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00:00:00Hi.
00:00:26Behind me is the Hudson River and panorama of the Palisades.
00:00:39Maybe you think that I'm up in Caskills somewhere, but you're wrong.
00:00:48Though I'm here and the river is behind me, it's true, I'm up the river.
00:00:53I'm up in a place where I'm just a number and a face among 1,200 other faces and other names and numbers.
00:01:08It's a place where people such as the famous Willie Sutton, the Rosenbergs, Trigger Burke, Joe Bellacci, they all pass through here.
00:01:22This is the, uh,
00:01:26Arsonian Correctional Facility, known the world over as the famous Sinksim Prison.
00:01:34A
00:01:49Gonna journey up the sun, going on a lonesome train
00:01:59They can put me in the death house, or keep me in the same, same day
00:02:10I wrote and asked the warden why they called the jail the same, same
00:02:23I wrote and asked the warden why they called the jail the same, same
00:02:35He said stand here by this rock park and listen to them hammers ring
00:02:47Big June in the coathouse, paper selling for fifty cents
00:02:59Big June in the coathouse, paper selling for fifty cents
00:03:11All the judge trying to jail me, my lawyer pleading safety
00:03:21But I'll send me to that mean old jail
00:03:35You can send me up the river, I'll send me to that mean old jail
00:03:47I killed my man, and I don't need no pain
00:03:59This is my cell here, where I keep all my supplies, where I can get them in handy
00:04:03My fish tank is over here, at night I best wear my time, look at my fish
00:04:08And I got my refrigerator here out in the window, where I keep all my supplies, keep it fresh and cold
00:04:14There's a little cabin here, where I keep my underwear and other shirt and stuff
00:04:20Then here I keep my toilet fish and sardines and stuff, whatever I need when I cook down the hill
00:04:27And this is my bed here at night, this is where I sleep
00:04:33Good morning BB
00:04:35Good morning BB
00:04:37Good morning BB
00:04:39How's it going man?
00:04:41Mmm
00:04:43Good boy
00:04:45Alright now I guess
00:04:47I'm having a good day today
00:04:49It's going to be fun today
00:04:50I'm like an old engine
00:04:51I'm starting to turn it now, once I start turning I'm all ready
00:04:54I'm ready
00:04:55I'm surprised they haven't taken down my clothesline
00:04:57Because they usually say people hang up with them here
00:05:03turning now once i start tearing them all right i'm ready i'm surprised they haven't taken down
00:05:09my clothes line because they usually say people hang up with them here my desk my chair you know
00:05:18the only thing they let you have you know when you come in here man is like what you see
00:05:23tall as bold six inches from my head and uh and the watch basin man that's it
00:05:29all these years went by when everybody thought i didn't wear makeup
00:05:35it was this big image you know natural i wore makeup the whole time i just
00:05:42smeared it around a little bit so they couldn't tell some prisons you're not allowed to wear perfume
00:05:47and don't excite anybody like the warden
00:05:52i don't have no ownership in here like these little things
00:06:03they didn't testify their meanings man like the books is all really i have
00:06:07then the pictures from home means great deal several of them i had to put them down because i
00:06:13just couldn't take looking at them no more a woman representing you know like to me beauty she has
00:06:21beautiful beautiful beautiful face and a short ass piece you know hey man you don't got a short ass
00:06:28piece you're just not a con hey yeah hey look at him dick yeah i like that don't you like that
00:06:37now how about a brown yeah yeah get a brown brown brown brown shape
00:06:43with uh with you know i think the fellas ought to dig that yeah this is the uh
00:06:58decorations for backstage
00:07:02we're doing uh we did uh
00:07:06john bias bb kings and the voices and they're gonna get equal billing
00:07:10i've been involved for almost a year now and uh since i was given the assignment as stage manager
00:07:18i feel that this is my part of my responsibility
00:07:23like a piece of oh we're gonna start working on a film today
00:07:28and this is the first time we have a film take on since
00:07:31first time and i hope it won't be the last one either
00:07:34and i will thank you all you guys for everything you've done
00:07:37uh we're going to have bb king the boys of this island john bias and all the guys from the cnc
00:07:44yeah
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00:07:49all right back to work
00:07:51yeah
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00:08:00yeah
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00:08:06up the sun, going on a lonesome train. They can put me in the death house, keep me in
00:08:22the same, same day.
00:08:28Well, we're going to Sing Sing. I've never been to it before. I've played
00:08:35many reclamators. I've never been up here.
00:08:42Want to interview about something here? Want to interview? We're supposed to have turkey
00:08:48today, but them seagulls is gone up there. You understand?
00:08:52They got you, champ. They got you good, boy.
00:08:55We have turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce, peas, pie, coffee, milk, the regular procedure
00:09:14that you have in any institution. This is about the best Thanksgiving that I had since
00:09:21last Thanksgiving. First of all, I didn't do it. I didn't do it. The food in here is terrible.
00:09:30I really mean it. You cannot eat this food. If it wasn't for my parents and the other parents
00:09:36of the guys that I hang out with, he never would be eaten. How much time are you guys?
00:09:41Oh, I got me. I got five years. I should be going home by next month anyway.
00:09:46What are you here for? Oh, I'm here for armed robbery.
00:09:51You armed robbery? Oh, yeah. Is that right? Sure.
00:09:55I'm not proud of it. Don't get enough to understand me.
00:10:00I hope the sun doesn't come out this morning. It'll be inside.
00:10:05That's an hour. Yeah, right.
00:10:08I woke up this morning with tears in my bed. They shot him up. They killed a man I really
00:10:16love. Shot him in the head. Lord, Lord, they shot George Jackson down.
00:10:23Lord, Lord, they laid him in the ground. Lord, Lord, they shot George Jackson down.
00:10:28Lord, Lord, they laid him in the ground.
00:10:33Lord, Lord, they laid him in the ground.
00:10:36Push it back up on the board.
00:10:38Well, I'm fixing it.
00:10:40Where is this going? I don't know.
00:10:42Where is this? That's the organ.
00:10:44It's the organ? That's the organ over there. On the other side of the organ.
00:10:47You can do one over there and keep one over there.
00:10:49Ain't that the organ? No, that's the piano. That's the organ over there.
00:10:52Keep one over there and keep one over there.
00:10:54Yeah, you know.
00:10:55Hey, watch my back. What are you?
00:10:57This goes on the other side with you already.
00:10:59I told you that. No, I told you that.
00:11:01I don't know.
00:11:02Because I gave him the keys. It's mine.
00:11:04You got it? You got your other keys there?
00:11:06Yeah, I gave him to Pat Canavan to open up that room there.
00:11:09Hey, Sarge, he's not a crystal science room.
00:11:11Hey, come on. You want to let me out?
00:11:13You want to let me out so I can help?
00:11:15No, you still don't need it.
00:11:17Visit 149628, Hoffman.
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00:12:00Dr. David Morgan, visit.
00:12:02Well, I think that we are here to provide as much protection for outside people as possible
00:12:13because anything can happen.
00:12:16We are nervous and excited.
00:12:18We're going to do everything we can to put as much protection on these people as possible.
00:12:22Not that we expect anything.
00:12:23We don't expect the population to.
00:12:25We expect them to get all excited.
00:12:27You think you can handle anything that might?
00:12:29I think we can.
00:12:31I know we can.
00:12:32Right now, everybody's coming in.
00:12:35They're trying to get themselves situated in a seat.
00:12:40I'm nervous because I'm anxious for this thing to start.
00:12:44Once we get started, we start picking up one, two, three.
00:12:47I won't be nervous no more.
00:12:50We need some pencils.
00:12:51Anybody want to need some?
00:12:54All inmate performers report to the chapel.
00:12:58Right now.
00:13:00Can I have everybody else that's going to help us here on stage and then we'll get everything up together so that we're together?
00:13:09We got them here.
00:13:09Oh, okay.
00:13:11That's the village of, how do you pronounce it?
00:13:13Austin?
00:13:14Austin.
00:13:14Austin.
00:13:15Austin.
00:13:16Yeah.
00:13:17Yeah, well, we're here.
00:13:18Uh, excuse me.
00:13:21This is Dave Hoffman.
00:13:25He's the executive producer and director of this picture in the institution today.
00:13:29He's got to say a few words.
00:13:30My partner and I have been working for this concert for about a year.
00:13:39You haven't seen most of us and I guess I haven't seen most of you, but it took us a year to get this thing to come off.
00:13:45And I still don't know what it's going to be like.
00:13:47Joan Baez and B.B. King aren't even in here yet.
00:13:50There's some hang up outside.
00:13:51I understand that people don't want to be photographed, so anyone who's behind that line will not be shot by the cameras.
00:13:59Okay?
00:14:03Hey, Tito, remember Thursday night is Latin night at the Cheetah.
00:14:07Stop it, fellas.
00:14:08The food, the man with the food, that he is.
00:14:12What are you doing?
00:14:14Hey, wait, wait, wait.
00:14:16What's happened?
00:14:20What took you so long?
00:14:21Hey, not them, us.
00:14:23What's happened with this dude?
00:14:24He's one of us.
00:14:26They're beating us in that commissive.
00:14:29Go over there, you think you're in ShopRite.
00:14:32Listen, if you can't see a dude that looks like a Martian, don't worry, it's only the camera crew.
00:14:38Oh, Joan Baez just came in.
00:14:39I just got the wire, fellas.
00:14:41Joan Baez just came in, man.
00:14:43She got her together self in here.
00:14:46She'll be in soon.
00:14:47There it is, fellas.
00:14:49Yeah?
00:14:50I don't mind y'all doing that.
00:14:52There it is.
00:14:55There's the wall.
00:14:58Good God, look at that.
00:15:00Yeah, man.
00:15:01Well, anyway, I want you all to know that we're going to have a hip happening with Indio in
00:15:05the front.
00:15:05What's the name of Indio?
00:15:14Indio, gentlemen.
00:15:15Indio.
00:15:16Indio right here.
00:15:17Come on, let's go get a hair for Indio.
00:15:19Okay.
00:15:23Oh, here it up, here it up.
00:15:53Indio, yeah, Torema's happening, man.
00:16:00Yes, B.B. King, part of the group for the concert today.
00:16:05B.B. King, so you going inside or what?
00:16:07Yes, sir, I think they're having a dinner inside there.
00:16:09Okay, let me check. Let me check.
00:16:11Alright.
00:16:16What do you think about the show that's taking place today, man?
00:16:19Well, they haven't started yet.
00:16:22The band ain't started yet. We waiting for...
00:16:27Is Joan Baez going to be here or what?
00:16:29Yes, sir.
00:16:30Yeah, well, I think this is going to be nice.
00:16:31And you got a whole bunch of sisters up there, too.
00:16:33Oh, yeah, well, I think that's going to be beautiful.
00:16:35Alright, thanks, guys.
00:16:36Appreciate that.
00:16:37Let me see what's happening here.
00:16:39Are we going to get it together?
00:16:41Alright, the voice is ready.
00:16:44Huh?
00:16:45The voice is ready?
00:16:47Wow.
00:16:48Well, here they are, man.
00:16:50Uh, they're getting ready now, man.
00:16:54Is everything cool?
00:16:55I'm going to leave you now and let you have a tremendous happening.
00:16:58Solid, fellas.
00:16:59Hey, the voice is going to be solid.
00:17:01The voice is going to be solid, fellas.
00:17:03Let's do it, fellas.
00:17:14Uh!
00:17:15Oh, hey!
00:17:17Whoa!
00:17:18Hey, whoa!
00:17:19Oh, oh, oh, Lisa.
00:17:20Oh, oh, oh, oh, even Diex.
00:17:22Oh, boy!
00:17:23Whoa!
00:17:24Hey, whoa!
00:17:26I want a ticket.
00:17:27It seems to me.
00:17:28No.
00:17:29Oh, Willie, Barack!
00:17:30Great.
00:17:32I wanna go the love with the stars with the stars with the stars...
00:17:48Yeah!
00:17:52Yeah.
00:18:00I want love over my head
00:18:04Over my head
00:18:06Over my head
00:18:07I don't want love no more pain
00:18:11No more pain
00:18:12No more pain
00:18:14I'm gonna live a little love day
00:18:18Little love day
00:18:20Little love day
00:18:21Mother, mother, mother, save your child
00:18:27And then we're going around
00:18:31I want love to be free
00:18:33I want love to be free
00:18:37I want love to be free
00:18:41I don't want love no more pain
00:18:43I want love over my head
00:18:47Ain't no time to be free
00:18:50Mother, mother, mother, mother, mother, save your child
00:18:57Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:19:27I don't want to snow again
00:19:31I want to snow again
00:19:35I want to snow again
00:19:36There's no time to be that great
00:19:38Yeah, yeah, yeah
00:19:40Oh, the thing you would shine
00:19:43Oh, Lord, Lord, girl
00:19:44I'll be here tomorrow night, yeah
00:19:48Better hear me going around
00:19:52Better be free
00:19:54Yeah, I want to be free
00:20:01Yeah, I want to be free
00:20:04Yeah, I want to be free
00:20:08Let me do it, yeah
00:20:09Oh, Lord, Lord, girl
00:20:11Better be free
00:20:13Better be free
00:20:15Right on, yeah
00:20:16I want to be free
00:20:24I want to be free
00:20:37I want to be free
00:20:39I want to be free
00:20:40I feel like they would have
00:20:46Talked all of them about it
00:20:47It seem like
00:20:48Don't nobody know anything about it here
00:20:50We have quite a few people
00:20:52In the institution now
00:20:54And we must have your cooperation
00:20:56Especially the ladies on the bus here
00:20:58We are not used to this sort of thing
00:21:00But we're trying to put as much protection as we can
00:21:04On each and every one of you
00:21:06So you have to pay attention
00:21:08Or you're going to get lost
00:21:09And you're going to be confused
00:21:11See, if you get lost in here
00:21:14That means that we can't go home and eat Thanksgiving dinner
00:21:16I can't go home if you don't come out
00:21:18Don't you understand?
00:21:19That's right
00:21:19This is the most opportune time
00:21:22For one of these guys to go
00:21:24Now, three years ago today
00:21:27There was a guy that walked
00:21:29Two guys that hit out right down there
00:21:31And we couldn't go home
00:21:32Until about 11 o'clock Thanksgiving night
00:21:34We've been here for years
00:21:36We know what's happening
00:21:37We know the people that we're dealing with
00:21:40And these people in here that you're dealing with
00:21:41Are cunning and they're shrewd
00:21:44Freedom is the spirit, y'all
00:21:46Right on
00:21:47Oh, what a lovely precious dream
00:22:06To be young, young, young, young
00:22:13Oh, what a lovely precious dream
00:22:17Open your heart
00:22:18Open up your heart to what I mean
00:22:22I've been the whole world
00:22:26You've got to know
00:22:30There's a million boys
00:22:33Boys and girls
00:22:36Who are young
00:22:40Young, young, young, young, and black
00:22:43Black, yeah
00:22:44And that's a fact
00:22:47Oh, I'm doing it
00:22:48Yeah, yeah
00:22:49All right
00:22:50Who are young, young, and black
00:22:54Love gets dead and black
00:22:57We must begin
00:23:03We've got to begin to tell life
00:23:06Now that there's a whole other world
00:23:10Waiting for you
00:23:12Oh, how I long, how I long
00:23:19To know it's true
00:23:21Said there are times
00:23:24When I look back
00:23:27And I'm haunted, I am haunted
00:23:34By my youth
00:23:35But my joy, but my joy
00:23:41But my joy today
00:23:43Is that we can't all
00:23:46Oh, be proud today
00:23:50To be un-given
00:23:55To be un-given
00:24:02To be un-given
00:24:07To be un-given
00:24:12To be un-given
00:24:17To be un-given
00:24:19To be un-given
00:24:21When they say Harlem, they weren't jibbing, were they fellas?
00:24:45That's sure enough, ghetto soul jumping off.
00:24:51Hey listen, hey listen man, I got Jimmy Walker, the man who will always be at that Apollo.
00:25:05He's going to do a thing for us.
00:25:06So Jimmy come on out here man, he's going to let you know about who's really happening, somebody else.
00:25:11Jimmy Walker.
00:25:14What's happening?
00:25:15Goddamn.
00:25:16I just finished a thing at the Apollo with Gilbert Moore.
00:25:21Nah shit, you know when I work with white folks, you know, if I don't do well it don't bother me.
00:25:26But if you don't do well at the Apollo, the backstage leads into an alleyway.
00:25:33And dudes be waiting for you back there, you know.
00:25:37You wasn't funny, sucker!
00:25:40I was coming in with a BB and the boys and we were just doing a little drinking.
00:25:54And I was sitting in the bar over at 125th Street with a nigga.
00:25:57The niggas are something, ain't they?
00:25:59I'm glad I'm one.
00:26:01Shit, it's tough to be a nigga nowadays.
00:26:06All these colored people and negroes out here, it's tough to be a nigga.
00:26:11But I was sitting in the bar, and there's always an argument in the bars.
00:26:15Guy's sitting there and says, hold on man, hold on.
00:26:19The woman sat next to me, man.
00:26:22No, man, the woman sat next to me.
00:26:27Don't be bad-mouthing.
00:26:30You talking to sweet Willie Johnson.
00:26:40Pull something out, nigga!
00:26:44Pull something out!
00:26:46So you got a gun.
00:26:52Shoot me!
00:26:55Shoot me!
00:26:58Shoot me, nigga!
00:27:01What you gonna do?
00:27:02I said, shoot me!
00:27:03Goddamn!
00:27:17Oh, wow.
00:27:18I'm gonna come on back, but right now I wanna bring on a fabulous young lady.
00:27:22Been like an idol of mine for years, and I really dug her.
00:27:26And I think y'all will really enjoy what she's doing,
00:27:28because she's really working, doing her thing in her own way.
00:27:31And need I say any more than Miss Joan Baez.
00:27:34Come on.
00:27:35It's important, important, man.
00:27:36Listen.
00:27:37One, three, five, six, two, three.
00:27:38And one, four, four, five, three, three.
00:27:39The deaf wants to see you immediately, man.
00:27:40Get it together, man.
00:27:41Hey, listen, man.
00:27:42Hey.
00:27:43Here she is, man.
00:27:44Miss Joan Baez.
00:27:45Come on.
00:27:46Let's hear it for her, huh?
00:27:47She's out of sight.
00:27:48Fuck that thing.
00:27:49Joan.
00:27:52I'd like to start off by singing a song called I Shall Be Released.
00:27:55They say everything can be replaced.
00:28:12I'd like to start off by singing a song called, I Shall Be Released.
00:28:17They say everything can be replaced.
00:28:26They say the distance is not near.
00:28:33You know, I remember every face.
00:28:41Of every man who put me here.
00:28:48I see my light come shining.
00:28:56From the west down to the east.
00:29:04Any day now, any day now I shall be released.
00:29:19Well, yonder stands a man in this lonely crowd.
00:29:26A man who swears he's not to blame.
00:29:33All day long I hear him shouting so loud.
00:29:45Keeps crying out that he was praying.
00:29:52I see my light come shining.
00:29:59From the west down to the east.
00:30:06Any day now, any day now, we shall be released.
00:30:13Any day now, we shall be released.
00:30:20Any day now, we shall be released.
00:30:27Any day now, we shall be released.
00:30:34I'd like to thank you very much for letting us in this place.
00:30:43I know you're not crazy about being here, but I'm really glad that...
00:30:48I mean, some prisons don't let us in even, you know?
00:30:58And the most thing that we could hope for today is that everybody have a good time.
00:31:06Okay, this is my sister Mimi Farina.
00:31:36Thank you very much.
00:31:41Family.
00:31:48As long as yourself, that one is my power, my love.
00:31:51Only if you are part of Bolivia.
00:31:53The one I can't, and that one I want.
00:31:55Perhaps you will be revealed.
00:32:01Rather than the one I want.
00:32:02...como la chiero yo.
00:32:06La la la la la la...
00:32:29Viva mi patria Bolivia, una gran nación.
00:32:35Yo te adoro mi vida, como la quiero yo.
00:32:41Yo te adoro mi vida, son de mi corazón.
00:34:19Yo te adoro mi vida.
00:34:23Es un bonito cut.
00:34:25Te adoro mi vida.
00:34:27Te adoro mi vida.
00:34:29Te adoro mi vida.
00:34:31Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:03Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:05Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:11Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:15Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:17Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:21Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:23Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:25Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:29Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:31Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:33Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:35Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:37Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:39Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:41Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:43Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:45Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:47Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:51Te adoro.
00:35:53Te adoro mi vida.
00:35:56Mbot por la muerte.
00:36:08Está seguro.
00:36:09All right, son, now sing, sing, Prince, do as we tell you to our health.
00:36:21I didn't do it.
00:36:24Good morning.
00:36:25I am the Prince of Psychiatry.
00:36:26I'm here to determine your sanity.
00:36:28Did you commit the crime?
00:36:29I didn't do it.
00:36:30I didn't do it.
00:36:31I didn't do it.
00:36:32Goodbye.
00:36:35Goodbye.
00:36:35I'm here to determine your medical census.
00:36:40Did you commit this crime?
00:36:41I didn't do it.
00:36:42Did you do it?
00:36:42I didn't do it.
00:36:43I didn't do it.
00:36:44I didn't do it.
00:36:46I didn't do it.
00:36:48I didn't do it.
00:36:50Boy, as an employer, I checked your background out.
00:36:54You didn't talk to your head of a wreck.
00:36:55You didn't do fine.
00:36:56I didn't do it.
00:36:57Oh, my God.
00:36:59She wasn't up to your mother.
00:37:01I didn't do it.
00:37:02Get out of my house.
00:37:06Get out.
00:37:11You're going back for provide anywhere.
00:37:28You're going back.
00:37:28Get out of my house.
00:37:33Get out.
00:37:33Get out.
00:37:34Get out.
00:37:34Get out.
00:37:34Get out.
00:37:35Get out.
00:37:35Get out.
00:37:35Get out.
00:37:35Hey, did you hear me call on the line?
00:37:50What's your number?
00:37:51Keep locked.
00:37:52Solitary confinement.
00:37:53It's a hole!
00:37:54Leave me alone!
00:37:55Leave me alone!
00:37:56Leave me alone!
00:37:57Leave me alone!
00:37:58Leave me alone!
00:37:59Leave me alone!
00:38:00Leave me alone!
00:38:01Leave me alone!
00:38:02Leave me alone!
00:38:03I did it!
00:38:04I did it!
00:38:05I did it!
00:38:06I did it!
00:38:07I did it!
00:38:08I did it!
00:38:09I did it!
00:38:10God damn it!
00:38:11I did it!
00:38:12I did it!
00:38:13I did it!
00:38:24Next case.
00:38:26The federal government, they want to get rid of all this what they call crime on the street.
00:38:30They should take that ex-con, right?
00:38:36And have jobs prepared for the man out there.
00:38:40A job that not only can pay $40 or $50 a week because that ain't gonna make it.
00:38:46$40 or $50 a week, man.
00:38:47I can get a gun and buy me a gun for $40 and I make me $200 or $300 a day.
00:38:53They have the alleviation of going to them streets, man, and going to their wives and their kids and having a little bit of love.
00:39:00That's what they have.
00:39:01That's what they want to consider it, you know?
00:39:03Having a little bit of love out there, man.
00:39:05We don't have none of this, man.
00:39:06We gotta wait for visits.
00:39:08We have to wait for mail.
00:39:10We have to go through all the changes.
00:39:12We have to go to the service unit.
00:39:14Everything, man.
00:39:15It's dependent upon them.
00:39:16We don't have no self-reliant thing except our minds.
00:39:19And few of us know how to use it because it's conditioned already, man, to react to four walls.
00:39:24I rapped to a guy.
00:39:25I was in Auburn and I talked to a guy that did, like, 38 years, you know?
00:39:31And he, 38 years behind a wall, I tried, I got stabbed in the joint, you know?
00:39:36And that was a hell of an experience for me, man.
00:39:39And, like, this guy was, like, telling me, like, that ain't nothing, kid.
00:39:42It was an old guy and he's telling me, like, 38 years in here, man, and don't worry, you know, you get over it, you know?
00:39:50And finally, I remember when he was going home and this guy was, like, 70-something years old.
00:39:55He was acting like a young boy, man, you know?
00:39:57Hey, kid, they're letting me go, you know?
00:39:59They're letting me go, kid, you know?
00:40:01I say, right, doc.
00:40:02We used to call him doc.
00:40:03He wasn't a doctor.
00:40:04He just was the cook, man, in the hospital.
00:40:07This next little song is just, like, three stories.
00:40:10And I don't know whether you guys have the patience to listen all the way through, but it would be nice, okay?
00:40:15And they're all true.
00:40:20Billy Rose was a low rider.
00:40:25Billy Rose was a night fighter.
00:40:28Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name.
00:40:34Busted on a drunken charge, driving someone else's car.
00:40:39The local midnight sheriffs claimed to fame.
00:40:44In an Arizona jail, there are some who tell the tale.
00:40:49How Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded.
00:40:55Knowing he would pay the cost, knowing they'd remain the boss, they saw he was severely reprimanded.
00:41:07In the blackest cell on a block.
00:41:12He hanged himself at dawn.
00:41:17With a note stuck to the bunk head.
00:41:22Don't with me.
00:41:23Just take me home.
00:41:25Come and lay.
00:41:27Help us lay young Billy down.
00:41:32Luna was a Mexican.
00:41:37The law calls an alien for coming past the border with a baby and a wife.
00:41:47While the clothes upon his back were wet.
00:41:50Still he thought that he could get some money and things to start a lie.
00:41:56Well it hadn't been too very long.
00:41:59When it seemed like everything went wrong.
00:42:02Didn't even have the time to find themselves a home.
00:42:07When this foreigner, a brown skin male, thrown inside a Texas jail.
00:42:13Left the wife and baby quite alone.
00:42:19He's the pain inside him.
00:42:24With a needle in his arm.
00:42:29But the dope just crucified him.
00:42:34And he died to no one's great alarm.
00:42:39Come and lay.
00:42:41Help us lay.
00:42:43Poor Luna down.
00:42:48And then we'll raise.
00:42:51Raise the prisons.
00:42:53To the ground.
00:42:58Bela White was an aging con of 65.
00:43:02Who stood a chance to stay alive and leave the joint.
00:43:06And walk the streets again.
00:43:09At the time he was to go too near.
00:43:12He suffered all the joy and fear of leaving 35 years in the pen.
00:43:19Then on the day of his release.
00:43:22He was approached by the police.
00:43:24Who took him to the warden.
00:43:26Walking slowly by his side.
00:43:30The warden said you won't remain here.
00:43:33But it seems the state retainer claims another ten years of your life.
00:43:42He stepped up in the Texas sunlight.
00:43:47And the cops all stood around.
00:43:52Whole keel of water and fifty yards.
00:43:57Then threw himself down on the ground.
00:44:01They might as well.
00:44:02They might as well.
00:44:04Just to lay that old man down.
00:44:11And we're gonna raise.
00:44:14Raise the prisons.
00:44:16To the ground.
00:44:19Help us raise.
00:44:21Raise the prisons.
00:44:22To the ground.
00:44:23Help us raise.
00:44:24Raise the prisons.
00:44:25To the ground.
00:44:29And we're going to die.
00:44:33Come back.
00:44:34Fire.
00:44:36Listen.
00:44:38135-623-1445-333.
00:44:39The devil is still looking for you.
00:44:41When he finds you.
00:44:42I'm going to ask you what's your name.
00:44:43Jerry Oster.
00:44:44What are you here for?
00:44:46What county?
00:44:47I'm a reporter for the New York Daily News.
00:44:48What do you think about the concert today?
00:44:49Well, I think it's a remarkable one.
00:44:52I'm going to dance with you.
00:44:54You're going to dance with you.
00:44:56What do you think about the concert today?
00:44:58Well, I think it's a remarkable event.
00:45:00I've never seen anything quite like it,
00:45:01where the audience and the performers
00:45:05and the people on stage are all kind of part of a big happening.
00:45:09It's really a happening more than anything else.
00:45:11Here he is, Tommy Bernthard.
00:45:14Is it Bernthard, brother?
00:45:19Yeah, this is a little poem I hooked up.
00:45:22It's called A Game in the Apple.
00:45:25A Game in the Apple.
00:45:27Dig it?
00:45:29In the players' game, you need no fame.
00:45:34Around town, uptown, or downtown.
00:45:38Morning, noon, and evening, too.
00:45:41You've been in that scuffle, too.
00:45:43Smoking bush, stealing stuff, popping pills, curing ills,
00:45:48rubbing thighs, checking thighs, and getting high.
00:45:52Mr. Big Stuff, pushing tough, that angel dust.
00:45:56Dumping the scene with plenty green.
00:45:59Your brother man, extending his hand to give you the muscle to put in your hustle.
00:46:04Got beat, blew that cash, got the crash, got no stash, can't lay it low today.
00:46:11You name it, they gave it, making plays to cop those trades.
00:46:15Morphine, Opium, Codeine, Methadrine, Procane, Cocaine, DMT, STP, LSD, E, A, T, H.
00:46:28Black, yellow, and brown, not black, red, and green.
00:46:32Popping out of L, sporting gear so well.
00:46:35Popping out of L, giving suckers hell.
00:46:38Popping out of L, sending chicks to hell.
00:46:41Yeah, I saw you niggas.
00:46:43Old niggas, young niggas, little niggas, big niggas, slow niggas, fast niggas, afro niggas, and moringua niggas.
00:46:51Yeah, black, yellow, and brown niggas, war niggas, niggas.
00:46:56What a time you had, nodding off that gag.
00:47:00How you dig that bag, nodding off that code.
00:47:04If that's the life you dig, don't call that man a pig.
00:47:08Can you dig it?
00:47:14I'm reading Ralph Elliston, The Invisible Man.
00:47:18I've sold it around, man, but I've never picked it up.
00:47:23I've been through the Marxist theory, man.
00:47:26The communist theory and so on.
00:47:29I have over here help with all psychoanalysis.
00:47:38To me, this is what's happening, man.
00:47:40This is how I want to fight this battle.
00:47:43Because now I have really dug into myself, you know.
00:47:46I'm not saying I have found myself, you know.
00:47:49But I have.
00:47:50I know where I'm going.
00:47:51I know what I want to do.
00:47:52Ain't nobody that can stop me.
00:47:55To stop me is going to have to take what I stand for.
00:47:57And then that right there is my life.
00:48:00One, three, five, six, two, three.
00:48:03One, four, four, five, three, three.
00:48:05The death watcher.
00:48:06Watch out.
00:48:07One, four, seven, nine, six, six.
00:48:10Man, possible furlough check.
00:48:12Get out there.
00:48:13That's one, four, seven, nine, six, six.
00:48:15Jimmy.
00:48:17Yeah, all right.
00:48:19Nine, seven, seven, six, four, five.
00:48:24Seven, fifteen, ninety-five.
00:48:29Yeah.
00:48:30You know what I'm waiting for?
00:48:33I'm waiting for the first black president.
00:48:36I could have manned the cat now.
00:48:38Walks out on the knob real day and says,
00:48:40Thank you very much for electing me
00:48:43President of the United States.
00:48:45And I really thank you for electing me
00:48:47the first black president of the United States.
00:48:50Right now, I'd like to give you the State of the Union address.
00:48:53But first, the number for today.
00:49:01Seven, five, four.
00:49:03Anybody, seven, five, four?
00:49:05Huh?
00:49:06Y'all ready?
00:49:07Yeah.
00:49:08They're ready.
00:49:09All right, then.
00:49:10I'm used to warming people up.
00:49:11You see, that's my job.
00:49:12I just warm the crowd up.
00:49:15And as they're at their peak of ecstasy,
00:49:17I'll bring the big one on.
00:49:20That's my job.
00:49:21See, I'm not the confessional type of comic.
00:49:24I'm what they call in the business a jazz comic.
00:49:27You see that last five minutes?
00:49:29That was a riff.
00:49:35But anyway, I want to bring on the big one.
00:49:41And I guess y'all know who it is.
00:49:44Y'all all set up there and getting that thing together.
00:49:46Because you're going to be setting up.
00:49:47I want y'all to make him feel at home.
00:49:49Because the man been traveling and he's kind of tight.
00:49:51But I want y'all to make him really feel at home.
00:49:52Let's hand for him.
00:49:53Come on, now.
00:49:54Mr. B.B. King.
00:49:55Come on.
00:49:56Come on, now.
00:49:57Come on, now.
00:49:58Come on, now.
00:49:59Come on, now.
00:50:00Come on.
00:50:01Come on, now.
00:50:02Come on, now.
00:50:03Come on, now.
00:50:04Okay, now.
00:50:05Oh, well, now.
00:50:06Reese.
00:50:07Come on, Reese.
00:50:08Reese.
00:50:09Reese.
00:50:11Uh, at the apartment.
00:50:12He's ballin' right now.
00:50:14While they're getting it together,
00:50:17I was told that some of you dudes don't know anything about blues.
00:50:22that's that's what they told me so i want to say this to you i came to swap some with you
00:50:31i imagine quite a few you dudes have the blues already but today
00:50:37that's my signal to shut up today being thanksgiving
00:50:44this is thanksgiving right
00:50:48thanksgiving all right
00:50:52well let me say this to you it seemed like a lot of things have been happening today
00:50:59and when i came in i had to sign in
00:51:02and i noticed i noticed one of the members of my group you seem to know very well
00:51:12how'd it make me feel make me feel good because he works with me
00:51:22thank you
00:51:29thank you
00:51:35thank you
00:51:44thank you
00:51:51thank you
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00:54:44thank you
00:54:49thank you
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00:54:53thank you
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00:55:32thank you
00:55:34fellas
00:55:45fellas
00:55:45we would like to do a tune for you since today is thanksgiving
00:55:49and as john said a while ago a lot of people
00:55:53do care
00:55:55and this is our little contribution to you
00:55:58the title of it you'll hear in the song
00:56:02someone
00:56:04someone
00:56:04really loves you
00:56:08guess who
00:56:12someone
00:56:19really cares
00:56:23guess who
00:56:29really cares
00:56:31it's me
00:56:32so
00:56:33open
00:56:34your heart
00:56:37oh
00:56:39then surely
00:56:42you'll see
00:56:45oh
00:56:47not the someone
00:56:49who really cares
00:56:52This isn't me
00:57:52Someone will wait eternally Someone who wants your love, oh, so desperately
00:58:22So open your heart Oh, so surely you'll see
00:58:36Someone who really cares Who really cares is me
00:58:52Oh, so slowly you'll see
00:59:22Oh, so slowly you'll see
00:59:52I say all of your affection is gone, baby And your love is growing cold
01:00:09Hey, but I've got a new story to tell you this evening, baby
01:00:19One that ain't never been told I went to work the other day But I thought that I'd double back
01:00:34And that car I saw sitting in the front of my door It looked like I'm praying to count on
01:00:44I think you're cheating on me, baby I think you're cheating on me, baby
01:00:54I think you're cheating on me, baby I believe to my soul, baby
01:01:04And you're giving me some outside help That I don't think I really need
01:01:11I think you're cheating on me, baby
01:01:13The ice man came down this morning And you know he didn't leave no ice
01:01:20The ice man came down this morning And you know he didn't leave no ice
01:01:22The ice man came down this morning And you know he didn't leave no ice
01:01:27The ice man came down this morning And you know he didn't leave no ice
01:01:29The ice man came down this morning And you know he didn't leave no ice
01:01:34I think you're cheating on me, baby I think you're running out on me
01:01:44I believe to my soul, baby That you're giving me some outside help
01:01:54That I don't think I really need Now I want you to tell the ice man
01:02:01The next time he better leave some ice And I want you to tell the postman
01:02:10He better ring more than twice And when I come home from work in the morning
01:02:17There better still be some groceries on the shelf And I want you to tell that slick insurance man
01:02:24And you know he better ride some insurance on his desk
01:02:25I don't think I'll tell the postman
01:02:26I want you to tell the postman
01:02:27I don't think I'm telling the postman
01:02:28I want you to tell the postman
01:02:29I don't think I'm telling the postman
01:02:30I don't believe it's my soul
01:02:44Don't give me some help
01:02:49Some help
01:02:50And I don't really see
01:03:00Thank you, listen
01:03:13I was just told
01:03:16Just told by my man there
01:03:19That he's gonna take a little break
01:03:22I think he can tell you a little better than I can
01:03:24I don't know
01:03:24Come on over here with me
01:03:28I know I don't look like Joan Baez
01:03:31And I ain't gonna kiss you
01:03:32But go ahead and tell the people
01:03:33Hey listen man
01:03:35Remember that God said
01:03:38Bye yeah with Mikey
01:03:38And B.B. King is saying
01:03:40Soul with himself
01:03:41Jack
01:03:41Here it is
01:03:43We're having a boss time man
01:03:45I wish we had more time
01:03:46We don't wanna leave
01:03:47We're gonna have a 15 minute break
01:03:49And they're gonna see you
01:03:50Catch them sandwiches
01:03:51They've been promising you
01:03:52Then we're gonna do it again
01:03:54We ain't going nowhere
01:03:55We're gonna stay
01:03:57The way
01:03:58The way
01:03:58The way
01:04:24This is a serenade.
01:04:38Come on!
01:04:41Stay back!
01:04:49What's going on?
01:04:51Hey.
01:04:51Hey, boys, listen up.
01:04:53may I have it quiet a minute everybody sit down for a minute get on with this
01:05:00show all right fellas let's be quiet a minute we have a problem of time please
01:05:11cooperate because we have a deadline the more we can get in the less we have to
01:05:17cut out now is this understood how long you've been driving the bus three years
01:05:27is that a choice job in here yep I picked it I've been riding this bus for a long time
01:05:33you seem to know a lot about the prison here how do you feel about this place I like it
01:05:42fine got no problem you think it's strange job being inside a prison no prison's in the mine
01:05:53what happens if you don't act tough to the inmates I mean what happens if you try and
01:06:01be a nice guy I don't act tough I just be me but I mean if a guy's too nice to these people
01:06:09you think this place is giving some of these guys a chance to get their get themselves back
01:06:22together it is if they think right they'd sit down and look at themselves first
01:06:28they looked at themselves and that's what this
01:06:33that's what time does it gives you a chance to look yourself over to find out what you are
01:06:39everybody shows the sad side there's a hell of a lot of humor in it too
01:06:46tell us something the funny things you've seen
01:06:49huh tell me something funny that you've seen
01:06:51well I've seen a guy in here the day everybody put down as a kook
01:06:55used to work for me in the brush shop
01:06:57he'd laugh in the morning laugh at night he did his time the best he could
01:07:05a lot of guys despite him because he could find humor in the place
01:07:09I got a little story the other day I had
01:07:13about four or five apples in my hands and officer Swinney
01:07:17was coming down and he says Tony what you doing with all the apples
01:07:20apples so I said well here I threw him an apple like this right and two days later he saw me
01:07:32and he says to me uh well how many how many what happened to the apple
01:07:37four worms you have four worms so ever since then he calls me apples and that's right
01:07:44apple head apple head right an inmate made that he laid on the floor and he traced himself
01:07:53he painted his likeness on it for me and then he copied the stripes out of a book
01:07:59you have that personal relationship with the inmates some of them
01:08:02oh yes I have inmates I've known some cases all my life I uh I know some inmates better than I
01:08:11know my own family uh they passed the time of day I know uh not long ago I met an inmate that
01:08:18uh he was in almost every institution I was in and we used to sat and talk about the good old days
01:08:25uh it's not like this or not like that and uh it's it's they they realize prison as it is
01:08:33sing sing is a very corrupt foul stinking so-called correctional facility
01:08:45it is one of the lowest dirty concentration camps new york state has devised to incarcerate young men
01:08:58of good will and integrity yeah get that right yeah I like to scream all that all right thank you
01:09:07all right jimmy walker
01:09:10now we gotta have our finale the dynamite part of our show y'all been waiting for it
01:09:20come on let's really hear from you know who it is let's welcome back the fabulous voices of east college
01:09:25the
01:09:33the
01:09:35the
01:09:37the
01:09:39the
01:09:41the
01:09:45the
01:09:49Oh, my God.
01:09:56Oh, my God.
01:10:01Oh, my God.
01:10:05Oh, my God.
01:10:09Come on, everybody.
01:10:11Put your hands together.
01:10:13Come on.
01:10:17Come on.
01:10:19All right.
01:10:21Come on.
01:10:23I'll take care of you.
01:10:25Come on.
01:10:27I'll take care of you.
01:10:29Come on.
01:10:31Oh, my God.
01:10:33Oh, my God.
01:10:35I'll take care of you...
01:10:43Why are you waiting?
01:10:45Oh, yeah.
01:10:53Oh, yeah.
01:11:06Oh, yeah!
01:11:11Oh, yeah!
01:11:15I'll be your music, I'll be your demon, I'll tell my true wife, how he behaves, how he behaves, how he behaves.
01:11:45Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
01:12:03Run sick of life, run sick of life, do you feel good?
01:12:13You feel good, back your hand
01:12:28You feel good, back your hand
01:12:31You feel good, back your hand
01:12:36You're good, you're good
01:12:40I feel good
01:12:54I feel good
01:12:56I feel good
01:12:59I look for my bad
01:13:01I feel good
01:13:02I look for my bad
01:13:04I feel heard, on my leg
01:13:22I feel heard, on my body
01:13:27I feel good, I feel good, I feel good, I feel good.
01:13:57I feel good, I feel good, I feel good.
01:14:27I feel good, I feel good, I feel good, I feel good.
01:14:57I feel good, I feel good, I feel good.
01:15:27I feel good, I feel good, I feel good.
01:15:29I feel good, I feel good.
01:15:31I feel good, I feel good.
01:15:33I feel good, I feel good.
01:15:35I feel good.
01:15:37I feel good.
01:15:39I feel good.
01:15:41I feel good.
01:15:42I feel good.
01:15:43I feel good.
01:15:44I feel good.
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01:15:59you know so right later see you at child and all that type of thing you know I'm
01:16:06locking back in tomorrow same old thing from Sun to Sun
01:16:14hey listen hey you can't smell tremendous jab hey listen Sonny the
01:16:23voices of his arms back there at Sydney huh and you want the autograph of Sydney you're in love with
01:16:31Sydney you're the one we know we know solid we'll tell Sydney my man got 28 days he want me to let
01:16:39Sydney know what's happening hey Sydney got 28 days left to me and it's all over you know society will
01:16:45say he's no longer guilty he paid his debt to society power to the people man right yeah
01:16:53people are outside have a negative attitude they say well they're animals and they should be in a
01:17:02cage we are in a cage man we are in a cage I know what it is man to be in a place like this with
01:17:10nothing wife kids family no one to contact man all we ask man is to be treated like human beings
01:17:19don't treat us like an animal because we are not animals the fact that we're in a cage don't make
01:17:26us an animal we have feelings we have emotions and we can relate to you if you relate to us as a matter
01:17:34of fact we want to relate to you do you want to relate to us give me a hand show me that because I have
01:17:43a record you're not going to fire me that because I have a record you're not going to deny me the
01:17:50right to work in a bar or own an automobile or own a house or going to business going to contracts
01:17:56help me that's what I'm asking for give me a hand and leave me the right way so I don't have to come
01:18:06back because as long as you keep your back to me I'm going to keep on coming to prison not only me
01:18:15but other inmates any more questions now what's it
01:18:45what a thing to be a thousand men lock in that pen on a winter's day with the sky so gray so I'm going to be a
01:18:52thing to be a thousand men lock in that pen on a winter's day with the sky so gray so I'm going to be a
01:19:08that the heavens froze the front gate closed on the river outside of the wall so high and the stone so cold but the men so bold that when the tears rose to my eyes I broke right down and cry
01:19:35and cry
01:19:42I know full well in those cells what dreary hells go by
01:19:54they're serving time for you and I so when we walk by
01:20:01suspicious eyes that will not cry might ask us why we love them not at all
01:20:08we love them not at all
01:20:15and sing sing BB King the voices of East Harlem a thousand men rose from their chairs fist in the air while the music blare and the vision of the
01:20:27In East Harlem, a thousand men rose from their chairs, fist in the air, while the music blared, and the visitors shared, the joy that bared, as emotions flared, and freedom's airs turned to declare, you can't keep men in cages.
01:20:57In East Harlem, a thousand men rose from their eyes.