Don't know which DJ you are referring to, but good for him. There were, however, many black-owned stations that stopped playing them when they discovered they were white. They would only play black artists, no matter how popular the white artist was with their audience. Bill has said they would have had a bigger hit if they had stayed home. I do know that it was a black DJ, in Philly, who started calling them his blue-eyed soul brothers after meeting them (they both have blue eyes). As far as white-owned stations not playing them because they thought they were black, I never heard them referring to that... suppose it could have happened somewhere, but it was more likely it was stations that didn't play that type of music. It's funny hearing there were stations that thought they were too hard rock.

Thx for sharing . Bobby Caldwell was nominated for something big , also, but was removed bc it was learned that he was white .

Bobby tears it up singing Summertime. Mind blowing.

Sounds like Barry Rillera to me.

He has rot hear Brown eyed Woman

I'm 76 my friend and saw them live in 1965 in San Diego with Sharon...the love of my life.

I didn’t know that was Glen Campbell! I assumed Barry Rillera played guitar and was the third voice. Interesting!

I seriously doubt if it was Glenn Campbell or The Wrecking Crew. This was recorded in 1964 at the Moonglow Records studio. Glenn and the Wrecking Crew were at Phil Spector's Philly Records. A year or two later Spector signed them to Philly Records and that's when they worked with the Wrecking Crew. Their Moonglow work was a little more raw carried more emotion. Their later work was more polished and a little more corporate. This and Little Latin Lupe Lu were probably their biggest hits at Moonglow.

Brown-eyed Woman (1968) was a Bill Medley solo after he left the Righteous Brothers (adult content?? There were, and are, people--black, white, chartreuse or whatever--who don't approve of interracial relationships, but the song hardly contains adult content).The fact he was dating Darlene Love at that time was just a coincidence. Mann and Weil were working on the song and thought his voice would fit it. They didn't know Bill and Darlene were in a relationship until they approached Bill about singing the song. Brown-eyed Girl is a completely different song.

@@Aurora-tp3dy You’re correct in that I miswrote the name of the song that Bill of the Righteous Brothers sang as ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ instead of ‘Brown Eyed Woman’. However, ‘adult content’ was referring to the song played with this comment stream (‘I Just Want To Make Love To You’) that the reactor himself referred to as ‘adult content’ when asking his audience if they knew of any other similar RB songs. ‘Adult content’ songs (including those about adult behavior such as those explicitly referring to sexual activity) being controversially not played on most if not all major radio stations at the time (60s), other songs on controversial topics of the day (war protest, interracial dating, etc.) were also not played. Though the topic was explicit in ‘I Just Want To Make Love To You’ and the song was not played on the radio, the lyrics in ‘Brown Eyed Woman’ were more subtle yet still clearly evident to the majority of the public and this one was also not played on the radio. Have you listened to the song? Hard to miss the intent. It doesn’t matter if the married songwriting team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil did or didn’t know that Bill was in an interracial relationship, they were clearly aware of the current political and social climate as they had written other songs addressing racial injustice (including ‘Uptown’ recorded by the Crystals, ‘We Gotta Get Out Of This Place’ recorded by the Animals, and ‘Magic Town’ by the Vogues) during their prolific and successful songwriting careers.

Darlene Love. She wrote a book called 'My Name is Love', and she devotes almost four chapters to Bill. Bill has a book, too, but Darlene includes details! Bill is too much of a gentleman, I guess.