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Gospel musicians-United States-Biography. Hill, Willie “Preacher” Richardson, and Walter SettlesĬontents Preface 1 “A Wheel in a Wheel, ’Way Up in the Middle of the Air”Ģ “I Just Got On My Travelin’ Shoes” (1929–1938)ģ “Ain’t Gonna Study War No More” (1939–1942)ĥ “Move On Up a Little Higher” (1945–1949)ħ “Let’s Go Out to the Programs” (1952–1959) To my mother, Betty, my wife, Joyce, and my son, Zach In memory of my father, Bam In memory of my mentors, Gerald M.
Preface I was one of thousands of white kids who, in my case growing up outside of Pittsburgh in the late 1950s and early 1960s, discovered the exciting and-at the time-exotic world of black music hidden away at the lower end of the radio dial. The station was WAMO out of Homestead, and the music-primarily jazz, rhythm and blues, and doo-wop-was impossible to ignore. In my town, McKeesport, the station and the music came to signify teen rebellion, an intelligent underground alternative to the bland pop that then dominated mainstream airwaves. By the time I graduated from high school, I had amassed thousands of choice 45-rpm records by African American performers the more obscure the better. The Sixers made a blockbuster deal for Mutombo in 2001 as the big man helped get them over the NBA Finals hump that year. It was around then that I chanced on a segment of the WAMO broadcast day that I had never before heard. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
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