From Occupy Caturday – Boing Boing Net by Xeni Jardin.

An Occupy Cal demonstrator carries a cat in Sproul Plaza at the University of California, Berkeley November 15, 2011. OWS protesters converged on the University of California at Berkeley on this day, vowing to set up a tent camp in defiance of campus rules a day after police dismantled a long-standing encampment in nearby Oakland. (REUTERS/Stephen Lam)

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See http://kakoluri.com/2009/03/01/hunter-hancock-apr-21-1916-aug-4-2004/ for more information.

Here is another good source Remembering Hunter Hancock

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Hunter Hancock

A legendary R&B disk jockey who played rythm and blues before rock and roll came along. At one time this was called ‘race music’. Hunter had a wide following among the students at Van Nuys High. The white kids at VNHS would race to their cars the minute school was out so they could listen to Hunter Hancock.

In 1953
Hank Ballard and The Midnighters released a song called “Work With Me, Annie” which caused a huge uproar. Hunter played it every chance he got. This was a song with raunchy lyrics which left little to the imagination. Some radio stations banned the song. Mothers got their daughters to pledge not to listen. About ten years later Congressman James Utt [R-CA] proclaimed that rock and roll was a Communist plot to weaken the moral fabric of America. Could it be that “Work With Me Annie” was a song he was thinking about?

Another song Hunter played a lot was “Your Cash Ain’t Nothin But Trash” by The Clovers. Who could forget “Money Honey” by Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters? The best selling record of 1954, the year we graduated, was “The Things I Used To Do” by Eddie Jones [Guitar Slim].

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Markleeville Death Ride

I had an awful time deciding what to add first in our continuing best of California series. The Monterey Jazz Festival qualifies. Yosemite National Park, Lake Tahoe, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Griffith Park Zoo in L. A. and then there is Death Valley as well as Bass Lake (made famous by Hunter S. Thompson in his book “Hells Angels”). Something has to be first and truly the Markleeville Death Ride (now just called the Death Ride) is my choice. Stay tuned for the others.

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