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Music meets the Mob in this biography of '60s hitmaker and 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bert Berns. | dG1fM3prWHZIVEFNTlk
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00:00The White Soul Brother, they called it. He put the soul in the music.
00:19Burt Burns, one of the greatest songwriters of all bloody time.
00:25You know, it is as simple as that.
00:27The guy was a genius.
00:28Shake it up, baby.
00:30Shake it up, baby.
00:31Twist that shot.
00:33A lot of people think we wrote it.
00:35Shake it up, baby.
00:37Shake it up, baby.
00:39Twist that shot.
00:40Once he started cutting heads, he never stopped.
00:43I'm on candy.
00:45He was the emperor of rhythm and blues.
00:47Everybody wanted Burt.
00:49I'm on candy.
00:54Heartbreak and hope and anxiety and fear.
00:57Take the tempo down a hair.
00:59It's a little too bright.
01:00And they masquerade as teenage records.
01:04This is fresh.
01:12This is hot.
01:13That just knocked him out.
01:14And he wrote great songs.
01:16And he met a man, his name was Tommy Ryan, Tommy Edward.
01:20He didn't know he was the head of the mob.
01:22What the hell are you doing with these people?
01:25Take it!
01:26Take another little piece of my heart now, baby.
01:29Hey!
01:30Break it!
01:31Man, why didn't you give us that song?
01:34Burt Burns scared important people in the record business.
01:37And they're still scared.
01:38You have got yourself into shit.
01:40You have no idea.
01:41I did it when I had to do.
01:42I did it when I had to do.
01:43I did it when I had to do.
01:49THE END
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