They can show you. In the bay. There have chats in crazy time for the joke in the back 940 s. And fifty s rhythm and blues the soul that came before Rock n roll I m your jukebox operator Matthew Chance and this week I have a very special show for you in fact I feel this may be the most important radio show I ve ever done it s on a woman so much for rhythm and blues music yet is barely remembered today through her powerful soulful singing she inspired Ahmet Ertegun to start his own record label this woman s recording of So Long influenced Ruth Brown and gave her her 1st which incidentally was also with Lana records 1st hand and it was this woman s version of Try a Little Tenderness that took it from an old torch and gave it a firing Otis Redding in a recent Frankland to console full versions of the car in the 1960 s. Her stage persona also gave Laverne Baker her start when she was using the moniker little Miss sharecropper. The woman I m speaking about Mildred Cummings better known to
Journalists in the audience from. Baton. Rouge in the audience if. It. Was not. In the bathtub. On the are the word law the law the more than the. You were tuned to K C M J P Colorado Springs C. You know what was on the jukebox in the front. Now man the cats going to show you. The bad. They re little for shakers in real earthquake or some at the catcher jukebox operator welcoming you to another juke in the back dedicated to the building blocks of rock N roll 19 forty s and fifty s rhythm and blues or the soul that came before rock N roll this week I m dedicating the entire show to one of the greatest blue shouters and musical innovators of the post World War 2 rhythm and blues era Roy Brown he wrote and recorded the original Good luck in tonight which of course Wynonie Harris took to the top of the charts in 1948 and he steadily produced some of the greatest R. And B. Records of the late forty s and early fifty s he made a minor comeback in 1957 with the original version of Let the fu
Plug lead. Leg. Length. Leg. Length. It. Looks. Absolutely. They. a. The Well. Are. Good. everybody knows probably that s a most people know that was Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix Experience from a very rare collection simply titled The delay in lead demos and Olympic outtakes or Olympic outs as some engineers who are music geeks like to refer to it basically 4 different takes early takes of Red House that Hendrix was sort of messing around with in the studio and they kind of combined all 4 takes in various ways the beauty of sound engineering Jimi Hendrix Experience. From. I believe most of this was recorded in the late 1966 Willie Dixon great rendition of a tune called I ain t superstitious I m sure you ve heard it even if you re not a blues fanatic I m sure you ve heard at least a few versions of that 1st version I think I ever heard was off of a Jeff Beck album the 1st Jeff Beck solo album with Rod Stewart on vocals I mean superstitious from classic record Willie Dixon put out ca
Story is that she was the meter secretary or something like that probably not true Millie Small was her name My Boy Lollipop Hey baby Bruce Chanelle leader of the pack was a Shangri-La as it was going out Colleen is probably driving home right now as she and her sisters used to sing at the together. It s in his kiss the song Betty Everett Chantilly Lace the Big Bopper finished up with Duke of Earl how classy can you get Gene Chandler after our juke joint it s ready to go I will see you next Friday night and next Saturday not tomorrow next Saturday. For. That. You re listening to public radio Guam k p r g 8 or 9.3 f.m. I got near source for n.p.r. News and blue you can use its after hours you ve joined my name is Rich you can call me at 734-8930 we ll be getting to some Willie Dixon Etta James he requested the last week or so we ll play it this week start out with a. Known author of then. T.-Bone Walker. d will dispense. Maybe all of. The oldest. Maybe all of. The cultural baggage. To
Of course I want to thank. Is an independently owned and operated local real estate company specializing in sales representing sellers or. Their website. And their phone number is 707869060 they re located at the corner. Of that cd and we re going to hear the track. There you go. Still She and. All right so we just heard another track from the dream farmer cd and this one is so what I m seeing the Day 2016 so this is a pretty recent pretty recent yeah and don t forget it s s o w like so it s so so as you so so so shall you reap that I don t like Dream farmers so what like what do you so on this is a bit reflective Yeah tell us some of something about the band that s backing you well Marcus Webster s been playin that trap kit with me for like probably 25 years through my other bands the cohorts long time people might remember that band that was a fun band and Kip kins on bass guitar he came in shortly not too far later than that so the 2 of them are have great you know rhythmic tele