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...something in common with Methodist hymns I had learned as a boy in Southern Illinois, and real kinship with the gospel music I occasionally heard coming from Black churches in that long-ago time when " separate" was still the law of the land, never mind about equal. Unaccountable as it may seem now, however, in the early 1950s, real Black popular music was almost never played on "while" radio stations. There was considerable consternation a few years later when people like Pat Boone started issuing Bowdlerdized 'cover", records of Black rock songs, and we all know where that path eventually...
...something in common with Methodist hymns I had learned as a boy in Southern Illinois, and real kinship with the gospel music I occasionally heard coming from Black churches in that long-ago time when " separate" was still the law of the land, never mind about equal. Unaccountable as it may seem now, however, in the early 1950s, real Black popular music was almost never played on "while" radio stations. There was considerable consternation a few years later when people like Pat Boone started issuing Bowdlerdized 'cover", records of Black rock songs, and we all know where that path eventually...
...something in common with Methodist hymns I had learned as a boy in Southern Illinois, and real kinship with the gospel music I occasionally heard coming from Black churches in that long-ago time when " separate" was still the law of the land, never mind about equal. Unaccountable as it may seem now, however, in the early 1950s, real Black popular music was almost never played on "while" radio stations. There was considerable consternation a few years later when people like Pat Boone started issuing Bowdlerdized 'cover", records of Black rock songs, and we all know where that path eventually...
...something in common with Methodist hymns I had learned as a boy in Southern Illinois and real kinship with the gospel music I occasionally heard coming from Black churches in that long-ago time when "separate" was still...
...something in common with Methodist hymns I had learned as a boy in Southern Illinois, and real kinship with the gospel music I occasionally heard coming from Black churches in that long-ago time when " separate" was still the law of the land, never mind about equal. Unaccountable as it may seem now, however, in the early 1950s, real Black popular music was almost never played on "while" radio stations. There was considerable consternation a few years later when people like Pat Boone started issuing Bowdlerdized 'cover", records of Black rock songs, and we all know where that path eventually...