Word: pickette
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...true visual flair, nothing beats rhythm-and-blues. Snazzy-stepping, soul-singing performers like James Brown and Wilson Pickett sock it to the faithful with a furious abandon that shakes the halls on college campuses and urban temples like Harlem's Apollo Theater or Chicago's Regal. Of all the R-and-B cats, nobody steams up the place like Sam & Dave...
...shipped straight to the South's black belt and the North's big-city ghettos. Now the upsurge of nationwide soul-oriented firms is so strong that it has jostled the balance of power in the pop record industry. Manhattan-based Atlantic, with such singers as Aretha, Wilson Pickett and Sam & Dave, can now sell more records in a week (1,300,000) than it did in six months in 1950; now it ranks with the top singles producers in the business. Detroit's Motown Records, formed eight years ago by Berry Gordy Jr. with a $700 loan, last year...
First, in that same February announcement, came word that wrestling coach Bob Pickett had resigned to become executive director of the Varsity Club. Although Pickett's last season was disappointing, he had achieved an overall winning record in his 17-year career...
...past month, Samborski announced replacements for Wilson and Pickett, but he said last week that he hadn't started to look for a new crew coach...
...replaces Robert A. Pickett, who resigned at the end of this winter's season to become executive director of the Harvard Varsity Club. Pickett had been varsity wrestling coach for 18 years...