Porkology
This post builds on my last post about blue-eyed soul in Pennsylvania.
I always thought that one of the reasons I did well in Pittsburgh after I started playing here was that the local disk jockeys had worked so hard during the 50s and 60s to build an audience for R&B, blues, and soul. And the king of all the Pittsburgh DJs was and is the great Porky Chedwick, the Daddio of the Raddio.
Sometime in the mid 80s, the KRB and I went into the studio with Porky and produced Porkology, a compendium of Porky's many rhymes and signature aphorisms. Think of it as an early rap record, set to a great James Brown groove by the inestimable KRB. The sax solo is by Don Aliquo, Jr.
We offer it here for free in mp3. Hope you dig it!
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I always thought that one of the reasons I did well in Pittsburgh after I started playing here was that the local disk jockeys had worked so hard during the 50s and 60s to build an audience for R&B, blues, and soul. And the king of all the Pittsburgh DJs was and is the great Porky Chedwick, the Daddio of the Raddio.
Sometime in the mid 80s, the KRB and I went into the studio with Porky and produced Porkology, a compendium of Porky's many rhymes and signature aphorisms. Think of it as an early rap record, set to a great James Brown groove by the inestimable KRB. The sax solo is by Don Aliquo, Jr.
We offer it here for free in mp3. Hope you dig it!
To add a comment, click the "Comments" link below.
2 Comments:
Now that brings back some memories! I actually have Porkology on a 45, somewhere in the garage, deep in my collection of vinyl.
Do you know if the tune is available on CD?
...He's our Dadio of the Radio, says Sharon in that smoky, husky voice ....
Good call on Sharon, Cassie!
Porkology is on a CD called "Pittsburgh's Greatest Hits, Volume 5." Good luck trying to find it, though. :-)
Billy
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