A much needed Black Music thread.
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Slim on guitar and vocal, with Charlie Parker (alto sax) , Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Jack McVea (tenor sax), Bam Brown (bass), Dodo Marmarosa (piano), and Zutty Singleton (drums)
Used to enjoy playing his songs on the piano. Loved this one and The Entertainer.
Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson
The greatest cabaret performer in England in the 1930s. Not as well known in North America, Hutch was the Elvis of 1930's London night clubs and country house parties.
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I still have this CD single. Such a talent lost at an early age. Sigh.
James Brown
T.A.M.I. Show
Original Theatre Release 1964
The Prez was a kid in the audience seeing James Brown for the first time.
Intro
Middle of the Act - Big Ending - Bring Out the Cape.
T.A.M.I. Show
Original Theatre Release 1964
The Prez was a kid in the audience seeing James Brown for the first time.
Intro
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I've got the Tami/TNT Show on Blue-Ray DVD, 2 disc set.
James was riding the success of his first 'Live At The Apollo" LP, but hadn't yet had much exposure to a white audience.
The rumour was that the Stones were afraid to go on after James, after hearing how nuts the crowd was going for him, but the crowd was even wilder for them...
I saw James and his full band in 1964 at the University Of Minneapolis field house, doing the full Live At The Apollo set with an extended Please Please Please just like in the Tami show. Although I was into Motown, etc., I had never heard of him before, as he got no radio play in Winnipeg.
My buddies and I were the only 4 white guys in the standing-room-only audience, and we only heard about the concert because we were staying at a Jewish frat house on campus over New Year's for a Hillel convention. My mind was blown, so I went to a record store the next day on Hennepin St. in Minneapolis and bought the LP. Wore the grooves out when I got it back home to Winnipeg...
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I read recently that James and Mick Jagger used to commiserate with each other about their knee problems.
I always used to wonder how James kept doing that Please Please Please fall-to-his knees routine in tight pants & no knee pads, without destroying them....
