't tell you how
meaningful it is to meet you after...

All these years, we are truly two of
your biggest fans.

Wonderful of you to say that. But who
are you?

This is my father, Stephen Keaton. This
is my mother, Elise Keaton. Please come

in. This is my girlfriend, Lauren
Miller.

My sisters, Mallory and Jennifer.

Mr. Dupree, there's something I don't
understand.

That's the standard opening to any
remark she's likely to make.

No, it's about these blues you keep
referring to. What exactly are you blue

about?

Little lady, personally, I'm not blue
about anything.

These blues are like a pain.

Pain that a man has when his woman
leaves him.

Yeah, that's blues, all right.

Thank you, Lead Belly Keating.

Mr. Dupree, listen, I thought maybe when
you came on the show, what I'd like to

do is talk a little bit about your
roots, where you come from.

Do you remember what your first paying
job was?

I was 12 years old down in Statesboro,
Georgia, where I was living at when the

Fails Medicine Show come through the
town, selling some medicine out of a

that said it was good for rheumatic
pains, pneumonia, anything that ails

And they had a little show that drove
the crowd around, and they hired me for

five cents a day and all the medicine I
could use.

I sing a little song with a guitar.

I'll show you how I do it.

I want something like this.

Did you ever hear the blues?

Edie Dupree, it just struck me.

We can't just do one night. We have an
Edie Dupree festival.

Four nights of interviews, and then on
the fifth night, You perform live. Slow

down.

Just one interview.

That's it.

But, Eddie, Mr.

Dupree, it's just that, you know, I
think this is a chance for you to get

to doing what you love.

You don't understand.

I talk on your show.

I'll answer your questions. But Eddie
Dupree will not sing in public anymore.

Yes, yes, yes.

That was Blind... That was Blind Lemon.

That was Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Thinking, going to the country. Which
was recorded in Mobile, Alabama, April

17th, 1936. Now, also on that date,
April 17th, 1936, Xerox was first

offered over the counter.

That's $20 a share.

And hey, don't it give you the blues to
know you didn't get in at that price.

Okay, it's 834 here on WLEL 87 .2 on
your FM dial. I'm Alex Keaton. He's so

cute!

Your blues man and stock analyst for the
night.

I want to remind you that the legendary
blues guitarist, Eddie Dupree, will be

joining us right here in the studio.
Now, I know I said he was dead.

But I was dead wrong.

Okay, now, here is Eddie Dupree singing
one of his favorites, John Henry.

Hey,

Eddie, you're here.

Great. You didn't think I was going to
show up? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Please, sit down.

Whoa, okay, great.

Uh, listen, can I get you something to
drink? Black coffee, dude.

Black coffee? Black coffee.

beverage of the blues.

That ain't a heck of a tune, too, huh?

Mama get mad when Papa don't bring... If
you go on a thing, I'm gonna leave.

Well, Eddie, normally I get a lot of
requests for my fine vocal stylings, but

tonight is your night.

Don't worry.

Okay. All right, all right. Joining me
now in the studio

is The Blues Great.

Eddie Dupree. So if you have any
questions for Mr. Dupree, call us here

-W -L -E -L.

And why don't I get it started?

Eddie, can you tell us a little bit
about the kind of music you make?

Music is not to be talked about. It's
like talking to somebody about making

love. You don't talk about it, you just
do it.

All right, okay.

It's going well.

Hello, WLAL, you're on the air.

Mr. Dupree, I'm Professor Webster from
the music department here at Leland, and

I'm a very big fan of yours.

Thanks, I love you.

I've been trying to track you down
forever. I'm staging a blues show at the

Note Cafe, and I really want you to be a
part of it.

Thank you, but I'm not interested.

Hey, uh, Eddie, you know, that's a big
chance.

Didn't I tell you I wasn't going to
perform anymore?

Well, I'm very disappointed.

Because in my mind, you're the greatest
blues man to ever hold a guitar.

Well, goodbye.

You know, I have to agree with Professor
Webster.

I mean, Mr.

Dupree, it just seems to me that it's a
big opportunity. I don't see why you

wouldn't grab it.

People don't want to hear a bus driver
playing the blues.

Okay, well, we're going to play a song
now that Mr. Dupree recorded in 1943.

It's called Cornbread and Peas.

I don't want no cornbread and peas and
black molasses.

I don't want no cornbread and peas and
black molasses. It's been a long time

since I heard that.

I made that out in Chicago in O .K.'s
studio. It was so cold when I made that

record, my fingers froze to the core.

Listen, that's Lightning Fats on a
rhythm guitar.

That's a little Willie on the bay.

Well,

they don't make music like that anymore,

do they, ladies and gentlemen?

Hi, W -L -E -L, Alex Keaton.

He's so cute!

I'd like to say something to Mr. Dupree.

I just want to say that I would walk 15
miles in the snow to hear you play.

20 miles in good weather.

So I got to disappoint you like that.

W -L -E -L, you're on the air. This is
Bill from Alpha Lambda Phi, and our

fraternity is hoping you'll play.

And if not, we're wondering if Lauren is
still available.

You're off the air.

Oh, you're on the air.

Well,

Mr. Dupree, looks like a lot of people
would rather see you play the blues than

drive a bus.

So good!

Baby!

So good!

I don't mean maybe. You make me feel so
good.

So good, so good, so good.

Well, I feel so good.

Feel like falling asleep.

Hey!

So good.

Hey, hey, hey. All right, Andy. Okay,
buddy.

Whatever I sing, you sing, okay?

Baby,

please don't go.

Baby, please don't go.

Baby, please don't go.

Baby, please don't go.

Baby, please don't go down to New
Orleans. Baby, please don't go down to

Orleans. Because I love you so.

Because I love you so. Baby, please
don't go.

You are a natural born booze man, Andy.
You are too, bro.

Very good.

Very good indeed. I had no idea we had
two such down -home funky hep cats in

Keaton family.

You're right, Dad. We're cool.

Professor Webster? In my view, your pawn
shop blues has overtones of the Aeolian

cadences in Mahler's Das Lied von der
Erde.

That's the way I think, too.

You see, Mr. Dupree, you are the
absolute epitome of the American spirit.

Professor Webster, you're going to get
on my nerves.

Mr. Dupree, you're a living legend. Mr.

Dupree, you're a daddy to the blues. Mr.

Dupree, you're a national treasure.

You caused all this.

Yeah, I'm proud of that.

I just happen to believe that the blues
of Eddie Dupree are every bit as

important a contribution to American
culture as Huckleberry Finn.

Why don't you go find Huckleberry Finn
and hassle him, too?

Hi. Hi, girls. Hi. Hi, Mr. Dupree. We
just wanted to let you know that over

past few days, we've really become big
blues fans. Yeah, so we made this for

you. Thank you. What is it? Oh, it's a
scarf with all the shades of blue in it,

like the blues.

Do you know your girls are becoming
sweethearts of the blues?

Yeah.

All right, we'll see you later. Have a
good show. Thank you, buddy.

Have a good one. All right, so, nervous?

I've got the two coldest feet in
history.

The last time I played before the Oscars
was 1965.

You wasn't born then.

And I don't know what Xerox was selling.

I got a good note and just jumped right
out that door.

Eddie, listen to me. If you don't sing
tonight, I will.

Eating you fried dirty.

Good evening. We have a very special
treat for you tonight. A legendary blues

artist. We haven't heard nearly enough
of him in a long, long time.

He's come a long way to be here tonight.

Listen, there's nothing I can say about
this guy.

That he can't say himself with his
music. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Eddie

Dupree.

Guess I'm supposed to play you some
blues.

So here I go.

Well, I'm tired of running around.

Think I'll get married and settle down.

This old sporting life, it is a mean
life.

And it's killing me.

Yes, it is.

I got a letter from my home.

All my schoolmates, they are dead and
gone.

It'll make you worry.

It'll make you wonder about days to
come.

Next song is for a special friend of
mine.

Lose your money.

Please don't you lose your mind.

Don't you lose your mind.

If you lose your money, please don't
lose your mind.

Well, if you lose your woman, please,
please don't fool with mine.

Let it come rain, come sunshine.

From the skies, from the skies above.

Blue, blue skies.

Let it come rain, come sunshine.

From the sky, lonely skies above, blue,
blue skies above.

You know I'm a fool. I'm a fool about
the woman I love. Yes, I am.

Walk on.

Walk on.

Walk on.

Walk on.

Walk on.

Walk on.

Walk on.

Walk on.

People, I'm going to keep on walking
until I find my way back home.

Tell me something.

My mind gets worried when my shoes get
thin.

Don't know where I'm going, but I do
know where I've been. I'm going to walk

walk on.

I'm going to walk on and on and on and
on and on and on.

I'm going to keep on walking until I
find my way back home. Let me tell you

something.

I've got to be on my way.

I'm going to leave tomorrow, but I'm
coming back someday.

I've got to walk on.

Walk on.

Walk on. On and on and on and on.

I'm going to keep on walking till I find
my way back home.

I'm going to keep on walking till I find
my way back home. Hey, hey, hey.

Walk on.

Sit, Ubu, sit.

Good dog.