Sunday, September 02, 2007
Korla Pandit
It's so hot in Los Angeles that I can do nothing but drink banana yogurt smoothies and read "The Great Black Way" by RJ Smith. Subtitled "L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance", it's full of characters such as Korla Pandit. Passing as a ill-defined Hindu mystic, he was really John Roland Redd, a black man who performed live on KTLA for over 900 all-music shows.
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What a discovery! I love the availability of so much of the past over the internet. Liberace had a fifteen minute program I think it was back in the early 1050s that as far as I know was nationally available and had a huge following of middle age women. This looks like it was set up as competition to that. Nice riffs at the end on the right hand end.
Woops, I obviously meant 1950s.
And it is so cold here today. You can even see the snow on the mountain tops.
wow. i will have to check this out!
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