Podcast appearances and mentions of Gene Chandler

**Music Mick's Mick's Vibez Show Replay On Trax FM & Rendell Radio. This Week Mick & The Mixvibez Show Gave Us 70's & 80's Grooves/Dance Classics From Skool Boyz, Karyn White, Karen Young, Jeffrey Osborne, Jaki Graham, IVE & David Guetta, Herbi Mann, Gwen Guthrie, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Gene Chandler, Freda Payne, Samantha Fox, France Joli, Empress, Earth Wind & Fire, Boney M, Deodato, Deco, Dazzle, Crown Heights Affair, Cool Million, Miami Sound Machine, Robert Miles & More. #originalpirates #soulmusic #boogiefunk #disco #danceclassics #boogie Catch The Music Mick's Mixvibez Show Every Saturday From 4PM UK Time On Trax FM & Rendell Radio Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

**It's The Relax With Rendell Show Replay On Trax FM & Rendell Radio. Rendell Featured Soul & Boogie/Rare Groove/80's & 70's Grooves/Easy Listening Cuts From The Jets, Wilton Felder Ft Pamela Griffiths, Ronnie Laws, Ray Parker JNR, Pointer Sisters, One Way, Melisa Morgan, Mara Louw, Leigh Summers, Jets, Gene Chandler, Doc Powell, Conway Brothers, Castle Beat, Barry White & More. #originalpirates #soulmusic #disco #reggae #raregroove #easylistening #boogiefunk Catch Rendell Every Saturday From 8PM UK Time The Stations: Trax FM & Rendell Radio Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

**Dave Francis & The Jazz Funk & Soul Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Week Dave Gave Us Boogie/ 70's & 80's/ Jazz Funk Grooves From Brass Construction, Incognito, The Rah Band, George Benson, Arthur Adams, Gene Chandler, Sharon Redd, Hi-Tension, Sister Sledge, Narada Michael Walden, Unique & More. #originalpirates #soulmusic #funk #disco #boogie #70smusic #80smusic #jazzfunk Dave Francis & The Jazz Funk & Soul Show Replay On traxfm.org Every Sunday From 5PM UK Time Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

**Chris Stewart's Soulful Etiquette Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Week Chris Featured Soul/Boogie/Reggae/Contemporary Soul From Chestnut Brothers, Camera Soul, Disco Stallion, Francisca Thomas, Delroy Wilson, Jackie Day, JNR Walker & The All Stars, The Marvellettes, Gene Chandler, Gee Bello Ft Roy Ayers, Cindy Davis, Ezel, Aurra, The Trammps & More #originalpirates #soulmusic #contemporarysoul #70smusic #80smusic #disco #reggae Catch Chris Stewart's Soulful Etiquette Show Every Tuesday From 12:00PM UK Time On www.traxfm.org Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

This week, Chris features tracks from The Dells, Gene Chandler and Maxine Brown, plus a Top 7 from Bob Taylor.For more info and tracklisting, visit: https://thefaceradio.com/dab-of-soul/Tune into new broadcasts of Dab Of Soul every Tuesday from Midday - 2 PM EST / 5 - 7 PM GMT.//Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

**The Groove Doctors Friday Drive Time Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Week The Groove Doctor Featured 80's Grooves/Rare Groove/Contemporary Soul From The Manhattans. Leon Ware. Rick James. Captain Sky. Side Effects. Gene Chandler. Rockie Robins. The Emotions. Juicy. Joanna Gardner. Johnnie Taylor & More #originalpirates #soulmusic #boogie #80ssoul #RareGrooves Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : facebook.com/profile.php?id=10...100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

**Smiffy's A To Z Of Soul Music Replay On www.traxfm.org. This Week Smiffy Featured Boogie/Contemporary Soul,Rare 70's & 80's Grooves/Dance Classics From E.Live, Tuzedo, The Chi-Lites, Crown Heights Affair, Gene Chandler, Mike Lindup, Freekwncy, Sunner Soul, Angela Bofil, Nickee B, DetroitCentrix & More. #originalpirates #boogie #contemporarysoul #70ssoul #80ssoul #danceclassics #raregrooves #disco Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

**Music Mick's Mick's Vibez Show Replay On Trax FM & Rendell Radio. This Week Mick & The Mixvibez Show Gave Us 70's & 80's Grooves/Dance Classics From Infinity, Gwen Guthrie, Gene Chandler, Earth Wind & Fire, Freddie James, Loose Ends, Webster Lewis, Ze-Brass, Alton McClain & Destiny, Biddu Orchestra & More. #originalpirates #soulmusic #boogiefunk #soulmusic #disco Catch The Music Mick's Mixvibez Show Every Saturday From 4PM UK Time On Trax FM & Rendell Radio Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

Another two hours of Groovy Soul as our man in France brings you a number of tracks that lay in the vaults; a tribute to Quincy Jones; three Northern Soul tunes from before 1963 that got a spin at The Twisted Wheel plus crackers from amongst others Chairmen of the Board, James Carr, Ann Peebles, Sly & The Family Stone, Prince and Gene ChandlerFor more info and tracklisting, visit :https://thefaceradio.com/groovy-soulTune into new broadcasts of Groovy Soul, LIVE, Sundays 12 - 2 PM EST / 5 - 7 PM GMT.https://thefaceradio.com/archives/groovy-soul//Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

billboard Disco TOP 20 Week Ending 29SEP1979 20 BEAT OF THE NIGHT Fever 19 WHEN YOU'RE #1 Gene Chandler 18 PUT YOUR FEET TO THE BEAT The Ritchie Family 17... LEARN MORE The post TTBA Replay 27SEP2024 Pt. 2 appeared first on Turn the Beat Around.

HERE WE GO MY SHOW FOR 12-SEPT-2024 WITH A MIXED BAG OF OLD CLASSICS INCLUDING ( THE OJAYS, GENE CHANDLER, ROY AYERS/WAYNE HENDERSON, CHARME, JIMMY RUFFIN, WILLIAM DE VAUGHHAM, TONY MOMRELLE) AND MANY MORE ALSO SOME TOP NEW TRACKS FROM ( DIANE MARSH, RANDY HALL, SHAWN ESCOFFERY ) WE ALSO HAVE THE CONNOISSEURS CORNER ( THIS WEEK WE HAVE LA BOPPERS AND BRIAN SIMPSON ) AND WE HAVE THE BACK TO BACK CLASSICS BY A CLASSIC ARTIST (THIS WEEK WE HAVE TWO TRACKS FROM MAZE REMEMBERING FRANKIE BEVERLY WHO SADLY PASSED AWAY THIS WEEK ) THEN WE HAVE THREE TRACKS DUG OUT FROM THE GARAGE FROM ( INEZ & CHARLIE FOX, EDDIE HOLMAN, SAM COOKE ) FINNISHING OF WITH A COUPLE OF SLOW TRACKS AND MUCH MUCH MORE SIT BACK WITH A GLASS OF SOMETHING AND ENJOY OR DOWNLOAD FOR LATER

Marshall Thompson from the legendary Chi-Lites group returns to our classroom. Marshall will discuss how the group started and why so many great Black singers emerged from Chicago. Before Marshall, the Duke of Earl Gene Chandler checks in Math Guru Akil Parker will outline how parents can support their children to become math scholars. Veteran Music Publicist Ira Tucker will also join us. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dancefloor Memories with Patrick Hawkins, over 60 Minutes of Disco, Soul and Funk Podcast. Classic tracks, Dancefloor fillers from, Tavares, Ray Parker Jr, A Taste of Honey, Arthur Adams and Savanna, new tracks from, Brian Power ft Lucita Jules, Mather, Candace Woodman, This weeks tune of the week is from Michael Gray ft Tatiana Owens (Ivy), more classic tracks from Odyssey, Gene Chandler and Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes. Just settle down with a long drink and chill or boogie around your kitchen to tracks others would never dream of playing! Spread the word, give me a like and follow my Podcasts. Much Love Pat

**Dave Francis & The Jazz Funk & Soul Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Week Dave Gave Us Boogie/ 70's & 80's/ Jazz Funk Grooves From Light Of The World, Trussel, Hot Streak, GQ, Gene Chandler, Surface Noise, Freeez, Fat larrys Band, Kashif, Herbie Hancock, Mystic Merlin & More. #originalpirates #soulmusic #funk #disco #boogie #70smusic #80smusic #jazzfunk Dave Francis & The Jazz Funk & Soul Show Replay On traxfm.org Every Sunday From 5PM UK Time Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

HERE WE GO MY SHOW FOR 23-MAY-2024 WITH A MIXED BAG OF OLD CLASSICS INCLUDING ( SADE, GENE CHANDLER, C&C MUSIC FACTORY, HOWARD JOHNSON, LOOSE ENDS, STEVIE WONDER, SHERRICK, THE FLOATERS) AND MANY MORE ALSO SOME TOP NEW TRACKS FROM (  VICTOR HAYNES, MICHAEL GREY, JORGE MONTREL & JUAN LAYATT ) WE ALSO HAVE THE CONNOISSEURS CORNER ( THIS WEEK WE HAVE TWO TRACKS FROM GROVER WASHINGTON JR ) AND WE HAVE THE BACK TO BACK CLASSICS BY A CLASSIC ARTIST (THIS WEEK WE HAVE CHANGE ) THEN WE HAVE THREE TRACKS DUG OUT FROM THE GARAGE FROM (MARVIN GAY, WILSON PICKET, JR WALKER & THE ALL STARS ) FINNISHING OF WITH A COUPLE OF SLOW TRACKS AND MUCH MUCH MORE SIT BACK WITH A GLASS OF SOMETHING AND ENJOY OR DOWNLOAD FOR LATER

**Dave Francis & The Jazz Funk & Soul Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Week Dave Gave Us Boogie/ 70's & 80's/ Jazz Funk Grooves From Brass Construction, Incognito, The Rah Band, George Benson, Arthur Adams, Gene Chandler, Sharon Redd, Hi Tension, Sister Sledge, Narada Michael Walden, Unique & More. Dave Francis & The Jazz Funk & Soul Show Replay On traxfm.org Every Sunday From 5PM UK Time Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

Listen in to Cousin Brucie's great conversation with Gene Chandler, also known as, The Duke of Earl. You can hear the full interview in Cousin Brucie's Saturday Night Rock and Roll Party edition on 03-30-24. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James had some fantastic record digging luck in the past week, and has some treasures to share on Chess and other labels, and Uwe's got some new finds to spin too. Here's another hot 2-hour vintage soul dance party with tunes from Denise LaSalle, The Radiants, Mary Wells, Gene Chandler, Mitty Collier, and more! Originally broadcast March 17, 2024 Willie Mitchell / That Driving BeatLee Webber / Party TimeBuddy Ace / Got To Get Myself TogetherTimmy Willis / Gotta Get Back To GeorgiaGene Chandler / Nothing Can Stop MeJan Bradley / I'm Over YouMary Wells / Me Without YouJohnny Holiday / TormentedJackie Wilson / Squeeze Her - Tease Her (But Love Her)Maurice & the Radiants / Baby You've Got ItDora Hall / Hang On SloopyDenise LaSalle / Count Down (And Fly Me To The Moon)Ray Stanley / Market PlaceVigor Fisher / PadiddleThe Penguins / Hey SenioritaMitty Collier / My BabeLloyd Price / Bad ConditionsLove and Brotherhood / You're My ManHoward Tate / That's What HappensThe Rustix / When I Get HomeSyl Johnson / I'll Take Those Skinny LegsMitty Collier / Miss LonelinessTed Taylor / Home At LastThe Entertainers / Too MuchScott Engel / Comin' HomeScott Engel / Anything Will DoMac And Katie Kissoon / Chirpy Chirpy Cheep CheepThe Vontastics / I Will Always Love YouJefferson / Baby Take Me in Your ArmsThe Fabulettes / Mister PolicemanEl Vireos / Silly WillyThe Radiants / It Ain't No Big ThingMike Leeds / Lover BabySteve Alaimo / Every Day I Have To CryScotty Turner / Tell Your GirlfriendJackie Ross / Haste Makes WasteSue Thompson / Straight To Helen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Cultural Manifesto, celebrate Women's History Month by learning about the women pioneers of Hoosier music, including Vivian Carter, Dena El Saffar, Mary Byrne, Priscilla Mclean, Margaret Hills and Anna Mae Winburn. Vivian Carter was a legendary disc jockey and co-founder of Gary, Indiana's Vee Jay Records. Vee Jay released hit songs by artists including The Impressions, The Dells, Gladys Knight, John Lee Hooker, and Gene Chandler. Vee Jay also issued significant jazz and gospel titles, including the first full-length LP by the Staple Singers, and Wayne Shorter's debut album as a leader. In February of 1963 Vee Jay became the first American record label to issue music from The Beatles. Vee Jay's release of ”Please Please Me” pre-dated The Beatles' first Capitol Records release by a year. Mary Byrne is the founder of Labyris, an influential feminist lesbian bar that operated in Downton Indianapolis from 1978-1984. During the 1980s, Byrne also served as director of the National Women's Music Festival in Bloomington, Indiana. Byrne's work creating stages for women performers in Indiana was unprecedented at the time, and remains a significant achievement in the history of Indiana music. Anna Mae Winburn was raised in Kokomo, Indiana. Winburn gained international notoriety as the bandleader and vocalist for the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a trailblazing multi-racial, all female big band that was active from 1937 to 1949.  The multi-instrumentalist and composer Dena El Saffar is the founder of Salaam, a Bloomington-based Middle Eastern music ensemble. The music of Salaam draws from El Saffar's Iraqi heritage. For over 30 years, Salaam have educated audiences around the country about the music and culture of Iraq.  Kokomo, Indiana's Margaret Hillis was an influential figure in American choral music and a trailblazing pioneer for women in classical music. Hillis is best remembered as the founder and director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, she led the ensemble from 1957 to 1994. Hillis' work with the chorus earned her nine Grammy Awards.  Composer Priscilla Mclean studied electronic music at IU Bloomington during the late 1960s. During the 1970s, Mclean created groundbreaking electronic music works at IU South Bend. Mclean was among the first Hoosier women to attain national notoriety in the world of electronic music.

This week on Cultural Manifesto, celebrate Women's History Month by learning about the women pioneers of Hoosier music, including Vivian Carter, Dena El Saffar, Mary Byrne, Priscilla Mclean, Margaret Hills and Anna Mae Winburn. Vivian Carter was a legendary disc jockey and co-founder of Gary, Indiana's Vee Jay Records. Vee Jay released hit songs by artists including The Impressions, The Dells, Gladys Knight, John Lee Hooker, and Gene Chandler. Vee Jay also issued significant jazz and gospel titles, including the first full-length LP by the Staple Singers, and Wayne Shorter's debut album as a leader. In February of 1963 Vee Jay became the first American record label to issue music from The Beatles. Vee Jay's release of ”Please Please Me” pre-dated The Beatles' first Capitol Records release by a year. Mary Byrne is the founder of Labyris, an influential feminist lesbian bar that operated in Downton Indianapolis from 1978-1984. During the 1980s, Byrne also served as director of the National Women's Music Festival in Bloomington, Indiana. Byrne's work creating stages for women performers in Indiana was unprecedented at the time, and remains a significant achievement in the history of Indiana music. Anna Mae Winburn was raised in Kokomo, Indiana. Winburn gained international notoriety as the bandleader and vocalist for the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a trailblazing multi-racial, all female big band that was active from 1937 to 1949.  The multi-instrumentalist and composer Dena El Saffar is the founder of Salaam, a Bloomington-based Middle Eastern music ensemble. The music of Salaam draws from El Saffar's Iraqi heritage. For over 30 years, Salaam have educated audiences around the country about the music and culture of Iraq.  Kokomo, Indiana's Margaret Hillis was an influential figure in American choral music and a trailblazing pioneer for women in classical music. Hillis is best remembered as the founder and director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, she led the ensemble from 1957 to 1994. Hillis' work with the chorus earned her nine Grammy Awards.  Composer Priscilla Mclean studied electronic music at IU Bloomington during the late 1960s. During the 1970s, Mclean created groundbreaking electronic music works at IU South Bend. Mclean was among the first Hoosier women to attain national notoriety in the world of electronic music.

! What's Past - Is Prologue ! ! ! Callin' ALL The Boom Booms & The Zoom Zooms ! ! ! Turn On - Choon In - Zig Zag ! ! ! Hello World . . . Groovin' Blue Is On The Air ! ! . . . GROUND DOWN TO THE UNDERGROUND . . . * * *  GROOVIN' BLUE 24 - 02  * * * Groovin' Blue is dedicated to Dr. Li Wenliang 1.  (4:19)  WAGRadio GB 24 - 02 Intro - Produced by WAGRadio Vinyl Librarian William "Fats Is Back" Reiter (formerly Bill Reiter - The All-Niter) 2.  (4:37)  "All About The Paper" - GENE CHANDLER [20th Century Fox Record Corporation Lp No. T-605 "Gene Chandler '80"] 1980 Prod. Carl Davis & Gene Chandler 3.  (  :24)  WAGRadio Back To Yard Id 4.  (1:54)  "We See You" - NLE CHOPPA [Warner] 5.  (  :06)  DJZZ Id 6.  (3:15)  "Samba Da Bahia (DJZigZag EdiT of the DJ Delivery Remix)" - LOSE ENDZ [TheBasement Discos] 7.  (  :11)  WAGRadio Id 8.  (2:22)  "Is It A Crime" - NO GUIDNCE [North West Sound] 9.  (4:44)  "Right On (DJZigZag High Cotton Music EdiT)" - PAVEL SVETLOVE [Moiss Music] 2021 10.(3:13)  "The Nitty Gritty" - SHIRLEY ELLIS with the Hutch Davie Orch. & Chorus [Kapp Records 45rpm No. K 37] 1963 Prod. Hutch Davie 11.(2:27)  "One Mint Julep" - THE CLOVERS [Atlantic 45rpm No. 45-963] 1952 12.(  :29)  WAGRadio Initialized Id 13.(3:16)  "4 Me" - DON TOLIVER, KALI UCHIS [Atlantic] 14.(3:38)  "Hall Of Fame (Instrumental)" - MICAL TEJA [Teja] 15.(  :47)  WAGRadio KomBo Id 16.(3:13)  "Slow Low" - JASON DERULO [Atlantic] 17.(  :17)  WAGRadio Want It Id 18.(3:39)  "Cake By The Ocean" - DNCE [North West Sound] 19.(3:31)  "Silk" - P-LO, YMTK [Just Pan] 20.(3:07)  "La Belleza De La Vida (DJZigZag EdiT of the Afro Tribute Mix)" - GABRIEL DOMINGUEZ [Dominguez Records VE]  21.(2:20)  "Giving Up Dancing" - ARCHIE BELL & THE DRELLS [Atlantic 45rpm No. 45-2663] 1969 Arr. Martin & Bell, Prod. Gamble-Huff Productions Inc. 22.(3:51)  "Legal Dreamers" - KEVANS [KTE Music] 23.(  :20)  DJZigZag Cold Id 24.(6:51)  "Work Hard Play Hard (DJZigZag Lanky Crocka EdiT of the Original Mix)" - ALCOSTA BLVD [Embarcadero] 25.(2:21)  "We're A Winner" - THE IMPRESSIONS [Curtom 45rpm No. CR-1966] 1971 Prod. Curtis Mayfield 26.(4:52)  "Pyramid Breakfast" - BENNETT PASTER [self-released Cd "Radiance"] 27.(  :32)  WAGRadio Down Count Id 28.(2:57)  "Hero" - MASTA ACE, MARCO POLO, INSPECTAH DECK [Fat Beats] 29.(4:54)  "Get On You (DJZigZag Over U EdiT)" - WINNIE AMA [Wama Music] 30.(3:24)  "There Was A Time" - GENE CHANDLER [Brunswick Lp No. BL 754131 "There Was A Time"] 1968 Arr. Sonny Saunders Prod. Carl Davis and Gene Chandler 31.(  :07) Nu GB End 79:30

Roots of Rock - Lena Horne Connect the Dots Paul McCartney talks about Phil Spector Inside the Flip Side - The Rolling Stones This Week in Music History - Featuring Johnny Cash 5 Second Quiz Behind the Hits - Duke of Earl by Gene Chandler  

**Jim Hughes & The Disco Direction Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Month Jim Features The Disco Chart Year Of 1978. Featuring Love & Kisses, Amant, Tony Orlando, The Ritchie Family, Barry White, Lenny Williams, The Salsoul Orchestra, Stargard, Linda Clifford, Deodato, First Choice, Ripple, Gene Chandler, John Davis & The Monster Orchestra, Rick James, Voyage & More. Catch Jim Hughes The First Tuesday Of Every Month From 9PM UK Time #traxfm #DiscoDirectionShow #jimhughes #soul #funk #disco #discocharts #boogie #philly #salsoul #70s #danceclassics Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

**Music Mick's Mick's Vibez Show Replay On Trax FM & Rendell Radio. This Week Mick & The Mixvibez Show Gave Us 70's & 80's Grooves With Dance Classics From The O'Jays, Elton John, Jean Carne, Brass Construction, Barry White, Brett Eldredge Feat Mahgan Trainer, Michael Zaeger Band, Delegation, Shakin Stevens, Third World, Gene Chandler, Crown Heights Affair, & More. Catch The Music Mick's Mixvibez Show Every Saturday From 4PM UK Time On Trax FM & Rendell Radio #traxfm #rendellradio #musicmick #mixvibezshow #soul #funk #80ssoul #boogie #70ssoul #disco #ballads #danceclassics #nusoul #musicmick #mixvibezshow Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

**Dave Francis & The Jazz Funk & Soul Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Week Dave Gave Us Boogie/ 70's & 80's/ Jazz Funk Grooves From Luther Vandross, George Benson, Brothers Johnson, Michael Jackson, Fat Larrys Band, Kashif, Hot Streak, GQ, Gene Chandler, Surface Noise, Freeez & More. Dave Francis & The Jazz Funk & Soul Show Replay On traxfm.org Every Sunday From 5PM UK Time Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

Dancefloor Memories with Patrick Hawkins, over 60 Minutes of Disco, Soul and Funk Podcast. Classic tracks, Dancefloor fillers from, Michael Jackson, Shalamar, Stevie Wonder, S.O.S Band, Womack & Womack, new tracks from, Vince Broomfield, Alex Puddu ft Gene Robinson Jr (from The Band Breakwater) Sargent Tucker and Geoff Waddington ft Tameka Jackson, and more classic tracks from Bobby Thurston, Chic, Evelyn "Champagne Kind and Gene Chandler. Just settle down with a long drink and chill or boogie around your kitchen to tracks others would never dream of playing! Spread the word, give me a like and follow my Podcasts. Much Love Pat

**Dave Francis & The Jazz Funk & Soul Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Week Dave Gave Us Boogie/ 70's & 80's/ Jazz Funk Grooves FromBrass Construction, Incognito, War, Earth Wind & Fire, BB&Q Band, First Light, Tjin Tjin, Michael Jackson, Change, Unique, Sister Sledge, Hi Tension, Sharon Redd, Gene Chandler, Arthur Adams, George Benson, The Rah Band, Third World & More. Dave Francis & The Jazz Funk & Soul Show Replay On traxfm.org Every Sunday From 5PM UK Time Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

**It's The Relax With Rendell Show Replay On Trax FM & Rendell Radio. Rendell Featured Boogie, Dance Classics, Contemporary Soul & Easy Listening With Cuts FromSylvester, Ray Williams, Marlena Shaw, Lenny Williams, Krystal, Jean Carne, Aurra, Ferrara, Gene Chandler, Heatwave, & More. Catch Rendell Every Saturday From 8PM UK Time The Stations: Trax FM & Rendell Radio #traxfm #rendellradio #soul #funk #70ssoul #80ssoul #60s #boogie #disco #raregrooves #soulclassics #reggae #nusoul #relaxwithrendell Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

Two more action-packed hours of soul, R&B, and other 1960s dance tunes! You'll hear Gene Chandler, The Velvelettes, Lou Johnson, James Carr, J.J. Barnes, Tina Britt, Billy Stewart, Bobby Hebb, two by Chubby Checker, a silly thing about The Beatles, Northern Soul classics by The Valentines and Tony Clarke, plus one from somebody just called Tim? Originally broadcast September 17, 2023 Willie Mitchell / That Driving BeatMitty Collier / Do It With ConfidenceThe Human Beinz / Nobody But MeOtis Redding / Don't Mess With CupidThe Velvelettes / These Things Will Keep Me Loving YouGene Chandler / A Song Called SoulThe Impressions / You've Been Cheatin'Smokey Johnson / I Can't Help It (Part 1)Lynn Martini & the Jolly Jax / NowThe Valentines / BreakawayTony Clarke / Landslide Louis Curry / I'll Try Again TomorrowLong John Baldry / Let Him Go (And Let Me Love You)Lou Johnson / If I Never Get To Love YouBilly Stewart / SummertimeErnie K-Doe / Mother In LawPaul Revere & The Raiders / Have Love, Will TravelChubby Checker / Back In The U.S.S.R.The Contours / Just a Little MisunderstandingThe Olympics / Do the Slauson ShuffleEdwin Starr / Agent Double-O-SoulJackie Wilson And Count Basie / Chain GangChubby Checker / (At the) DiscothequeJimmy George / It Was Fun While it LastedJ. J. Barnes / Real HumdingerRay Charles / If You Were MineJames Carr / That's What I Want To KnowThe Best Of Both Worlds / Moma Bakes BuiscuitsLittle Carl Carlton / Competition Ain't Nothin'Gerry and the Pacemakers / JambalayaMartha & The Vandellas / One Way OutTina Britt / LookThe Elgins / Heaven Must Have Sent YouThe Patty Cakes / I Understand Them (A Love Song to The Beatles)Bobby Hebb / Love, Love, LoveTim / I Need Your LoveDobie Gray / Out on the FloorLen Barry / 1-2-3 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

**Jim Hughes & The Disco Direction Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Month Jim Features a Disco Compilation Extravaganza. Featuring Brandi Wells, Teri Sario, High Fashion, Rhyze, Gene Chandler, Leroy Burgess, Carol Williams, Tavares, Brass Construction, Mystic Merlin, Logg, Kinky Foxx, Patti Jo & More. Catch Jim Hughes The First Tuesday Of Every Month From 9PM UK Time #traxfm #DiscoDirectionShow #jimhughes #soul #funk #disco #discocharts #boogie #philly #salsoul #70s #danceclassics Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : facebook.com/original103.3 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

My selection for the King of an immortal Rhythm and Blues anthem and character goes to a Duke.Mr. Eugene Dixon became known internationally as Gene Chandler.In 1962 his hymn to Royal Hi Fidelity, "The Duke Of Earl", conquered our imagination and romantic reverie as he conceived an eternal figure sporting a signature cape, top hot and cane. His Dukedom was a "Paradise We Could Share".In his song "Keeping The Faith", Billy Joel delivered a tribute to the persona Mr. Chandler invoked upon writing the line:"I thought I was the Duke of EarlWhen I made it with a red-haired girl In the Chevrolet."I never imagined Chevy's or Drive In Theaters in the Dukedom, but I get where the Piano Man was coming from.Gene's other achievements in the key of soulful blue are also melodic autographs of greatness."Rainbow" (released as three separate incarnations in '62, '65 and '80 suggest it's potent importance), "Just Be True" and the enduring catchy hook of 1970's "Groovy Situation" display a vocal aptitude comfortable within Doo Wop, Blues, Gospel, Soul or just good old Popular Music.Up until last year, The Duke continued to walk on, appearing at multiple venues at the age of 83.As one of my Top 20 singers and performers ,Gene Chandler will always remain a testament to the everlasting truth of a music that has embraced my life with a spiritual honor and an impassioned faithfulness to which I owe a great debt.Now Let's Walk On With The Duke!

RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey is joined again by Vidar Hjardeng MBE, Inclusion and Diversity Consultant for ITV News across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands for the next in his regular Connect Radio theatre reviews. This week Vidar was reviewing Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage as the UK and Ireland touring production visited the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham on Saturday 22 July at 2.30pm with description by professional Audio Describer Anne Hornsby.  The Story It's the summer of 1963, and 17 year-old Frances ‘Baby' Houseman is about to learn some major lessons in life as well as a thing or two about dancing. On holiday in New York's Catskill Mountains with her older sister and parents, she shows little interest in the resort activities, and instead discovers her own entertainment when she stumbles across an all-night dance party at the staff quarters. Mesmerised by the raunchy dance moves and the pounding rhythms, Baby can't wait to be part of the scene, especially when she catches sight of Johnny Castle the resort dance instructor. Her life is about to change forever as she is thrown in at the deep end as Johnny's leading lady both on-stage and off, and two fiercely independent young spirits from different worlds come together in what will be the most challenging and triumphant summer of their lives. The Music Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage features hit songs including ‘Hungry Eyes', ‘Hey! Baby', ‘Do You Love Me?' and the heart-stopping ‘(I've Had) The Time Of My Life'. Many favourite original masters feature within this stage sensation which blends the movie soundtrack seamlessly with live performances by our cast. Some of these classic tracks include ‘Cry To Me' by the larger-than-life rhythm & blues singer Solomon Burke, the No.1 hit single ‘Hey! Baby' by Bruce Channel and ‘These Arms of Mine', Otis Redding's first solo record. Other artists featured include Gene Chandler, The Chantels, The Drifters, Marvin Gaye, Lesley Gore, Mickey & Sylvia, The Surfaris and Django Reinhardt. The History Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage originally opened at London's Aldwych Theatre in 2006 with a record-breaking advance of £15 million, making it the fastest ever selling show in West End theatre history. The production became the longest running show in the history of the Aldwych Theatre and played to over 2 million people during its triumphant 5 year run. Since its Australian debut in 2004, Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage has become a worldwide phenomenon, with productions staged in the USA, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore and throughout Europe, consistently breaking box office records. Recent sell out tours include France, Germany and Australia. The first ever UK tour of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage launched in 2011 and then returned to the West End in 2013 playing at the Piccadilly Theatre in London, prior to launching a second UK and Ireland tour. A further tour and West End Christmas season followed in 2016/17. It went on to embark on a 2018/19 tour, entertaining audiences up and down the country. More details about the current UK and Ireland tour of Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story on Stage along with performance venues, dates and times can be found on the following website - https://dirtydancingonstage.co.uk/uk-and-ireland/tour-dates/ Image: RNIB Connect Radio Bright Green 20th Anniversary Logo

This week, Pete brings a fresh batch of new music to the table, with tracks from The Sextones, The Faithful Brothers, Thee Marloes plus 2 from the new Bahama Soul Club album. There are classic tracks from James Brown and Arnold Blair, plus birthday celebrations for Bill Withers, Mavis Staples & Gene Chandler. Finally, Pete pays his respects to the recent passing of Vicki Anderson. Tune into new broadcasts of the Superfly Funk & Soul Show, LIVE, Friday from 10 AM - 12 PM EST / 3 - 5 PM GMT.For more info visit: https://thefaceradio.com/superfly-funk-and-soul-show///Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

**Jim Hughes & The Disco Direction Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Month Jim Featured The Mighty Boogie Year Of 1980. Featuring Loleatta Holloway, Herbie Hancock, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Gene Chandler, Rafael Cameron, Rhyze, The Temptations, Bonnie Pointer, Queen, Diana Ross, Lonnie Liston Smith, Kool & The Gang, Chuck Cissel, Ashford & Simpson, Narada Michael Walden & More. Catch Jim Hughes The First Tuesday Of Every Month From 9PM UK Time #traxfm #DiscoDirectionShow #jimhughes #soul #funk #disco #discocharts #boogie #philly #salsoul #70s #danceclassics Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : facebook.com/original103.3 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

**Kev White's White House Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Week Kev Gave Us Boogie, Dance & Pop Classics, (& Tunes You Have Not Heard In Years), From Yazoo, ZZ Top, Guns N Roses, Tina Turner, The Stranglers, Stevie Nicks, Ray Parker JNR, Glen Campbell, Gene Chandler, Golden Earing, Leo Sayer, Graham Bonnet, The Dooleys & More Catch Kev White's The White House Show Every Thursday From 7PM UK Time The Station: traxfm.org #traxfm #boogie #danceclassics #classics #retro #remixes Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : facebook.com/original103.3 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

This week we have the pleasure of chatting with RICKY BYRD -- guitarist, songwriter, current solo artist, former member of the classic line-up of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee. In this interview, Ricky talks about learning Beatles and Stones songs off the radio as a kid, seeing bands at the Fillmore East, Max's Kansas City, and Nobody's, seeing Queen open for Mott the Hoople, his time as the lead guitarist with the Blackhearts, playing with the likes of Paul McCartney, Mavis Staples, Ian Hunter, Gene Chandler, Roger Daltrey, Sheila E, Eddie Money, his experiences in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame house band, his extensive work as a recovery troubadour, and his newest singles “Alien” and “Glamdemic Blues.” To learn more about Ricky and his music, visit rickybyrd.com To get resources to help with recovery, visit allsober.com We hope you enjoyed our interview with Ricky Byrd! Let us know! Drop us a line at modernmusicology1@gmail.com or leave a comment wherever you find our episode! And don't forget to rate us on your favorite podcast app!  Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ModernMusicology Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/modernmusicologypodcast/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ModrnMusicology Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk-MlcGy5u3fK1j4bVty1Kw Modern Musicology is part of the ESO Podcast Network. https://esonetwork.com/ Find more about us: Rob Levy: https://kdhx.org/shows/show/juxtaposition Stephanie Seymour: www.therearebirds.com  R. Alan Siler: www.kozmiccreative.com  Anthony Williams: https://watchers4d.podbean.com/ 

**Kev White's White House Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Week Kev Gave Us Boogie, Dance & Pop Classics, (& Tunes You Have Not Heard In Years), From Prince, Gene Chandler, Howard Jones, The Communards, Bill Withers, David Soul, Rod Stewart, Patrick Hernandez, Mungo Jerry,Johnny Bristol, George Harrison & More Catch Kev White's The White House Show Every Thursday From 7PM UK Time The Station: traxfm.org #traxfm #boogie #danceclassics #classics #retro #remixes Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : facebook.com/original103.3 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 749, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: U.s Place Names 1: Anne Arundel County in this state is named for the wife of the second Lord Baltimore. Maryland. 2: A city near L.A. is named for this novelist from New England; wonder how many "scarlet" women live there. (Nathaniel) Hawthorne. 3: This New Mexico city was named for a railroad paymaster, not for a pollster. Gallup. 4: Motley County in this state wasn't named for Motley Crue but for a man wounded in the Battle of San Jacinto. Texas. 5: A dozen U.S. counties are named for this 19th century politician, a "Little Giant" indeed. (Stephen) Douglas. Round 2. Category: Royal Houses 1: George I’s father was elector of this, hence its turnover into a house name. Hanover. 2: This dynasty’s last 3 monarchs, including Mary I, died childless. Tudor. 3: As a member of this house, it sounds like James I could have starred in “Harvey”. Stuart. 4: It could be called the house of Citrus sinensis. Orange. 5: This Shakespeare play sounds like it’s about the better halves of George V and George VI. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Round 3. Category: File Under "E" 1: The motto on the Great Seal of the U.S.: "Out of many, one". "E Pluribus Unum". 2: Gene Chandler is the Duke of Earl and Prince Philip is the duke of this city. Edinburgh. 3: Eritrea, now the northernmost province of this country, was an Italian colony from 1890-1941. Ethiopia. 4: 3-sided sword that's a familiar word to fencers and crossword puzzle enthusiasts. epee. 5: This ancient Greek city in Asia Minor was the site of the temple of Artemis. Ephesus. Round 4. Category: Chat Room Cliches 1: FWIW:"For"this. For what it's worth. 2: BTW:"By"this. By the way. 3: LOL:"Laughing"this way. Laughing out loud. 4: IMHO:"In my"this. In my humble opinion. 5: HTH:"Hope this"does this. Hope this helps. Round 5. Category: Oscar-Winning Roles 1: Mary Poppins. Julie Andrews. 2: Hannibal Lecter. Anthony Hopkins. 3: Rooster Cogburn. John Wayne. 4: Mexican cop Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez. Benicio Del Toro. 5: 2009:He was really good as Bad Blake. Jeff Bridges. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Dancefloor Memories with Patrick Hawkins, 60 Minutes of Disco, Soul and Funk Podcast. Classic tracks, Dancefloor fillers from, Bell and James, Diana Ross, The Emotions, Brian Power ft The Lewis Sisters, Evelyn King, new tracks from, Rose Spearman, Norman Hutchings, Hil St Soul, Cool Million ft Susanne Orum, and more classic tracks from Gene Chandler and Chic. Just settle down with a long drink and chill or boogie around your kitchen to tracks others would never dream of playing! Spread the word, give me a like and follow my Podcast. Much Love Pat

**The Groove Doctors Tuesday's Drive Time Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Week The Groove Doctor Featured Boogie/80's/Rare Grooves & Contemporary Soul, Tracks From Gwen McCrae. Vaughan Mason. Gene Chandler. Raw Silk. Lowrell. The Jones Girls. Howard Johnson. The Bar-Kays. Rick Clarke. Slave & More . The Groove Doctors Drive Time Show Live Tuesday's & Friday's At 5PM UK Time The Station: traxfm.org #traxfm #groovedoctor #drivetimeshow #soul #funk #boogie #raregrooves #70dance #80dance #70ssoul #80ssoul #disco #neosoul #r&b #groovedoctor #contemporarysoul Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : facebook.com/original103.3 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Tune In Radio : tunein.com/radio/Trax-FM-s225176 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/TraxFM..TheOriginals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

Nueva entrega de este esporádico coleccionable dedicado a rescatar éxitos mayores y menores del gran abanico de estilos que dieron forma a la música popular de los años 60. Playlist; (sintonía) THE SURFARIS “Wipe out” DICK DALE and HIS DELTONES “The Scavenger” MANFRED MANN “5-4-3-2-1” THE EXCITERS “Do wah diddy” RANDY and THE RAINBOWS “Denise” ELVIS PRESLEY “Kissin’ cusins” THE APPLEJACKS “Hello Josephine” THE SEARCHERS “Listen to me” MIKE BERRY “Tribute to Buddy Holly” ROY ORBISON “Bye bye love” THE ANIMALS “Baby let me take you home” HELEN SHAPIRO “When I’m with you” BOB DYLAN “It’s all over now baby blue” THE BYRDS “All I really want to do” GENE CHANDLER “Duke of earl” THE PEARLETTES “Duchess of Earl” THE ROOFTOP SINGERS “Walk right in” BRENDA LEE “Is it true” EARL JEAN “I’m going into something good” RON HOLDEN “Love you so” Escuchar audio

**It's The Relax With Rendell Show Replay On Trax FM & Rendell Radio. Rendell Featured Boogie, Dance Classics, Contemporary Soul & Easy Listening From Brooklyn Dreams, Celena Duncan, Direct Current, Freddie James, Gene Chandler, Hudsons, Lakeside, Pleasure, Undisputed Truth & More. Catch Rendell Every Saturday From 8PM UK Time The Stations: Trax FM & Rendell Radio #traxfm #rendellradio #soul #funk #70ssoul #80ssoul #60s #boogie #disco #raregrooves #soulclassics #reggae #nusoul #relaxwithrendell Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : facebook.com/original103.3 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Tune In Radio : tunein.com/radio/Trax-FM-s225176 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

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Singer and music producer Gene Chandler joins Bob Sirott to discuss what he remembers about the “Duke of Earl” recording session, where he got the idea for his “Duke” persona, and his experiences as a performer, producer, and manager. He also talked about his retirement from the stage, some exciting moments from his career, and […]

This episode is part of Pledge Week 2022. Every day this week, I'll be posting old Patreon bonus episodes of the podcast which will have this short intro. These are short, ten- to twenty-minute bonus podcasts which get posted to Patreon for my paying backers every time I post a new main episode -- there are well over a hundred of these in the archive now. If you like the sound of these episodes, then go to patreon.com/andrewhickey and subscribe for as little as a dollar a month or ten dollars a year to get access to all those bonus episodes, plus new ones as they appear. Click below for the transcript Transcript Today we're going to look at a record which I actually originally intended to do a full episode on, but by an artist about whom there simply isn't enough information out there to pull together a full episode -- though some of this information will show up in other contexts in future episodes. So we're going to have a Patreon bonus episode on one of the great soul-pop records of the mid 1960s -- "Rescue Me" by Fontella Bass: [Excerpt: Fontella Bass, "Rescue Me"] Fontella Bass was actually a second-generation singer. Her mother, Martha Bass, was a great gospel singer, who had been trained by Willie Mae Ford Smith, who was often considered the greatest female gospel singer of the twentieth century but who chose only to perform live and on the radio rather than make records. Martha Bass had sung for a short time with the Clara Ward Singers, one of the most important and influential of gospel groups: [Excerpt: The Clara Ward Singers, "Wasn't It A Pity How They Punished My Lord?"] Fontella had been trained by her mother, but she got her start in secular music rather than the gospel music her mother stuck to. She spent much of the early sixties working as a piano player and singer in the band of Little Milton, the blues singer. I don't know exactly which records of his she's on, but she was likely on his top twenty R&B hit "So Mean to Me": [Excerpt: Little Milton, "So Mean to Me"] One night, Little Milton didn't turn up for a show, and so Bass was asked to take the lead vocals until he arrived. Milton's bandleader Oliver Sain was impressed with her voice, and when he quit working with Milton the next year, he took Bass with him, starting up a new act, "The Oliver Sain Soul Revue featuring Fontella and Bobby McClure". She signed to Bobbin Records, where she cut "I Don't Hurt Any More", a cover of an old Hank Snow country song, in 1962: [Excerpt: Fontella Bass, "I Don't Hurt Any More"] After a couple of records with Bobbin, she signed up with Ike Turner, who by this point was running a couple of record labels. She released a single backed by the Ikettes, "My Good Loving": [Excerpt: Fontella Bass, "My Good Loving"] And a duet with Tina Turner, "Poor Little Fool": [Excerpt: Fontella Bass and Tina Turner, "Poor Little Fool"] At the same time she was still working with Sain and McClure, and Sain's soul revue got signed to Checker records, the Chess subsidiary, which was now starting to make soul records, usually produced by Roquel Davis, Berry Gordy's former collaborator, and written or co-written by Carl Smith. These people were also working with Jackie Wilson at Brunswick, and were part of the same scene as Carl Davis, the producer who had worked with Curtis Mayfield, Major Lance, Gene Chandler and the rest. So this was a thriving scene -- not as big as the scenes in Memphis or Detroit, but definitely a group of people who were capable of making big soul hits.  Bass and McClure recorded a couple of duo singles with Checker, starting with "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing": [Excerpt: Fontella Bass and Bobby McClure, "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing"] That made the top forty on the pop charts, and number five on the R&B charts. But the follow-up only made the R&B top forty and didn't make the pop charts at all. But Bass would soon release a solo recording, though one with prominent backing vocals by Minnie Ripperton, that would become one of the all-time soul classics -- a Motown soundalike that was very obviously patterned after the songs that Holland, Dozier, and Holland were writing, and which captured their style perfectly: [Excerpt: Fontella Bass, "Rescue Me"] There's some dispute as to who actually wrote "Rescue Me". The credited songwriters are Carl Smith and Raynard Miner, but Bass has repeatedly claimed that she wrote most of the song herself, and that Roquel Davis had assured her that she would be fairly compensated, but she never was. According to Bass, when she finally got her first royalty cheque from Chess, she was so disgusted at the pitiful amount of money she was getting that she tore the cheque up and threw it back across the desk. Her follow-up to "Rescue Me", "Recovery", didn't do so well, making the lower reaches of the pop top forty: [Excerpt: Fontella Bass, "Recovery"] Several more singles were released off Bass' only album on Chess, but she very quickly became disgusted with the whole mainstream music industry. By this point she'd married the avant-garde jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie, and she started performing with his group, the Art Ensemble of Chicago. The music she recorded with the group is excellent, but if anyone bought The Art Ensemble of Chicago With Fontella Bass, the first of the two albums she recorded with the group, expecting something like "Rescue Me", they were probably at the very least bemused by what they got -- two twenty-minute-long tracks that sound like this: [Excerpt: The Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass: "How Strange/Ole Jed"] In between the two albums she recorded with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bass also recorded a second solo album, but after it had little success she largely retired from music to raise her four children, though she would make the odd guest appearance on her husband's records. In the 1990s she made a few gospel records with her mother and her younger brother, the R&B singer David Peaston, and toured a little both on the nostalgia circuit and performing gospel, but she never returned to being a full-time musician. Both she and her brother died in 2012, Peaston from complications of diabetes, Bass from a heart attack after a series of illnesses. "Rescue Me" was her only big hit, and she retired at a point when she was still capable of making plenty of interesting music, but Fontella Bass still had a far more interesting, and fulfilling, career than many other artists who continue trying to chase the ghost of their one hit. She made music on her own terms, and nobody else's, right up until the end.

Morgan State University Research Professor Ray Winbush reports to our classroom on Thursday morning. Dr. Winbush will discuss the January 6th hearings and Trump's alleged behavior. Dr. Winbush will also examine the recent Supreme Court rulings on abortion & Guns and what they mean for the Black Community. Before we hear from Dr. Winbush, The Duke of Earl Gene Chandler closes out our Black Music Month series. We'll start with researcher Edison Walters on the housing bubble & the 07 Financial crisis.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This note buying panel discussion was recorded during RPOA's 2022 conference. We were joined by two incredible experts who helped us understand the difference between performing and non-performing notes, the challenges of investing in notes, and specific examples of wins & losses. After the discussion, we opened up the floor for Q&A from the audience. I'd like to introduce our experts… Donna Bauer Donna Bauer is a trainer and coach who has done every type of real estate transaction: buying, selling, leasing—everything having to do with real property. She's also done every type of note deal whether it be performing, non-performing, seller-financed or anything in-between, and she will tell you that hands-down she prefers paper over property any day of the week. Gene Chandler Gene has 48 years of real estate investing experience and is the asset manager for Chandler & Chandler Financial, which specializes in buying one-off and large and small pools of distressed assets directly from banks, hedge funds, and private equity groups. Gene currently asset manages over $3.5 million in performing and non-performing notes. Full disclosure: Gene and I have invested in many notes together and have experienced a few losses, as well as a few grand slam homeruns. Today's episode is brought to you by Green Property Management, managing everything from single family homes to apartment complexes in the West Michigan area. https://www.livegreenlocal.com And RCB & Associates, helping Michigan-based real estate investors and small business owners navigate the complex world of health insurance and medicare benefits. https://www.rcbassociatesllc.com

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1. Avicii vs. Nicky Romero - I Could Be The One (Trap Remix)2. Drake ft Future vs Darude - Way 2 Sexy vs. Sandstorm (Trap Bootleg)3. Luude, Colin Hay - Down Under (Original Mix)4. Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind5. 50 Cent - In Da Club6. Fat Joe Ft. Ashanti - What's Luv7. Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft Justin Bieber vs Dillon Francis - Despacito8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California9. Sam Feldt ft Lateshift - The Riddle10. 3 Doors Down  - Kryptonite 11. Taylor Swift vs Lynyrd Skynyrd  - 22 vs. Sweet Home Alabama12. Snoop Dogg feat Kurupt vs. Nate Dogg vs. Warren G  - Aint No Fun13. Papa Roach vs Fabian Mazur vs Vicious - Last Resort (Trap Bootleg)14. Digital Underground vs. Lil Jon - The Humpty Dance15. Diddy (Dirty Money) ft T.I. - Hello Good Morning16. Nelly - Hot In Herre17. Gene Chandler vs Slick Rick - Duke Of Earl vs Mona Lisa18. Eminem - Without Me19. Zedd ft Foxes vs. Murat Salman & Nickobella - Clarity vs Walking (Danny Diggz Bootleg)20. Madonna - Music21. M-22 ft Lorne - Think About Us22. Paco Versailles - Ventura Highway23. Snakehips ft EARTHGANG - Run It Up24. Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd - Moth To A Flame25. The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud To Beg26. Viva La Panda ft Next To Neon - With Or Without You27. Xuitcasecity - Summer In The City28. Daft Punk - Around The World29. Billie Eilish - Your Power (Charlie Lane Remix)30. Nari vs Spice Girls - Lovers (Original Mix) www.djroyski.comwww.patreon.com/royskiwww.mixcloud.com/djroyskiwww.facebook.com/djroyskiwww.twitter.com/djroyski

Episode 124 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “People Get Ready", the Impressions, and the early career of Curtis Mayfield.  Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-minute bonus episode available, on "I'm Henry VIII I Am" by Herman's Hermits. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources As usual, I've created a Mixcloud playlist, with full versions of all the songs excerpted in this episode. A lot of resources were used for this episode. Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs by Guy and Candie Carawan is a combination oral history of the Civil Rights movement and songbook. Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power by Aaron Cohen is a history of Chicago soul music and the way it intersected with politics. Traveling Soul: The Life of Curtis Mayfield  by Todd Mayfield with Travis Atria is a biography of Mayfield by one of his sons, and rather better than one might expect given that. Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul by Craig Werner looks at the parallels and divergences in the careers of its three titular soul stars. This compilation has a decent selection of recordings Mayfield wrote and produced for other artists on OKeh in the early sixties. This single-CD set of Jerry Butler recordings contains his Impressions recordings as well as several songs written or co-written by Mayfield. This double-CD of Major Lance's recordings contains all the hits Mayfield wrote for him. And this double-CD collection has all the Impressions' singles from 1961 through 1968. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript A couple of episodes ago we had a look at one of the first classic protest songs of the soul genre. Today we're going to look at how Sam Cooke's baton was passed on to another generation of soul singer/songwriters, and at one of the greatest songwriters of that generation. We're going to look at the early career of Curtis Mayfield, and at "People Get Ready" by the Impressions: [Excerpt: The Impressions, "People Get Ready"] A quick note before I start this one -- there is no way in this episode of avoiding dealing with the fact that the Impressions' first hit with a Curtis Mayfield lead vocal has, in its title, a commonly used word for Romany people beginning with "g" that many of those people regard as a slur -- while others embrace the term for themselves. I've thought long and hard about how to deal with this, and the compromise I've come up with is that I will use excerpts from the song, which will contain that word, but I won't use the word myself. I'm not happy with that compromise, but it's the best I can do. It's unfortunate that that word turns up a *lot* in music in the period I'm covering -- it's basically impossible to avoid. Anyway, on with the show... Curtis Mayfield is one of those musicians who this podcast will almost by definition underserve -- my current plan is to do a second episode on him, but if this was a thousand-song podcast he would have a *lot* more than just two episodes. He was one of the great musical forces of the sixties and seventies, and listeners to the Patreon bonus episodes will already have come across him several times before, as he was one of those musicians who becomes the centre of a whole musical scene, writing and producing for most of the other soul musicians to come out of Chicago in the late fifties and early 1960s. Mayfield grew up in Chicago, in the kind of poverty that is, I hope, unimaginable to most of my listeners. He had to become "the man of the house" from age five, looking after his younger siblings as his mother went out looking for work, as his father abandoned his family, moved away, and changed his name. His mother was on welfare for much of the time, and Mayfield's siblings have talked about how their special Christmas meal often consisted of cornbread and syrup, and they lived off beans, rice, and maybe a scrap of chicken neck every two weeks. They were so hungry so often that they used to make a game of it -- drinking water until they were full, and then making sloshing noises with their bellies, laughing at them making noises other than rumbling. But while his mother was poor, Mayfield saw that there was a way to escape from poverty. Specifically, he saw it in his paternal grandmother, the Reverend A.B. Mayfield, a Spiritualist priest, who was the closest thing to a rich person in his life. For those who don't know what Spiritualism is, it's one of the many new religious movements that sprouted up in the Northeastern US in the mid to late nineteenth centuries, like the Holiness Movement (which became Pentecostalism), the New Thought, Christian Science, Mormonism, and the Jehovah's Witnesses. Spiritualists believe, unlike mainstream Christianity, that it is possible to communicate with the spirits of the dead, and that those spirits can provide information about the afterlife, and about the nature of God and angels. If you've ever seen, either in real life or in a fictional depiction, a medium communicating with spirits through a seance, that's spiritualism. There are numbers of splinter spiritualist movements, and the one Reverend Mayfield, and most Black American Spiritualists at this time, belonged to was one that used a lot of elements of Pentecostalism and couched its teachings in the Bible -- to an outside observer not conversant with the theology, it might seem no different from any other Black church of the period, other than having a woman in charge. But most other churches would not have been funded by their presiding minister's winnings from illegal gambling, as she claimed to have the winning numbers in the local numbers racket come to her in dreams, and won often enough that people believed her. Reverend Mayfield's theology also incorporated elements from the Nation of Islam, which at that time was growing in popularity, and was based in Chicago. Chicago was also the home of gospel music -- it was where Sister Rosetta Tharpe had got her start and where Mahalia Jackson and Thomas Dorsey and the Soul Stirrers were all based -- and so of course Reverend Mayfield's church got its own gospel quartet, the Northern Jubilee Singers. They modelled themselves explicitly on the Soul Stirrers, who at the time were led by Sam Cooke: [Excerpt: The Soul Stirrers, "Jesus Gave Me Water"] Curtis desperately wanted to join the Northern Jubilee Singers, and particularly admired their lead singer, Jerry Butler, as well as being a huge fan of their inspiration Sam Cooke. But he was too young -- he was eight years old, and the group members were twelve and thirteen, an incommensurable gap at that age. So Curtis couldn't join the Jubilee singers, but he kept trying to perform, and not just with gospel -- as well as gospel, Chicago was also the home of electric blues, being where Chess Records was based, and young Curtis Mayfield was surrounded by the music of people like Muddy Waters: [Excerpt: Muddy Waters, "Rollin' and Tumblin'"] And so as well as singing gospel songs, he started singing and playing the blues, inspired by Waters, Little Walter, and other Chess acts. His first instrument was the piano, and young Curtis found that he naturally gravitated to the black keys -- he liked the sound of those best, and didn't really like playing the white keys. I won't get into the music theory too much here, but the black keys on a piano make what is called a pentatonic scale -- a five-note scale that is actually the basis for most folk music forms, whether Celtic folk, Indian traditional music, the blues, bluegrass, Chinese traditional music... pentatonic scales have been independently invented by almost every culture, and you might think of them as the "natural" music, what people default to. The black notes on the piano make that scale in the key of F#: [Excerpt: pentatonic scale in F#] The notes in that are F#, G#, A#, C#, and D#. When young Curtis found a guitar in his grandmother's closet, he didn't like the way it sounded -- if you strum the open strings of a guitar they don't make a chord (well, every combination of notes is a chord, but they don't make one most people think of as pleasant) -- the standard guitar tuning is E, A, D, G, B, E. Little Curtis didn't like this sound, so he retuned the guitar to F#, A#, C#, F#, A#, F# -- notes from the chord of F#, and all of them black keys on the piano. Now, tuning a guitar to open chords is a fairly standard thing to do -- guitarists as varied as Keith Richards, Steve Cropper, and Dolly Parton tune their guitars to open chords -- but doing it to F# is something that pretty much only Mayfield ever did, and it meant his note choices were odd ones. He would later say with pride that he used to love it when other guitarists picked up his guitar, because no matter how good they were they couldn't play on his instrument. He quickly became extremely proficient as a blues guitarist, and his guitar playing soon led the Northern Jubilee Singers to reconsider having him in the band. By the time he was eleven he was a member of the group and travelling with them to gospel conventions all over the US. But he had his fingers in multiple musical pies -- he formed a blues group, who would busk outside the pool-hall where his uncle was playing, and he also formed a doo-wop group, the Alphatones, who became locally popular. Jerry Butler, the Jubilee Singers' lead vocalist, had also joined a doo-wop group -- a group called the Roosters, who had moved up to Chicago from Chattanooga. Butler was convinced that to make the Roosters stand out, they needed a guitarist like Mayfield, but Mayfield at first remained uninterested -- he already had his own group, the Alphatones. Butler suggested that Mayfield should rehearse with both groups, three days a week each, and then stick with the group that was better. Soon Mayfield found himself a full-time member of the Roosters. In 1957, when Curtis was fifteen, the group entered a talent contest at a local school, headlined by the Medallionaires, a locally-popular group who had released a single on Mercury, "Magic Moonlight": [Excerpt: The Medallionaires, "Magic Moonlight"] The Medallionaires' manager, Eddie Thomas, had been around the music industry since he was a child – his stepfather had been the great blues pianist Big Maceo Merriweather, who had made records like "Worried Life Blues": [Excerpt: Big Maceo Merriweather, "Worried Life Blues"] Thomas hadn't had any success in the industry yet, but at this talent contest, the Roosters did a close-harmony version of Sam Cooke's "You Send Me", and Thomas decided that they had potential, especially Mayfield and Butler. He signed them to a management contract, but insisted they changed their name. They cast around for a long time to find something more suitable, and eventually decided on The Impressions, because they'd made such an impression on Thomas. The group were immediately taken by Thomas on a tour of the large indie labels, and at each one they sang a song that members of the group had written, which was inspired by a song called "Open Our Eyes" by the Gospel Clefs: [Excerpt: The Gospel Clefs, "Open Our Eyes"] Herman Lubinsky at Savoy liked the song, and suggested that Jerry speak-sing it, which was a suggestion the group took up, but he passed on them. So did Ralph Bass at King. Mercury Records gave them some session work, but weren't able to sign the group themselves -- the session was with the big band singer Eddie Howard, singing backing vocals on a remake of "My Last Goodbye", a song he'd recorded multiple times before. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to track down a copy of that recording, the Impressions' first, only Howard's other recordings of the song. Eventually, the group got the interest of a tiny label called Bandera, whose owner Vi Muszynski was interested -- but she had to get the approval of Vee-Jay Records, the larger label that distributed Bandera's records. Vee-Jay was a very odd label. It was one of a tiny number of Black-owned record labels in America at the time, and possibly the biggest of them, and it's interesting to compare them to Chess Records, which was based literally across the road. Both put out R&B records, but Chess was white-owned and specialised in hardcore Chicago electric blues -- Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter and so on. Vee-Jay, on the other hand, certainly put out its fair share of that kind of music, but they also put out a lot of much smoother doo-wop and early soul, and they would have their biggest hits a few years after this, not with blues artists, but with the Four Seasons, and with their licensing of British records by Frank Ifield and the Beatles. Both Vee-Jay and Chess were aiming at a largely Black market, but Black-owned Vee-Jay was much more comfortable with white pop acts than white-owned Chess. Muszynski set up an audition with Calvin Carter, the head of A&R at Vee-Jay, and selected the material the group were to perform for Carter -- rather corny songs the group were not at all comfortable with. They ran through that repertoire, and Carter said they sounded good but didn't they have any originals? They played a couple of originals, and Carter wasn't interested in those. Then Carter had a thought -- did they have any songs they felt ashamed of playing for him? Something that they didn't normally do? They did -- they played that song that the group had written, the one based on "Open Our Eyes". It was called "For Your Precious Love", and Carter immediately called in another group, the Spaniels, who were favourites of the Impressions and had had hits with records like "Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite": [Excerpt: The Spaniels, "Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite"] Carter insisted on the Impressions singing their song for the Spaniels, and Butler in particular was very worried -- he assumed that Carter just wanted to take their song and give it to the bigger group. But after they played the song again, the Spaniels all enthused about how great the Impressions were and what a big hit the Impressions were going to have with the song. They realised that Carter just *really liked* them and the song, and wanted to show them off. The group went into the studio, and recorded half a dozen takes of "For Your Precious Love", but none of them came off correctly. Eventually Carter realised what the problem was -- Mayfield wasn't a member of the musicians' union, and so Carter had hired session guitarists, but they couldn't play the song the way Mayfield did. Eventually, Carter got the guitarists to agree to take the money, not play, and not tell the union if he got Mayfield to play on the track instead of them. After that, they got it in two takes: [Excerpt: Jerry Butler and the Impressions, "For Your Precious Love"] When it came out, the record caused a major problem for the group, because they discovered when they saw the label that it wasn't credited to "The Impressions", but to "Jerry Butler and the Impressions". The label had decided that they were going to follow the strategy that had worked for so many acts before -- put out records credited to "Singer and Group", and then if they were successful develop that into two separate acts. To his credit, Butler immediately insisted that the record company get the label reprinted, but Vee-Jay said that wasn't something they could do. It was too late, the record was going out as Jerry Butler and the Impressions and that was an end to it. The group were immediately put on the promotional circuit -- there was a rumour that Roy Hamilton, the star who had had hits with "Unchained Melody" and "Ebb Tide", was going to put out a cover version, as the song was perfectly in his style, and so the group needed to get their version known before he could cut his cover. They travelled to Philadelphia, where they performed for the DJ Georgie Woods. We talked about Woods briefly last episode -- he was the one who would later coin the term "blue-eyed soul" to describe the Righteous Brothers -- and Woods was also the person who let Dick Clark know what the important Black records were, so Clark could feature them on his show. Woods started to promote the record, and suddenly Jerry Butler and the Impressions were huge -- "For Your Precious Love" made number three on the R&B charts and number eleven on the pop charts. Their next session produced another hit, "Come Back My Love", although that only made the R&B top thirty and was nowhere near as big a hit: [Excerpt: Jerry Butler and the Impressions, "Come Back My Love"] That would be the last time the original lineup of the Impressions would record together. Shortly afterwards, before a gig in Texas, Jerry Butler called the President of the record label to sort out a minor financial problem. Once the problem had been sorted out, the president put the phone down, but then one of the other Impressions, Arthur Brooks, asked if he could have a word. Butler explained that the other person had hung up, and Brooks went ballistic, saying that Butler thought he was in charge, and thought that he could do all the talking for the group. Well, if he thought that, he could do all the singing too. Brooks and his brother Richard weren't going on stage. Sam Gooden said he wasn't going on either -- he'd been an original Rooster with the Brooks brothers before Butler had joined the group, and he was siding with them. That left Curtis Mayfield. Mayfield said he was still going on stage, because he wanted to get paid. The group solidarity having crumbled, Gooden changed his mind and said he might as well go on with them, so Butler, Mayfield, and Gooden went on as a trio. Butler noticed that the audience didn't notice a difference -- they literally didn't know the Brooks brothers existed -- and that was the point at which he decided to go solo. The Impressions continued without Butler, with Mayfield, Gooden, and the Brooks brothers recruiting Fred Cash, who had sung with the Roosters when they were still in Tennessee. Mayfield took over the lead vocals and soon started attracting the same resentment that Butler had. Vee-Jay dropped the Impressions, and they started looking round for other labels and working whatever odd jobs they could. Mayfield did get some work from Vee-Jay, though, working as a session player on records by people like Jimmy Reed. There's some question about which sessions Mayfield actually played -- I've seen conflicting information in different sessionographies -- but it's at least possible that Mayfield's playing on Reed's most famous record, "Baby What You Want Me to Do": [Excerpt: Jimmy Reed, "Baby What You Want Me to Do"] And one of Mayfield's friends, a singer called Major Lance, managed to get himself a one-off single deal with Mercury Records after becoming a minor celebrity as a dancer on a TV show. Mayfield wrote that one single, though it wasn't a hit: [Excerpt: Major Lance, "I Got a Girl"] Someone else who wasn't having hits was Jerry Butler. By late 1960 it had been two years since "For Your Precious Love" and Butler hadn't made the Hot One Hundred in that time, though he'd had a few minor R&B hits. He was playing the chitlin' circuit, and in the middle of a tour, his guitarist quit. Butler phoned Mayfield, who had just received a four hundred dollar tax bill he couldn't pay -- a lot of money for an unemployed musician in 1960. Mayfield immediately joined Butler's band to pay off his back taxes, and he also started writing songs with Butler. "He Will Break Your Heart", a collaboration between the two (with Calvin Carter also credited), made the top ten on the pop chart and number one on the R&B chart: [Excerpt: Jerry Butler, "He Will Break Your Heart"] Even more important for Mayfield than writing a top ten hit, though, was his experience playing for Butler at the Harlem Apollo. Not because of the shows themselves, but because playing a residency in New York allowed him to hang out at the Turf, a restaurant near the Brill Building where all the songwriters would hang out. Or, more specifically, where all the *poorer* songwriters would hang out -- the Turf did roast beef sandwiches for fifty cents if you ate standing at the counter rather than seated at a table, and it also had twenty payphones, so all those songwriters who didn't have their own offices would do their business from the phone booths. Mayfield would hang out there to learn the secrets of the business, and that meant he learned the single most important lesson there is -- keep your own publishing. These writers, some of whom had written many hit songs, were living off twenty-five-dollar advances while the publishing companies were making millions. Mayfield also discovered that Sam Cooke, the man he saw as the model for how his career should go, owned his own publishing company. So he did some research, found out that it didn't actually cost anything to start up a publishing company, and started his own, Curtom, named as a portmanteau of his forename and the surname of Eddie Thomas, the Impressions' manager. While the Impressions' career was in the doldrums, Thomas, too, had been working for Butler, as his driver and valet, and he and Mayfield became close, sharing costs and hotel rooms in order to save money. Mayfield not only paid his tax bill, but by cutting costs everywhere he could he saved up a thousand dollars, which he decided to use to record a song he'd written specifically for the Impressions, not for Butler. (This is the song I mentioned at the beginning with the potential slur in the title. If you don't want to hear that, skip forward thirty seconds now): [Excerpt: The Impressions, "Gypsy Woman"] That track got the Impressions signed to ABC/Paramount records, and it made the top twenty on the pop charts and sold half a million copies, thanks once again to promotion from Georgie Woods. But once again, the follow-ups flopped badly, and the Brooks brothers quit the group, because they wanted to be doing harder-edged R&B in the mould of Little Richard, Hank Ballard, and James Brown, not the soft melodic stuff that Mayfield was writing. The Impressions continued as a three-piece group, and Mayfield would later say that this had been the making of them. A three-part harmony group allowed for much more spontaneity and trading of parts, for the singers to move freely between lead and backing vocals and to move into different parts of their ranges, where when they had been a five-piece group everything had been much more rigid, as if a singer moved away from his assigned part, he would find himself clashing with another singer's part. But as the group were not having hits, Mayfield was still looking for other work, and he found it at OKeh Records, which was going through something of a boom in this period thanks to the producer Carl Davis. Davis took Mayfield on as an associate producer and right-hand man,  primarily in order to get him as a guitarist, but Mayfield was also a valuable talent scout, backing vocalist, and especially songwriter. Working with Davis and arranger Johnny Pate, between 1963 and 1965 Mayfield wrote and played on a huge number of R&B hits for OKeh, including "It's All Over" by Walter Jackson: [Excerpt: Walter Jackson, "It's All Over"] "Gonna Be Good Times" for Gene Chandler: [Excerpt: Gene Chandler, "Gonna Be Good Times"] And a whole string of hits for Jerry Butler's brother Billy and his group The Enchanters, starting with "Gotta Get Away": [Excerpt: Billy Butler and the Enchanters, "Gotta Get Away"] But the real commercial success came from Mayfield's old friend Major Lance, who Mayfield got signed to OKeh. Lance had several minor hits written by Mayfield, but his big success came with a song that Mayfield had written for the Impressions, but decided against recording with them, as it was a novelty dance song and he didn't think that they should be doing that kind of material. The Impressions sang backing vocals on Major Lance's "The Monkey Time", written by Mayfield, which became a top ten pop hit: [Excerpt: Major Lance, "The Monkey Time"] Mayfield would write several more hits for Major Lance, including the one that became his biggest hit, "Um Um Um Um Um Um", which went top five pop and made number one on the R&B charts: [Excerpt: Major Lance, "Um Um Um Um Um Um (Curious Mind)"] So Mayfield was making hits for other people at a furious rate, but he was somehow unable to have hits with his own group. He was still pushing the Impressions, but they had to be a weekend commitment -- the group would play gigs all over the country at weekends, but Monday through Friday Mayfield was in the studio cutting hits for other people -- and he was also trying to keep up a relationship not only with his wife and first child, but with the woman who would become his second wife, with whom he was cheating on his first. He was young enough that he could just about keep this up -- he was only twenty at this point, though he was already a veteran of the music industry -- but it did mean that the Impressions were a lower priority than they might have been. At least, they were until, in August 1963, between those two huge Major Lance hits, Curtis Mayfield finally wrote another big hit for the Impressions -- their first in their new three-piece lineup. Everyone could tell "It's All Right" was a hit, and Gene Chandler begged to be allowed to record it, but Mayfield insisted that his new song was for his group: [Excerpt: The Impressions, "It's All Right"] "It's All Right" went to number four on the pop chart, and number one R&B. And this time, the group didn't mess up the follow-up.  Their next two singles, "Talking About My Baby" and "I'm So Proud", both made the pop top twenty, and the Impressions were now stars. Mayfield also took a trip to Jamaica around this time, with Carl Davis, to produce an album of Jamaican artists, titled "The Real Jamaica Ska", featuring acts like Lord Creator and Jimmy Cliff: [Excerpt: Jimmy Cliff, "Ska All Over the World"] But Mayfield was also becoming increasingly politically aware. As the Civil Rights movement in the US was gaining steam, it was also starting to expose broader systemic problems that affected Black people in the North, not just the South. In Chicago, while Black people had been able to vote for decades, and indeed were a substantial political power block, all that this actually meant in practice was that a few powerful self-appointed community leaders had a vested interest in keeping things as they were. Segregation still existed -- in 1963, around the time that "It's All Right" came out, there was a school strike in the city, where nearly a quarter of a million children refused to go to school. Black schools were so overcrowded that it became impossible for children to learn there, but rather than integrate the schools and let Black kids go to the less-crowded white schools, the head of public education in Chicago decided instead to make the children go to school in shifts, so some were going ridiculously early in the morning while others were having to go to school in the evening. And there were more difficult arguments going on around segregation among Black people in Chicago. The issues in the South seemed straightforward in comparison -- no Black person wanted to be lynched or to be denied the right to vote. But in Chicago there was the question of integrating the two musicians' union chapters in the city. Some Black proponents of integration saw merging the two union chapters as a way for Black musicians to get the opportunity to play lucrative sessions for advertising jingles and so on, which only went to white players. But a vocal minority of musicians were convinced that the upshot of integrating the unions would be that Black players would still be denied those jobs, but white players would start getting some of the soul and R&B sessions that only Black players were playing, and thought that the end result would be that white people would gentrify those areas of music and culture where Black people had carved out spaces for themselves, while still denying Black people the opportunity to move into the white spaces. Mayfield was deeply, deeply, invested in the Civil Rights movement, and the wider discourse as more radical voices started to gain strength in the movement. And he was particularly inspired by his hero, Sam Cooke, recording "A Change is Gonna Come".  As the rhetoric of the Civil Rights movement was so deeply rooted in religious language, it was natural that Mayfield would turn to the gospel music he'd grown up on for his own first song about these issues, "Keep on Pushing": [Excerpt: The Impressions, "Keep on Pushing"] That became another huge hit, making the top ten on the pop chart and number one on the R&B chart. It's instructive to look at reactions to the Impressions, and to Mayfield's sweet, melodic, singing. White audiences were often dismissive of the Impressions, believing they were attempting to sell out to white people and were therefore not Black enough -- a typical reaction is that of Arnold Shaw, the white music writer, who in 1970 referred to the Impressions as Oreos -- a derogatory term for people who are "Black on the outside, white inside". Oddly, though, Black audiences seem not to have recognised the expertise of elderly white men on who was Black enough, and despite white critics' protestations continued listening to and buying the Impressions' records, and incorporating Mayfield's songs into their activism. For example, Sing For Freedom, a great oral-history-cum-songbook which collects songs sung by Civil Rights activists, collected contemporaneously by folklorists, has no fewer than four Impressions songs included, in lightly adapted versions, as sung by the Chicago Freedom Movement, the group led by Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson and others, who campaigned for an end to housing segregation in Chicago. It quotes Jimmy Collier, a Black civil rights activist and folk singer, saying "There's a rock 'n' roll group called the Impressions and we call them ‘movement fellows' and we try to sing a lot of their songs. Songs like ‘Keep On Pushin',' ‘I Been Trying,' ‘I'm So Proud,' ‘It's Gonna Be a Long, Long Winter,' ‘People Get Ready, There's a Train a-Comin',' ‘There's a Meeting Over Yonder' really speak to the situation a lot of us find ourselves in." I mention this discrepancy because this is something that comes up throughout music history -- white people dismissing Black people as not being "Black enough" and trying to appeal to whites, even as Black audiences were embracing those artists in preference to the artists who had white people's seal of approval as being authentically Black. I mention this because I am myself a white man, and it is very important for me to acknowledge that I will make similar errors when talking about Black culture, as I am here. "Keep on Pushing" was the Impressions' first political record, but by no means the most important. In 1965 the Civil Rights movement seemed to be starting to unravel, and there were increasing ruptures between the hardliners who would go on to form what would become the Black Power movement and the more moderate older generation. These ruptures were only exacerbated by the murder of Malcolm X, the most powerful voice on the radical side. Mayfield was depressed by this fragmentation, and wanted to write a song of hope, one that brought everyone together. To see the roots of the song Mayfield came up with we have to go all the way back to episode five, and to "This Train", the old gospel song which Rosetta Tharpe had made famous: [Excerpt: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, "This Train (live)"] The image of the train leading to freedom had always been a powerful one in Black culture, dating back to the Underground Railroad -- the network of people who helped enslaved people flee their abusers and get away to countries where they could be free. It was also a particularly potent image for Black people in the northern cities, many of whom had travelled there by train from the South, or whose parents had. Mayfield took the old song, and built a new song around it. His melody is closer than it might seem to that of "This Train", but has a totally different sound and feeling, one of gentle hope rather than fervent excitement. And there's a difference of emphasis in the lyrics too. "This Train", as befits a singer like Tharpe who belonged to a Pentecostal "holiness" sect which taught the need for upright conduct at all times, is mostly a list of those sinners who won't be allowed on the train. Mayfield, by contrast, had been brought up in a Spiritualist church, and one of the nine affirmations of Spiritualism is "We affirm that the doorway to reformation is never closed against any soul here or hereafter". Mayfield's song does talk about how "There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner, Whom would hurt all mankind just to save his own", but the emphasis is on how "there's hope for *all*, among those loved the most", and how "you don't need no baggage", and "don't need no ticket". It's a song which is fundamentally inclusive, offering a vision of hope and freedom in which all are welcome: [Excerpt: The Impressions, "People Get Ready"] The song quickly became one of the most important songs to the Civil Rights movement -- Doctor King called it "the unofficial anthem of the Civil Rights movement" -- as well as becoming yet another big hit. We will continue to explore the way Mayfield and the Impressions reacted to, were inspired by, and themselves inspired Black political movements when we look at them again, and their political importance was extraordinary. But this is a podcast about music, and so I'll finish with a note about their musical importance. As with many R&B acts, the Impressions were massive in Jamaica, and they toured there in 1966. In the front row when they played the Carib Theatre in Kingston were three young men who had recently formed a group which they had explicitly modelled on the Impressions and their three-part harmonies. That group had even taken advantage of Jamaica's nonexistent copyright laws to incorporate a big chunk of "People Get Ready" into one of their own songs, which was included on their first album: [Excerpt: The Wailers, "One Love (1965 version)"] Bob Marley and the Wailers would soon become a lot more than an Impressions soundalike group, but that, of course, is a story for a future episode...