kakoluri.com » hunter hancock http://kakoluri.com Gypsy Chief Blog Sun, 20 May 2012 23:15:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Etta James: RIP http://kakoluri.com/2012/01/21/etta-james-rip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=etta-james-rip http://kakoluri.com/2012/01/21/etta-james-rip/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:13:49 +0000 chief http://kakoluri.com/?p=4874

Rather go blind is one of the greatest sad songs ever made..
I cringe when I hear other people sing it. Thank you Etta.
If you had to get introduced to this song from some lame movie or wack TV talent show, eh, listen to the REAL VERSION!!!!
djmane1 on Youtube

Fortunately I got to see Etta James at the Monterey Jazz Festival years ago.

Etta James On Hunter Hancock Radio Show

We have blogged before about Hunter Hancock playing race music much admired by kids at Van Nuys Hi. Hank Balard and the Midnighters released a song Work With Me Annie which outraged much of the community back then. Etta James released a response song Roll With Me Henry. Here is a Youtube video of that song.

 

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]]> http://kakoluri.com/2012/01/21/etta-james-rip/feed/ 0 This Date in History – Hunter Hancock http://kakoluri.com/2010/08/04/this-date-in-history-hunter-hancock/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-date-in-history-hunter-hancock http://kakoluri.com/2010/08/04/this-date-in-history-hunter-hancock/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:18:52 +0000 chief http://kakoluri.com/?p=600

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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]]> http://kakoluri.com/2010/08/04/this-date-in-history-hunter-hancock/feed/ 0 Hunter Hancock Apr 21, 1916 – Aug 4, 2004 http://kakoluri.com/2009/03/01/hunter-hancock-apr-21-1916-aug-4-2004/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hunter-hancock-apr-21-1916-aug-4-2004 http://kakoluri.com/2009/03/01/hunter-hancock-apr-21-1916-aug-4-2004/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:59:32 +0000 chief http://kakoluri.com/?p=134 Hunter Hancock

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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