♪ Get playing drink Happy Beer ♪
♪ Get dancing drink Happy Beer ♪
♪ Romancing ♪♪ Drink Happy Beer ♪
♪ So get happy with Happy Beer ♪
[male narrator] Every day is a happy day, when you drink Happy Beer.
Happy Beer uses the peppiest malts and barley
to make you feel cheerful inside.
It's the flavor for dancing and romancing.
[female #1] 'Yeah, well, that shouldn't be a problem.'
Hawk, will you play "Summertime Blues" for us tonight?
Think I can fit that in.
You know, I listen to you in bed
before I go to sleep.
[female #2] 'Your voice feels so close.'
Like...you're in bed with me.
- What's your name, darlin'? - Gloria.
[man on radio] ...before you know it. So be prepared.
'Buy a Hagen Billy heater right now.'
[Hawk] 'Here you are.'
Hope you have sweet dreams tonight, Gloria.
[Gloria chuckling]
Mic's starting to pick that up, Bones.
Yeah, I called maintenance 50 times.
Sorry, about that, Hawk. I'm on it.
Alright. You got something for me?
Yeah.
Check out the latest Roy Hamilton single.
[Bones] 'Sounds like it's in 3D.'
Yeah, heard about that new thing called stereo.
You gonna play it, Hawk?
Only if I like it.
Oh, it's smokin', Hawk.
Some day, I'm gonna buy a Gibson guitar
just like the one in that song.
Alright, hold on, Elvis. Let's get to work.
♪ ...with tooth decay ♪
♪ Yes, keep your smile hep ♪
♪ When you brush with Zip ♪♪
Hey, hey, Philly.
It's your cool rockin' daddy The Hawk.
Comin' at you live on WIXA, can you hear the sound, Philly?
I heard it last night at the Locust Club.
It was doing funny things to the people.
It made their bodies sweat, made their hips shake.
I want you to turn it up, Philly!
I want you to turn up that
rock and roll music!
You're dialed into the Hawk
and this is Gene Vincent with "Say Mama!"
Ow!
♪ Gene Vincent singing "Say Mama" ♪
♪ Say mama can I go out tonight? ♪
♪ Say mama would it be alright? ♪
♪ They got a rockin' party goin' down the street ♪
♪ Say mama can you hear that beat? ♪
♪ I said whoa whoa woo-ooh-ooh ♪
♪ Whoa whoa woo-ooh-ooh whoa ♪
♪ Say mama don't you look that way ♪
♪ 'Cause I know just what you're going to say ♪
♪ Well Mama well now don't get mad ♪
♪ You're going to say go ask your dad.. ♪♪
[Hawk on radio] 'Let's slow it down for a sec for a little ballad'
'called "Scarlet Rose."'
♪ And in this lonely hour ♪
♪ When you rest your weary head ♪
♪ Well, I will be watching you ♪
♪ And on tiptoe creep to your bed ♪
♪ You're my scarlet ro ♪
♪ Scarlet ro ♪
♪ Scarlet ro, scarlet ro ♪
♪ Scarlet ro.. ♪♪
[melancholic music]
A filmmaker doing a documentary on '50s rock DJ John Hawkins.
Oh, The Hawk?
My mom used to go to his sock hops.
Said he was pretty wild.
Late '50s were a crazy time to be a kid.
You a rocker, boss?
I had a radio.
Detective Rush, this is Tom Bergin.
Tom's been looking at a tape recording
that began seconds after Hawkins died.
[Lilly] 'Uh, didn't Hawkins..'
Yeah, comb his hair with a .38 live on the air?
So they thought, apparently as Hawkins slumped over
his hand hit a control that started
an in-studio tape recorder.
He taped his shows?
Yeah, for reruns.
And no one's heard this before?
Years ago, but no one's heard what I've heard.
[Tom] 'No one had this equipment.'
- This thing ready yet? - One sec.
First, I had the tape
transferred on M-audio and then
'I flipped it to Logic Pro'
'because it totally leverages'
'the new Mac PCI-DSP card.'
[Nick] 'Hey, guy.'
No one understands a word you're saying.
Right, right.
Here we go.
Uh, this is right after the gunshot.
I'm gonna lower the sound of the record.
All you'll hear is the ambience in the DJ booth.
[footsteps on radio]
Footsteps?
Hawkins wasn't in there alone.
[door creaking on radio]
Could be a door, someone leaving?
Then it's quiet for 30 minutes until the janitor ran in.
So either Hawkins woke from the dead
and walked out of there.
Or his murderer did.
[theme music]
[instrumental music]
[Scotty] 'Hawkins got top billing over the musicians?'
Radio DJs were as big as the rock stars.
It was, Alan Freed in New York
Wolfman Jack in LA and The Hawk, here in Philly.
[Scotty] 'Can't even name a DJ on the air now.'
Oh, back then they were the tastemakers, Scotty.
They picked the songs, made or broke careers.
Hawk could've been the target of some wannabe rock star.
Or some record company suit, that was the time of payola.
DJ's taking bribes from record companies to play songs.
[Will] 'Far as we know, Hawk never took any payouts.'
Real fan of the music, wasn't afraid to play
black artists to white teens.
Well, you a fan?
Nah. I like country music.
Country?
Yeah, I DJ'd in college.
This is Will Jeffries coming at you live.
[Will] 'Here's Hank Williams with'
"My Son Calls Another Man Daddy."
[laughing]
You know, just when you think you know someone.
[laughing]
Now, the '58 theory was suicide.
That looks self-inflicted.
They didn't have our forensics back then.
Divorced at 24.
Ex-wife inherited his money.
[Will] 'Good motive, except that..'
...he was broke.
Maybe she found out after the fact.
Even if she's not the doer
'first wives know all the dirt.'
Excuse me.
Hey, Ally, everything okay?
I don't know.
It's your brother.
- He's stopped going to work. - What?
Mike's been in bed for three days straight.
So he's sick?
Not according to the doctor.
He hasn't been the same
since that day you came over.
What are you, what are you talking about?
What'd you say to him, Scotty?
Nothing. We-we were just talking.
I'm scared, okay?
He sleeps all day.
At night, he wanders around the house like a ghost.
Okay, listen, I'll stop by today.
Okay.
Mike will be fine.
[instrumental music]
We married young.
He was a free spirit.
I wanted kids, a simple quiet life
and he wanted..
To rock and roll?
[chuckles]
My father was a musician.
And I, I knew firsthand
how tough a show business life could be.
Did you stay in touch with your ex-husband much?
Goodness, no.
I remarried, started a family.
I didn't want the likes of John around.
Where were you the night he was shot, Dottie?
Oh, really, now.
I was at home with my family.
When did you last see John?
Oh..
A month before he died.
Thirteen years since I'd last seen him.
I was selling our house.
He agree to that?
[Dottie] 'Mm.'
It was bought with my money but, uh, back then
a woman could only get a loan if a man cosigned.
Different times.
How was John when you saw him?
Same as always.
In the middle of a mess.
[Hawk] That's right, kids, Zip Toothpaste!
Keep your smile hip.
[brush scratching]
Brush with Zip.
♪ Dottie you're for me ♪
♪ Dottie you're the one I love.. ♪♪
- How you been, Dot? - Good.
- You know, when you called-- - Just sign the bottom, John.
♪ I swear by the stars above ♪♪ By the stars above ♪
♪ I've dated so many chicks but I still.. ♪♪
- How's the family? - Everyone's fine.
♪ From the girl I love best ♪
♪ Better than all the rest ♪
You know, I heard a record by your dad the other day.
[both chuckling]
He sound like a drunken fool?
No, sounded like a great bass player.
You promised to play the song I wrote, Hawk!
- What the hell happened? - 'You been drinking?'
I had a bunch of friends and this girl
Sally from the roller rink
they were all at the drive-in, tuned into the show
waiting to hear my song.
- "Belly Button Rock?" - Yeah, that's it,
- What happened? - I listened to it.
- And? - It's not so hot, Bones.
You saying I got no talent?
No. I'm saying I only play what I like.
Baloney sandwich, Hawk.
You play whatever
the record company pays you to play.
You know that is not true.
How 'bout I get my dad to buy you
one of them new Skylarks, huh? You play my song then, Hawk?
I'm not for sale. I never was. I never will be.
I'm sorry you had to see this, Dottie.
But I told Sally I'd be on the radio.
I'd do anything for you, Bones, anything to help you
but you know how I am about the music, right?
- Right? - Yeah.
Alright, then. Go on, now.
Sally will still dig you. Rock and roll star or not.
Better lock up that gun of yours, Hawk.
Excuse me?
You never know who could get to it.
Is that a threat, buddy?
Can't keep stomping on people's dreams all the time
and get away with it.
[Will] 'Whose gun was that?'
John's.
Always kept it at work.
So many crazies out there.
Sounds like, Bones, was one of them.
[instrumental music]
[Nick] 'Heard you had a meltdown with your boss, The Hawk.'
I had dreams.
Thought Hawk didn't appreciate the next Elvis.
Huh, maybe you found his gun..
..made him appreciate you.
Came back the next day, hat in hand, and Hawk forgave me.
You were at the station the night he was killed.
I was, uh, DJing a party that night, so I left.
Plenty of witnesses.
Well, the truth is, his career advice
saved me from years of futility.
Your songs were that bad?
Terrible.
But I could still recognize talent in others.
- Built a career on that. - Congratulations.
Yeah, I learned what music really was from Hawk.
[Bones sighs]
One in a million that guy.
Think of anyone who'd want to hurt him?
Well..
...lot of people didn't care for him, sure
but one guy had more than a..
...garden-variety beef with him.
[Jimmy Cavallo and His House Rockers singing "Rock, Rock"]
♪ Grab your partner ♪
♪ Grab your gal and rock.. ♪♪
You feel that beat?
[crowd cheering]
Now when this song kicks in
I want you kids to shake it.
[cheering continues]
Can you shake it?
[shouting]
No, no, no. I don't think you heard me.
I said,can you shakeit?
[shouting]
Well, alright! Let's go!
♪ Rock rock rock everybody ♪
♪ Rock rock rock rock everybody ♪
♪ You rock it and you rock it and you rock it around ♪
♪ Roll roll roll roll everybody ♪
♪ You roll it and you roll it and you roll it around ♪
♪ Rock rock rock everybody ♪
♪ Roll roll roll everybody ♪
♪ Rock rock rock everybody ♪
♪ You rock it and you rock it and you rock it around ♪
♪ Hop hop hop hop everybody.. ♪♪
Thanks, man.
[male #1] 'Hey, Hawkins?'
- Your mama colored? - Come again?
I figure she must be, you like playing this
jumpity-squawk so much.
It's rock and roll.
Why don't you take the stick
out of your tail and enjoy the beat.
Carli Chester.
You recall that name?
No. Should I?
She's one of the girls you got out there dancing like a whore.
Take a look, mister, those kids are alive
''cause they can feel the music.'
Carli is 16 years old, she's my little girl.
- And she's in trouble. - Trouble?
Month ago she went to one of your sock hops.
Says she met you at a party afterwards.
I meet a lot of fans.
You did more than meet my daughter.
I'm afraid you've been misinformed.
You calling my little girl a liar, sir?
No, but I'm not the father.
You either take responsibility
or I'm gonna fit you for a pine-jacket.
Understand me, buster?
♪ Jump jump jump jump everybody.. ♪♪
- Turn it up, Bones. - You got it, Hawk!
♪ Bump bump bump bump everybody ♪
Teenyboppers always did loveThe Hawk.
Sounds like he did some lovin' back.
Kind that gets you arrested.
Or shot in the head with a .38.
[instrumental music]
You recall a rock DJ known as The Hawk, Lloyd?
Never did care for that kind of music.
He got your daughter pregnant back in '58.
- I was wrong about that. - How so?
My daughter lied.
It was her moron boyfriend
who's now my moron son-in-law.
Thought Hawkins killed himself.
He was murdered.
- Not surprised to hear it. - That right?
I saw him in a neighborhood diner time to time.
Two ships passing in the night.
You want to elaborate?
A few months before he died
I took my family to breakfast before, Sunday services.
He was there.
Coming off of a late night?
And getting into trouble with a young girl again.
[Gene Vincent singing "Be-Bop-A-Lula"]
♪ Be bop-a-lula ♪
♪ She's my baby ♪
♪ Be bop a lula I don't mean maybe ♪
♪ Be bop a lula she's my baby ♪
♪ Be bop a lula I don't mean maybe.. ♪♪
[female #3] You know what they say about a racetrack?
It's a place where windows clean people.
That right?
You look familiar. Have we met?
On the radio.
I'm your number one fan.
You can call me Jenny.
Jenny. It's a nice name.
People said you come here a lot.
I hope I'm not bothering you.
Not at all, kid.
Will you play "My Kind of Dream" for me tonight?
Sure.
♪ Be bop a lula ♪
♪ I don't mean maybe.. ♪
What's your kind of dream, Jenny?
Gettin' out of this town.
- Goin' where? - Anywhere.
It's a nice place anywhere.
I've been there myself many times.
It's got to be better than secretarial school.
That so bad?
It's a train ride to Squaresville.
See, I want to be a singer.
Get in line. That's a hard dream.
But it's mine.
People in line aren't my problem.
You sure are feisty, Jenny.
Born that way.
♪ Well.. ♪
What the hell you doing with gramps?
[Jenny] None of your business, Skiz.
- We're going now. - Get off of me.
Just take a walk?
[Hawk] 'Cool off.'
Why don't you keep your nose out of it, old man
before I break it for you?
Kid, you rode in here on a bicycle.
I'm quaking in my boots.
[Jenny chuckles]
I'm staying, Skiz, so scat.
Woot de do.
[both laughing]
[Lilly] This Skiz clown, know his real name?
Scott Sienkovic.
[Lloyd] 'I remember, because he made'
the front page of the papers a few months later.
Boy scout of the year?
Armed robbery.
Shot a bank teller.
Had it out for Hawkins big time, Skiz.
And we know you're not shy with a firearm.
Grown man going after a girl half his age.
Guy deserved to get shot.
You want to tell us, where you were the night he died?
Bowling at the Thunderbird Lanes.
Me and 100 other kids heard that needle skip.
We'll check that out, Skiz.
Woot de do.
[Kat] 'This Jenny..'
...she your girlfriend long?
Couple of months, before she got all obsessed with Hawkins.
How obsessed?
She kept calling the radio
writing him letters, talking about him nonstop.
You know, real psycho stuff.
- You think they had an affair? - Must have.
Why else would she give two pennies
about that loser?
Sounds like it was a one-way street.
She got crazier and crazier over it.
One night we were in front of a real rock star
and as usual, all she cared about was The Hawk.
[crowd cheering]
[Hawk] 'Alright!'
Now here's the one you've been waiting for..
...Little Richard!
[crowd cheering]
[Little Richard singing "Ready Teddy"]
♪ Ready set, go, man, go ♪
♪ I got a gal that I love so I'm ready ♪
♪ Ready, ready, Teddy, I'm ready ♪
♪ Ready, ready, Teddy, I'm ready, ready, ready ♪
♪ To rock and roll.. ♪♪
Skiz, you got to help me get to The Hawk.
Stop acting nutso, Jenny.
I got to see him, you don't understand.
He's an old coot. Why do you care?
Don't talk about him like that!
You're on your own, dollface.
♪ Ready, ready, Teddy, I'm ready, ready ♪
♪ Ready ready to rock and roll.. ♪♪
- Do this, we'll go park later. - Promise?
You helping me get to him or not?
Woot de do.
♪ Ready, ready, Teddy, I'm ready ♪
♪ Ready, ready, Teddy, I'm ready.. ♪♪
- Whoa, whoa, whoa. - We got to talk to The Hawk.
Yeah, and I got a date with Jayne Mansfield.
- You think you're funny? - Hawk!
Hey!
Hey! Why'd you stop taking my calls?
I've been busy, Jenny.
You shouldn't even be back here, alright?
It's just...I just want to talk.
- About what? - Us.
Us?
Jenny, there is no us.
I made it for you.
♪ I shuffle to the right gonna rock and roll ♪
♪ Till the early, early night.. ♪♪
Play it.
You'll understand everything.
♪ Ready, ready, Teddy, I'm ready, ready, ready ♪
♪ To rock and roll.. ♪♪
I'll never forget you.
[John] '"Scarlet Rose."'
Same song Hawk was playing
on the radio when he was killed.
Know where we can find this Jenny?
Ran into her after I got out of jail.
All married.
Mrs. Jenny Monahan.
Pretended like she didn't know me.
That's a surprise.
Can I get out of here?
Yeah.
Sounds like we got a groupie gone wild.
At 17, you think your first love's your last.
Every fan knew where the Hawk broadcast.
I wonder if Jenny found her way there.
And found, the Hawk's gun.
[knock on door]
What's going on, Mike?
What do you mean?
This.
It's got to be be some kind of virus.
Think I can afford to miss work?
The doc says you're okay physically.
Oh, he's just pissed I'm late with his bills.
[clears throat]
- DA called me again. - Yeah?
Yeah, this Coach Fitzpatrick thing.
Case is...falling apart.
Only guy who agreed to testify is..
...getting scared.
He might go south on the stand.
Hmm.
Judge could toss it.
You sure you don't remember anything?
No way.
I ask because..
...there was this one night
you came home from practice.
Oh, God, Scotty, that was a long time ago.
'Yeah, but I remember, 'cause..'
...you were pretty messed up.
You slept in your clothes.
[Mike sobbing]
You okay, Mike?
I'm fine.
Go to sleep.
Something happen at practice?
No.
Hey, why are you being so quiet?
Just don't go there no more, okay?
Don't go near the coach.
Why?
You want to play guess?
Come on.
Guess this song.
[humming]
You got it?
Scotty, I'm too tired, okay?
Okay.
Play tomorrow night.
Alright.
Night, Mikey.
Night.
[Mike sobbing]
I don't remember that night.
What about that song?
No.
- 'You're sure?' - I'm tired, Scotty.
That was the only time I ever saw you get so...bummed out.
I mean, you were crying..
If I was bawling, it was probably
because that weasel, Jay Shortz cheap-shotted me.
Yeah.
Probably.
We'll talk later, alright? I'm just beat.
[clears throat]
You don't get better soon, I'm going to pound you.
Oh, yeah, that'll be the day.
[whistles]
How about a little music?
May I?
[Gary Haase singing "Scarlet Rose"]
♪ And in this lonely hour ♪
♪ When you rest your weary head ♪
♪ Well, I will be watching you ♪
♪ And on tiptoe ♪
♪ Creep to your bed ♪
♪ And if you ever leave me ♪
♪ I will follow you ♪
♪ I'll find you anywhere you may go ♪
♪ If it's the last thing that I do.. ♪♪
Interesting lyrics you wrote for The Hawk.
How'd you get that record?
[Nick] Bones kept all of Hawk's stuff.
Including the song he was playing when you killed him.
Me? Oh, you're joking, right?
Back then it was called a teenage crush.
Now we call it stalking.
I was a lonely confused kid, not a murderer.
I can't just take your word for it, Jenny.
I was at home that night with my sisters.
Believe me, Hawk had bigger problems
than a love sick teenybopper.
What kind of problems we talking?
One night...I snuck into the station to see him.
I got an idea of what he was up against.
- Meaning what? - The record companies.
They were always trying to make him take payola.
Hawk doesn't sound like the kind of DJ
that would take money to play a song.
Well, that didn't stop them from trying.
[The Everly Brothers singing "Problems"]
♪ Problems problems problems all day long.. ♪♪
[Hawk] 'Thanks, Ben.'
Didn't know you were buying dinner tonight.
Well, now, I sent you a record last week
expected it on the air by now.
- I'm not for sale. - Everyone's for sale.
Funny, I heard you play one of my groups today.
Hey, I got nothing against your label.
Was it that new Warner Mack tune?
That's pretty hot.
No, the Darts, "Square Town."
[Hawk] Oh, Bones picked that one.
Yeah, I give him a pick each day.
And he chose mine.
♪ Worries worries pile up on my head ♪
You saying that Bones took money to play a song?
Bones understands the game.
DJs like you are dinosaurs.
- That right? - 'Yeah.'
We got the money, the artists, the control.
Radio is just my personal handshake to the buying public.
If the buying public doesn't want it?
One choice of entree you eat what's on the plate.
You know what, people like you take everything
that is real and good and you turn it into tinsel.
'But the worst part..'
...tinsel-man is that you don't even know it.
Oh, so you're the big shot celebrity
with all the answers, that it?
No, I'm just like the kids. I'm a fan.
[Hawk] I'm a damn fan of the music.
Now, if you'll excuse me
I have to sell some toothpaste.
Give my best to Bones.
[Hawk] That's right! Zip toothpaste!
You want to keep your smile hip
you'd better brush with some Zip!
♪ You can solve my problems with a love that's true.. ♪
Gave up the singing career then and there.
Saw how cut throat it was.
That the last time you saw The Hawk?
He looked crushed.
So, the Hawk knew Bones was on the take.
And maybe, Hawk was going to do something about it.
Your career is over if authorities
knew you were taking payola, right, Bones?
FCC was cracking down
lot of people's lives ruined over that.
You can't prove I took money.
We don't care about payola in '58.
We care about who killed John Hawkins?
Hawk confront you on what you did?
The same night he found out.
Keep talking.
I never meant to betray him.
But you did, Bones.
It didn't matter.
Something had already changed in him.
[instrumental music]
If I get my own show, you girls are my first guests.
♪ Why don't you come home come home to me.. ♪♪
Bones, we gotta talk.
Hawk! Have a seat.
This is, uh, this is Gigi..
...and this is Lulu. Gilugilu.
You mind, girls?
Need some privacy.
♪ I thought I knew you ♪
[sighs]
♪ Oh Caroline.. ♪♪
Hurry back.
What are you doing here, Bones?
Mr. Ockley invited me.
[Bones] 'This is some shindig, huh?'
I got two chicks after me. Can you believe that?
They're hookers, Bones.
W-what?
No, Lulu's a... dance student and Gigi's a..
'Stripper.'
Seen her act, umbrellas.
You're fooling.
I know you took money
to play that Darts song.
It was just one song.
That one song means that they've got me over a barrel.
I don't understand.
I could go to jail..
...because of what you did.
Mr. Ockley says it's how the game is played.
You know what the game is, Bones?
It's the music, and the fans who love it.
And then there's all this.
The dealmakers, the sellouts, the price of your soul.
I'm sorry, Hawk.
I'm so sorry.
♪ But then you walk away right over my heart ♪
What are you gonna do?
I don't know, maybe leave Philly for a while.
- What about your show? - Aw, to hell with it.
To hell with all of this.
I got somethin' more important in my life now.
Jenny.
But she's just a fan.
No.
She's more than that.
Me and her gonna take a little trip out west.
Hawk..
♪ Oh Caroline ♪
...I just wanted to be a winner..
...like you.
You always were, kid.
♪ My heart is broken ♪
♪ I'll be okay ♪
♪ Oh Carolina.. ♪♪
Steep price we all paid.
Some more than others.
So Jenny and Hawk were goin' away together?
That was the plan.
But the next night Hawk was dead.
Funny how Jenny failed to mention
her travel plans with Hawk.
Failed to mention a lot more than that.
- Oh, yeah? - Follow me.
That documentary dude..
...he's got nothin' on me.
Check it out.
The lyrics to "Scarlet Rose."
See, the way Jenny reacted to that song, got me thinking.
We already heard the lyrics, Nick.
Well, I've been on the phone with ASCAP all day.
What's that?
The American Society of Composers.
And it turns out, there were some lyrics
that Jenny didn't record.
- Really? - 'Yeah.'
[Nick] 'Like that Elton John song "Daniel?"'
You know what that's about?
A guy missin' his brother Daniel.
Yeah, but you never know the reason why
'cause of the verses he left out about Vietnam.
"Daniel's" about Vietnam?
How do you know that?
The ASCAP chick told me.
See, changes the entire meaning.
So look at the lyrics that Jenny didn't record.
"So dream your sweet little dreams
"and I will kiss your tiny cheek
"and though I must leave now
'know that you'll always be with me."'
"I offer up this prayer, that everywhere she goes
please protect my baby, my sweet, sweet, Scarlet Rose."
Song is registered under the name, John Hawkins.
[Nick] 'Circa 1942.'
So The Hawk wrote it, not Jenny.
Sounds like a lullaby.
Well, maybe Jenny wasn't his girlfriend.
My money, says she's his daughter.
John Hawkins was your father. Not your heartthrob.
He divorced Dottie when you were four.
Why keep that secret, Jenny?
I never considered him my father.
He-he left. I never saw him again.
So why track him down?
[Kat] 'Maybe 'cause you wanted to tell Hawk'
what it felt like to be abandoned?
And maybe he rejected you again.
So you start sneakin' into the station--
You're wrong. It wasn't like that.
Come on, Jenny. Your father let you down once, then twice.
- So you made him pay. - No!
Finding him was the best thing that ever happened to me.
When did you tell him who you were?
The night Little Richard played. When I gave him my record.
I couldn't leave. I had to find him.
[piano music]
I used to play this song for..
...a little girl I knew.
I used to sit her up right next to me like a princess.
Was her middle name Rosemary?
Jennifer Rosemary Hawkins.
I used to tell her that scarlet roses
were the prettiest in the world.
Just like his little girl.
Your Scarlet Rose.
I was so afraid to tell you.
So you did it in a song.
You listened to it?
It's beautiful.
Six months ago I found some old photos mom hid away.
When we were a family.
You remembered me at all?
I never forgot you.
I want you to understand why I had to leave.
- Doesn't matter now. - No.
I was livin' for myself. I was constantly on the move.
One year in New York, next year in LA.
Lots of cigarettes and booze and..
...lot of static.
Dottie was right. It was, it was no place for a kid.
I wouldn't have cared.
How about we take that trip...anywhere?
Let me make up for lost time.
What about your show?
I told 'em I was gonna take a little time off
to spend with my family.
We talked about leaving in a couple of weeks.
He said I could sing backup with a band in California.
But all I cared about was having my dad back.
Well, how'd your mom take the news?
I never told her.
[Kat] 'You sure?'
Might get her upset?
Might even go talk to the Hawk.
Try to stop him.
Everything my mom did was because she loved me.
I understand you and Hawk had a daughter.
Jenny was legally adopted by my second husband.
Still. It's, uh..
...strange how you left that out.
John was never much of a father.
So, uh, it didn't matter.
What about your own father?
What does he have to do with this?
Your mom died young, and your father raised you.
The musician?
If you can call playing at Holiday Inns
along Route 1 being a musician.
Died on the road at age 43.
Suicide.
I can see how Jenny wanting to be a singer was...upsetting.
She wouldn't listen to me.
She thought her passion was enough to give it a try.
Passionis for fools.
Passion is a fifth grade girl
finding her dad hanging dead in a motel bathroom.
You'd do anything to keep Jenny from ending up like that.
I was trying to protect her.
'But she was determined.'
And she wanted her real dad
to help make her dreams come true.
And what does he do? He encourages her.
He invites her to California to sing.
My God.
You went to the studio that night, didn't you, Dottie?
To stop him.
I went there to talk.
I swear.
Just to talk.
[music on radio]
Dot?
Jenny told me everything.
You stay away from her.
She's my daughter too, Dottie.
No.
A daughter is someone you raise.
Someone you taketo girl scouts.
Someone you make dinner for every night.
Whose tears you wipe when she cries.
I want to be there for her now.
You just want to fill her head with nonsense.
No, I want her to dream.
Or at least to try, Dottie, don't take away her dreams.
You abandoned us.
You're a selfish son of a bitch and you always will be.
I'm not that man anymore.
You will ruin her life.
Poison her with silly notions of singing.
She is good, Dottie.
- She is really good. - I've heard enough.
No, I want you to hear this, alright.
- She's got talent, Dottie. - 'Stop it.'
[Hawk] She's got real talent.
Let's slow it down for a sec
for a little ballad called "Scarlet Rose."
♪ And in this lonely hour ♪
♪ When you rest your weary head ♪
♪ Well I will be watching you ♪
♪ And on tiptoe creep to your bed ♪
♪ And if you ever leave me.. ♪♪
- Dottie. - I can't lose her, John.
Take it easy, Dottie.
Take it easy.
Don't fill her with dreams.
Dreams just break your heart.
Give me that thing, Dottie.
Come on now, sweetheart, come on.
'That's right.'
Okay.
There you go.
♪ Scarlet ro, scarlet ro ♪
♪ Scarlet ro ♪
♪ Scarlet ro, scarlet ro ♪
♪ Scarlet ro ♪
♪ Scarlet ro, scarlet ro ♪
♪ Scarlet ro ♪
♪ I will never let you go ♪
♪ You will always know ♪
♪ I will be yours to have and hold ♪
♪ Don't forget me ♪
♪ Don't regret me ♪
♪ Scarlet rose ♪
♪ So dream your sweet baby dreams ♪
♪ And I will kiss your tiny cheek ♪
♪ Though I must leave now ♪
♪ Know that you'll always be with me ♪
♪ I offer up this prayer ♪
♪ That everywhere she goes ♪
♪ Lord, please protect my baby ♪
♪ My sweet sweet Scarlet rose ♪
♪ 'Cause you're you're my Scarlet rose ♪
♪ I will never let you go ♪
♪ You will always know ♪
♪ I will be yours to have and hold ♪
♪ Don't forget me ♪
♪ Don't regret me ♪
♪ Scarlet rose ♪
♪ And if you ever need me ♪
♪ I will follow you ♪
♪ I'll find you anywhere you may go ♪
♪ If it's the last thing that I do ♪
♪ You're my Scarlet rose ♪
♪ I will never let you go ♪
♪ You will always know ♪
♪ I will be yours to have and hold ♪
♪ Don't forget me ♪
♪ Don't regret me ♪
♪ Scarlet rose scarlet rose ♪
♪ Goodnight ♪
♪ Sleep tight ♪
[female narrator] Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.
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