Happy birthday to Art Blakey! From the mid-’50s to 1990, the drummer’s band became a finishing school for musicians, so we asked WFIU Night Lights host David Brent Johnson round up 5 of Blakey’s “class presidents.”
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I’ve been pre-programmed since I was young to love doo wop. This has to be the all time greatest theme song.
YES
“Native Detroiter Frank “SugarChile” Robinson! Child musical prodigy in the 1940’s, PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan in the 1960’s—still going strong at 73.”
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Great cover of a great song. Dig those shades man.
Rip it up.
