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An Anthropologist of Filth: On Chuck Berry
- rmason 3y agoWhen I was growing up in Detroit in the early sixties the top rock station at the time was WXYZ AM and their top DJ was a guy called Lee Alan, nicknamed 'the horn'. Lee and Chuck became best friends, in fact Chuck wrote two of his hit songs in Lee's Cadillac cruising the Motor City. In 1963 Chuck was in prison over the Mann Act crimes cited in this article. To be paroled he needed a job. So he called his friend and Lee arranged a gig at the Walled Lake casino outside of Detroit. Lee Allan reminisces about his friend Chuck Berry . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dniS6Tv-gyE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dniS6Tv-gyE In the mid-sixties our family moved to a little village called Okemos just outside East Lansing. A local group called the Woolies had a top 40 hit with an old Bo Diddley song called who do you love? Fifty years ago the Woolies went to a local club called the Dells to see Chuck Berry. I saw Berry at the same club, just not that particular night. Chuck used to travel alone picking up local musicians. That night he was not happy with the musicians and asked if anyone in the audience could help out. The boys went to their cars, grabbed their instruments and did such a good job supporting Berry that he offered them more work. The Woolies piano player, a guy named Bob Baldori, played with Chuck until his passing. https://www.wkar.org/arts-culture/2017-03-19/chuck-berry-remembered-by-okemos-musician-bob-baldori https://www.wkar.org/arts-culture/2017-03-19/chuck-berry-rem...