Don’t forget Bettye LaVette, who was just nominated for her 8th Grammy for best Blues Album!!

How WasThe Duke in those Days .was he nice? Was it fun working with him? Do you have any pictures?

Thanks! She has a spectacular voice and range-but in those upper registers I gotta turn it down. I bet it could shatter glass!

I agree, I’m from the NYC area(Jersey side) originally. But I loved in Chicago for two years and this documentary captured everything I felt about the city and the music. Chitown just felt “soulful”. Driving through the south side you would hear ladies voices blasting through church windows and I would be thinking this has got to be where r&b was born.

ALL ranking is irrelevant. Chance is not. Try to figure out what s in between. . . . Answer : the historical momentum as reflected thru individual choice. Some call it fate, others talent !

@Charlie...that’s interesting I grew up in the NYC area(North Jersey) in the 70’s. I was fascinated by Chicago because Ebony/Jet. Afro Sheen/ Ultra Sheen, Soul Train and of course Curtis Mayfield, Chi-Lites Staples Singers. When I moved there as an adult I then began to understand how that city could produce so much soul. The gospel music coming out of those churches were something I had never heard even in Newark or Harlem. Amazing experience!

@@ccth22 I was born in Newark and lived in Elizabeth, West Orange and East Orange. Chicago had so much great stuff but it's largely just another corporate-chain city now. I've been here since 2002 and am now leaving to live in the desert.

Hey bro I understand completely. I live in Atlanta. No more snow shoveling...

@@ccth22 Yep...I'm moving to Las Vegas to be near my son and grandkids and get away from shitty winter!

Sugar Pie DeSanto among others. Sugar Pie is still owed a day in the sun. She kicked out fire-breathing R&B that could burn up any dance floor

@@kjaze Wow, thanks. I'm going to look up Sugar Pie to hear some of that fire-breathing.

@@kjazewhat happened to her? I saw her at a Blues Festival in England early sixties

She's still alive to my knowledge

+Stephen Joiner Thank you Stephen :)

Sad that it all fell apart when the large corporates started to show interest in the music produced by the independent companies.The music then became watered down and lost its edge.Another problem was the white middle class who did everything in their power to prohibit this music,public smashing of records by some white dj’s and naturally the horrible payola scandal that hit record promotion.Nice clip of Robert Nighthawk on Maxwell street!

This has nothing to do with rock and roll. This is purely about "rhythm and blues"!

Hello John, Thank you for your kind comment :) I wanted to share full episodes after noting small excerpts appearing on YT mainly the artists that are more well known, however the lesser acts also deserve to be seen I think? :)

Hello Ran, Your most welcome :)

Its gonna take an act of God. To Bring music back to this stage .. shi' They have even killed country music .

It wasn't like that. Youre white guilt brainwashed.

Thank you Mike and you're welcome :)

Thank you for the wonderful comment, glad you like it :)

+Don Deering Thank you Don, hope your keeping well :)

+Rachel Cummings Everything's gotta be alright, so it is. Do you want to hear something nice? Maybe it's a little premature, but I'm starting to get some music together, posting it here: www.soundcloud.com/don_deering Most of what I'll be posting are rhythm gittar tracks and then--hopefully--responses to them. There's one collaboration at present, the guy sounds great. Every two weeks or so, I'll add a different track, different key, different rhythm. I'm due for one this weekend.

+Don Deering you always sound great !! :) checking it out, plus I've put it on my channel here :) one of my wonderful friends I have on yt !! Have a good weekend suga.

+Rachel Cummings Thank you, Rachel! Are you on Facebook? There are a couple groups you "should" belong to if you're interested, and we should be friends there if you are.

Thornton co-wrote "Hound Dog"; I'm sure that her estate is *still* collecting royalties off of "Dog", which reached far more people on the planet/ in history because Elvis chose to record it: *Think;* will you ? *Fun Fact:* Elvis was a very respectful friend of the U.S. R&B community.

Good point. I'm so tire of listening to revisionists giving credit to Vee-Jay for "discovering" the Beatles.

Dee Clarke (starting @24:23) obviously knew where the groove was in spite of the audience (must have been annoying).

Harry Connick, Jr surprisingly did something about it... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/as6JjMqrkqeue4k.html

Had a branch in C, acc to Eddie Boyd. Think Ralph Bass worked 4 both K and C, prod + A & R

@@sulevisydanmaa9981 OK, but wouldn't that have been more or less a guy (Bass) or two working out of a hotel room, maybe a bar? Can't see Sid Nathan opening an actual branch... that would cost money! I imagine lots of companies, majors included, had people covering Chicago, just in case something profitable was ripe for the plundering .

PULVERIZED the Toddlin Town w just talent scouts was not the impression I got from E.B. whom I was in nearly weekly contact due to residential proximity betw 86-94 way up here in The N ...Not sure if "branch" in the corporate sense was the exact word he used. He conveyed that Ralph B was the one & only fair & decent middleman between him and "dem Lennardh people peckawoods" ... He was mentally devastated by the supremacists financial serfdom, which was the main reason for his relocation to Europe. Only in the late 80s the Scott Cameron Organization took him under their wing - along w Dixon, etc other victimized semi-simpletons... and, thru erudite legal wrangling, finally got back to E(xploited) what was justifiably due theirs in terms of royalty rights to hit songs. Talking bout "hits" & Chgo ...is another discussion. But if u can read betw the lines in Bob Pruter s book Chgo Soul, there are many not just unturned pages but ostensibly still laid down untruths resting subsurface in the murky waters of Lake Mich - above which the Hawk is, once again, soon going to blow all evidence away ...just as another Chi-kid, Lou Rawls, once delivered in a long pre-rap oratory on one of his mid-career live albums. . .Boyd s widow still lives in Helsinki, 1st name Leila, a finn. PS. the crookedest rec row cmpny, acc to Pruter, was Brunswick - the Decca subs. which did superbly arranged DEEP SOUL (Erma, Tyrone, Acklin, Jackie W, Chandler, Percy - by Sonny Sanders, Carl Davis - maybe Bass also + Barge) , but was so corrupt I'm not going to speculate in public. Ask Pruter, convey my admiration concerning his in-depth book from 1990. PPS. WHO, btw, would, finally, start digging deep by shoveling off THE Dirt from the Duke/Peacock/Backbeat ...(whatever). If they changed the name of Grant Park, why not change the myth concerning Don Robey s semi-philantropist Cadillac giveaways to his most profitable stable drivers - LJP, BBB, OVW ....just askin ? The Roy C. Ames book is a surface history !

@@sulevisydanmaa9981 Thanks for the detailed response! So cool when you can learn things rather than get into a ridiculous argument! My only comment would be, yeah, Brunswick. Well known as mobbed up profiteers, almost to the level of Roulette. I personally don't care for the Brunswick production style, but they did make some hits. But imagine if Jackie Wilson had been in, say, Sam Cooke's position, on a label that at least wasn't shady as all get out, and with management that saw more than a day or two into the future. Brunswick was not good for him, in any way, even if you like the arrangements. Anyway, you seem to know a lot more than I do on all this, and it's been a while since I've read the books, etc. Lots of newer books I need to read it sounds like! Thanks again!

Love makes a woman by Barbara Acklin a major jam back in the day also a great dance/swing record

R.J. Frias Soulful Strut by Young-Holt Unlimited

Patrick Glass thanks man

Vocal version Barbara Acklin - Am I the same girl after Young Holts Soulful Strutt

Nope. Pat Boone was a good pop crooner. Comparing him to rock acts in ludicrous revisionism.

You mean like they destroyed Detroit, Memphis, Chicago, Camden, St. Louis, etc?

Got his britches all the way up to his breasteses!

Idiot.

Truth! LOL