Fontella Bass

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Kiddwad57
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Fontella Bass

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Pulling together some vids for class. I don't know what show this from but it looks like a Ricky solid back there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXSocE_M1G4
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450

Or, as the Brits would say: Four Five Zero! :roll: :mrgreen:
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A 450 doing Motown? Very cool. 8)
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Chicago Soul as Fontella Bass recorded for Chess Records. I just learned that future Earth Wind and Fire members Louis Satterfield played the bass line and Maurice White played the drums! Fontella Bass was the wife of jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie.
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jps wrote:450

Or, as the Brits would say: Four Five Zero! :roll: :mrgreen:
Or as us Aussies would put it, "Four Fifty" :D
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