Another Saturday Night: Birth Of/Early Rock N' Roll

Recently, I read an earth shattering (to me) book called, Night Train To Nashville by Paula Blackman. It’s about her Grandfather, Gab Blackman, an advertising executive in Nashville, TN who, noticing the Black community didn’t listen to local radio stations in the 1940’s-50’s, began telling his DJ’s at WLAC to play “race records” at night. He did this in order to sell products to the Black community. Arguably, this is what began the popularity of Black music, driving white teens to buy up records, thus beginning the integration of society. I’ll be going into further detail about the book next week in WYFP? at 5pm PT. 

Little Richard — Tutti Fruitti

Gentle reminder: Please continue to put the name of your selection in your comment along with your song. Those of us on our phones?  We really appreciate it. And people using screen readers need this in order to identify the video.

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You know how this works- Put your quarter in the slot and your song in the comments. This is your Saturday Night Jukebox and the party starts NOW!

Today is Big Joe Turner’s birthday- he was born May 18, 1911 (Died Nov. 24, 1985)