American - Musician | March 21, 1940 - October 10, 2010
We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.
Solomon Burke
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If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.
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But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.
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I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.
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I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
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My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.
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Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
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That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
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Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
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I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
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You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.
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