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Few minutes of Alan Freed announcement from: Alan Freed - WINS, New York, March 23, 1955
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Usage: Public Domain

Albert James "Alan" Freed. He was an American disc jockey.[1] He also produced and promoted large traveling concerts with various acts, helping to spread the importance of rock and roll music throughout North America.

In 1986, Freed was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His "role in breaking down racial barriers in U.S. pop culture in the 1950s, by leading white and black kids to listen to the same music, put the radio personality 'at the vanguard' and made him 'a really important figure'", according to the Executive Director.

Freed was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991. He became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll".

You know, the story of Alan Freed is sad to me. His career was destroyed in the end, but through it all, in my opinion, he was still a hero.

We’ll Rock & Rollers, you have to look on the bright side. I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Sound Flave ( Radiae Applis). …

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Story by: Gail Nobles
Vocals by: Gail Nobles
Pianist: Gail Nobles

Actress: Today’s topic is Aretha Franklin. She’s still in the headlines. (Singing) I’m Gonna Read a list of headlines.

1. Respect: Read The Screenplay For Aretha Franklin Biopic That Explores How She Became The Queen of Soul

2. Jennifer Hudson Reveals Why She Lost Sleep Over Playing Aretha Franklin in Respect

3. Aretha Franklin Miracle of an Amazing Grace Concert

4. 50 Years Ago Aretha Franklin Celebrated Being Young, Gifted and Black

5. The Majestic Honors The Queen of Soul with A Tribute to Aretha Franklin Next Month. (Singing)

Announcer: The soul sound of Aretha Franklin is still in the playlist of listeners. Her music is filled with feeling. Aretha’s music is a mixture of religion and blues. She was our soul sister in music.

Aretha Franklin had a great impact on people who loved her music. She’s still in the headlines today because her music & songs & words still live.

Actress: (Sing Thank You Lord) It’s really a blessing.

Announcer: Words she might would have said if she were alive today. Aretha left us at age 76 August 2018. The Queen of Soul’s legacy lives on.

You’re listening to Sound Flave ((Radiae Applis)
I’m your host, Gail Nobles. Today’s Topic: Aretha in the Headlines. ..

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Keyboard player: Gail Nobles
Vocals: Gail Nobles
Smokey Photo: Public Domain
Clown Photo: Pixabay.com

Song: Tears of a Clown
Song by: Smokey Robinson

It’s time for …. Flava! Flava! Flava! Flava!

If you like old school, you’ve got good taste in music, and that’s what the subject of Sound Flave is all about. It’s about musical taste. Now I said the subject of Sound Flave. Music Commentary. Topics about great music artists, producers, and musicians.

I must say Motown had Flava. I was reading a Motown lists of songs that almost got rejected and one of them was Smokey Robinson’s, Tears of a Clown.

(Singing)

The Tears of a Clown is a song written by Hank Cosby, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder and originally recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. When you’ve got taste in music that doesn’t mean it’s always going to be somebody else’s taste. But the Tears of a Clown was a single that made it and quickly became a #1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B Singles charts. The song is an international multi - million seller and 2002 Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee.

(Singing)

I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Sound Flave (Radiae Applis).

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Song: Hold On To My Love
Song by: Jimmy Ruffin

Hello! I’m Gail Nobles & you’re listening to Sound Flave. You know it’s hard to live without someone you’ve been close to. Robin Gibb wrote a song that explained those feelings, and it was performed by soul singer Jimmy Ruffin. The song was titled, “Hold On To My Love”. It was a song released in 1980. It reached #10 in the US. I never heard that song again for a long time after 1980. But I never forgot the chorus.

(Chorus)

I need to add that both Robin Gibb & Blue Weaver we’re songwriters for the song & they were the producers. The song was released on Jimmy Ruffin’s album , “Sunrise”.

Oh, what a great song. I’m sure there are many great memories with it. It’s a song that always stayed with me. I’m sure it’s a song that always stayed with some of you.

Jimmy Ruffin is a legend and the song lives on. Robin Gibb is no longer with us and Blue Weaver is still with us. Thanks to the two of them we have a great song to remember. And thanks to soul singer Jimmy Ruffin. The title of the song is “Hold On To My Love”.

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Photo credit: Jamelle Dolphin - Own work/Wikipedia.org
Usage: CC BY-SA 4.0

John Dolphin was also known as Lovin John, was an African American businessman, independent record label owner, concert promoter and music producer, who established Dolphin’s of Hollywood, an influential record store that remained open 24 hours a day.

John’s record store Dolphin’s of Hollywood was opened in 1948 on Central Avenue in Los Angeles Central Ave was a hub for jazz music in Los Angeles and attracted figures such as Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Joe Turner, Billy Holiday, Sam Cooke, and Charlie Parker. Hits like “Earth Angel by the doo-whoop, the Penguins, we’re first released during a live broadcast inside Dolphin’s of Hollywood. So it was like having a radio station inside of a record store. He had the idea of having a record label that would produce out of the record store.

In 1950, Dolphin started his first record label titled Recorded in Hollywood. Dolphin worked with artists such as Sam Cooke, Percy Mayfield, and Harry Caesar just to name a few. Dolphin produced several famous records under the Recorded in Hollywood label, and eventually created other labels.

The sad thing about John Dolphin is he was murdered in 1958 by an angry singer and shipping clerk Percy Ivy. He was upset because Dolphin wouldn’t give him a record deal. His wife, Ruth Dolphin, took over Dolphins of Hollywood after John’s death. She died in 2005.

John Dolphin’s Recorded In Hollywood was before Berry Gordy and Motown. You’re listening to Sound Flave ( Radiae Applis). I’m your host, Gail Nobles.

Music and Melody

Song: You’re the Reason
Song by: JSPARKS

CC 4.0 BY-SHARE ALIKE -- Original artist: JSPARKS -- Music available on tribeofnoise.com -- ID: 60375

Coming up next is a great R&B soul singer known as JSPARKS. The title of his song is You’re the Reason. A good old R&B sound on Sound Flave. That was JSPARKS. And I’m Gail Nobles. You’re listening to Sound Flave.

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Today’s topic on Sound Flave: James Brown’s First Radio Station.

Actor: It was 1968 that James Brown bought his first radio station you know. According to his biography, he got into the radio business because of all the things going on in the country. Well, he believed in human rights - not civil rights. James loved his country. Speaking out for his people was part of loving his country. So Mr. Brown bought WGYW, which he changed to WJBE, in Knoxville, Tennessee. 1430 AM.

Hi, I’m Gail Nobles. James Brown’s AM Radio Station broadcast a rhythm & blues and soul music format branded as “WJBE 1430”, Raw Soul, Another James Brown Station. Brown sold the station in 1979.

James Brown had a great reason for wanting to get into the radio business. It wasn’t about money. Brown was a blessed man to be able to do some of the things he wanted to do. He said in his biography he wanted his station to be a media training ground so black people could do more than be jocks. James Brown wanted them to learn advertising, programming, and management at all levels. JB had a big heart for people.

I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Sound Flave.

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Song and Story: A Listening City
Song and Story by: Gail Nobles © 2021
Keyboard player: Gail Nobles
Vocals by: Gail Nobles

(Singing)
There’s a future beyond. We got to work towards that future. Prosperity is meant to be. …

Hello I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Sound Flave(Radiae Applis). Everyday we hear some kind of sound. Sound of outcries., sound of frustration & anger, sound of war; sound of debate. But it gets better. There is also a sound of prayers, sound of hope; sound of joy.

Demons will come and tell you there is no future, but there is a city of angels above. You can’t always go by what you see, and what you hear down here. Sometimes you have have to tune the world out to hear the voice of promise, and you must endure. You can’t give up because if you give up, you’ll never see the promise.

I came not with the sound of radio, but with the sound of Radiae, and that sound is building a group of listeners. I call them Applis. They are like a city. Families are storing up fruit in the storehouses because yes, there will be hard times. We need wisdom to make it. That’s why I say pray for the apple growers because they have a hard time too. But God is a way maker, and he’s gonna make a way.

I’m Gail Nobles. Thank you for listening. …

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Story: The Giving Tree
Story by: Gail Nobles © 2021
Art by: Gail Nobles
Wind effect: Soundbible.com

Hello! I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Sound Flave (Radiae Applis). Did you get your apples picked? Climate change can have an impact on apples. It can cause an early bloom and can have an affect on the taste of an apple. You’re lucky if the tree is not damaged altogether. Climate change can make you work even harder. Sometimes it’s not easy taking care of the fruit.

I’d like to tell a story. The title of the story is “The Giving Tree”. There was an apple tree that fed many. One day HE was cut down, and it hurt the hearts of many.

And there was a voice in the wind saying, “I will be again and stand until the earth pass away. Other roots will grow. I AM the root and parent tree and will bare fruit.” And that’s what the apple tree did that was cut down.

When the people saw another little tree sproughting out from the stump of the tree (the parent tree), the people rejoiced and had great faith and hope. The people dug up some of the little trees around the parent tree (the stump) planted and neglected near an old barn. They replanted some of the little trees, and when they grew to bare apples, the neighbors shared with those that had none. The trees that were replanted began to grow other little trees, and they were dug up and given to those that had none.

And there was a voice in the wind again saying, “I will bare fruit for you always.”

You see, a good thing came to those that shared which was a blessing for all. The blessing was sent down from heaven up above.

“The Giving Tree”. Story by Gail Nobles © 2021. You’re listening to Sound Flave (Radiae Applis) & I’m your host, Gail Nobles.

Music and Melody

Song: You’re the Love
Song by: Seals and Crofts

Podcast vocals: Gail Nobles
Keyboard player: Gail Nobles

You’re listening to the sound of Radiae on Sound Flave. Remember Seals and Crofts? “You’re the Love”. Their song went something like this …. (Singing).

I don’t turn the radio on while driving through town. I was at the red light and nobody was moving. I looked both ways. Nothing was coming. As I began to turn right on red, that’s when a big truck out of nowhere came. The driver was honking the horn and grinning. I almost ran into him and didn’t see anything funny. Of course, I didn’t have the radio on. I need total concentration. I don’t turn music on until I’m on the country road. Right now, you’re listening to Radiae.

Now, getting back to Seals and Crofts. Their song “You’re the Love” is a 1978 song. The song reached number 18 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and in Canada it spent two weeks at number eight. It has a soft rock & disco sound. Jim Seals and Dash Crofts are the names of the soft rock duo. …

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