Read One : The Life and Music of James Brown (9781101561102) Online
Authors: R. J. Smith
Shaw, James, 59–60
Shepard, Jean, 321
Sherrell, “Sweet” Charles, 212, 312–313
Shore, Dinah, 215, 216
Showtime
album, 132
Shuffle rhythms, 169, 170
Simpkins, Arthur Lee, 27
Ski Party
(movie), 133
Slaughter’s Big
Rip-Off
(movie),280, 289
Slavery, 1–4, 16
Sly & the Family Stone, 235
Smash, 131–133, 135, 161
Smith, Arthur, 134, 181
Smith, Clay, 134
Smith, Tommie, 280
Smith, Wilbert (Lee Diamond), 65, 67
Solid Gold
(television show), 333, 334
Songs My Mother Taught Me
(Brando), 125
Soul City, North Carolina, 265, 266
Soul Generals, 368–369, 378–379
Soul Initiative, 267–268
Soul music, 113–115, 121
“Soul Power,” 250, 264, 331
Southern Strategy, 225, 347
Spurling, Charles, 164, 221, 231
Stallings, Henry, 25, 26, 129, 159, 209, 296, 298, 331
Stallone, Sylvester, 337
Stallworth, “Baby” Lloyd, 92, 148
Starday Records, 229, 256–257
Starks, John “Jabo,” 167–172, 174–176, 234, 236, 238, 242, 252, 260, 290
Starr, Edwin, 290
Star Time
, 349
Stein, Seymour, 78, 79, 130, 184
Sting, 364
Stokes, Carl, 218
Stone, Henry, 73, 95, 104, 258
Stone, Ralph, 244
Stone, Reppard, 116
Stono Rebellion, 1–2
Straight eight, 170–171
Stubblefield, Clyde, 169–176, 197, 198, 232, 238, 251, 284
“Super Bad (Part 1 & Part 2),” 241–242, 256
Superfly
(movie), 278, 280
Susskind, David, 221–224
Sutton, Percy, 317
Swain, Hamp, 70–71
Swanee Quintet, 26–27, 50
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
(movie), 277
“Talking Loud and Saying Nothing,” 264
Talmadge, Eugene, 44, 45
Talmadge, Herman, 44–46
T.A.M.I. Show, The
(movie), 146–149, 152, 360
Tampa Red, 15, 28
Taylor, Rogan, 142–143
Terrell, Tami (Tami Montgomery), 120, 138–139
Terry, Johnny, 48–49, 58, 62, 72, 92, 379
Tex, Joe, 123–124, 179, 292
“There Was a Time,” 175–177
Thomas, Fred, 252, 260
Thompson, Sonny, 75
Thornton, Catherine, 72
Thurman, Howard, 211
Thurmond, Strom, 18, 202, 346, 348–349, 351
Til, Sonny, 69
Till, Emmett, 266
Trimier, Berry, 58, 61
“Try Me,” 85–87, 279
Tubb, Justin, 322
Tucker, Bruce, 339, 346
Turk, 253–254
Turner, Ike, 179
Turner, Ted, 359
Turn It Up or Turnit Loose,” 256
“Tutti Frutti,” 67
TV Mama, 109
Tyson, Mike, 345
“Unity,” 336–337
Universal Attractions, 80, 90, 91, 102–104, 182
Upsetters, the, 65, 67, 68, 83, 84, 86, 93–94, 118, 161
Vietnam War, 194–201, 206
Waddy, Frankie “Kash,” 230–231, 234–236, 238, 249–251, 284
Wagoner, Porter, 321, 323
Walker, Frank X., 52
Walker, Hannah, 12
Walker, Minnie, 17, 19, 22, 23
Walker, Sidney (Beau Jack), 35–36, 38, 130, 356
Warden, Donald, 179, 180, 224
Warner Brothers Records, 257
Washington, Booker T., 127, 218, 227
Washington, Dinah, 103
Washington, Dino “Boom Boom,” 215
Washington, Hansone (Aunt Honey), 21–22, 29, 31, 40, 41, 356
Washington, Walter, 193
Watergate scandal, 285
Watkins, Mel, 264
Watson, Tom, 39
Watts, Thin Man, 357
Wepner, Chuck, 304
Wesley, Fred, 177, 191, 210, 232, 240, 251–252, 275, 279, 280, 284, 290, 291, 302, 303, 311, 317, 319, 367
White, Barry, 310
White, Kevin, 190–192, 201
Whitney, Marva, 197, 199, 219, 231, 314, 379
Wilkins, Roy, 208
Williams, Big Joe, 69
Williams, Charles “Hungry,” 118
Williams, Cootie, 124
Williams, Gladys, 116
Williams, Hank, 58
Willingham, Ruben, 50
Wilson, Jackie, 105, 109, 160–161
Wilson, Jim, 256
Withers, Bill, 301
Wolfman Jack, 181
Wolk, Douglas, 220
Wonder, Stevie, 278, 311
Wood, Del, 321–322
Woods, Tiger, 364
Wright, Billy, 66, 69, 114
Wright, Marva, 164
Wynne, Philippé, 231
Yerby, Frank, 246
Yorty, Sam, 204, 224
“You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks and I’ll Be Straight,” 285
“You Gotta Have a Mother For Me,” 220
Young, Bob, 370–371
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RJ Smith has been a senior editor at
Los Angeles
magazine, a contributor to
Blender,
a columnist for the
Village Voice,
a staff writer for
Spin,
and has written for
GQ, The New York Times Magazine,
and
Men’s Vogue.
His first book,
The Great Black Way: LA in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance
was a
Los Angeles Times
bestseller and recipient of a California Book Award. He lives in Los Angeles.
T
he view from Ninth Street, in downtown Augusta, when James Brown was growing up. An African American man sweeps the street that would one day be renamed James Brown Boulevard.
AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY
B
eau Jack, the pride of black Augusta, both inspiration and object lesson to James Brown.
AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY
A
marching band from the United House of Prayer for All People parades down the Terry, sometime in the 1940s.
COURTESY OF MILLEDGE MURRAY
E
ntering the pantheon: an early King promotional photo.
COURTESY OF STEVE HALPER
S
yd Nathan and Earl Bostic go over the fine print at King Studios.
COURTESY OF BRIAN POWERS
K
ing Records occupied an unassuming industrial strip on Brewster Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio.
LEE HAZEN
T
o the manner made: King James and his court, one night in the early 1960s.
COURTESY OF STEVE HALPER