Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BORN TO BE BLUE!: BOBBY TIMMONS TRIO (Riverside). Pianist Timmons has an unfailing ear for the sound of sorrow, but he colors his reports from the blue world with musical wizardry and many shades of feeling. With the understanding accompaniment of Ron Carter and the great Sam Jones on bass and Connie Kay on drums, Timmons here runs through such dark delights as Malice Towards None, Namely You and Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, and the result is a fascinating blues album full of bemusement and cool laughter...
...THAT GOOD NEWS: SAM COOKE (RCA-Victor). A rich and diverse collection of songs and styles by one of the best jazz and pop singers around. Cooke is as strongly rhythmic and rocking on Good Times and Meet Me at Mary's Place as he is quietly swinging on the likes of A Change Is Gonna Come and Home...
Grandfather Sam Johnson started but as a Baptist, converted to the Disciples of Christ, ended up a Christadelphian-which may be why Lyndon's Cousin Oriole still belongs to that hyperfundamentalist sect. Christadelphians claim to be living in the "last days of Antichrist," do not feel called upon to engage in social or political welfare, and are not supposed to vote, though Cousin Oriole has voted for Lyndon. Johnson's parents were Hard-Shell Baptists, but at 14 Lyndon joined the Disciples of Christ (the Garfield faith), and was baptized in the Pedernales River a few miles from...
...Dallas was quickly dispelled. Word got out that during the trial an organization named B.T.G. Inc. Productions had inconspicuously shot some four hours of movie footage, showing Belli and his teammates preparing the defense. A joint enterprise of Belli, Texas Lawyer Joe Tonahill and California Film Pro ducer Sam Gallu, B.T.G. plans to turn the footage into a documentary movie...
Negroes must stress human rights not civil rights and should take the issue not to Washington but to the U.N. "The only way that Uncle Sam can stop the African nations from coming here is to pass some civil rights legislation," he warned. It is a measure of his appeal that as he became more grandiose, no one laughed...