SUNDAY FEB 21, 2010 9PM

WOULDS 5861 SAN PABLO

RECORDS BY CAPTAIN STARLIGHT & BABY
INSTALLATION BY DIEGO BENAVENTE

//HIT THE DECK DISCOTHEQUE//

‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹BOOGEYMAN CARNIVAL:

BRING IT OUT IN THE DARK. LET IT OUT IN THE NIGHT.

GET DRESSED IN YOUR BOOGEYMAN BEST.

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HIT THE DECK is an event enterprise which aims to host a party that gets people moving. We just want to be stimulated and in so doing stimulate others (on the dancefloor). We just want to make it tangible. We just want to feel it.

Basically, we want to just drop it like a nuetron bomb. existence without concern. Dig it?

So get it.

Valentines was good.

Black Pearl by Sonny Charles and the Checkmates.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EM3gHg1Kus

{{{{{{{{{{{{/////////""""""""" Black Pearl
written by Toni Wine, Irwin Levine and Phil Spector
performed by Sonny Charles & The Checkmates, Ltd.
released as A&M 1053 in May 1969

"It was about a black woman. The male is singing to her, she is his sweetheart. She is his world, and she is his black pearl. They're dreaming of better times, better days, and he is saying, 'Black pearl, pretty little girl, let me put you up where you belong. Black pearl, precious little girl, you've been in the background much too long.' Which, at that time, with segregation, you had black students, white students, but older people, a lot of the black women, were depicted as being housekeepers, cooks, rather than having positions in companies, whether they were capable or not. It was a very difficult time period. They really weren't given the chances that their counterparts, the white women, may have been given. And it was time to have a song putting them on a pedestal. Because it shouldn't be "they" or "us" or anything. We are all capable of doing the same job, and should be given that chance. If we do a job well, we should be given the opportunity to do it, regardless of black or white. And in those days it wasn't as easy."

- Toni Wine

From Fort Wayne, IN, The Checkmates, Ltd. were Bobby Stevens, Melvin "Sweet Louie" Smith, Bill Van Buskirk, Harvey Trees, and "Sonny" Charles Hemphill.

The group started, as alot did in that era, as a doo-wop group in high school in the mid-50's that eventually turned to R&B. The group was so close, the five members joined the army together in 1959. After they got out of the service in 1962 they were playing clubs in Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. Nancy Wilson caught their act and signed the group up with her management team. But, after 4 failed singles for Capitol, The Checkmates moved to Herb Albert and Jerry Moss' A&M record label and scored with this Phil Spector production.""""""""\\\\\\\\\\\}}}}}}}}}}}}



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""Black pearl, precious little girl
Let me put you up where you belong
Black pearl little girl
You been in the background much too long
You been working so hard your whole life through
Tendin' other people's houses
Raisin' up their children too
Hey how about something for me and you
Here in my arms you're gonna reign supreme
No more servin' baby
They're gonna serve my queen
It's our turn for happiness and our day has come
Living for each other answering to no one

Black pearl precious little girl
Let me put you up where you belong
Because I love you
Black pearl pretty little girl
You been in the background much too long
Together we'll stand so straight and so tall
Created by love to love one and all
Hey heart to heart soul to soul
No other one could ever take your place
My world is built around
The very smile that's on your face
You'll never win a beauty show
No they won't pick you
But you're my miss America
I love you"""

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WIKI::::::::

:::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmates,_Ltd.
Checkmates, Ltd. were an American R&B group from Fort Wayne, Indiana. The group, discovered by Nancy Wilson, included both black and white members; their one major hit was 1969's "Black Pearl", produced by Phil Spector. The song peaked at #13 on the U.S. pop chart.[1]

The group broke up in 1970, but reunited in 1974 for a few more years. Lead singer Sonny Charles later had a moderately successful career as a solo artist. Charles and Smith later reunited and toured the U.S. into the 2000s. Some of the duo's highlights included performing with Frank Sinatra at the Oakland Coliseum, a concert at Madison Square Garden with Herb Alpert, and singing the National anthem for the 'Thrilla in Manila,' the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier heavyweight championship boxing match in the Philippines in 1975.[2]

"Sweet Louie" Smith (born Marvin Smith) died of a heart attack on 15 December 2007, while on a cruise ship in the Caribbean where he was to perform. He was 68.[3][2]
[edit] Members

* Sonny Charles - lead vocals - (born Charles Hemphill, 4 September 1940, Fort Wayne, Indiana)[4]
* Bobby Stevens - vocals
* Harvey Trees - guitar
* Bill Van Buskirk - bass
* Marvin "Sweet Louie" Smith - drums, vocals

[edit] Album discography

* Live at Caesars Palace (Capitol Records, 1967) U.S. Black Albums #36[5]
* Love Is All We Have to Give (Hip-O/A&M Records, 1969) U.S. #178[5]
* Bobby Stevens & the Checkmates, Ltd. (Rustic Records, 1971)
* FSO (Rustic, 1974)
* We Got the Moves (Fantasy Records, 1978)

[edit] References

1. ^ Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. 7th edition, 2000
2. ^ a b Lifeinlegacy.com
3. ^ Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Obituary
4. ^ Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. 7th edn, 2000
5. ^ a b Billboard, Allmusic.com


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THE INFLUENCE OF CONTEMPORARY 1960's CINEMA::::::::::>>

Black Pearl is "lyrically inspired by the Syndey Portier Movie "For The Love of Ivy" in which the maid character "being in the background" of a white family, around her late 20s question her role in the world and her identity within it.

The song is written from the perspective of a guy looking at an "Ivy" someone still young and beautiful yet ... Read Morediscarded by larger (white) society."
-Lawrence Joseph Jones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Love_of_Ivy


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