California in the 60s “Everyday People” and Interracial Bands

Prof. Kate van Orden Chuck Berry

“Sweet Lile Sixteen” (1958) Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers

“Why do Fools Fall in Love?” Ronees

“Be My Baby” (1964) Duke Ellington Big Band, 1937 Wilson Picke “In the Midnight Hour” (1965) Jimi Hendrix “Back Door Man,” Howlin’ Wolf (1960) Steve Reich, “It’s gonna rain” (1965) Os Redding, “Sing on the Dock of the Bay” Wrien August, 1967, Sausalito, CA

Ralph Gleason (1917-1975) Hendrix Experience Band of Gypsys Star Trek, 1968 Sly and the Family Stone CHRISTINA ROBINSON, TRUMPET RUTH STONE, KEYBOARD, VOCALS FREDDIE STONE, GUITAR LARRY GRAHAM, GREGG ERRICO, BASS DRUMS

SLY STONE VOCALS, KEYBOARD, GUITAR, PRODUCER Sly and the Family Stone JERRY MARTINI, SAX Sly and the Family Stone “Everyday People” (1968) “Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey” (from Stand!, 1969) “Thank You Falenme Be Mice Elf Again” (1969) “Family Affair” (1971) Everyday People Somemes I'm right and I can be wrong My own beliefs are in my song The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then Makes no difference what group I'm in I am everyday people, yeah yeah

There is a blue one who can't accept the green one For living with a fat one trying to be a skinny one And different strokes for different folks And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo Oh sha sha we got to live together I am no beer and neither are you We are the same whatever we do You love me you hate me you know me and then You can't figure out the bag I'm in I am everyday people, yeah yeah

There is a long hair that doesn't like the short hair For bein' such a rich one that will not help the poor one And different strokes for different folks And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo Oh sha sha we got to live together There is a yellow one that won't accept the black one That won't accept the red one that won't accept the white one And different strokes for different folks And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo I am everyday people