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So by the late 1940s, Jimmy's dad is ill and dying, and that makes Jimmy increasingly the breadwinner and emotional support for his mother.

And he begins to slip noticeably into the role of caring for her beyond all of her other children.

It was his mom that tipped him off about one of the most significant moments in his life.

Some neighborhood kid had wired a gramophone up to a radio, allowing you to basically get kind of a proto-DJ set going.

This is like the birth, the early birth of like the turntable systems that like DJs use now is like a gramophone we hooked up to a radio to make it louder.

So Jimmy falls in love with this.

He buys this thing and he starts he like holds an event and sells tickets to it.

He has his mom make refreshments.

He like rinsed out a room at a social club owned by the Catholic Church.

And he's like doing one of the first DJ sets anyone would have ever done.

Right.

Where he's like putting on records and like picking what songs are going to come on at what time.