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 🖐🏻😇😇🤜🏾🤛🏼🤜🏼🤛🏾😎
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.
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.
What stands out to me from this video how most the world, especially the US treated the black has sub human, when clearly the blacks were and some of greatest singers in the world, just listen, such beautiful harmonie and colour in everything they do. I am a white soul and R and B fan. I would be interested to hear anyone else's comments.
While these white people appreciated & enjoyed the Afro American artistry & creativity.. It doesn’t appear to have impeded their racial intolerance passed down through generations.
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 ❤️
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.
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.
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!
@areguapiri your comment proves you have no clue about rock and roll. If the music sounds like rhythm and blues to you " THAT IS THE BEGINNING OF ROCK and roll regardless of what you think. FOR THE RECORD WHITE PEOPLE ARE not THE ORIGINATOR OF ROCK AND ROLL or country music . .... AS A MATTER OF FACT LED ZEPPELIN, THE BEATLES, THE ROLLING STONES STOLE THIER MUSIC FROM THE ARTIST IN THIS FILM . THAT INCLUDES ELVIS PRESLEY his dancing and singing was stolen from from these artist as well.. White people steal every thing and slap thier names on it. However, human life begin in Africa that means our ancestors adapted to the environment and had the strength and intelligence to continue to survive. We were at the bottom of the food chain and now are at the top. .... now that black people are not as oppressed as the past slavery etc..... sky's the limit.... don't ever forget the first person to step foot in Europe was a person of color. A white person is just a black man with no melenion . Your ancestors adapted to the climate and in Europe it is cold. Skin color is a natural sunscreen.. . In so many words you and people who look like you have not adapted to the climate.. white people will gain melenion and eventually there won't be many of 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
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.
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.
This is a great peice, and yes, histories of people not getting their due or getting taken advantage of wile they struggle to try to help themselves to do better have me shed a tear, too. These also help me to remember that I need to be gentle with people, as they may have gone thru something like this in their lives that I have no idea of.
I remember Al Benson emceeing the shows at the (original) Regal Theater. He was the best, changing suits between acts. I have fond memories of growing up on WBEE and WVON radio stations in their prime ('50s-'60s).
Im curious about Maurice's drumming on these records and what you may know about it. I've dug around on the net and only find scant information as perhaps session logs have been lost or not even kept. The drumming on particular the Impressions music is truly fantastic. I've watched a bit early film of Maurice during his time with Ramsey Lewis and his approach there is very cool and not overly explosive. But I can easily imagine him playing on It's Alright, Monkey Time etc...
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
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.
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 !
My uncle, Don Myrick (sax) EWF, Phil Collins, worked for Chess Records along with Maurice White (drums) in Chicago. They were best friends at Crane on the West side. I talked to my uncle and other aunt and gave me so much history about Chicago music and the atmosphere.
The oddity that it took Brit Bands like the Rolling Stones et al, to introduce 'white' America, to what 'was' this country's own home grown music. This is a great video to digest, learn from, read between the lines and absorb. Kudos.
+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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
A great program, but how could the focus on Chess Records not present more than just a snippet introductory chords of The Moonglows' "Sincerely" without a little more of that great group?
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
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".
@@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.
According to the Beatles1990's Doc, George Martin said prior or around the song "Please Please Me" George Martin approached Vee-Jay and other small U S labels. And Vee-Jay were one of the few if not only company who went for it. He said EMI were forced to carry the Beatles more or less by their poor decision not to sign the Beatles once they saw the major sales.
@@richardbartolo2890 *Capitol* was forced to carry the Beatles in America. As I said, EMI should've *FORCED* their piddling little American *subsidiary* to carry *ALL* of EMI's British and Australian artist & group roster, whether the artist or group is known there or not. EMI *OWNED* the largest chunk of Capitol for several years from 1955 and from 1980 onwards, EMI owned Capitol *OUTRIGHT!* But Capitol, and Toshiba in Japan, were only a *minor part* of EMI's worldwide holdings.
Don't Forget the other States & Cities i.e. Detroit Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Motown, Mini Riperton Columbus, Cleveland O Jays, Dayton Ohio Players, Isley Brothers Cincinnati. Boosie, Roger, Indiana Babyface, Minnesota Prince, The Jets, Seattle Quincy Jones, The Bay Area Shakur, Sly & the Family Stones, Tower of Power, Dominique Diprima, LA Gangster Rap, Snoop Dog, Dr Dre, Ice Club, Ice Tea, Barry White, Lady T, Tina Mare, Janet Jackson, Snoop Dog, Monica, NWA, The Whispers,
None other than the great Gatemouth Brown. I wish I could tell you everyone in his band, but on bass is Billy Cox Jimi's dear friend and fello gypsy. This must be from the tv show the Beat.
Mu m had Pat Boone records. Pat was good at singing Popular (Pop) Ballads; I liked "love Letters in the Sand". However, at "Rock and Roll", Pat was outta his "Middle American" Bubble. Covering Little Richards "Tutti Fruity"; Pats persona and, attempted rendation, looks and sounds 🤔 'Phoney' would be apt. He S.A.Fk was no Elvis Presley. Check out Etta James sing "Rock n Roll Music", at the Chuck Berry 50th Adversity Gig. Puts her Soul into it. Would 'raise the hairs on the back of the neck'. Its a fantastic performance. Chuck was even 'blown away'. RIP 🙏🏽❤-- Etta,Richard, Elvis,Chuck. TY 🎸🎹🎷🥁🎵🎵👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻 😎
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.
Hey Wait! What about Curtis Mayfield, Impressions, Jerry Butler, Super Fly, & 30 miles away is Gary Indiana is the Michael Jackson & the Jackson 5, & Janet Jackson & more! My exwife & Dinah Washington etc
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!*
@@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!
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 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.
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.
What stands out to me from this video how most the world, especially the US treated the black has sub human, when clearly the blacks were and some of greatest singers in the world, just listen, such beautiful harmonie and colour in everything they do. I am a white soul and R and B fan. I would be interested to hear anyone else's comments.
While these white people appreciated & enjoyed the Afro American artistry & creativity..
It doesn’t appear to have impeded their racial intolerance passed down through generations.
They were treated vastly better in virtually every country outside the USA.
Many artists touring Europe from Josephine Baker on, decided not go back !
@@gostrum1I would imagine they were not all the same in views just because they are the same color
Yeah we made them rich stars.
Great narration by the late Etta James.
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!
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 love this music thank you for sharing it again
HI GOD BLESS...
WOW!!! THIS IS GREAT SUPER GREAT IN FACT I AM SO GLAD I WATCHED THIS. WHAT A WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL HISTORY
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.
Born in 1956. Raised on music, music, music. Fabulous doco, brings back so many memories! Thank you ❤
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!
The Pioneers of Blues,R & Band Rock n Roll all on Record Row in THE WINDY CITY This was OUTSTANDING!
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
BabyGirl ThankYou for bringing this .. wonderfull piece of History .
Ewart Abner later became head of Motown Records. Brilliant record biz godfather.
Excellent!
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"!
@areguapiri your comment proves you have no clue about rock and roll. If the music sounds like rhythm and blues to you " THAT IS THE BEGINNING OF ROCK and roll regardless of what you think. FOR THE RECORD WHITE PEOPLE ARE not THE ORIGINATOR OF ROCK AND ROLL or country music . .... AS A MATTER OF FACT LED ZEPPELIN, THE BEATLES, THE ROLLING STONES STOLE THIER MUSIC FROM THE ARTIST IN THIS FILM . THAT INCLUDES ELVIS PRESLEY his dancing and singing was stolen from from these artist as well.. White people steal every thing and slap thier names on it. However, human life begin in Africa that means our ancestors adapted to the environment and had the strength and intelligence to continue to survive. We were at the bottom of the food chain and now are at the top. .... now that black people are not as oppressed as the past slavery etc..... sky's the limit.... don't ever forget the first person to step foot in Europe was a person of color. A white person is just a black man with no melenion . Your ancestors adapted to the climate and in Europe it is cold. Skin color is a natural sunscreen.. . In so many words you and people who look like you have not adapted to the climate.. white people will gain melenion and eventually there won't be many of you.
Brilliant thanks to lovely people who share these wonderful music memories and of course the amazing people who made that music.
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111
From a mad keen 75yo Aussie fan.
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
Whoa this was amazing so many hits and so much history thanks for posting 👏🏿
What an amazing documentary.
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
she is in Oakland
Fantastic program. Thank you.
As a South African truly enjoyed the history behind the RnB music and wish to see a SAn researched doccie from a black perspective
Ewart Abner of VJ Records comes across not only as really nice guy but also whip smart
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.
This is a great peice, and yes, histories of people not getting their due or getting taken advantage of wile they struggle to try to help themselves to do better have me shed a tear, too. These also help me to remember that I need to be gentle with people, as they may have gone thru something like this in their lives that I have no idea of.
Great programme
Nice job. Thank you
Superb...the music will always live on !!
Thanks so much for posting the history of the sound track of my life!
Thank you
I remember Al Benson emceeing the shows at the (original) Regal Theater. He was the best, changing suits between acts. I have fond memories of growing up on WBEE and WVON radio stations in their prime ('50s-'60s).
Maurice (Earth, Wind, and Fire) White was *the* go-to session drummer for Chess during its halcyon years.
Im curious about Maurice's drumming on these records and what you may know about it. I've dug around on the net and only find scant information as perhaps session logs have been lost or not even kept. The drumming on particular the Impressions music is truly fantastic. I've watched a bit early film of Maurice during his time with Ramsey Lewis and his approach there is very cool and not overly explosive. But I can easily imagine him playing on It's Alright, Monkey Time etc...
I believe that's Maurice on Rescue Me!
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? :)
@@rachelcummings2705You are so right regarding the lesser known acts as they made great music. Love your channel and thank you.
Rachel ,thanks for this fine post
Hello Ran, Your most welcome :)
Thanks for sharing Rachel ....Brilliant Education
thanks for posting this video, glad to know music history
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
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.
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 !
My uncle, Don Myrick (sax) EWF, Phil Collins, worked for Chess Records along with Maurice White (drums) in Chicago. They were best friends at Crane on the West side. I talked to my uncle and other aunt and gave me so much history about Chicago music and the atmosphere.
Did they tell you that the Chess Brothers stole most of the money that belong to the Black artists?
Love this.💯👌🏾
Amazing 💕💯🎤🤩💫❤️ #nowwatching
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 .
The oddity that it took Brit Bands like the Rolling Stones et al, to introduce 'white' America, to what 'was' this country's own home grown music. This is a great video to digest, learn from, read between the lines and absorb. Kudos.
Absolutely phenomenal!
Thank you for posting this.
Awesome Beautiful informative thanks for sharing this Video footage !
awesome! thanks for sharing Rachel!!!
Thank you Mike and you're welcome :)
Nice post Rachel, you always have something i like
Thank you for the wonderful comment, glad you like it :)
Brilliant Simply brilliant.🌝
Agreed! Thank You x 100.
Great, great documentary!
Bravo ! Maravilha ! De onde eu acredito ter originado o Rock !
Duke of Earl is my ringtone
Chess records was the foundation for everything rocknroll was built on.
But never to be equaled....fine musicians every one in their own right
Great, thanks 😊...
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.
Thank you.😊
Thanks for sharing
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!
Badass music
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.
2120 South Michigan Avenue, the home of the blues.
Top Shelf!
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
Great post , brilliant info, going to sub your channel looks cool, thanks.
38:00 Billy Davis was a cousin of Berry Gordy Jr., and co-wrote songs under the pseudonym *Tyran Carlo.*
Yes!!! Thank you!!! 1Nation4Life
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.
Thank you racheal
"There's good rockin' tonight"
the Stones spent a lot of time with blues greats in Memphis too.
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.
I never really liked the smooth Motown sound. I always liked blues, rythm and blues, 1950's rock n roll.
Well the Blues was the pure raw genre of music that was the stepping stone and prelude to the smoother Motown sound
4:33 Minnie Riperton
SEE WHAT WE BLACK FOLKS CAN DO .CONTROL THE WORLD IF WE JUST RAISE OUR CHILDREN RIGHT AN BE ACOUNTABLE
A great program, but how could the focus on Chess Records not present more than just a snippet introductory chords of The Moonglows' "Sincerely" without a little more of that great group?
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Billy Preston 45:55 ? Digging the blues on the street?
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
Howlin Wolf is my favorite blues singer and better performer then Muddy Waters.
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.
According to the Beatles1990's Doc, George Martin said prior or around the song "Please Please Me" George Martin approached Vee-Jay and other small U S labels. And Vee-Jay were one of the few if not only company who went for it. He said EMI were forced to carry the Beatles more or less by their poor decision not to sign the Beatles once they saw the major sales.
@@richardbartolo2890 *Capitol* was forced to carry the Beatles in America. As I said, EMI should've *FORCED* their piddling little American *subsidiary* to carry *ALL* of EMI's British and Australian artist & group roster, whether the artist or group is known there or not. EMI *OWNED* the largest chunk of Capitol for several years from 1955 and from 1980 onwards, EMI owned Capitol *OUTRIGHT!* But Capitol, and Toshiba in Japan, were only a *minor part* of EMI's worldwide holdings.
20122018: Share Playlist please????
Don't Forget the other States & Cities i.e. Detroit Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Motown, Mini Riperton Columbus, Cleveland O Jays, Dayton Ohio Players, Isley Brothers Cincinnati. Boosie, Roger, Indiana Babyface, Minnesota Prince, The Jets, Seattle Quincy Jones, The Bay Area Shakur, Sly & the Family Stones, Tower of Power, Dominique Diprima, LA Gangster Rap, Snoop Dog, Dr Dre, Ice Club, Ice Tea, Barry White, Lady T, Tina Mare, Janet Jackson, Snoop Dog, Monica, NWA, The Whispers,
Name all the players behind Etta James please 38:49
None other than the great Gatemouth Brown. I wish I could tell you everyone in his band, but on bass is Billy Cox Jimi's dear friend and fello gypsy. This must be from the tv show the Beat.
@@johnidan6264 THANKS!
4:15 now that area is totally gentrified
Mu m had Pat Boone records. Pat was good at singing Popular (Pop) Ballads; I liked "love Letters in the Sand".
However, at "Rock and Roll", Pat was outta his "Middle American" Bubble.
Covering Little Richards "Tutti Fruity";
Pats persona and, attempted rendation, looks and sounds 🤔
'Phoney' would be apt.
He S.A.Fk was no Elvis Presley.
Check out Etta James sing "Rock n Roll Music", at the Chuck Berry 50th Adversity Gig. Puts her Soul into it. Would 'raise the hairs on the back of the neck'. Its a fantastic performance. Chuck was even 'blown away'.
RIP 🙏🏽❤--
Etta,Richard, Elvis,Chuck.
TY 🎸🎹🎷🥁🎵🎵👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻 😎
I never knew the Beatles were signed to a black owned record label😮
What year was this doc . made ?
55:15 - MCMXCVII - I hope You know Roman Numerals. Actually 1997
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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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.
Hey Wait! What about Curtis Mayfield, Impressions, Jerry Butler, Super Fly, & 30 miles away is Gary Indiana is the Michael Jackson & the Jackson 5, & Janet Jackson & more! My exwife & Dinah Washington etc
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!
I can't believe how much Etta James sounds like Janis Joplin or I should say Janis Joplin sounds like Etta James
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!
@3:52 and it's changed again...expensive condos and businesses are all right there now. The Chess museum still sits there though.