Word: bill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organist began to play again. Gladys Roberts and the Wallace Girls continued to move up and down the aisles. The number of dollar bills they received was impressive. The tall, thin man in charge of the money stood in his corner separating the ones from the fives. He threw a toy $50 bill on the floor...
...just raise your hands, and the Wallace Girls will pass among you and wait upon you. Now don't all raise at once," he said. Still no takers. "Now I know that a $1000 bill is hard to raise, so if you feel you can't do that then how about $500. Just raise your hands." The Wallace Girls stood embarrassed throughout the hall. No one raised a hand...
...limited Negro market and filtering it into the far more lucrative pop field. Much, if not most of what the white public knew as rock 'n' roll during this period consisted of proxy performances of Negro R & B music by people like Elvis Presley and Bill Haley. The success of the white performers produced a caustic resentment among the Negro musicians, many of whom still bridle at the irony of it all ?they produced the music, but the white men cashed in on it. In those days, the only way for Negroes to really make it in the white...
...Thus Clara Ward's rousing old gospel song, This Little Light of Mine, became Charles's This Little Girl of Mine. (A wonderful indemnification!) Oldtimers who had once been forced to choose between the two genres were offended. "I know that's wrong," said Bluesman and former Preacher Big Bill Broonzy. "He should be singing in a church...
...hole with rags to keep the boat from sinking. Finally, after 10 hr. 54 min. of whomping on the water, during which he averaged 54 m.p.h., Lewis crossed the finish line to win the $10,000 first prize by a margin of only four seconds over Runner-Up Bill Sirois' 31-ft. Bertram. "You have to be on your toes all the time," Lewis allowed. Indeed he had been: he drove the race standing up and barefoot...