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0:00I had just signed a contract with Leeds Music, giving it the right to publish my songs.
0:03Not that there was many great deal to hammer out, I hadn't written much yet.
0:07Lou had advanced me $100 against future royalties to sign the paper, and that was fine with me.
0:12John had taken me over to see Lou.
0:14John had only heard two of my original compositions, but he had a premonition that there would be more.
0:20John was John Hammond, the great talent scout and discoverer of monumental artists, imposing figures in the history of recorded music.
0:28Artists who had created music that resonated through American life.
0:33He was legendary.
0:34He had followed his own heart's love, which was music, which he endorsed and defended with his life.
0:41No one could block his way and he didn't have any time to waste.
0:46That's one of my favorite sentences in the book.
0:48No one could block his way and he didn't have any time to waste.
0:51I could hardly believe myself awake when sitting in his office, him signing me to Columbia Records.
0:57It was so unbelievable.
0:59It would have sounded like a made-up thing.
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