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Harris also reported that blacks tended to watch less news but more National Educational Television, which has been far ahead of the commercial networks in black programming. Such heavy TV viewing has helped kill off the so-called "Chitlin' Circuit" of black variety houses. Harlem's famous Apollo, the Palace of the circuit, still survives and it is in trouble, say its owners. They are white...
...Chitlin Circuit. It was not long before the soul sound began to move directly into the white market of pop music, and its purveyors started outstripping their white imitators. Charles was the first to reach a mass white public, starting as far back as 1955 with his hit record, I Got a Woman. In more recent years, a string of others have come along behind him. Lou Rawls, for example, is a former gospel trouper who spices his blues songs with reminiscences of his boyhood in Chicago's South Side slums. He used to work only in the Negro nightclub...
...Imagine," observed Master of Ceremonies Bob Hope in one of his few quotable lines, "not even coming here to pick up an Oscar. I flew to Greensboro, N.C., to become 'Chitlin of the Month...
Today, sporting a powder-blue tuxedo, monogrammed shirt cuffs, alligator shoes and a diamond ring on his pinkie, Rawls is savoring the sweet life to the utmost. After all, he said last week as he looked back on his grubbing chitlin days, "I paid my dues...
...Outskirts. A baby-faced bantamweight of 31, Rawls prepped in the choir loft of the Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side. In 1959, he began scuffling around the chitlin circuit, patrolling the outskirts of success with a series of recordings that at various times labeled him as a jazz, pop, gospel and even folk singer. Then, early last year, he decided to dish up some good old chitlin-style singing and sweet-talking. He invited a bunch of friends to the recording studio and recorded Lou Rawls LIVE! to their finger-popping, hand-clapping accompaniment...