"Sock It to Me"

[Wilson Gray]

On Jun 14, 2005, at 9:03 PM, paulzjoh wrote:

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> So what is Johnie Mathis?

Do you mean, is he a black man who sings like a white man? No more so
than Nat Cole was, I'd say.

-Wilson Gray

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>> On Jun 14, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
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>>> Wilson writes:
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>>> FWIW, Ray Sharpe, OTOH, struck me as a black man who sang like a
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>>> man.
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>>> How 'bout Mose Allison?
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>> As a black man who sings like a white man? I didn't realize that he
>> was
>> black, though I have no problem accepting that he is, by virtue of the
>> one-drop rule. If that rule was dropped [no pun intended], I'd find
>> myself in a different "race" from some of my cousins and from my late
>> grandparents.
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>> -Wilson Gray
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>>> -- Mark
>>> [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
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