Posted on 12/24/2021 3:43:58 AM PST by Kaslin
Say it loud. I’m white and proud.
And with the exception of percussion, all instruments played by black Jazz musicians came from whites.
I didn’t think it was funny then.
Jumping in......
“Sun Records is an American independent record label founded by producer Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee in February 1952.[1] Sun was the first label to record Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Prior to that, Sun had concentrated mainly on African-American musicians because Phillips loved rhythm and blues and wanted to bring it to a white audience.” Wiki
The point is that those that mattered mingled racially and mere twits from the NPR peanut gallery are just plain ignorant
Rock music was/is built on an amalgam of pop, country, gospel, vocal-harmony and what was referred to as ‘race’ music.
To posit that only blacks are the genesis of the genre is just patently false.
The article doesn’t make any sense to me.
But notice how that got worked out eventually among themselves. Meanwhile, we have these young white women—again, the scourge of the earth—lecturing us about racism, burning cop cars, etc.
At my company which is a very large multinational, the VP of our internal organization is a young 40s white woman who has added head of the CRT task force to her hectoring duties. (They call it unconscious bias as if they're Superman putting on those fake glasses to fool us all about the true identity.) During her most recent all hands meeting, she informed us that we're all going to be receiving the same enlightening training she went through and proceeded to introduce two people to introduce the topic. Oh gee, by coincidence it was two more young white women.
NPR just playing to their shrinking audience ... not a problem, they have lots of “free” money!
I'll add also that Paul and John collectively were better than by themselves.
Wings sucked.
I have little to no time for Ann Powers.
Long past
Ringo seemed like an upbeat spirit who appeared to thoroughly enjoy the moment, while at the same time avoiding the drama.
Peter needed a song for his first album and knew Paul was working on one. He asked Paul about it and Paul replied: 'We aren't going to use it, John hates it." The song became a huge international hit for Peter and Gordon:
Another mentally imbalanced person speaking nonsense.
Watching McCartney rehearse and invent the melody to Get Back from thin air made me realize how creative and talented he was. I took it all for granted at the time. Again, this documentary is unique and IMO a must for those of us who grew up in the 60s and were influenced by the incredible music that surrounded us.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
The use of the word "arise" was long a mondegreen for me, as I thought the word used was "arrive".
The song is a tribute to the black civil rights movement, some say specifically regarding black women. But that was not reflected in an interview with Paul that I once saw.
McCartney mentioned he didn’t care for the way Peter & Gordon did his song, “Woman.” One of them was apparently off key.
I thought he was black for many years, until I saw him in concert.
But I bet he sure enjoyed the royalty checks!
Jazz and Blues were European ? Who knew!
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