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...memorialized; now THE SCEPTER RECORDS STORY is related in a 65-song set on three CDs. Owned by Florence Greenberg, a New Jersey mom, the diskery made its rep with girl groups (the Shirelles) and treble rousers (the Isley Brothers, the Kingsmen). It then officiated at the marriage of gospel and pop, with Dionne Warwick selling peerless Burt Bacharach ballads. The set includes many savory hits and some obscure gems: Bacharach's prime plaint I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself and a King Curtis tune called Potatoe Chips (Dan Quayle take note...
...complains, "don't do a damn thing to try to nurture,/ Brothers and sisters in the revolution./ Baptist teachers dying is the only solution./ Passiveness causes others to pass us by." The group goes further on Give a Man a Fish, a tune whose chorus rings with down-home gospel fervor. "Brothers wit their A.K.s and their 9-mms," Speech raps, "Need to learn how to correctly shoot them./ Save those rounds for a revolution./ Poor whites and blacks, bumrushing the system." Whether literally calling for violence or using a metaphor to express a desire for social upheaval, Speech...
...school, for example, "throngs of students congest the corridor smoking resinous Rasta spliffs, snorting smack from tiny, waxed-paper sacks; drinking pints of Wild Irish Rose; sucking tubes of crack; fighting with razors; firing pistols; dry-humping each other against lockers; hawking stolen goods; miscarrying half-formed fetuses; singing gospel; and wailing the blues...
...Balls" and corned beef saturated with hippo fat. (Did their liking for the latter, Theroux wonders, derive from their ancestors' enjoyment of "long pig" -- that is, human flesh?) And almost everywhere he found God-swanking missionaries, usually Mormons or Methodists, who seemed mesmerized by the thought of preaching the gospel to islanders who were once notorious for practicing cannibalism. "Missionaries and cannibals," Theroux muses, "make perfect couples...
...participated in the AMI offering were elderly churchgoers who had drawn funds from retirement savings. Remarked SEC attorney Spencer Barasch: "These people relied greatly on the expertise of AMI, and they will suffer." But not if their dollars went to help fund the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour, a television show that accounted for $13 million in bonds issued via an AMI subsidiary. Falwell, who has not been charged with any wrongdoing, promised to return "100% of principal" to investors...