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University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO Wavelength Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies 12-1984 Wavelength (December 1984) Connie Atkinson University of New Orleans Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength Recommended Citation Wavelength (December 1984) 50 https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/50 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wavelength by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UNO. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS EARL K LONG LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS DEPT NEW ORLEANS. LA 70148 1101 S.PETERS PHVSALIA PRODUCTION PRESENTATION NOONE UNOER18 ADMITTED ISSUE NO. 50 e DECEMBER 1984 "''m not sure, but I'm almost she1o's positive, that all music came from New Orleans." -Ernie K-Doe, 1979 D EPARTMENTS LIVE BANDS EVERY December News .... .... .. .. ... 4 Golden Moments . ........... ..... 8 NIGHT OF THE WEEK Flip City . ......... ............. 8 (NO COVER EVER!!!) New Bands ....... ..... .. ... 10 Caribbean . .. .. ........ ... .. .. 12 ENTRANCE ON SOUTH PETERS BETWEEN JULIA & ST. JOSEPH Dinette Set . ......... ............ 14 Rare Record . .. .... .. .. ... ... 16 Reviews . .. ...... ..... ... ... 16 shei Ia's features local, national, Listings . .. ........... .. .. .. 23 and international groups such as ... 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December 1984/Wavelength 3 DECEMBER NEWS New Digs For 'OZ On October 28th radio station Joining the parade at the park WWOZ moved into its new studios gates was the "90.7 Brass Band" located within the Jazz Complex at which consisted of ninety march Armstrong Park in the Treme ing musicians and one determined district. seven-year-old. The move began in typical 'OZ At some time around 3 p.m., style with a parade that left the engineer Steve Pierce was given the venerable old studio atop Tipi go-ahead from headquarters to tina's at the corner of Napoleon activate the turntable and the and Tchoupitoulas streets at l :00 Neville Brothers' "Fire On The p.m. The processional included a Bayou'' became the first official number of 'OZ volunteers, song to be played from the new friends, and a Mardi-Gras-float studios. The day before, Pierce sized replica of an old Zenith radio and Co. had spun an unidentified built by sculptor David Wagner. Son Seals cut from Armstrong to 0 90.7 Brass Band•. 7 foreground. 0 "Fire On The Bayou": Not the first sound broadcast from it WWOZ's new studio. - fJ r / 0 .. I ' J t .... ,-- ... - r --- ,t Not upstairs at Tipitina's. 4 Wavelength/December 1984 test the ne'" equipment; this mys terious cut will no doubt be an essential answer in some future 'OZ trivia quiz. As the records twirled away, guests mingled on the downstairs courtyard and quickly drained the well-stocked open bar. Those crafty enough to slip past the towering guards stationed at the studio doors could step upstairs to marvel at the sleek control room architecture and picture window vista; a far cry from the old place indeed. ' A few steps away in Congo Square the WWOZ Rhythm & Blues Revue blasted out an even ing's worth of energetic standards and played host to a variety of guest performers including Ernie K-Doe, The Rebirth Brass Band, and Johnny Adams. The move to Armstrong Park signals the end of an era for WWOZ. A palpable mood of re spectability and responsibility emanates from the new surround ings as an eager corps of staff and volunteers looks to the future with pride and enthusiasm. -rico Cruising for ·oz: Frankie Ford and two Dixi-Kups. especially for the occasion. Sartor ially resplendent in long-tailed white tuxedos, the "Reflections" ~roup included Bill and Rev. Freddie Dunn, Alvin and Edward The Gospel Thomas, Nolan and Sherman Truth Washington, Allen Butler, Edward Lewis, and John Lee, Jr. They An historic musical event took sparked the sympathetic crowd place in the New Orleans gospel with "the sounds of yesteryears " community last month when Rev. including a capella renditions of Freddie H. Dunn hosted a "Night traditional battlesongs like "This of Quartet Reflection" at New Heart of Mine," "Working On A Hope Baptist Church. About 900 Building," "Standing In The people gathered to pay homage to Safety Zone," and the Golden the city's traditional gospel quar Gates classic, "Noah." tets of the Forties and Fifties. The singing was no doubt high Trophies and plaques were lighted by the presence of Edward awarded to several local singers "Pastor" Thomas, whose power "The Sisters" (left to right): Alma Jackson. Clementine Emery. from gospel's "Golden Era," full baritone voice was resurrected Lucille Labeaux. Mercedes Robertson. Marjorie Kelley. including Rev. Benjamin Maxon, from nearly twenty years of Jr., who founded the original Zion obscurity to climax the "Reflec Harmonizers in 1939, and Rev. tions" programs. Thomas' E.L. Cooper, who revolutionized reputation as the hardest hitting the local quartet scene, also in traditional gospel quartet lead 1939, with his "rough-and singer that new Orleans ever tumble" Loving Four Quartet. produced as reflected in his early Vernon Winslow and Bishop Fifties commercial recordings with Herman Brown were given special the nationally famous Fairfield awards for their respective efforts Four and Skylarks quartets-was in gospel broadcasting and reaffirmed in his gripping promotion, and Sherman Wash rendition of "Standing On The ington was recognized for his work Rock.'' Accepting a special award as gospel's ambassador to the for his work with the Fairfield community-at-large. Four, Thomas attributed his artis Rev. Dunn assembled and re tic success to the fact that he "kept hearsed a representative group of a sharp axe." songsters-veterans of such mem Another highlight of the orable local quartets as the Glory program was an unrehearsed land Gospel Singers, the number by "the sisters," former Consolators, the Revolators, and members of the city's two most the Robinson Humming Four- popular female quartets, the Rev. Freddie Dunn (left) and the legendary Edward Thomas· "I kept me a sharp axe.'' LYNN• ABBOTT December 1984/Wavelength 5 Jackson Gospel Singers and the Southern Harps. Led by Clemon tine.Emery, the group sang "Lord Delta Boy I Tried'' in memory of Mother Mary Goleman, the Jackson Lewis Dies Singers' unforgettable basser (WL42). Emotions peaked when News has reached New Orleans Alma Jackson, namesake founder that native son Harry Lewis, an of the group, who was not original member of the world expected to participate because of famous Delta Rhythm Boys Quar a recent stroke, arrived in time to tet, recently succumbed to throat join Emery in walking the aisle and cancer in Far Rockaway, New trading verses. Anyone who has York.