Soul singer Jackie Ross is so much more than a one-hit wonder
The 1964 Chess Records smash “Selfish One” just happened to be the best-selling single from her decades of great songs.
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Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place.
As much as people love the famous songs of so-called one-hit wonders, they don t get much respect. Legit soul and R&B hits such as Jean Knight s Mr. Big Stuff or the Capitols Cool Jerk often get lumped in with novelty numbers (Carl Douglas s Kung Fu Fighting, Vicki Lawrence s version of The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia ) on cheesy nostalgia-bait compilations. It s especially sad when an artist tagged a one-hit wonder actually had a substantial career making quality music, with a long list of forgotten minor successes in additi
Column: Nina Simone was special at a young age while growing up in Tryon
Rob Neufeld
Author Rob Neufeld wrote a weekly Visiting Our Past column for the Asheville Citizen Times until his death in 2019. This column originally was published March 1, 2010 in the Citizen Times.
Davan Waymon, an African-American entrepreneur advertised Dry Cleaning and Pressing Called for and Delivered in a March 1929 issue of the Tryon Daily Bulletin. Waymon had just moved to town from the Greenville-Spartanburg area, sensing that Tryon s two grand hotels and four gas stations boded well for business.
When his rented home burned down a couple of years later, he and his wife, Kate, moved with their five children to a small home on East Livingston Street. A piano near the entrance burst with song, mostly sacred because Kate had become a minister in the St. Luke CME church.