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How it came together, and the contracts signed for the music festival, and how it was arranged. This is about an hour. I always wanted to be baseball player, but i always loved music. My mother always had on Benny Goodman or the lombardos, and not guy lombardo, but the two brothers, and they both had bands, and who were the two guys with the big bands . Anyway. She listened to the big band music and my uncle always listened to jazz, and this is my influences. Was your mother a pianist . No, my mother founded the freedom rides and she became very famous. If you get my book, you will see the letter from the department of racial equality that will blow your mind. And she is the star of the family and i am just a representative of a hope of a dream. Well, at Capitol Records you took a commanding position there. How did that happen . My good friend, charles, who just sold the stock of Martha Stewart and chairman of the board at emi records, and so we met by accident in a snack bar in Queens
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