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Pink Anderson (1900-1974)
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Pink Anderson was a historic figure whose music included Piedmont-style blues, folk music, ragtime, and traditional ballads. He was born in South Carolina and early on sang in the streets for pennies. He was self-taught as a guitarist and toured throughout the Southeast with a variety of medicine shows (including Dr. William R. Kerr's "cure all medicine") during 1915-1945, picking up work wherever he could. He was employed not only as a musician and a singer but as a dancer and comedian.
Anderson recorded four titles in 1928 but did not make another record until Harlem Street Spirituals in 1950 for Riverside. At that time he recorded such traditional folk material as “John Henry,’ ‘The Ship Titanic,” and “Wreck of the Old 97.” He continued to work at parties, street fairs, and medicine shows during the first half of the 1950s before retiring for a time due to ill health. But in 1961, the Bluesville label recorded three albums of unaccompanied performances by Anderson, documenting him in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The titles of the three records, Carolina Blues Man, Medicine Show Man, and Ballad & Folksinger, vol. 3, sum up Pink Anderson’s life well and are a large slice of the repertoire that he had performed during the previous 35 years.
Pink Anderson stayed active on a part-time basis up until the time of his death in 1974. His music represents the Carolina blues, and the tradition of the constantly traveling folk singer.
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Floyd Council (1911-1976)
Floyd Council was a blues singer and guitar slinger who played in the East Coast / Piedmont style. He didn’t record solo often, but he’s still said to have recorded 27 songs, many backing up the legendary Blind Boy Fuller.
Born in North Carolina, Floyd began his musical career on the streets of Chapel Hill in the 1920s, performing with two brothers, Leo and Thomas Strowd as “The Chapel Hillbillies.” He recorded twice for ARC at sessions with Blind Boy Fuller in the mid-thirties, all examples of the Piedmont style. He was sometimes promoted as ‘Dipper Boy Council’, and ‘The Devil’s Daddy-in-Law,’ but these were likely the invention of record companies, not genuine nicknames.
Council suffered a stroke in the late 1960s which partially paralyzed his throat muscles and slowed his motor skills, but did not significantly damage his cognitive abilities. Folklorist Peter B. Lowry attempted to record him one afternoon in 1970, but he never regained his singing or playing abilities. Accounts say that he remained “quite sharp in mind.” Council died in 1976 of a heart attack, after moving to Sanford, North Carolina.
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Pink Floyd
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Pink Anderson and Floyd Council were both featured on a Blind Boy Fuller album called Country Blues: 1935-1940. The sleeve of that album caught the eye of Syd Barrett, the frontman for London band, The Tea Set. Barrett changed the band's name to Pink Floyd, and the rest is history.
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thechanelmuse · 2 years
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For more trivia: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Bonus
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thechanelmuse · 2 years
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Y’all wanted more, ya got it 😏.
This is Part 3. For more: Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Bonus
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Here’s the clip of Mariah Carey’s characters on American Dad.
This is Part 4. For more trivia: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Bonus
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This post is part 2. For more trivia: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Bonus
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This is Part 6. For more trivia: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Bonus
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This is Part 7. For more trivia: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Bonus
Had to add that last one for kicks 😂
Update:
My bad. I missed a tweet. The first one below should’ve gone before the one about Treach auditioning for the role of Bishop in Juice:
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This is Part 10. For more trivia: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Bonus
This is the final set...maybe 😏😂. Nah it is. Glad y’all enjoyed this rollercoaster ride of Black industry facts as much as I enjoyed learning some I hadn’t known either. 
To listen to Tammi Terrell’s version of “All I Do” from 1966, which Stevie Wonder penned at age16 and covered in 1980, click HERE.
Also, rap music goes back to the 1920s and prob further than that. I covered it a while back in this POST with a number of songs to listen to. ✌🏽
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thechanelmuse · 2 years
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This is Part 5. For more trivia: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Bonus
About Michael Jackson:
I first learned about that tidbit of Mike incorporating “Annie, are you okay?” in his record, “Smooth Criminal,” during the premiere of Spike Lee’s documentary, Bad 25. The CPR doll was in the studio while he was laying down the lyrics and outta nowhere he started singing that line to the doll 🙃 lol. If you didn’t know the CPR doll is dubbed Resusci Anne. Hence, Annie.
A fact I know but haven’t come across yet: 
Before she joined Rufus and carved a name for herself, becoming the legendary vocalist with the big voice and signature big hair, Chaka Khan joined the Black Panther Party in Chicago at 16. She was friends with Fred Hampton, used to sell the newspapers and assisted with the Party’s free breakfast program for children. 
Also, 15-year-old Whitney Houston sang background on Chaka’s “I’m Every Woman (1978), which she would later cover for The Bodyguard Soundtrack, paying homage to Chaka in the end. 
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This is Part 8. For more trivia: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 9, Part 10, Bonus
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Michael was always messing with Jermaine 😂. Watch this.
This is Part 9. For more trivia: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 10, Bonus
Let’s round this out to 10 🙃. I’ll post one more later. 
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thechanelmuse · 2 years
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There’s more Black industry trivia here.
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thechanelmuse · 2 years
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That’s enough posting for me today 😩. Y’all already know there’s more trivia coming. The comments for that single “Black industry facts” tweet is unending 🙃.
SN: All trivia from that tweet and elsewhere that I come across can be easily accessed on here under: #thechanelmuse trivia
Later ✌🏽
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