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...York Mayor John Lindsay drifted into the conversation, and Deloros said, "If Lindsay can walk the streets of Harlem and Brooklyn, why can't our mayor come down here and talk to us? He's just a few blocks over there," she said with a gesture sweeping past a juke box toward the dustry rear of the rectangular room. "He really should come here and see the people," she said, "That's what keeps him in office--the people...
...juke box began to play James Brown and a teenaged girl who had been sitting at the end of the bar danced a couple of steps as she walked out. It was becoming hard to hear, but Deloros meditated out loud for a moment on the Sunset's future: "You take the people's pleasures away from them and then you have violence. Nobody wants violence." She paused and her gaze roamed over the rows of liquor bottles behind the bar, coming to rest on fresh pictures of John and Robert Kennedy on either side of Martin Luther King...
...Danny F.X. who had been standing by the juke-box finally put in a dime and a voice started singing "Red Roses for a Blue Lady...
...Pinetoppers, though he never had a hit in association with them. His first success was with "These Arms of Mine." The first time that northern radio stations played him was when he recorded "Mr. Pitiful" in 1963. He is still much more a standard figure on southern juke-boxes than on northern ones. In between "These Arms of Mine," in November of 1962, and "Mr. Pitiful," he had a large success with "Pain In My Heart." Perhaps his greatest hit was "I've Been Loving You Too Long," released in the summer of 1965. Of all his songs, there have...
...time when songs sold in single 45's, and album covers could be read. A time when teenage idols dressed in pink-sequined tuxedoes and sang of schoolrooms and malt shops and juke boxes. A time when singers could have names like "Buddy" and "Elvis" and "Chuck"--"Chuck Berry...