pdfs of 100+ issues,
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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

Wow! You seem to be on a roll again these last few days! Keep on keepin' on, man!
ReplyDeleteJust an amazing post! Impossible to acquire these magazines today....yet...here they are! A treasure of Soul knowledge! Thank you so very much!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks again for Juke Blues
ReplyDeleteEven 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!
Thanks for the link Daddy, hadn't seen those mags before. Good stuff.
Deleteall the best,
Johnny
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
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for this. I love, love, love reading old soul magazines from the 60s and 70s.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your work! Soulzines rule, but this link is dead :(
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