Notes for Georgie Woods, Rock and Roll, and Civil Rights
[i] Office of City Representative Division of Public Information Board of Trade and Conventions, “The Song of Philadelphia” [n.d.] ca. 1962 (MacDonald & Associates, Chicago, IL).
[ii] Georgie Woods hosted dozens of concerts from 1956 through 1965 at the Uptown and elsewhere. For a sample of these concerts, see “Disc Jockey’s Rock and Roll Show Attracts 4500 Teenagers,” Philadelphia Tribune, September 11, 1956; “The Biggest Show of Stars for ’58,” Philadelphia Tribune, April 1 & 12, 1958; “Georgie Woods Rock, Roll Show Lures 80,000 Fans to Uptown,” Philadelphia Tribune, June 10, 1958; “40,000 Teenagers Await Big Uptown Theater Show,” Philadelphia Tribune, April 18, 1959; “Georgie Woods Presents a Gala Holiday Rock ‘n Roll Show at the Uptown Theater,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 21, 1959; “Georgie Woods Presents 5th Anniv. Rock ‘n Roll Show,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 22, 1960; “Georgie Woods of WDAS Presents All-Star Show,” Philadelphia Tribune, June 20, 1961; “Georgie Woods 8th Anniversary Rock ‘n’ Roll Show,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 20, 1962; “Georgie Woods Presents 9th Anniversary Show,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 19, 1963; Lucille Alexander, “Pips, Tops, Impressions Impressive In Georgie Woods’ Show at Uptown,” Philadelphia Tribune, June 9, 1964; “Georgie Woods Presents His Rock ‘n Roll Convention,” Philadelphia Tribune, August 25, 1964; “Uptown,” Philadelphia Tribune, August 28, 1965.
[iii] Art Peters, “Woods’ Rock, Roll ‘Thriller’ Lures 60,000 to Uptown Theatre,” Philadelphia Tribune, March 1, 1958.
[iv] “40,000 Teenagers Await Big Uptown Theater Show,” Philadelphia Tribune, April 18, 1959.
[v] On the record hops that Georgie Woods and Mitch Thomas hosted, see “Teen-Agers Welcome Disc Jockeys,” Philadelphia Tribune, October 12, 1954; Jimmy Rivers, “Mitch Thomas at Skating Rink,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 7, 1958; Tommy Curtis, “Elmwood Teenagers,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 18, 1958; Billy Johnson, “Teen Social Whirl,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 25, 1958; Jimmy Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, April 1, 1958; Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 6, 1958; Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 10, 1958; Gil Zimmerman, “Person to Person,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 10, 1958; Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 13, 1958; Edith Marshall, “Current Hops,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 17, 1958; Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 20, 1958; Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, August 18, 1958; Laurine Blackson, “Penny Sez,” Philadelphia Tribune, October 4, 1958; Blackson, “Penny Sez,” Philadelphia Tribune, December 6, 1958; Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 6, 1959; “Fortieth Street Youth Committee Entertained 1200 Children,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 6, 1959; “‘Mobbed by Teenagers,’” Philadelphia Tribune, April 18, 1959. On other record hops for black teenagers in the Philadelphia area, see Billy Johnson, “Teen Social Whirl,” Philadelphia Tribune, April 26, 1958; Muriel Bonner, “Teen Chatter,” Philadelphia Tribune, September 20, 1958; Veronica Hill, “Jamming with Ronnie,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 1, 1958; Hill, “Jamming with Ronnie,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 22, 1958; Hill, “Jamming with Ronnie,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 31, 1959.
[vi] On these local youth programs, see V.P. Franklin, “Operation Street Corner,” in W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and the City, ed. Katz and Sugrue, 195-215.
[vii] Georgie Woods, “Geo. Woods Says,” Philadelphia Tribune, September 19, 1959.
[viii] Ibid.
[ix] Woods, “Geo. Woods Says,” Philadelphia Tribune, October 3, 1959.
[x] Woods, “Geo. Woods Says,” Philadelphia Tribune, October 10, 1959.
[xi] Ibid.
[xii] “Geo. Woods Says,” October 3, 1959.
[xiii] Mark Bricklin, “DJ’s Georgie Woods, Reggie Lavong Join Local Businessmen to Establish New Commercial TV Station for Philadelphia, Philadelphia Tribune, August 22, 1964; “City’s New TV Station Seeks Huge Juice Boost,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 30, 1965; “Georgie Woods Seventeen Canteen,” Philadelphia Tribune, October 30, 1965; Masco Young, “The Notebook,” Philadelphia Tribune, December 14, 1965; Young, “Notebook,” Philadelphia Tribune, Mar 1, 1966
[xiv] Spady, Georgie Woods, 114, 120, 162.
[xv] Quoted in Barlow, Voice Over, 206.
[xvi] Art Peters, “‘Sermons,’ Songs Blend Into Revival Atmosphere,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 18, 1963.
[xvii] Ibid.
[xviii] Ibid.
[xix] Fred Bonaparte, “‘Average Joes’ Star in Demonstrations,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 28, 1963.
[xx] “NAACP Slates Saturday Rally for Slain Birmingham Girls,” Philadelphia Tribune, September 21, 1963.
[xxi] Mark Bricklin, “14,000 Jam NAACP Convention Hall Freedom Show; $30,000 Raised,” Philadelphia Tribune, March 21, 1964; Bricklin, “$16,000 Given to Four Groups at Mon. Lunch,” Philadelphia Tribune, March 24, 1964. On Leon Sullivan and the Opportunities Industrialization Center, see Countryman, Up South, 112-119.
[xxii] “Freedom Show of ’64 [concert ad],” Philadelphia Tribune, March 7, 1964.
[xxiii] Bricklin, “14,000 Jam NAACP Convention Hall Freedom Show; $30,000 Raised.”
[xxiv] “Snipers Wound 2 Marchers in Selma Vigil,” Philadelphia Tribune, March 16, 1965.
[xxv] Mark Bricklin and Jim Magee, “12,000 Ring City Hall in Protest Demonstration,” Philadelphia Tribune, March 16, 1965.
[xxvi] Ibid.
[xxvii] Jack Saunders, “Georgie Woods: Disc Jockey, Rights Fighter, Humanitarian,” Philadelphia Tribune, March 23, 1965.
[xxviii] Barlow, Voice Over, 207-211. See also, Ward, Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South.
[xxix] Countryman, Up South, 170. On the concurrent development of the New Left on Philadelphia area college campuses, see Paul Lyons, The People of This Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).
[xxx] Ibid., 171.
[xxxi] On the Girard College protest, see Countryman, Up South, 168-178; Art Peters, “NAACP Girds for Girard College Battle,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 5, 1965; Mark Bricklin, “1000 Police ‘Protect’ Girard College From 50 NAACP Pickets,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 4, 1965; Mark Bricklin and Fred Bonaparte, “Girard College Operating Illegally Leading Constitutional Atty. Says, Philadelphia Tribune, May 8, 1965; Mark Bricklin, “No Settlement of Girard College Demonstration in Sight,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 15, 1965; Ray McCann, “Moore, Woods Lead 1000 on Girard College, Philadelphia Tribune, January 5, 1965; Jim Magee, “AMEs Stage 22-Block Girard March,” Philadelphia Tribune, June 22, 1965; “Experts See City Plan to Integrate Girard Doomed,” Philadelphia Tribune, September 18, 1965.
[xxxii] Jacob Sherman, “NAACP Calls off Girard College Picketing as Lawsuit for 7 N. Phila. Boys is Filed,” Philadelphia Tribune, December 18, 1965.
[xxxiii] John A. Jackson, A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul (New York: Oxford Press, 2004), 14-16.
[xxxiv] Kenny Gamble, “Introduction,” in Georgie Woods: I’m Only a Man, iii.
[xxxv] Brian Ward, Just My Soul Responding, 418.
[xxxvi] Jackson, A House on Fire, 92-151; Ward, Just My Soul Responding, 418
[xxxvii] Gamble, “Introduction,” iii.
[ii] Georgie Woods hosted dozens of concerts from 1956 through 1965 at the Uptown and elsewhere. For a sample of these concerts, see “Disc Jockey’s Rock and Roll Show Attracts 4500 Teenagers,” Philadelphia Tribune, September 11, 1956; “The Biggest Show of Stars for ’58,” Philadelphia Tribune, April 1 & 12, 1958; “Georgie Woods Rock, Roll Show Lures 80,000 Fans to Uptown,” Philadelphia Tribune, June 10, 1958; “40,000 Teenagers Await Big Uptown Theater Show,” Philadelphia Tribune, April 18, 1959; “Georgie Woods Presents a Gala Holiday Rock ‘n Roll Show at the Uptown Theater,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 21, 1959; “Georgie Woods Presents 5th Anniv. Rock ‘n Roll Show,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 22, 1960; “Georgie Woods of WDAS Presents All-Star Show,” Philadelphia Tribune, June 20, 1961; “Georgie Woods 8th Anniversary Rock ‘n’ Roll Show,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 20, 1962; “Georgie Woods Presents 9th Anniversary Show,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 19, 1963; Lucille Alexander, “Pips, Tops, Impressions Impressive In Georgie Woods’ Show at Uptown,” Philadelphia Tribune, June 9, 1964; “Georgie Woods Presents His Rock ‘n Roll Convention,” Philadelphia Tribune, August 25, 1964; “Uptown,” Philadelphia Tribune, August 28, 1965.
[iii] Art Peters, “Woods’ Rock, Roll ‘Thriller’ Lures 60,000 to Uptown Theatre,” Philadelphia Tribune, March 1, 1958.
[iv] “40,000 Teenagers Await Big Uptown Theater Show,” Philadelphia Tribune, April 18, 1959.
[v] On the record hops that Georgie Woods and Mitch Thomas hosted, see “Teen-Agers Welcome Disc Jockeys,” Philadelphia Tribune, October 12, 1954; Jimmy Rivers, “Mitch Thomas at Skating Rink,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 7, 1958; Tommy Curtis, “Elmwood Teenagers,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 18, 1958; Billy Johnson, “Teen Social Whirl,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 25, 1958; Jimmy Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, April 1, 1958; Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 6, 1958; Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 10, 1958; Gil Zimmerman, “Person to Person,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 10, 1958; Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 13, 1958; Edith Marshall, “Current Hops,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 17, 1958; Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 20, 1958; Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, August 18, 1958; Laurine Blackson, “Penny Sez,” Philadelphia Tribune, October 4, 1958; Blackson, “Penny Sez,” Philadelphia Tribune, December 6, 1958; Rivers, “Crickets’ Corner,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 6, 1959; “Fortieth Street Youth Committee Entertained 1200 Children,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 6, 1959; “‘Mobbed by Teenagers,’” Philadelphia Tribune, April 18, 1959. On other record hops for black teenagers in the Philadelphia area, see Billy Johnson, “Teen Social Whirl,” Philadelphia Tribune, April 26, 1958; Muriel Bonner, “Teen Chatter,” Philadelphia Tribune, September 20, 1958; Veronica Hill, “Jamming with Ronnie,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 1, 1958; Hill, “Jamming with Ronnie,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 22, 1958; Hill, “Jamming with Ronnie,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 31, 1959.
[vi] On these local youth programs, see V.P. Franklin, “Operation Street Corner,” in W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and the City, ed. Katz and Sugrue, 195-215.
[vii] Georgie Woods, “Geo. Woods Says,” Philadelphia Tribune, September 19, 1959.
[viii] Ibid.
[ix] Woods, “Geo. Woods Says,” Philadelphia Tribune, October 3, 1959.
[x] Woods, “Geo. Woods Says,” Philadelphia Tribune, October 10, 1959.
[xi] Ibid.
[xii] “Geo. Woods Says,” October 3, 1959.
[xiii] Mark Bricklin, “DJ’s Georgie Woods, Reggie Lavong Join Local Businessmen to Establish New Commercial TV Station for Philadelphia, Philadelphia Tribune, August 22, 1964; “City’s New TV Station Seeks Huge Juice Boost,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 30, 1965; “Georgie Woods Seventeen Canteen,” Philadelphia Tribune, October 30, 1965; Masco Young, “The Notebook,” Philadelphia Tribune, December 14, 1965; Young, “Notebook,” Philadelphia Tribune, Mar 1, 1966
[xiv] Spady, Georgie Woods, 114, 120, 162.
[xv] Quoted in Barlow, Voice Over, 206.
[xvi] Art Peters, “‘Sermons,’ Songs Blend Into Revival Atmosphere,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 18, 1963.
[xvii] Ibid.
[xviii] Ibid.
[xix] Fred Bonaparte, “‘Average Joes’ Star in Demonstrations,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 28, 1963.
[xx] “NAACP Slates Saturday Rally for Slain Birmingham Girls,” Philadelphia Tribune, September 21, 1963.
[xxi] Mark Bricklin, “14,000 Jam NAACP Convention Hall Freedom Show; $30,000 Raised,” Philadelphia Tribune, March 21, 1964; Bricklin, “$16,000 Given to Four Groups at Mon. Lunch,” Philadelphia Tribune, March 24, 1964. On Leon Sullivan and the Opportunities Industrialization Center, see Countryman, Up South, 112-119.
[xxii] “Freedom Show of ’64 [concert ad],” Philadelphia Tribune, March 7, 1964.
[xxiii] Bricklin, “14,000 Jam NAACP Convention Hall Freedom Show; $30,000 Raised.”
[xxiv] “Snipers Wound 2 Marchers in Selma Vigil,” Philadelphia Tribune, March 16, 1965.
[xxv] Mark Bricklin and Jim Magee, “12,000 Ring City Hall in Protest Demonstration,” Philadelphia Tribune, March 16, 1965.
[xxvi] Ibid.
[xxvii] Jack Saunders, “Georgie Woods: Disc Jockey, Rights Fighter, Humanitarian,” Philadelphia Tribune, March 23, 1965.
[xxviii] Barlow, Voice Over, 207-211. See also, Ward, Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South.
[xxix] Countryman, Up South, 170. On the concurrent development of the New Left on Philadelphia area college campuses, see Paul Lyons, The People of This Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).
[xxx] Ibid., 171.
[xxxi] On the Girard College protest, see Countryman, Up South, 168-178; Art Peters, “NAACP Girds for Girard College Battle,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 5, 1965; Mark Bricklin, “1000 Police ‘Protect’ Girard College From 50 NAACP Pickets,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 4, 1965; Mark Bricklin and Fred Bonaparte, “Girard College Operating Illegally Leading Constitutional Atty. Says, Philadelphia Tribune, May 8, 1965; Mark Bricklin, “No Settlement of Girard College Demonstration in Sight,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 15, 1965; Ray McCann, “Moore, Woods Lead 1000 on Girard College, Philadelphia Tribune, January 5, 1965; Jim Magee, “AMEs Stage 22-Block Girard March,” Philadelphia Tribune, June 22, 1965; “Experts See City Plan to Integrate Girard Doomed,” Philadelphia Tribune, September 18, 1965.
[xxxii] Jacob Sherman, “NAACP Calls off Girard College Picketing as Lawsuit for 7 N. Phila. Boys is Filed,” Philadelphia Tribune, December 18, 1965.
[xxxiii] John A. Jackson, A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul (New York: Oxford Press, 2004), 14-16.
[xxxiv] Kenny Gamble, “Introduction,” in Georgie Woods: I’m Only a Man, iii.
[xxxv] Brian Ward, Just My Soul Responding, 418.
[xxxvi] Jackson, A House on Fire, 92-151; Ward, Just My Soul Responding, 418
[xxxvii] Gamble, “Introduction,” iii.
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