The late great Ernie Durham is here with the first of five special programs taken from the Vintage Radio Vaults, recorded in the 1990s for WDET-FM in Detroit. When I was growing up outside of Flint, Michigan in the 1950s the Ernie Durham show on WBBC-AM radio was at the center of my musical consciousness; I listened every night for several years and gained my appreciation and knowledge of rhythm & blues from the Frantic One. Our second program in this series has recordings by Bob Hawkins, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Jimmy Scott, Parliament/Funkadelic, Joe Williams, Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Dynamics, and Cal Tjader.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
SUPER FINE
THE FRANTIC ONE! 02
Ernie Durham, WBBC-AM, Flint, MI, 1991 [22181]
Theme Music
Bob Hawkins: Honky Tonk
B.B. King: When Love Comes To Town
Ray Charles: What’s I Say
Jackie Wilson: No Doubt About It
Jimmy Scott: Falling in Love Is Wonderful
Parliament/Funkadelic: Got to Have the Funk
Joe Williams: Night Time Is the Right Time
Gladys Knight & the Pips: I Heard itt Through the Grapevine
The Dynamics: Super Fine
Cal Tjader: Doxy
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by Frantic Ernie Durham for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced & recorded by Ernie Durham at BBC-AM, Flint
Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Steve Pratt
© 2022 The John Sinclair Foundation.
