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Sonny Boy Williamson died in 1965 and can only be heard on record. Many Blues musicians believe Williamson was the greatest harpman in the Blues. He wrote and recorded what may be the most moving Blues song of all time," Help Me." This song has been recorded by many of the popular groups of the Blues revival but it's Williamson's song and it expresses the quintessence of the Blues. Sonny Boy sings...

Author: By James C. Gutman, | Title: B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now Dig | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...Help me baby I can't make it by myself You got to help me I can't make it by myself If you don't help me baby I'll have to find somebody else...

Author: By James C. Gutman, | Title: B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now Dig | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

James's most famous song has become a Blues classic like Sonny Boy's "Help Me." This song is "Dust My Blues" (written by Robert Johnson) and it opens with an explosive burst from James's slide guitar and it rocks like only the greatest rock songs. The rhythm section pounds through the basic 12 bar chord changes and James shouts out his lyric about his "no good" woman...

Author: By James C. Gutman, | Title: B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now Dig | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

R.U.S. polled Radcliffe students this week to see what love/hate attached them to a half-in half-out connection with Harvard. Response was small, results perhaps inconclusive, but when asked which community they felt a part of, few girls could help segmenting their lives. "Minds in the week, bodies on weekends, and hags in the dormitories," wrote one. Most admitted they felt like outsiders at Harvard, yet were confined by dormitory life at Radcliffe. The one unambiguous response was the tally in favor of merger with Harvard...

Author: By Ruth Glushien, | Title: Moving South | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

Boston After Dark, of course, is out to help the theatres as much as the students. This past year they sold out a quarter of all subscriptions sold by the Theatre Company of Boston, and perhaps 12 per cent for the Charles Playhouse (most of the others being resubscribers). "This makes a tremendous difference to these theatres," Opin said. "Often the difference between a mediocre year and going under." And this year BAD finally convinced the Opera Company of Boston to institute a 10 per cent student discount. "They were absolutely opposed," Mindich said. "Now mabye next year...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Making It on Boylston Street | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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