Jon Weisberger wrote:
...the guy in Cincinnati who had James Brown et al.
Syd Nathan, inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame not too long ago.
"You know, everybody told us he was really a bear cat, but we never had
anybody to treat us any better than Syd Nathan." - Ralph Stanley
Will Miner wrote:
Sigh. I try not to get too sentimental for olden days but it's hard not
to wish for such things. Too many of my favorite records are from those
days when music was locally owned and made as were the records and the
radio, when saying "that's a band from Memphis" would
Will Miner wrote:
I'll vote for that (not knowing whether a Gracey rampage might be too
dangerous to the locals).
Sigh. I try not to get too sentimental for olden days but it's hard not
to wish for such things. Too many of my favorite records are from those
days when music was locally
he would cut a single, make an acetate of it on
the studio lathe, and walk upstairs with it to KXOL radio (where I
eventually was a kid DJ) and if the PD liked it, he'd stick it into the
night rotation to see how the kids responded to it. If it did anything,
Major Bill would press it up and put
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Joe Gracey wrote:
This is an essay I can't do justice to now, but Huey and his kind were
great inspiration to me and I long for the days of freewheeling record
making and real radio programmers in charge of their own playlists. I
hope that era returns soon so that I
Absolutely...they're all creeping their way into stores right about now
too. The Collectors Choice catalogue is probaboy the one you're talking
about, but I suspect lots of vendors and stores have them now. New Crazy
Cajun discs include sets recorded in Texas or Louisiana by:
Lowell Fulson
...the guy in Cincinnati who had James Brown et al.
Syd Nathan, inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame not too long ago.
"You know, everybody told us he was really a bear cat, but we never had
anybody to treat us any better than Syd Nathan." - Ralph Stanley
Jon Weisberger Kenton
