"A Song for the Soul"


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Ziggy has been known to be wrong.
We have to trust Ziggy's statistics over yours.
Why?
Why? ... Ziggy keeps better records?
-- Sam and Al, "Song for the Soul"

Damn Cheree, you're movin' like a white girl.
-- Paula to Sam, "Song for the Soul"

Ziggy should have a little more faith in human nature.
-- Sam, "Song for the Soul"

TEEN #2: Hey baby, come over here and talk to me.

PAULA: Who in the heck would want to talk to your ugly behind?

TEEN #2: You talking to me, Paula? Hey come on and why don’t you bring your fine brown body over here?

PAULA: I don’t talk to night crawlers so you can just crawl back into whatever cave you came from.

***

SAM: What do you know?

LYNELLE: Know about what?

SAM: Whatdoya know? You still have this old picture of us.

AL: Good recovery, Sam.

LYNELLE: I just had that printed last week.

AL: Oh… not so good.

SAM: Time sure does fly when you have fun, huh?
AL: You should have quit while you were ahead.

***

REV. WALTERS: Hallelujah!

AL: Hallelujah!

REV. WALTERS: Glory, hallelujah!

AL: Glory, hallelujah! All it takes is one good preacher to let you know that the devil is out to get you.

***

SAM: Well, then, I’m right. I’m here to help Reverend Walters support his daughter to … to… to accept her and understand her.

AL: So, how you gonna do that?

SAM: Ehhh… well, I don’t know. I mean, maybe… maybe you know… if he heard how good they were… no no no no… then I’d have to sing!

AL: So?

SAM: So, first I don’t know any of the songs or the routines and secondly, I’m a man and not a sixteen-year-old girl!

AL: That never stopped you before.

***

AL: Well, I do. I can teach you some moves.

SAM: You can teach me some moves? (laughing)

AL: I was in the Regal Theatre in its hey day. I remember the Marvelettes, Smokey, Martha and the Vandellas, James Brown – the hardest working man in show business. You have to remember to keep your harmony tight and remember to say…

(song cuts him off with… "Do you love me?" in the background)

***

Video look: The girls are being shown the moves that Al is giving to Sam and the girls are having a hard time getting the moves right.

PAULA: Damn, Cheree! You dance like a white girl!

***

AL: Ziggy says this whole thing is going to be a catastrophe.

SAM: Ziggy should have a little more faith in human nature.

AL: Ziggy says that’s the problem.

***

SAM: A prophet name Gibran once said, hold your children with open arms and they will always know they can come home to you.

***

SAM: God only gives us what he thinks we can handle.