frantically screaming, hips and hair swinging, pure emotional raving


pdfs of 100+ issues,
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with many thanks to the original sharer

This record came out in '51, called K. C. Loving, and it was dirty, and it was banned from the air, so then, after things got going pretty good, I picked up on the song and I just happened to sing it to the audience one night, and they dug it, you know?; well it's just about like it is today, all these dirty records that's out now, but at that time they wouldn't let you play that kind of thing. So after I left Florida and came to New York City, and did this thing, I cleaned it up and I named it Kansas City, & then I changed some of the words round and put my beat to it. I don't know if you ever heard it by Little Willie Littlefield, but it was nothing like the one that I did, and if I had been with the right people at the time I could have got part credit for writing it. Leiber & Stoller bought it from a wino - even Little Willie didn't write it. This guy wanted to get to some wine, and he sold it for $50.00

7 comments:

  1. Wow! You seem to be on a roll again these last few days! Keep on keepin' on, man!

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  2. Just an amazing post! Impossible to acquire these magazines today....yet...here they are! A treasure of Soul knowledge! Thank you so very much!!!

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  3. Thanks again for Juke Blues
    Even more thanks for Soul Music/Shout - anyone out there able to contribute 52 & 87?
    Anyway - a decade's worth of "Wavelength" - New Orleans 1980-91 (133 of 'em) with lots of interviews with the old-timers is downloadable from: http://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/
    Thanks again. Keep up the good work - I'll be busy reading for quite a while!

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    1. Thanks for the link Daddy, hadn't seen those mags before. Good stuff.
      all the best,
      Johnny

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  4. Would be good to hear from you regarding digital versions of Soul Music/Shout magazines. Thanks- kind regards- Clive Richardson - Editor & publisher- contact me at Shout.records@gmail.com Thanks

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  5. Thank you so much for this. I love, love, love reading old soul magazines from the 60s and 70s.

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  6. Thanks for your work! Soulzines rule, but this link is dead :(

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