"Sock It to Me"

[Wilson Gray]

On Jun 17, 2005, at 12:34 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: "Sock It to Me"
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> At 10:00 PM -0400 6/16/05, Wilson Gray wrote:
>> What I go by is what I think when I first hear a record by a person. I
>> blush to admit it, but when I first heard Chuck Berry, I thought that
>> he was some white, rock-a-billy stud, an amazing error, considering
>> that Chuck and I both grew up in St. Louis, we both lived there at the
>> beginning of his career, and he still maintains a home there. I
>> thought
>> the same thing about Ray Sharpe, that he was white, despite the fact
>> that he was a fellow black native of East Texas. He was a one-hit
>> wonder with the rock-a-billy classic, "(They Call My Baby
>> Patty?/Betty?, But Her Real Name, Her Real Name Is) Linda Lu."  WRT
>> him, I was half-right. Rock-a-billy *was* his bag. He made a modest
>> living playing against type, like that black country-singer whose name
>> escapes me.
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> Charley (or maybe Charlie?) Pride
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> Larry
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Yeah. That's the guy I had in mind.
Thanks, Larry.

-Wilson