00:01Thank you. Thank you.
00:15We dreamers have our ways
00:19Of facing rainy days
00:22And somehow we survive
00:28We keep the feelings warm
00:32Protect them from the storm
00:35Until our time arrives
00:40Then one day the sun appears
00:46And we come shining through those lonely years
00:54I made it through the rain
01:00I kept my world protected
01:03I made it through the rain
01:07I kept my point of view
01:09I made it through the rain
01:13And found myself respected
01:17By the others who
01:20Got rained on too
01:24And made it through
01:37You know, every time I sing this song these days
01:39I think about my grandfather
01:41My grandfather was this Russian immigrant
01:44Who supported my mother, my grandmother and myself
01:47For most of his life
01:49And although I'll always be grateful to him for that
01:53The real reason that I'll never forget Grandpa
01:55Was because he was the first person in my family
01:59That actually noticed that I was musical
02:02And I don't know how he did that
02:03Because we couldn't afford an instrument or anything
02:06But Grandpa just got it
02:08He just figured out that I was a musical kid, you know
02:11And I remember that on Saturday afternoons
02:14He used to take me over the Brooklyn Bridge
02:16Into Manhattan
02:16To a little record your own voice booth
02:20That he found in Manhattan
02:21For a quarter
02:22And for a quarter
02:23And a quarter in those days was a lot of money
02:25And he used to put his quarter in
02:27And he used to try to get me to sing anything
02:29And I was so young
02:30I didn't know what he wanted me to do
02:33But the first time he did it
02:36He tried to get me to sing
02:38Happy Birthday to my cousin Dennis
02:40And I just wouldn't
02:42And we have the 78, the scratchy 78 record
02:46Hey Brian, could we play this 78 record for my friends here?
02:50All right, I have to, boy, come on
02:52That's Grandpa
02:54Sing, sing, sing
02:56I have to, boy, say
02:58Come on
02:59No, no, that's fantastic
03:01Sing it, sing it
03:03Sing it, go ahead
03:05Go ahead, sing it
03:06Come on, come on, sing it
03:09This goes on for 10 minutes
03:13He just wouldn't give up, you know
03:14And every Saturday afternoon he would take me to
03:16And try to get me to sing
03:18Eventually one Saturday afternoon
03:20I sang something for him
03:22And I liked it
03:26I did, I liked it
03:27It wasn't so much the singing
03:30Thanks
03:30It wasn't so much the singing that I liked
03:32But it was the music that I liked
03:35It was
03:36I felt, even at that young age
03:38I felt like I was connected to something
03:41I understood it
03:43I just understood music
03:46I...
03:47Anyway, years later
03:49When Mandy went number one
03:51We played Carnegie Hall
03:53And...
03:54Thanks
03:56We played Carnegie Hall
03:57And I invited everybody I'd ever known
04:00To Carnegie Hall
04:02And I invited my family too
04:03And Grandpa was there
04:04And Grandpa was in the audience
04:06And when I walked out on stage, scared to death
04:08Grandpa stood up and gave me a standing ovation
04:10And because he stood up, the whole audience stood up
04:13So I got my first big standing ovation
04:16And...
04:18And when they sat down
04:21He wouldn't sit down
04:22He just...
04:23He just kept standing there and applauding
04:25And I...
04:26I looked at him, you know
04:27And my fear just...
04:29Vanished
04:29Because I knew what he was thinking
04:31You know, he was thinking
04:32There's my grandson
04:33On the stage of Carnegie Hall
04:35Down the block
04:37From that 25-cent record-your-own-boys booth
04:41What a life
04:44I made it through the rain
04:48I kept my world protected
04:50I made it through the rain
04:53I kept my point of view
04:56I made it through the rain
05:00And found myself respected
05:04By the other two
05:06That sky rained on too
05:11I made it through
05:12Come on, Bobby, sing it, Bill
05:14What's that?
05:15Come on, sing it
05:16Come on, Bobby
05:17I made it through
05:20Come on, sing it, Bobby
05:21Come on, sing it, Bobby
05:21Sing it!
05:22I made it through
05:28I made it through
05:32I made it through
05:34Look like we made it
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