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Nobody sounded similar to Nappy Dark brown through the mid-’50s. Exotically moving his consonants with sing-song impunity (allegedly, Savoy Information manager Herman Lubinsky believed Dark brown was performing in Yiddish), bellowing the blues with gospel-inspired ferocity, Dark brown rode rock and roll & roll’s 1st wave for a couple glorious …

Perceived by casual oldies devotees being a two-hit question (for his 1959 chart-topper “Kansas City” along with a heartwarming “Let’s INTERACT” a complete decade later on), Wilbert Harrison actually left out a varied body system of function that combined an interesting melange of musical idioms into something quite distinctive. Nation …