Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
From Solomon Burke
I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me.
Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming.
I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.
The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.
If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.
But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.
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