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1947(?) Thinking about the development of Black Popular Music only as a feeder into White Popular Music is actually myopic and, really, just wrong.

Chuck Berry and saxophone?

He certainly did some work. RIP

Dead people are safe.

A bit or more of hype in that poster...really no "scandal" involved. But is is a pretty "moody" film, could have been played for straight soap, but wasn't.

Jacob stole the blessing.

Sorry, we've got family in from out of town. Yeah, nice offering, like the added percussion. And totally agree with you about singers. Singing and dancing, no matter how abstracted, pretty much is what I want to hear in any music. It's what makes things human "Songs"...not so much for me these days, but really getting inside a song, any song, is not for the faint of heart. Finding truth never is . Keep putting it out there. Glad you're doing it;

The Raiders got marketed as teeny-bopper, but I swear that a fair amount of their stuff hits harder today than ever. Pure Garage Rock with a Columbia production budget. They belong in the R&R HOF, joke that it is, as much as anybody.

It got reissued somehow a few years ago on BGP or some label like that. Maybe a Japan thing. Dusty Groovee had it.

Soapy but strange and vice-versa.

Dark...

Pete Brown Has to be.

Korla Pandit had a local TV show in LA that freaked people out! But the Ra comparison is apt in at least one way - they were both masters of self-reinvention:

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An engaging assortment!

The vibe is unmistakably fuquitous, with which I am fully sympathetic.

Same here.