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...there are any truly American sounds, one is surely the radio station break, complete with fragmentary tune and a slick chorus−"Double-yew Emmm Eeee Ellll, Light and Lively!" Blame it on Pepper & Tanner of Memphis, those wonderful folks who also brought you "Hey, Culligan Man" and the Roto-Rooter jingle (". . . and away go troubles down the drain...
...content with producing commercials and 70% of all the station identifications that racket through the middle ear of Middle America, P. & T. is now seeping into the semiconsciousness of the whole world. The BBC's pop network is overrun with Pepper & Tanner jingles ("It's what's happening . . . Radio One"). So is station Rediffusion Singapore. For the state radio system of Malawi, P. & T. tapes are dubbed in Chitumbuka, a native dialect. It was P. & T., naturally, which prerecorded the "This Is Apollo Weather" parody "intros" played by the astronauts during the Apollo 12 moon shot...
...game, that is known as "the barter system"; it was the basis on which the firm's president. William Tanner, 40, established P. & T. back in 1961. A musically illiterate promoter from Missouri whose previous experience included "chopping cotton" and running a fertilizer plant, Tanner took over Memphis' money-losing Pepper Records. Driving from station to station, he traded reels of identification jingles for free commercial time for Ever-Dry Deodorant, a company of which Tanner also happened to be national sales manager...
...Cover: Photo design by Fred Burrell, from pictures supplied by Communist sources to Associated Press and United Press International. The prisoners were identified as U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander William M. Tschudy at top left, and at bottom, left to right, Airmen James Hutton and James Young and Commander Charles Tanner...
...largely closed to them. True, such artists as Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden have been widely recognized on their merits. Moreover, despite the efforts of the newly zealous black historians, no neglected genius has been turned up. though figures like Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister and Henry O. Tanner have been given refurbished status. The past lack of major black painters is not due to any inherent lack of artistic talent on the part of black men-African sculpture disproves that. It is largely a function of the economic fact that in the U.S. few black men could afford...