The Science Of Soul

Welcome to this weeks show, on Friday I took a flight to the USA and will be sending you in the first hour a Chicago vibe! It's only right and proper we feature the music that came this amazing city. It's still pretty cool over here but not much snow. I'm gonna be on a whirlwind tour and I plan on being in Indiana and Ohio over the following 10 days. I'll be catching up with friends and making many new ones, of that I'm sure. You can follow my progress though my Facebook page, updated as and when I get time. So be sure to check it out, (just click the link on the top of this page). Talking of  FB, Mickey posted a couple of his vintage shows on my time line this week, I did share the link but if you missed them go on my time line and check them out, think you will enjoy.

Short and sweet this week ...enjoy the sound of Chicago and of course share the link.

This Sunday's Show, 9th. March, 2014


Hour One

The Dells - Soul Stolling
R Kelly - Steppin' In The Name Of Love
L.V. Johnson - Cold & Mean
Jackie Wilson - Just As Soon As The Feelings Over
EWF - That's The Way Of The World
Wendell B - Work
Lou Bond - Why Must Our Eyes Be Turned Backwards
Tyrone Davis - Call Tyrone
Curtis Mayfield - When Seasons Change
Fat Larry's Band - How Good Is Love

Hour Two
Rosie Gaines - Crazy
Brass Construction - Wake Up
The Impressions - Wish I Could Stay In Bed
LTD - Shine On
Larrick Ebanks - Deeper & Deeper
Danny Johnson - Taking My Love For Granted
Soul Papers/Coco - Find My Love
Zoom - Love Seasons
Donny Hathaway - Someday, We'll All Be Free
C Robert Walker - Mind Traveling
Ronnie Dyson - I Think I'll Tell Her
Thanks to Alex Totney for playing Bill's records this week

Chicago's Biography:

Chicago's black founder

When we think of Chicago, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan’s Bulls, Al Capone, the famous Wrigley Field and The Chicago Blues come to mind. It is also the city to elect the first ever black female US senator : Carol Mosley-Braun. It is also where Barack Obama’s makes his home. There’s a part of Chicago most don’t know: The 3rd largest city in the USA was founded by a Black man. (Last) August 12 marked the 175th anniversary of the founding of Chicago! The first European settler in Chicago, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, arrived in the 1770s, married a (native indian) Potawatomi woman, and founded the area’s first trading post. By August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of 350. Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable first arrived on the western shores of Lake Michigan around 1779. Born in Saint-Marc, in a country called Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), he built the first permanent settlement at the mouth of the river just east of the present Michigan Avenue Bridge on the north bank. Of African and French descent, he was born to a slave named Suzanna (who may have origins in Vaudreuil, Québec) and a French pirate mate named Pointe du Sable who served on the Black Sea Gull. After his father sent him to study at a Catholic school in France, du Sable and a friend, Jacques Clamorgan, traveled to Louisiana (then a French colony) and then to Michigan, where he married a aboriginal woman named Kittahawa (fleet-of-foot). To marry her, the twenty-five-year-old Jean Baptiste had to become a member of her tribe. He took an eagle as his tribal symbol. The Potawatomi tribe called him "Black Chief," and he became a high-ranking member of the tribe. Du Sable’s granddaughter, Eulalia, was the first non-aboriginal born in Chicago. Du Sable made several trips to Canada to buy fur, and it is written that he had strong relationships with the French of New-France. Americans, for centuries, refused to acknowledge that a Black man could have founded the third largest city of the USA. It is only in 1968 that Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable was finally official recognized as the founding Father of Chicago.