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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:02,525 --> 00:01:03,590 Ree? 2 00:01:05,132 --> 00:01:06,494 Ree? 3 00:01:07,596 --> 00:01:08,760 Wake up, baby. 4 00:01:14,537 --> 00:01:16,273 They wanna hear you sing. 5 00:01:19,146 --> 00:01:20,146 You wanna sing? 6 00:01:20,708 --> 00:01:21,708 Yes, please. 7 00:01:22,545 --> 00:01:23,742 All right. 8 00:01:35,459 --> 00:01:37,756 Clarence, Ella's looking for you. 9 00:01:38,693 --> 00:01:40,165 Wait here, Ree. 10 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,299 - I'll be right back. - Okay. 11 00:01:42,334 --> 00:01:43,465 They butchered my essay. 12 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:44,433 Took all the politics out. 13 00:01:44,468 --> 00:01:45,797 Can you believe that? 14 00:01:45,832 --> 00:01:48,272 Communism is absolutely for the Negro. 15 00:01:48,307 --> 00:01:49,845 How else are we gonna have everything we ever wanted? 16 00:01:49,869 --> 00:01:51,143 Now, how does a man with one eye 17 00:01:51,178 --> 00:01:52,298 play like he has four hands? 18 00:01:53,312 --> 00:01:54,608 You been practicing? 19 00:01:54,643 --> 00:01:56,247 Yes, Mr. Tatum. 20 00:01:56,282 --> 00:01:57,809 She could hit three octaves easy. 21 00:01:57,844 --> 00:02:00,680 You know, you the finest looking cat here, right? 22 00:02:00,715 --> 00:02:02,550 Nigga, I know that. 23 00:02:02,585 --> 00:02:03,815 What else you got? 24 00:02:08,261 --> 00:02:09,821 Hey, Ree. 25 00:02:09,856 --> 00:02:11,328 Hey, Uncle Sam. 26 00:02:11,363 --> 00:02:13,363 No more segregated clubs for me. 27 00:02:13,398 --> 00:02:14,837 I'm not walking through no one's kitchen 28 00:02:14,861 --> 00:02:16,861 to get to the stage. 29 00:02:16,896 --> 00:02:20,337 I said to them, "I'm so happy to be performing in England, 30 00:02:20,372 --> 00:02:21,569 but just remember 31 00:02:21,604 --> 00:02:23,241 there's only one Heaven, one Earth, 32 00:02:23,276 --> 00:02:24,836 and one queen. 33 00:02:24,871 --> 00:02:26,904 Me. Dinah Washington." 34 00:02:28,743 --> 00:02:30,710 "That Elizabeth on y'alls throne is an imposter." 35 00:02:30,745 --> 00:02:32,745 - You didn't. - Oh, yes, I did. 36 00:02:32,780 --> 00:02:35,352 And I made 'em bow before me.- 37 00:02:35,387 --> 00:02:37,420 Well, look out, y'all. 38 00:02:38,225 --> 00:02:39,686 The entertainer is here. 39 00:02:40,227 --> 00:02:41,622 Hi. 40 00:02:41,657 --> 00:02:43,360 He said he wanted a race novel. 41 00:02:43,395 --> 00:02:45,791 Sure, he desegregated the army. 42 00:02:45,826 --> 00:02:47,309 But he didn't do a damn thing after that. 43 00:02:47,333 --> 00:02:49,861 - Hi, Aunt Ella. Uncle Duke. - Hey. 44 00:02:49,896 --> 00:02:51,599 You ready, Ree? Come on. 45 00:02:57,772 --> 00:03:00,377 Everyone. 46 00:03:00,412 --> 00:03:02,643 Everyone. 47 00:03:02,678 --> 00:03:05,877 For those of you visiting my home for the first time, 48 00:03:06,814 --> 00:03:10,552 this is my daughter, Aretha. 49 00:03:10,587 --> 00:03:13,291 She'd like to sing a little something for you. 50 00:03:13,326 --> 00:03:14,606 What would you like to sing, Ree? 51 00:03:15,988 --> 00:03:17,922 How old is she? 52 00:03:17,957 --> 00:03:19,693 She's 10, 53 00:03:19,728 --> 00:03:21,926 but her voice's going on 30, honey. 54 00:03:21,961 --> 00:03:24,566 Aretha would like to perform 55 00:03:24,601 --> 00:03:26,634 My Baby Likes to Bebop. 56 00:03:26,933 --> 00:03:28,471 Damn! 57 00:03:28,506 --> 00:03:30,106 I was gonna record that on my next album. 58 00:03:31,674 --> 00:03:33,278 Can we do a duet? 59 00:03:43,422 --> 00:03:46,654 'Cause my baby likes to bebop 60 00:03:55,830 --> 00:03:56,830 Sing, baby! 61 00:04:08,711 --> 00:04:12,416 Do a dance and a flip-flop 62 00:04:12,451 --> 00:04:15,320 Like the hepcats do 63 00:04:15,355 --> 00:04:18,554 "My baby likes to bebop" 64 00:04:43,548 --> 00:04:45,042 Back to bed with you. 65 00:04:56,495 --> 00:04:59,859 Go marching in 66 00:04:59,894 --> 00:05:02,664 Those white folks don't know what to do with her. 67 00:05:02,699 --> 00:05:04,369 Sock it to 'em, Clara! 68 00:05:04,404 --> 00:05:05,535 Yeah, Grandma! 69 00:05:05,570 --> 00:05:08,406 Sock it to 'em! Sock it to 'em! 70 00:05:16,911 --> 00:05:17,911 Momma's here! 71 00:05:22,719 --> 00:05:23,883 Momma!- 72 00:05:26,052 --> 00:05:29,020 God! Babe, I missed you so much. 73 00:05:29,957 --> 00:05:31,396 Hi! Momma! 74 00:05:33,092 --> 00:05:34,498 Mommy! 75 00:05:35,963 --> 00:05:37,336 My babies! 76 00:05:37,998 --> 00:05:39,866 My precious! 77 00:05:50,846 --> 00:05:52,384 Come on, let's go! Let's go! 78 00:05:52,419 --> 00:05:53,649 - Let's go! - Bye, Grandma! 79 00:05:53,684 --> 00:05:54,815 Come on, baby! 80 00:05:54,850 --> 00:05:55,850 Let's go in the car! 81 00:05:59,855 --> 00:06:03,956 That way 82 00:06:03,991 --> 00:06:07,663 In the morning sun 83 00:06:07,698 --> 00:06:11,898 The night is new 84 00:06:34,021 --> 00:06:35,559 Sing another one, Momma! 85 00:06:35,594 --> 00:06:37,759 Oh, Ree, that's the third song now. 86 00:06:37,794 --> 00:06:39,629 Please? 87 00:06:39,664 --> 00:06:40,960 No, I want to talk. 88 00:06:40,995 --> 00:06:42,797 Please? - Oh, God. 89 00:06:43,503 --> 00:06:44,898 Oh, all right. 90 00:06:45,868 --> 00:06:48,440 What if I sing-talk, hmm? 91 00:07:03,820 --> 00:07:04,918 We praising the Lord, Momma! 92 00:07:21,541 --> 00:07:23,871 You still singing at the Saturday night parties? 93 00:07:23,906 --> 00:07:25,037 Yeah. 94 00:07:25,072 --> 00:07:26,907 Mmm. Don't say "yeah". 95 00:07:26,942 --> 00:07:29,811 "Yeah" is common. Say "yes". 96 00:07:29,846 --> 00:07:30,944 Yes. 97 00:07:31,584 --> 00:07:32,946 You enjoy it? 98 00:07:32,981 --> 00:07:34,783 - Yeah. Yes. - Uh-uh. 99 00:07:36,248 --> 00:07:39,018 Look at me, Ree. 100 00:07:39,053 --> 00:07:41,691 If you ever don't want to sing, don't. 101 00:07:41,726 --> 00:07:42,890 I love singing. 102 00:07:42,925 --> 00:07:44,595 No, I know. I know. 103 00:07:46,830 --> 00:07:49,633 Your daddy doesn't own your voice, Ree. 104 00:07:49,668 --> 00:07:51,998 Nobody does but God. 105 00:07:53,067 --> 00:07:55,870 And you don't ever have to fear any man. 106 00:07:57,236 --> 00:07:58,741 You understand? 107 00:08:01,075 --> 00:08:03,548 You are so worthy, Ree. 108 00:08:03,583 --> 00:08:05,880 Don't you ever let anybody tell you otherwise. 109 00:08:06,817 --> 00:08:08,047 Yes, Momma. 110 00:08:12,724 --> 00:08:14,086 Oh, Ree, don't cry. 111 00:08:14,121 --> 00:08:15,923 Come on, I'll see you for your birthday. 112 00:08:15,958 --> 00:08:17,056 Three weeks is a long time. 113 00:08:17,091 --> 00:08:19,861 I know, but I am always with you. 114 00:08:19,896 --> 00:08:21,500 Even when I'm not there. 115 00:08:21,865 --> 00:08:23,029 Okay? 116 00:08:28,839 --> 00:08:30,036 Go. 117 00:08:42,985 --> 00:08:45,557 Ree, get back here! 118 00:08:48,056 --> 00:08:49,121 Ree! 119 00:08:52,258 --> 00:08:53,258 Goodbye! 120 00:08:57,670 --> 00:08:59,065 Bye, Momma! 121 00:09:03,973 --> 00:09:05,293 We're marching Marching up to Zion 122 00:09:08,747 --> 00:09:09,747 Ree? 123 00:09:10,078 --> 00:09:11,110 Ree? 124 00:09:13,081 --> 00:09:15,312 I'm the oldest. I should be in the front of the line. 125 00:09:15,347 --> 00:09:16,347 Hush. 126 00:09:18,955 --> 00:09:20,823 We have nothing to fear, church. 127 00:09:22,288 --> 00:09:25,762 'Cause what is the white man compared to God? 128 00:09:29,229 --> 00:09:32,164 What is any law, any injustice 129 00:09:32,199 --> 00:09:34,870 compared to the power of our Lord? 130 00:09:38,370 --> 00:09:42,845 'Cause He will deliver us from the den like Daniel. 131 00:09:44,178 --> 00:09:47,311 And Daniel went into that lion's den. 132 00:09:48,248 --> 00:09:51,689 Daniel went into that lion's den. 133 00:09:51,724 --> 00:09:53,889 - Yes, Jesus! - Not yelling, 134 00:09:53,924 --> 00:09:55,693 nor fussing. 135 00:09:55,728 --> 00:09:56,892 Not crying! 136 00:09:56,927 --> 00:09:58,894 - Not complaining! - No! 137 00:09:58,929 --> 00:10:00,324 Praising the Lord! 138 00:10:00,359 --> 00:10:02,832 - Yeah! - 'Cause he knew 139 00:10:02,867 --> 00:10:04,636 the Lord was with him. 140 00:10:04,671 --> 00:10:07,199 He feared no man! 141 00:10:07,234 --> 00:10:09,036 Can you hear me, church? 142 00:10:09,071 --> 00:10:10,774 I wish somebody would pray with me 143 00:10:10,809 --> 00:10:12,776 - 'cause He will! - He will! 144 00:10:12,811 --> 00:10:14,239 He will! - He will! 145 00:10:14,274 --> 00:10:17,374 He will shut the jaws of segregation, 146 00:10:17,409 --> 00:10:19,178 and any man, person, 147 00:10:19,213 --> 00:10:21,686 or institution that would dare 148 00:10:21,721 --> 00:10:23,655 stand against us. 149 00:10:23,690 --> 00:10:26,350 He took us from slavery, 150 00:10:26,385 --> 00:10:29,727 he took us from the valley of reconstruction. 151 00:10:29,762 --> 00:10:31,729 - Freedom! 152 00:10:31,764 --> 00:10:33,390 - Freedom! - Freedom! 153 00:10:33,425 --> 00:10:34,831 Freedom! 154 00:10:34,866 --> 00:10:36,195 - Freedom! - Freedom! 155 00:10:36,230 --> 00:10:38,967 Freedom now! Praise Him! Praise Him! 156 00:10:39,002 --> 00:10:41,772 - Preach, Daddy, preach! - Hallelujah. 157 00:10:50,717 --> 00:10:52,750 Hey? Ree? 158 00:10:52,785 --> 00:10:54,818 Ree! 159 00:10:54,853 --> 00:10:56,721 How come you're not singing tonight? 160 00:10:57,724 --> 00:10:59,317 Daddy didn't ask me to. 161 00:11:00,892 --> 00:11:02,793 What's your doll's name? 162 00:11:06,392 --> 00:11:07,963 Dee. 163 00:11:07,998 --> 00:11:10,669 Mmm. That's a pretty name. 164 00:11:13,036 --> 00:11:15,036 You're pretty, too. 165 00:11:15,071 --> 00:11:16,433 What's your boyfriend's name? 166 00:11:16,468 --> 00:11:18,941 I don't have a boyfriend. 167 00:11:19,878 --> 00:11:21,845 I can be your boyfriend. 168 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:23,209 Would you like that? 169 00:11:24,410 --> 00:11:26,212 We'll have fun. 170 00:11:58,378 --> 00:11:59,982 Come on, Ree! 171 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:03,150 I don't want to. 172 00:12:03,185 --> 00:12:04,789 Ree, I will beat your behind. 173 00:12:10,258 --> 00:12:11,961 What are you doing? 174 00:12:11,996 --> 00:12:13,424 I don't care if you beat me. 175 00:12:13,459 --> 00:12:15,228 I don't want my hair done. 176 00:12:15,263 --> 00:12:17,043 Don't you wanna look pretty for church tomorrow? 177 00:12:17,067 --> 00:12:18,902 No! 178 00:12:18,937 --> 00:12:20,266 Y'all wait in the living room. 179 00:12:21,203 --> 00:12:23,170 Come on. 180 00:12:23,205 --> 00:12:24,435 Don't sweat out all my work. 181 00:12:24,470 --> 00:12:26,140 That's gotta last you all week! 182 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:30,012 Sit down. 183 00:12:35,382 --> 00:12:37,151 You wanna tell me what's wrong? 184 00:12:39,353 --> 00:12:40,418 Ree-Ree? 185 00:12:47,130 --> 00:12:49,933 I know you don't wanna tell me, 186 00:12:49,968 --> 00:12:53,101 but you can always tell the Lord, Ree. 187 00:12:53,136 --> 00:12:55,301 He loves you, no matter what. 188 00:13:28,534 --> 00:13:31,304 You're supposed to be in bed, Ree. 189 00:13:31,339 --> 00:13:35,913 My every burden 190 00:13:35,948 --> 00:13:37,308 Come, come and join me for a while. 191 00:13:46,926 --> 00:13:51,489 Whoa, yes 192 00:13:53,031 --> 00:13:54,360 What if I wasn't here? 193 00:13:58,036 --> 00:14:00,531 What do you mean by that? 194 00:14:03,173 --> 00:14:06,306 I don't know.- 195 00:14:11,984 --> 00:14:13,478 Hello? 196 00:14:13,513 --> 00:14:15,113 See how nicely their voices are blending? 197 00:14:16,087 --> 00:14:18,120 They let Sam take the proper lead. 198 00:14:19,618 --> 00:14:24,291 Too many members of our choir try to stand out 199 00:14:24,326 --> 00:14:25,468 instead of supporting the soloist. 200 00:14:25,492 --> 00:14:26,492 Clarence? 201 00:14:28,363 --> 00:14:30,066 Come to the phone. 202 00:14:32,103 --> 00:14:34,466 - Play this next. - Okay. 203 00:14:37,009 --> 00:14:38,305 Right back. 204 00:14:43,279 --> 00:14:45,510 Barbara's dead. - How? 205 00:14:45,545 --> 00:14:47,479 Heart attack. 206 00:14:52,090 --> 00:14:54,453 I'll tell them in the morning, Mama. 207 00:14:54,488 --> 00:14:57,324 No. No, you cannot wait till tomorrow 208 00:14:57,359 --> 00:15:00,327 to tell them their momma is dead. 209 00:15:06,104 --> 00:15:07,367 No. No. 210 00:15:09,008 --> 00:15:10,073 Ree? 211 00:15:34,297 --> 00:15:35,494 Ree? 212 00:15:46,672 --> 00:15:48,342 I'm sorry, baby. 213 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,511 Let's go inside. 214 00:16:14,073 --> 00:16:19,439 Dear Ree-Ree 215 00:16:25,711 --> 00:16:27,513 Come on now, Ree. 216 00:16:31,189 --> 00:16:33,024 She just miss her momma. 217 00:16:33,059 --> 00:16:34,355 They all missin' her, 218 00:16:34,786 --> 00:16:37,193 but how long she gonna keep silent? 219 00:16:37,228 --> 00:16:38,623 Goin' on three weeks. She gotta... 220 00:16:38,658 --> 00:16:41,527 She just needs a little time. That's all. 221 00:16:41,727 --> 00:16:43,067 Ree? 222 00:16:44,466 --> 00:16:48,732 Miss Clara made you this beautiful cake, 223 00:16:48,767 --> 00:16:50,668 and Reverend James came especially for you. 224 00:16:51,374 --> 00:16:53,209 What do you say, Ree? 225 00:16:56,610 --> 00:16:58,049 Do you say, "Thank you"? 226 00:16:59,481 --> 00:17:00,579 Do you say something?- 227 00:17:02,286 --> 00:17:03,714 Make a wish, Ree. 228 00:17:07,621 --> 00:17:08,621 I can't do this. 229 00:17:11,427 --> 00:17:14,395 Come on. - Momma. Momma. 230 00:17:14,430 --> 00:17:15,572 Come on, baby. It's all right. 231 00:17:15,596 --> 00:17:16,562 - Momma. Momma. - It's all right. 232 00:17:16,597 --> 00:17:18,564 - Come on, baby. - Momma. 233 00:17:29,775 --> 00:17:31,544 Why are you hiding over there? 234 00:17:31,579 --> 00:17:33,645 Come on over here and get your lesson. 235 00:17:34,681 --> 00:17:36,681 You know this one. 236 00:17:37,816 --> 00:17:40,355 Tell you what, I'll be the choir 237 00:17:40,390 --> 00:17:41,719 and you play the lead. 238 00:17:45,428 --> 00:17:46,823 Three, four... 239 00:17:58,804 --> 00:18:01,541 Ree is helping me with my arrangement. 240 00:18:01,576 --> 00:18:02,740 I see. 241 00:18:03,875 --> 00:18:05,776 Has she spoken to you? 242 00:18:05,811 --> 00:18:08,614 That far 243 00:18:12,422 --> 00:18:16,589 Do you think you can stay silent forever, Ree? Hmm? 244 00:18:21,695 --> 00:18:22,760 Look at me. 245 00:18:26,832 --> 00:18:29,536 We must honor the gifts that God has given us, Ree. 246 00:18:31,177 --> 00:18:34,772 You will be singing in church tomorrow. 247 00:18:36,908 --> 00:18:39,381 James, can you prepare her? 248 00:18:40,417 --> 00:18:42,318 Yes, sir. 249 00:18:42,353 --> 00:18:43,583 Thank you. 250 00:19:07,543 --> 00:19:09,807 Don't let nothin' come between you and your music, Ree. 251 00:19:13,384 --> 00:19:15,681 Music will save your life. 252 00:19:21,623 --> 00:19:23,656 God holds our hand. 253 00:19:23,691 --> 00:19:24,723 Yeah! - Through Him, 254 00:19:24,758 --> 00:19:27,198 we can do anything! 255 00:19:27,233 --> 00:19:28,595 He's a catcher! 256 00:19:28,630 --> 00:19:30,663 A dream catcher! 257 00:19:30,698 --> 00:19:32,335 Amen! 258 00:19:32,370 --> 00:19:33,501 Amen. - Amen. 259 00:19:35,439 --> 00:19:37,241 And now, 260 00:19:37,276 --> 00:19:40,640 my daughter Aretha will bless us with song. 261 00:21:03,021 --> 00:21:08,497 - Guilty stains 262 00:21:11,062 --> 00:21:17,341 Lose all their guilty stains- 263 00:21:57,812 --> 00:22:02,980 Running through the flood? 264 00:22:17,997 --> 00:22:20,503 I wonder, do you feel all right? 265 00:22:20,538 --> 00:22:21,834 Yes! 266 00:22:21,869 --> 00:22:22,978 I said, do you feel all right? 267 00:22:23,002 --> 00:22:24,507 Yes! 268 00:22:25,543 --> 00:22:27,004 Amen. 269 00:22:28,678 --> 00:22:31,646 I'm ecstatic to be able to report to you 270 00:22:31,681 --> 00:22:34,979 that the day before yesterday, we filled up the jail. 271 00:22:36,785 --> 00:22:39,115 We have already won a victory here in Birmingham. 272 00:22:39,150 --> 00:22:40,391 Amen! 273 00:22:41,625 --> 00:22:43,526 Due, in no small part, 274 00:22:43,561 --> 00:22:46,089 to the valiant work of our leader. 275 00:22:46,124 --> 00:22:48,960 A man whom I feel honored to call my friend. 276 00:22:50,502 --> 00:22:54,867 The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 277 00:22:54,902 --> 00:22:58,409 All right! Yes, sir! Yes, sir! Yes, sir! 278 00:23:03,845 --> 00:23:05,548 Come on! Somebody! 279 00:23:13,492 --> 00:23:15,888 Some people 280 00:23:15,923 --> 00:23:18,891 think that we are crazy 281 00:23:18,926 --> 00:23:20,893 for taking on this fight. 282 00:23:20,928 --> 00:23:22,466 Yes! 283 00:23:22,501 --> 00:23:25,832 But the forces against us are strong, 284 00:23:25,867 --> 00:23:28,967 and they are determined to stop us. 285 00:23:29,002 --> 00:23:33,103 But we are just as determined to go on! 286 00:23:35,778 --> 00:23:37,943 Non-violently, 287 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,111 with love. 288 00:23:41,146 --> 00:23:44,455 As long as it takes to win our freedom. 289 00:23:44,490 --> 00:23:45,588 Yes! 290 00:23:46,791 --> 00:23:49,856 And Jesus is here with us every single step of the way. 291 00:23:52,025 --> 00:23:53,464 Amen! 292 00:23:53,499 --> 00:23:54,499 Yes, sir! 293 00:23:56,029 --> 00:23:57,600 Uncle Martin... 294 00:23:57,635 --> 00:24:01,131 Now don't call me Uncle Martin anymore. 295 00:24:01,166 --> 00:24:02,649 You make me feel old, that's the problem. 296 00:24:02,673 --> 00:24:03,870 I want to march. 297 00:24:04,906 --> 00:24:06,609 Don't look at me like I'm still a child. 298 00:24:06,644 --> 00:24:07,775 I'm not afraid. 299 00:24:07,810 --> 00:24:09,480 - Oh, you're not? - No. 300 00:24:09,515 --> 00:24:10,910 Well, damn. 301 00:24:10,945 --> 00:24:12,912 Then you need to be leadin' this movement 302 00:24:12,947 --> 00:24:15,013 and teaching me how to not be 303 00:24:15,048 --> 00:24:17,180 terrified of these crazy white folks. 304 00:24:17,215 --> 00:24:19,490 Martin...- 305 00:24:19,987 --> 00:24:22,053 Why do you want to march? 306 00:24:22,088 --> 00:24:25,023 After all this time traveling with you, 307 00:24:25,058 --> 00:24:26,662 after all the horror we've seen, 308 00:24:26,697 --> 00:24:27,993 what kind of question is that? 309 00:24:30,932 --> 00:24:32,965 Are you runnin' from your daddy? 310 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,065 No. 311 00:24:36,069 --> 00:24:39,675 So, you tell him you wanna march? 312 00:24:39,710 --> 00:24:41,512 I don't have to. 313 00:24:41,547 --> 00:24:43,976 It's my decision. I'm a grown woman, remember? 314 00:24:44,011 --> 00:24:48,651 Oh, so, you ready to orphan your kids now, hmm? 315 00:24:48,686 --> 00:24:50,851 - Are you? - No. 316 00:24:50,886 --> 00:24:51,852 But you're doing it anyway. 317 00:24:51,887 --> 00:24:54,184 Because I have to. 318 00:24:54,219 --> 00:24:55,955 - And I don't? - Ree... 319 00:24:55,990 --> 00:24:57,957 Singing for the movement 320 00:24:57,992 --> 00:25:00,663 and sending people into battle with a song 321 00:25:00,698 --> 00:25:02,797 is not enough anymore. 322 00:25:02,832 --> 00:25:03,963 I need to be with them. 323 00:25:04,966 --> 00:25:06,031 You have a good talk? 324 00:25:07,298 --> 00:25:08,704 Yes. 325 00:25:14,305 --> 00:25:16,041 It was a good talk. 326 00:25:16,879 --> 00:25:18,879 Brother, come on. 327 00:25:18,914 --> 00:25:20,980 She's restless, I can tell. 328 00:25:21,015 --> 00:25:23,180 I... I... I don't know if it's restless. 329 00:25:24,249 --> 00:25:26,821 She just wants to do more. 330 00:25:26,856 --> 00:25:28,086 What kind of more? 331 00:25:39,165 --> 00:25:40,205 I'll be there in a minute. 332 00:25:43,609 --> 00:25:44,839 Momma! 333 00:25:44,874 --> 00:25:47,710 Clarence! Eddie! 334 00:25:47,745 --> 00:25:50,680 - Momma! Momma! Momma! - My babies! My babies! 335 00:25:53,014 --> 00:25:54,717 Are you all right, baby?- 336 00:25:54,752 --> 00:25:57,918 Clarence, you go in your room and wait for me. 337 00:25:57,953 --> 00:25:59,766 Come here. It's all right, baby, it's all right. 338 00:25:59,790 --> 00:26:01,020 Come on. Come on. 339 00:26:01,055 --> 00:26:03,187 It's all right. It's all right. 340 00:26:03,222 --> 00:26:05,860 Every time I come back, they want me less. 341 00:26:05,895 --> 00:26:07,158 That's not true. 342 00:26:07,193 --> 00:26:09,732 They talk about you all the time. 343 00:26:09,767 --> 00:26:12,064 Every night, I show 'em where you are on the map. 344 00:26:12,671 --> 00:26:14,132 One cookie. 345 00:26:18,941 --> 00:26:20,006 Fix your face now. 346 00:26:20,712 --> 00:26:22,206 This party is for y'all. 347 00:26:22,241 --> 00:26:23,944 - How are you, Mama? - God is good. 348 00:26:23,979 --> 00:26:25,143 All the time. 349 00:26:26,652 --> 00:26:28,212 Let's eat. I'm starving. 350 00:26:32,790 --> 00:26:34,086 So, where y'all headed? 351 00:26:34,121 --> 00:26:37,155 We go to Tennessee, then to Georgia, 352 00:26:37,190 --> 00:26:40,290 then to North Carolina, and then back to Alabama, I think. 353 00:26:40,325 --> 00:26:42,831 Damn. Martin's tour's busier than Daddy's. 354 00:26:42,866 --> 00:26:46,637 Erma, sometimes we hit two states in one day. 355 00:26:46,672 --> 00:26:50,333 What was that story about Aunt Mahalia not paying you? 356 00:26:50,368 --> 00:26:53,908 She said I would receive my reward in Heaven. 357 00:26:58,211 --> 00:26:59,342 Oh. 358 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,148 No, Ree. Uh-uh. 359 00:27:13,831 --> 00:27:15,226 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh... 360 00:27:15,261 --> 00:27:16,865 - Smokey... - Hey, hey, hey, hey. 361 00:27:16,900 --> 00:27:18,328 He's got some news, Ree. 362 00:27:18,363 --> 00:27:20,099 I heard you're cuttin' a record. 363 00:27:20,134 --> 00:27:22,101 Yeah, with Berry over at Motown. 364 00:27:22,136 --> 00:27:23,905 They got some sweet sounds, Ree. 365 00:27:23,940 --> 00:27:25,445 They're signing a bunch of folks in the neighborhood. 366 00:27:25,469 --> 00:27:27,942 Listen, we are trying to put Detroit on the map. 367 00:27:27,977 --> 00:27:29,240 You gotta be a part of it. 368 00:27:29,275 --> 00:27:31,682 - I would love that. - Yeah? 369 00:27:31,717 --> 00:27:33,156 Cecil, let me talk to Daddy about it. 370 00:27:33,180 --> 00:27:34,817 Don't bring it up until I say. 371 00:27:34,852 --> 00:27:36,819 You know what? Let's let Berry talk to him. 372 00:27:36,854 --> 00:27:38,249 Better yet, his sister. 373 00:27:38,284 --> 00:27:40,691 She can talk ice out of the devil's mouth. 374 00:27:42,057 --> 00:27:43,320 What are you drinking? 375 00:27:44,125 --> 00:27:45,663 Iced tea. 376 00:27:47,128 --> 00:27:50,261 Just iced tea? 377 00:27:52,199 --> 00:27:55,200 With a little bourbon.- 378 00:27:56,742 --> 00:27:58,973 Yeah, you look like a bourbon girl. 379 00:28:01,274 --> 00:28:02,845 How long are you in town for? 380 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,011 A week. 381 00:28:04,046 --> 00:28:05,749 Then I return to Tennessee. 382 00:28:05,784 --> 00:28:07,377 Well, then, I won't waste any time. 383 00:28:07,412 --> 00:28:08,917 Mm. 384 00:28:08,952 --> 00:28:11,722 - I'd like to take you out. - Hmm. 385 00:28:11,757 --> 00:28:13,350 I'd like you to take me out. 386 00:28:13,891 --> 00:28:15,220 How about tonight? 387 00:28:16,487 --> 00:28:18,157 Ree! 388 00:28:18,192 --> 00:28:19,895 Come and help me set this table. 389 00:28:21,833 --> 00:28:24,867 Yes, to tonight. 390 00:28:24,902 --> 00:28:27,232 - Okay. - Excuse me a moment. 391 00:28:37,046 --> 00:28:39,211 Reverend. 392 00:28:39,246 --> 00:28:42,016 I put up with you coming to my house all these years 393 00:28:42,051 --> 00:28:44,414 'cause you were friends with my friends. 394 00:28:44,449 --> 00:28:46,416 But I don't want you around here anymore. 395 00:28:46,451 --> 00:28:48,385 May I give you some counsel, Reverend? 396 00:28:49,828 --> 00:28:52,191 Ephesians 6:4 says, "Fathers, 397 00:28:52,226 --> 00:28:54,424 do not exasperate your children. 398 00:28:54,459 --> 00:28:56,228 Instead, bring them up in the training 399 00:28:56,263 --> 00:28:58,329 and the instruction of the Lord." 400 00:28:58,364 --> 00:29:00,067 Lord, give me strength. 401 00:29:00,102 --> 00:29:01,464 Are you serious? 402 00:29:01,499 --> 00:29:04,434 You may wanna loosen your grip on Aretha. 403 00:29:04,469 --> 00:29:06,018 You know, every minister's daughter I've ever known... 404 00:29:06,042 --> 00:29:07,522 Nigga, you don't wanna mess with me... 405 00:29:08,341 --> 00:29:09,406 or mine. 406 00:29:30,836 --> 00:29:32,297 I got this. 407 00:29:33,102 --> 00:29:34,431 I got it. 408 00:29:44,377 --> 00:29:45,816 Whoo!- 409 00:29:45,851 --> 00:29:47,114 Whoo! 410 00:29:48,854 --> 00:29:50,953 I love to party 411 00:29:52,253 --> 00:29:54,286 I want you by my side 412 00:29:54,321 --> 00:29:55,452 Take that off. 413 00:29:59,931 --> 00:30:02,558 Everyone! everyone!- 414 00:30:02,593 --> 00:30:05,462 Please, please, gather around. 415 00:30:07,906 --> 00:30:09,807 Aretha, will you join me, please? 416 00:30:15,144 --> 00:30:17,848 This party is not just, uh, 417 00:30:17,883 --> 00:30:19,311 a homecoming. 418 00:30:19,346 --> 00:30:22,413 It's also an announcement. 419 00:30:22,448 --> 00:30:26,417 God is moving us on to our next chapter. 420 00:30:29,290 --> 00:30:31,455 I've been talking to a number of record producers 421 00:30:31,490 --> 00:30:32,995 about Aretha. 422 00:30:33,030 --> 00:30:34,898 There were many 423 00:30:34,933 --> 00:30:36,493 who were interested in working with her. 424 00:30:39,432 --> 00:30:41,531 Tell them what it is, Ree. 425 00:30:41,566 --> 00:30:42,566 Ah... 426 00:30:44,910 --> 00:30:46,404 A plane ticket to New York City. 427 00:30:52,082 --> 00:30:53,510 Congratulations, Ree. 428 00:30:55,580 --> 00:30:57,415 Thank you. 429 00:31:01,355 --> 00:31:02,860 This is it. 430 00:31:04,325 --> 00:31:05,863 Wow. 431 00:31:07,625 --> 00:31:09,559 Excuse me? 432 00:31:09,594 --> 00:31:11,561 I have a meeting with a John Hammond 433 00:31:11,596 --> 00:31:12,936 of Columbia Records. 434 00:31:12,971 --> 00:31:14,498 Sign in, please. 435 00:31:22,343 --> 00:31:23,914 You ready? 436 00:31:25,346 --> 00:31:27,049 - I'm ready. 437 00:31:33,486 --> 00:31:38,192 I've always seen Aretha as more than a gospel singer. 438 00:31:38,227 --> 00:31:41,261 Well, clearly from her demo, she's so much more. 439 00:31:43,001 --> 00:31:44,429 Stand up, Ree. 440 00:31:45,630 --> 00:31:47,564 Turn around. 441 00:31:49,238 --> 00:31:52,074 There can sometimes be a lack of effortlessness 442 00:31:52,109 --> 00:31:53,603 of the kind you find 443 00:31:53,638 --> 00:31:57,277 in a Lena Horne or a Dorothy Dandridge. 444 00:31:57,312 --> 00:32:00,610 But what Aretha lacks in formal education, 445 00:32:00,645 --> 00:32:03,547 she more than makes up for in experience. 446 00:32:03,582 --> 00:32:07,958 She has performed before every type of crowd imaginable, 447 00:32:07,993 --> 00:32:11,456 from small churches to audiences of thousands. 448 00:32:12,492 --> 00:32:13,532 You can sit down now, Ree. 449 00:32:20,401 --> 00:32:24,139 I... I'm curious. 450 00:32:25,703 --> 00:32:28,506 Who are your favorite artists? 451 00:32:28,541 --> 00:32:30,145 Dinah Washington. 452 00:32:30,741 --> 00:32:32,312 Ella Fitzgerald. 453 00:32:32,347 --> 00:32:33,951 - Hmm. - Sam Cooke. 454 00:32:34,415 --> 00:32:35,480 All family friends. 455 00:32:36,549 --> 00:32:38,714 Sam would very much like Aretha 456 00:32:38,749 --> 00:32:40,617 to sign with RCA. 457 00:32:41,290 --> 00:32:43,488 Well, we can't have that. 458 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,525 Welcome 459 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,098 to Columbia Records. 460 00:32:57,768 --> 00:32:59,141 Prove yourself 461 00:33:00,639 --> 00:33:02,551 as a jazz artist, and everything else will follow. 462 00:33:02,575 --> 00:33:04,047 I understand. 463 00:33:04,082 --> 00:33:05,378 Wonderful. 464 00:33:15,456 --> 00:33:17,423 Are you ready, Aretha? 465 00:33:17,458 --> 00:33:19,557 - Yes, Mr. Hammond. - Wonderful. 466 00:33:19,592 --> 00:33:21,196 The conductor will point at you 467 00:33:21,231 --> 00:33:22,593 when he's ready for you to begin. 468 00:33:36,213 --> 00:33:40,578 Accentuate the positive 469 00:33:44,551 --> 00:33:48,058 to the affirmative 470 00:33:48,093 --> 00:33:49,389 with mister in-between 471 00:33:49,424 --> 00:33:50,467 She sounds wonderful, doesn't she? 472 00:33:50,491 --> 00:33:51,721 She does. 473 00:33:51,756 --> 00:33:53,789 Like a black Judy Garland. 474 00:33:53,824 --> 00:33:55,593 Up to the maximum 475 00:33:55,628 --> 00:33:59,234 down to the minimum 476 00:33:59,269 --> 00:34:02,666 pandemonium 477 00:34:02,701 --> 00:34:06,505 upon the scene 478 00:34:06,540 --> 00:34:08,243 Ladies and gentlemen, 479 00:34:08,278 --> 00:34:10,080 the Village Vanguard is proud to present 480 00:34:10,115 --> 00:34:11,576 Miss Aretha Franklin, 481 00:34:11,611 --> 00:34:14,084 debuting her latest record, Unforgettable. 482 00:34:21,555 --> 00:34:24,127 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 483 00:34:24,162 --> 00:34:26,591 We hope you enjoy the show tonight. 484 00:34:27,396 --> 00:34:29,561 I see an old family friend. 485 00:34:29,596 --> 00:34:32,102 Dinah Washington is in the audience. 486 00:34:39,441 --> 00:34:40,836 I'd like to sing a song 487 00:34:40,871 --> 00:34:44,642 in honor of her great artistry and talent. 488 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:09,799 Bitch! 489 00:35:09,834 --> 00:35:11,636 Don't you ever sing the Queen's songs 490 00:35:11,671 --> 00:35:12,991 when the Queen is in front of you! 491 00:35:22,352 --> 00:35:24,484 What the hell were you thinking? 492 00:35:24,849 --> 00:35:26,288 I'm sorry. 493 00:35:26,323 --> 00:35:27,487 You wanna take me on? 494 00:35:27,522 --> 00:35:29,357 - No. - Liar. 495 00:35:29,392 --> 00:35:30,897 You wouldn't be here if you wasn't trying to replace me 496 00:35:30,921 --> 00:35:32,789 and every other bitch out here singin'. 497 00:35:34,529 --> 00:35:35,891 How many albums have you had? 498 00:35:35,926 --> 00:35:36,926 Four. 499 00:35:38,335 --> 00:35:39,796 And no hits. 500 00:35:48,477 --> 00:35:50,510 You out here, but I can see you 501 00:35:50,545 --> 00:35:52,523 still that little girl in your daddy's living room. 502 00:35:52,547 --> 00:35:54,778 You're singin' everything and anything. 503 00:35:54,813 --> 00:35:57,385 Shoop Shoop one day, Skylark the next, 504 00:35:57,420 --> 00:35:59,717 and then some Billie Holiday blues. 505 00:35:59,752 --> 00:36:01,290 Girl, you're all over the place. 506 00:36:01,886 --> 00:36:02,886 What do you wanna sing? 507 00:36:03,954 --> 00:36:05,294 I don't know. 508 00:36:08,365 --> 00:36:09,727 You don't know? 509 00:36:09,762 --> 00:36:12,796 I want hits. I just want hits. 510 00:36:12,831 --> 00:36:14,743 Girl, you need to let go of that "up with the race" 511 00:36:14,767 --> 00:36:17,405 Booker T. Washington proper Negro shit. 512 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:18,901 That's not you. 513 00:36:18,936 --> 00:36:20,617 Your daddy likes to pretend that's who he is, 514 00:36:20,641 --> 00:36:22,608 but that's not who he is either. 515 00:36:22,643 --> 00:36:25,215 Child, y'all church folks 516 00:36:25,250 --> 00:36:27,943 are some of the nastiest people out here. 517 00:36:27,978 --> 00:36:30,517 Ray Charles told me that the best sex he ever had 518 00:36:30,552 --> 00:36:32,352 was when he was singin' on the gospel circuit. 519 00:36:33,819 --> 00:36:37,755 Honey, find the songs that suit you. That move you. 520 00:36:37,790 --> 00:36:41,198 Until you do that, you ain't goin' nowhere. 521 00:36:44,929 --> 00:36:46,533 Put some teabags on that. 522 00:36:47,668 --> 00:36:48,865 Take the puffiness down. 523 00:36:54,312 --> 00:36:55,542 How's Big Mama? 524 00:36:57,348 --> 00:36:58,611 She's all right. 525 00:36:58,976 --> 00:36:59,976 The kids? 526 00:37:01,550 --> 00:37:03,385 They're good. 527 00:37:03,420 --> 00:37:05,486 Child, you ever gonna tell us who their daddy is? 528 00:37:36,849 --> 00:37:38,684 Ree-Ree? 529 00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:39,894 You wanna tell me what's wrong? 530 00:37:39,918 --> 00:37:40,918 I can't. 531 00:38:12,489 --> 00:38:13,752 No answer. 532 00:38:14,524 --> 00:38:15,622 Call her again. 533 00:38:20,761 --> 00:38:21,761 Hmm. 534 00:38:23,093 --> 00:38:25,335 I didn't know you were comin' in today, Daddy. 535 00:38:25,370 --> 00:38:26,798 You are 68 minutes late. 536 00:38:26,833 --> 00:38:29,999 Mr. Hammond asked me to come in. 537 00:38:30,034 --> 00:38:33,904 You've been skipping interviews and gigs. 538 00:38:34,940 --> 00:38:37,611 The demon is back. 539 00:38:37,646 --> 00:38:40,878 Ree has a tendency to indulge her pain. 540 00:38:40,913 --> 00:38:43,078 Can we talk about this somewhere else? 541 00:38:43,113 --> 00:38:45,047 John. John. 542 00:38:45,082 --> 00:38:48,556 It's important that you understand that this behavior 543 00:38:48,591 --> 00:38:53,055 is not a reflection of her upbringing or her race. 544 00:38:53,090 --> 00:38:54,760 Well, I've worked with Bessie Smith 545 00:38:54,795 --> 00:38:55,959 and Billie Holiday. 546 00:38:55,994 --> 00:38:58,368 Aretha is a saint in comparison. 547 00:38:58,403 --> 00:39:00,502 She wasn't raised in a whorehouse like them. 548 00:39:00,537 --> 00:39:02,801 She was raised in a proper home 549 00:39:02,836 --> 00:39:04,935 with every convenience and luxury. 550 00:39:06,939 --> 00:39:10,776 But still, a darkness would descend on her. 551 00:39:10,811 --> 00:39:12,415 I called it the demon. 552 00:39:12,450 --> 00:39:15,847 She'd lock herself away, wouldn't speak, move, 553 00:39:15,882 --> 00:39:17,816 just wallow in whatever imaginary... 554 00:39:18,489 --> 00:39:19,554 I... 555 00:39:22,119 --> 00:39:24,724 You told me before we came out here 556 00:39:24,759 --> 00:39:25,659 that you had it under control. 557 00:39:25,694 --> 00:39:27,023 I have control. 558 00:39:29,159 --> 00:39:32,402 You keep complaining that you don't have any hits. 559 00:39:32,437 --> 00:39:34,932 This is why you don't have any hits. 560 00:39:34,967 --> 00:39:36,032 Acting like a trifling... 561 00:39:39,708 --> 00:39:40,971 Apologize to Mr. Hammond. 562 00:39:41,006 --> 00:39:43,072 No, there's no need to apologize. 563 00:39:43,107 --> 00:39:45,844 That is not why I don't have hits. 564 00:39:45,879 --> 00:39:47,159 You don't pick good songs for me. 565 00:39:55,152 --> 00:39:57,592 Sorry for being late, Mr. Hammond. 566 00:39:59,992 --> 00:40:01,596 It won't happen again. 567 00:40:03,193 --> 00:40:05,061 I'm ready to record when you are. 568 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:06,997 Hmm. 569 00:40:10,739 --> 00:40:13,443 Please excuse me while I go to the ladies' room. 570 00:40:29,021 --> 00:40:31,593 So, you gonna come with us this weekend? 571 00:40:31,628 --> 00:40:32,759 I have a gig. 572 00:40:32,794 --> 00:40:34,464 We can go after your gig. 573 00:40:35,192 --> 00:40:37,060 You work too hard. 574 00:40:37,095 --> 00:40:39,436 Not according to my daddy.- 575 00:40:40,670 --> 00:40:42,736 Well, you need some fun. 576 00:40:42,771 --> 00:40:43,968 Come with us. 577 00:40:52,044 --> 00:40:54,077 Can you introduce me to his friend? 578 00:40:54,783 --> 00:40:56,046 I don't know him. 579 00:41:36,088 --> 00:41:38,726 You were supposed to take me out in Detroit. 580 00:41:38,761 --> 00:41:40,090 Yes, one of my singers 581 00:41:40,125 --> 00:41:41,795 ran into a little trouble out of town, 582 00:41:41,830 --> 00:41:44,193 so I had to take care of it. 583 00:41:44,228 --> 00:41:46,195 I think my father said something to you 584 00:41:46,230 --> 00:41:48,835 - to make you reconsider. - Oh. 585 00:41:48,870 --> 00:41:52,267 That's a nice little fable you got goin' on in your head. 586 00:41:53,974 --> 00:41:55,105 I know what you do. 587 00:41:57,747 --> 00:41:59,241 It doesn't bother me. 588 00:42:00,783 --> 00:42:04,147 I know it doesn't bother you. 589 00:42:04,182 --> 00:42:07,084 You're rebelling against your daddy. 590 00:42:07,119 --> 00:42:08,250 I don't mind. 591 00:42:09,253 --> 00:42:12,188 Listen, you wanna use me for my body, 592 00:42:12,861 --> 00:42:14,861 you can use me, baby. 593 00:42:14,896 --> 00:42:17,226 You can wring me dry. 594 00:42:17,261 --> 00:42:20,031 You and me, we've been through it. 595 00:42:21,001 --> 00:42:23,298 So we can skip all the flowers 596 00:42:23,333 --> 00:42:25,168 and the promises, and the love bullshit, 597 00:42:25,203 --> 00:42:27,005 and just have some fun. 598 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:28,842 I like fun. 599 00:42:28,877 --> 00:42:30,206 And we'll have plenty of it. 600 00:42:34,311 --> 00:42:36,014 I want one thing from you. 601 00:42:37,281 --> 00:42:38,281 What? 602 00:42:39,349 --> 00:42:41,019 To hear you sing. 603 00:42:41,054 --> 00:42:42,856 Just for me. 604 00:42:42,891 --> 00:42:45,023 What will I get in return? 605 00:42:45,828 --> 00:42:48,224 The best night of your life. 606 00:43:17,794 --> 00:43:18,925 Taxi! 607 00:43:36,010 --> 00:43:38,978 I want you to think about me when you sing tomorrow. 608 00:43:39,013 --> 00:43:40,914 You're not coming home with me? 609 00:43:41,411 --> 00:43:43,246 No. 610 00:43:43,281 --> 00:43:45,248 What about the best night of my life? 611 00:43:45,283 --> 00:43:47,151 I didn't say it would be tonight. 612 00:43:57,966 --> 00:44:02,001 Enchanted boy 613 00:44:02,036 --> 00:44:08,073 Very far 614 00:44:30,999 --> 00:44:35,331 He passed my way 615 00:44:37,434 --> 00:44:38,939 I'm sorry. 616 00:44:40,008 --> 00:44:41,337 I'm sorry. 617 00:44:44,947 --> 00:44:46,848 Would you like to take a break, Aretha? 618 00:44:47,345 --> 00:44:48,982 No. 619 00:44:49,017 --> 00:44:50,247 I'll get it right this time. 620 00:44:51,217 --> 00:44:52,414 Take 12. 621 00:45:11,237 --> 00:45:15,404 Enchanted boy 622 00:45:15,439 --> 00:45:21,212 Very far 623 00:45:44,468 --> 00:45:48,470 he passed my way 624 00:45:48,505 --> 00:45:51,913 of many things 625 00:46:20,537 --> 00:46:22,438 You have all my records. 626 00:46:25,047 --> 00:46:26,409 You like them? 627 00:46:26,444 --> 00:46:27,444 I bought them. 628 00:46:29,986 --> 00:46:31,381 Which one you like best? 629 00:46:33,253 --> 00:46:34,384 They've all got something. 630 00:46:36,124 --> 00:46:37,827 Is this one your favorite? 631 00:46:40,128 --> 00:46:41,193 Hmm? 632 00:46:44,528 --> 00:46:45,934 Or this? 633 00:46:48,906 --> 00:46:50,268 What are you doing? 634 00:46:50,303 --> 00:46:51,874 Or this one? 635 00:46:51,909 --> 00:46:54,107 Went to 64 on the charts. 636 00:46:56,144 --> 00:46:58,012 You didn't even open this one. 637 00:47:00,445 --> 00:47:01,445 You don't like them? 638 00:47:02,282 --> 00:47:03,446 I didn't say that. 639 00:47:03,481 --> 00:47:04,986 Then say it. 640 00:47:05,021 --> 00:47:06,416 I won't be upset. 641 00:47:06,957 --> 00:47:08,990 No one does. 642 00:47:09,025 --> 00:47:11,861 First, I've listened to all your albums. 643 00:47:12,589 --> 00:47:15,161 Including this one. 644 00:47:15,966 --> 00:47:17,427 More than once. 645 00:47:19,068 --> 00:47:22,135 Secondly, I love music. 646 00:47:22,170 --> 00:47:24,467 I take it seriously. 647 00:47:24,502 --> 00:47:27,305 I managed my first artist when I was 15. 648 00:47:27,340 --> 00:47:31,045 Thirdly, what you experienced yesterday, 649 00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,575 17 takes on one song? 650 00:47:33,610 --> 00:47:36,314 That happens to me every time I hear you sing. 651 00:47:37,251 --> 00:47:39,416 My brain gets all... 652 00:47:40,584 --> 00:47:42,419 muddled. 653 00:47:42,454 --> 00:47:46,896 Well, first, 654 00:47:46,931 --> 00:47:50,526 my apologies for putting you through so much pain. 655 00:47:53,102 --> 00:47:56,169 - And secondly... - Mm-hmm. 656 00:47:56,204 --> 00:47:59,172 You should have never told me about your Achilles' heel. 657 00:48:00,340 --> 00:48:02,175 On our first date. 658 00:48:11,384 --> 00:48:13,318 Oh, damn it. 659 00:48:20,624 --> 00:48:24,230 Keep singing.- 660 00:48:24,265 --> 00:48:25,979 I didn't think you were comin' home for two weeks. 661 00:48:26,003 --> 00:48:27,464 I miss my babies.- 662 00:48:27,499 --> 00:48:28,971 And y'all. 663 00:48:31,041 --> 00:48:32,205 Who's that plate for? 664 00:48:33,274 --> 00:48:34,471 Ted. 665 00:48:34,506 --> 00:48:37,980 Oh, sweet Jesus, are you serious? 666 00:48:38,015 --> 00:48:39,289 - What are you thinking? - Please help me with Daddy. 667 00:48:39,313 --> 00:48:40,313 - No... - Help me. 668 00:48:41,018 --> 00:48:42,182 Good Sunday, everybody. 669 00:48:48,322 --> 00:48:50,960 What the hell is this? 670 00:48:50,995 --> 00:48:52,522 You didn't tell them I was coming? 671 00:48:52,557 --> 00:48:54,007 I don't know what you think you're doing here 672 00:48:54,031 --> 00:48:55,096 and I don't care. 673 00:48:55,131 --> 00:48:57,263 Just leave. Now. 674 00:48:57,298 --> 00:48:58,627 Aretha asked me to come 675 00:48:58,662 --> 00:49:00,431 and Aretha can ask me to leave. 676 00:49:01,731 --> 00:49:04,270 - I want him to stay. - This is my house. 677 00:49:04,305 --> 00:49:05,634 Since when do you get to tell me 678 00:49:05,669 --> 00:49:07,504 who gets to be in my house, Ree, huh? 679 00:49:07,539 --> 00:49:09,506 I want you to get to know him. 680 00:49:09,541 --> 00:49:10,672 He's not what you think. 681 00:49:10,707 --> 00:49:11,707 Are you pregnant again? 682 00:49:11,741 --> 00:49:13,213 No! 683 00:49:14,348 --> 00:49:16,381 We just wanna be together. 684 00:49:18,055 --> 00:49:19,549 I love your daughter, Reverend. 685 00:49:21,685 --> 00:49:24,026 And I think she loves me. 686 00:49:24,061 --> 00:49:25,390 I do. 687 00:49:25,425 --> 00:49:27,062 - No! No! - Oh, my Lord! 688 00:49:27,097 --> 00:49:28,163 Ree... - Clarence! No! 689 00:49:28,198 --> 00:49:30,197 Didn't I tell you not to mess with me or mine? 690 00:49:30,232 --> 00:49:31,099 - Didn't I tell you? - Clarence! 691 00:49:31,134 --> 00:49:32,463 Son, don't you let this man 692 00:49:32,498 --> 00:49:34,366 put your church and your soul in jeopardy. 693 00:49:45,709 --> 00:49:46,983 Reverend, 694 00:49:48,316 --> 00:49:49,546 we have to figure this out. 695 00:49:49,581 --> 00:49:51,614 I'm not going anywhere. 696 00:49:51,649 --> 00:49:53,715 You can't see through this hustler? 697 00:49:53,750 --> 00:49:56,751 - You're the greatest hustler I ever seen.- 698 00:49:56,786 --> 00:49:59,688 Every night, she picks herself apart because of you. 699 00:49:59,723 --> 00:50:03,065 She thinks it's her hair, her body, her voice. 700 00:50:03,100 --> 00:50:05,177 She worries about failing you, but it's your failure. 701 00:50:05,201 --> 00:50:07,069 Get out! Just... 702 00:50:07,104 --> 00:50:09,434 Daddy, I know how busy you are. 703 00:50:09,469 --> 00:50:11,634 You have so much going on all the time. 704 00:50:11,669 --> 00:50:13,570 Running a church, the speakin' engagements, 705 00:50:13,605 --> 00:50:16,441 managing Carolyn. 706 00:50:16,476 --> 00:50:18,641 I know about your contract at Horizon Records. 707 00:50:18,676 --> 00:50:20,478 I was gonna tell you. 708 00:50:20,513 --> 00:50:22,249 When? When the damn album came out? 709 00:50:22,284 --> 00:50:24,229 Nobody can tell you anything, Ree. You're so jealous. 710 00:50:24,253 --> 00:50:25,714 Jealous? Of you two? 711 00:50:25,749 --> 00:50:27,188 You think you better than us? 712 00:50:27,223 --> 00:50:28,486 That's exactly 713 00:50:28,521 --> 00:50:29,454 - what she's saying. - No! 714 00:50:29,489 --> 00:50:31,555 Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! 715 00:50:32,756 --> 00:50:35,361 You are not leaving this family 716 00:50:35,396 --> 00:50:37,297 for that piece of trash. 717 00:50:39,103 --> 00:50:41,301 I need a change. 718 00:50:42,403 --> 00:50:44,601 I wanna sing what I wanna sing 719 00:50:44,636 --> 00:50:47,505 and I wanna dress like I want to dress. 720 00:50:48,277 --> 00:50:49,606 And I want Ted to manage me. 721 00:50:51,313 --> 00:50:54,149 He's not worth the shit at the bottom of my shoe. 722 00:50:54,184 --> 00:50:56,349 So that means that you think I'm worth less than that. 723 00:50:56,384 --> 00:50:57,680 After all we've been through. 724 00:50:57,715 --> 00:50:59,187 After all that I've done for you. 725 00:51:04,392 --> 00:51:06,656 I have to do this, Daddy. 726 00:51:12,136 --> 00:51:15,599 You are going to beg me to take you back. 727 00:51:18,835 --> 00:51:20,637 But I won't. 728 00:51:21,310 --> 00:51:22,639 I won't. 729 00:51:42,826 --> 00:51:45,662 I'm gonna say goodbye to my children. 730 00:51:45,697 --> 00:51:47,829 - Okay. - And then we'll go. 731 00:51:47,864 --> 00:51:48,864 Okay. 732 00:52:03,583 --> 00:52:04,846 Y'all not gonna fix me a plate? 733 00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,577 With that gun in your hand? 734 00:52:36,220 --> 00:52:37,912 You keep beating up these club owners, 735 00:52:37,947 --> 00:52:40,288 there won't be any clubs left for me to sing at. 736 00:52:41,357 --> 00:52:43,621 No one disrespects us. 737 00:52:43,656 --> 00:52:45,524 I just don't know what else to do... 738 00:52:46,362 --> 00:52:48,560 after nine albums. 739 00:52:51,367 --> 00:52:52,729 Yes, this is Ted White. 740 00:52:52,764 --> 00:52:55,402 I'm calling to speak to Mr. Whitfield. 741 00:52:55,437 --> 00:52:57,734 Well, I'd like to speak to him about Aretha Franklin. 742 00:53:01,245 --> 00:53:04,246 - Mommy can't cook either. - It's sticky! 743 00:53:06,910 --> 00:53:08,811 I'm gonna be honest with ya. 744 00:53:08,846 --> 00:53:11,847 Your version of Skylark is one of my favorite songs. 745 00:53:12,553 --> 00:53:13,882 Thank you, Mr. Wexler. 746 00:53:13,917 --> 00:53:15,620 Oh, please, call me Jerry. 747 00:53:15,655 --> 00:53:17,402 You know what Etta James said when she heard it? 748 00:53:17,426 --> 00:53:19,426 She said you pissed all over that song, 749 00:53:19,461 --> 00:53:22,495 and she would never sing it again in her entire life. 750 00:53:22,530 --> 00:53:24,497 You ruined that song for Etta James. 751 00:53:24,532 --> 00:53:25,894 That is how good it was. 752 00:53:25,929 --> 00:53:27,632 And I'm not bullshittin' ya, okay? 753 00:53:27,667 --> 00:53:28,566 A lot of these guys out here 754 00:53:28,602 --> 00:53:29,909 will say anything to get in your drawers, 755 00:53:29,933 --> 00:53:31,537 but that's not me. 756 00:53:31,572 --> 00:53:33,671 I'm sorry. All right, I'm crude. 757 00:53:33,706 --> 00:53:36,377 And you're a church girl, and I should watch my mouth. 758 00:53:36,412 --> 00:53:37,642 I'm sorry. 759 00:53:38,612 --> 00:53:40,777 You do talk, don't ya? Not just sing? 760 00:53:43,683 --> 00:53:45,320 You are the sweetest thing, Aretha. 761 00:53:46,488 --> 00:53:48,554 I'd like you to call me Miss Franklin. 762 00:53:48,589 --> 00:53:51,656 Okay, Miss Franklin. 763 00:53:51,691 --> 00:53:53,427 What songs would you like to sing? 764 00:53:53,462 --> 00:53:55,264 I want hits. 765 00:53:55,299 --> 00:53:56,727 We're done with standards. 766 00:53:56,762 --> 00:53:58,795 We want original songs made for Aretha only. 767 00:53:58,830 --> 00:54:01,666 Great! We are speaking the same language, my man. 768 00:54:01,701 --> 00:54:02,843 One of the songwriters I represent 769 00:54:02,867 --> 00:54:04,537 wrote a good song for Aretha, 770 00:54:04,572 --> 00:54:06,407 I Never Loved A Man. 771 00:54:06,442 --> 00:54:08,475 Terrific. I've got the perfect place to record it. 772 00:54:08,510 --> 00:54:09,850 I'm working with this little studio 773 00:54:09,874 --> 00:54:11,544 down in Alabama and... 774 00:54:11,579 --> 00:54:13,447 Aretha's only recorded in New York. 775 00:54:13,482 --> 00:54:15,559 Yeah, I know that, but I think that's part of the problem. 776 00:54:15,583 --> 00:54:17,385 It's overproduced, it's a little too polished. 777 00:54:17,420 --> 00:54:18,386 I mean, these boys down there... 778 00:54:18,421 --> 00:54:20,014 "Boys"? 779 00:54:20,049 --> 00:54:21,686 Don't be offended, all right? 780 00:54:21,721 --> 00:54:23,985 I say boys because they're young like Aretha, 781 00:54:24,020 --> 00:54:26,625 like Miss Franklin, not because they're Negroes. 782 00:54:26,660 --> 00:54:28,022 These guys are the best musicians 783 00:54:28,057 --> 00:54:29,727 I have ever worked with in my life, 784 00:54:29,762 --> 00:54:31,564 and that's saying something. 785 00:54:31,599 --> 00:54:32,873 I've been doing this a long time. 786 00:54:32,897 --> 00:54:34,567 They don't need to read charts. 787 00:54:34,602 --> 00:54:36,899 They just feel their way through the music. 788 00:54:36,934 --> 00:54:38,967 It's really something. How does that sound to you? 789 00:54:40,410 --> 00:54:41,772 Sounds good. 790 00:54:41,807 --> 00:54:44,874 And I'm not controlling like Hammond, okay? 791 00:54:44,909 --> 00:54:46,480 I'm gonna give you plenty of space 792 00:54:46,515 --> 00:54:47,877 to do your thing, all right? 793 00:54:47,912 --> 00:54:50,319 This is your show, Miss Franklin. 794 00:54:50,354 --> 00:54:51,518 Your record. 795 00:54:51,553 --> 00:54:52,717 Okay? 796 00:55:36,862 --> 00:55:38,499 This is it? 797 00:55:38,534 --> 00:55:41,403 What did all the glamor at Columbia get me? 798 00:55:41,438 --> 00:55:42,932 Do you know who you're messing with? 799 00:55:42,967 --> 00:55:44,615 "Do I know who I'm..." Do you know who you're messing 800 00:55:44,639 --> 00:55:45,781 - with, buddy? - You tryin' to screw me over, 801 00:55:45,805 --> 00:55:46,980 - Rick? - You in my town now, buddy! 802 00:55:47,004 --> 00:55:47,640 This is my place! 803 00:55:47,675 --> 00:55:48,839 It's my record! 804 00:55:48,874 --> 00:55:50,676 Everything you see here is mine! 805 00:55:50,711 --> 00:55:52,007 This is my record! 806 00:55:56,849 --> 00:55:58,849 Miss Franklin, Ted, 807 00:55:58,884 --> 00:56:00,917 - welcome. - Jerry. 808 00:56:00,952 --> 00:56:02,424 Nice to see you. Hello. 809 00:56:03,559 --> 00:56:04,789 I'm Rick Hall. 810 00:56:08,894 --> 00:56:10,960 You don't have any Negro musicians in this town? 811 00:56:11,468 --> 00:56:12,863 Uh... 812 00:56:12,898 --> 00:56:14,414 - We were just discussing that. - Not today. 813 00:56:14,438 --> 00:56:15,932 Not today? 814 00:56:15,967 --> 00:56:19,672 There was a miscommunication, Ted. 815 00:56:19,707 --> 00:56:21,971 Negroes only allowed to pick cotton in these parts, huh? 816 00:56:28,111 --> 00:56:30,980 Percy Sledge had that same look on his face 817 00:56:31,015 --> 00:56:32,146 when he first come in here. 818 00:56:32,984 --> 00:56:34,720 And then he heard 'em play 819 00:56:34,755 --> 00:56:38,020 and he was very satisfied with his record. 820 00:56:38,055 --> 00:56:39,857 I think you will be, too. 821 00:56:39,892 --> 00:56:41,430 - Drink? - We don't have time 822 00:56:41,465 --> 00:56:42,794 for this right now. 823 00:56:46,998 --> 00:56:48,404 Where can I get a jacket like that? 824 00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:50,571 You'd have to come to Harlem. 825 00:56:51,871 --> 00:56:53,134 Always wanted to go to Harlem. 826 00:56:53,169 --> 00:56:54,641 Yeah. 827 00:57:03,014 --> 00:57:06,851 You're a no good heartbreaker 828 00:57:06,886 --> 00:57:08,457 Who's this singin'? 829 00:57:08,492 --> 00:57:09,557 The songwriter. 830 00:57:12,628 --> 00:57:13,693 Sings like a writer. 831 00:57:15,224 --> 00:57:17,026 Rick, you want drums on this? 832 00:57:17,061 --> 00:57:18,962 Or you just wanna keep it boring? 833 00:57:18,997 --> 00:57:20,645 I don't know, Roger. You know any good drummers around here? 834 00:57:20,669 --> 00:57:22,603 Don't, actually. 835 00:57:22,638 --> 00:57:24,231 It's just slow. 836 00:57:24,266 --> 00:57:25,881 - It's just a little slow. - Little slow, yeah. 837 00:57:25,905 --> 00:57:27,641 All right! Come on, guys! 838 00:57:27,676 --> 00:57:29,643 Hang with me on this. This is a good song! 839 00:57:29,678 --> 00:57:31,007 It's a great song. 840 00:57:31,042 --> 00:57:32,811 It is what it is. 841 00:57:41,921 --> 00:57:43,921 All right. Let's see what we can make of it. 842 00:57:43,956 --> 00:57:45,155 Hey, Spooner. 843 00:57:45,191 --> 00:57:47,472 You wanna keep that shuffle on there or straighten it out? 844 00:57:47,696 --> 00:57:49,091 Let's straighten it out. 845 00:57:49,929 --> 00:57:50,994 Straighten it out. 846 00:57:51,667 --> 00:57:52,667 Straightening out. 847 00:57:57,805 --> 00:57:59,068 Put some fatback on it. 848 00:57:59,103 --> 00:58:01,037 Yeah, like a King Curtis deal? 849 00:58:01,072 --> 00:58:03,644 Yeah...- 850 00:58:09,685 --> 00:58:11,080 Hey, man, that's groovy. 851 00:58:12,985 --> 00:58:15,249 All right, let's go with that. 852 00:58:15,284 --> 00:58:17,185 Yeah.- 853 00:58:21,092 --> 00:58:25,160 heartbreaker 854 00:58:26,163 --> 00:58:30,099 and you're a cheat 855 00:58:37,581 --> 00:58:39,240 do these things... 856 00:58:39,275 --> 00:58:40,978 Okay, let's hold up. 857 00:58:41,013 --> 00:58:42,980 Hold up. It sounds like, 858 00:58:43,015 --> 00:58:45,015 uh, Sunday morning service in there. 859 00:58:45,050 --> 00:58:46,555 Yeah, I was just about to say, 860 00:58:46,590 --> 00:58:47,853 it's a little too churchy, guys. 861 00:58:47,888 --> 00:58:49,316 I liked it. 862 00:58:49,351 --> 00:58:51,791 Let's find a different pocket, all right? 863 00:58:52,893 --> 00:58:54,222 Something with more swing. 864 00:58:54,895 --> 00:58:56,125 Speed it up. 865 00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:57,632 Yeah. 866 00:58:57,667 --> 00:58:59,931 No, don't speed it up. Follow me. 867 00:59:25,354 --> 00:59:28,124 If I could 868 00:59:29,633 --> 00:59:31,226 Stop. Stop. 869 00:59:33,098 --> 00:59:35,197 It's too busy. 870 00:59:35,232 --> 00:59:36,770 Let the song do the work. 871 00:59:36,805 --> 00:59:37,947 Yeah, stop showing off, guys. 872 00:59:37,971 --> 00:59:39,135 Yeah, boys, if you're trying 873 00:59:39,170 --> 00:59:41,038 to impress me, it's not working. 874 00:59:41,073 --> 00:59:42,886 Yeah, and more importantly, it's startin' to piss me off. 875 00:59:42,910 --> 00:59:43,953 Maybe we should do something closer 876 00:59:43,977 --> 00:59:45,086 to the original arrangement. 877 00:59:45,110 --> 00:59:46,879 Nah. - No, it's done. 878 00:59:49,114 --> 00:59:50,311 You kept steppin' on me. 879 00:59:50,346 --> 00:59:51,785 You were all over the neck. 880 00:59:51,820 --> 00:59:52,753 I couldn't tell what you were doing. 881 00:59:52,788 --> 00:59:53,886 I'm all over the neck? 882 00:59:53,921 --> 00:59:54,953 Find your lane, Jimmy. 883 00:59:54,988 --> 00:59:56,218 Look who's talkin'. 884 00:59:56,253 --> 00:59:57,857 They could hear your crash in Texas. 885 00:59:57,892 --> 00:59:59,386 Well, my horn arrangement's killer. 886 00:59:59,421 --> 01:00:00,970 Y'all let me know when you're ready to hear it. 887 01:00:00,994 --> 01:00:01,793 You gonna save the song, Jack? 888 01:00:01,828 --> 01:00:03,137 As I have on many an occasion, okay. 889 01:00:03,161 --> 01:00:04,161 Okay. 890 01:00:04,900 --> 01:00:06,294 Good job, Jack. - How about that. 891 01:00:20,244 --> 01:00:22,651 Spooner's got it! Spooner's got it! 892 01:00:22,686 --> 01:00:23,784 Yeah, he does. 893 01:00:31,255 --> 01:00:34,157 Good heartbreaker 894 01:00:35,699 --> 01:00:38,326 you're a cheat 895 01:00:43,432 --> 01:00:46,774 these things to me 896 01:00:58,183 --> 01:00:59,985 - Go on, baby. 897 01:01:10,734 --> 01:01:14,329 I ain't 898 01:01:20,271 --> 01:01:24,680 I love you, yeah 899 01:01:31,315 --> 01:01:33,821 run out of fools 900 01:01:38,927 --> 01:01:41,026 that you'll never lose 901 01:01:41,061 --> 01:01:42,291 That is rocking. 902 01:01:42,326 --> 01:01:44,326 Yeah, it sounds pretty good. 903 01:01:44,361 --> 01:01:46,262 I can do better.- 904 01:01:46,297 --> 01:01:49,034 It's like the perfect mixture of gospel, blues... 905 01:01:49,069 --> 01:01:50,233 And sex. 906 01:01:51,336 --> 01:01:53,874 Baby, that's some of the best singin' and playin' 907 01:01:53,909 --> 01:01:54,909 I've ever heard. 908 01:01:56,307 --> 01:01:58,340 I want to overdub some backgrounds on the chorus. 909 01:01:58,375 --> 01:02:00,276 You know, I was just thinkin' about that. 910 01:02:00,311 --> 01:02:01,882 We can bring in some local talent... 911 01:02:01,917 --> 01:02:03,312 No, I want to do it. 912 01:02:03,347 --> 01:02:04,827 Okay, even better. Save me some money. 913 01:02:05,184 --> 01:02:06,249 Jerry. 914 01:02:07,450 --> 01:02:08,757 Let me talk to you for a moment. 915 01:02:08,792 --> 01:02:09,792 Okay, okay. 916 01:02:11,388 --> 01:02:13,157 Had a rocking thing on it. 917 01:02:13,192 --> 01:02:15,797 Yeah, it did. - It was rocking. 918 01:02:15,832 --> 01:02:18,932 The way that I, I love you 919 01:02:18,967 --> 01:02:20,978 I wasn't lookin' at nobody. I was trying to do my work. 920 01:02:21,002 --> 01:02:23,332 He was looking at you. 921 01:02:23,367 --> 01:02:25,301 Thought he was gonna get him some nigga tail. 922 01:02:25,336 --> 01:02:26,841 Pack the bags. 923 01:02:26,876 --> 01:02:28,172 It sounded good. 924 01:02:28,207 --> 01:02:29,371 Real good. 925 01:02:29,406 --> 01:02:30,944 It was really comin' together, 926 01:02:30,979 --> 01:02:33,045 and you had to show your ignorant ass. 927 01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:34,849 I oughta leave you here 928 01:02:34,884 --> 01:02:36,818 and let those crackers have a go at you. 929 01:02:38,888 --> 01:02:41,119 This was the best I ever sounded. 930 01:02:41,154 --> 01:02:42,351 Couldn't you hear that? 931 01:02:44,421 --> 01:02:46,520 We'll finish this in New York. 932 01:02:46,555 --> 01:02:48,060 With my musicians. 933 01:02:48,095 --> 01:02:50,458 Your musicians ain't shit. 934 01:02:50,493 --> 01:02:52,460 You're not about to mess this up for me. 935 01:02:52,495 --> 01:02:53,879 Where the hell do you think you're going? 936 01:02:53,903 --> 01:02:54,869 I've waited too long for this. 937 01:02:54,904 --> 01:02:56,068 Where the... 938 01:02:56,103 --> 01:02:57,201 Like hell you are. 939 01:02:58,304 --> 01:03:00,264 You don't know who you're fucking with! Come here! 940 01:03:01,339 --> 01:03:03,240 Ted, it's Rick Hall. Open up.- 941 01:03:07,884 --> 01:03:09,510 This cracker here. 942 01:03:12,020 --> 01:03:13,349 Evenin'. 943 01:03:13,384 --> 01:03:14,515 May I come inside? 944 01:03:14,550 --> 01:03:15,550 No. 945 01:03:17,058 --> 01:03:19,256 I thought we should talk. 946 01:03:20,424 --> 01:03:22,996 I got nothin' to say to your hillbilly ass. 947 01:03:23,031 --> 01:03:26,901 I wish you wouldn't call me names. 948 01:03:26,936 --> 01:03:28,265 Do I call you names? 949 01:03:28,300 --> 01:03:31,367 And what would you like to call me, whitey? 950 01:03:35,142 --> 01:03:37,912 I come here to make peace. 951 01:03:37,947 --> 01:03:41,047 No, I don't wanna make peace with you, cracker. 952 01:03:44,184 --> 01:03:47,383 I come here to tell you that I fired 953 01:03:47,418 --> 01:03:49,121 that horn player who was troublin' you. 954 01:03:49,156 --> 01:03:51,486 And how'd it feel to take orders from a nigger? 955 01:03:55,327 --> 01:03:57,327 You know, 956 01:03:57,362 --> 01:03:59,835 I don't hate you 'cause you're a... 957 01:04:01,564 --> 01:04:03,432 a Negro. 958 01:04:03,467 --> 01:04:07,073 I hate you 'cause you're a giant asshole. 959 01:04:07,108 --> 01:04:08,943 Don't you ever step foot 960 01:04:08,978 --> 01:04:12,144 near my studio again, all right? 961 01:04:12,179 --> 01:04:13,453 Miss Franklin, you are welcome at any... 962 01:04:13,477 --> 01:04:15,213 Don't you talk to my wife, cracker! 963 01:04:15,248 --> 01:04:17,017 Now, you keep pushin' me... 964 01:04:17,052 --> 01:04:18,414 Yeah, what you gonna do, redneck? 965 01:04:18,449 --> 01:04:20,284 - And you keep pushin' me... - Peckerwood! 966 01:04:20,319 --> 01:04:22,418 Now, you gonna "redneck" me one more time, 967 01:04:22,453 --> 01:04:25,421 and you gonna "whitey" me one more time, 968 01:04:25,456 --> 01:04:27,489 and I'm gonna "nigger" you!- 969 01:04:27,524 --> 01:04:29,029 Bitch, call me a nigger again. 970 01:04:32,265 --> 01:04:33,902 Call me a bitch again, huh. 971 01:04:33,937 --> 01:04:37,169 You stupid! Ass! Bitch!- 972 01:05:09,005 --> 01:05:11,203 You hungry? 973 01:05:11,238 --> 01:05:12,501 I'm all right. 974 01:05:20,676 --> 01:05:22,544 Come on now, baby. 975 01:05:22,579 --> 01:05:24,480 Come on, come on. Come to Grandma. Come on. 976 01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:31,586 Ree is home! 977 01:05:38,430 --> 01:05:39,627 That bastard. 978 01:05:39,662 --> 01:05:41,068 I'm gonna kill him. 979 01:05:55,216 --> 01:05:56,347 You here for long? 980 01:05:58,054 --> 01:06:00,087 I'm not sure. 981 01:06:01,156 --> 01:06:02,221 Hmm. 982 01:06:08,196 --> 01:06:11,164 When I come home 983 01:06:17,172 --> 01:06:18,600 Did Aretha Franklin call? 984 01:06:18,635 --> 01:06:20,008 No. - No? 985 01:06:20,043 --> 01:06:21,141 Get it, Momma! 986 01:06:24,608 --> 01:06:26,542 Call Ted White. 987 01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:30,986 When I come home 988 01:06:32,253 --> 01:06:33,714 Do that thing, Momma! 989 01:06:33,749 --> 01:06:35,716 Just start callin' everybody on that list. 990 01:06:35,751 --> 01:06:37,487 Give me more mashed potato. 991 01:06:44,397 --> 01:06:45,726 Come on, Mama Franklin! 992 01:06:45,761 --> 01:06:47,464 Now, let's see you dance!- 993 01:06:47,499 --> 01:06:49,631 - All right! Oop. 994 01:06:49,666 --> 01:06:52,766 When I come home 995 01:06:57,080 --> 01:06:58,080 Hello? 996 01:07:00,380 --> 01:07:01,709 She isn't here. 997 01:07:02,745 --> 01:07:04,679 And if you touch her again, I'll... 998 01:07:06,617 --> 01:07:07,682 Go to hell. 999 01:07:11,094 --> 01:07:12,225 Okay. 1000 01:07:14,163 --> 01:07:18,198 Respect when I get home 1001 01:07:21,104 --> 01:07:23,203 - Mind if I sing with y'all? - Me too! 1002 01:07:27,110 --> 01:07:30,177 That's what I need 1003 01:07:33,776 --> 01:07:36,348 Your momma cut her first record at that store. 1004 01:07:36,383 --> 01:07:37,383 Jesus Be A Fence. 1005 01:07:38,517 --> 01:07:41,353 Folks lined up around the block to buy it. 1006 01:07:41,388 --> 01:07:43,652 They lined up to buy your records, too. 1007 01:07:43,687 --> 01:07:45,236 Ha. I'm about to tell 'em that story now. 1008 01:07:45,260 --> 01:07:47,260 Momma...- 1009 01:07:47,295 --> 01:07:49,229 - Ain't that... - Don't say "ain't." 1010 01:07:51,299 --> 01:07:52,727 But ain't that you singing? 1011 01:07:57,536 --> 01:07:59,437 They... They released that? 1012 01:07:59,472 --> 01:08:00,636 If I could 1013 01:08:00,671 --> 01:08:01,703 All right! 1014 01:08:06,677 --> 01:08:08,578 It's a hit! 1015 01:08:08,613 --> 01:08:10,778 Ree, it sounds wonderful. 1016 01:08:11,616 --> 01:08:13,517 Don't you think so, baby? 1017 01:08:14,487 --> 01:08:16,256 It's amazing, Ree. 1018 01:08:16,291 --> 01:08:18,390 That's my sister! - It's amazing. 1019 01:08:18,425 --> 01:08:20,656 That's your momma singing! That's amazing! 1020 01:08:23,694 --> 01:08:24,759 That's your momma singing! 1021 01:08:29,304 --> 01:08:30,435 Hello? 1022 01:08:30,470 --> 01:08:32,140 Mr. Wexler, 1023 01:08:32,175 --> 01:08:33,702 I'm ready to record. 1024 01:08:33,737 --> 01:08:34,737 Oh. 1025 01:08:35,178 --> 01:08:36,606 Thank God. 1026 01:08:36,641 --> 01:08:39,411 I want to record with the Muscle Shoals band. 1027 01:08:39,446 --> 01:08:41,215 Those boys have soul. 1028 01:08:41,250 --> 01:08:43,712 Yes, they do. They do. 1029 01:08:43,747 --> 01:08:46,418 And I want to provide the backup singers. 1030 01:09:01,336 --> 01:09:04,271 It's a man's world 1031 01:09:06,209 --> 01:09:09,210 by me 1032 01:09:11,676 --> 01:09:15,183 we're together, baby 1033 01:09:19,651 --> 01:09:23,587 'Cause if you want a do-right- 1034 01:09:40,738 --> 01:09:44,344 - my brother 1035 01:09:52,453 --> 01:09:54,618 Sorry. 1036 01:09:54,653 --> 01:09:56,653 You can't treat me like that. 1037 01:10:00,395 --> 01:10:01,526 I know. 1038 01:10:07,798 --> 01:10:09,633 I got demons too, Ree. 1039 01:10:12,407 --> 01:10:13,637 Can you help me fight mine 1040 01:10:13,672 --> 01:10:15,342 the way I help you fight yours? 1041 01:10:16,939 --> 01:10:18,477 Please. 1042 01:10:20,415 --> 01:10:21,810 I'm so sorry. 1043 01:10:28,687 --> 01:10:30,621 I will help you, baby. 1044 01:10:33,890 --> 01:10:35,527 I love you so much. 1045 01:10:36,332 --> 01:10:37,892 I love you, too. 1046 01:10:41,304 --> 01:10:46,406 All right with me 1047 01:10:46,441 --> 01:10:49,904 every once in a while 1048 01:10:59,619 --> 01:11:01,421 Ree, we've been talkin'. 1049 01:11:01,456 --> 01:11:03,555 How's Clara doin'? 1050 01:11:03,590 --> 01:11:04,952 - She's fine. - She's good. 1051 01:11:04,987 --> 01:11:06,822 Is Daddy ever gonna marry Clara? 1052 01:11:09,497 --> 01:11:10,870 I'm surprised she's stayed this long. 1053 01:11:10,894 --> 01:11:13,730 Why would she leave? They're church royalty. 1054 01:11:16,999 --> 01:11:19,670 The same reason they all leave. 1055 01:11:20,409 --> 01:11:22,343 Same reason Momma left. 1056 01:11:23,643 --> 01:11:25,544 The same reason you need to leave Ted. 1057 01:11:27,614 --> 01:11:30,384 Ted is nothing like Daddy. 1058 01:11:30,419 --> 01:11:31,616 The way you two go at it? 1059 01:11:31,651 --> 01:11:33,453 Just like Momma and Daddy. 1060 01:11:33,488 --> 01:11:34,982 Momma and Daddy didn't fight. 1061 01:11:38,955 --> 01:11:40,625 Wait... 1062 01:11:40,660 --> 01:11:42,429 You're not joking? 1063 01:11:43,498 --> 01:11:45,762 - Joking about what? - You don't remember? 1064 01:11:45,797 --> 01:11:48,369 Even I remember, and I was just three or four. 1065 01:11:48,404 --> 01:11:50,030 Remember what? 1066 01:11:50,065 --> 01:11:51,801 Aretha, 1067 01:11:51,836 --> 01:11:54,034 we used to climb up on the roof 1068 01:11:54,069 --> 01:11:57,444 and sing as loud as we could to drown them out. 1069 01:11:58,447 --> 01:12:00,612 How could you forget? 1070 01:12:00,647 --> 01:12:02,449 I still have nightmares about it. 1071 01:12:04,915 --> 01:12:07,718 Well, I was glad when Momma finally left. 1072 01:12:33,075 --> 01:12:34,910 Why did you leave? 1073 01:12:36,452 --> 01:12:37,616 You don't remember? 1074 01:12:37,948 --> 01:12:39,420 Remember what? 1075 01:12:41,820 --> 01:12:42,885 Nothing. 1076 01:13:06,482 --> 01:13:07,646 What are you doing? 1077 01:13:08,143 --> 01:13:09,384 Get Erma. 1078 01:13:11,454 --> 01:13:12,816 Sure thing. 1079 01:13:43,145 --> 01:13:48,016 For 1080 01:13:52,022 --> 01:13:53,153 Give me... 1081 01:14:09,039 --> 01:14:10,742 One more time. 1082 01:14:14,044 --> 01:14:15,084 Go a third below, Carolyn. 1083 01:14:16,618 --> 01:14:17,683 Yeah. 1084 01:14:18,818 --> 01:14:19,883 Yes. 1085 01:14:21,051 --> 01:14:22,215 Yeah. 1086 01:14:33,195 --> 01:14:34,568 Oh, Big Mama... 1087 01:14:34,603 --> 01:14:35,734 What the hell? 1088 01:14:36,704 --> 01:14:37,934 It's almost 3:00 a.m. 1089 01:14:39,069 --> 01:14:40,838 We're writin' a hit song. 1090 01:14:40,873 --> 01:14:42,070 It's Otis Redding's song. 1091 01:14:43,843 --> 01:14:46,173 Just a little bit.- 1092 01:14:53,556 --> 01:14:54,918 Oh, God. 1093 01:14:54,953 --> 01:14:56,656 You really like it? 1094 01:14:56,691 --> 01:14:58,091 - It's wonderful, Ree. - It's great. 1095 01:14:58,594 --> 01:14:59,824 You're sure? 1096 01:14:59,859 --> 01:15:01,793 Don't do that. 1097 01:15:01,828 --> 01:15:02,761 Y'all tell me 1098 01:15:02,796 --> 01:15:04,436 - if you don't really like it. - I like it. 1099 01:15:04,765 --> 01:15:05,965 - I love it. - We love it, Ree. 1100 01:15:05,997 --> 01:15:07,733 Ree-Ree. 1101 01:15:07,768 --> 01:15:09,933 Re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re.- 1102 01:15:09,968 --> 01:15:11,605 Ree.- 1103 01:15:19,109 --> 01:15:22,847 Re-re-re-re 1104 01:15:22,882 --> 01:15:24,277 That's really good. 1105 01:15:24,312 --> 01:15:25,949 Just a little bit 1106 01:15:25,984 --> 01:15:27,049 Yeah! 1107 01:15:27,722 --> 01:15:29,216 What a line! 1108 01:15:31,154 --> 01:15:33,627 What it means to me 1109 01:15:39,602 --> 01:15:43,032 All right. - Here we go. Yeah. 1110 01:15:43,067 --> 01:15:44,968 I need a Harlem bassline, Tommy. 1111 01:15:45,003 --> 01:15:46,838 Not Alabama.- 1112 01:15:46,873 --> 01:15:48,642 Well, I ain't been to Harlem yet. 1113 01:15:48,677 --> 01:15:50,237 But let's funk it up. 1114 01:15:52,681 --> 01:15:54,978 That's nice. 1115 01:15:58,621 --> 01:16:00,819 That is groovy! 1116 01:16:02,020 --> 01:16:05,087 Come on in, Spooner. What ya got? 1117 01:16:07,223 --> 01:16:09,190 - Yeah! 1118 01:16:09,225 --> 01:16:10,796 I'm gonna keep it simple. 1119 01:16:10,831 --> 01:16:13,128 Like you always do. 1120 01:16:13,163 --> 01:16:14,932 All right. - That's groovy. 1121 01:16:14,967 --> 01:16:17,132 I dig that. - Oh, it's her song now. 1122 01:16:17,805 --> 01:16:19,871 Otis who?- 1123 01:16:19,906 --> 01:16:21,873 - Solo? Okay. 1124 01:16:31,819 --> 01:16:33,885 All right! 1125 01:16:52,070 --> 01:16:56,171 Baby, I got it 1126 01:16:56,206 --> 01:16:59,845 You know I got it? 1127 01:17:02,014 --> 01:17:04,212 When you come home 1128 01:17:07,987 --> 01:17:11,956 Just a little bit 1129 01:17:11,991 --> 01:17:15,960 while you gone 1130 01:17:15,995 --> 01:17:20,096 'cause I don't wanna 1131 01:17:22,034 --> 01:17:23,935 when you come home 1132 01:17:31,340 --> 01:17:34,374 All of my money 1133 01:17:34,409 --> 01:17:39,687 in return, honey 1134 01:17:39,722 --> 01:17:43,691 when you get home 1135 01:17:45,926 --> 01:17:47,827 When you get home 1136 01:18:12,018 --> 01:18:14,887 So is my money 1137 01:18:16,923 --> 01:18:18,385 to do for me 1138 01:18:20,763 --> 01:18:23,731 Bring it to me 1139 01:18:27,198 --> 01:18:31,167 Find out what it means to me 1140 01:18:31,202 --> 01:18:35,138 Take care, TCB 1141 01:18:35,173 --> 01:18:37,404 sock it to me, sock it to me 1142 01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:39,879 sock it to me, sock it to me 1143 01:18:57,833 --> 01:19:02,033 Aretha! Aretha! Aretha! 1144 01:19:04,103 --> 01:19:08,039 Aretha! Aretha! Aretha! 1145 01:19:08,074 --> 01:19:10,206 Aretha! Aretha! 1146 01:19:17,512 --> 01:19:21,085 To run you away 1147 01:19:23,023 --> 01:19:25,320 Smokey!- 1148 01:19:25,355 --> 01:19:27,927 Nobody is talking about Motown anymore. 1149 01:19:27,962 --> 01:19:30,930 All they want to talk about is Aretha Franklin. 1150 01:19:31,295 --> 01:19:32,965 You did it, Ree. 1151 01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:34,527 - I did it. - Yes, you did. 1152 01:19:36,201 --> 01:19:38,806 What I'm gonna do 1153 01:19:44,847 --> 01:19:46,077 What did you wish for? 1154 01:19:46,508 --> 01:19:47,947 More hits. 1155 01:19:50,545 --> 01:19:53,953 Aretha Franklin, you are the Queen of Soul. 1156 01:19:57,992 --> 01:20:00,058 Why'd you have to do it? 1157 01:20:02,931 --> 01:20:05,492 What is soul music? 1158 01:20:05,527 --> 01:20:06,977 The musician having the biggest influence 1159 01:20:07,001 --> 01:20:08,001 on this genre 1160 01:20:09,234 --> 01:20:11,074 is Grammy-winning soul singer, Aretha Franklin. 1161 01:20:13,139 --> 01:20:14,875 From a young age, 1162 01:20:14,910 --> 01:20:18,241 I saw Aretha possess extraordinary talent. 1163 01:20:18,276 --> 01:20:21,211 Ted is my husband, manager, and favorite critic. 1164 01:20:21,609 --> 01:20:23,378 Hello, Ted. 1165 01:20:23,413 --> 01:20:25,512 Right now, gospel is the main influence 1166 01:20:25,547 --> 01:20:27,580 on contemporary rhythm and blues, 1167 01:20:27,615 --> 01:20:30,583 and that's due to Aretha. Others have mixed 1168 01:20:30,618 --> 01:20:33,861 gospel and so-called secular music before her, 1169 01:20:33,896 --> 01:20:35,423 but Aretha puts a unique spin on it 1170 01:20:35,458 --> 01:20:37,865 that people can relate to. 1171 01:20:37,900 --> 01:20:40,329 It's always great when families sing together 1172 01:20:40,364 --> 01:20:43,134 because there's a language between siblings 1173 01:20:43,169 --> 01:20:46,874 that you can't recreate with just hired hands. 1174 01:20:46,909 --> 01:20:51,142 Ain't No Way is a song written by Carolyn for Aretha, 1175 01:20:51,177 --> 01:20:54,442 and something Aretha can relate to because, 1176 01:20:54,477 --> 01:20:57,016 I think, they know each other so well. 1177 01:20:57,051 --> 01:20:59,414 Show me how the melody goes in the verse. 1178 01:21:14,662 --> 01:21:16,035 That's it. 1179 01:21:16,070 --> 01:21:17,432 Let me try. 1180 01:21:45,495 --> 01:21:49,464 All you need 1181 01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:55,976 give all of me 1182 01:22:11,290 --> 01:22:15,589 it was planned 1183 01:22:25,667 --> 01:22:29,207 All the things I can 1184 01:22:45,159 --> 01:22:47,995 Yeah 1185 01:23:20,788 --> 01:23:25,527 someone you're not 1186 01:23:35,077 --> 01:23:38,276 for what he got? 1187 01:23:40,511 --> 01:23:45,613 Like you say 1188 01:23:48,387 --> 01:23:52,752 Please, please 1189 01:23:52,787 --> 01:23:57,394 that I need you? 1190 01:24:19,781 --> 01:24:21,781 So it fades right here? 1191 01:24:21,816 --> 01:24:23,783 You genius you. 1192 01:24:27,162 --> 01:24:29,228 You really feelin' this one, aren't you, Ree? 1193 01:24:29,263 --> 01:24:31,362 I love it.- 1194 01:24:32,530 --> 01:24:33,727 I can tell. 1195 01:24:34,664 --> 01:24:38,567 See, so, she's just being completely honest 1196 01:24:39,537 --> 01:24:41,669 in a song about what she feels 1197 01:24:41,704 --> 01:24:43,770 at any given moment. 1198 01:24:43,805 --> 01:24:45,485 And that's why the audience relates to her. 1199 01:24:46,610 --> 01:24:49,578 I'm still trying to figure out who I am. 1200 01:24:49,613 --> 01:24:51,547 I'm not sure yet, 1201 01:24:51,582 --> 01:24:53,615 but I'm trying to find the answer. 1202 01:25:02,428 --> 01:25:07,266 Now, I am here to honor Aretha. 1203 01:25:08,566 --> 01:25:12,205 Or Ree, as I like to call her... 1204 01:25:12,240 --> 01:25:15,505 for her tireless work for the Civil Rights Movement. 1205 01:25:16,607 --> 01:25:18,409 Every time 1206 01:25:18,444 --> 01:25:22,545 I ask Aretha to sing at a fundraiser, 1207 01:25:22,580 --> 01:25:25,548 church event, or a conference, 1208 01:25:25,583 --> 01:25:26,681 she shows up. 1209 01:25:28,487 --> 01:25:31,818 No matter where she is or what she's doing, 1210 01:25:31,853 --> 01:25:34,689 she always answers the call.- 1211 01:25:34,724 --> 01:25:38,363 And I am honored to present Aretha 1212 01:25:38,398 --> 01:25:41,465 with this proclamation today. 1213 01:25:46,769 --> 01:25:50,309 And I wish that every day 1214 01:25:50,344 --> 01:25:52,674 was Aretha Franklin Day! 1215 01:25:53,743 --> 01:25:56,249 We love you, Aretha! 1216 01:25:56,284 --> 01:25:57,316 After all of that, 1217 01:25:58,419 --> 01:26:00,352 there's really only one thing left to say, right? 1218 01:26:13,235 --> 01:26:17,171 On the mornin' rain 1219 01:26:19,274 --> 01:26:23,441 so uninspired 1220 01:26:31,814 --> 01:26:35,222 So tired 1221 01:26:44,299 --> 01:26:47,861 to my peace of mind 1222 01:27:04,847 --> 01:27:08,255 What you've done to me 1223 01:27:10,952 --> 01:27:15,328 so good inside 1224 01:27:23,404 --> 01:27:27,769 You make me feel so alive 1225 01:27:33,645 --> 01:27:36,283 Excuse me, Miss Franklin. 1226 01:27:36,318 --> 01:27:37,329 I'm so sorry to bother you, 1227 01:27:37,353 --> 01:27:38,824 - but I just have to tell you. - It's all right. 1228 01:27:38,848 --> 01:27:39,848 When you sing, 1229 01:27:41,081 --> 01:27:42,949 I feel like you are talking about my life. 1230 01:27:42,984 --> 01:27:45,985 It helps me, because it is hard out here. 1231 01:27:46,020 --> 01:27:47,954 But I feel like you understand, 1232 01:27:47,989 --> 01:27:50,660 and, well, I just have to thank you. 1233 01:27:51,729 --> 01:27:53,267 Stay strong. 1234 01:27:54,732 --> 01:27:56,303 Okay. 1235 01:27:56,338 --> 01:27:58,437 Yes, thank you. Thank you very much. 1236 01:27:58,472 --> 01:27:59,605 We have to go now. 1237 01:28:03,477 --> 01:28:06,940 I'm flying to Atlanta tomorrow to do a benefit for SNCC. 1238 01:28:10,484 --> 01:28:11,945 Cancel it. 1239 01:28:13,421 --> 01:28:15,751 I have some meetings and interviews lined up. 1240 01:28:16,083 --> 01:28:17,522 No. 1241 01:28:17,557 --> 01:28:19,887 Daddy and Martin asked me to do it. 1242 01:28:19,922 --> 01:28:21,823 I'm going.- 1243 01:28:38,512 --> 01:28:39,676 Aretha! 1244 01:28:39,711 --> 01:28:41,381 Jerry. 1245 01:28:41,416 --> 01:28:42,745 Oh, I love when you call me Jerry. 1246 01:28:42,780 --> 01:28:43,889 It means you're not mad at me. 1247 01:28:43,913 --> 01:28:45,011 Hello, Ted. 1248 01:28:45,046 --> 01:28:46,518 Jerry. 1249 01:28:46,553 --> 01:28:48,047 Come on in. 1250 01:28:48,082 --> 01:28:50,753 Everyone wants you, Miss Franklin. 1251 01:28:50,788 --> 01:28:53,426 We've got interest in France, England, Germany... 1252 01:28:53,461 --> 01:28:54,834 All right, we don't have to name every country. 1253 01:28:54,858 --> 01:28:56,660 All of Europe. 1254 01:28:56,695 --> 01:28:58,090 The entire continent wants you 1255 01:28:58,125 --> 01:28:59,707 and I think we should schedule something. 1256 01:28:59,731 --> 01:29:00,928 We should schedule a tour 1257 01:29:00,963 --> 01:29:02,534 that coincides with the new album. 1258 01:29:02,569 --> 01:29:04,074 We could do that or we could send her out now 1259 01:29:04,098 --> 01:29:05,680 to create an appetite for the new record. 1260 01:29:05,704 --> 01:29:07,066 I think that's best. 1261 01:29:07,101 --> 01:29:08,584 I have six venues ready to clear this... 1262 01:29:08,608 --> 01:29:09,608 And who are you, 1263 01:29:10,412 --> 01:29:12,005 brother? 1264 01:29:13,976 --> 01:29:17,417 Ken Cunningham. I'm the tour manager. 1265 01:29:18,585 --> 01:29:20,585 Tour manager? 1266 01:29:20,620 --> 01:29:21,520 So, you already booked the tour? 1267 01:29:21,555 --> 01:29:22,917 It's not booked. 1268 01:29:22,952 --> 01:29:24,754 No, he said the venues was ready. 1269 01:29:24,789 --> 01:29:26,162 That's right. They were available if we want 'em. 1270 01:29:26,186 --> 01:29:27,856 You have to gauge interest early for it. 1271 01:29:27,891 --> 01:29:29,429 - I know how a tour works. - Okay. 1272 01:29:29,464 --> 01:29:31,563 - No. - No what? 1273 01:29:31,598 --> 01:29:33,059 No European tour dates. 1274 01:29:33,094 --> 01:29:34,094 Why not? 1275 01:29:34,128 --> 01:29:35,864 Because 1276 01:29:35,899 --> 01:29:37,679 we have some TV dates we'd like to schedule first. 1277 01:29:37,703 --> 01:29:39,538 Oh, yeah? With whom? 1278 01:29:39,573 --> 01:29:43,410 Carol Burnett, Andy Williams. Mike Douglas. 1279 01:29:43,445 --> 01:29:45,071 All right. So, those shows will be there 1280 01:29:45,106 --> 01:29:46,106 when she gets back. 1281 01:29:46,140 --> 01:29:47,678 We have a chance here 1282 01:29:47,713 --> 01:29:49,878 to expand her reach around the world. 1283 01:29:49,913 --> 01:29:52,078 To make her a global superstar. 1284 01:29:52,113 --> 01:29:55,114 Do you know what a rare opportunity that is? 1285 01:29:55,149 --> 01:29:56,885 We're considering some movie offers as well. 1286 01:29:56,920 --> 01:29:58,117 Movies? 1287 01:29:58,152 --> 01:29:59,954 Aretha. You wanna do movies? 1288 01:30:01,188 --> 01:30:02,594 I think I could. 1289 01:30:02,629 --> 01:30:04,431 Of course you could. 1290 01:30:04,466 --> 01:30:06,059 You could do any damn thing you want. 1291 01:30:07,997 --> 01:30:09,832 You thought you could just bring us in here, 1292 01:30:09,867 --> 01:30:11,735 tell us where to go, what to do, 1293 01:30:11,770 --> 01:30:13,099 and send us on our way? 1294 01:30:13,134 --> 01:30:14,540 You should know by now, Jerry, 1295 01:30:14,575 --> 01:30:16,476 that is not the way I do business. 1296 01:30:16,511 --> 01:30:19,875 Ken, how much money could Aretha make on the tour? 1297 01:30:19,910 --> 01:30:21,074 Quarter of a million. 1298 01:30:22,913 --> 01:30:24,814 Carol Burnett payin' that? 1299 01:30:25,553 --> 01:30:28,488 Movies payin' that? 1300 01:30:28,523 --> 01:30:31,854 We'll consider it. With the right band. 1301 01:30:31,889 --> 01:30:33,757 All right. 1302 01:30:33,792 --> 01:30:35,770 Well, the Muscle Shoals guys have started their own label. 1303 01:30:35,794 --> 01:30:37,530 King Curtis is ready to go. 1304 01:30:37,565 --> 01:30:39,499 - Curtis is rockin'. - He's perfect for you. 1305 01:30:39,534 --> 01:30:41,996 Curtis is good, but I've got some people lined up. 1306 01:30:42,031 --> 01:30:43,129 Really? Five minutes ago, 1307 01:30:43,164 --> 01:30:44,537 you didn't wanna go on this tour. 1308 01:30:44,572 --> 01:30:45,812 Now, you've got people lined up? 1309 01:30:46,233 --> 01:30:47,870 Check the tone, Jerry. 1310 01:30:47,905 --> 01:30:50,004 Just take it easy, Ted. 1311 01:30:50,039 --> 01:30:54,074 I'm sorry. Forgive me for my tone. 1312 01:30:54,109 --> 01:30:56,483 What musicians do you have lined up, Ted? 1313 01:30:57,046 --> 01:30:59,145 George Davidson. 1314 01:30:59,180 --> 01:31:01,752 Miller Brisker. Russell Conway. 1315 01:31:01,787 --> 01:31:04,755 All right. You can't have the premier singer of our time 1316 01:31:04,790 --> 01:31:07,527 touring Europe with a ragtag bunch of amateurs 1317 01:31:07,562 --> 01:31:10,222 suitable for backing some third-rate blues singer 1318 01:31:10,257 --> 01:31:12,191 in a bucket of blood in Loserville, Louisiana. 1319 01:31:12,226 --> 01:31:14,897 I want to use Ted's musicians, Mr. Wexler. 1320 01:31:14,932 --> 01:31:16,701 "Mr. Wexler"? 1321 01:31:16,736 --> 01:31:19,506 Oh, God. Aretha, please. 1322 01:31:19,541 --> 01:31:20,541 Can we move on 1323 01:31:21,576 --> 01:31:23,096 to the next item on the agenda, please? 1324 01:31:28,242 --> 01:31:31,012 Whatever you say, Miss Franklin. 1325 01:31:35,117 --> 01:31:36,919 So, they do this funny thing in Amsterdam 1326 01:31:36,954 --> 01:31:38,492 when they really love a performer. 1327 01:31:39,088 --> 01:31:41,055 They pelt them with flowers. 1328 01:31:41,090 --> 01:31:42,727 Pardon me. 1329 01:31:42,762 --> 01:31:44,036 I warned them not to get too crazy with it, 1330 01:31:44,060 --> 01:31:45,301 but you might get hit with a few. 1331 01:31:45,325 --> 01:31:46,841 After the show, please. After the show. 1332 01:31:46,865 --> 01:31:47,865 Right through this door. 1333 01:31:49,703 --> 01:31:51,571 Watch your step. 1334 01:32:15,058 --> 01:32:17,058 In your chain 1335 01:32:22,131 --> 01:32:24,131 but your fool 1336 01:32:50,225 --> 01:32:53,732 You strength 1337 01:32:56,638 --> 01:32:59,606 to leave you alone 1338 01:32:59,641 --> 01:33:01,608 Fix this or I'll have your job. 1339 01:33:01,643 --> 01:33:03,940 My father said, "Come on home" 1340 01:33:03,975 --> 01:33:07,273 "Take it easy" 1341 01:33:15,052 --> 01:33:16,920 Aretha! Aretha! 1342 01:33:20,959 --> 01:33:23,762 Can you comment on the recent Time magazine cover story? 1343 01:33:24,391 --> 01:33:26,160 Oh, I haven't read it yet, 1344 01:33:26,195 --> 01:33:28,030 but it is a great honor to grace the cover 1345 01:33:28,065 --> 01:33:29,900 of such a prestigious magazine. 1346 01:33:32,674 --> 01:33:34,905 This Time article says that your husband 1347 01:33:34,940 --> 01:33:36,709 beat you in a hotel lobby. 1348 01:33:36,744 --> 01:33:37,744 Excuse me? 1349 01:33:43,410 --> 01:33:45,047 Is this true? 1350 01:33:45,082 --> 01:33:47,049 No more questions! Let's go! 1351 01:33:47,084 --> 01:33:48,952 - Move. 1352 01:33:52,386 --> 01:33:53,693 It's a lie! 1353 01:33:54,828 --> 01:33:56,795 It's a dirty lie! 1354 01:33:56,830 --> 01:33:58,159 Get off! Come here! 1355 01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:02,834 No, that's too low. I want $10 million. 1356 01:34:08,743 --> 01:34:11,040 They're gonna be sorry they wrote this shit. 1357 01:34:11,779 --> 01:34:13,042 And you know, your daddy, 1358 01:34:13,077 --> 01:34:15,209 he doesn't come across too well either. 1359 01:34:15,244 --> 01:34:16,815 He may wanna sue 'em his damn self. 1360 01:34:16,850 --> 01:34:18,690 How are you gonna prove that you didn't hit me? 1361 01:34:20,018 --> 01:34:22,183 You did and everyone saw it! 1362 01:34:24,187 --> 01:34:26,990 Another man would have killed you by now. 1363 01:34:27,025 --> 01:34:28,728 Crazy way you act. 1364 01:34:30,996 --> 01:34:32,259 Get out of my way. 1365 01:34:32,294 --> 01:34:33,975 What are you gonna do, huh? What are you gonna do? 1366 01:34:33,999 --> 01:34:34,999 I mean it. 1367 01:34:36,771 --> 01:34:38,133 You would still be singing 1368 01:34:38,168 --> 01:34:39,728 some Al Jolson shit if it wasn't for me. 1369 01:34:40,500 --> 01:34:42,676 I wrote half your hits.- 1370 01:34:44,009 --> 01:34:45,437 Are you laughing at me? 1371 01:34:45,472 --> 01:34:47,232 You know damn well you didn't write one word. 1372 01:34:47,914 --> 01:34:49,782 One note of anything. 1373 01:34:49,817 --> 01:34:51,278 I just let you put your name on it 1374 01:34:51,313 --> 01:34:52,851 to keep you from throwing a fit. 1375 01:34:52,886 --> 01:34:54,919 I Never Loved A Man came from me. 1376 01:34:54,954 --> 01:34:56,723 My songwriter! 1377 01:34:56,758 --> 01:34:59,726 That song wasn't anything until I rearranged it. 1378 01:34:59,761 --> 01:35:02,388 And I sang the hell out of it because it was about you. 1379 01:35:02,423 --> 01:35:05,424 You're a lying, no good, 1380 01:35:05,459 --> 01:35:08,801 just useless, psychopath. 1381 01:35:08,836 --> 01:35:10,968 - No! 1382 01:35:15,810 --> 01:35:17,304 I'm done with you. 1383 01:35:19,473 --> 01:35:22,210 Yeah, you've said that before. 1384 01:35:22,245 --> 01:35:23,915 You wait until your demons come back! 1385 01:35:25,314 --> 01:35:27,116 After livin' with you, 1386 01:35:28,218 --> 01:35:30,053 I'm ready for 'em. 1387 01:36:02,219 --> 01:36:05,121 This song goes out 1388 01:36:05,156 --> 01:36:09,290 to anyone who has ever felt mistreated. 1389 01:36:11,965 --> 01:36:13,833 Two, three, four. 1390 01:36:23,009 --> 01:36:25,141 You're trying to do to me 1391 01:36:26,980 --> 01:36:29,409 Let yourself be free 1392 01:36:29,444 --> 01:36:31,147 let's go back 1393 01:36:31,182 --> 01:36:33,347 way back when 1394 01:36:34,988 --> 01:36:36,251 too much more than 10 1395 01:36:38,321 --> 01:36:41,157 I ain't no doctor with degree 1396 01:36:41,192 --> 01:36:43,489 too much high IQ 1397 01:36:43,524 --> 01:36:45,326 you're doing to me 1398 01:36:47,264 --> 01:36:49,099 You're trying to do to me 1399 01:36:50,905 --> 01:36:52,938 Let yourself be free 1400 01:37:19,065 --> 01:37:22,561 You, think about it 1401 01:37:22,596 --> 01:37:24,299 you could ask 1402 01:37:24,334 --> 01:37:25,366 with I won't 1403 01:37:27,205 --> 01:37:28,974 but I'm not 1404 01:37:29,009 --> 01:37:30,602 doing things I don't 1405 01:37:32,540 --> 01:37:34,276 You're trying to do to me 1406 01:37:36,082 --> 01:37:37,917 Let yourself be free 1407 01:37:42,484 --> 01:37:46,585 There ain't nothing we can do 1408 01:37:46,620 --> 01:37:48,554 Think about it right now 1409 01:38:49,287 --> 01:38:50,451 Thank you. 1410 01:39:16,281 --> 01:39:18,578 I have some trash I need taken downstairs. 1411 01:39:19,284 --> 01:39:22,120 Right now, please. 1412 01:39:42,175 --> 01:39:43,636 Just come over. 1413 01:39:45,607 --> 01:39:47,310 I know. 1414 01:39:49,578 --> 01:39:51,380 I don't care. 1415 01:39:53,450 --> 01:39:54,647 Just... 1416 01:39:55,749 --> 01:39:57,419 be with me. 1417 01:40:33,391 --> 01:40:35,292 You sure that ain't too much, Ree? 1418 01:40:35,327 --> 01:40:38,493 Listen, you're about to have the meal of your life. 1419 01:40:38,528 --> 01:40:39,769 She put her foot in there. Smell it. 1420 01:40:39,793 --> 01:40:41,595 Yes, I did, yes, I did. 1421 01:40:41,630 --> 01:40:43,212 - She put somethin' in there. - Put her foot in, she did. 1422 01:40:43,236 --> 01:40:44,565 I don't know. That smells funny. 1423 01:40:44,600 --> 01:40:45,833 - Darlin', get outta there. 1424 01:40:45,868 --> 01:40:47,381 - You want me to get that, Ree? - Yes, answer. Get... 1425 01:40:47,405 --> 01:40:48,405 Get outta here! 1426 01:40:50,309 --> 01:40:50,802 All right, put it back. 1427 01:40:50,837 --> 01:40:51,837 Hello? 1428 01:40:52,575 --> 01:40:54,773 And that's me. 1429 01:40:54,808 --> 01:40:57,743 This will bring Big Mama to her knees, honey. 1430 01:40:57,778 --> 01:40:59,118 You goin' to Hell for that. 1431 01:40:59,153 --> 01:41:00,153 Hey. 1432 01:41:01,254 --> 01:41:02,649 She knows. 1433 01:41:04,191 --> 01:41:05,586 No, no, no. 1434 01:41:07,557 --> 01:41:09,326 - No, no, no. - What's wrong? 1435 01:41:10,692 --> 01:41:11,692 What's wrong? 1436 01:41:16,698 --> 01:41:17,698 Hello? 1437 01:41:18,568 --> 01:41:20,205 What is it? 1438 01:41:21,538 --> 01:41:22,603 What? 1439 01:41:25,839 --> 01:41:27,740 - What? - It's Martin. 1440 01:41:28,545 --> 01:41:30,281 They... 1441 01:41:30,316 --> 01:41:32,778 Oh, God. - They shot him. 1442 01:41:32,813 --> 01:41:35,154 Oh, God. 1443 01:41:35,189 --> 01:41:38,388 I wanna say it one more time 1444 01:43:41,546 --> 01:43:43,942 He kept telling me 1445 01:43:43,977 --> 01:43:45,746 that they were gonna get him. 1446 01:43:47,585 --> 01:43:52,258 But I said, "Martin, the Lord has more for you to do. 1447 01:43:52,854 --> 01:43:55,360 You're gonna be all right." 1448 01:43:57,463 --> 01:43:58,660 But he knew. 1449 01:43:59,762 --> 01:44:01,498 He knew. 1450 01:44:02,765 --> 01:44:05,337 Other ministers were jealous of him, 1451 01:44:06,307 --> 01:44:07,900 - but I never was. - Mm. 1452 01:44:08,507 --> 01:44:10,474 He was my friend. 1453 01:44:11,576 --> 01:44:13,609 - I ministered him... - Yeah. 1454 01:44:13,644 --> 01:44:14,775 Advised him. 1455 01:44:15,613 --> 01:44:16,975 Prayed with him. 1456 01:44:18,319 --> 01:44:20,781 - Yes, you did. - More time than I can count. 1457 01:44:23,588 --> 01:44:25,324 I loved him, Ree. 1458 01:44:25,359 --> 01:44:26,919 He loved you. 1459 01:44:31,596 --> 01:44:33,794 Who's gonna lead us now? 1460 01:44:35,732 --> 01:44:37,864 They don't listen to me anymore. 1461 01:44:37,899 --> 01:44:40,834 You still have the biggest church in Detroit. 1462 01:44:42,002 --> 01:44:43,804 I still know how to get 'em goin'. 1463 01:44:44,510 --> 01:44:45,839 - Yes, you do. - I do. 1464 01:44:45,874 --> 01:44:47,709 Can I join you? 1465 01:44:47,744 --> 01:44:50,316 No. I just wanna talk to Ree. Can I do that? 1466 01:44:50,351 --> 01:44:51,856 - Can I just talk to Ree? - Of course you can. 1467 01:44:51,880 --> 01:44:53,560 - Daddy, Daddy, Daddy. - Of course you can. 1468 01:44:54,487 --> 01:44:57,323 Um, I'll be right there when you need me. 1469 01:44:59,657 --> 01:45:01,426 They need leadership, Ree. 1470 01:45:03,562 --> 01:45:05,056 You should see the way these fools 1471 01:45:05,091 --> 01:45:08,631 are steppin' over Martin's body to be in charge. 1472 01:45:08,666 --> 01:45:10,666 I don't want no part of that. 1473 01:45:11,900 --> 01:45:15,902 And these young revolutionaries out here, 1474 01:45:15,937 --> 01:45:17,537 they don't want no part of what we built. 1475 01:45:18,775 --> 01:45:21,479 They want to free our people. 1476 01:45:21,514 --> 01:45:23,481 They all talk. 1477 01:45:23,516 --> 01:45:25,846 Not all of them. I like Angela Davis. 1478 01:45:27,817 --> 01:45:30,389 She don't care about public opinion 1479 01:45:30,424 --> 01:45:32,017 and she's not afraid to speak up 1480 01:45:32,052 --> 01:45:34,525 to those pigs or anyone else. 1481 01:45:34,560 --> 01:45:37,825 - Pigs? - Yes, pigs. 1482 01:45:37,860 --> 01:45:39,409 You saw what they did to us during the rebellion. 1483 01:45:39,433 --> 01:45:40,597 Riots. 1484 01:45:41,534 --> 01:45:43,666 Why shouldn't we fight back? 1485 01:45:43,701 --> 01:45:46,438 And start a full-on war? You think we can win that? 1486 01:45:46,473 --> 01:45:47,912 We're tired of gettin' our heads kicked in. 1487 01:45:47,936 --> 01:45:51,443 Non-violence got us our civil rights 1488 01:45:51,478 --> 01:45:53,544 and our right to vote. 1489 01:45:53,579 --> 01:45:54,974 At what price? Our souls? 1490 01:45:55,009 --> 01:45:56,349 Our dignity? 1491 01:45:57,110 --> 01:45:58,384 Hmm. 1492 01:46:01,620 --> 01:46:03,356 I've been thinking. 1493 01:46:05,756 --> 01:46:07,690 We should hit the road again. 1494 01:46:10,123 --> 01:46:11,661 Why not? 1495 01:46:11,696 --> 01:46:13,531 A northern tour. 1496 01:46:13,566 --> 01:46:16,600 Me preachin' and you singin'. 1497 01:46:16,635 --> 01:46:17,635 Mm-mmm. 1498 01:46:19,506 --> 01:46:22,936 Just think on it. 1499 01:46:22,971 --> 01:46:24,608 You don't gotta decide tonight. 1500 01:46:24,643 --> 01:46:25,906 I'm not doing that, Daddy. 1501 01:46:27,580 --> 01:46:29,613 I know you got your very busy tourin' 1502 01:46:29,648 --> 01:46:30,944 and recordin' schedule. 1503 01:46:30,979 --> 01:46:32,451 This won't interfere with that. 1504 01:46:32,486 --> 01:46:34,046 - I won't interfere with that. - No. 1505 01:46:35,654 --> 01:46:38,589 I'm done with that. 1506 01:46:38,624 --> 01:46:40,591 I can't go back to headlining with you. 1507 01:46:46,995 --> 01:46:49,798 You're not walkin' in the spirit anymore. 1508 01:46:51,604 --> 01:46:54,132 That is not true. 1509 01:46:54,167 --> 01:46:57,102 You're drinking and you're whoring around. 1510 01:46:57,137 --> 01:46:58,609 Same as you! 1511 01:46:58,644 --> 01:47:00,457 You not too old for me to knock you on your ass! 1512 01:47:00,481 --> 01:47:01,953 - You know that, right? - Is everything all right? 1513 01:47:01,977 --> 01:47:04,450 Just mind your own business! I'm talkin' to... 1514 01:47:04,485 --> 01:47:05,781 Don't talk to her like that. 1515 01:47:05,816 --> 01:47:08,047 Have you lost your mind, huh? 1516 01:47:08,082 --> 01:47:09,983 Maybe. 1517 01:47:10,018 --> 01:47:11,952 Maybe I found it. 1518 01:47:15,221 --> 01:47:16,726 Come on, let's get you to bed. 1519 01:47:16,761 --> 01:47:18,464 Just... 1520 01:47:18,499 --> 01:47:20,092 Just don't. 1521 01:47:31,776 --> 01:47:34,612 - I heard your conversation. - Mm... 1522 01:47:34,647 --> 01:47:36,108 I'm not sorry. 1523 01:47:36,143 --> 01:47:38,044 No, no, you ain't got nothin' to be sorry for. 1524 01:47:39,718 --> 01:47:41,652 Just do your thing, Ree. 1525 01:47:42,589 --> 01:47:47,152 And you do it as big and as loud 1526 01:47:47,187 --> 01:47:48,989 and as long as you can. 1527 01:48:19,120 --> 01:48:23,254 Ia, la, la, la, 1528 01:48:23,289 --> 01:48:27,797 la, la, la, la 1529 01:48:27,832 --> 01:48:33,099 at Spanish Harlem 1530 01:48:33,134 --> 01:48:36,069 Please, just listen to it again, okay? 1531 01:48:36,104 --> 01:48:38,203 I have a great feeling about this song, 1532 01:48:38,238 --> 01:48:40,205 and The Beatles are getting restless. 1533 01:48:40,240 --> 01:48:42,614 They said if you don't do it, they will. 1534 01:48:42,649 --> 01:48:44,616 The song is Catholic, Jerry. 1535 01:48:44,651 --> 01:48:46,211 I'm a Baptist. 1536 01:48:46,246 --> 01:48:48,048 That's... That's crazy. 1537 01:48:48,083 --> 01:48:49,324 - You thought that's gonna... - They caught Angela Davis. 1538 01:48:49,348 --> 01:48:51,084 - What? - That can't be right. 1539 01:48:51,119 --> 01:48:52,954 No, no, no, no. 1540 01:48:52,989 --> 01:48:55,561 Angela Davis, a young Black militant 1541 01:48:55,596 --> 01:48:57,222 who has been hunted for nearly two months 1542 01:48:57,257 --> 01:48:58,894 on murder and kidnapping charges, 1543 01:49:00,667 --> 01:49:02,711 was arrested yesterday at a hotel in midtown Manhattan 1544 01:49:02,735 --> 01:49:05,230 by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1545 01:49:07,608 --> 01:49:09,971 Angela Davis must go free. 1546 01:49:10,006 --> 01:49:12,743 Black people will be free. 1547 01:49:12,778 --> 01:49:15,042 My daddy says I don't know what I'm doing. 1548 01:49:15,077 --> 01:49:17,176 I respect him, of course, 1549 01:49:17,211 --> 01:49:20,146 but I have to stick by my beliefs. 1550 01:49:20,181 --> 01:49:24,557 You have to disturb the peace when you can't get no peace. 1551 01:49:30,829 --> 01:49:32,796 What the hell is this tour schedule? 1552 01:49:32,831 --> 01:49:34,941 - Half the damn dates are gone! - All right, all right, 1553 01:49:34,965 --> 01:49:36,646 we were just about to have a talk with you about this. 1554 01:49:36,670 --> 01:49:37,999 We? 1555 01:49:38,034 --> 01:49:39,572 We're not having a family barbecue? 1556 01:49:40,674 --> 01:49:42,014 This is one of these Ken hippie talks? 1557 01:49:42,038 --> 01:49:43,675 I told you this wasn't gonna work. 1558 01:49:43,710 --> 01:49:44,775 Just breathe. 1559 01:49:44,810 --> 01:49:46,007 Put the damn dates back. 1560 01:49:46,042 --> 01:49:46,942 Don't do it, Cecil. Listen, Ree... 1561 01:49:46,977 --> 01:49:48,009 You work for me, Cecil. 1562 01:49:48,044 --> 01:49:49,373 You overbook. 1563 01:49:49,408 --> 01:49:51,177 You don't show up for half the dates, 1564 01:49:51,212 --> 01:49:52,288 then I have to deal with the fallout. 1565 01:49:52,312 --> 01:49:53,817 It's your damn job! 1566 01:49:53,852 --> 01:49:54,917 We're trying to help you. 1567 01:49:54,952 --> 01:49:56,721 Aretha, you need to slow down. 1568 01:49:56,756 --> 01:49:58,635 You stop for five minutes, they forget all about you. 1569 01:49:58,659 --> 01:49:59,757 That's ridiculous. 1570 01:50:00,860 --> 01:50:02,298 How would you know, Erma? You barely have one hit. 1571 01:50:02,322 --> 01:50:03,959 Ree, you haven't slept in months. 1572 01:50:03,994 --> 01:50:05,862 And you look like it. 1573 01:50:05,897 --> 01:50:07,776 You don't want me to tell you what you look like, Carolyn. 1574 01:50:07,800 --> 01:50:09,240 Well, next time you have a breakdown, 1575 01:50:10,099 --> 01:50:11,296 don't call us, all right? 1576 01:50:14,334 --> 01:50:15,608 I won't. 1577 01:50:16,677 --> 01:50:18,204 Come on, let's go outside. Come on. 1578 01:50:18,239 --> 01:50:20,712 And don't call me when you need a gig, 1579 01:50:20,747 --> 01:50:25,112 or you want me to write liner notes in your jive-ass album, 1580 01:50:25,147 --> 01:50:27,378 or introduce you to some producers, 1581 01:50:27,413 --> 01:50:31,085 or just borrow some cash that your ass never pay back. 1582 01:50:31,120 --> 01:50:33,318 If I don't work, y'all don't eat. 1583 01:50:34,387 --> 01:50:36,255 Right. 1584 01:50:36,290 --> 01:50:37,927 Put the damn dates back, Cecil. 1585 01:50:40,261 --> 01:50:45,363 Three venues in three states in three days. 1586 01:50:45,398 --> 01:50:48,201 - Happy now? - Yes, I am. 1587 01:50:48,236 --> 01:50:50,676 And don't ever pull that bullshit with me again. 1588 01:50:50,711 --> 01:50:52,172 I know how to run my damn business. 1589 01:50:53,043 --> 01:50:55,340 You asked me. 1590 01:50:55,375 --> 01:50:56,880 Y'all just wanna take my crown. 1591 01:50:56,915 --> 01:50:59,080 - Oh, God. - Please. 1592 01:50:59,115 --> 01:51:02,215 Ree, think about our son. This isn't good for him. 1593 01:51:02,250 --> 01:51:04,085 Don't tell me I'm a bad mother. 1594 01:51:04,120 --> 01:51:05,702 - Here comes the paranoia. - I never said that! 1595 01:51:05,726 --> 01:51:07,891 Olga, bring Miss Franklin a fruit juice. 1596 01:51:07,926 --> 01:51:09,321 Don't you dare. 1597 01:51:11,127 --> 01:51:13,996 What you staring at? Go get my lunch. 1598 01:51:14,031 --> 01:51:15,195 Yes, ma'am. 1599 01:51:17,265 --> 01:51:19,133 Tell me y'all don't want what I got. 1600 01:51:19,168 --> 01:51:20,871 All right, forget it! 1601 01:51:20,906 --> 01:51:22,746 I can't talk to you when that demon takes hold. 1602 01:51:24,008 --> 01:51:25,876 You don't know what I go through. 1603 01:51:25,911 --> 01:51:27,911 Y'all don't know what I've been through! 1604 01:51:27,946 --> 01:51:29,011 We love you, Ree. 1605 01:51:29,046 --> 01:51:31,013 Why can't you see that, Ree? 1606 01:51:31,048 --> 01:51:33,114 Get the hell out of my house. 1607 01:51:33,149 --> 01:51:34,863 No, don't move. We're going to deal with this, Ree. 1608 01:51:34,887 --> 01:51:36,084 Out! 1609 01:51:37,417 --> 01:51:38,691 Out! 1610 01:51:40,321 --> 01:51:41,353 Out! 1611 01:51:45,029 --> 01:51:46,309 - Come on, baby, please. - Mm-mm. 1612 01:51:49,165 --> 01:51:52,166 Ree, listen to me. They're here to help you. 1613 01:51:52,201 --> 01:51:54,366 - Please. 1614 01:51:57,943 --> 01:51:59,404 It's your family. 1615 01:51:59,439 --> 01:52:02,275 Teddy! Calf! Come help your momma sing now. 1616 01:52:07,788 --> 01:52:11,218 And Black 1617 01:52:11,253 --> 01:52:15,123 precious thing 1618 01:52:16,324 --> 01:52:19,765 Young, gifted, and Black 1619 01:52:19,800 --> 01:52:23,967 precious thing 1620 01:52:24,002 --> 01:52:25,002 Say it again. 1621 01:52:26,235 --> 01:52:28,972 And Black 1622 01:52:29,007 --> 01:52:33,911 to what I mean 1623 01:52:33,946 --> 01:52:37,277 gifted, and Black 1624 01:52:41,217 --> 01:52:44,416 I'm gonna take the kids back to Detroit with me. 1625 01:52:45,958 --> 01:52:47,925 I think that's best. 1626 01:52:53,295 --> 01:52:54,866 What are you thinking right now? 1627 01:52:54,901 --> 01:52:56,296 Just things. 1628 01:53:02,040 --> 01:53:03,336 What things? 1629 01:53:03,371 --> 01:53:05,976 Private things. 1630 01:53:06,011 --> 01:53:08,440 After all this time, you're still keepin' stuff from me? 1631 01:53:10,543 --> 01:53:12,312 You don't keep stuff from me? 1632 01:53:12,512 --> 01:53:13,512 No. 1633 01:53:14,888 --> 01:53:16,085 You should. 1634 01:53:16,120 --> 01:53:18,186 Why? I trust you. 1635 01:53:19,057 --> 01:53:20,320 Don't you trust me? 1636 01:53:21,125 --> 01:53:23,488 Sometimes. 1637 01:53:23,523 --> 01:53:25,325 What do I have to do to make it all the time? 1638 01:53:25,899 --> 01:53:27,459 Just let me be. 1639 01:53:36,877 --> 01:53:38,338 I know what to do. 1640 01:53:46,084 --> 01:53:47,215 Mmm. 1641 01:53:49,219 --> 01:53:51,186 Be here with me. 1642 01:53:51,221 --> 01:53:53,386 Just let your mind go quiet for a moment. 1643 01:53:53,421 --> 01:53:55,861 That would be easy if you stopped talking. 1644 01:54:03,431 --> 01:54:04,496 What's wrong? 1645 01:54:04,905 --> 01:54:06,036 Nothing. 1646 01:54:07,974 --> 01:54:09,303 I have to make some calls. 1647 01:54:09,338 --> 01:54:10,942 You don't have to call anyone, Ree. 1648 01:54:10,977 --> 01:54:12,273 You don't know what I have to do. 1649 01:54:12,308 --> 01:54:13,505 Don't go to that dark place. 1650 01:54:14,640 --> 01:54:16,376 Come here. 1651 01:54:18,314 --> 01:54:19,544 Come here. 1652 01:54:25,057 --> 01:54:26,892 Tell me what's wrong, baby. 1653 01:54:33,065 --> 01:54:34,295 You're shaking. 1654 01:54:34,330 --> 01:54:36,066 You act so tough. 1655 01:54:36,101 --> 01:54:38,068 I can see that little scared girl in you. 1656 01:54:38,103 --> 01:54:39,905 Shit! 1657 01:54:39,940 --> 01:54:42,006 - I'm sorry. 1658 01:54:42,503 --> 01:54:44,206 I'm so sorry. 1659 01:54:48,113 --> 01:54:49,310 It's all right. 1660 01:54:49,345 --> 01:54:50,345 Shit! 1661 01:54:59,960 --> 01:55:02,059 She can't do it, Cecil. 1662 01:55:02,094 --> 01:55:03,555 Put her on the phone. 1663 01:55:05,493 --> 01:55:07,625 She's asleep right now. Her migraine. 1664 01:55:07,660 --> 01:55:10,001 Man, who do you think you're bullshittin'? 1665 01:55:10,036 --> 01:55:12,531 Tell Ree she's gonna get sued again. 1666 01:55:16,504 --> 01:55:18,042 One of us needs to go check on her. 1667 01:55:18,077 --> 01:55:19,549 Well, it's your job to keep an eye on her. 1668 01:55:19,573 --> 01:55:20,506 Ladies and gentlemen, 1669 01:55:20,541 --> 01:55:22,640 the Queen of Soul, 1670 01:55:22,675 --> 01:55:25,610 Miss Aretha Franklin! 1671 01:55:25,645 --> 01:55:27,414 - Ree! 1672 01:55:27,449 --> 01:55:29,614 Hey, let us help you. 1673 01:55:29,649 --> 01:55:30,649 Please. 1674 01:55:51,308 --> 01:55:55,112 For you 1675 01:56:11,295 --> 01:56:13,999 To wear now 1676 01:56:18,170 --> 01:56:21,336 You'll stay in my heart 1677 01:56:23,076 --> 01:56:26,275 We never will part 1678 01:56:30,116 --> 01:56:33,480 To live without you 1679 01:56:33,515 --> 01:56:37,319 Only bring heartbreak for me 1680 01:57:04,678 --> 01:57:06,744 - Ree? Ree? 1681 01:57:06,779 --> 01:57:09,252 Ree? Ree? Can you hear me? 1682 01:57:09,287 --> 01:57:10,748 - Don't move. - Don't... Don't move. 1683 01:57:10,783 --> 01:57:12,585 - Your arm? - Someone get a medic! 1684 01:57:12,620 --> 01:57:14,125 Come here, baby, come here. 1685 01:57:14,160 --> 01:57:15,720 Roll over. Roll over. 1686 01:57:15,755 --> 01:57:17,293 Easy, easy, easy. - Stay back! 1687 01:57:18,164 --> 01:57:19,526 I got you, I got you. 1688 01:57:19,561 --> 01:57:21,660 Back, please. Get back, please. 1689 01:57:21,695 --> 01:57:23,233 - Keep back, please! 1690 01:57:23,268 --> 01:57:25,070 Is she okay? 1691 01:57:25,105 --> 01:57:26,265 It's gonna be all right, Ree. 1692 01:57:27,305 --> 01:57:29,239 I can't do this anymore. 1693 01:57:34,642 --> 01:57:35,707 Mm. 1694 01:58:27,563 --> 01:58:28,760 Please... 1695 01:58:29,829 --> 01:58:31,301 Please... 1696 02:00:53,610 --> 02:00:55,643 Our Father... 1697 02:00:59,583 --> 02:01:01,550 - Which art in Heaven... 1698 02:01:04,324 --> 02:01:06,918 Hallowed be Thy name. 1699 02:01:08,526 --> 02:01:10,592 Thy kingdom come. 1700 02:02:22,600 --> 02:02:24,864 You always did know how to make an entrance. 1701 02:02:28,540 --> 02:02:29,605 James. 1702 02:02:39,485 --> 02:02:40,748 All right. 1703 02:02:42,554 --> 02:02:45,423 Okay. You come and sit. 1704 02:02:45,458 --> 02:02:46,820 Come on. 1705 02:03:00,506 --> 02:03:02,539 What y'all wanna sing? 1706 02:03:02,574 --> 02:03:03,771 And... 1707 02:03:06,479 --> 02:03:09,810 An all-gospel record has a very limited audience. 1708 02:03:09,845 --> 02:03:11,944 - I don't care. - You do care. 1709 02:03:11,979 --> 02:03:14,485 You sat in that office with me six years ago, 1710 02:03:14,520 --> 02:03:15,860 and you said you wanted to make hits, 1711 02:03:15,884 --> 02:03:17,114 and I think you still do. 1712 02:03:17,149 --> 02:03:19,490 I'm making this album, Jerry. 1713 02:03:19,525 --> 02:03:21,591 All right, can you just hear me out, please? 1714 02:03:21,626 --> 02:03:23,087 I'm making this album, 1715 02:03:23,122 --> 02:03:26,057 or I'll never make an album with you again. 1716 02:03:27,764 --> 02:03:30,468 All I wanna do is drink now, Jerry. 1717 02:03:30,503 --> 02:03:32,437 Well, let me get you into a program. 1718 02:03:32,472 --> 02:03:34,967 I'm in a program, but I need the church. 1719 02:03:35,002 --> 02:03:36,441 I need the spirit. 1720 02:03:36,476 --> 02:03:37,519 It has always gotten me through, 1721 02:03:37,543 --> 02:03:38,823 and it will get me through again. 1722 02:03:40,810 --> 02:03:42,975 Okay. Well, can we just... 1723 02:03:43,010 --> 02:03:44,779 I... I mean, just think about this... 1724 02:03:44,814 --> 02:03:47,617 This album is not for me or for you or anybody else. 1725 02:03:47,652 --> 02:03:49,454 This album is for God. 1726 02:03:49,489 --> 02:03:52,655 And you can't jive God, Jerry, so stop trying. 1727 02:03:52,690 --> 02:03:54,019 - Oh. 1728 02:03:54,054 --> 02:03:57,825 I'm not trying to jive you or Jesus, okay? 1729 02:03:59,895 --> 02:04:01,598 It's the gospel record. 1730 02:04:03,503 --> 02:04:06,834 It's 1972, for Christ's sake. Sorry. I... 1731 02:04:07,507 --> 02:04:08,572 Hey, 1732 02:04:09,905 --> 02:04:12,477 how about we make a documentary film 1733 02:04:12,512 --> 02:04:13,522 to go along with the record? 1734 02:04:13,546 --> 02:04:14,908 Why? 1735 02:04:14,943 --> 02:04:17,746 So, the international fans, the hippies, 1736 02:04:17,781 --> 02:04:20,551 the atheists like me can see you in your element 1737 02:04:20,586 --> 02:04:22,784 and understand the music that made you. 1738 02:04:22,819 --> 02:04:25,017 You mean for white people? 1739 02:04:25,052 --> 02:04:26,590 Well, I... 1740 02:04:27,692 --> 02:04:28,988 All right. Yes. 1741 02:04:31,223 --> 02:04:32,794 That's a great idea. 1742 02:04:34,127 --> 02:04:36,061 Okay. Well, good. So, you're not gonna leave me? 1743 02:04:36,800 --> 02:04:38,503 We're not done yet. 1744 02:04:38,538 --> 02:04:41,770 Oh, boy. What? 1745 02:04:41,805 --> 02:04:44,003 I want to produce the album, too. 1746 02:04:45,105 --> 02:04:46,105 Oh. 1747 02:04:50,275 --> 02:04:53,078 All right. Okay. Okay. 1748 02:05:02,628 --> 02:05:04,529 Hold! Hold! 1749 02:05:04,564 --> 02:05:06,795 You have to do something with the longer notes. 1750 02:05:06,830 --> 02:05:09,259 You're not giving yourself anywhere to go. 1751 02:05:09,294 --> 02:05:12,064 Start straight, then hit the vibrato halfway through. 1752 02:05:12,099 --> 02:05:13,164 Tension and release, y'all. 1753 02:05:14,233 --> 02:05:17,069 Yes, and this song is a lot more, uh, deliberate. 1754 02:05:17,104 --> 02:05:18,675 - Mm. - Yeah? 1755 02:05:19,843 --> 02:05:21,073 Take it from where we left off. 1756 02:05:21,746 --> 02:05:23,174 "In the stillness." 1757 02:05:33,626 --> 02:05:35,692 Yeah, that's it. 1758 02:06:01,621 --> 02:06:02,752 Thank you! 1759 02:06:34,313 --> 02:06:39,118 Sweet precious memories 1760 02:07:04,343 --> 02:07:07,883 Oh, Lord 1761 02:07:16,091 --> 02:07:18,960 Okay, all right, we're gonna take a ten. 1762 02:07:18,995 --> 02:07:21,226 Let's take ten. Let's, uh... 1763 02:07:30,776 --> 02:07:32,204 Are you all right? 1764 02:07:32,239 --> 02:07:35,273 I can't make a fool out of myself. 1765 02:07:35,308 --> 02:07:37,242 There's gonna be a film crew here. 1766 02:07:39,983 --> 02:07:42,687 And if I break down like I did right now, 1767 02:07:42,722 --> 02:07:44,282 they gonna think I lost my mind. 1768 02:07:44,317 --> 02:07:45,822 Ree... 1769 02:07:47,991 --> 02:07:51,091 Ree, the spirit is the spirit. 1770 02:07:51,126 --> 02:07:52,862 It moves when it moves. 1771 02:07:52,897 --> 02:07:55,194 What you want us to do? Behave like Episcopalians? 1772 02:07:57,770 --> 02:07:59,198 Now what's really bothering you? 1773 02:08:01,807 --> 02:08:03,675 You told me once 1774 02:08:05,140 --> 02:08:08,141 that music would save my life. 1775 02:08:09,408 --> 02:08:10,682 I did. 1776 02:08:11,146 --> 02:08:12,981 What if it doesn't? 1777 02:08:14,149 --> 02:08:16,248 The demon is strong. 1778 02:08:16,283 --> 02:08:18,756 Ain't no demon hauntin' you, Ree. 1779 02:08:18,791 --> 02:08:20,021 There never was. 1780 02:08:21,224 --> 02:08:24,696 Just the pain you've been runnin' from your whole life. 1781 02:08:26,766 --> 02:08:29,096 But you gotta let it go, Ree. 1782 02:08:30,902 --> 02:08:32,869 Give it to God. 1783 02:08:35,038 --> 02:08:36,103 It wasn't your fault. 1784 02:08:39,042 --> 02:08:40,976 And He knows that. 1785 02:08:44,377 --> 02:08:47,312 I don't know about tomorrow 1786 02:08:47,347 --> 02:08:51,250 or the concert or the album or the documentary. 1787 02:08:52,319 --> 02:08:54,858 You in church right now. 1788 02:08:55,960 --> 02:08:57,795 You're safe. 1789 02:08:59,062 --> 02:09:00,963 So, Ree, 1790 02:09:01,801 --> 02:09:03,735 let's have church. 1791 02:09:53,149 --> 02:09:54,214 Daddy. 1792 02:09:57,120 --> 02:09:58,218 It's good to see you. 1793 02:10:00,288 --> 02:10:03,421 We were in California, and 1794 02:10:03,456 --> 02:10:05,456 we heard that you were singing gospel, and... 1795 02:10:07,526 --> 02:10:09,295 Clara dragged me here. 1796 02:10:09,330 --> 02:10:11,836 Clara can't make you do anything. 1797 02:10:11,871 --> 02:10:13,711 She's got pretty feisty since you last saw her. 1798 02:10:14,566 --> 02:10:16,368 Glad you came. 1799 02:10:16,403 --> 02:10:18,040 That surprises me, 1800 02:10:18,075 --> 02:10:20,471 'cause we haven't been getting on as of late. 1801 02:10:22,178 --> 02:10:24,849 You told me I wasn't walking in the spirit. 1802 02:10:24,884 --> 02:10:25,884 I was angry. 1803 02:10:26,545 --> 02:10:28,380 You were with God. 1804 02:10:28,415 --> 02:10:29,986 You have always been with God. 1805 02:10:31,418 --> 02:10:33,858 He was with me. 1806 02:10:33,893 --> 02:10:36,355 I tried to run from Him, but He brought me back. 1807 02:10:36,896 --> 02:10:38,126 Like Jonah. 1808 02:10:39,195 --> 02:10:40,425 Like Jonah. 1809 02:10:44,035 --> 02:10:46,365 You taught me every song I'm singing today. 1810 02:10:51,075 --> 02:10:52,140 I did my best. 1811 02:10:54,914 --> 02:10:57,541 But you have exceeded all of my expectations, Ree. 1812 02:10:59,116 --> 02:11:02,018 I'm about to bust wide open, 1813 02:11:02,053 --> 02:11:05,021 and you're just getting started. 1814 02:11:05,056 --> 02:11:09,157 I can't imagine what you're gonna do next. 1815 02:11:10,963 --> 02:11:12,424 Because you can do anything, Ree. 1816 02:11:17,200 --> 02:11:19,167 First, give an honor to God 1817 02:11:19,202 --> 02:11:21,499 who's the head of all our lives. 1818 02:11:21,534 --> 02:11:24,238 Yes. Amen.- 1819 02:11:24,273 --> 02:11:26,944 I'm sure you all have noticed the cameras by now. 1820 02:11:28,211 --> 02:11:31,212 Don't get distracted by it. 1821 02:11:31,247 --> 02:11:32,642 We here to have church, right? 1822 02:11:32,677 --> 02:11:35,513 Amen. - All right. 1823 02:11:35,548 --> 02:11:39,484 This is the first religious recordin' 1824 02:11:39,519 --> 02:11:43,455 by our First Lady of Soul. 1825 02:11:43,490 --> 02:11:47,195 Give a warm round of applause for Miss Aretha Franklin. 1826 02:12:23,398 --> 02:12:24,595 We love you. 1827 02:13:56,491 --> 02:14:00,460 The sound 1828 02:15:30,849 --> 02:15:33,256 - Amen. Amen. 1829 02:16:13,529 --> 02:16:17,894 Of the storm 1830 02:16:34,649 --> 02:16:41,456 It was grace 1831 02:17:00,807 --> 02:17:04,413 Safe 1832 02:18:12,384 --> 02:18:18,388 on the morning rain 1833 02:18:18,423 --> 02:18:23,690 so uninspired 1834 02:18:26,024 --> 02:18:31,995 to face another day 1835 02:18:32,030 --> 02:18:37,572 so tired 1836 02:18:39,037 --> 02:18:45,646 life was so unkind 1837 02:18:45,681 --> 02:18:50,915 to my piece of mind 1838 02:18:50,950 --> 02:18:58,758 You make me feel 1839 02:18:58,793 --> 02:19:04,896 like a natural woman 1840 02:19:08,803 --> 02:19:14,609 was in the lost and found 1841 02:19:15,942 --> 02:19:19,911 came along to claim it 1842 02:19:23,114 --> 02:19:28,920 just what was wrong with me 1843 02:19:28,955 --> 02:19:33,595 helped me name it 1844 02:19:36,435 --> 02:19:42,802 of what I'm living for 1845 02:19:42,837 --> 02:19:48,676 I don't need to do more 1846 02:19:48,711 --> 02:19:55,617 You make me feel 1847 02:19:55,652 --> 02:20:02,624 like a natural woman 1848 02:20:05,761 --> 02:20:09,092 Oh, baby What you done to me 1849 02:20:12,064 --> 02:20:19,476 so, so, so good inside 1850 02:20:23,746 --> 02:20:29,585 That makes me feel so alive 1851 02:22:07,718 --> 02:22:13,249 Too long 1852 02:23:08,647 --> 02:23:13,012 Sing my way 1853 02:23:32,132 --> 02:23:36,200 But unheard 1854 02:23:45,112 --> 02:23:49,345 they won't let you fly 1855 02:24:07,233 --> 02:24:09,937 in your hands 123505

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