James Brown. A clip from the documentary, "The Night James Brown Saved Boston", features Boston's radio DJ, Jimmy Early speaking out about James Brown having the pulse on the music in the Black community.
Video transcript:
In inner cities across America, black radio is often the voice of the community and in Boston, that voice belongs to Jimmy Early Bird.
You are hanging up with the Early Bird from WILD 1090 radio on Boston. Don't tell that you are showing up as part of time.
Most of the people there did not know who Rhythm Blues was. They want to run another town. Honest to goodness, he wants to run me out of town for playing the [inaudible 0:00:31] town called me so I was standing [inaudible 0:00:37].
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