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Music Appreciation

marble falls

(67,901 posts) Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:13 AM Monday

Sam Cooke - Chain Gang

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Sam Cooke - Chain Gang (Original Post) marble falls Monday OP

Great song on the transistor radio. Used to see the poor guys on chain gangs in 1950/60s. I'd always wave and Silent Type Monday #1

In '59 or '60, my mom's side grandparents took us on a three week tour of the Atlantic from VA south to Florida ... marble falls Monday #2

Same here. Remember the White Only signs, even employment ads that said only Caucasians need apply, and crud like that. Silent Type Monday #3

Silent Type

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1. Great song on the transistor radio. Used to see the poor guys on chain gangs in 1950/60s. I'd always wave and

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Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:16 PM

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occassionally a poor convict would wave back.

marble falls

(67,901 posts)

2. In '59 or '60, my mom's side grandparents took us on a three week tour of the Atlantic from VA south to Florida ...

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Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:26 PM

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... and we returned up though Alabama, Tennessee, KY, to Ohio.

Nothing made any impression on me (past how many relatives we had along the way in VA, Tenn, Kentucky, Indiana that we'd stay with - feather beds, what a great invention) but the chain gangs all over the south and the "Whites Only" water fountains made the BIG impression. It may have seeded the beginnings of my liberal sensibilities.

Silent Type

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3. Same here. Remember the White Only signs, even employment ads that said only Caucasians need apply, and crud like that.

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Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:54 PM

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