C.C. White
Effie, Curtis was supposed to...
Effie White
Love me. Curtis was supposed to love me.
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Effie White
C.C. White
Isn't music supposed to express what people are feeling?
Curtis Taylor Jr.
Music is supposed to sell.
C.C. White
Lay off, Effie. Just take the money and run.
Effie White
You in this with them, C.C.?
C.C. White
Cool it, Effie. This time you know what you've done.
Effie White
So they bought your black ass too, huh?
C.C. White
I said, cool it, Effie. This time you've gone too far.
Effie White
Oh, I can go further! I can go further!
Curtis Taylor Jr.
Who was the first artist to sing "Hound Dog"?
C.C. White
Elvis Presley.
Curtis Taylor Jr.
Big Mama Thorton. She had the number-one single on the R&B charts, but the white stations wouldn't play it, because to them it was just another race record.
Curtis Taylor, Jr.
$500 says the Dreamettes do not win.
Contest judge
[Contest judge takes money]
Thanks a lot man, because they were going to lose anyway!
Effie White
[about Deena]
She ain't better than anybody. She ain't nothin' but common!
Deena Jones
Now who you callin' common, you self-indulgent, self-absorbed, non-professional?
Effie White
You! I'm callin' you! I'm callin' you the common piece he's knockin' off!
Deena Jones
Now you listen to me, Miss Blame-It-On-The-World, see, I put up with you for much too long. I have put up with your bitchin', I put up with your naggin', and all your screamin' too!
Lorrell Robinson
Now when are you two gonna stop all this fighting?
Effie White
Stay out of this, Lorrell! This is between Deena and me!
Lorrell Robinson
Yeah? Well, it's between me too! I'm a part of this group as anybody else! And I'm tired! Effie, I'm tired of all the problems you're makin' us!
Effie White
I always knew you two were together.
Lorrell Robinson
What?!
Effie White
I always knew you two were gangin' up on me!
Deena Jones
She had nothing to do with this change. It was you! You always thinkin' of you! Always thinkin' of you!
Curtis Taylor, Jr.
I knew you were trouble from the start.
Effie White
Trouble?!
Curtis Taylor, Jr.
You were real bad trouble from the start.
Effie White
Curtis, I'm your woman!
Curtis Taylor, Jr.
But you're gettin' out now. I'm not building this group to have you tear it apart! Go head and rant and scream and shout! Don't worry, baby, I'll buy you out.
Effie White
There's no money dirty enough to buy me out. You remember that, Curtis!
Effie White
So... Deena's going to sing the lead 'cause you like the way she looks? Am I ugly to you, Curtis?
Curtis Taylor Jr.
Baby, come on! You know how I feel about you, come on. Don't make it personal.
Effie White
Well, what am I supposed to do? Deena's beautiful, and she's always been beautiful... but I've got the voice, Curtis! I've got the voice! You can't put me in back; you just can't!
Effie White
Tell me something, Curtis. Do you think it's right to promote an amateur performer over a professional?
Curtis Taylor Jr.
I'm not sure what this is about...
Effie White
It's about fairness, Curtis. It's about people paying their dues. Isn't that what you keep telling me? "Get in line, Effie. Wait your turn". So why am I sitting here without so much as a B-side on a 45, when an amateur like Martin Luther King Jr. gets his own freaking album? I mean, can he even sing?
M.C.
And now, the courageous, the curvaceous, Creamettes!
Deena Jones
It's the Dreamettes! The Dreamettes!
Mae Jones
I'm amazed, Mr, Taylor. As much as I love my daughter, I never thought she had much of a voice.
Curtis Taylor, Jr.
Oh, Deena has something better. She has a... quality.
Mae Jones
You make her sound like a product.
Curtis Taylor, Jr.
"A product." I like that!
Magic White
Momma, why are you so slow?
Effie White
Because I'm old.
Marty Madison
[Referring to a club in Florida where Curtis has booked the Dreamettes]
That place is so white they will not even hire us to wash dishes!
Effie White
[singing]
And I am telling you
I'm not going
You're the best man I'll ever know
There's no way I could ever go
no, no, there's no way
No, no, no, no way
I'm living without you
I'm stayin', I'm stayin'
And you, and you...you're gonna love me.
Lorrell Robinson
[singing]
And Lorrell loves Jimmy
Lorrell loves Jimmy
Lorrell loves Jimmy, it's true
But Lorrell and Jimmy are through
The Dreams
[singing]
Ev'ry man has his own special dream
And that dream is just about to come true
Life's not as bad as it may seem
If you open your eyes towards in front of you.