êîììåíòèðîâàííûé ñïèñîê 1958 "Äæîàí Áàýç â Ñàí-Ôðàíöèñêî"

Annie Had A Baby (Glover, Syd Nathan)

Chorus:
Annie had a baby, can't work no more
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Annie had a baby, can't work no more
Every time she start to workin'
She has to stop to walk the baby 'cross the floor

She had to walk with the baby
Instead of me
Talk to the baby
Instead of me
Sing to the baby
Instead of me
Cling to the baby
Instead of me
Now I know that it's understood
That's what happens when the gettin' gets good

[chorus]
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===èñòîðè÷åñêîå èññëåäîâàíèå http://www.holeintheweb.com/drp/bhd/WorkAnnie.htm

Working with Annie – How rock and roll was born 

[The following piece was born out of a statement from my editor,
who, responding to my piece on Rosemary Clooney,
claimed that she had sung the Georgia Gibbs hit, “Dance With Me, Henry.”   
In order to prove him wrong, I did a lot of research – 
and out of it came this piece.] 

Some curious things happened in the early days of rock and roll.  
The major record labels ignored it, dismissing it as a passing fad, for several years.  
This left the door wide open for the small, independent, often regional labels. 

These tiny companies did not set themselves up originally as rock and roll labels, 
and often were taken by surprise by the regional breakout successes of some of their releases.  
Most specialized in R&B and Gospel music, marketed to black audiences – 
what had been until the late 1940s referred to as “race records.”   

In 1951 the Dominoes’ “Sixty Minute Man” – 
which had already gone to the top of the R&B charts – 
“crossed over” into the Pop charts, climbing to No. 17.  
This was a major success for the tiny Federal label, 
owned by Syd Nathan, and it signaled 
the actual beginning of what would in a year or two become known as rock and roll. 

The significance of this “crossover” was that a young white audience 
had found a record made for an adult black audience.  
The song had a heavy beat and suggestive lyrics and was a direct descendent 
of urban blues songs going back to the 1920s and the jump bands of the 1940s.  
It shocked the parents of many of the white teenagers who brought it home and played it.  
It thrilled the kids, who were hearing something 
which was viscerally appealing on a physical level – 
it made you want to move, to dance – 
and for whom sexual innuendo was titillatingly exciting.   

Rock and roll was a grass-roots, underground movement 
among America’s teenagers in the first half of the 1950s, 
and presaged the move for racial integration ten years later.  
It was subversive in many subtle ways, 
and it made parents and teachers angry and repressive – 
this in an era of comic book censorship and Red-baiting witch-hunts.  
Churches organized gatherings where “evil” rock and roll records 
were thrown on bonfires – 
in direct parallel to those in which comic books were burned.  
If comic books weren’t the major cause of juvenile delinquency, 
then surely rock and roll was. 

“I was being lambasted for dirty lyrics on ‘Sixty Minute Man’,” 
said Federal producer Ralph Bass. “The problem was 
that white kids were listening to those things for the first time.   
It was all right so long as blacks were listening, 
but as soon as whites started listening, it was no good.  
Then it became a big political thing.” 

Adding fuel to this fire was Hank Ballard & the Midnighters.  
Ballard was born in Detroit and worked on a Ford assembly line.  
He joined the Royals, a local singing group, 
and they recorded a song called “Work With Me, Annie” 
for Nathan’s Federal label in 1954. Like “Sixty Minute Man,” 
its lyrics were considered “dirty:”  
“Annie, please don’t cheat/Give me all my meat” was too explicit, 
too suggestive for a white audience – although Bessie Smith and Ma Rainy
had recorded lyrics equally explicit decades earlier. 

Naturally, the controversy sold more records, and made “Annie” a word-of-mouth success.  
The Royals, in order to avoid confusion with the 5 Royals, 
changed their name to the Midnighters before recording “Sexy Ways,” 
another controversial single. 

But “Annie” took on a life of its own. 
A west coast deejay told his radio listeners 
that if they liked “Work With Me, Annie,” they’d want the sequel, 
“Annie Had A Baby,” a sarcastic joke 
which immediately caused orders to come in for the nonexistent record.  
Nathan was no fool, and he had the Midnighters do the follow-up record, 
“Annie Had A Baby (Can’t Work No More).” 

The Midnighters did one further sequel, “Annie’s Aunt Fannie,” 
but others picked it up and ran with it with both covers and further sequels, 
like “Henry’s Got Flat Feet (Can’t Dance No More).”  
Most notable was Etta James’ “answer” to “Annie,” co-written with bandleader Johnny Otis, 
with whose R&B band she sang, “Roll With Me, Henry.” 
It was subsequently renamed “The Wallflower.” 

At this point the major record companies began to wake up.  
They began doing sanitized white cover versions of black-artist crossover hits.  
Pat Boone had hits, covering Fats Domino. “The Wallflower” was dusted off, 
its lyrics cleaned up, and given to Georgia Gibbs, renamed “Dance With Me, Henry.”  
In this version it went to No. 1 on the Pop charts.  
The lyrics might be about dancing, but kids could read between the lines, 
and the risque reputation of “Annie” followed “Henry” closely.   

Hank Ballard & the Midnighters went on to score another major hit 
with “Teardrops on My Letter” in 1958 but, ironically, 
the B-side of that single would take Chubby Checker to No. 1 twice, in 1960 and 1962.  
The piece, written by Ballard, was “The Twist.” 

Hank Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.  
Etta James was inducted in 1992.
 

===èñòîðèÿ Ïèëþëè - http://www.johnnyspencer.info/imagetexts08/anniehadababyM.htm

1954 ANNIE HAD A BABY * THE MIDNIGHTERS * FEDERAL 12195 * USA 

The Midnighters, formerly the Royals, on a Federal reissue from the early 1970s
with the follow up to their big hit Work With Me Annie, because, in their own words,
"That's what happens when the gettin' gets good". 
Not any more it don't; because we now have the Pill.
When the birth control pill was introduced in 1960, 
it was seen as a major medical achievement 
that rewrote the future of women and family life. 
For the first time in history, it became possible 
for a woman to safely and effectively control childbearing 
by taking a pill and within two years, 
approximately 1.2 million women were using it. 
It has been credited with launching the women's movement, 
fuelling the, largely mythical, wild and free times of the 1960s, 
and as reforming the Roman Catholic Church. 
Pope Paul VI issued an encyclical in the late-1960s 
condemning all forms of artificial birth control – 
most especially the Pill. 
The ability for the people to control population 
is very much a thorn in the side of power, 
historically the religions need ignorant child bearing women 
to constantly renew their brainwashed flock, 
the military need a constant supply of cannon fodder 
for their wars and the capitalists needed 
an ever growing multitude of consumers. 
Although contraceptive techniques had been known 
in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, 
the modern movement for birth control began in Great Britain, 
where the writings of Thomas Robert Malthus 
stirred interest in the problem of overpopulation. 
By the 1870s a wide variety of birth control devices 
were available in English and American pharmacies, 
including rubber condoms. In England in 1877, 
Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh were tried 
for selling The Fruits of Philosophy, 
a pamphlet on contraceptive methods, 
written in 1832 by an American, Charles Knowlton; 
the state (the very thing people think protects them)  
has always been the agency for the implementation 
of the precepts of the above mentioned forms of power. 
In 1878 the first birth control clinic was founded 
in Amsterdam by Aletta Jacobs. 
The first U.S. birth control clinic, 
opened (1916) by Margaret Sanger in Brooklyn, N.Y., 
was closed by the police; she received a 30-day jail sentence. 
She later permanently established a clinic in New York City in 1923. 
In Great Britain the Malthusian League, aided by Marie Stopes, 
established a birth control clinic in London in 1921. 
Concern in over declining populations has increased in recent years 
in certain Western European countries and Russia. 
Among religious bodies, the Roman Catholic Church 
still openly provides the main opposition to the birth control movement, 
John Paul II reaffirmed this stance in encyclicals. 
The continuing use of birth control 
used by the developed countries in spite of opposition 
has lead to the mass immigration patterns 
towards the developed world that are actively encouraged 
by Church, State, and Capitalism, 
as in the 21st century falling birth rates and an aging population 
(they don't consume so much) means that many more consumers 
(of goods but increasingly of services) are needed 
to keep the rich and the poor in their respective places. 
Today the pill is being superseded by newer methods like the birth control patch, 
Ortho Evra, on sale in Canada,  and a birth control computer: 

 Now you know why they-don't-make-songs-like-that-anymore.