helene smith, frank williams and the rocketeers. anthony: everything you ve ever been credited for either producing or writing, it is a very, very long list, quite an amazing list. willie: it is about 1,200. anthony: 1,200 songs. willie: it just flows. i m like a song mechanic. you bring it to me. i ll help you fix it. anthony: william and his writing partner clarence blowfly reed wrote such classics as clean up woman and rocking chair. deep city was miami s answer to motown. anthony: 50 years, 100 years from now, search and punch in the miami sound, your name is going to come up right away as principal creator of the miami sound. what were the distinctive features of the music you were making that separated it from motown, philadelphia, new york? willie: the culture was a mixture of bahamian, jamaican, and then some people came down from georgia and alabama, but that bahamian influence was dominant.
anthony: now it looks like a nondescript barbecue joint, but back in 1963 it was the home of deep city records. willie clark and his business partner johnny peersol started deep city, recording and promoting local talent out of johnny s record shop. the label became a showcase for artists like betty wright, frank williams and the rocketeers. anthony: everything you ve ever been credited for either producing or writing, it is a very, very long list, quite an amazing list. willie: it is about 1200. anthony: 1200 songs. willie: it just flows. i m like what you might call a song mechanic. you bring it to me. i ll help you fix it. anthony: william and his writing partner clarence blowfly reed wrote such classics as clean up woman and
a record shop. anthony: now it looks like a nondescript barbecue joint, but back in 1963 it was the home of deep city records. willie clark and his business partner johnny peersol started deep city, recording and promoting local talent out of johnny s record shop. the label became a showcase for artists like betty wright, frank williams and the rocketeers. anthony: everything you ve ever been credited for either producing or writing, it is a very, very long list, quite an amazing list. willie: it s about 1200. anthony: 1200 songs. willie: it just flows. i m like a song mechanic. you bring it to me. i ll help you fix it. anthony: william and his writing partner clarence blowfly reed wrote such classics as clean up woman and rocking chair. deep city was miami s answer to motown. anthony: 50 years, 100 years
russians just put up a satellite. you know kind of like what like thrown over everybody a little bit. was it was shock shock for brian it was a shock. there is no secret there burn of on brown and the rocketeers there were down in huntsville at the redstone arsenal felt that you know if they d just given us this task we could have beat these guys and and the reality is they probably could if they did not have the mission to do so and you can kick yourself in the aftermath of that. either there or that they simply didn t expect that we would work that well and be able to keep our launch schedule so secret. so the first flight caught them unawares and they understood they had lost their predominance but. it was
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