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Word: doin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music if I couldn't go near no nightclubs? One time they got me a job with a seed company in Lompoc. They had me standin' there with a brush this long, pollinatin' flowers. I was a human bee. If a brother had ever seen me doin' that, he'd cut me dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prison Records | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...youngsters had a few things going for them. One was a massive ex-gospel singer named Bernice Cole, who was called in by Chuck Griffin of the East Harlem Federation Youth Association. "When they asked me to start a choir," recalls Miss Cole, "I said 'Nothin' doin'. I don't think I have the patience anymore.' So of course I started in doing it. The kids had fun, but we didn't think of it as anything but a once-a-week get-together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Voices of Harlem | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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