Ray
Charles had the ability to cause
involuntary toe movements and make people
color blind.
Watch Muddy
Waters performed Rolling Stone live at
the Newport Jazz Festival.
Sam
Cooke from Clarksdale, Mississippi
wrote and recorded more than a few classic songs in
his 33 years. You Send Me, Chain Gang, Twisting
The Night Away, Bring It On Home To Me, Having A
Party and Cupid and many more.
Booker
T. & the M.G.'s from
Memphis release Green
Onions in 1962
Brenda
Lee was 15-year-old when she recorded, I'm
Sorry on the Decca label.
Having
lent his harmonica skills to Bruce Channel's Hey!
Baby, which topped the pop charts in
1962, Delbert
McClinton toured Europe with Channel.
While in England, McClinton tutored the leader of a
then unknown band on mouth harp, the results of
which subsequently were heard around the world on
the Beatles hit "Love
Me Do."
"I have walked into the
palaces of kings and queens and into the
houses of presidents. And much more. But
I could not walk into a hotel in America
and get a cup of coffee, and that made
me mad.” - Josephine
Baker, 1963 March on Washington
for Jobs and Freedom.
The
Rolling Stones reach number one with Willie
Dixon's Little Red Rooster in 1964.
In
1965, James
Brown, "The Godfather of Soul," hit No. 1 on
the R & B charts with Papa's
Got A Brand New Bag.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe appeared on
British Television.
Loretta
Lynn was the most popular female country
singer in America.
On
October 15, 1966, Otis Redding released
Complete
& Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary
of Soul
Born
in Memphis, Tennessee, Aretha
Franklin, the most underrated piano player in
piano playing history, recorded her first single for
Atlantic, I
Never Loved A Man at Fame Recording Studios
in
Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The B- side Do
Right Woman, Do Right Man was written by
Dan Penn and Chips
Moman.
February
17, 1966 Bob Dylan recorded Stuck
Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
at Columbia Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee.
Watch
Bukka White perform Aberdeen Mississippi Blues.
Otis
Redding Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Janis
Joplin and many others kick off The
Summer Of Love at the Monterey International Pop
Festival.
Watch
Hound Dog Taylor perform Shake Your Money
Maker
Dolly
Parton made her debut on the Porter
Wagner Show.
Kenny
Rogers and The First Edition go psychedelic with the
1967 hit Just
Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition
Was In).
Singer-songwriter
Bobbie
Gentry had number one hit with Ode
to Billie Joe in 1967.
Jeannie
C. Riley covered the Tom
T. Hall song, Harper
Valley P.T.A.
On
East McLemore Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, stood
the old Satellite Recording Studio, which Jim
Stewart, with help from his sister Estelle Axton,
and Jerry Wexler, forged into the legendary
powerhouse of soul music, Stax Recording
Studio.
Dance
to the Music, Everyday People, Stand!,
Hot
Fun in the Summertime, Thank
You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), Everybody
Is a Star, all written by Sly Stone from
Denton, Texas and performed by Sly
and the Family Stone.
In
1969, Bill
Lowery was Broadcast Music's number one
publisher.
Steve Martin, banjo player
extraordinaire and one of the funniest people on
the planet was born in Waco, Texas on August 14,
1945.
Tony Joe
White had a hit in 1969 with Polk
Salad Annie.
Johnny
Cash sang A
Boy Named Sue at San Quentin Prison.
More
than a month before Woodstock, the Atlanta
International Pop Festival was held at the
Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia.
Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Tommy James and the
Shondells, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Staple
Singers and Johnny Winter were among the groups who
performed to an estimated crowd of 80,000 to
150,000.
