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Music Icon Lou Rawls Remembered
and he later he opened for The Beatles at
Crosley Field in Cincinnati.
Rawls was playing small blues and R&B
clubs in Los A ngeles when his four-octave
range caught the ear o f a Capitol Records
producer, w ho signed him to the label in
1962.
His debut effort, ’’Storm y M onday,"
recorded with the Les M cCann Trio, was
the first o f his 52 albums. In 1966, his "Love
Is a H urtin’ T hing" topped the charts and
earned Raw Is his first two Grammy nomina
tions.
He won three G ram m ys in a career that
spanned nearly five decades and included
the hits "Y our G ood Thing (Is About to
E nd),” “N atural M an” and "Lady L ove.”
But his tradem ark will always be “Y ou'll
N ever Find,” released in 1976 and written
by Kenny G am ble and Leon Huff, arch i
tects o f the classic "Philadelphia Sound.”
Rawls also appeared in 18 movies, includ
ing “Leaving Las Vegas” and "Blues Broth
ers 2000,” and 16 television series, including
“Fantasy Island" and “The Fall Guy.”
He is survived by his wife, N ina; and
four children, Louanna Rawls, Lou Raw ls
Jr., Kendra Sm ith and A iden Rawls.
The fam ily requested that instead o f
flow ers, donations be m ade to the United
N egro C ollege Fund.
Career included
giving back
(AP) - Funeral services are scheduled in
Los A ngeles Friday for Lou Rawls, the
velvet-voiced singer w ho started as a
church choir boy and went on to record
such classic tunes as “Y ou’ll Never Find
Another D»ve Like Mine" and "Lady Love.”
Rawls died Friday o f cancer. R aw ls’
family and his publicist, Paul Shefrin said
the singer was 72.
Rawls’ deep, smooth voice was his trade
mark, and he used it in a variety o f genres.
“ I’ve gone the full spectrum, from gos
pel to blues to jazz to soul to pop,” Rawls
once said on his W eb site. “And the public
has accepted what I’ve done through it
all.”
A longtime com m unity activist, Rawls
Lou Rawls picks up a Grammy award in 1972, one
played a m ajor role in the United Negro
o f three in a career that spanned nearly 50 years.
College Fund telethons that raised more
than $2(X) million. In the 1960s he often touring gospel group, the Pilgrim T ravel
Lou Rawls'
visited schools, playgrounds and com m u ers.
deep,
A ftera two-year stint in the Army, Rawls
nity centers.
smooth
Rawls' introduction to music came in his rejoined the Pilgrim Travelers in Los A nge
voice was
hom etow n o f Chicago from his grand les, where he sang with his childhood
his trade
mother, who loved gospel. He moved to friend Sam Cooke. Rawls perform ed with
mark.
Los A ngeles in the mid-1950s to join a Dick Clark at the Hollywood Bowl in 1959,
Case Closed on Nightclub’s Racist Comment
An Oregon LiquorControl Commission
inspector admitted that he once told a
downtown nightclub that if it changed its
music it would change its clientele but
denied saying black patrons belonged in
northeast Portland, not downtown.
The findings by the Oregon Attorney
Marlins
Consider
Portland
General office were made public last week
after concluding an investigation into al
leged statements to the owner of the Vue
nightclub. No charges will be filed.
Last summer when shootings erupted
outside the club and in the downtown
Portland vicinity, the establishm ent de-
The president o f the Florida
M arlins discussed the possi
bility of the M ajor League
Baseball team moving to Port
land with Mayor Tom Potter
Monday.
But Marlins president David
cided to stop playing hip-hop music,
saying it was following old advise from
an OLCC inspector. Since then the club
has closed.
Vue Nightclub owner Rami Makboul
said he was offended by the statements at
the time they were made.
Samson got no assurances that
local g o v e rn m e n t m onies
would be available to support
the team.
Potter said he feels that most
Portlanders could not care less
about landing a baseball team.
A new stadium plan a d
vanced in the State Legisla
ture in 2003 would have al
lowed the income taxes from
players and other team per
sonnel to be diverted to a fund
to pay off construction bonds.
Rev. Al Sharpton (left) and Rev. Jesse Jackson share a word as
Bruce Gordon, NAACP president, addresses the 9th Annual "Wall
Street Project ’ Sunday, a four-day economic justice summit
entitled “A More Perfect Union: The Quest for Equity and Parity.”
(AP photo)
Rights Conference
on Wall Street
Economic justice issues addressed
Life comes with standard safety features.
They’re all around you.
Gambling can have its own safety features
( A P) — N ew O rleans resid en ts
d isp lac ed by H u rrican e K atrina
m ust be allo w ed to retu rn and
have the ch an ce to p ro fit from the
reb u ild in g effo rt, N A A C P P re si
dent B ruce G o rd o n said S unday.
G o r d o n w a s a m o n g c i v il
rig h ts le a d e rs , la w m a k e rs an d
b u s in e s s m e n g a th e r e d at th e
W all S tre e t P ro je c t, an an n u a l
c o n fe re n c e in N ew Y o rk c re ate d
to p ro m o te d iv e rs ity an d e q u ity
in th e fin a n c ia l se c to r. It c o in
c id e s w ith th e R e v . M a rtin
L u th e r K in g J r . ’s b irth d a y .
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th e h o u sin g sto c k th a t is r e c r e
a te d is u ltim a te ly o c c u p ie d by
th o se w h o o w n e d a h o m e b e
fo re K a trin a ," G o rd o n sa id at a
n ew s c o n fe re n c e k ic k in g o ff the
c o n f e re n c e .
T he p resid en t o f the N ational
A sso c ia tio n fo r th e A d v an c e-
diversity
m ent o f C o lo red P eo p le said that
20 y ears from now "th ere w ill be
g e n e ra tio n s o f fam ilies w ho w ill
becom e m ultim illionaires because
they p articip a ted in the re sto ra
tion o f the G u lf C o a st.”
“ W e need to m ake sure that the
fo lk s w ho w atch ed th eir h o m es
w ash ed aw ay are the sam e o n es
w ho have jo b s, w h o run c o m p a
nies, an d p articip a te in the e c o
n o m ic uplift that I assu re you w ill
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n o w ," G o rd o n said.
G o rd o n , the Rev. Jesse Jack -
son, A lden M cD o n ald Jr., p re si
dent o f N ew O rlea n s-b a sed L ib
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ro u n d in g the h u rric an e dam ag e,
in c lu d in g fin an c ial issu es and
v o tin g rig h ts for d isp lac ed re s i
d e n ts .
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