Word: picketts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stokely Carmichael" box or a "white" box or a "Sidney Poitier" box. The thing is that no black- or no human being, for that matter- ever fits into any box. As Morning's family changes its voice from an Amos'n' Andy inflection to a John Lindsay or Wilson Pickett or Rap Brown inflection, the white audience is scared out of its wits. It doesn't know how to react. (The suburban liberal in the second row tells himself each time a character says "Shee-it" : "I can't laugh at that- it may be funny, but everyone will think...
...Depression year, and the good citizens of Glory aren't about to let a freshly pardoned convict walk off with it. "When I hit town at sunup I heared it," says a taleteller. "Talk. Everywheres. A muttering meanness. In the Krogers and the A.&P. and up at Pickett's Store and at the farmers' market out First Street by the glass works. Mean whispering, stranger -grumbling mean...
...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...
...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...