Angel ,'Not Fade Away'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
That's why I mentioned the Delta, Barb. My experience is New Orleans and North Carolina.
If you're looking for soul/R&B in New Orleans at the time, you want to look at Irma Thomas. She was remembered very, very fondly in the oldies venues when I was there (early '80s) but had never really broken out nationally.
If you're looking for soul/R&B in New Orleans at the time, you want to look at Irma Thomas.
Oooh. ::making note::
Just to give some sort of context-- the MS I'm working on starts in late '64 in New York, moves to L.A., specifically Malibu, throughout the first half of '65, and then there's a road trip which is the section that's giving me fits, from L.A. to Palm Beach-- one of the characters has some very specific memories attached to having been in Mississippi as a Civil Rights activist. Since music can add such huge atmospheric impact, plus act as a trigger, it's really important to me that I get this part of it right, you know?
Second graders raise money to save Coltrane's house: [link]
Well, Irma Thomas had a local hit with "Wish Someone Would Care" in 1964. She also did the original version of "Time Is On My Side" that the Stones covered.
The big civil rights anthem of the soul era was Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come."
That delta region was particularly fertile for the variety of its music. If you draw a circle that covers both Memphis and Little Rock you're going to have musicians as varied as Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Muddy Waters, Conway Twitty, Charlie Rich and Justin Timberlake all born within that circle.
On the blues side Sonny Boy Williamson played regularly on the King Biscuit Flour Hour.
Second graders raise money to save Coltrane's house: [link]
Awww, little jazzbos.
The big civil rights anthem of the soul era was Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come."
The Impressions' "People Get Ready" too--
I just heard The Decembrists used in an AT&T ad. Huh.
I remember that Soulsville book being pretty dry, Barb.
I just heard The Decembrists used in an AT&T ad. Huh.
Got the skills to pay the bills.
For research on the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the earlier part of the '60s, Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi has the perspective of a female black activist college student.
Irma Thomas's version of "Time Is on My Side" was actually the B-side of the lovely "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is." Which would be a great trigger for memories of a love affair.