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...year-old Californians, are referred to by Negro disk jockeys as "our blue-eyed soul brothers" for the spiraling gospel wail and hoarse growl they inject into songs like their bestselling Just Once in My Life. Their name, in fact, is derived from the Sunday-go-to-meetin' phrase: "Man, that was really righteous, brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: The Sound of the Sixties | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...FIRST MEETIN': LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS (World-Pacific). An almost too intimate conversation between four masters of the grassroots, deep-ground blues: Hopkins, Big Joe Williams, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. The tunes are marvelous-Ain't Nothin' Like Whisky, Penitentiary Blues, How Long Have It Been Since You've Been Home?-and the maestri preach to one another in song, shouts and helpless laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 10, 1964 | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...million a year out of TV alone, not to mention oil wells, motels, ranches and the use of his name on merchandise. As an actor, Robertson can hardly say heck with his hands tied, but he is probably the best horseman in television, and his shy. Sunday-go-to-meetin' smile provokes what an agent describes as "the sexiest mail in Hollywood." Gimmick: he draws his .38 with his left hand ("That's so's they can't git the drop on me while Ah'm shakin' hands"). Born in Harrah, Okla., Dayle LyMoine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Henry Fonda is an aging ex-sheriff, disillusioned with the lawman's life. Tony Perkins is a nice young Sunday-go-to-meetin' sort of feller who has just been chosen sheriff, and who discovers to his horror that there is more to the job than wearing a tin star. The story develops as the oldtimer, much against his will, is drawn by sympathy into an attempt to teach the young comer how to be a proper lawman-before he becomes a dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...decision by Ike to quit the race because of poor health, Harry replied: "I am hopeful that President Eisenhower's health will be good and will make him able to enter the presidential race." While in Brussels, Truman and wife Bess also got themselves up in go-to-meetin' attire, joined U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Frederick M. Alger Jr. in a palace visit with Belgium's young, informally dressed King Baudouin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

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