Word: hit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stroke; in Hollywood. "Now the game is all different," complained the Wahoo, Neb., whiz. "Then it was strategy and quick thinking, and if you didn't play with your noodle you didn't play at all." Through 19 years in both major leagues, Wahoo Sam hit enough balls that were lopsided, soaped, sanded and tobacco-stained to win league home-run honors with the Cincinnati Reds (16 in 1901) and the Detroit Tigers (seven in 1908). His total of 312 triples set a record that has yet to be broken-even Willie Mays, now in his 18th season...
...moans of the people in the cotton fields. Before it got the name of soul, men were sellin' watermelons and vegetables on a wagon drawn by a mule, hollerin' 'watermellllon!' with a cry in their voices. And the men on the railroad track layin' crossties?every time they hit the hammer it was with a sad feelin', but with a beat. And the Baptist preacher?he the one who had the soul?he give out the meter, a long and short meter, and the old mothers of the church would reply. This musical thing has been here since America been...
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...
Badge of Identity. By all the commercial yardsticks used in the trade, soul has arrived?and it has arrived in the hit parade as well as the "race market," in the suburbs as well as the ghettos, in the Midwestern campuses as well as Harlem's Apollo Theater...
Died. Wes Montgomery, 43, self-taught guitarist, whose knack for turning jazz to pop and vice versa produced such hit albums as A Day in the Life and California Dreaming; of a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Long acclaimed as one of the country's best jazz guitarists, he got into the groove with Goin' Out of My Head, his first pop LP and a 1966 Grammy winner...