:47:01
I hate to interrupt you. I know you're all
celebrating and everything...
:47:04
but I just sure appreciate meeting you.
:47:09
My name is Harry Bradford.
That is, if you didn't get it.
:47:11
- Over there, this is Reg Hanley.
- Hi. Nice to meet you.
:47:14
- Louis McKay.
- We...
:47:16
We're just fans of yours.
:47:19
And I need all the fans I can get.
:47:21
Pull up a couple of chairs, fellows,
and join us.
:47:23
Thank you.
:47:27
Where do you fellows play?
:47:29
Well, actually,
we're playing no place right now.
:47:31
Fact is, we're trying to form a band
to take a tour around the country...
:47:35
and we wanted to talk to you
about joining us.
:47:37
Joining you? You serious?
:47:39
Very.
:47:42
A colored singer with a white band?
:47:45
Yeah. Yeah.
:47:47
Yeah?
:47:50
You must want to keep playing no place.
:47:52
Well, you see, that's exactly the point.
:47:54
We wouldn't be just another band
with you singing.
:47:57
We'd be something special
because, well, you're special, Billie.
:48:00
Here.
:48:03
There you go.
:48:06
Thank you.
:48:07
We'd go straight to the top. I know.
:48:09
I don't know about no straight to the top.
:48:10
I'm just trying to get to a club downtown.
:48:12
We all are.
:48:13
Of course, you don't understand, see,
the way you get downtown is...
:48:16
I mean, you know, the way you do that
is that you go out on the road...
:48:19
and you build up your name
in the sticks, and then, blam!
:48:22
You get snapped up by network radio,
who're always looking...
:48:25
for someone big with the hicks
to sell them soap or something.
:48:29
Yeah, then you come back
to New York...
:48:31
and besides radio,
there's records, club dates downtown...
:48:33
- you name it, Billie.
- Just like that, huh?
:48:36
Well, it works that way sometimes.
:48:39
You mean to tell me that I have to travel
all the way to East Jesus and back...
:48:42
before I can get in some club downtown
less than five minutes away from here?
:48:46
- Well...
- They full of shit, ain't they?
:48:52
I just think it'd be fantastic
if you just came with us.
:48:58
- How about that?
- I'm sorry, fellows.