One : The Life and Music of James Brown (9781101561102) (64 page)

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