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-====== Two chilling anecdotes of racism in the South at the turn of the '60s ====== 
 +====== Art Rock and Heavy Metal ======
 +Art Rock
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-These are as told by Solomon Burke from Gerri Hersey's book //Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music//. The first also involves Sam Cooke. 
 +Heavy Metal
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 +==  ==
 +Date added: 1/7/2024
-=== [ANECDOTE 1] === 
 +====== Top 40 Radio ======
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-"I buried countless strangers and far too many friends. Otis Redding, Sam Cooke. They were babies. //Babies//. Otis was twenty-six. Otis loved planes too much. A woman killed Sam Cooke. She claimed self-defense; she said she was afraid. It is hard to believe you could look at that man and be afraid."+{{:special_areas:top_40_radio_10.jpg?500|}}
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-I wonder aloud if maybe it wasn't Sam Cooke's exceptional beauty -- musical and physical -- that made some people uneasy.+{{:special_areas:top_40_radio_15.jpg?500|}}
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-"You mean, if he found it to be a curse sometimes? I'd say yes. I'd say yes because I was there and I saw it. It happened in Shreveport."+{{:special_areas:top_40_radio_20.jpg?500|}}
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-Solomon was with Sam Cooke in that sticky Louisiana town, was witness to the reason Sam wished aloud the rich black earth would heave up and swallow the damned place and wipe it from memory.+{{:special_areas:top_40_radio_25.jpg?500|}}
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-What Shreveport did was this:+{{:special_areas:top_40_radio_30.jpg?500|}}
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-It singled Sam Cooke out for his talent and his beauty and humiliated him beyond his imagination.+{{:special_areas:top_40_radio_33.jpg?500|}}
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-As Solomon begins the story, he notes that Sam Cooke was shot to death in a motel not far from here.+{{:special_areas:top_40_radio_38.jpg?500|}}
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-But he says that something got killed -- at least, gravely wounded --+{{:special_areas:top_40_radio_41.jpg?500|}}
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-earlier on, in Shreveport.+{{:special_areas:top_40_radio_44.jpg?500|}}
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-"Sam was a very proud man,"+{{:special_areas:top_40_radio_49.jpg?500|}}
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-he says. "He was a star. But for a minute he forgot what he was in the South." 
 +==  ==
 +Date added: 1/20/2024
 +====== Quotes and facts from Punk on 45, Gavin Walsh ======
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 +====  ====
 +"TRB's [Tom Robinson Band's] 1977 debut '2-4-6-8 Motorway' sounded like Status Quo with a middle class vocalist" (p. 99)
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-It began in a small flyspecked restaurant, next door to the motel where Sam, Solomon, and others had put up for the night before their next date in New Orleans.+Wm: Really?!?!
 +====  ====
 +Nipple Erectors (later Nips) vocalist Shane O'Hooligan, later reverted to orig name McGowan
 +Riff Raff member Billy Bragg -- early 2nd wave UK punk
 +Poly Styrene's orig name is Marion Elliott
-"B. B. King's backup orchestra was with us, too. And I think Jerry Butler. Maybe Bobby Blue Bland. I'm not sure of the show lineup, but the rest I'll never forget.+Tom Miller & Richard Meyers -- Tom Verlaine & Richard Hell
 +Stuart Goddard -- Adam Ant
 +Henry Padovani is the guitarist whom Andy Summers replaced in the early Police
-We were in these little row houses, like motel cottages, and the restaurant was next door. We went in there, and they wouldn't serve us.+==  ==
 +Wm: a CD comp I have called Lost Hits has a band called the Flying Padovanis, song //Piu in Alto//
 +====  ====
-But another waitress recognized Sam. You know, he was so good-looking.+"The US assimilation of punk rock would not take place until the early 1990s, when its championing by Nirvana would inject some ..."
 +The quote "are we not men?" is from the SF movie //The Island of Lost Souls//
 +The Corpse Grinders, w/ex-New York Doll Arthur Kane and Rick Rivets
 +New York: The Shirts were melodic power pop, as were the Criminals, led by ex-New York Doll, Sylvain Sylvain
 +"Nina Hagen ['s] ... main claim to involvement with punk rock seemed to stem from her Siouxsie-ish application of mascara. In reality, she was a young acolyte of the European bohemian/post-hippie scene, who enjoyed a close relationship with Dutch junkie rocker Herman Brood"
-"Anyhow, she was a white girl, and she came over to the motel and said to him, 'I'll get you what you want to eat. Send your road manager or somebody to the side door, and I'll give it to them.' So she took all our orders. We gave her the money, and we were waiting on her to call us back on the phone at the desk so we could get the food. The next thing we know, police are coming into the room from everywhere. The police took Sam and I out of there.+Ruzan Pamean, "I Mlad" (Serbian), not the first punk group from that region, is "indicative of the post-punk sound subsequently epitomised by Joy Division."
 +Pistols Cook and Jones joined Thin Lizzy on the Greedies' Christmas song "A Merry Jingle" (Greedies, formerly known as the Greedy Bastards)
 +Spizz Energi: "Where's Captain Kirk?"
 +Look into band: Kleenex
 +Look into band: Skids (//Into the Valley// -- what does it sound like? what style is it?)
-"They took us to the fire station and made us take off our clothes. They said, 'Now get your microphones, boys, and start singing.' They had us do the whole show."+Look into band: Swell Maps
 +Rezillos changed name to Revillos to escape a bad contract
 +Monochrome Set (is in Group Name, Song Title -- are they ex-members of Adam and the Ants?)
 +==  ==
-He is smiling at the visual memory now, of the tall, slim Sam Cooke and himself, both sweatin' like Niagara, dancing naked for the red-faced firemen and cops, trying to sing with fear-parched throats. "You should have seen me singing 'Cry to Me.' Shreveport, Louisiana. Okay. My Lord. We did all our records. I did the background for Sam's pop stuff, the //ooh-doo-doos,//+Date added: 1/17/2010
-and Sam did my background. And when we had finished, the guy told us,+====== Night Moves: Pop Music in the Late '70s ======
-'Get in them stolen limousines, boys, and don't ever bring your band to Shreveport again.' We were happy to oblige. 
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 +Here are a couple quotes from this book. These brother authors also have a book on the early '70s, Precious and Few.
-"//Just another day,//" 
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 +Today, listening to "vintage" corporate rock for any length of time conjures a storybook collection of faceless tin men crying "oil can," a band of formulaic Foreigners in the Land of Oz on a futile Journey to find a Heart. As they march along the winding road -- did we mention it's paved with gold? -- they survey the barren, almost lunar, landscape. "Toto," they whisper, "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
-as Sam had sung with the Soul Stirrers. "//Just another day my Lord has kept me.//" 
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-"He never did get over it."+===  ===
 +The Chain: California Pop's Old-Dude Network
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 +**Jackson Browne** produces **Warren Zevon**  ...  whose "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" is covered by **Linda Ronstadt**  ...  whose backup band becomes the **Eagles**, who cover "Ol' 55" by **Tom Waits**, who is romantically linked to **Rickie Lee Jones**  ...  whose "Easy Money" is covered by Little Feat founder **Lowell George**, who produces //Shakedown Street// by the **Grateful Dead**  ...  whose //Terrapin Station// is produced by Keith Olsen, producer of **Fleetwood Mac**  ...  whose Stevie Nicks duets on "Whenever I Call You `Friend'" with **Kenny Loggins**, who co-writes "What a Fool Believes" with the **Doobie Brothers' Michael McDonald**, who is a former member of **Steely Dan**  ...  whose later albums feature guitarist **Larry Carlton**, who is a former member of the **Crusaders**, who are featured on //Sleeping Gypsy// by **Michael Franks**  ...  whose albums feature saxophonist **David Sanborn**, who also plays on "How Sweet It Is to Be Loved By You" by **James Taylor**, who is produced by Peter Asher, who also produces //The Glow// by **Bonnie Raitt**, who performs at the M.U.S.E. concerts  ...  which also features **Ry Cooder**, who plays on //Sail Away// by **Randy Newman**  ...  whose //Born Again// features the **Eagles**  ...  whose **Joe Walsh** produces //Souvenirs// by **Dan Fogelberg**, who guests on albums by **Jackson Browne**, who co-writes "Take It Easy" with the **Eagles**  ...  whose mid-seventies lineup includes **Randy Meisner**, who is a former member of **Poco**  ...  whose **Jim Messina** records seven albums with partner** Kenny Loggins**, who is a charter member of **Gator Creek**  ...  whose **Michael Omartian** plays piano on //Aja// by **Steely Dan** whose former drummer **Jeff Porcaro** later joins **Toto** whose members back **Boz Scaggs**, who is a former bandmate of **Steve Miller**, who has a hit entitled "Heart Like a Wheel" which is also the title of an album by **Linda Ronstadt**, who covers "Willin'" by **Lowell George**, who, as mentioned, covers "Easy Money" by **Rickie Lee Jones**  ...  whose debut album features saxophonist **Tom Scott**, who also plays on //Aja// by **Steely Dan**  ...  whose alumni include **Doobie Brothers** guitarist **Jeff "Skunk" Baxter**, who produces **Livingston Taylor**, who is the younger brother of **James Taylor**  ...  whose "Her Town Too" is a duet with **J.D. Souther**, who is a former member of **Longbranch Pennywhistle**, a band which also featured **Glenn Frey**  ...  whose **Eagles** partner **Don Henley's** "Desperado" is covered by **Linda Ronstadt**  ...  whose backup vocalists include **Nicolette Larson**, who duets on "Let Me Go, Love" with **Michael McDonald**  ...  whose "It Keeps You Runnin'" is covered by **Carly Simon**, who is married to **James Taylor**  ...  whose touring band includes pianist **Bill Payne** of **Little Feat**  ...  whose **Lowell George** is former bandmate of **Frank Zappa**  ...  whose opening acts include **Tom Waits**, who  ...  Well, you get the idea.
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 +==  ==
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 +Date Added: 10/1/2007
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 +====== Two chilling anecdotes of racism in the South at the turn of the '60s ======
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 +These are as told by Solomon Burke from Gerri Hirshey's book //Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music//. The first also involves Sam Cooke.
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 +=== [ANECDOTE 1, pp. 97-98] ===
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 +[Solomon Burke:] "I buried countless strangers and far too many friends. Otis Redding, Sam Cooke. They were babies. //Babies//. Otis was twenty-six. Otis loved planes too much. A woman killed Sam Cooke. She claimed self-defense; she said she was afraid. It is hard to believe you could look at that man and be afraid."
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 +[Gerri Hirshey:] I wonder aloud if maybe it wasn't Sam Cooke's exceptional beauty -- musical and physical -- that made some people uneasy.
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 +"You mean, if he found it to be a curse sometimes? I'd say yes. I'd say yes because I was there and I saw it. It happened in Shreveport."
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 +Solomon was with Sam Cooke in that sticky Louisiana town, was witness to the reason Sam wished aloud the rich black earth would heave up and swallow the damned place and wipe it from memory.
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 +What Shreveport did was this: It singled Sam Cooke out for his talent and his beauty and humiliated him beyond his imagination.
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 +As Solomon begins the story, he notes that Sam Cooke was shot to death in a motel not far from here. But he says that something got killed -- at least, gravely wounded -- earlier on, in Shreveport.
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 +"Sam was a very proud man," he says. "He was a star. But for a minute he forgot what he was in the South."
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 +It began in a small flyspecked restaurant, next door to the motel where Sam, Solomon, and others had put up for the night before their next date in New Orleans.
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 +"B. B. King's backup orchestra was with us, too. And I think Jerry Butler. Maybe Bobby Blue Bland. I'm not sure of the show lineup, but the rest I'll never forget. We were in these little row houses, like motel cottages, and the restaurant was next door. We went in there, and they wouldn't serve us. But another waitress recognized Sam. You know, he was so good-looking.
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 +"Anyhow, she was a white girl, and she came over to the motel and said to him, 'I'll get you what you want to eat. Send your road manager or somebody to the side door, and I'll give it to them.' So she took all our orders. We gave her the money, and we were waiting on her to call us back on the phone at the desk so we could get the food. The next thing we know, police are coming into the room from everywhere. The police took Sam and I out of there.
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 +"They took us to the fire station and made us take off our clothes. They said, 'Now get your microphones, boys, and start singing.' They had us do the whole show."
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 +He is smiling at the visual memory now, of the tall, slim Sam Cooke and himself, both sweatin' like Niagara, dancing naked for the red-faced firemen and cops, trying to sing with fear-parched throats.
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 +"You should have seen me singing 'Cry to Me.' Shreveport, Louisiana. Okay. My Lord. We did all our records. I did the background for Sam's pop stuff, the //ooh-doo-doos,// and Sam did my background. And when we had finished, the guy told us, 'Get in them stolen limousines, boys, and don't ever bring your band to Shreveport again.' We were happy to oblige.
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 +"//Just another day,//" as Sam had sung with the Soul Stirrers. "//Just another day my Lord has kept me.//"
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 +"He never did get over it."
-=== [ANECDOTE 2] === 
 +=== [ANECDOTE 2, pp. 94-95] ===
-". . . [I called myself the king of] 'rock and soul' because soul singing to me is just basically singing from your soul. Whatever you do can be soulful. And that especially went for the country stuff. That got me a lot of bookings in the Deep South, in some places no other black artists could get into. 
-That kind of country soul bridged a lot of waters. Of course, once or twice it dam near killed me. . . .+"[I called myself the king of] 'rock and soul' because soul singing to me is just basically singing from your soul. Whatever you do can be soulful. And that especially went for the country stuff. That got me a lot of bookings in the Deep South, in some places no other black artists could get into. That kind of country soul bridged a lot of waters. Of course, once or twice it darn near killed me. . . ."
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-The white sheriff let it be known that he had spared no effort in orchestrating his idea of a black man's paradise. "He said, 'Now you boys remember this is sponsored by the county sheriff, so you don't have nothin' to worry about. Eat here, sleep here. Got an outhouse, four outhouses just for y'all. The ones with the green crosses is //your// outhouses."+The white sheriff let it be known that he had spared no effort in orchestrating his idea of a black man's paradise. "He said, 'Now you boys remember this is sponsored by the county sheriff, so you don't have nothin' to worry about. Eat here, sleep here. Got an outhouse, four outhouses just for y'all. The ones with the green crosses is //your// outhouses.' "
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-When at last the torches burned down and the robed hosts departed, the sheriff presented Solomon with a sticker for his car thit would ensure him safe-conduct in all Klan territories.+When at last the torches burned down and the robed hosts departed, the sheriff presented Solomon with a sticker for his car that would ensure him safe-conduct in all Klan territories.
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