- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020