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This is very early in televised Grammy Awards history, the 3rd live ceremony broadcast — and it’s a gem that captures the dichotomy of show-biz and the music behind it.
With no less than bow-tied Andy Williams hosting, he introduces The Staple Singers. It hasn’t been many years since an America of separate drinking fountains, and that canyon is still evident in this performance and surrounding reaction.
Mavis Staples is obviously a channel — yet in a wholly unfamiliar setting, to an unsuspecting audience, she lays down where rock n roll came from. It’s so stark, so real, so gospel, the suits n bowties don’t know how to react. Been a long time since they saw soul.
And dig how Pop’s guitar ain’t miked, it’s so funny, it’s so hokey, it’s so early 70’s television.
This is pre-Good Times, Sanford & Son, and Flip Wilson. Black people being black people just wasn’t seen in Kansas. But here the foundation and the future of rock n roll was played out at the coming-of-age Grammys.
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