Cradle of Rhythm and Blues (Record Row TV Documentary)
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
- Cradle of Rhythm and Blues (Record Row TV Documentary)
Documentary on the birth and emergence of the soul music industry in the late 1950's, along the 12-block stretch of Chicago's South Michigan Avenue known as "Record Row."
I'M WHITE & I'VE LOVED THE BLUES, R&B , MOTOWN FOR 70 YEARS ❣️ I STILL LISTEN TO THE MUSIC EVERY DAY NOW , BEST MUSIC THERE EVER BEEN MADE
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Thank you for this posting ❤ I loved it ❤revisited 1 November 2023
I must say my favourite Curtis is absolutely I'm So Proud. What a fantastic programme this is thanks for the upload! KTF from a Northern Soulie
Sugar Pie DeSanto, Mitty Collier, Jackie Ross, Holly Maxwell, Koko Taylor, Jan Bradly, Fontella Bass so many soulful divas including Ruby Andrews, Josie Armstead and Etta James ❤️
Don’t forget Bettye LaVette, who was just nominated for her 8th Grammy for best Blues Album!!
@4:45 that's Minnie Riperton on the left. She was in a group called The Gems.
Thanks! She has a spectacular voice and range-but in those upper registers I gotta turn it down. I bet it could shatter glass!
I bought a lot of records from Chess Record Company in Chicago Illinois. Nothing like good old Rock N Roll And The Blues. Kick up the music and play it loud to me.
I remember reading in a book about Rock and Roll history that the area in front of Chess Records was a bus stop and that Chess had a speaker outside the front of their building. Whenever they had a new record coming out , they'd play over the speaker and if the black folks were dancing to it, they knew they had a hit.
Great narration by the late Etta James.
Ewart Abner of VJ Records comes across not only as really nice guy but also whip smart
Born in 1956. Raised on music, music, music. Fabulous doco, brings back so many memories! Thank you ❤
HI GOD BLESS...
WOW!!! THIS IS GREAT SUPER GREAT IN FACT I AM SO GLAD I WATCHED THIS. WHAT A WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL HISTORY
Ewart Abner later became head of Motown Records. Brilliant record biz godfather.
BabyGirl ThankYou for bringing this .. wonderfull piece of History .
Thank you so very much for this program. I was raised up on this music. Being a young musician I had the great pleasure of being on the same bill with Mr. Duke Of Earl him self Gene Chandler . His showmanship was excellent . The suits were great and colorful . As the years went by I got the opportunity to be on a show in Cleveland ,Ohio with Mr. Curtis Mayfield. What a great man for me to meet and to be on the same stage with. I have many stories about the Acts from the 1960s. I was their and worked for a number of them. Thank You again so many great memories.
How WasThe Duke in those Days .was he nice? Was it fun working with him? Do you have any pictures?
I never really liked the smooth Motown sound. I always liked blues, rythm and blues, 1950's rock n roll.
Maurice (Earth, Wind, and Fire) White was *the* go-to session drummer for Chess during its halcyon years.
Excellent!
As a kid who grew up in the Chicago burbs in the 60's and 70's (Blue Island [southside] ) I'm proud to know this, some of which I already knew, as a musician and ongoing lover of Chicago blues and soul.
When I was growing up, in the New York metro area in the 50s, I heard this music on WADO & WAAT.
Jocko and The Bruce were my favorite DJs.
Now I live just a few blocks from Record Row and wish the music was still there.
@Charlie...that’s interesting I grew up in the NYC area(North Jersey) in the 70’s. I was fascinated by Chicago because Ebony/Jet. Afro Sheen/ Ultra Sheen, Soul Train and of course Curtis Mayfield, Chi-Lites Staples Singers. When I moved there as an adult I then began to understand how that city could produce so much soul. The gospel music coming out of those churches were something I had never heard even in Newark or Harlem. Amazing experience!
@@ccth22 I was born in Newark and lived in Elizabeth, West Orange and East Orange.
Chicago had so much great stuff but it's largely just another corporate-chain city now.
I've been here since 2002 and am now leaving to live in the desert.
Hey bro I understand completely. I live in Atlanta. No more snow shoveling...
@@ccth22 Yep...I'm moving to Las Vegas to be near my son and grandkids and get away from shitty winter!
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111
From a mad keen 75yo Aussie fan.
Ok, I was born in Chicago,so I'm biased. This is the best music this country has to offer.
I agree, I’m from the NYC area(Jersey side) originally. But I loved in Chicago for two years and this documentary captured everything I felt about the city and the music. Chitown just felt “soulful”. Driving through the south side you would hear ladies voices blasting through church windows and I would be thinking this has got to be where r&b was born.
ALL ranking is irrelevant. Chance is not. Try to figure out what s in between. . . . Answer : the historical momentum as reflected thru individual choice. Some call it fate, others talent !
Great programme
Thank you.😊
Im proud to say i have many ties to the blues, besides playing with leon Russell, i live right beside and play with Bob Margolin steady rolling, who played with muddy waters for years and years, and I've heard all the stories you folks would die to hear. It's crazy how far a hillbilly with a guitar can go, especially in swva
Brilliant thanks to lovely people who share these wonderful music memories and of course the amazing people who made that music.
Superb...the music will always live on !!
Thank you
Willie Dixon had hits of his own in addition to being a talent scout. One I like is "29 Ways to Make it to My Baby." I have a cd of his and there's a lot of good music on it. Plus he played a mean bass on a lot of other people's records, too.
Sugar Pie DeSanto among others. Sugar Pie is still owed a day in the sun. She kicked out fire-breathing R&B that could burn up any dance floor
@@kjaze Wow, thanks. I'm going to look up Sugar Pie to hear some of that fire-breathing.
@@kjazewhat happened to her? I saw her at a Blues Festival in England early sixties
She's still alive to my knowledge
The Pioneers of Blues,R & Band Rock n Roll all on Record Row in THE WINDY CITY This was OUTSTANDING!
Wow that was good Rachel, stuff I knew and stuff I didn't. You know, I don't let anybody see me when I watch things like this, because all that history - all those people - it makes the tears flow big time.
Chess records was the foundation for everything rocknroll was built on.
But never to be equaled....fine musicians every one in their own right
I just thought it was Michigan Avenue. I've never heard of "Record Row" until this documentary. Before the Dan Ryan expressway was opened, Dad used to travel past Chess Records on the way from the west-side to the southside to visit my grandmother.
That I - vi - IV - V chord progression was just done to death. "Duke of Earl" used it too. Most all those Doo-wop songs used it. I just got so sick of it, but i was 7 years old in 62, so who was I?? A future hard rocker and metal head, and then i abandoned metal (not hard rock) and got into contemporary country fan and a Southern rocker. But it's ALL based in the BLUES, including R&B, of course.
Whoa this was amazing so many hits and so much history thanks for posting 👏🏿
Great, thanks 😊...
Nice job. Thank you
Fantastic program. Thank you.
I love anything and everything about the early days of rock and roll and this documentary is no exception. Thanks for the post.
+Stephen Joiner Thank you Stephen :)
Sad that it all fell apart when the large corporates started to show interest in the music produced by the independent companies.The music then became watered down and lost its edge.Another problem was the white middle class who did everything in their power to prohibit this music,public smashing of records by some white dj’s and naturally the horrible payola scandal that hit record promotion.Nice clip of Robert Nighthawk on Maxwell street!
This has nothing to do with rock and roll. This is purely about "rhythm and blues"!
What an amazing documentary.
Thanks Rachel. I wish there was all that creativity and diversity now.
Its gonna take an act of God. To Bring music back to this stage .. shi'
They have even killed country music .
Absolutely phenomenal!
You have a great channel. It's like taking a complete music class. The!!!!!Beat is so good,and you are very generous for sharing the episodes. I added an extra exclamation point because I like it so much. Go Muddy. Thank you again, have a good new year.
Hello John, Thank you for your kind comment :) I wanted to share full episodes after noting small excerpts appearing on YT mainly the artists that are more well known, however the lesser acts also deserve to be seen I think? :)
I enjoyed this learning about my town from this documentary a whole lot! Thanks for posting it!
How about that Dick Clark bit?
"It was a big stink about nothing. The original artists got their due."
- The White Man
You should title your vids with the guests in it so you can get more views, and make it easier for ppl to find what they are looking for
Brilliant Simply brilliant.🌝
Amazing 💕💯🎤🤩💫❤️ #nowwatching
Berry Gordy had people jumping up and down on boards to simulate handclaps but that was after this phone book stomping right? 21:45 Dick Clark got slapped down with his "much to do about nothing" blow off comment GOOD!
Thank you for posting this.
Love this.💯👌🏾
Rachel ,thanks for this fine post
Hello Ran, Your most welcome :)
Bravo ! Maravilha ! De onde eu acredito ter originado o Rock !
Why would there even exist a situation where an unheard album could be in any contract? That just sounds ridiculous.
Also, speaking of Curtis’, Curtis King Jr., who sings in two different bands with Bruce Springsteen, has a beautiful voice too.
38:00 Billy Davis was a cousin of Berry Gordy Jr., and co-wrote songs under the pseudonym *Tyran Carlo.*
Awesome Beautiful informative thanks for sharing this Video footage !
I love that music broke down the walls of discrimination!!!! Disgraceful that white people wouldn't play the original recordings at first. As a white person that saddensxme. We are one. So glad things have changed.
It wasn't like that. Youre white guilt brainwashed.
thanks for posting this video, glad to know music history
Thanks for sharing
awesome! thanks for sharing Rachel!!!
Thank you Mike and you're welcome :)
the Stones spent a lot of time with blues greats in Memphis too.
Nice post Rachel, you always have something i like
Thank you for the wonderful comment, glad you like it :)
Chuck Berry is the true King of R&R .. Elvis all he ever did was steal Hound Dog from Big Momma Thorton . That piece of trash didnt even throw her a Bone .. 500 bucks thats not even a crumb .
Thornton co-wrote "Hound Dog"; I'm sure that her estate is *still* collecting royalties off of "Dog", which reached far more people on the planet/ in history because Elvis chose to record it: *Think;* will you ? *Fun Fact:* Elvis was a very respectful friend of the U.S. R&B community.
Yes!!! Thank you!!! 1Nation4Life
Top Shelf!
Hi Rachel, someone recommended this to me. When I saw who posted it, I knew the were right. This is nice!
+Don Deering Thank you Don, hope your keeping well :)
+Rachel Cummings Everything's gotta be alright, so it is. Do you want to hear something nice? Maybe it's a little premature, but I'm starting to get some music together, posting it here: www.soundcloud.com/don_deering
Most of what I'll be posting are rhythm gittar tracks and then--hopefully--responses to them. There's one collaboration at present, the guy sounds great.
Every two weeks or so, I'll add a different track, different key, different rhythm. I'm due for one this weekend.
+Don Deering you always sound great !! :) checking it out, plus I've put it on my channel here :) one of my wonderful friends I have on yt !! Have a good weekend suga.
+Rachel Cummings Thank you, Rachel! Are you on Facebook? There are a couple groups you "should" belong to if you're interested, and we should be friends there if you are.
Howlin Wolf is my favorite blues singer and better performer then Muddy Waters.
I wanna see or find the footage of Dee Clark performing at 26:24 and 26:50.
Great post , brilliant info, going to sub your channel looks cool, thanks.
people was changing over and they were always looking 4 a new sound the people of the 195OS were listen 👂 2 more music 🎶 than be 4 and in the bigger towns there was records stores every where and it was the young people who was buying the records and that's where the music 🎶 sales came from there recording studios every where and just as many record stores there is only 2 big music 🎶 stores I know of 2 day left 👈 😮😊😂 OMG 7 8 2O23
Also the birthplace of payola.
Thank you racheal
SEE WHAT WE BLACK FOLKS CAN DO .CONTROL THE WORLD IF WE JUST RAISE OUR CHILDREN RIGHT AN BE ACOUNTABLE
Name all the players behind Etta James please 38:49
4:15 now that area is totally gentrified
20122018: Share Playlist please????
Watch Cadillac Records
49:40 The Beatles *SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ON THE VEE-JAY(V.J.) LABEL AT ALL!* EMI in Britain should've *PULLED RANK* on their insignificant little US subsidiary, Capitol, and *FORCED* Capitol to carry The Beatles, Frank Ifield and *ALL OTHER EMI-ROSTERED ARTISTS AND GROUPS!* Capitol was, after all, a *MERE SUBSIDIARY* rather than a division of EMI. And as a subsidiary, that equated to Capitol being the *INFANT TODDLER* in the EMI "family".
Good point. I'm so tire of listening to revisionists giving credit to Vee-Jay for "discovering" the Beatles.
@@b.deville3236 Actually, EMI, once they took over Capitol(about 99.5% of the company) in 1955, EMI should've shifted the headquarters from Hollywood Calif. USA to *Toronto, Ontario Canada* and rebranded the company as *EMI(North Americas) Ltd.* However, this should *NOT* be seen as an elevation of the company's status, the newly-rebranded company would *STILL* be a *mere subsidiary* of EMI(The Gramophone Co.) Ltd., Hayes Middlesex England.
Interesting... not as accurate as it could be (King was in Cincinnati), but a decent overview with a unique angle.
Had a branch in C, acc to Eddie Boyd. Think Ralph Bass worked 4 both K and C, prod + A & R
@@sulevisydanmaa9981 OK, but wouldn't that have been more or less a guy (Bass) or two working out of a hotel room, maybe a bar? Can't see Sid Nathan opening an actual branch... that would cost money! I imagine lots of companies, majors included, had people covering Chicago, just in case something profitable was ripe for the plundering .
PULVERIZED the Toddlin Town w just talent scouts was not the impression I got from E.B. whom I was in nearly weekly contact due to residential proximity betw 86-94 way up here in The N ...Not sure if "branch" in the corporate sense was the exact word he used. He conveyed that Ralph B was the one & only fair & decent middleman between him and "dem Lennardh people peckawoods" ... He was mentally devastated by the supremacists financial serfdom, which was the main reason for his relocation to Europe. Only in the late 80s the Scott Cameron Organization took him under their wing - along w Dixon, etc other victimized semi-simpletons... and, thru erudite legal wrangling, finally got back to E(xploited) what was justifiably due theirs in terms of royalty rights to hit songs.
Talking bout "hits" & Chgo ...is another discussion. But if u can read betw the lines in Bob Pruter s book Chgo Soul, there are many not just unturned pages but ostensibly still laid down untruths resting subsurface in the murky waters of Lake Mich - above which the Hawk is, once again, soon going to blow all evidence away ...just as another Chi-kid, Lou Rawls, once delivered in a long pre-rap oratory on one of his mid-career live albums. . .Boyd s widow still lives in Helsinki, 1st name Leila, a finn.
PS. the crookedest rec row cmpny, acc to Pruter, was Brunswick - the Decca subs. which did superbly arranged DEEP SOUL (Erma, Tyrone, Acklin, Jackie W, Chandler, Percy - by Sonny Sanders, Carl Davis - maybe Bass also + Barge) , but was so corrupt I'm not going to speculate in public. Ask Pruter, convey my admiration concerning his in-depth book from 1990.
PPS. WHO, btw, would, finally, start digging deep by shoveling off THE Dirt from the Duke/Peacock/Backbeat ...(whatever). If they changed the name of Grant Park, why not change the myth concerning Don Robey s semi-philantropist Cadillac giveaways to his most profitable stable drivers - LJP, BBB, OVW ....just askin ? The Roy C. Ames book is a surface history !
@@sulevisydanmaa9981 Thanks for the detailed response! So cool when you can learn things rather than get into a ridiculous argument!
My only comment would be, yeah, Brunswick. Well known as mobbed up profiteers, almost to the level of Roulette. I personally don't care for the Brunswick production style, but they did make some hits. But imagine if Jackie Wilson had been in, say, Sam Cooke's position, on a label that at least wasn't shady as all get out, and with management that saw more than a day or two into the future. Brunswick was not good for him, in any way, even if you like the arrangements.
Anyway, you seem to know a lot more than I do on all this, and it's been a while since I've read the books, etc. Lots of newer books I need to read it sounds like! Thanks again!
Cadillac records would've been so much more received had it not been circled around Beyonce
WILLIE DIXON!!!
Did Janis Joplin get her whole thing from Etta James?
42:10 what song is that?
Love makes a woman by Barbara Acklin a major jam back in the day also a great dance/swing record
Pat Boone 1&3 @20:22.
Dee Clarke (starting @24:23) obviously knew where the groove was in spite of the audience (must have been annoying).
Harry Connick, Jr surprisingly did something about it...
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@3:52 and it's changed again...expensive condos and businesses are all right there now. The Chess museum still sits there though.
49:00 As I said two years earlier, The Beatles *SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ON THE VEE-JAY(V.J.) LABEL AT ALL!* Vee-Jay had *NO BUSINESS* carrying The Beatles or *ANY OTHER* artist, duo, trio or group(4 or more members) on EMI's roster *WHATSOEVER!* As Capitol was owned *ALMOST OUTRIGHT* from 1955 and *ABSOLUTELY OUTRIGHT* from 1980 by EMI(The Gramophone Co.) of Britain, Capitol should've been *OBLIGED* to carry *ALL OF EMI'S BRITISH, AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND AND EUROPEAN ROSTER* into Canada, and the less-important American market, and Capitol *SHOULD"VE HAD ABSOLUTELY NO SAY IN THE MATTER AT ALL!*
It's too late for that, what's done is done!
Can we all agree Pat Boone has to be one of the biggest vocal hacks ever? Elvis had to come along and teach him how to sing. Boone never learned.
Nope. Pat Boone was a good pop crooner. Comparing him to rock acts in ludicrous revisionism.
You should know everything the white man out his hands on he destroys it
You mean like they destroyed Detroit, Memphis, Chicago, Camden, St. Louis, etc?
19:33 - 19:45 A Trump Supporter!
Got his britches all the way up to his breasteses!
Idiot.
Truth! LOL
Sha boom was the worst rape of a great and fundamentally awesome song! Aka the crew cuts suck!
So mad about even though Chess etc did give Black music a Hell of a boost they also as Jerry Butler made black artists basically Musical Slaves by paying them a pittance of what they Earned which Big money mostly was taken by White record owners 🤔😵😠🤬⁉️ All that is all wrong but later Black guys like Barry Gordy did the same to their Black artists so it was and Still is all ABOUT MONEY 💯🤑⚰️👺 Great Documentary not only about the music but the hopes,dreams and the will to make Better lives for Black people in America 🤯
Whats the song on 41:45?
R.J. Frias Soulful Strut by Young-Holt Unlimited
Patrick Glass thanks man
Vocal version Barbara Acklin - Am I the same girl after Young Holts Soulful Strutt