Fwd: Re: British Black English (was: "as such")

[Damien Hall]

>From Wilson.

Damien

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From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:04:21 -0500
Subject: Re: British Black English (was: "as such")
To: djh514 at york.ac.uk

I've always realized that Gene McDaniels was black. OTOH, I was
surprised to discover that Roy "The Houston Flash" Head and Tony Joe
White were *not* black, nor did I realize that Lenny Welch and Ray
Sharpe *were* black, till long after the time of their popularity.

Youneverknow. Though, mostly, you do.

-Wilson

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Damien Hall <djh514 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
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> From Tom.
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> Damien
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> From: Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com>
> To: <djh514 at york.ac.uk>
> Subject: RE: British Black English (was: "as such")
> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:56:02 +0000
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> If you listen to Gene McDaniel's old hits, you'd never figure him from his voice as a black man.  I just realized that yesterday, 50 years later.  From wikipedia...
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> McDaniels grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and went on to have six Top 40 hits in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The two that went into the Top 5 were 1961's "Tower of Strength" (#5 on the pop chart) and "A Hundred Pounds of Clay," the latter of which reached #3 on the pop chart, and sold over one million records, earning gold disc status.[1]
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> I wonder if kids today could identify the black singers from the white singers in 60's music when they don't know the singers?
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> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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