2:04:02
... following suicide attempt
by ingestion of iodine.
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Time: 5 a.m., September 1, 1954.
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Patient has a past history
of nervous breakdown...
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... for which he was hospitalized
in California for 8 months.
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The wife says
this was related to depression...
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... over their daughter's death...
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... and also by reverses in,
quote, his career.
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End of quote.
2:04:29
Can't sleep either, huh?
2:04:32
Yeah, I'm giving up all my bad habits.
2:04:39
So what do you think of this...
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...Chummy Morello?
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He wants me to tour
with him and some singers.
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Chummy Morello.
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- Violet Welles.
- Who?
2:04:56
No, no. See, you don't know her.
You're too young.
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She's probably dead by now.
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But Violet...
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"The vibrant Violet of song,"
they billed her at the Apollo.
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This is the chick I was playing behind
when I found my style.
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I was just backing her up.
I didn't even have a regular gig.
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I was just washing dishes
and jamming after hours.
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Of course that's before I became...
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...the titanic commercial success
that you see sitting before you.
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That's before I captured the fancy...
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...of the adoring public.
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But I started playing these little...
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...these figures behind her, see?
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And they fit with the song...
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...but it was like
going inside the melody.