“NUTHIN’ Better”
True enough. Astrud sure lit a fire under my young self!
So taken by the “Brazilian Wave” of 1963-1964, Felix Grant, a Washington, DC area jazz broadcaster, became something of a “Voice of the Samba” locally if not nationwide. Going beyond an extra-mile, he even gained some proficiency in Portuguese!
As far as I can tell, almost al decades had a "theme" genre, but the sixties exploded with R&B, R&R, Blues, jazz, Raggae and the Latin sound, Joan Baez type folk and those four man college kid types (Four Seasons, Kingston Trio (Yeah, I know .. I see it), Peter, Paul and Mary ..... ), and I JUST commented on another thread featuring Shirley Ellis "Name Game" that we were a generation with rhythm and introduced to "Soul" ....
Sharp dressin' dancin' back-up singin' black groups; The Temps, Smokey, etc.
American Bandstand brought the West Coast all over the nation and we went to the moon.
WE HAD RHYTHM !
As I recall, he used to broadcast from a jazz club called the Bohemian Caverns.
As I recall, he used to broadcast from a jazz club called the Bohemian Caverns.