31st Street Beach Chicago

Nolan Chance and the Beach: i’ll never forget you.

(photos: Labor Day 1936 at 31st Street Beach, Chicago) found at bvikkivintage I love “I’ll Never Forget You” by Nolan Chance. Released here in Chicago in 1969, its creation was a collaboration between Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway, and Leroy Hutson (arguably the patron saints of Chicago Soul for the decade that was to come). The song…

August 1, 2010

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Chicago Cultural History, Music

31st Street Beach Chicago, antique photos, Chicago Photography, Chicago Soul, curtis mayfield, Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson, Local Chicago Music, Local Chicago Soul, Nolan Chance, photography, vintage photos
Summertime and Billy Stewart: Fruitful and Fleeting

Summer has left our once-warm grasp. In memorium, Darkjive presents Chess Records’ Billy Stewart with a 1966 version of the classic song “Summertime” (from Porgy and Bess). I love how Billy Stewart’s scats interplay with insistent horns and halting guitar licks. The drummer on the cut is a very young Maurice White (of Earth, Wind, and Fire). Originally from…

October 1, 2009

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Chicago Cultural History, Local Chicago Music, Music, the Goodness

31st Street Beach Chicago, Billy Stewart, Chess Records, Chicago, Chicago Soul, I Do Love You, Local Chicago Soul, Maurice White, Music, Porgy and Bess, soul, Summertime, Washington DC