All You Need Is Love - Episode 10 Good Times Rhythm And Blues
All You Need Is Love - Episode 10 Good Times Rhythm And Blues
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Bo Diddley performing. Shots of records being pressed. Jerry Wexler on the blues appealing to a white audience. Tin Pan Alley had become too polished. In the late 40's, the segregation of black clubs barred whites but record execs were allowed in as they could spot talent.. Lefty Diz performs. Wexler claims blues was the music of anger and revenge. Wilson Pickett performs "Land of a Thousand Dances". Wexler on coining the term 'rhythm and blues" to avoid terms that had racist connotations when describing the genre in Billboard magazine. There were now multiple terms-Motown, Philly, Soul but all had the same roots. The Chiffons performing. Lots of labels sprung up- all knew the music had to be sanitised for for a white audience. Fisk Jubilee Singers perform- the origins of blues came from slavery plantation workers and spiritual songs. Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) likens it to a literary tradition. Rev Chester Berryhill preaching with a gospel choir. Aretha Franklin performing. Stevie wonder discusses gospel and sings "You Are The Sunshine of My Life". After the war, white people from the north had heard black music from the south. Blues and gospel crossed to form the essential ethnic music of black people .It had now become more polished to appeal to a white audience. Pat Boone's daughters perform religious song.. White gospel very much a deep south tradition. Jerry Goff -a spiritualist singer, selling tapes to the congregation. Eva- Mae Lefevre showing the mobile studio he uses in a huge touring 5 bedroom bus with all mod cons. White gospel also incorporated country music. White record labels heard black gospel and started copying it to make money. Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller discuss 50's white doo wop vocal groups. They talk of writing 'Hound Dog' for Elvis- Jerry Wexler did not like it initially. Interview with Pat Boone on the song 'Two Hearts Two Kisses'. Earl King performs. Pat Boone- most dj's and stations wouldn't play black music - too risque, suggestive.Wexler on white artists copying black artists. Pat Boone sings 'Tutti Frutti' He says black artists thanked him for covering their songs so they could get royalties and recognition. Johnnie Ray performs "Cry". Wexler on black artists missing out. Bod Diddley on poverty and being exploited by record labels. Wexler says black artists became sanitised to appeal to a white audience. Music was compromised, lost authenticity. Buck Ram Platters perform. Phil Spector plays "Then He Kissed Me" , he talks of producing it, Tina Turner on performing it- Spector was very demanding. Spector gives very strange interview on his family and childhood. Sings 'You've Lost That Loving Feeling". Interview with Sam Phillips on creating his studio in Memphis to produce black artists - BB King, Ike Turner etc . Also talks of first encounter with Elvis producing him and giving him his break.