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[NBC jingle]

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- [Announcer] The
following program

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is brought to you
in living color.

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- The gentleman,
you're about to meet

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is a north of the border talent

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with a south of the border name.

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Legend has it that he was
found singing under a sombrero

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on a Mexican highway,

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but the truth of
the matter is that

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he was a well-established
star of Texas nightclubs

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before he became a
top recording artist.

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He's living proof

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that what pleases Beaumont
also pleases Broadway

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and what sells in San Antonio
also sells in San Francisco.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
Trini Lopez.

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[audience applauding]

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♪ I like to be in America

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♪ Okay by me in America

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♪ Everything's free in America

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♪ For a small fee in America

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♪ I like to be in America

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♪ Okay by me in America

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♪ Everything's free in America

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♪ For a small fee in America

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[instrumental music]
[audience clapping in rhythm]

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♪ Automobile in America

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♪ Chromium steel in America

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♪ Wire spoke wheel in America

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♪ Very big deal in America

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♪ I like the City of San Juan

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♪ I know a boat that
you can get on ♪

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♪ Everyone there
will give big cheer ♪

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I put my own spin into that song

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and it's one of my biggest
songs, in the world.

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♪ I like to be in America

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♪ Okay by me in America

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♪ Everything's free in America

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♪ For a small fee in America

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I like to be in America.

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Everything's free in America.

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Ah, yeah, it's great.

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[audience applauding]

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- Please welcome to
the stage, Trini Lopez.

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Legendary Trini Lopez.
[audience applauding]

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[audience applauding
and cheering]

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All right, Trini.

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- [Audience] Trini!
Trini! Trini!

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- [Announcer] Now
ladies and gentlemen,

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the star of our show,

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internationally famous,
Mister Trini Lopez.

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[audience applauding]

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- Trini Lopez.

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- Trini Lopez.

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- You're famous, right?

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Trini Lopez.

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- Trini Lopez.

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- Trini Lopez.

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- Trini Lopez.

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- [Announcer] Ladies and
gentlemen, Trini Lopez.

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[instrumental music]

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♪ Never know how
much I love you ♪

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♪ Never know how much I care

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♪ When you put your
arms around me ♪

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♪ I get a fever
that's hard to bear ♪

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♪ You give me fever

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- Trini's back.

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- A lot of people
would say Trini.

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[audience applauding]

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- Hey, are you Trini
Lopez, the famous singer?

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- Shh, not so loud.

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- Great Trini Lopez.

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- It's Trini like in Trinidad.

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♪ In the morning, fever
all through the night ♪

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♪ Fever, I'm on fire

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♪ What a lovely way to burn

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- I met Trini Lopez on a
show called "Hullabaloo,"

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and became friends.

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You know, that was
a period of time

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when we were all
rooting for each other

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and wanting you to win.

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- [Announcer] And now this
week's host on "Hullabaloo,"

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picking up where he
left off nine weeks ago,

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Mister Trini Lopez.

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[audience applauding]

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- That Trini Lopez
guitar sounds good.

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- You know, we're
both guitar players

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and we started talking
about gear and hats

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and you know, the old days.

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So we thought, let's
just get him up here

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amongst his friends, here in
Palm Springs where he lives.

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Let's just do it
right in his backyard,

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and rock it out and
see what happens.

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- He has been singing
with us on and off now

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for maybe four years.

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I think Palm Springs
has a magic to it.

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You can't explain it,

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but when people come
here, they feel it.

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- But a lot of
what's happening now

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is also recalling what happened

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in the heyday of
the 50s and 60s,

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makes this perfect convergence,
this energy that's here.

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- You know, we all grew
up on "Live at PJ's,"

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so fast forward the years,

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and we thought, well, you know,

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we really need to show people
that Trini is still the man.

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♪ Captain Smith and Pocahontas

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♪ Had a very mad affair

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- Trini is probably one
of the most exciting

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young performers today.

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- Oh, he was cute as a button.

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Yeah, he was a handsome kid.

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- Definitely, he
drives the girls wild,

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everywhere he goes.

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- I told him, you could not
stand in front of your God

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and promise to be
true to any woman.

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And he said, you're
probably right.

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He liked women.

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♪ And I light up

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- [TV host] You're still
a bachelor, how come?

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- [Man] He's not married.

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[all laugh]

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- I was Trini Lopez' personal
assistant, private secretary,

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confidant, companion, and
soulmate for 25 years.

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- Like a lot of people
from my generation,

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I discovered him through
thrift store records.

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You pull it out and you're like,

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oh, you know, who's this,

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the name sounds exotic.

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Oh, look at all
these songs he does,

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I know these songs.

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Put on that record,

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after a few minutes you're like,

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I think I actually like this
version of this song, you know?

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- Tony Orlando, the
singer, he came up to me

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and I was at a big
organization called Nosotros

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'cause I was getting
of this big, big honor.

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He said, Mister Lopez, he says.

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- I owe great thank
you to you Trini,

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because you really
were the trailblazer

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for this half Puerto Rican,

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half Greek kid
from New York City.

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- He says, if it wasn't for you,

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none of us would
be here tonight.

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And you know who was there?

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All the biggest Latins, actors,
actresses, singers, dancers,

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and I said, wow, you know.

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[audience applauding]

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- He was with every celebrity.

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You can ask him
about any celebrity,

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he's got stories, good and
bad, about all of them.

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- Every time I did the
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in front of the camera,

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he was, you know, he
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He was very friendly.

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At this particular time,

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I brought him a jar of jalapenos

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and he started turning red.

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[audience laughing]
Blue.

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Yellow.

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And he couldn't talk.

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[audience laughing]

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- Ah!

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- So ever since then,

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I never did the "Johnny
Carson Show" anymore.

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[audience laughing
and applauding]

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- You're the best.

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- The young Texas
star from Dallas,

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Trini Lopez and his 15
man combo [indistinct].

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[audience cheering
and applauding]

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♪ Winds may blow
o'er the icy sea ♪

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♪ But I'll take with
me, the warmth of thee ♪

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♪ A taste of honey

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♪ A taste much
sweeter than wine ♪

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♪ I will return

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♪ I'll return

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Princess Grace in Monte
Carlo, she was my biggest fan.

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She would invite me to parties.

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Here's Prince Rainier.

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And I was sitting there,

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she always sat me next
to her all the time.

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And I liked her so much because

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not because she was so beautiful

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and not because
she was so famous,

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but because she was
so down to earth.

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It'd be like talking
to just anyone.

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Grace would go,
Trini let's dance,

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and I was nervous as hell.

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I said, Oh no, thank you.

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She said, Trini, come on.

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And she would take my hand

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and drag me out to
the dance floor,

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and the minute we
started dancing,

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everybody would stop.

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And just me and her dancing
in front of 100 people.

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Hi everybody, I'm Trini Lopez,

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and I'm here to tell you
about something really new,

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different too.

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- What I remember the most

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was some of the TV shows that
he did like "Hootenanny."

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- For the past three years,

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Trini Lopez has become as
much of a Los Angeles landmark

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as I guess the Hollywood Bowl.

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- Ladies and gentlemen,
the Everly Brothers.

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[audience cheering]

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- All right, brother
Trini, lets go.

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[guitar music]

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♪ Wake up little Susie

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♪ Wake up

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- [TV Host] Miss Gilgallen.

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- Do you also play a
musical instrument?

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- Yes.

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- [TV host] Trini
Lopez and Bill Shatner

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meet Joe Campanella and Lorne
Greene on "Celebrity Tennis."

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- [TV host] From Hollywood,
Trini Lopez and Sue Anne Langdon

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meet Lee Ann Meriwether and Max
Baer on "Celebrity Bowling."

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- I had one TV show, "The
Trini Lopez Show" for ABC.

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♪ Trying to keep
the night on fire ♪

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[audience clapping]

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So why not get yours now.

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Are we going to lose the boat

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or do you really have the money?

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- Yes and no.
[audience laughing]

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- What do you mean?

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- Yes, we're gonna lose the boat

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because no, I don't
have the money.

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[audience laughing]

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You're from a different
part of the South.

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[audience laughing]

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- My name is Trinidad Lopez.

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[audience cheering]

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And everybody calls
me Trini for short,

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isn't that exciting?

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But in a way I was kind of lucky
to have been named Trinidad

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because my father and mother
went on their honeymoon

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to the island of Trinidad,
in the Caribbean.

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[audience laughing]

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So if you think my name
is a little strange,

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you should meet the
rest of my family.

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[audience laughing]

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[Trini laughing]

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I have a sister named
Long Island Lopez,

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[audience laughing]

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and I have a brother
named El Paso Lopez.

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But in a way,

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in a way I was kind of lucky
to have been named Trinidad

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because my parents were thinking
of spending their honeymoon

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on the Virgin Islands.

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[audience laughing]

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My dad came from a
very, very poor family,

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so did my mother.

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My father was a singer, a
musician, an actor and a dancer.

260
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And he was very popular
in Moroleon, Guanajuato.

261
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That's the name of the
town that he was raised,

262
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my mother too.

263
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My father kept coming in
through the Rio Grande River,

264
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from Mexico to Texas, to
make money to survive.

265
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And of course, all of this
was illegal by the way,

266
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all illegal.

267
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After two or three
trips that he made,

268
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he married my mother.

269
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She was 16, my dad was 18,

270
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and all of us, my siblings,

271
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we were all born
and raised in Texas,

272
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and because of my dad
wanting to better his life.

273
00:13:08,091 --> 00:13:10,137
And that point is really
important right now.

274
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- [Trump] We're gonna build
the wall, we have no choice.

275
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[laughing]

276
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- [Trini] In my family,
I have four sisters,

277
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my brother and myself.

278
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- So to name 'em,
I'll go in line.

279
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So it was Grace, my
mom was the oldest,

280
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next in line was my Aunt Lucy,

281
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then there was my Aunt Elia,

282
00:13:31,027 --> 00:13:32,899
next in line was Trini,

283
00:13:32,942 --> 00:13:35,118
next in line was my Aunt Rosita,

284
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and the last was his
brother, Jessie Lopez.

285
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- A priest told my father

286
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that he should bring
his family to Dallas

287
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so we could survive, you know?

288
00:13:48,088 --> 00:13:49,480
It was all about survival.

289
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Bigger town, bigger city.

290
00:13:53,180 --> 00:13:55,182
There wasn't much
to it believe me,

291
00:13:55,225 --> 00:13:58,489
but it was a very rough
area, I remember that.

292
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It was a black and
Mexican ghetto.

293
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They called it Little
Mexico, uh-huh,

294
00:14:04,931 --> 00:14:06,323
and it was a tough place.

295
00:14:06,367 --> 00:14:10,066
I remember our house
was about 50 feet

296
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from the corner of a cantina.

297
00:14:12,286 --> 00:14:14,592
And I used to smell
the beer all the time

298
00:14:14,636 --> 00:14:17,900
because the cantina
was real close.

299
00:14:17,944 --> 00:14:21,077
And there was
Mexicans and blacks,

300
00:14:21,121 --> 00:14:23,558
and they were always
fighting, killing each other,

301
00:14:23,601 --> 00:14:26,604
and just to give you an example,

302
00:14:26,648 --> 00:14:29,912
there was a man who was
known in the neighborhood

303
00:14:29,956 --> 00:14:31,566
for being a wino.

304
00:14:31,609 --> 00:14:35,396
And he was in the back
of my home in an alley,

305
00:14:35,439 --> 00:14:38,616
and some of the guys that
I used to run around with,

306
00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:42,011
they bashed his head in and
killed him for like $3, $4.

307
00:14:43,578 --> 00:14:46,233
That's how tough this
neighborhood was.

308
00:14:48,409 --> 00:14:52,717
My dad, he noticed that
I was running around

309
00:14:52,761 --> 00:14:55,372
and getting in
trouble with the gang.

310
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He said to me,

311
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"I want you to be home when
I come home from work,"

312
00:14:59,072 --> 00:15:00,377
and I didn't listen to him.

313
00:15:00,421 --> 00:15:01,596
And on the third time,

314
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he took his belt off

315
00:15:03,598 --> 00:15:07,471
and gave me a real good
whipping, I mean really.

316
00:15:07,515 --> 00:15:09,996
And he hurt me, but he
didn't hurt me physically.

317
00:15:10,039 --> 00:15:12,041
He hurt me spiritually.

318
00:15:12,085 --> 00:15:13,695
So the next day,

319
00:15:13,738 --> 00:15:17,264
my father wanted to
make up for hitting me.

320
00:15:17,307 --> 00:15:19,396
So he went to a pawn shop

321
00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,398
and he bought a guitar,

322
00:15:21,442 --> 00:15:24,401
a beat-up old guitar
that he couldn't afford.

323
00:15:24,445 --> 00:15:29,232
And I heard later that it cost
him $12 to buy that guitar.

324
00:15:29,276 --> 00:15:32,366
He said, "Son," he said,
"Look, what I got for you."

325
00:15:32,409 --> 00:15:33,323
Guitar.

326
00:15:33,367 --> 00:15:34,585
He said, yeah.

327
00:15:34,629 --> 00:15:36,587
I said, "For me," he
said, "Yes for you.

328
00:15:36,631 --> 00:15:38,285
"I want you to learn some songs

329
00:15:38,328 --> 00:15:40,591
"like I used to when
I was your age."

330
00:15:40,635 --> 00:15:44,334
I want you to learn something
constructive, I remember that.

331
00:15:44,378 --> 00:15:47,598
He said, "I want you to learn
something constructive."

332
00:15:47,642 --> 00:15:50,601
He taught me my first
like eight, 10 songs,

333
00:15:50,645 --> 00:15:52,429
Mexican folk songs,

334
00:15:52,473 --> 00:15:54,257
and he taught me a
little bit of the guitar.

335
00:15:54,301 --> 00:15:58,087
These songs are all almost
standards in Mexico.

336
00:15:58,131 --> 00:16:01,003
When my father was
young, Cielito Lindo,

337
00:16:01,047 --> 00:16:04,137
[singing in Spanish]

338
00:16:07,140 --> 00:16:09,490
El Rancho Grande,
songs like that.

339
00:16:09,533 --> 00:16:14,277
[Tito performing Alla
en Rancho Grande]

340
00:16:18,673 --> 00:16:21,719
[audience cheering]

341
00:16:21,763 --> 00:16:23,808
And for sure, "La Bamba,"

342
00:16:23,852 --> 00:16:25,201
he taught me that song

343
00:16:25,245 --> 00:16:28,335
before anybody else ever
recorded it in America.

344
00:16:28,378 --> 00:16:30,467
I used to sing that
song all the time.

345
00:16:30,511 --> 00:16:32,817
I don't mind telling
you that years later,

346
00:16:32,861 --> 00:16:35,342
I was listening to the radio

347
00:16:35,385 --> 00:16:37,257
and I heard "La
Bamba" on the radio.

348
00:16:38,432 --> 00:16:39,346
Who's that singing?

349
00:16:39,389 --> 00:16:40,651
Who beat me to it,

350
00:16:40,695 --> 00:16:42,044
'cause I wanted to
record that song one day,

351
00:16:42,088 --> 00:16:44,699
and it was a guy
named Ritchie Valens.

352
00:16:44,742 --> 00:16:48,224
La Bamba, but I made
it a worldwide hit

353
00:16:48,268 --> 00:16:49,747
more than Ritchie Valens.

354
00:16:49,791 --> 00:16:54,491
Mine, worldwide because
people liked my style I guess,

355
00:16:54,535 --> 00:16:55,405
you know,

356
00:16:56,363 --> 00:16:57,842
that's all I can say.

357
00:16:57,886 --> 00:17:01,063
[singing in Spanish]

358
00:17:46,804 --> 00:17:51,809
[upbeat music]
[singing in Spanish]

359
00:18:04,779 --> 00:18:06,607
Let me hear you again.

360
00:18:13,918 --> 00:18:17,574
[audience cheering]

361
00:18:17,618 --> 00:18:18,706
And I fell in love with music

362
00:18:18,749 --> 00:18:19,576
[fingers snapping]

363
00:18:19,620 --> 00:18:20,447
like that.

364
00:18:21,752 --> 00:18:24,364
[dramatic music]

365
00:18:24,407 --> 00:18:25,626
[train engine roaring]

366
00:18:25,669 --> 00:18:27,193
- [Announcer] This is
the morning prison train

367
00:18:27,236 --> 00:18:29,586
out of Southern
California into Mexico.

368
00:18:29,630 --> 00:18:31,632
It makes this run
every day about dawn.

369
00:18:31,675 --> 00:18:34,243
It's cargo, Mexican wetbacks,

370
00:18:34,287 --> 00:18:35,766
who have sneaked
across the border

371
00:18:35,810 --> 00:18:37,246
and are being deported.

372
00:18:38,813 --> 00:18:41,772
- In my day, growing up,
I must tell you this,

373
00:18:41,816 --> 00:18:44,210
America was very prejudiced.

374
00:18:44,253 --> 00:18:48,605
They were very prejudice about
black people and Latinos.

375
00:18:48,649 --> 00:18:52,174
Very, very, we were treated
the same as a black person

376
00:18:52,218 --> 00:18:53,306
when I was growing up.

377
00:18:54,220 --> 00:18:56,700
We couldn't stay at a motel.

378
00:18:56,744 --> 00:18:58,267
We had to sleep on the,

379
00:18:58,311 --> 00:19:00,791
on the highway,
me and my parents.

380
00:19:00,835 --> 00:19:02,619
Oh yeah, it was terrible.

381
00:19:02,663 --> 00:19:06,406
We had to sit in the back
of the bus with the blacks.

382
00:19:07,624 --> 00:19:08,495
Yeah.

383
00:19:10,236 --> 00:19:12,673
[somber music]

384
00:19:21,638 --> 00:19:25,947
We used to go up north, my
family to Indiana and to Ohio,

385
00:19:25,990 --> 00:19:27,905
and sometimes part of Michigan,

386
00:19:27,949 --> 00:19:31,735
to pick tomatoes,
potatoes, beets,

387
00:19:31,779 --> 00:19:34,651
and we used to work
real hard, real hard.

388
00:19:34,695 --> 00:19:37,393
And we used to go in
one of those trucks,

389
00:19:37,437 --> 00:19:40,657
like in the movie,
"Grapes of Wrath."

390
00:19:40,701 --> 00:19:43,660
My life story was similar
to that, with the family

391
00:19:43,704 --> 00:19:45,619
in a canvas covered truck.

392
00:19:46,489 --> 00:19:48,665
And it was pretty tough.

393
00:19:48,709 --> 00:19:51,538
And so we used to work
like 16 hours a day,

394
00:19:51,581 --> 00:19:53,017
and so in the evening

395
00:19:53,061 --> 00:19:55,455
I would take my little
guitar that my dad bought me,

396
00:19:55,498 --> 00:19:59,285
and I would go to the back
of a shack where we lived,

397
00:19:59,328 --> 00:20:01,243
and I would climb a fence post,

398
00:20:02,288 --> 00:20:04,507
and I started singing my songs.

399
00:20:04,551 --> 00:20:06,553
And I was all by myself.

400
00:20:06,596 --> 00:20:07,989
After dinner, like around six,

401
00:20:08,032 --> 00:20:10,861
six, seven o'clock
before, in the summertime,

402
00:20:10,905 --> 00:20:12,515
before it got dark.

403
00:20:12,559 --> 00:20:14,822
And all of a sudden
a cow showed up,

404
00:20:14,865 --> 00:20:16,215
[cow mooing]
one cow.

405
00:20:17,303 --> 00:20:19,870
And so I just kept
on singing, you know?

406
00:20:19,914 --> 00:20:22,308
Next thing you know,
about 10 minutes later,

407
00:20:22,351 --> 00:20:25,659
another cow showed up,
and then another one,

408
00:20:25,702 --> 00:20:26,747
and then another one.

409
00:20:26,790 --> 00:20:29,489
And before I
finished my concert,

410
00:20:29,532 --> 00:20:31,534
[Trini laughing]

411
00:20:31,578 --> 00:20:34,363
I had about 20 cows
in front of me.

412
00:20:35,321 --> 00:20:37,323
And I didn't understand,

413
00:20:37,366 --> 00:20:39,063
but they were just like,

414
00:20:39,107 --> 00:20:41,501
like they were
their big eyes here.

415
00:20:41,544 --> 00:20:42,937
I had them mesmerized.

416
00:20:44,373 --> 00:20:45,548
I said to myself, you know,

417
00:20:45,592 --> 00:20:48,464
if I can get the
attention of cows,

418
00:20:49,639 --> 00:20:51,554
maybe the people would like me.

419
00:20:51,598 --> 00:20:53,600
And that's exactly
what happened,

420
00:20:53,643 --> 00:20:56,429
but they were my
first audience, cows.

421
00:20:56,472 --> 00:20:57,299
Everybody.

422
00:20:58,953 --> 00:21:00,302
Huh, right here.

423
00:21:00,346 --> 00:21:02,522
It's my first little combo.

424
00:21:02,565 --> 00:21:04,915
It was called the
Copacabana Combo.

425
00:21:04,959 --> 00:21:06,482
[Trini laughing]

426
00:21:06,526 --> 00:21:07,962
We were all kids, you know?

427
00:21:09,093 --> 00:21:12,749
Yes, I was a lead
guitarist, a singer,

428
00:21:12,793 --> 00:21:14,795
and then I graduated
to high school.

429
00:21:16,405 --> 00:21:18,015
- And he said it
was kind of rough

430
00:21:18,059 --> 00:21:21,410
knowing my friends were maybe
two years ahead of me by then,

431
00:21:21,454 --> 00:21:22,933
some of them three years

432
00:21:22,977 --> 00:21:25,632
because he was held
back every year,

433
00:21:25,675 --> 00:21:28,461
because they got back late
from working in the fields.

434
00:21:28,504 --> 00:21:31,420
- I was enjoying high
school very much.

435
00:21:31,464 --> 00:21:34,423
I was beginning to get
real popular in school.

436
00:21:34,467 --> 00:21:36,947
I was voted most
likely to succeed,

437
00:21:36,991 --> 00:21:40,081
'cause I was already
playing a lot in nightclubs

438
00:21:40,124 --> 00:21:41,778
and I was singing in school.

439
00:21:41,822 --> 00:21:43,780
I was a star of the assemblies

440
00:21:43,824 --> 00:21:46,957
and my band played for all
the proms and all that.

441
00:21:47,001 --> 00:21:49,960
So I was becoming
popular that way,

442
00:21:50,004 --> 00:21:53,007
so there was also the
beginning of me thinking

443
00:21:53,050 --> 00:21:56,358
maybe I have a
calling, you know?

444
00:21:56,402 --> 00:21:58,839
[upbeat music]

445
00:22:01,798 --> 00:22:04,105
- Now, if we're ready for
our rock and roll specialist,

446
00:22:04,148 --> 00:22:07,413
we have Buddy Holly
and The Crickets.

447
00:22:07,456 --> 00:22:09,676
- [Trini] Before the
accident, I met Buddy Holly.

448
00:22:09,719 --> 00:22:11,547
He came to a little
town in Texas

449
00:22:11,591 --> 00:22:13,767
where I was working
with my little group.

450
00:22:15,159 --> 00:22:20,034
♪ If you knew Peggy Sue, then
you know why I feel blue ♪

451
00:22:21,557 --> 00:22:22,776
- [Trini] And a friend
of mine was a disk jockey

452
00:22:22,819 --> 00:22:26,823
in a little town called
Wichita Falls, Texas.

453
00:22:26,867 --> 00:22:29,435
Buddy was promoting his,
one of his big songs.

454
00:22:29,478 --> 00:22:31,088
He said, let's go
hear a friend of mine

455
00:22:31,132 --> 00:22:32,916
who's appearing at
a little nightclub,

456
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,483
and Buddy really liked me.

457
00:22:34,527 --> 00:22:36,833
He liked my music
and my singing.

458
00:22:36,877 --> 00:22:40,010
- He's the first one that
looked him straight in the eye

459
00:22:40,054 --> 00:22:42,839
and didn't look down
on him as a Mexican.

460
00:22:42,883 --> 00:22:45,059
He looked at him
as an entertainer.

461
00:22:45,102 --> 00:22:47,017
There was no prejudice,

462
00:22:47,061 --> 00:22:49,498
and Trini really
wasn't used to that.

463
00:22:49,542 --> 00:22:52,022
He got looked down
on all the time.

464
00:22:52,066 --> 00:22:56,026
- And he said, I'd like for
you to meet my record producer.

465
00:22:56,070 --> 00:22:59,073
He said, if you can get
to Clovis, New Mexico,

466
00:22:59,116 --> 00:23:00,466
I'll introduce you to him

467
00:23:00,509 --> 00:23:02,642
and maybe we can get
you a record deal.

468
00:23:02,685 --> 00:23:05,166
And I said, oh God, you know,

469
00:23:05,209 --> 00:23:07,037
and that's where
Buddy used to record,

470
00:23:07,081 --> 00:23:08,865
in a little recording studio.

471
00:23:08,909 --> 00:23:10,171
It wasn't a big deal.

472
00:23:10,214 --> 00:23:12,826
That night, he had
a party for us.

473
00:23:12,869 --> 00:23:15,437
He had a party the
night I arrived,

474
00:23:15,481 --> 00:23:17,134
and I sang like
three, four songs.

475
00:23:17,178 --> 00:23:22,183
♪ Well I saw a little girl

476
00:23:23,837 --> 00:23:27,101
♪ Walking down the street

477
00:23:27,144 --> 00:23:30,800
♪ I said that's a girl

478
00:23:30,844 --> 00:23:34,151
♪ I would like to meet

479
00:23:34,195 --> 00:23:37,546
♪ I walked over to her

480
00:23:37,590 --> 00:23:40,897
♪ Looking my best

481
00:23:40,941 --> 00:23:44,118
♪ Introduced myself

482
00:23:44,161 --> 00:23:46,860
♪ She did the rest

483
00:23:46,903 --> 00:23:49,906
♪ Rock on, yay yay yay

484
00:23:49,950 --> 00:23:52,213
♪ Rock on

485
00:23:52,256 --> 00:23:54,911
And that night before
the night was over,

486
00:23:54,955 --> 00:23:56,913
his record producer, he says,

487
00:23:56,957 --> 00:23:58,915
Maybe we can do
something with this guy.

488
00:23:58,959 --> 00:24:03,529
Unfortunately, my guys, I
guess were prejudice too

489
00:24:03,572 --> 00:24:08,577
because my guys in my band
were all Anglo musicians.

490
00:24:09,709 --> 00:24:11,275
Anglo, meaning they
were not Latinos.

491
00:24:11,319 --> 00:24:14,104
I was the only
Latino in the band.

492
00:24:14,148 --> 00:24:15,932
- They wanted to take
him out of the light

493
00:24:15,976 --> 00:24:18,500
'cause Trini Lopez
and his combo,

494
00:24:18,544 --> 00:24:19,327
you don't want that,

495
00:24:19,370 --> 00:24:20,807
take that Lopez name out.

496
00:24:21,808 --> 00:24:23,549
And they were all Anglo,

497
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,160
and their boss was a Mexican

498
00:24:26,203 --> 00:24:27,640
and they didn't like that.

499
00:24:29,206 --> 00:24:31,208
The producer there
didn't like it,

500
00:24:31,252 --> 00:24:32,558
they didn't like it,

501
00:24:32,601 --> 00:24:34,777
and he encouraged
them to do this.

502
00:24:34,821 --> 00:24:36,605
- And so the next morning,

503
00:24:36,649 --> 00:24:39,303
they woke me up in my
little $2 a night motel

504
00:24:39,347 --> 00:24:40,783
where I was staying

505
00:24:40,827 --> 00:24:42,002
and they were around my bed,

506
00:24:42,045 --> 00:24:44,178
and said, wake up,
wake up, wake up.

507
00:24:44,221 --> 00:24:46,136
And I was half asleep
and I looked at them

508
00:24:46,180 --> 00:24:47,834
and I said, "Did somebody die?"

509
00:24:47,877 --> 00:24:50,184
He said, "No, no, no,
we gotta talk to you."

510
00:24:50,227 --> 00:24:52,969
I said, "What about at eight
in the morning, you know?"

511
00:24:53,013 --> 00:24:54,971
And they said, "Well,
we have decided,

512
00:24:55,015 --> 00:24:57,583
"we have decided we're
all gonna go commune

513
00:24:57,626 --> 00:25:00,150
"and share everything,
the money, everything.

514
00:25:00,194 --> 00:25:02,152
"You're not gonna be
the manager anymore.

515
00:25:02,196 --> 00:25:04,241
"You're not gonna
be the lead singer."

516
00:25:04,285 --> 00:25:06,983
I was the lead singer
and I was their manager.

517
00:25:07,027 --> 00:25:08,942
We started recording
the next day,

518
00:25:08,985 --> 00:25:10,683
but they didn't let me sing.

519
00:25:11,858 --> 00:25:13,250
- [Audience] No.

520
00:25:13,294 --> 00:25:14,861
- And I was the, I was the,

521
00:25:14,904 --> 00:25:16,732
they didn't know how to sing.

522
00:25:16,776 --> 00:25:18,125
I knew that, you know?

523
00:25:18,168 --> 00:25:20,649
They said, well, we're
all gonna sing, okay.

524
00:25:20,693 --> 00:25:22,999
I didn't like it at
all, I was so upset.

525
00:25:23,043 --> 00:25:25,524
So we recorded about three days.

526
00:25:26,350 --> 00:25:28,962
All we did was instrumentals.

527
00:25:29,005 --> 00:25:29,919
[audience laughing]

528
00:25:29,963 --> 00:25:31,007
Instrumentals.

529
00:25:31,921 --> 00:25:34,968
[instrumental music]

530
00:25:36,622 --> 00:25:38,885
And during those three,
four days and nights,

531
00:25:38,928 --> 00:25:41,278
I cried myself to sleep.

532
00:25:41,322 --> 00:25:42,758
Oh yeah, it was terrible.

533
00:25:42,802 --> 00:25:45,195
It was, it was
conspiracy, you know?

534
00:25:45,239 --> 00:25:47,284
Yeah, and the last guy just,

535
00:25:47,328 --> 00:25:50,070
I said goodbye to was a
bass player, that was Earl.

536
00:25:50,113 --> 00:25:52,333
I said, Earl, I won't
be seeing you anymore

537
00:25:52,376 --> 00:25:53,856
so good luck to you.

538
00:25:53,900 --> 00:25:55,423
He says, what are
you talking about?

539
00:25:55,466 --> 00:25:58,252
I said, well, I said, I gonna
have to get another band.

540
00:25:59,253 --> 00:26:00,602
And they said, Trini,

541
00:26:00,646 --> 00:26:02,212
we got a great deal
with Columbia Records.

542
00:26:02,256 --> 00:26:05,041
He said, yeah, you guys do.

543
00:26:05,085 --> 00:26:06,086
Not me.

544
00:26:06,129 --> 00:26:07,696
- So I said goodbye to him

545
00:26:07,740 --> 00:26:09,742
and I started another group.

546
00:26:12,832 --> 00:26:13,963
My father had asked me,

547
00:26:14,007 --> 00:26:16,836
would I mind not
finishing high school?

548
00:26:16,879 --> 00:26:20,230
And I was getting ready to
go on to my senior year,

549
00:26:20,274 --> 00:26:21,623
and I said, "Oh," I said,

550
00:26:21,667 --> 00:26:24,626
"dad, you need for
me to help you?"

551
00:26:24,670 --> 00:26:27,237
He says, "Yes,
yes, I really do."

552
00:26:27,281 --> 00:26:29,022
I said, "Okay, sure."

553
00:26:29,065 --> 00:26:31,764
So I quit after my junior year,

554
00:26:31,807 --> 00:26:34,375
and I went to work full time.

555
00:26:34,418 --> 00:26:36,899
I did, I used to do
all kinds of jobs.

556
00:26:36,943 --> 00:26:40,076
I was a busboy, I
was a dish washer.

557
00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:41,687
I had a paper route.

558
00:26:41,730 --> 00:26:43,863
And I sang at
night in nightclubs

559
00:26:43,906 --> 00:26:46,866
and anywhere I could sing
that I could make some money,

560
00:26:46,909 --> 00:26:48,389
I did that to help my dad.

561
00:26:50,783 --> 00:26:54,830
- The people today do not
realize what he went through

562
00:26:54,874 --> 00:26:57,093
because he was a
Mexican and proud of it.

563
00:26:58,965 --> 00:27:00,096
- With that in mind,

564
00:27:00,140 --> 00:27:02,403
my first recording I experienced

565
00:27:02,446 --> 00:27:04,797
was when I was about 19 and so,

566
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,799
I was doing a show someplace,

567
00:27:06,842 --> 00:27:10,237
or an opening of a grocery store

568
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,195
and this man came up to me,

569
00:27:12,239 --> 00:27:13,196
he said, "I'd like
to talk to you

570
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,850
about recording, you know."

571
00:27:14,894 --> 00:27:17,113
My eyes were like this.

572
00:27:17,157 --> 00:27:19,986
He said, "I have a record
company here in Dallas

573
00:27:20,029 --> 00:27:21,727
and it's called Volk records."

574
00:27:21,770 --> 00:27:24,773
V, V like in Victor, V-O-L-K.

575
00:27:24,817 --> 00:27:26,993
He said, "I'd like to talk to
you about maybe recording you,

576
00:27:27,036 --> 00:27:28,385
you're real good.

577
00:27:28,429 --> 00:27:32,955
The only problem is we
need to change your name."

578
00:27:32,999 --> 00:27:35,479
And I said, "Change my name?"

579
00:27:35,523 --> 00:27:36,829
I said to what?

580
00:27:36,872 --> 00:27:38,700
He said, well, he
said, "Trini's okay,

581
00:27:38,744 --> 00:27:40,180
but Lopez has gotta go."

582
00:27:41,181 --> 00:27:42,399
And see the prejudice.

583
00:27:43,836 --> 00:27:46,316
And I realized it right
away what he was saying.

584
00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:47,230
I said, oh sir.

585
00:27:47,274 --> 00:27:49,972
I said, "no, I can't do that."

586
00:27:50,016 --> 00:27:51,887
I said, "I can't do
that, I'm sorry."

587
00:27:51,931 --> 00:27:54,411
And I stood up and I
said, I shook his hand,

588
00:27:54,455 --> 00:27:57,153
I says, "thank you
anyway, thank you."

589
00:27:57,197 --> 00:27:58,851
And I started to walk away,

590
00:27:58,894 --> 00:28:00,417
and right before
I got to the door,

591
00:28:00,461 --> 00:28:02,202
he said, "hey kid, hey kid,

592
00:28:02,245 --> 00:28:04,465
come back here, come back
here, come back here.

593
00:28:04,508 --> 00:28:06,859
Okay, okay, you can
keep your name."

594
00:28:07,816 --> 00:28:08,904
I said.

595
00:28:08,948 --> 00:28:10,123
[Trini laughs]

596
00:28:10,166 --> 00:28:12,473
So we recorded my first song,

597
00:28:12,516 --> 00:28:15,258
and I wrote it,
I wrote the song.

598
00:28:16,564 --> 00:28:18,914
It was a song that I
called "The Right To Rock,"

599
00:28:18,958 --> 00:28:21,482
and rock and roll was just
beginning to get started.

600
00:28:25,529 --> 00:28:28,315
♪♪

601
00:28:28,358 --> 00:28:31,361
♪♪

602
00:28:31,405 --> 00:28:34,190
♪♪

603
00:28:34,234 --> 00:28:37,150
♪♪

604
00:28:37,193 --> 00:28:40,283
♪♪

605
00:28:40,327 --> 00:28:43,330
♪♪

606
00:28:43,373 --> 00:28:46,246
♪♪

607
00:28:46,289 --> 00:28:49,075
♪♪

608
00:28:49,118 --> 00:28:50,424
Executives of King Records

609
00:28:50,467 --> 00:28:52,861
which was a pretty big
company in those days,

610
00:28:52,905 --> 00:28:55,559
heard my song and
they called me.

611
00:28:55,603 --> 00:28:58,519
They wanted to fly
me to Cincinnati,

612
00:28:58,562 --> 00:29:00,260
which I did for two summers

613
00:29:00,303 --> 00:29:02,044
when I was off from school

614
00:29:02,088 --> 00:29:05,004
and they would fly me
to Cincinnati to record.

615
00:29:07,310 --> 00:29:10,183
♪ The right to roll

616
00:29:10,226 --> 00:29:13,055
♪ Right to rock and
the right to roll ♪

617
00:29:13,099 --> 00:29:16,406
♪ Rock, rock, rock and roll

618
00:29:16,450 --> 00:29:18,800
And let me tell you
who was in King Records

619
00:29:18,844 --> 00:29:20,236
at that time,

620
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,282
these people were all
just getting started.

621
00:29:22,325 --> 00:29:23,283
James Brown.

622
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:25,851
[Trini laughing]

623
00:29:25,894 --> 00:29:29,506
Little Willy John who recorded
the first version of "Fever."

624
00:29:30,856 --> 00:29:33,902
♪ You never know how
much I love you ♪

625
00:29:33,946 --> 00:29:37,863
♪ Never know how much I care

626
00:29:37,906 --> 00:29:42,258
And Bill Doggett, he was a
real popular instrumentalist,

627
00:29:42,302 --> 00:29:43,912
played the piano, it was great.

628
00:29:43,956 --> 00:29:45,827
He did a big record
called Honky Tonk

629
00:29:45,871 --> 00:29:49,048
that was a big record, but
only in the black market.

630
00:29:49,091 --> 00:29:52,442
They weren't played on
popular radio stations.

631
00:29:52,486 --> 00:29:54,140
And they would back
me up, you know,

632
00:29:54,183 --> 00:29:57,534
the Midnighters and
Clyde McPhatter.

633
00:29:57,578 --> 00:29:58,971
These people were
just up and coming

634
00:29:59,014 --> 00:30:00,929
in the black field of music.

635
00:30:02,322 --> 00:30:04,846
So then I sang a song that
was a number one record.

636
00:30:04,890 --> 00:30:06,282
My first record in Dallas

637
00:30:06,326 --> 00:30:10,025
was a song called "Don't
Let Your Sweet Love Die."

638
00:30:10,069 --> 00:30:11,244
And I heard it
for the first time

639
00:30:11,287 --> 00:30:13,289
when I was in my station wagon,

640
00:30:13,333 --> 00:30:15,988
and I pulled over to
the side of the street

641
00:30:16,031 --> 00:30:17,250
and I just listened to it,

642
00:30:17,293 --> 00:30:19,165
and I wanted to hear
my name on the radio.

643
00:30:20,514 --> 00:30:25,171
♪ Don't take away the
smiles and leave the tears ♪

644
00:30:28,522 --> 00:30:32,134
♪ Don't say goodbye, don't
let your sweet love die ♪

645
00:30:32,178 --> 00:30:33,919
- [Radio Host] That's
lovely right there

646
00:30:33,962 --> 00:30:35,659
and right here on K-box.

647
00:30:35,703 --> 00:30:38,488
♪ K-B-O-X

648
00:30:38,532 --> 00:30:41,100
♪ Wonderful in every
way in Dallas ♪

649
00:30:41,143 --> 00:30:43,624
- And that was the beginning
of my first recordings

650
00:30:43,667 --> 00:30:46,845
before Sinatra and everything.

651
00:30:48,324 --> 00:30:51,023
So within three, four weeks,

652
00:30:52,198 --> 00:30:55,375
unfortunately, my friend
Buddy Holly gets killed,

653
00:30:55,418 --> 00:30:56,985
the three of them.

654
00:30:57,029 --> 00:30:58,552
Everybody knows the story.

655
00:31:00,032 --> 00:31:00,946
- [News Anchor] We
interrupt this program

656
00:31:00,989 --> 00:31:02,382
for a special news bulletin.

657
00:31:02,425 --> 00:31:03,949
Three young singers who soared

658
00:31:03,992 --> 00:31:05,080
to the heights of show business

659
00:31:05,124 --> 00:31:06,952
on the current
rock and roll craze

660
00:31:06,995 --> 00:31:08,997
were killed today in the
crash of a light plane,

661
00:31:09,041 --> 00:31:10,999
in an Iowa snow flurry.

662
00:31:11,043 --> 00:31:13,654
The singers were identified
as Ritchie Valens, 17,

663
00:31:13,697 --> 00:31:15,699
Buddy Holly, 22,
and JP Richardson,

664
00:31:15,743 --> 00:31:18,006
known professionally
as The Big Bopper.

665
00:31:19,616 --> 00:31:23,577
- I'm working at a
nightclub in Lubbock, Texas,

666
00:31:23,620 --> 00:31:26,101
and that's where Buddy
was born and raised.

667
00:31:26,145 --> 00:31:28,974
So the phone rang and it
was during an intermission

668
00:31:29,017 --> 00:31:31,367
and it was my friend,
the disk jockey,

669
00:31:31,411 --> 00:31:34,196
that introduced me to Buddy
Holly in the first place,

670
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:35,545
and he said, "Trini," he says,

671
00:31:35,589 --> 00:31:37,330
"this is Tommy, Tommy Garrett."

672
00:31:37,373 --> 00:31:40,072
He says, "I'm in
Hollywood with a group.

673
00:31:40,115 --> 00:31:41,551
You're not gonna
believe who I'm with."

674
00:31:41,595 --> 00:31:44,554
He said, "The Crickets,
Buddy Holly's Crickets.

675
00:31:44,598 --> 00:31:46,382
We're gonna send you the money

676
00:31:46,426 --> 00:31:48,558
and you fly out to meet us,

677
00:31:48,602 --> 00:31:50,560
and they got a home in Hollywood

678
00:31:50,604 --> 00:31:51,953
and we're gonna go on the road.

679
00:31:51,997 --> 00:31:53,607
They want you to be
their lead singer."

680
00:31:55,043 --> 00:31:57,002
And I couldn't believe it,

681
00:31:57,045 --> 00:32:00,396
I said, "Tommy, send me
the money and I'll drive.

682
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,702
I'll drive to Hollywood."

683
00:32:03,008 --> 00:32:05,445
[upbeat music]

684
00:32:07,099 --> 00:32:12,104
♪ Hear you have a
plan to go to west ♪

685
00:32:13,061 --> 00:32:15,411
♪ Do as I do, take the highway

686
00:32:15,455 --> 00:32:18,588
♪ That's the best

687
00:32:18,632 --> 00:32:22,462
♪ Get your kicks on route 66

688
00:32:23,811 --> 00:32:27,162
- All of a sudden leaving
Dallas to go to California,

689
00:32:27,206 --> 00:32:29,425
to Hollywood, to Los Angeles,

690
00:32:29,469 --> 00:32:33,038
and I will never forget
as he was departing,

691
00:32:33,081 --> 00:32:37,390
my mother and his sisters
and his father all crying,

692
00:32:37,433 --> 00:32:40,480
crying, because all I
remember him saying was,

693
00:32:40,523 --> 00:32:43,265
I've done everything here
in Dallas I possibly could.

694
00:32:43,309 --> 00:32:46,138
I think that I've peaked,
it's time for me to move on

695
00:32:46,181 --> 00:32:48,662
to the big city, to the
big state of California.

696
00:32:49,663 --> 00:32:53,101
[upbeat music]

697
00:32:53,145 --> 00:32:56,800
- I always wanted to go to
Hollywood since I was a kid.

698
00:32:56,844 --> 00:33:01,631
Took me three days to get
to Hollywood from Dallas.

699
00:33:01,675 --> 00:33:06,071
So I remember driving the
Sunset Strip in my little woody,

700
00:33:06,114 --> 00:33:07,420
my little red station wagon,

701
00:33:07,463 --> 00:33:10,771
name all in white, Trini
Lopez and his Combo,

702
00:33:10,814 --> 00:33:12,512
on both sides of the woody.

703
00:33:13,643 --> 00:33:15,776
I was driving through
to get to the house

704
00:33:15,819 --> 00:33:17,647
where The Crickets were staying.

705
00:33:17,691 --> 00:33:19,693
I had $200 in my pocket,

706
00:33:19,736 --> 00:33:24,698
so I get there and Texan
musicians love to drink.

707
00:33:25,873 --> 00:33:29,094
And I wasn't drinking
anything in those days.

708
00:33:29,137 --> 00:33:31,661
So, but they invited
me, and said Trini,

709
00:33:31,705 --> 00:33:33,272
we're gonna go see Elvis.

710
00:33:33,315 --> 00:33:35,622
He's making his first
movie after the,

711
00:33:35,665 --> 00:33:39,278
he came out of the
service, GI Blues.

712
00:33:40,409 --> 00:33:42,368
♪ I've got those hup,
two, three, four ♪

713
00:33:42,411 --> 00:33:46,676
♪ Occupation GI Blues

714
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:51,290
♪ From my GI hair to the
heels of my GI shoes ♪

715
00:33:51,333 --> 00:33:53,727
- Wow, you know, so we
went to Paramount Studios,

716
00:33:53,770 --> 00:33:55,207
we went to the set,

717
00:33:55,250 --> 00:33:57,470
and he was wearing his GI outfit

718
00:33:57,513 --> 00:34:00,516
and he was just great, oh great.

719
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:01,387
And then after that,

720
00:34:01,430 --> 00:34:02,823
I got to know him.

721
00:34:02,866 --> 00:34:06,131
After that, he got to
invite me to Las Vegas

722
00:34:06,174 --> 00:34:09,090
to do, to see his
shows, you know,

723
00:34:09,134 --> 00:34:11,136
he invited me to his home here.

724
00:34:11,179 --> 00:34:12,572
Two doors from here.

725
00:34:12,615 --> 00:34:14,182
[Trini laughing]

726
00:34:14,226 --> 00:34:17,272
And The Crickets wanted me
to take over Buddy's place,

727
00:34:17,316 --> 00:34:18,839
but it never materialized,

728
00:34:18,882 --> 00:34:21,494
because we're partying
and having a great time

729
00:34:21,537 --> 00:34:24,105
and the guys were
drinking like crazy.

730
00:34:24,149 --> 00:34:25,672
They had women all
over the place.

731
00:34:25,715 --> 00:34:29,284
I enjoyed that, that I enjoyed.

732
00:34:29,328 --> 00:34:31,895
But I ran out of my money

733
00:34:31,939 --> 00:34:33,723
and I was waiting
for them to rehearse

734
00:34:33,767 --> 00:34:37,162
and to get on the road
'cause I promised my family,

735
00:34:37,205 --> 00:34:38,554
as soon as I started working,

736
00:34:38,598 --> 00:34:40,730
I was gonna send 'em
money every week.

737
00:34:40,774 --> 00:34:42,515
But now, I'm broke,

738
00:34:42,558 --> 00:34:45,126
and they had an agent,
a guy named Danny,

739
00:34:45,170 --> 00:34:49,174
and I said, "Danny, I said, is
it possible for me to maybe,

740
00:34:49,217 --> 00:34:51,393
maybe you can get
me a gig somewhere

741
00:34:51,437 --> 00:34:52,655
so I can make some money.

742
00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:54,657
I don't wanna borrow
money from the guys."

743
00:34:54,701 --> 00:34:56,181
I was embarrassed.

744
00:34:56,224 --> 00:34:58,139
And he was kind of a
Hollywood type guy,

745
00:34:58,183 --> 00:34:59,445
you know?
[fingers snapping]

746
00:34:59,488 --> 00:35:01,621
And I didn't think he
was gonna do anything.

747
00:35:01,664 --> 00:35:03,318
Well, about two days later,

748
00:35:03,362 --> 00:35:04,885
there's an audition
in Beverly Hills.

749
00:35:04,928 --> 00:35:06,930
I'd never been to Beverly Hills

750
00:35:06,974 --> 00:35:09,933
and man was I impressed.

751
00:35:09,977 --> 00:35:12,327
Wow, you know, palm
trees all over the place.

752
00:35:12,371 --> 00:35:14,764
It was great, mountains
and everything.

753
00:35:14,808 --> 00:35:17,811
1960, this was February,
I'll never forget.

754
00:35:17,854 --> 00:35:19,769
We went into this
beautiful little nightclub.

755
00:35:19,813 --> 00:35:22,598
It was called the Ye,
the Ye Little Club.

756
00:35:22,642 --> 00:35:24,209
How little was it?

757
00:35:24,252 --> 00:35:26,950
Very little.
[audience laughing]

758
00:35:26,994 --> 00:35:28,343
- Isn't that where Joan
Rivers started out?

759
00:35:28,387 --> 00:35:29,344
- Uh-huh, oh yeah.

760
00:35:29,388 --> 00:35:30,563
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

761
00:35:30,606 --> 00:35:32,478
This place was already
doing pretty good.

762
00:35:32,521 --> 00:35:34,306
So I started singing a song,

763
00:35:34,349 --> 00:35:36,221
and I looked at him and I
thought he didn't like me.

764
00:35:36,264 --> 00:35:37,483
I didn't think he liked me.

765
00:35:37,526 --> 00:35:40,355
He says, "okay, okay,
okay, you open tonight."

766
00:35:40,399 --> 00:35:41,791
I said, "well, I said
I'm with a group."

767
00:35:41,835 --> 00:35:43,576
He said, "no, no, I don't
want you with a group,

768
00:35:43,619 --> 00:35:47,319
just you and your guitar
with a spotlight, you know."

769
00:35:50,931 --> 00:35:55,370
[Trini singing in
foreign language]

770
00:37:06,572 --> 00:37:10,358
By me getting a
very nice following

771
00:37:10,402 --> 00:37:13,056
for a whole year
in Beverly Hills,

772
00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:15,755
I had all these young stars
that really liked me a lot.

773
00:37:15,798 --> 00:37:20,368
I started hearing about a
place in Hollywood called PJ's,

774
00:37:20,412 --> 00:37:24,024
and man that's where the
higher echelon movie stars

775
00:37:24,067 --> 00:37:25,852
and big name singers,

776
00:37:25,895 --> 00:37:27,593
they were all going
to this place.

777
00:37:27,636 --> 00:37:31,292
Sinatra, everybody, everybody
was going to this place.

778
00:37:31,336 --> 00:37:32,380
Steve McQueen,

779
00:37:33,816 --> 00:37:34,730
Paul Newman,

780
00:37:36,341 --> 00:37:37,516
Natalie Wood,

781
00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:38,908
Elizabeth Taylor,
all these people,

782
00:37:38,952 --> 00:37:41,041
and I said to myself,
I gotta work there,

783
00:37:41,084 --> 00:37:44,044
'cause I wanted to see
Frank Sinatra in person.

784
00:37:44,087 --> 00:37:46,481
I just wanted to see
him in person one day

785
00:37:46,525 --> 00:37:49,397
and I would've been happy
the rest of my life.

786
00:37:49,441 --> 00:37:50,572
And so, you know,

787
00:37:50,616 --> 00:37:52,357
I didn't have to
audition by that time

788
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:53,967
'cause I was getting a
pretty good following.

789
00:37:54,010 --> 00:37:57,362
They said, we'll hire
you for three months.

790
00:37:57,405 --> 00:38:00,060
My luck, when you
walked into PJ's,

791
00:38:00,103 --> 00:38:02,715
the bar was long, one of
those long, long bars.

792
00:38:02,758 --> 00:38:04,760
And then everybody sat
on the bar, of course,

793
00:38:04,804 --> 00:38:06,501
and they had some booths,

794
00:38:06,545 --> 00:38:09,809
and they had an Afro
jazz group, four pieces,

795
00:38:09,852 --> 00:38:11,419
and they were in this room.

796
00:38:11,463 --> 00:38:14,770
Me, they put me in
a room in the back

797
00:38:14,814 --> 00:38:17,120
which seated, like
about 300 people,

798
00:38:17,164 --> 00:38:19,297
with just me and my guitar.

799
00:38:20,515 --> 00:38:22,996
I opened and it was great.

800
00:38:23,039 --> 00:38:28,044
And I stayed a year and a
half, instead of three months.

801
00:38:29,568 --> 00:38:32,788
And during that time I kept
seeing Frank Sinatra come in,

802
00:38:32,832 --> 00:38:35,400
and he had a hat similar
to this one like this.

803
00:38:35,443 --> 00:38:36,618
He would always come in

804
00:38:36,662 --> 00:38:38,533
with like 10, 15
people, you know,

805
00:38:38,577 --> 00:38:40,013
big table and all that.

806
00:38:40,056 --> 00:38:41,580
And I would just look at him.

807
00:38:41,623 --> 00:38:44,974
I never got any closer
than 15, 20 feet from him,

808
00:38:45,018 --> 00:38:46,628
but I used to just stare at him

809
00:38:46,672 --> 00:38:51,416
and look at his clothes
and his beautiful jacket.

810
00:38:51,459 --> 00:38:54,375
That's all, but I was happy
that I saw him in person.

811
00:38:54,419 --> 00:38:58,074
I've only had one idol in my
whole life, Frank Sinatra,

812
00:38:58,118 --> 00:39:01,600
since I was a kid and I
had my dreams come true.

813
00:39:02,949 --> 00:39:06,822
Frank Sinatra sent one of
his biggest record producers,

814
00:39:06,866 --> 00:39:08,781
a guy named Don Costa.

815
00:39:10,173 --> 00:39:13,829
He recorded and produced
Frank Sinatra's big hits.

816
00:39:13,873 --> 00:39:16,745
[orchestral music]

817
00:39:23,752 --> 00:39:27,016
Johnny Mathis and
Steve and Eydie Gorme

818
00:39:27,060 --> 00:39:31,456
and all these big stars,
you know, these big singers.

819
00:39:31,499 --> 00:39:32,979
So he came up to me

820
00:39:33,022 --> 00:39:35,416
and he talked to me during
my intermission and he says,

821
00:39:35,460 --> 00:39:38,506
"Trini, I'm here on behalf
of Reprise Records."

822
00:39:39,638 --> 00:39:41,030
And I said, "Frank
Sinatra's label?"

823
00:39:41,074 --> 00:39:42,684
He said, "yeah,
how do you know?"

824
00:39:42,728 --> 00:39:44,686
Because at that
time, Frank Sinatra,

825
00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:47,036
wasn't selling that many
records on his label.

826
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:48,864
Sammy Davis,
Junior, Dean Martin,

827
00:39:48,908 --> 00:39:50,475
they weren't
selling any records,

828
00:39:50,518 --> 00:39:52,955
but they were all
on Reprise Records.

829
00:39:52,999 --> 00:39:55,175
I said, "Oh, I know the
label, you kidding."

830
00:39:55,218 --> 00:39:57,612
He says, "I'm here
on behalf of Frank

831
00:39:57,656 --> 00:39:58,961
and he would like to offer you

832
00:39:59,005 --> 00:40:01,529
a six-year recording contract."

833
00:40:03,575 --> 00:40:06,882
[Trini laughing]

834
00:40:06,926 --> 00:40:10,756
"And by the way, we'd like
to record you here at PJ's."

835
00:40:10,799 --> 00:40:12,497
"May I ask why?

836
00:40:12,540 --> 00:40:14,150
Why aren't we going to
the recording studio

837
00:40:14,194 --> 00:40:15,413
like everybody else?"

838
00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:18,938
He said because he, this
was very interesting.

839
00:40:18,981 --> 00:40:21,680
He said, "because
we want to record

840
00:40:21,723 --> 00:40:23,638
everything on the excitement

841
00:40:23,682 --> 00:40:26,032
that you are creating
in this nightclub,

842
00:40:26,075 --> 00:40:27,947
we wanna put it on wax."

843
00:40:29,078 --> 00:40:30,123
Okay, the whole thing?

844
00:40:31,124 --> 00:40:33,735
[indistinct]

845
00:40:34,867 --> 00:40:36,129
Okay, all of it?

846
00:40:38,087 --> 00:40:40,655
- Live records are just the best

847
00:40:40,699 --> 00:40:42,918
energy conduits for an artist.

848
00:40:42,962 --> 00:40:45,573
If you think about the
great live albums, you know,

849
00:40:45,617 --> 00:40:48,228
starting with Trini at PJ's.

850
00:40:48,271 --> 00:40:51,492
[instrumental music]

851
00:41:06,594 --> 00:41:07,813
When you think about
"The Allman Brothers

852
00:41:07,856 --> 00:41:09,075
Live at the Fillmore,"

853
00:41:09,118 --> 00:41:11,512
and you think about
Peter Frampton live,

854
00:41:11,556 --> 00:41:12,687
there's just
something that happens

855
00:41:12,731 --> 00:41:15,603
when you're in front
of a live audience.

856
00:41:15,647 --> 00:41:18,171
There's no net, there's
no trampoline to catch you

857
00:41:18,214 --> 00:41:20,826
and you just gotta go for it.

858
00:41:20,869 --> 00:41:25,874
[Trini Lopez performing
What'd I Say at PJ's]

859
00:41:33,578 --> 00:41:35,971
♪ Tell me what'd I say

860
00:41:36,015 --> 00:41:39,627
♪ Tell me what'd I say

861
00:41:39,671 --> 00:41:41,977
Within three months at the most,

862
00:41:42,021 --> 00:41:46,286
not only was my record a
big, big hit in America,

863
00:41:46,329 --> 00:41:48,244
but internationally because

864
00:41:48,288 --> 00:41:51,030
Reprise was a pretty good
label because of Sinatra.

865
00:41:52,597 --> 00:41:55,556
Before I knew it, I was
known all over the world.

866
00:41:56,339 --> 00:41:58,994
♪ Tell me what'd I say

867
00:41:59,038 --> 00:42:03,346
♪ Tell me what'd I say

868
00:42:03,390 --> 00:42:06,175
♪ Hey mama, don't
you treat me wrong ♪

869
00:42:06,219 --> 00:42:11,224
♪ Come and love me
all night long ♪

870
00:42:13,618 --> 00:42:16,272
♪ Baby what'd I say

871
00:42:16,316 --> 00:42:20,625
♪ Tell me what'd I say

872
00:42:20,668 --> 00:42:23,366
♪ When you see me in misery

873
00:42:23,410 --> 00:42:28,546
♪ Come on baby, sit on my knee

874
00:42:30,939 --> 00:42:33,725
♪ Baby what'd I say

875
00:42:33,768 --> 00:42:37,076
♪ Tell me what'd I say

876
00:42:48,914 --> 00:42:51,264
♪ Baby what'd I say

877
00:42:51,307 --> 00:42:54,354
♪ Tell me what'd I say

878
00:42:54,397 --> 00:42:56,051
That happened because of my,

879
00:42:56,095 --> 00:42:58,750
my first album that I
recorded in America,

880
00:42:58,793 --> 00:43:02,057
which was at PJ's,
"Trini Lopez at PJ's."

881
00:43:02,101 --> 00:43:05,017
And out of the album
came "If I Had a Hammer,"

882
00:43:05,060 --> 00:43:06,627
which broke very fast in America

883
00:43:06,671 --> 00:43:08,063
and then all over the world.

884
00:43:08,107 --> 00:43:09,935
And that's why in
such a short time,

885
00:43:09,978 --> 00:43:12,198
I have been traveling
so fast everywhere now.

886
00:43:13,939 --> 00:43:17,638
[fans clapping and humming]

887
00:43:29,737 --> 00:43:33,306
- At first he didn't wanna
sing "If I Had a Hammer,"

888
00:43:33,349 --> 00:43:34,699
and I couldn't understand it

889
00:43:34,742 --> 00:43:38,050
because he said that
he sung it to death.

890
00:43:38,093 --> 00:43:41,706
So I thought about what
could we do to make it

891
00:43:41,749 --> 00:43:44,752
so that he really would
love to sing it again?

892
00:43:44,796 --> 00:43:46,449
And I was listening
to the words,

893
00:43:46,493 --> 00:43:48,756
the words are so inspiring,

894
00:43:50,018 --> 00:43:52,673
and I thought, this is
really a song with a message.

895
00:43:52,717 --> 00:43:54,675
It's really a gospel song,

896
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,285
it could be a gospel song.

897
00:43:57,722 --> 00:44:00,072
[organ music]

898
00:44:06,034 --> 00:44:10,169
So sat down at my
1960 Hammond B3 organ,

899
00:44:11,736 --> 00:44:14,173
[organ music]

900
00:44:15,261 --> 00:44:17,698
I revved up the Leslie,

901
00:44:17,742 --> 00:44:20,135
[organ music]

902
00:44:27,186 --> 00:44:28,317
I said, listen to this,

903
00:44:28,361 --> 00:44:29,667
and I played it.

904
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:35,324
And then I said, and then we
say one, two,, three, four,

905
00:44:35,368 --> 00:44:38,240
we start launching into
it and you start singing.

906
00:44:38,284 --> 00:44:40,025
And I just stopped
and looked at him

907
00:44:40,068 --> 00:44:41,461
and he goes, I'll do it.

908
00:44:42,897 --> 00:44:45,334
[organ music]

909
00:45:09,097 --> 00:45:11,143
[audience applauding
and cheering]

910
00:45:11,186 --> 00:45:14,233
[instrumental music]

911
00:45:21,022 --> 00:45:23,764
♪ If I had a hammer

912
00:45:23,808 --> 00:45:26,332
♪ I'd hammer in the morning

913
00:45:26,375 --> 00:45:28,247
♪ I'd hammer in the evening

914
00:45:28,290 --> 00:45:30,902
- The dynamic performer
of Mexican descent,

915
00:45:30,945 --> 00:45:33,208
who's hit songs lyrically
spelled out a desire

916
00:45:33,252 --> 00:45:35,471
for social and economic change,

917
00:45:35,515 --> 00:45:38,213
ladies and gentlemen,
Trini Lopez.

918
00:45:38,257 --> 00:45:39,519
[audience applauding]

919
00:45:39,562 --> 00:45:41,782
- [Joan] Love between my
brothers and my sisters

920
00:45:41,826 --> 00:45:43,392
all over this land.

921
00:45:43,436 --> 00:45:45,873
You know, we still
haven't gotten there yet.

922
00:45:45,917 --> 00:45:47,483
- Everybody!

923
00:45:47,527 --> 00:45:50,138
Well, I connected it
with my life, yes.

924
00:45:50,182 --> 00:45:52,793
I do that a lot in
some different songs,

925
00:45:52,837 --> 00:45:55,100
"This Land is Your Land,"
you know, like that,

926
00:45:55,143 --> 00:45:56,231
another big hit for me.

927
00:45:56,275 --> 00:45:57,232
I can't help it, you know,

928
00:45:57,276 --> 00:45:59,408
you just hear the songs

929
00:45:59,452 --> 00:46:01,410
and you think of your life,

930
00:46:01,454 --> 00:46:06,024
it helps, it enhances, missing
in a song, recording a song

931
00:46:06,067 --> 00:46:08,113
because I feel that
it's part of my life.

932
00:46:08,156 --> 00:46:11,856
Yes, to answer
your question, yes.

933
00:46:11,899 --> 00:46:16,512
If I Had a Hammer is a
very, it has a message,

934
00:46:16,556 --> 00:46:19,385
a very good message to
everyone in the world.

935
00:46:19,428 --> 00:46:23,128
And that's one of the
main purposes for the song

936
00:46:23,171 --> 00:46:25,304
being such a big hit, I think.

937
00:46:25,347 --> 00:46:26,609
It's a great lyric.

938
00:46:26,653 --> 00:46:27,567
- [Interviewer] Talking
about If I Had a Hammer,

939
00:46:27,610 --> 00:46:29,177
did you wrote that song?

940
00:46:29,221 --> 00:46:30,352
- No, I wish I had.

941
00:46:30,396 --> 00:46:32,485
That song was written
by two people,

942
00:46:33,616 --> 00:46:36,576
gentlemen named Hays
and Pete Seeger.

943
00:46:36,619 --> 00:46:39,927
And I wish I had written it,
I would have much more money.

944
00:46:39,971 --> 00:46:41,929
[Trini laughing]

945
00:46:41,973 --> 00:46:45,237
♪ If I had a hammer

946
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:48,588
♪ I'd hammer in the morning

947
00:46:48,631 --> 00:46:52,200
♪ I'd hammer in the evening

948
00:46:52,244 --> 00:46:55,856
♪ All over this land

949
00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:58,598
- I did know that those
songs were important,

950
00:46:58,641 --> 00:47:00,165
I did know that in my heart.

951
00:47:01,122 --> 00:47:01,993
- And now

952
00:47:03,516 --> 00:47:04,473
a group of singers

953
00:47:06,171 --> 00:47:07,128
who have come

954
00:47:10,001 --> 00:47:10,958
to help express

955
00:47:12,351 --> 00:47:13,308
in song

956
00:47:14,483 --> 00:47:16,355
what this great
meeting is all about.

957
00:47:17,617 --> 00:47:18,574
I give you now

958
00:47:19,662 --> 00:47:22,143
Peter, Paul and Mary.

959
00:47:22,187 --> 00:47:25,016
[crowd cheering]

960
00:47:36,288 --> 00:47:38,507
♪ If I had a hammer

961
00:47:38,551 --> 00:47:40,988
♪ I'd hammer in the morning

962
00:47:41,032 --> 00:47:43,164
♪ I'd hammer in the evening

963
00:47:43,208 --> 00:47:45,688
♪ All over this land

964
00:47:45,732 --> 00:47:48,517
- At that time, folk
music was real in,

965
00:47:48,561 --> 00:47:50,345
folk music, real popular.

966
00:47:50,389 --> 00:47:53,218
And I just happened to
like "If I Had a Hammer,"

967
00:47:53,261 --> 00:47:55,524
I just happened to
like "Lemon Tree,"

968
00:47:55,568 --> 00:47:58,005
I just happened to like
"Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore,"

969
00:47:58,049 --> 00:48:01,139
but when I started
hitting real big PJ's

970
00:48:01,182 --> 00:48:04,533
because I took my Latin
feel, my Latin heritage,

971
00:48:04,577 --> 00:48:06,361
and I put it into
the folk music.

972
00:48:06,405 --> 00:48:11,018
And so I get credit for
starting Latin rock.

973
00:48:12,019 --> 00:48:13,368
- It was originally,

974
00:48:13,412 --> 00:48:15,675
♪ If I Had a Hammer

975
00:48:15,718 --> 00:48:18,504
♪ I'd hammer in the morning

976
00:48:18,547 --> 00:48:20,593
♪ I'd hammer in the evening

977
00:48:20,636 --> 00:48:21,942
Trini,

978
00:48:21,986 --> 00:48:24,205
[Tony imitating Trini's rhythm]

979
00:48:24,249 --> 00:48:25,554
♪ If I had a hammer

980
00:48:25,598 --> 00:48:27,992
Now, he added some rhythm,
Latin rhythm to it,

981
00:48:28,035 --> 00:48:30,385
and a fusion happened.

982
00:48:30,429 --> 00:48:33,127
[guitar music]

983
00:48:40,439 --> 00:48:41,657
- People, a lot of
people have told me

984
00:48:41,701 --> 00:48:43,137
that they like my beat,

985
00:48:43,181 --> 00:48:45,270
because they can
also dance to it.

986
00:48:45,313 --> 00:48:46,488
With Peter, Paula and Mary,

987
00:48:46,532 --> 00:48:48,273
there was more or
less listening,

988
00:48:48,316 --> 00:48:50,492
but with my version,
it's got a beat to it,

989
00:48:50,536 --> 00:48:52,668
and they like to dance to it.

990
00:48:52,712 --> 00:48:55,193
♪ If I had a hammer

991
00:48:55,236 --> 00:48:58,283
♪ I'd hammer in the morning

992
00:48:58,326 --> 00:49:00,633
♪ I'd hammer in the evening

993
00:49:00,676 --> 00:49:03,505
♪ All over this land

994
00:49:03,549 --> 00:49:06,160
♪ I'd hammer out danger

995
00:49:06,204 --> 00:49:09,250
♪ I'd hammer out a warning

996
00:49:09,294 --> 00:49:11,035
♪ I'd hammer out love between

997
00:49:11,078 --> 00:49:14,299
♪ My brothers and
my sisters, ah-ah ♪

998
00:49:14,342 --> 00:49:17,258
♪ All over this land

999
00:49:17,302 --> 00:49:18,129
Everybody!

1000
00:49:25,353 --> 00:49:29,444
And then by the grace of
God, I put my own style,

1001
00:49:29,488 --> 00:49:31,664
my own version of that song.

1002
00:49:32,708 --> 00:49:33,796
And I made 'em bigger.

1003
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:35,320
"If I Had a Hammer,"
for example,

1004
00:49:35,363 --> 00:49:39,324
was much, much bigger than
Peter, Paul and Mary worldwide.

1005
00:49:39,367 --> 00:49:40,586
- [Interviewer] How
many times in your life

1006
00:49:40,629 --> 00:49:42,196
you sang that song?

1007
00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:43,589
- Oh my God.

1008
00:49:43,632 --> 00:49:46,679
I think maybe millions,
millions of times.

1009
00:49:46,722 --> 00:49:49,203
Many, many times,
all over the world.

1010
00:49:49,247 --> 00:49:51,510
Would you like to sing it Vikki?

1011
00:49:51,553 --> 00:49:54,382
♪ Si si si senor

1012
00:49:54,426 --> 00:49:56,645
♪ Sing sing sing

1013
00:49:56,689 --> 00:49:57,690
♪ If I had a hammer

1014
00:49:57,733 --> 00:49:59,344
- What would you do?

1015
00:49:59,387 --> 00:50:01,302
♪ I'd hammer in the morning

1016
00:50:01,346 --> 00:50:02,303
- Huh?

1017
00:50:02,347 --> 00:50:05,045
♪ I'd hammer in the evening

1018
00:50:05,089 --> 00:50:08,048
♪ All over this land

1019
00:50:08,092 --> 00:50:11,138
♪ I'd hammer out justice

1020
00:50:11,182 --> 00:50:14,098
♪ I'd hammer out warning

1021
00:50:14,141 --> 00:50:16,230
♪ I'd hammer out love between

1022
00:50:16,274 --> 00:50:19,320
♪ My brothers and
my sisters, ah-ah ♪

1023
00:50:19,364 --> 00:50:22,367
♪ All over this land

1024
00:50:22,410 --> 00:50:25,500
[instrumental music]

1025
00:50:30,549 --> 00:50:32,507
♪ If I had a song

1026
00:50:32,551 --> 00:50:34,161
♪ I'd sing it in the morning

1027
00:50:34,205 --> 00:50:37,208
♪ Make you know that I could
sing it in the evening ♪

1028
00:50:37,251 --> 00:50:39,340
♪ All over this land

1029
00:50:39,384 --> 00:50:41,603
♪ I'd sing out danger

1030
00:50:41,647 --> 00:50:44,302
♪ I'd sing out a warning

1031
00:50:44,345 --> 00:50:45,825
♪ I'd sing about
the love between ♪

1032
00:50:45,868 --> 00:50:49,176
♪ My brothers and
my sisters ah-ah ♪

1033
00:50:49,220 --> 00:50:50,699
♪ All over this land

1034
00:50:50,743 --> 00:50:52,397
Everybody!

1035
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,487
[instrumental music]

1036
00:50:58,881 --> 00:51:00,405
♪ I've got a hammer

1037
00:51:00,448 --> 00:51:03,364
♪ Man, I've got that bell

1038
00:51:03,408 --> 00:51:05,627
♪ And I've got a song to sing

1039
00:51:05,671 --> 00:51:10,502
♪ All over this world

1040
00:51:10,545 --> 00:51:12,721
♪ It's the hammer of justice

1041
00:51:12,765 --> 00:51:15,420
♪ It's the bell of freedom

1042
00:51:15,463 --> 00:51:17,291
♪ It's the song about
the love between ♪

1043
00:51:17,335 --> 00:51:19,424
♪ My brothers and my sisters

1044
00:51:19,467 --> 00:51:22,601
♪ All over this land

1045
00:51:37,268 --> 00:51:38,225
♪ Everybody now

1046
00:51:38,269 --> 00:51:41,707
♪ I wanna hear you sing it

1047
00:51:41,750 --> 00:51:44,101
♪ Sing it

1048
00:51:59,681 --> 00:52:00,508
Thank you!

1049
00:52:01,683 --> 00:52:03,337
I'll be very honest with you,

1050
00:52:03,381 --> 00:52:06,253
I didn't think, I didn't
think that any of my songs

1051
00:52:06,297 --> 00:52:08,647
would be hits,
that's for starters.

1052
00:52:09,778 --> 00:52:11,693
That's where it started,
I have to be honest.

1053
00:52:11,737 --> 00:52:13,434
I was ecstatic, you know,

1054
00:52:13,478 --> 00:52:16,872
I couldn't believe it was
like a dream, you know?

1055
00:52:16,916 --> 00:52:19,353
And then thank God, thank God,

1056
00:52:19,397 --> 00:52:23,531
I kept recording hit
albums and hit singles,

1057
00:52:23,575 --> 00:52:25,446
and that helped a lot.

1058
00:52:25,490 --> 00:52:28,623
[audience applauding]

1059
00:52:34,325 --> 00:52:36,588
♪ I was just a lad of ten

1060
00:52:36,631 --> 00:52:38,938
♪ My father said to me

1061
00:52:38,981 --> 00:52:43,856
♪ Come here and take a lesson
from the lovely lemon tree ♪

1062
00:52:43,899 --> 00:52:46,511
♪ Don't put your faith
in love, my boy ♪

1063
00:52:46,554 --> 00:52:48,817
♪ My father said to me

1064
00:52:48,861 --> 00:52:51,646
♪ I fear you'll find
that love is like ♪

1065
00:52:51,690 --> 00:52:53,953
♪ The lovely lemon tree

1066
00:52:53,996 --> 00:52:58,958
♪ Lemon tree, very pretty and
the lemon flower is sweet ♪

1067
00:53:00,525 --> 00:53:03,658
♪ But the fruit of the poor
lemon is impossible to eat ♪

1068
00:53:03,702 --> 00:53:08,707
♪ Lemon tree, very pretty and
the lemon flower is sweet ♪

1069
00:53:10,317 --> 00:53:14,191
♪ But the fruit of the poor
lemon is impossible to eat ♪

1070
00:53:15,583 --> 00:53:19,631
♪ Beneath that lemon tree one
day my love and I did lie ♪

1071
00:53:19,674 --> 00:53:21,720
♪ A boy so sweet
that when he smiled ♪

1072
00:53:21,763 --> 00:53:23,722
♪ The stars rose in the sky

1073
00:53:24,375 --> 00:53:26,768
♪ One day he left
without a word ♪

1074
00:53:26,812 --> 00:53:29,510
♪ He took away the sun

1075
00:53:29,554 --> 00:53:31,904
♪ And in the dark
he left behind ♪

1076
00:53:31,947 --> 00:53:34,689
♪ I knew what he had done

1077
00:53:34,733 --> 00:53:37,388
- He was doing something
that was so different

1078
00:53:37,431 --> 00:53:40,434
than anything else that
was being done at the time.

1079
00:53:40,478 --> 00:53:42,610
So why are you gonna
put it in a box?

1080
00:53:44,308 --> 00:53:49,269
♪ Lemon tree, very pretty and
the lemon flower is sweet ♪

1081
00:53:50,705 --> 00:53:54,622
♪ But the fruit of the poor
lemon is impossible to eat ♪

1082
00:53:56,058 --> 00:53:59,932
♪ Lemon tree, very pretty and
the lemon flower is sweet ♪

1083
00:54:01,499 --> 00:54:05,242
♪ But the fruit of the poor
lemon is impossible to eat ♪

1084
00:54:10,769 --> 00:54:13,946
[audience applauding]

1085
00:54:13,989 --> 00:54:16,992
♪ Lemon pledge, very pretty

1086
00:54:17,036 --> 00:54:20,039
♪ Put the shine
down well and good ♪

1087
00:54:20,082 --> 00:54:23,042
♪ Lemon pledge, anti-dusting

1088
00:54:23,085 --> 00:54:25,740
♪ Brings new luster
to the wood ♪

1089
00:54:25,784 --> 00:54:27,568
- [Advertiser] New
from Johnson Wax.

1090
00:54:27,612 --> 00:54:31,616
- The moment Trini hit,
he hit with a power

1091
00:54:31,659 --> 00:54:34,662
that was not too unlike the
power of the Beatles, really.

1092
00:54:36,925 --> 00:54:39,972
[instrumental music]

1093
00:54:41,452 --> 00:54:43,062
- Now, did you perform
with the Beatles?

1094
00:54:43,105 --> 00:54:45,934
- We performed
almost like together.

1095
00:54:45,978 --> 00:54:49,460
One of the first places that I
got booked outside of America

1096
00:54:49,503 --> 00:54:50,722
was in Paris.

1097
00:54:50,765 --> 00:54:53,072
They had a beautiful,
beautiful theater

1098
00:54:53,115 --> 00:54:55,988
called the Olympia,
right on Champs-EÉlysées.

1099
00:54:58,556 --> 00:55:01,646
We were booked for four weeks.

1100
00:55:01,689 --> 00:55:04,823
Two shows a night, three
on Saturday, matinee.

1101
00:55:06,390 --> 00:55:08,957
Just me and my trio, and
they only had four people,

1102
00:55:09,001 --> 00:55:10,611
and we packed that theater man,

1103
00:55:10,655 --> 00:55:12,700
like four or 5,000
people per seating.

1104
00:55:14,049 --> 00:55:16,617
And all the young people, you
know, were coming to see us.

1105
00:55:18,576 --> 00:55:21,492
♪ If there's
anything I could do ♪

1106
00:55:21,535 --> 00:55:23,058
♪ Green Green

1107
00:55:23,102 --> 00:55:27,541
♪ I'm going away to where
the grass is greener still ♪

1108
00:55:28,673 --> 00:55:29,804
The newspapers, the
first three, four days,

1109
00:55:29,848 --> 00:55:32,024
on one of the biggest
papers in Paris,

1110
00:55:32,067 --> 00:55:34,983
big letters, headlines
on the front page,

1111
00:55:35,027 --> 00:55:38,073
Bravo Trini Lopez,
who are the Beatles?

1112
00:55:38,117 --> 00:55:41,120
[audience laughing]

1113
00:55:44,819 --> 00:55:46,908
I heard about a week
before we finished

1114
00:55:46,952 --> 00:55:49,433
that The Beatles were
gonna go to America

1115
00:55:49,476 --> 00:55:50,651
for the first time.

1116
00:55:50,695 --> 00:55:52,436
They weren't known in America,

1117
00:55:52,479 --> 00:55:54,612
but they started getting
going with Europe

1118
00:55:54,655 --> 00:55:55,874
and then they went to America.

1119
00:55:55,917 --> 00:55:58,964
I went from America
to Europe, you know.

1120
00:55:59,007 --> 00:56:02,054
- Elvis, Louie
Armstrong, Eartha Kitt,

1121
00:56:03,011 --> 00:56:05,840
Josephine Baker, Trini Lopez,

1122
00:56:05,884 --> 00:56:09,714
artists who frequently loved
leaving the United States

1123
00:56:09,757 --> 00:56:14,675
to go to any part of
Europe or Asia to perform,

1124
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:16,547
because they were
truly accepted,

1125
00:56:16,590 --> 00:56:19,027
not only for their music,

1126
00:56:19,071 --> 00:56:21,465
but as people, as a human being.

1127
00:56:22,770 --> 00:56:25,164
- Well, they're going to
New York for the first time.

1128
00:56:25,207 --> 00:56:26,078
I think it's-

1129
00:56:26,905 --> 00:56:27,732
- [Interviewer] Tomorrow.

1130
00:56:27,775 --> 00:56:28,602
- Tomorrow, is it?

1131
00:56:28,646 --> 00:56:30,212
Yeah, right.

1132
00:56:30,256 --> 00:56:33,128
So they have, they have had
great success here in Europe,

1133
00:56:33,172 --> 00:56:35,087
and I hope they'll
have success in America

1134
00:56:35,130 --> 00:56:37,176
because they're very nice boys.

1135
00:56:37,219 --> 00:56:40,527
They're very, very nice
human beings, you know,

1136
00:56:40,571 --> 00:56:41,833
and they got great talent.

1137
00:56:43,095 --> 00:56:44,836
And the reason they
wanted to know my opinion

1138
00:56:44,879 --> 00:56:46,620
was because when I
worked with the Beatles

1139
00:56:46,664 --> 00:56:47,795
for a whole month,

1140
00:56:47,839 --> 00:56:49,884
they were getting
two encores a night.

1141
00:56:49,928 --> 00:56:51,103
I was getting seven.

1142
00:56:53,497 --> 00:56:55,499
And so they wanted my opinion.

1143
00:56:55,542 --> 00:56:59,677
Well, in my dressing room,
it's a historical theater,

1144
00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:01,722
so the walls were very thin,

1145
00:57:01,766 --> 00:57:03,158
but the wall was right here.

1146
00:57:03,202 --> 00:57:04,943
And I'm here with
all the photographers

1147
00:57:04,986 --> 00:57:06,510
and the cameras and all that.

1148
00:57:06,553 --> 00:57:09,208
And they said, do
you think the Beatles

1149
00:57:09,251 --> 00:57:12,559
will be a success when
they come to New York?

1150
00:57:12,603 --> 00:57:15,606
And I said, well, I
gotta tell you the truth,

1151
00:57:15,649 --> 00:57:17,956
I had to whisper
because they were right,

1152
00:57:17,999 --> 00:57:20,567
I could hear everything
they used to say

1153
00:57:20,611 --> 00:57:21,699
in their dressing room,

1154
00:57:21,742 --> 00:57:23,135
I'm sure they used to hear me.

1155
00:57:24,266 --> 00:57:26,181
I said, I don't think so.

1156
00:57:26,225 --> 00:57:29,228
[audience laughing]

1157
00:57:30,969 --> 00:57:32,797
They said really, really?

1158
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,799
In America, there is a group

1159
00:57:34,842 --> 00:57:38,019
that I like much better than
them called The Beach Boys.

1160
00:57:38,063 --> 00:57:42,459
[audience applauding
and laughing]

1161
00:57:45,592 --> 00:57:46,767
- Yeah, Trini was
a big influence

1162
00:57:46,811 --> 00:57:48,900
on a lot of the other
groups of the day.

1163
00:57:48,943 --> 00:57:51,555
Marty Balin from the
Jefferson Airplane

1164
00:57:51,598 --> 00:57:53,600
was looking for a way
to take folk music

1165
00:57:53,644 --> 00:57:54,775
and go electric with it,

1166
00:57:54,819 --> 00:57:56,385
and he heard what
Trini was doing

1167
00:57:56,429 --> 00:58:00,912
and said that that's what gave
him the idea to go electric.

1168
00:58:00,955 --> 00:58:04,829
♪ Don't you need
somebody to love ♪

1169
00:58:04,872 --> 00:58:06,439
[instrumental music]

1170
00:58:06,483 --> 00:58:11,009
- Bob Dylan, he really liked
my albums that I did at PJ's.

1171
00:58:11,052 --> 00:58:13,620
Big magazine asked Bob Dylan,

1172
00:58:13,664 --> 00:58:14,969
by the way, who's
your favorite singer?

1173
00:58:15,013 --> 00:58:17,972
He said Trini Lopez.

1174
00:58:18,016 --> 00:58:21,802
And so he liked me so much
that he stole my drummer.

1175
00:58:21,846 --> 00:58:23,543
[Trini laughing]

1176
00:58:23,587 --> 00:58:24,588
He was with him for a long time.

1177
00:58:24,631 --> 00:58:25,980
I think because of me,

1178
00:58:26,024 --> 00:58:28,809
he started getting into
the electric guitar

1179
00:58:29,941 --> 00:58:31,856
with his music,
with his material,

1180
00:58:33,074 --> 00:58:37,122
and especially with my
drummer, you know, that helped.

1181
00:58:37,165 --> 00:58:39,603
- Who were you listening
to back in the day?

1182
00:58:39,646 --> 00:58:41,561
Who were some of
your influences?

1183
00:58:41,605 --> 00:58:42,910
- That's very easy because

1184
00:58:42,954 --> 00:58:45,217
I used to listen to Frank
Sinatra all the time.

1185
00:58:45,260 --> 00:58:47,306
I loved his, not only his voice,

1186
00:58:47,349 --> 00:58:50,614
but I liked his style and
his phrasing, oh, it's great.

1187
00:58:50,657 --> 00:58:54,008
And of course, all the songs
he picked were unbelievable.

1188
00:58:54,052 --> 00:58:55,749
And so he was my first idol.

1189
00:58:55,793 --> 00:58:56,707
- [Hostess] Wow.

1190
00:58:56,750 --> 00:58:58,622
- Listening to him on the radio

1191
00:58:58,665 --> 00:59:00,145
and buying records
whenever I had the money,

1192
00:59:00,188 --> 00:59:03,148
little did I know
that three years later

1193
00:59:03,191 --> 00:59:04,845
he was going to discover me

1194
00:59:04,889 --> 00:59:07,326
at a nightclub in
Hollywood called PJ's.

1195
00:59:07,369 --> 00:59:09,241
I've always been very timid

1196
00:59:09,284 --> 00:59:13,201
and very bashful
about life and so on.

1197
00:59:13,245 --> 00:59:15,682
He really intimidated
me, you know.

1198
00:59:15,726 --> 00:59:17,989
When you have an idol, since
you were a kid, you know,

1199
00:59:18,032 --> 00:59:20,121
it's kind of different.

1200
00:59:20,165 --> 00:59:23,647
And after the album came out
and it was a big success,

1201
00:59:23,690 --> 00:59:27,085
this guy comes up to me and
he says, I wanna manage you.

1202
00:59:27,128 --> 00:59:28,608
Durgom Bullets, Durgom.

1203
00:59:28,652 --> 00:59:31,045
I said, Bullets, I
couldn't believe the name.

1204
00:59:31,089 --> 00:59:32,699
So now we sign up

1205
00:59:32,743 --> 00:59:34,309
and he woke me up
one morning, he says,

1206
00:59:34,353 --> 00:59:38,096
"you gotta get ready, I wanna
take you to meet Frank."

1207
00:59:38,139 --> 00:59:40,054
And I said, "Frank who?"

1208
00:59:41,403 --> 00:59:43,057
He said, "Frank Sinatra."

1209
00:59:43,101 --> 00:59:44,711
He says, "He's making a movie

1210
00:59:44,755 --> 00:59:47,322
and he would like to
meet you after lunch."

1211
00:59:47,366 --> 00:59:50,282
And I met him for the first
time about six months ago

1212
00:59:50,325 --> 00:59:53,067
while he was doing a movie
called "4 For Texas."

1213
00:59:53,111 --> 00:59:54,982
And now Reprise is connected
with Warner Brothers,

1214
00:59:55,026 --> 00:59:58,159
which he is also connected
with, Warner Brothers Pictures.

1215
00:59:58,203 --> 00:59:59,900
And now we're getting
closer to the set,

1216
00:59:59,944 --> 01:00:01,293
and I'm seeing horses

1217
01:00:01,336 --> 01:00:03,382
and I'm seeing stage
coaches and all this stuff.

1218
01:00:03,425 --> 01:00:05,384
There were about 30 people

1219
01:00:05,427 --> 01:00:07,734
around with these cameras
and the whole bit,

1220
01:00:07,778 --> 01:00:10,258
and about 20 of 'em
are around one guy.

1221
01:00:11,738 --> 01:00:15,742
Oh, right away, I looked
and it was Frank Sinatra

1222
01:00:15,786 --> 01:00:17,265
in the middle of
all these people.

1223
01:00:17,309 --> 01:00:20,704
All of a sudden Frank
Sinatra did a double take

1224
01:00:20,747 --> 01:00:23,315
and he saw one of his best
friends, Bullets Durgom,

1225
01:00:23,358 --> 01:00:25,665
and me walking
closer to the group,

1226
01:00:25,709 --> 01:00:26,797
and he left everybody.

1227
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:28,233
He left everybody talking

1228
01:00:28,276 --> 01:00:31,149
and he came over with his
hand extended like this

1229
01:00:31,192 --> 01:00:32,672
and he shook my hand.

1230
01:00:32,716 --> 01:00:35,849
He said, "Trini Lopez,
you're a great talent."

1231
01:00:37,242 --> 01:00:39,200
That's the first thing he
said, I'll never forget.

1232
01:00:39,244 --> 01:00:43,030
And boy, he got me a chair
and he says sit down,

1233
01:00:43,074 --> 01:00:44,902
whatever you want,
you want a drink.

1234
01:00:46,164 --> 01:00:49,123
And I am very happy because
I admire him so much

1235
01:00:49,167 --> 01:00:52,039
and I am also happy because
I am working for him now.

1236
01:00:52,083 --> 01:00:53,998
He became one of
my best friends.

1237
01:00:55,173 --> 01:00:57,828
He used to cook for
me in Palm Springs.

1238
01:00:57,871 --> 01:01:01,135
His mother used to cook
for me, big parties.

1239
01:01:01,179 --> 01:01:03,137
He was like my dad.

1240
01:01:03,181 --> 01:01:04,791
- Palm Springs, by the way,

1241
01:01:04,835 --> 01:01:07,054
how long have you been
living in Palm Springs?

1242
01:01:07,098 --> 01:01:08,490
- 1932.

1243
01:01:08,534 --> 01:01:10,057
[audience laughing]

1244
01:01:10,101 --> 01:01:12,364
Can you believe that?

1245
01:01:12,407 --> 01:01:15,802
My manager, Bullets Durgom, had
a house in Vista Las Palmas.

1246
01:01:15,846 --> 01:01:17,412
He says, "You have
a weekend off,

1247
01:01:17,456 --> 01:01:19,371
would you like to come
and spend the weekend

1248
01:01:19,414 --> 01:01:20,720
with me and my wife?"

1249
01:01:20,764 --> 01:01:21,982
And then Sinatra invited us

1250
01:01:22,026 --> 01:01:25,159
to a big party at his
house in Rancho Mirage.

1251
01:01:25,203 --> 01:01:26,334
And that was the beginning

1252
01:01:26,378 --> 01:01:31,035
of my coming to
Palm Springs, 1964.

1253
01:01:31,078 --> 01:01:33,864
And then I bought
this house in 1966.

1254
01:01:33,907 --> 01:01:35,779
And I've been here ever since.

1255
01:01:35,822 --> 01:01:38,520
- Like Trini said,
in my own yard,

1256
01:01:38,564 --> 01:01:40,131
if they didn't know who I was,

1257
01:01:40,174 --> 01:01:41,741
they wouldn't even speak to me

1258
01:01:41,785 --> 01:01:43,221
'cause I would be the gardener.

1259
01:01:45,353 --> 01:01:48,356
We all know this
country is prejudiced.

1260
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:52,839
They try, some of 'em try not
to be, but they have to try.

1261
01:01:52,883 --> 01:01:55,102
- Bob Hope, I went to
his house many times.

1262
01:01:56,538 --> 01:01:59,280
Kim Novak lived about two
blocks from my house here.

1263
01:02:00,804 --> 01:02:03,763
Kirk Douglas, he lives
about four blocks from here.

1264
01:02:03,807 --> 01:02:06,940
Jack Benny, Elvis,
Peter Lawford.

1265
01:02:06,984 --> 01:02:08,202
He lived down the street for me.

1266
01:02:08,246 --> 01:02:10,509
Oh, this one here,

1267
01:02:10,552 --> 01:02:11,815
this is interesting picture

1268
01:02:11,858 --> 01:02:15,035
because we were asked
to take some pictures

1269
01:02:15,079 --> 01:02:17,864
because Dean had
sold over a million

1270
01:02:17,908 --> 01:02:19,474
albums, one of his albums,

1271
01:02:19,518 --> 01:02:21,128
and I had sold over a million

1272
01:02:21,172 --> 01:02:22,434
on one of my albums,

1273
01:02:22,477 --> 01:02:25,393
Sinatra was not
selling that much.

1274
01:02:25,437 --> 01:02:27,091
And look at his face.

1275
01:02:27,134 --> 01:02:29,093
[Trini laughing]

1276
01:02:29,136 --> 01:02:31,356
He didn't like it too much.

1277
01:02:31,399 --> 01:02:34,446
But I did of course do things
with Sinatra in the Rat Pack.

1278
01:02:34,489 --> 01:02:36,535
I was part of the Rat Pack.

1279
01:02:36,578 --> 01:02:37,841
Yeah.

1280
01:02:37,884 --> 01:02:40,887
[upbeat jazz music]

1281
01:02:45,283 --> 01:02:47,067
We did a big show
with the Rat Pack.

1282
01:02:47,111 --> 01:02:49,026
Everybody, Ella
Fitzgerald, everybody.

1283
01:02:50,854 --> 01:02:53,552
- I'd like to thank the NAACP
for this wonderful trophy.

1284
01:02:53,595 --> 01:02:54,553
- Put me down!

1285
01:02:54,596 --> 01:02:55,989
[audience laughing]

1286
01:02:56,033 --> 01:02:58,122
- Delightful young man
and a fine performer,

1287
01:02:58,165 --> 01:03:00,951
would you welcome please,
Mister Trini Lopez.

1288
01:03:00,994 --> 01:03:04,128
[audience applauding]

1289
01:03:12,005 --> 01:03:14,181
- We got an amigo friend
of mine coming up,

1290
01:03:15,443 --> 01:03:17,445
and I love his work,

1291
01:03:17,489 --> 01:03:20,318
and he thinks I'm all right too,

1292
01:03:21,928 --> 01:03:23,495
but he's a beauty.

1293
01:03:23,538 --> 01:03:25,976
He's made a tremendous hit in
the past two or three years,

1294
01:03:26,019 --> 01:03:28,456
drums and guitars,
sings beautifully,

1295
01:03:28,500 --> 01:03:30,284
Mister Trini Lopez.

1296
01:03:30,328 --> 01:03:32,417
[audience applauding]

1297
01:03:32,460 --> 01:03:35,507
[instrumental music]

1298
01:03:37,422 --> 01:03:40,338
- He became friends
with the Rat Pack

1299
01:03:40,381 --> 01:03:42,035
and who loved him,

1300
01:03:42,079 --> 01:03:47,084
it was Sinatra, Sammy, Dean,

1301
01:03:47,693 --> 01:03:49,216
he became one of them.

1302
01:03:49,260 --> 01:03:53,177
- Mister Sinatra, he always
had me call him Mister Sinatra.

1303
01:03:53,220 --> 01:03:54,918
I never called him Frank, never.

1304
01:03:54,961 --> 01:03:56,528
I knew him for 36 years,

1305
01:03:56,571 --> 01:03:58,486
he never said Trini,
call me Frank, will you?

1306
01:03:58,530 --> 01:04:00,619
He demanded respect like
you wouldn't believe.

1307
01:04:00,662 --> 01:04:02,099
- Yeah, welcome gentlemen.

1308
01:04:05,145 --> 01:04:06,625
- Say, is there any
soup in the menu?

1309
01:04:06,668 --> 01:04:08,148
- Yeah, but we wiped it off.

1310
01:04:08,192 --> 01:04:11,064
[audience laughing]

1311
01:04:11,108 --> 01:04:14,981
- I kind of took over Sammy's
place with Frank Sinatra

1312
01:04:15,025 --> 01:04:19,116
in his Rat Pack because
Sammy was his number one boy,

1313
01:04:19,159 --> 01:04:22,162
and a little later after I
did two or three more shows,

1314
01:04:22,206 --> 01:04:26,340
then everybody was saying
that I was Sinatra's boy.

1315
01:04:26,384 --> 01:04:27,864
And that's a big compliment.

1316
01:04:28,995 --> 01:04:30,649
- Hey, you can't do
that to my leader.

1317
01:04:31,519 --> 01:04:33,695
- Here's your leader.

1318
01:04:33,739 --> 01:04:35,915
- Sinatra was very,
very particular.

1319
01:04:35,959 --> 01:04:37,612
Very much so.

1320
01:04:37,656 --> 01:04:38,526
And I was so lucky,

1321
01:04:38,570 --> 01:04:40,964
I was so lucky that he liked me,

1322
01:04:41,007 --> 01:04:42,704
that he liked my
talent and so on.

1323
01:04:42,748 --> 01:04:44,271
So Sammy was a little jealous.

1324
01:04:44,315 --> 01:04:46,883
They say that there
was a falling out.

1325
01:04:47,753 --> 01:04:48,972
They say that he,

1326
01:04:49,929 --> 01:04:53,324
I don't know what the
falling out was about,

1327
01:04:53,367 --> 01:04:55,543
but I do know that there
was something that happened

1328
01:04:55,587 --> 01:04:58,198
because Sinatra wasn't too,

1329
01:04:58,242 --> 01:04:59,939
he wasn't too, what's the word,

1330
01:04:59,983 --> 01:05:01,680
sympathetic when Sammy died.

1331
01:05:06,598 --> 01:05:08,252
- [Interviewer] You
are only 25, 25?

1332
01:05:08,295 --> 01:05:09,383
- 26.

1333
01:05:09,427 --> 01:05:10,471
- [Interviewer] 26.
[Trini laughing]

1334
01:05:10,515 --> 01:05:11,342
- [Interviewer] And you have a-

1335
01:05:11,385 --> 01:05:12,996
- I wish it was 25.

1336
01:05:13,039 --> 01:05:14,998
- [Interviewer] And you have a
great future in front of you.

1337
01:05:15,041 --> 01:05:18,088
Which are your musical
and other plans?

1338
01:05:18,131 --> 01:05:21,352
- Well, I would like to
continue recording of course

1339
01:05:21,395 --> 01:05:24,659
and nightclubs, and I would
like someday make a movie.

1340
01:05:24,703 --> 01:05:26,009
- [Interviewer] Make a movie?
- Yes.

1341
01:05:26,052 --> 01:05:26,748
- [Interviewer]
With Frank Sinatra.

1342
01:05:26,792 --> 01:05:31,405
- Of course. [laughing]

1343
01:05:31,449 --> 01:05:34,234
Frank Sinatra put me in my
first movie at Warner Brothers

1344
01:05:34,278 --> 01:05:37,455
with Frank Sinatra,
Deborah Kerr, Dean Martin,

1345
01:05:37,498 --> 01:05:38,978
'Marriage On The Rocks,"

1346
01:05:39,022 --> 01:05:41,763
and he wanted me to do a cameo.

1347
01:05:41,807 --> 01:05:44,070
It was great, it was
a great experience.

1348
01:05:44,114 --> 01:05:45,767
And I sang a song that I wrote.

1349
01:05:45,811 --> 01:05:49,075
One, two, one, two, three, four.

1350
01:05:49,119 --> 01:05:54,124
[instrumental music]
[audience clapping]

1351
01:06:04,047 --> 01:06:09,052
♪ There was a sinner man,
who laughed and ran away ♪

1352
01:06:10,444 --> 01:06:15,449
♪ He had a different girl,
for every single day ♪

1353
01:06:17,799 --> 01:06:19,976
I had to be there at
six in the morning.

1354
01:06:22,369 --> 01:06:23,501
I was half asleep.

1355
01:06:27,244 --> 01:06:30,116
Sinatra got me a dressing room
right next to Deborah Kerr,

1356
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,292
and Frank Sinatra
and Dean Martin.

1357
01:06:33,511 --> 01:06:34,686
Can you believe it?

1358
01:06:34,729 --> 01:06:36,383
I was real nervous
and I was half asleep

1359
01:06:36,427 --> 01:06:38,603
getting makeup on and all that,

1360
01:06:38,646 --> 01:06:40,605
and there was a
knock on the door,

1361
01:06:40,648 --> 01:06:41,910
I opened the door
and I looked down

1362
01:06:41,954 --> 01:06:45,349
and was this beautiful
lady, gorgeous blonde

1363
01:06:45,392 --> 01:06:48,482
in a cocktail dress 'cause we
were doing a nightclub scene

1364
01:06:48,526 --> 01:06:51,398
and I looked at her and I
recognized her right away.

1365
01:06:51,442 --> 01:06:52,356
And I said, hello?

1366
01:06:52,399 --> 01:06:54,314
She said, hello, Mister Lopez,

1367
01:06:54,358 --> 01:06:56,055
like this real nice.

1368
01:06:56,099 --> 01:06:57,274
And she said, "I'm
Deborah Kerr."

1369
01:06:57,317 --> 01:06:59,232
I said, "I know, I
know who you are."

1370
01:07:00,625 --> 01:07:03,541
And she said, "I just
came over to tell you

1371
01:07:04,672 --> 01:07:08,111
how proud all of
us are to have you

1372
01:07:08,154 --> 01:07:09,721
on the set with us today."

1373
01:07:11,201 --> 01:07:12,637
Wow.

1374
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:13,551
You know.

1375
01:07:14,726 --> 01:07:15,814
She had already done
"The King and I,"

1376
01:07:15,857 --> 01:07:17,250
and all these big movies.

1377
01:07:18,556 --> 01:07:19,383
It was great.

1378
01:07:21,211 --> 01:07:23,343
Let me hear everybody now.

1379
01:07:24,736 --> 01:07:25,606
Here we go.

1380
01:07:28,174 --> 01:07:29,045
Everybody.

1381
01:07:45,365 --> 01:07:50,327
[audience applauding
and cheering]

1382
01:07:50,370 --> 01:07:53,156
- He became the guy who
had the big hit records,

1383
01:07:53,199 --> 01:07:54,592
crossover hit records,

1384
01:07:54,635 --> 01:07:57,377
that opened the doors
for guys like me.

1385
01:07:57,421 --> 01:08:00,206
Not only was he number
one on the charts,

1386
01:08:00,250 --> 01:08:02,121
but he crossed over to Vegas.

1387
01:08:03,470 --> 01:08:07,213
Ah, that was a whole
other opening door.

1388
01:08:08,736 --> 01:08:11,826
But in that time, you
didn't see a lot of Lopez.

1389
01:08:11,870 --> 01:08:16,483
You didn't see a lot of
Garcias on stages in Las Vegas.

1390
01:08:16,527 --> 01:08:18,529
For you to break Las Vegas,

1391
01:08:18,572 --> 01:08:20,531
you had to be a
special entertainer.

1392
01:08:20,574 --> 01:08:22,228
You couldn't walk into this town

1393
01:08:22,272 --> 01:08:23,925
just because you
had a hit record.

1394
01:08:23,969 --> 01:08:28,191
That's a whole other
acceptance now.

1395
01:08:28,234 --> 01:08:31,237
That means you're accepted
as an entertainer.

1396
01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:36,590
[instrumental music]

1397
01:08:36,634 --> 01:08:39,202
- He has that amazing
talent where he can walk on

1398
01:08:39,245 --> 01:08:41,247
and just electrify an audience

1399
01:08:41,291 --> 01:08:43,423
in a matter of
couple of minutes.

1400
01:08:43,467 --> 01:08:46,513
[instrumental music]

1401
01:08:50,778 --> 01:08:55,783
♪ You gotta know how to
pony like Bony Maroni ♪

1402
01:08:57,307 --> 01:09:02,138
♪ Put your hands on your hips,
let your back-bone slip ♪

1403
01:09:03,835 --> 01:09:08,840
♪ Do the Jerk, watch me work

1404
01:09:09,928 --> 01:09:14,237
♪ Or the Watusi,
like my sister Lucy ♪

1405
01:09:21,461 --> 01:09:24,508
Would you repeat it
to me, everybody.

1406
01:09:29,861 --> 01:09:32,255
I wanna hear everybody now.

1407
01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:41,481
One more time everybody.

1408
01:09:48,836 --> 01:09:51,491
One more time everybody.

1409
01:09:51,535 --> 01:09:52,927
- When Trini first started,

1410
01:09:52,971 --> 01:09:55,669
Bullets Durgom was booking
him all over Europe

1411
01:09:55,713 --> 01:09:57,410
to sell out audiences.

1412
01:09:57,454 --> 01:10:01,284
The booking agents in this
country didn't believe him.

1413
01:10:01,327 --> 01:10:04,809
They said, there's no way
a Mexican can do that.

1414
01:10:04,852 --> 01:10:09,379
And so Bullets and Frank
Sinatra talked the Flamingo

1415
01:10:09,422 --> 01:10:12,556
to book Trini Lopez
and Bill Cosby.

1416
01:10:13,687 --> 01:10:16,995
And oh my, agents
and everybody said,

1417
01:10:17,038 --> 01:10:21,260
can you believe they're booking
a black man and a Mexican?

1418
01:10:21,304 --> 01:10:22,740
Who's gonna go see them?

1419
01:10:25,743 --> 01:10:27,701
Well, after one night
it was sold out,

1420
01:10:28,789 --> 01:10:30,530
and never again was
that a question.

1421
01:10:30,574 --> 01:10:32,271
♪ Hey, Little girl,
I tell you true ♪

1422
01:10:32,315 --> 01:10:35,753
♪ I'm as mean as a cobra
through and through ♪

1423
01:10:35,796 --> 01:10:38,843
♪ Don't care to be
called what I ain't ♪

1424
01:10:38,886 --> 01:10:41,715
♪ I confess I'm a
sinner, not a saint ♪

1425
01:10:41,759 --> 01:10:43,761
♪ Hey, hey, hey, little girl

1426
01:10:43,804 --> 01:10:45,066
♪ Don't you mess
around with me ♪

1427
01:10:45,110 --> 01:10:49,767
♪ Cause I'm just a
sinner, not a saint ♪

1428
01:10:51,943 --> 01:10:53,292
- By the way, Hugh,

1429
01:10:53,336 --> 01:10:54,815
I would like to tell
you how happy I am

1430
01:10:54,859 --> 01:10:57,905
and how grateful I am that
you had your beautiful plane

1431
01:10:57,949 --> 01:10:59,907
pick me at the
airport in Las Vegas,

1432
01:10:59,951 --> 01:11:01,909
and your beautiful bunnies and
everything it's just great.

1433
01:11:01,953 --> 01:11:06,958
- He kept his Latin side
upfront and personal.

1434
01:11:08,438 --> 01:11:09,569
- [Trini] I am also in the
restaurant business, you know.

1435
01:11:09,613 --> 01:11:10,831
- No kidding?

1436
01:11:10,875 --> 01:11:12,050
- Yeah, and I'm very
proud of this venture

1437
01:11:12,093 --> 01:11:14,444
because my restaurants
are so authentic,

1438
01:11:14,487 --> 01:11:15,880
you can't even drink
the water there.

1439
01:11:15,923 --> 01:11:17,708
[audience laughing]

1440
01:11:17,751 --> 01:11:19,144
Yeah, you know.

1441
01:11:19,187 --> 01:11:22,756
- He was able to be
self-deprecating in his humor,

1442
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:25,977
which opened the door for
my buddy Freddy Prinze.

1443
01:11:26,020 --> 01:11:27,631
- Right, I got light
skin, straight hair,

1444
01:11:27,674 --> 01:11:28,588
that's from my father.

1445
01:11:28,632 --> 01:11:29,720
From my Puerto Rican mother,

1446
01:11:29,763 --> 01:11:31,939
I got my nose and my mustache.

1447
01:11:31,983 --> 01:11:34,377
[audience laughing]

1448
01:11:34,420 --> 01:11:37,858
- Because that comedy
came after Trini Lopez.

1449
01:11:37,902 --> 01:11:40,513
- Listening to the show
earlier when Linda said that

1450
01:11:40,557 --> 01:11:41,645
you have to watch everything
you eat, you know?

1451
01:11:41,688 --> 01:11:43,168
- [Linda] Yeah.

1452
01:11:43,211 --> 01:11:44,387
- Well, it's a little different
with me because you know,

1453
01:11:44,430 --> 01:11:46,084
with the kind of hot
Mexican food that I eat,

1454
01:11:46,127 --> 01:11:48,391
it's always eat and run.

1455
01:11:48,434 --> 01:11:50,654
[audience laughing]

1456
01:11:50,697 --> 01:11:52,133
No, it's true.

1457
01:11:52,177 --> 01:11:54,962
Also, we feature things
like tacos and enchiladas,

1458
01:11:55,006 --> 01:11:55,963
tamales, and so on.

1459
01:11:56,007 --> 01:11:57,530
- Good American meals.

1460
01:11:57,574 --> 01:12:00,446
- We're doing so great, my
manager wants to franchise me.

1461
01:12:00,490 --> 01:12:02,666
- Trini Lopez, franchise.

1462
01:12:02,709 --> 01:12:03,841
I think that'd be
a little difficult

1463
01:12:03,884 --> 01:12:06,452
because there's
really only one Trini.

1464
01:12:06,496 --> 01:12:09,586
[instrumental music]

1465
01:12:15,853 --> 01:12:19,073
- [TV Host] You better explain
to the audience that beard,

1466
01:12:19,117 --> 01:12:21,424
because you look a little poor.

1467
01:12:21,467 --> 01:12:22,860
[Trini laughing]

1468
01:12:22,903 --> 01:12:24,035
It's for a "Dirty
Dozen," isn't it?

1469
01:12:24,078 --> 01:12:25,819
- It's for "The
Dirty Dozen" and we-

1470
01:12:25,863 --> 01:12:26,690
- [TV Host] Your first movie?

1471
01:12:26,733 --> 01:12:27,995
- My first picture.

1472
01:12:28,039 --> 01:12:28,909
- [TV Host] Wow.

1473
01:12:28,953 --> 01:12:30,128
- And we have to grow a beard

1474
01:12:30,171 --> 01:12:32,826
to sort of look dirty, you know?

1475
01:12:32,870 --> 01:12:34,437
- [TV Host] Yeah.

1476
01:12:34,480 --> 01:12:36,569
- And so I started growing
up for about five days.

1477
01:12:36,613 --> 01:12:37,701
- [TV Host] Which number
are you, if there's 12?

1478
01:12:37,744 --> 01:12:39,006
- I don't know what number I am.

1479
01:12:39,050 --> 01:12:40,486
- [TV Host] You're
dirty five, dirty six?

1480
01:12:40,530 --> 01:12:41,748
- Nobody's ever asked me that.

1481
01:12:41,792 --> 01:12:42,967
- [TV Host] Yeah.

1482
01:12:43,010 --> 01:12:43,837
- I'm just one of 'em,
that's all I know.

1483
01:12:43,881 --> 01:12:44,577
- [TV Host] What's it about?

1484
01:12:44,621 --> 01:12:46,536
[lion roaring]

1485
01:12:46,579 --> 01:12:48,015
- [Announcer] "The Dirty Dozen."

1486
01:12:48,059 --> 01:12:48,842
[guns firing]

1487
01:12:48,886 --> 01:12:49,843
[explosion]

1488
01:12:49,887 --> 01:12:52,455
[dramatic orchestral music]

1489
01:12:52,498 --> 01:12:53,804
- All the guys were great.

1490
01:12:53,847 --> 01:12:56,502
Lee Marvin, Telly
Savalas, Charles Bronson.

1491
01:12:58,069 --> 01:13:00,637
[guns firing]

1492
01:13:03,944 --> 01:13:05,511
John Cassavetes, yeah.

1493
01:13:05,555 --> 01:13:07,861
I used to play football
with him between takes.

1494
01:13:07,905 --> 01:13:09,776
Jim Brown, he was my roommate.

1495
01:13:10,777 --> 01:13:12,170
- I knew his music,

1496
01:13:12,213 --> 01:13:17,044
I knew he was a pretty
popular artist at the time.

1497
01:13:17,088 --> 01:13:20,874
♪ As sure as you are born

1498
01:13:20,918 --> 01:13:25,923
♪ The bramble bush will stick
you with it's prickly thorn ♪

1499
01:13:27,228 --> 01:13:32,408
♪ And the pretty girl
is like a bramble bush ♪

1500
01:13:33,757 --> 01:13:37,108
♪ Yes, a pretty girl will
thrill you very much ♪

1501
01:13:37,151 --> 01:13:42,156
- Trini was like more
popular than any of us.

1502
01:13:43,506 --> 01:13:45,072
That's why I knew
he was important

1503
01:13:45,116 --> 01:13:48,598
because he was a singer that
was known all over the world.

1504
01:13:49,947 --> 01:13:53,080
And the people responded to
him more than Lee Marvin.

1505
01:13:53,124 --> 01:13:55,126
He was a star in a certain way

1506
01:13:56,519 --> 01:13:58,129
that none of us could approach.

1507
01:13:59,609 --> 01:14:01,262
- The director, Robert Aldrich,

1508
01:14:01,306 --> 01:14:02,655
I was doing the only big scene,

1509
01:14:02,699 --> 01:14:05,745
in my appearance in
"The Dirty Dozen,"

1510
01:14:05,789 --> 01:14:07,486
I had to climb this rope.

1511
01:14:07,530 --> 01:14:11,925
I looked down and I didn't
see a safety thing, you know?

1512
01:14:11,969 --> 01:14:15,929
No couches, no
mattresses, no nothing.

1513
01:14:15,973 --> 01:14:17,931
And it was a pretty high.

1514
01:14:17,975 --> 01:14:20,064
- Jimenez, you come
back down that rope,

1515
01:14:20,107 --> 01:14:22,632
you're going straight
back to prison.

1516
01:14:22,675 --> 01:14:23,807
- I can't, I can't.

1517
01:14:23,850 --> 01:14:24,895
Really, I can't.

1518
01:14:25,983 --> 01:14:27,201
- Sergeant gimme that weapon.

1519
01:14:27,245 --> 01:14:30,161
- But Robert Aldrich was
a tough guy, you know.

1520
01:14:30,204 --> 01:14:31,510
He says, "come on,
you can do it."

1521
01:14:31,554 --> 01:14:33,251
I said, "all right."

1522
01:14:33,294 --> 01:14:35,122
My adrenaline was up, you know,

1523
01:14:35,166 --> 01:14:37,777
and so thank God I
held onto that rope.

1524
01:14:37,821 --> 01:14:39,213
If I had let go.

1525
01:14:39,257 --> 01:14:41,781
[gun firing]

1526
01:14:44,175 --> 01:14:46,482
- Whoa, look at him go now.

1527
01:14:50,747 --> 01:14:52,096
- Gracias a dios.

1528
01:14:53,184 --> 01:14:55,578
- So you couldn't make it, huh?

1529
01:14:55,621 --> 01:14:58,189
- I think I could have
maybe broken my neck.

1530
01:14:59,625 --> 01:15:00,757
[Trini laughing]

1531
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:02,672
My contract was
for three months.

1532
01:15:02,715 --> 01:15:07,111
So now I'm in England and we're
shooting all over England,

1533
01:15:07,154 --> 01:15:08,765
and now it's seven months later,

1534
01:15:08,808 --> 01:15:11,594
and the movie is not
even half completed

1535
01:15:11,637 --> 01:15:13,639
because of the bloody
weather in England.

1536
01:15:13,683 --> 01:15:17,991
So Sinatra at that
time, married Mia Farrow

1537
01:15:18,035 --> 01:15:20,298
and then the next day
they flew to London,

1538
01:15:20,341 --> 01:15:22,343
and that night he
invited me to dinner.

1539
01:15:22,387 --> 01:15:25,172
Just me and him and
my manager and Mia.

1540
01:15:25,216 --> 01:15:26,696
He says, "By the way,

1541
01:15:26,739 --> 01:15:30,003
I understand your movie is
running really late, my movie."

1542
01:15:31,178 --> 01:15:33,267
And I said, yeah.

1543
01:15:33,311 --> 01:15:34,747
I said, "how did you know?"

1544
01:15:34,791 --> 01:15:36,575
He said, "I know."

1545
01:15:36,619 --> 01:15:37,358
He knew everything.

1546
01:15:37,402 --> 01:15:39,578
Sinatra knew everything.

1547
01:15:39,622 --> 01:15:41,362
[Trini laughing]

1548
01:15:41,406 --> 01:15:43,147
And he said, well, he said,

1549
01:15:43,190 --> 01:15:45,236
"I think you should
leave the movie."

1550
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:47,630
And I said, "excuse me."

1551
01:15:47,673 --> 01:15:50,328
He said, "I think you
should leave the movie."

1552
01:15:50,371 --> 01:15:53,070
And I said, "may I ask you why?"

1553
01:15:53,113 --> 01:15:55,594
He said, because, he
said it just like this,

1554
01:15:55,638 --> 01:15:58,031
"Because your career right now,

1555
01:15:58,075 --> 01:16:00,773
you're as hot as a firecracker.

1556
01:16:00,817 --> 01:16:05,343
And if you don't go back to
your fans and back to touring,

1557
01:16:05,386 --> 01:16:06,823
they'll forget about you."

1558
01:16:08,433 --> 01:16:09,869
And I said, "oh, okay."

1559
01:16:09,913 --> 01:16:12,219
There was a parachute
jump for all of us

1560
01:16:12,263 --> 01:16:15,179
to parachute towards
the German enemy lines.

1561
01:16:15,222 --> 01:16:17,616
As I was coming down
in the parachute,

1562
01:16:17,660 --> 01:16:19,357
I broke my neck on a lemon tree.

1563
01:16:21,011 --> 01:16:24,231
[Trini laughing]

1564
01:16:24,275 --> 01:16:25,668
I'm kidding.

1565
01:16:25,711 --> 01:16:28,845
[Trini laughing]

1566
01:16:28,888 --> 01:16:33,589
- I remember the lines
almost said, where's Jimenez?

1567
01:16:35,982 --> 01:16:40,987
I think Lee Marvin and
someone said, where's Jimenez?

1568
01:16:42,119 --> 01:16:43,816
He's back there,
they broke his neck

1569
01:16:43,860 --> 01:16:45,949
or something to that effect.

1570
01:16:45,992 --> 01:16:47,864
- Where the hell have you
been, we're six minutes late.

1571
01:16:47,907 --> 01:16:49,300
- We've been
looking for Jimenez.

1572
01:16:49,343 --> 01:16:50,693
- And?

1573
01:16:50,736 --> 01:16:52,390
- We found him hung
up in an apple tree.

1574
01:16:52,433 --> 01:16:54,261
- His neck's broken.

1575
01:16:54,305 --> 01:16:57,003
- So they got rid of
him by killing him,

1576
01:16:58,309 --> 01:16:59,615
and then he could leave.

1577
01:17:00,964 --> 01:17:03,009
- He got three attorneys
to get me off the movie.

1578
01:17:03,053 --> 01:17:04,837
- [Soldier 1] You
mean he's dead?

1579
01:17:04,881 --> 01:17:06,926
- [Soldier 2] That's
exactly what I mean.

1580
01:17:09,015 --> 01:17:11,670
- [Trini] Charles Bronson,
he came up to me and he said,

1581
01:17:11,714 --> 01:17:14,717
Trini, man, is this, you
ought to think about this.

1582
01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:16,414
This is gonna be a
big movie, Trini.

1583
01:17:16,457 --> 01:17:18,764
- Trini came to the
screening that night,

1584
01:17:19,504 --> 01:17:21,332
even though he was done.

1585
01:17:21,375 --> 01:17:22,376
And he looked at the picture

1586
01:17:22,420 --> 01:17:24,117
and he said, oh shit,

1587
01:17:24,161 --> 01:17:26,337
Mister Aldrich, I
would like to come back

1588
01:17:27,730 --> 01:17:30,733
and play this and
finish the role.

1589
01:17:30,776 --> 01:17:33,692
And Bob Aldrich said, you're
hanging in a tree, Trini,

1590
01:17:34,737 --> 01:17:36,086
you're outta here.

1591
01:17:36,129 --> 01:17:37,914
- And so I had a big part
at the end of the movie,

1592
01:17:37,957 --> 01:17:39,959
a hero's part,

1593
01:17:40,003 --> 01:17:41,961
but I didn't get a
chance to complete it,

1594
01:17:42,005 --> 01:17:43,397
but that's okay.

1595
01:17:43,441 --> 01:17:46,313
- Trini was recording
usually four albums a year.

1596
01:17:47,445 --> 01:17:49,882
Sinatra was losing money.

1597
01:17:49,926 --> 01:17:51,405
That's why he wanted him off.

1598
01:17:53,756 --> 01:17:54,495
- Yeah, I enjoyed it.

1599
01:17:54,539 --> 01:17:55,888
I had a good time.

1600
01:17:55,932 --> 01:17:58,151
Now the movie comes
out, it's a big hit.

1601
01:17:58,195 --> 01:18:02,416
[rock and roll guitar music]

1602
01:18:02,460 --> 01:18:05,071
And I'm in Beverly Hills
getting into my car.

1603
01:18:05,115 --> 01:18:07,204
Jack Palance was
waiting for his car,

1604
01:18:07,247 --> 01:18:08,161
and he came up to me.

1605
01:18:08,205 --> 01:18:09,728
I never met him before.

1606
01:18:09,772 --> 01:18:11,991
Big, tall guy, he says,

1607
01:18:12,035 --> 01:18:14,472
"You shouldn't have
done The Dirty Dozen,"

1608
01:18:14,515 --> 01:18:15,386
with a big voice.

1609
01:18:16,648 --> 01:18:19,346
And I looked at him,
I said, "why is that?"

1610
01:18:19,390 --> 01:18:21,479
He said, because I
was supposed to have

1611
01:18:21,522 --> 01:18:23,176
the part of Telly Savalas

1612
01:18:23,220 --> 01:18:25,352
but I didn't like
being prejudiced

1613
01:18:25,396 --> 01:18:28,486
against Jim Brown
'cause he was black.

1614
01:18:28,529 --> 01:18:29,356
Yeah.

1615
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:30,270
- Sir.

1616
01:18:33,883 --> 01:18:35,841
Do we have to eat
with [beeping]?

1617
01:18:38,104 --> 01:18:39,497
- He said, I turned
that movie down

1618
01:18:39,540 --> 01:18:42,848
'cause I didn't wanna
do that to Jim Brown.

1619
01:18:42,892 --> 01:18:46,199
I said, well, I can
understand that, you know.

1620
01:18:46,243 --> 01:18:47,418
Yeah.

1621
01:18:47,461 --> 01:18:49,376
And I had a big,
Dirty Dozen party

1622
01:18:49,420 --> 01:18:51,117
at my penthouse
in Beverly Hills.

1623
01:18:51,161 --> 01:18:53,032
I used to invite five,
six hundred people.

1624
01:18:53,076 --> 01:18:54,773
Lee Marvin was there,

1625
01:18:54,817 --> 01:18:57,515
and so the toughest
guy in The Dirty Dozen,

1626
01:18:57,558 --> 01:19:00,083
Charles Branson and
his wife, Jill Ireland,

1627
01:19:00,126 --> 01:19:03,216
and he looked at me
one particular time
during the party,

1628
01:19:03,260 --> 01:19:05,871
he said, "Trini, why haven't
you done any more acting?"

1629
01:19:05,915 --> 01:19:09,092
I said, "Oh Charles,
I said, oh God."

1630
01:19:09,135 --> 01:19:11,050
I said, "I wish, I
wish I could have."

1631
01:19:11,094 --> 01:19:12,617
He said, "Well, why didn't you?"

1632
01:19:12,660 --> 01:19:16,099
- Trini idolized Sinatra and
Sinatra told him to do that,

1633
01:19:16,142 --> 01:19:17,013
he did it.

1634
01:19:18,318 --> 01:19:20,799
But I think if he had stayed,

1635
01:19:22,018 --> 01:19:23,976
he could have been
in more movies.

1636
01:19:24,020 --> 01:19:26,065
- You know, when you're making
a movie, you don't leave.

1637
01:19:26,109 --> 01:19:27,458
[Jim laughing]

1638
01:19:27,501 --> 01:19:29,808
That's one of the laws
of being an actor,

1639
01:19:29,852 --> 01:19:33,856
and so I retired on the
set of "The Dirty Dozen."

1640
01:19:33,899 --> 01:19:38,469
Called a press conference
and announced my retirement.

1641
01:19:38,512 --> 01:19:41,167
- "I know that everybody
wants to be in the movies."

1642
01:19:41,211 --> 01:19:43,996
I said that to
Charles, and it's true,

1643
01:19:44,040 --> 01:19:46,303
everybody wants to
be in the movies.

1644
01:19:46,346 --> 01:19:48,000
And I said, it's tough.

1645
01:19:48,044 --> 01:19:50,786
It's tough for me to, because
I'm a singer and so on.

1646
01:19:57,488 --> 01:20:00,230
I was at a real popular
nightclub in Hollywood

1647
01:20:00,273 --> 01:20:01,971
called The Factory.

1648
01:20:02,014 --> 01:20:03,581
Bullets and I went,

1649
01:20:03,624 --> 01:20:06,497
and Bullets was about three,
four feet from me and he went.

1650
01:20:09,108 --> 01:20:12,416
And this guy turns around
and it was Steve McQueen.

1651
01:20:12,459 --> 01:20:15,245
And he was already the hottest
thing in the world, you know.

1652
01:20:15,288 --> 01:20:17,290
I said, "Steve,
how you doing man?"

1653
01:20:17,334 --> 01:20:19,162
He didn't say hello.

1654
01:20:19,205 --> 01:20:22,426
He said, "Trini saw
you in The Dirty Dozen,

1655
01:20:22,469 --> 01:20:23,340
and you were great."

1656
01:20:24,994 --> 01:20:27,213
And I said, "Steve, I
didn't do anything."

1657
01:20:27,257 --> 01:20:30,651
He said, "Yeah, but
what you did was great."

1658
01:20:30,695 --> 01:20:33,872
BB King was doing a show
at the Caesars Palace.

1659
01:20:33,916 --> 01:20:37,310
I used to listen to his music
when I was a kid like crazy.

1660
01:20:37,354 --> 01:20:39,182
So we got a real nice booth,

1661
01:20:39,225 --> 01:20:41,488
and then he stopped in the
middle of his performance.

1662
01:20:41,532 --> 01:20:44,143
He said, "Everybody, I like
for you to please join me

1663
01:20:44,187 --> 01:20:48,147
in a big round of applause
for a very great actor."

1664
01:20:48,191 --> 01:20:50,846
And I went like this,
I said, "I wonder who."

1665
01:20:52,369 --> 01:20:55,328
"Join me in a big
round of applause for
Mister Trini Lopez."

1666
01:20:56,590 --> 01:20:59,942
[audience applauding]

1667
01:21:01,987 --> 01:21:04,598
- [TV Host] So are you planning
any straight dramatic roles?

1668
01:21:04,642 --> 01:21:06,165
- Yes, I am.

1669
01:21:06,209 --> 01:21:09,081
I have three particular
pictures they want me for,

1670
01:21:09,125 --> 01:21:11,344
and I'm hoping that they will be

1671
01:21:11,388 --> 01:21:12,955
the kind of picture
that I wanna do.

1672
01:21:12,998 --> 01:21:14,391
I have been turning down a
lot of different scripts,

1673
01:21:14,434 --> 01:21:16,219
you know, the
bikini beach things,

1674
01:21:16,262 --> 01:21:17,437
which I don't like at all.

1675
01:21:17,481 --> 01:21:18,656
- [TV Host] Is that
hard to find, you know,

1676
01:21:18,699 --> 01:21:20,266
pretty good scripts
in films today?

1677
01:21:20,310 --> 01:21:21,833
- [Trini] That's the
secret of the whole thing.

1678
01:21:21,877 --> 01:21:24,967
It's like finding a good,
the material for a good song.

1679
01:21:25,010 --> 01:21:26,229
- He turned down
Warner Brothers,

1680
01:21:26,272 --> 01:21:27,708
he turned down United,

1681
01:21:27,752 --> 01:21:30,102
he turned out Universal Studios,

1682
01:21:30,146 --> 01:21:32,017
and he got out of
The Dirty Dozen.

1683
01:21:32,061 --> 01:21:34,019
I think that was
part of the reason

1684
01:21:34,063 --> 01:21:36,239
he didn't get offered
a lot of movies,

1685
01:21:36,282 --> 01:21:39,633
because he, you
know, bottom line,

1686
01:21:39,677 --> 01:21:41,287
they couldn't depend on him.

1687
01:21:41,331 --> 01:21:44,551
- People don't realize that he
was selected in those movies.

1688
01:21:44,595 --> 01:21:45,552
- Buenos dias, Major.

1689
01:21:45,596 --> 01:21:47,946
- Not just by chance.

1690
01:21:47,990 --> 01:21:49,165
- This here's your weapon.

1691
01:21:50,688 --> 01:21:53,909
And we begin with fingering,
your basic D seven chord.

1692
01:21:55,214 --> 01:21:57,956
- Go back to charisma,
which is a God given thing.

1693
01:21:58,000 --> 01:21:59,436
- What's the beef
this time father?

1694
01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:00,437
- Who knows?

1695
01:22:00,480 --> 01:22:02,134
Today with all the frustrations,

1696
01:22:02,178 --> 01:22:05,007
it takes very little to set
some of our young Chicanos off.

1697
01:22:05,050 --> 01:22:07,313
- That charisma
transcended on film.

1698
01:22:07,357 --> 01:22:08,662
- You know what's
wrong with you, man?

1699
01:22:08,706 --> 01:22:10,273
You're chicken!

1700
01:22:10,316 --> 01:22:14,016
- Those directors knew that
there was something about him.

1701
01:22:14,059 --> 01:22:17,628
There was something about
his mannerisms that worked.

1702
01:22:18,759 --> 01:22:20,196
- We found out everything.

1703
01:22:21,284 --> 01:22:24,983
[instrumental music]

1704
01:22:25,027 --> 01:22:26,245
- Do you mind?

1705
01:22:26,289 --> 01:22:27,290
- Oh, go ahead.

1706
01:22:28,639 --> 01:22:30,684
There are police all
throughout the show, okay.

1707
01:22:30,728 --> 01:22:33,731
[audience applauding]

1708
01:22:33,774 --> 01:22:34,950
- Thank you.

1709
01:22:37,213 --> 01:22:39,084
[audience applauding]

1710
01:22:39,128 --> 01:22:40,433
I did another movie later,

1711
01:22:40,477 --> 01:22:42,479
the movie was called "Antonio,"

1712
01:22:42,522 --> 01:22:44,437
and I was Antonio in the movie

1713
01:22:44,481 --> 01:22:46,309
and my co-star was Larry Hagman.

1714
01:22:46,352 --> 01:22:49,051
We went to Chile for
two and a half months,

1715
01:22:49,094 --> 01:22:51,053
and Larry was really,
really something.

1716
01:22:51,096 --> 01:22:54,621
His routine was every morning,
first thing in the morning,

1717
01:22:54,665 --> 01:22:57,624
beer, and then wine,

1718
01:22:57,668 --> 01:22:59,452
and then after lunch,

1719
01:22:59,496 --> 01:23:03,108
smoking, and then
marijuana, and then cocaine.

1720
01:23:03,152 --> 01:23:06,416
Every day, man, every day.

1721
01:23:06,459 --> 01:23:09,462
- Mister Hunter, please,
don't do this to me, please!

1722
01:23:09,506 --> 01:23:11,116
- I already did.

1723
01:23:11,160 --> 01:23:14,685
[Trini singing in Spanish]

1724
01:23:22,258 --> 01:23:23,781
- We finished the movie,

1725
01:23:23,824 --> 01:23:26,697
and so now I'm
watching TV one night

1726
01:23:26,740 --> 01:23:28,481
in my penthouse in LA

1727
01:23:28,525 --> 01:23:30,222
[Trini laughing]

1728
01:23:30,266 --> 01:23:31,658
and Larry Hagman,

1729
01:23:31,702 --> 01:23:33,486
- Help your friends find
something better to do

1730
01:23:33,530 --> 01:23:35,358
with these two fingers
than hold a cigarette.

1731
01:23:35,401 --> 01:23:38,056
After a whole day without
one, they can do this.

1732
01:23:38,100 --> 01:23:39,231
[Larry laughing]

1733
01:23:39,275 --> 01:23:41,277
- Like he was an
anti-smoker, get it?

1734
01:23:43,366 --> 01:23:46,151
And then I did a Movie of
the Week for Aaron Spelling.

1735
01:23:47,283 --> 01:23:49,111
- You better not give
range coordinates,

1736
01:23:49,154 --> 01:23:51,461
just tell 'em to fire
forward on the hill,

1737
01:23:51,504 --> 01:23:52,331
and you're correct.

1738
01:23:52,375 --> 01:23:53,245
- Right.

1739
01:23:53,289 --> 01:23:54,812
- And I played a GI, yeah.

1740
01:23:54,855 --> 01:23:56,335
And that was it for me.

1741
01:23:57,467 --> 01:23:58,946
- [Hostess] Beginning
of your career,

1742
01:23:58,990 --> 01:24:01,514
when did you know when you
picked up a guitar, this was it.

1743
01:24:01,558 --> 01:24:03,212
- Oh, from the very beginning,

1744
01:24:03,255 --> 01:24:06,737
after my father bought
me a $12 guitar.

1745
01:24:06,780 --> 01:24:10,784
And just by coincidence it
happened to be a Gibson guitar,

1746
01:24:10,828 --> 01:24:12,090
and a Gibson guitar is like

1747
01:24:12,134 --> 01:24:14,223
the Rolls Royce of an
automobile, you know?

1748
01:24:14,266 --> 01:24:18,140
So I, never did I
dream that one day

1749
01:24:18,183 --> 01:24:23,188
I would be endorsing and
designing two Gibson guitars.

1750
01:24:23,797 --> 01:24:27,279
[audience applauding]

1751
01:24:27,323 --> 01:24:30,543
- In 1964, Gibson came
to Trini and said,

1752
01:24:30,587 --> 01:24:32,719
we want you to design
two guitars for us,

1753
01:24:32,763 --> 01:24:35,113
'cause he was such a big star.

1754
01:24:35,157 --> 01:24:39,117
So he started out with the
Barney Kessel style body,

1755
01:24:39,161 --> 01:24:41,424
he was playing a Barney
Kessel at the time,

1756
01:24:41,467 --> 01:24:43,730
and that's a thick body guitar.

1757
01:24:43,774 --> 01:24:46,429
And so he did some of his
own design work to that.

1758
01:24:46,472 --> 01:24:48,605
He put the diamond
shaped D holes on it,

1759
01:24:48,648 --> 01:24:49,910
which had never
been done before.

1760
01:24:49,954 --> 01:24:52,217
That's a total
invention of Trini's

1761
01:24:52,261 --> 01:24:54,089
being the style
meister that he was.

1762
01:24:56,308 --> 01:24:57,744
At the time,

1763
01:24:57,788 --> 01:24:59,833
all head stocks on Gibson
guitars looked like this.

1764
01:24:59,877 --> 01:25:01,792
This is what we call
three on a side,

1765
01:25:01,835 --> 01:25:04,882
one, two, three,
one, two, three.

1766
01:25:04,925 --> 01:25:07,580
And he came up with a jazzy idea

1767
01:25:07,624 --> 01:25:10,192
to put all the
tuners on one side,

1768
01:25:10,235 --> 01:25:12,455
to make it look more

1769
01:25:12,498 --> 01:25:15,675
like the popular fender
guitars of the day.

1770
01:25:15,719 --> 01:25:18,287
At the time surf music
was getting popular

1771
01:25:18,330 --> 01:25:20,463
and this is a Gibson Firebird.

1772
01:25:20,506 --> 01:25:22,465
They were trying to
appeal to a rock audience.

1773
01:25:22,508 --> 01:25:24,597
So they thought by turning
that headstock over,

1774
01:25:24,641 --> 01:25:26,425
they would attract
the rock players.

1775
01:25:26,469 --> 01:25:29,167
Of course, that
didn't really work.

1776
01:25:29,211 --> 01:25:31,256
What did work was
when they said to him,

1777
01:25:31,300 --> 01:25:34,259
we want you to design a
guitar for the rock guys,

1778
01:25:34,303 --> 01:25:36,174
and that's the Trini standard.

1779
01:25:36,218 --> 01:25:38,437
And this is what we
call a thin line guitar.

1780
01:25:38,481 --> 01:25:41,353
Much thinner than the
jazz thickness that we saw

1781
01:25:41,397 --> 01:25:43,529
on that Barney Kessel guitar.

1782
01:25:43,573 --> 01:25:45,792
Well, one of the things
that he masterminded

1783
01:25:45,836 --> 01:25:47,577
was playing the guitar down low.

1784
01:25:47,620 --> 01:25:49,013
Up to that point,

1785
01:25:49,056 --> 01:25:53,191
everybody played their
guitars up here, even Elvis.

1786
01:25:53,235 --> 01:25:55,454
And he came up with the idea,

1787
01:25:55,498 --> 01:25:59,458
put that guitar down
here, where it counts.

1788
01:26:04,376 --> 01:26:05,986
- This guitar, I've made

1789
01:26:06,030 --> 01:26:09,207
every single Foo Fighter's
record with, this one.

1790
01:26:09,251 --> 01:26:11,818
This is a fucking
beautiful guitar.

1791
01:26:11,862 --> 01:26:14,952
I saw this in a guitar
shop in Bethesda, Maryland.

1792
01:26:14,995 --> 01:26:18,477
I think it was 1992 or '93
or something like that.

1793
01:26:18,521 --> 01:26:20,305
I think I was still in
Nirvana when I bought it.

1794
01:26:20,349 --> 01:26:21,480
I thought it was unusual.

1795
01:26:21,524 --> 01:26:24,527
It looks like a Gibson ES-335,

1796
01:26:24,570 --> 01:26:26,311
except it has
diamond-shaped F holes

1797
01:26:26,355 --> 01:26:27,965
and it has this different
headstock on it.

1798
01:26:28,008 --> 01:26:29,314
And I didn't really
know anything

1799
01:26:29,358 --> 01:26:31,403
about Trini Lopez, the
artist when I bought it,

1800
01:26:31,447 --> 01:26:34,885
but this fucking thing,

1801
01:26:34,928 --> 01:26:37,279
this is the sound of the
Foo Fighters, this guitar.

1802
01:26:37,322 --> 01:26:39,890
On every record, I
might use other guitars

1803
01:26:39,933 --> 01:26:41,283
every now and then,

1804
01:26:41,326 --> 01:26:43,850
for the most part,
it's just this.

1805
01:26:43,894 --> 01:26:46,331
- He loves my guitar.

1806
01:26:46,375 --> 01:26:49,421
There was a picture not too
long ago in a guitar magazine

1807
01:26:50,553 --> 01:26:52,555
and it's a full page
of him with my guitar

1808
01:26:52,598 --> 01:26:54,687
and he's kissing the guitar.

1809
01:26:54,731 --> 01:26:55,558
[audience laughing]

1810
01:26:55,601 --> 01:26:56,602
So he really likes it.

1811
01:26:58,474 --> 01:27:00,476
And a lot of rock
and roll groups.

1812
01:27:01,564 --> 01:27:03,087
A bunch of them.

1813
01:27:03,130 --> 01:27:05,002
- Yeah, well I'm playing a
Trini Lopez most of the time,

1814
01:27:05,045 --> 01:27:06,699
the red one is a Trini Lopez,

1815
01:27:06,743 --> 01:27:08,875
which actually Noel
Gallagher borrowed

1816
01:27:08,919 --> 01:27:10,747
for a couple of Oasis tours.

1817
01:27:10,790 --> 01:27:12,444
And on an 18-month world tour

1818
01:27:12,488 --> 01:27:13,924
followed us all the
way around the world.

1819
01:27:13,967 --> 01:27:16,535
- And people are like Paul
McCartney's guitar player,

1820
01:27:16,579 --> 01:27:17,971
I hear that he
plays my guitar too.

1821
01:27:18,015 --> 01:27:21,801
Bono's guitar player,
Bono, the singer,

1822
01:27:21,845 --> 01:27:24,500
and Sting's guitar player.

1823
01:27:24,543 --> 01:27:25,457
Uh-huh.

1824
01:27:25,501 --> 01:27:26,893
And all kinds of other people

1825
01:27:26,937 --> 01:27:28,678
that I can't even
think of right now.

1826
01:27:30,810 --> 01:27:33,378
- Trini we need to
give you a guitar.

1827
01:27:33,422 --> 01:27:35,728
- All right, all right.

1828
01:27:35,772 --> 01:27:39,950
[audience applauding
and cheering]

1829
01:27:44,433 --> 01:27:48,524
- This is the only white
Trini Lopez in existence

1830
01:27:50,526 --> 01:27:51,831
[audience applauding
and cheering]

1831
01:27:51,875 --> 01:27:55,270
for the only Trini Lopez
that we'll ever have.

1832
01:27:57,359 --> 01:27:58,403
- I hope so.

1833
01:27:58,447 --> 01:27:59,361
- Please give it up once again

1834
01:27:59,404 --> 01:28:01,928
for the legendary Trini Lopez.

1835
01:28:01,972 --> 01:28:03,060
[instrumental music]

1836
01:28:03,103 --> 01:28:04,583
[audience applauding
and cheering]

1837
01:28:04,627 --> 01:28:07,978
- All right everybody,
let's go to Kansas City.

1838
01:28:08,021 --> 01:28:09,371
- You know, we
were focusing a bit

1839
01:28:09,414 --> 01:28:11,068
on the Trini Lopez guitar.

1840
01:28:11,111 --> 01:28:12,765
I've been playing one for years.

1841
01:28:12,809 --> 01:28:14,767
So I said, hey Donnie, bring
your Trini Lopez guitar,

1842
01:28:14,811 --> 01:28:17,814
we'll just put it up on stage,
maybe something will happen.

1843
01:28:19,119 --> 01:28:22,471
And so the Reverend Billy
F. Gibbons from ZZ Top

1844
01:28:22,514 --> 01:28:24,951
showed up and he got up and
did a couple numbers with us.

1845
01:28:24,995 --> 01:28:27,824
♪ I'm going to Kansas City

1846
01:28:27,867 --> 01:28:30,783
♪ Here I come

1847
01:28:30,827 --> 01:28:35,832
♪ I'm going to Kansas
City, I'm on my way ♪

1848
01:28:37,181 --> 01:28:39,357
♪ Got lots of crazy
little women there ♪

1849
01:28:39,401 --> 01:28:41,533
♪ And I'm gonna get me one

1850
01:28:41,577 --> 01:28:43,448
- Listen, if we could
find a Trini Gibson,

1851
01:28:43,492 --> 01:28:46,712
we'd play it all night
long, all day and all night.

1852
01:28:49,846 --> 01:28:54,851
♪ Standing on the corner
of 12th Street and Vine ♪

1853
01:28:56,026 --> 01:28:57,767
♪ With my Kansas City
baby and my bottle ♪

1854
01:28:57,810 --> 01:29:01,510
♪ Of Kansas City wine

1855
01:29:01,553 --> 01:29:04,817
♪ Well, I might take a
train, I might take a plane ♪

1856
01:29:04,861 --> 01:29:05,992
♪ But if I have to walk

1857
01:29:06,036 --> 01:29:08,430
♪ I'm gonna fly
there just the same ♪

1858
01:29:08,473 --> 01:29:11,520
[instrumental music]

1859
01:29:13,826 --> 01:29:15,480
- Well, it was a
very special thing.

1860
01:29:15,524 --> 01:29:17,700
Gibson was not implying to do

1861
01:29:17,743 --> 01:29:19,963
too many personalized
instruments.

1862
01:29:20,006 --> 01:29:22,705
They had a very select group
of professional players,

1863
01:29:22,748 --> 01:29:25,882
great stars that made the
guitar really what it was.

1864
01:29:25,925 --> 01:29:27,666
And of course, when Trini
came out with his instrument,

1865
01:29:27,710 --> 01:29:29,712
it shot to the top.

1866
01:29:29,755 --> 01:29:30,713
Way to go, Trini.

1867
01:29:32,149 --> 01:29:33,890
♪ They've got some crazy
little women there ♪

1868
01:29:33,933 --> 01:29:36,893
♪ And I'm gonna get me one

1869
01:29:36,936 --> 01:29:38,024
Do it, do it.

1870
01:29:38,068 --> 01:29:41,071
[instrumental music]

1871
01:30:07,750 --> 01:30:08,577
Play it.

1872
01:30:15,279 --> 01:30:17,194
One more time.

1873
01:30:17,237 --> 01:30:20,502
[instrumental music]

1874
01:31:43,846 --> 01:31:46,022
Can I hear you join in?

1875
01:31:46,065 --> 01:31:49,155
[instrumental music]

1876
01:32:21,361 --> 01:32:26,541
♪ Standing on the
corner, with my wine ♪

1877
01:32:27,890 --> 01:32:32,242
♪ Standing on the corner,
12th Street and Vine ♪

1878
01:32:33,417 --> 01:32:34,810
♪ They got some crazy
little women there ♪

1879
01:32:34,853 --> 01:32:37,073
♪ And I'm gonna get me one

1880
01:32:37,116 --> 01:32:38,857
All right everybody.

1881
01:32:39,728 --> 01:32:40,685
I need you!

1882
01:32:41,947 --> 01:32:44,036
I want you to help me.

1883
01:32:44,080 --> 01:32:46,038
Help sing this song.

1884
01:32:46,082 --> 01:32:49,215
You're a great audience
and I know you can sing.

1885
01:32:49,259 --> 01:32:50,739
So get ready.

1886
01:32:50,782 --> 01:32:53,829
[instrumental music]

1887
01:33:09,409 --> 01:33:10,367
♪ Crazy little women there

1888
01:33:10,410 --> 01:33:13,631
♪ And I'm gonna get me one

1889
01:33:13,675 --> 01:33:16,765
[instrumental music]

1890
01:33:20,377 --> 01:33:25,251
[audience applauding
and cheering]

1891
01:33:25,295 --> 01:33:29,255
- [Audience] Trini! Trini!
Trini! Trini! Trini! Trini!

1892
01:33:31,736 --> 01:33:34,130
- I will say when he
hit it really big,

1893
01:33:34,173 --> 01:33:35,348
the first thing he did

1894
01:33:35,392 --> 01:33:36,349
and he always said
he was gonna do this,

1895
01:33:36,393 --> 01:33:39,048
he bought his parents a home,

1896
01:33:39,091 --> 01:33:40,919
bought his parents a new car,

1897
01:33:40,963 --> 01:33:44,140
this big, beautiful
Cadillac Fleetwood.

1898
01:33:44,183 --> 01:33:46,229
And I was like, oh my God,

1899
01:33:46,272 --> 01:33:48,971
what an uncle to do
this for his parents.

1900
01:33:49,014 --> 01:33:50,276
He did what he wanted to do.

1901
01:33:50,320 --> 01:33:52,061
He did what he said.

1902
01:33:52,104 --> 01:33:53,976
- Even though they
were very poor,

1903
01:33:54,019 --> 01:33:55,717
they were very rich

1904
01:33:55,760 --> 01:34:00,286
because they were just
very special people.

1905
01:34:00,330 --> 01:34:01,810
They were very special.

1906
01:34:01,853 --> 01:34:05,248
They had the gift
that God gave them,

1907
01:34:05,291 --> 01:34:08,904
which was to be
thoughtful, to be kind.

1908
01:34:08,947 --> 01:34:12,995
So my parents are really,
really nice, nice people.

1909
01:34:13,038 --> 01:34:14,953
My favorite saying
that I have to,

1910
01:34:14,997 --> 01:34:17,086
I have to say it right
now 'cause I feel it.

1911
01:34:17,129 --> 01:34:20,132
My favorite saying
in the whole world is

1912
01:34:20,176 --> 01:34:23,396
it's nice to be important,

1913
01:34:23,440 --> 01:34:26,095
but it's more
important to be nice.

1914
01:34:27,923 --> 01:34:30,316
- A week before he became ill,

1915
01:34:30,360 --> 01:34:31,970
I had written
everything and I said,

1916
01:34:32,014 --> 01:34:36,322
honey, is there anything
you wanna say personally?

1917
01:34:36,366 --> 01:34:40,762
And he said, you know,
I have completed,

1918
01:34:40,805 --> 01:34:43,939
I have achieved all my wishes,

1919
01:34:43,982 --> 01:34:45,462
all my desires,

1920
01:34:45,505 --> 01:34:46,985
all my goals.

1921
01:34:47,029 --> 01:34:48,770
I've done it all.

1922
01:34:48,813 --> 01:34:51,990
I think it must be time
to start new goals.

1923
01:34:53,078 --> 01:34:55,690
[somber music]

1924
01:34:56,821 --> 01:34:58,780
Personally, I think God said,

1925
01:34:58,823 --> 01:35:01,347
no, Trini, it's
time to come home.

1926
01:35:05,395 --> 01:35:10,400
♪ Michael, row the boat ashore

1927
01:35:11,227 --> 01:35:16,232
♪ Hallelujah

1928
01:35:17,189 --> 01:35:22,064
♪ Michael, row the boat ashore

1929
01:35:23,805 --> 01:35:26,242
♪ Hallelujah

1930
01:35:33,423 --> 01:35:34,859
- He was my whole world.

1931
01:35:35,947 --> 01:35:36,992
He was my life.

1932
01:35:45,174 --> 01:35:47,829
[guitar music]

1933
01:35:49,918 --> 01:35:54,879
[The Right To Rock by
Trini Lopez playing]

1934
01:35:57,099 --> 01:36:00,015
♪ Read the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights ♪

1935
01:36:00,058 --> 01:36:02,887
♪ It's all down there
in black and white ♪

1936
01:36:02,931 --> 01:36:05,803
♪ It ain't wrong to rock,
you've a right to roll ♪

1937
01:36:05,847 --> 01:36:08,893
♪ Let's bop baby, let's
rock baby, go, go, go ♪

1938
01:36:08,937 --> 01:36:12,027
♪ 'Cause we've got a right

1939
01:36:12,070 --> 01:36:14,986
♪ The right to roll

1940
01:36:15,030 --> 01:36:17,859
♪ Right to rock, right to roll

1941
01:36:17,902 --> 01:36:22,907
♪ Rock, rock, rock and roll

1942
01:36:24,126 --> 01:36:27,042
♪ Read the Constitution
and the Golden Rule ♪

1943
01:36:27,085 --> 01:36:29,827
♪ I'm a real gone Willie
and I'm nobody's fool ♪

1944
01:36:29,871 --> 01:36:32,917
♪ It ain't wrong to rock
we've got a right to roll ♪

1945
01:36:32,961 --> 01:36:35,964
♪ Bop bop baby, rock
rock baby, make it cool ♪

1946
01:36:36,007 --> 01:36:37,313
♪ We've got a right

1947
01:36:37,356 --> 01:36:41,883
♪ Yeah yeah yeah
the right to roll ♪

1948
01:36:41,926 --> 01:36:44,929
♪ Right to rock and
a right to roll ♪

1949
01:36:44,973 --> 01:36:49,978
♪ Rock rock rock and roll

1950
01:36:51,196 --> 01:36:53,895
♪ Read the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights ♪

1951
01:36:53,938 --> 01:36:56,636
♪ I need your honey
loving, I need it tonight ♪

1952
01:36:56,680 --> 01:36:59,988
♪ It ain't wrong to rock,
we've got a right to roll ♪

1953
01:37:00,031 --> 01:37:02,947
♪ Have a ball, that's not
all, hey it's star night ♪

1954
01:37:02,991 --> 01:37:05,602
♪ We've got a right

1955
01:37:05,645 --> 01:37:08,866
♪ The right to roll

1956
01:37:08,910 --> 01:37:11,608
♪ The right to rock,
the right to roll ♪

1957
01:37:11,651 --> 01:37:15,220
♪ Rock rock rock and roll

1958
01:37:57,523 --> 01:38:00,570
♪ Read the Constitution
and the Golden Rule ♪

1959
01:38:00,613 --> 01:38:03,529
♪ I'm a real gone Willie
and nobody's fool ♪

1960
01:38:03,573 --> 01:38:06,706
♪ It ain't wrong to rock,
we've got a right to roll ♪

1961
01:38:06,750 --> 01:38:09,971
♪ Bop bop baby, rock
rock baby, make it cool ♪

1962
01:38:10,014 --> 01:38:12,582
♪ We've got a right

1963
01:38:12,625 --> 01:38:15,628
♪ To rock and roll

1964
01:38:15,672 --> 01:38:18,675
♪ Right to rock,
and a right roll ♪

1965
01:38:18,718 --> 01:38:21,678
♪ Rock rock rock and roll

1966
01:38:21,721 --> 01:38:24,986
♪ Rock rock rock and roll

1967
01:38:25,029 --> 01:38:27,727
♪ Rock rock rock and roll

1968
01:38:27,771 --> 01:38:31,427
♪ Rock rock rock and roll