Posts Tagged With Johnny Otis
Sunday, January 22, 2012 / 10:40 am
They Might Be Giants
R&B loses two in a row.
by Gary Phillips
Tags: Johnny Otis | Etta James | rhythm and blues
So my 25-year-old, still at home son has a job, praise Jesus. It’s in Compton and as he doesn’t have a car, most mornings, he has to be up and out of our Mid-City house by 7 AM for his bus and train rides to get there by 9 AM. But on Saturdays he has to be there at 7 in the morning so my wife and I trade off driving him to work. Thus I was on one of the three freeways taking him in this past Saturday and listening to KPFK rebroadcasting two of the many Johnny Otis Show recordings in their archives. Johnny was also remembered on Bill Gardner’s Rhapsody in Black show the night before on KPFK. Gardner had worked on Johnny’s show, who was 90 at the time he died last Tuesday at home in Altadena.
