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It was around this time as the musician's popularity increased that he acquired the nickname, " Soul Brother No. 1 ", after failing to win the title " King of Soul " from Solomon Burke during a Chicago gig two years prior.
* 1940 – Solomon Burke, American singer ( d. 2010 )
* March 21 – Solomon Burke, American singer and songwriter ( d. 2010 )
His early influences included blues and R & B singers Little Richard, Solomon Burke, Jackie Wilson and Brook Benton, as well as Elvis Presley, whom Jones idolized and with whom he would later become good friends.
Morrison's father had what was at the time one of the largest record collections in Ulster ( acquired during his sojourn in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1950s ), and the young Morrison grew up listening to artists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Lead Belly, and Solomon Burke ; of whom Morrison later said, " If it weren't for guys like Ray and Solomon, I wouldn't be where I am today.
This song became popular again during the 1950s rock and roll era when it was sung by Solomon Burke.
Category: Solomon Burke songs
* The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Aerosmith, Solomon Burke, The Flamingos, Michael Jackson, Queen, Paul Simon, Steely Dan and Ritchie Valens
Solomon Burke ( March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010 ) was an American singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, mortician, and an archbishop of the United House of Prayer For All People.
Burke was known as " King Solomon ," the " King of Rock ' n ' Soul ," and as the " Bishop of Soul ," and described as " the Muhammad Ali of soul ," and as " the most unfairly overlooked singer of soul's golden age.
Described as both " Rabelaisian " and also as a " spiritual enigma ," " Perhaps more than any other artist, the ample figure of Solomon Burke symbolized the ways that spirituality and commerce, ecstasy and entertainment, sex and salvation, individualism and brotherhood, could blend in the world of 1960s soul music.
James Solomon McDonald ( later Solomon McDonald Vincent Burke ) was born on the upper floor of the home of his maternal grandmother, Eleanor Alma " Mother " Moore ( born about 1900 in Florence, South Carolina ; died 19 December 1954 in Philadelphia ) in a row house at 3036 Mt Vernon Street, West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
At the age of 7 Solomon preached " He is My Life ," the first of many sermonettes, in Solomon's Temple, In his youth, " he was so charismatic in the pulpit that he was known as the Boy Wonder Preacher ," and by all accounts, " young Burke was a frantic sermonizer, spellbinding in his delivery.
After this Sol changed his name to Solomon McDonald Vincent Burke, but was often called " Sol " by family and friends.
He was a black rabbi, who would go to upper Pennsylvania and purchase chicken, turkeys and ducks .” Solomon Burke had six younger siblings – a sister, Laurena Burke-Corbin ( born 23 June 1946 ), and five brothers: Elec Edward " Alec " ( born 16 February 1948 ), Vladimir H. " Laddie " ( born 31 July 1949 ), Mario " Chuck " ( born 13 September 1953 ), Daniel S. " Danny " ( born 10 March 1955 ), and Jolester R. M. Burke ( born 24 September 1958 ).
In April 1957, Burke, who was at this time promoted as " Lord Solomon ," appeared on an all-star show at Chicago's Regal Theater with Screamin ' Jay Hawkins, The Dells, The Spaniels, Big Maybelle, Little Esther Phillips, The Sensations, Junior Parker, Bobby " Blue " Bland, Nappy Brown, Annie Laurey, and bassist Al Smith's Orchestra.
Apollo reissued an album " Solomon Burke " ( ALP-498 ) in 1962.
According to Alex Halberstadt, " Salvation arrived in the person of Solomon Burke, a soul singer of overwhelming charisma and remarkable stylistic range.
According to Wexler: " Solomon Burke was the infusion of fresh energy I needed.
Solomon Burke carried Atlantic by selling a load of records – and they were terrific.
In a 2002 interview Burke recalled: " Way down in the South somewhere, I showed up and the promoter said to me, " Is Solomon Burke here yet?

Solomon and Tom
Media analyst Norman Solomon and cartoonist Tom Tomorrow claim that while Adams ' caricatures of corporate culture seem to project empathy for white-collar workers, the satire ultimately plays into the hands of upper corporate management itself.
On 29 April 1992, a twenty five year old Captain Valentine Strasser lead a group of seven junior officers in the Sierra Leone army that that included Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, Sergeant Solomon Musa, Lieutenant Tom Nyuma, Captain Julius Maada Bio and Captain Komba Mondeh came all the way from their military baracks in Kailahun District and launched a military coup in Freetown, which sent president Momoh into exile in Guinea and the young soldiers established the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) with Strasser as its chairman and Head of State of the country.
Through the influence of Ernest Becker's writings, Rank's eternal dialectic between " life fear and death fear " has been tested experimentally in Terror Management Theory by Skidmore College psychology professor Sheldon Solomon, University of Arizona psychology professor Jeff Greenberg, and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs psychology professor Tom Pyszczynski.
Both the Weeping Gorilla and Chucklin ' Duck motifs were used in the Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset series by Rick Veitch, and a Weeping Gorilla Comix panel makes a cameo appearance in the story " King Solomon Pines " in Tom Strong's Terrific Tales # 5 ( scripted by Leah Moore and illustrated by Sergio Aragones ).
Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).
The cast included Tom Solomon as Anatoly Sergievsky, Tim Rogers as Freddie Trumper, Julie Stark as Florence Vassey, Lori Haley Fox as Svetlana, James Dinsmore as Molokov, Stephen McCarthy as Walter and Leighton Rafferty as The Arbiter.
* 2002 At His Best ( Solomon Burke ) ( bckgr ); Café ( Trio da Paz ); I Heard It on NPR: Jazz for Blue Nights ( Various ); Incredible Solomon Burke at His Best ( Solomon Burke )( bckgr ); Lenny White Collection ( Lenny White ); Pump It Up ( Les McCann ); Tom Browne Collection ( Tom Browne )
* Solomon Daisy, ' Long ' Phil Parkes, and Tom Cobb, Old John's three cronies
Acts who appeared included: Gloria Gaynor, George Roper, Ken Dodd, Duncan Norvelle, Black Lace, Bernie Winters, Stutz Bear Cats, Kit and the Widow, Wall Street Crash, Kiki Dee, Diane Solomon, Michael Ball, ' Nasty Nigel ' Lythgoe, Martin " The Beast " Francis, Tom Pepper, Fay Presto, Pete Price, Manhattan Transfer, Shane Richie, The Flaming Hamsters, Stan Boardman, Fascinating Aida, Showaddywaddy, Kajagoogoo, Frankie Howerd, Colm Wilkinson, Wilfrid Brambell from Steptoe and Son, Sinitta, Five Star, Indigo Lady, Cheryl Baker, Phil Cornwell, Jaki Graham, Nana Mouskouri, The Chuckle Brothers, Brian Conley, Roy Walker, Wayne Sleep, Andrew O ' Connor, Gareth Hunt, Peter Beckett, Syd Lawrence ( with his orchestra ), Frankie Vaughan, Jessica Martin, George Roper, Caroline Cossey, The Foxes, Mud, Chris Emmett, Keith Harris and Orville, Mick Miller, Diane Solomon, Mark Heap ( The Two Marks ) and Vince Hill.
) The Yale St. Anthony Hall lectures, some co-sponsored with the Yale Review recently have included Gay Talese, D. A. Powell, Tom Perotta, Ilya Kaminsky, Tao Lin, Dave Eggers, Roddy Lumsden, Elizabeth Bear, Vona Groarke, Conor O ' Callaghan, John Guare, Claire Messud, Elizabeth Alexander, William Deresiewicz, Richard Wilbur, Henri Cole, Chris Adrian, Heidi Julavits, Joseph Harrison, Mark Strand, Wayne Koestenbaum, Dana Levin, Irving Feldman, John Butler, Maurice Manning, Peter Orszag, Michael Donaghy, Paul Muldoon, Martin Puryear, Robert Young Pelton, Rosa DeLauro, Donald Kagan, Bhagavan Das, Robert Stone, Peter Matthiessen, Agha Shahid Ali, Richard Selzer, Naomi Wolf, Carl Andre, Richard Haas, Robert P. De Vecchi, Thomas Fingar, Larry Kramer, Frank Deford, Paul Kennedy, Louise Glück, Henri Cole, Andrew Solomon and Christo.
The Kilohana Senior Advisors are Professor Libert O ' Sullivan, ' Olohe Solomon Kaihewalu, Professor Charlie Robinson, Grand Master Max Togisala, Grand Master Bob Maschmeier Professor Tom Jenkins, Professor James Muro, Great Grand Master Ralph Castro, and also included the now deceased Great Grand Master Ming Lum and Great Grand Master Al Novak.
Musical Director Tom Sullivan, keyboardist Carolyn Wood, guitarist Richie Macioce, bass guitarist Jimmy Rosica, trumpeter Shelly Davis, saxophonist Joe Ruvio and drummer Artie ... and very briefly substituting for Richie Macioce, due to illness, Rick Solomon.
The remaining trio recruited session drummer Josh Freese and engineers Sandy Solomon and Bernie Zwass to record a cover of Tom Waits ' " Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis " at Plus Four Recordings Studios, in Sherman Oaks, California in June 1995 for the compilation album Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits.
The soldiers included future NPRC members Seargon Solomon Musa, Captain Valentine Strasser, Lieutenant Sahr Sandy and captain Tom Nyuma.
On April 29, 1992, Bio was one of a group of six young Sierra Leonan soldiers that included Captain Valentine Strasser, Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, Surgeon Solomon Musa, Captain Tom Nyuma and Captain Komba Mondeh that toppled president Joseph Saidu Momoh's All People's Congress ( APC ) government in a bloodless military coup.
The album featured an eclectic collection of guests including Tom Waits, Solomon Burke, Michael Franti, Chrissie Hynde, Aaron Neville, Shelby Lynne, George Clinton, Mavis Staples and Les McCann.

Solomon and Waits
" " Diamond in Your Mind ", which Waits wrote for Wilson's Woyzeck, did not appear on Blood Money ; however, it did emerge on Solomon Burke's album Don't Give Up on Me of the same year.

Solomon and Michael
Michael Uslan and Bruce Solomon claim that when Sullivan asked the group back for a second appearance, he asked them to wear matching suits " for a cleaner look ," but that the Stones in response " showed up for the show in rental Nazi uniforms.
* In 1999, Renee Moore created Solomon Northup Day and approached Mayor Michael J. O ' Connell ( R ) who erected a historical marker at the corner of Congress and Broadway, to commemorate Solomon Northup's life.
* Michael Kneller, " Solomon Northup: From Freedom to Slavery to Freedom Again ", Slavery in America website
* Drain Commissioner: Michael Solomon
** Meteor-William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Michael J. Kohut and Jack Solomon
Among the other pioneers of Sand Lake, some of the prominent men were: Frederick Shaver, Lawrence Wederwax, Barnhardt Uline, Michael Sipperly, Joseph H. Sipperly, John T. Snook, Thomas Johnson, William Goslin, Wynant Van Aistyne, Daniel Thompson, Solomon Taylor, Lewis Bullock, Timothy Bowerman, Lewis Finch, Nicholas Reichard, Eleazer Peck, Wright Thorn, John Souter, Henry Mould.
Adding to the injury, Michael Uslan and Bruce Solomon claim that when Sullivan asked the group back for a second appearance, he asked them to wear matching suits " for a cleaner look.
In 2005, the band went through another line-up change with Crosley and Madla leaving, replaced by Solomon Snyder on bass guitar and Michael Miley on drums for the recording of the EP Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things ( LOSALT ).
In 1991, the Local Government Commission, a private nonprofit group in Sacramento, California, invited architects Peter Calthorpe, Michael Corbett, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Moule, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Stefanos Polyzoides, and Daniel Solomon to develop a set of community principles for land use planning.
While Mengistu was unharmed, his alleged attacker, Solomon Haile Ghebre Michael, an Eritrean, was shot and arrested by Mengistu's bodyguards.
Relations with Australia were strained in 2006 when Prime Minister Michael Somare was accused of having facilitated Julian Moti's escape to the Solomon Islands.
Among them are Michael Barrier, Jerry Beck, Colin and Timothy Cowles, Donald Crafton, David Gerstein, Milt Gray, Mark Kausler, Leonard Maltin, and Charles Solomon.
" Team Warrior " by Nathan Solomon, a 14-year-old Chesapeake Bayhawks fan from Alpharetta, Georgia and " Team Authority " by Michael Hatala, a 13-year-old Long Island Lizards fan of Glen Cove, New York, selected the teams on the Friday night before the game.
Lambeth Bridge was the scene of the verbal exchange between Solomon Vandy ( played by actor Djimon Hounsou ) and the Van de Kaap corporation representative ( played by actor Michael Sheen ) in the 2006 film Blood Diamond.
Relations between the current governments of Prime Minister Derek Sikua ( Solomon Islands ) and Prime Minister Michael Somare ( Papua New Guinea ) are,, cordial.
Guests such as Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Bernie Sanders, Juan Gonzalez, Andrew Bacevich, the late Chalmers Johnson, Tim Robbins, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Moore, Matt Taibbi, Barbara Ehrenreich, Naomi Klein, Robert Reich, Bill Moyers, Sherrod Brown, Janine Jackson, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Matt Rothschild, Michael Copps, Seymour Hersh, Norman Solomon, Amy Goodman, the late Howard Zinn, and the late Gore Vidal discuss the relationship between US media and politics and answer questions from callers.
* Michael Solomon Alexander, first Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem was born here
There is a particularly memorable account written by a Romanian survivor, Michael Solomon, in his book Magadan ( see Bibliography below ) which gives us a vivid picture of both the transit camps leading to the Kolyma and the region itself.
With the establishment of the colony of Melbourne later that year, sheep runs were soon established by Edmund Davis Fergusson and Michael Solomon in the Avondale and Sunshine areas.
Nathan ben Reuben David Spira, Menahem Azariah Fano, Baruch Abraham ben Elhanan David Foa, Hezekiah ben Isaac Foa, Isaac ben Vardama Foa, Israel Nissim Foa, Israel Solomon Longhi. Isaiah Mordecai ben Israel Hezekiah Bassani, Israel Benjamin ben Isaiah Bassani, Elhanan David Carmi, Benjamin ben Eliezer ha-Kohen, Joshua ben Raphael Fermi, Moses Benjamin Foa, Abram Michael Fontanella, Judah Ḥayyim Fontanella, Israel Berechiah Fontanella, Raphael Jehiel Sanguinetti.
It describes how Solomon was enabled to build the Temple by commanding demons by means of a magical ring entrusted to him by the Archangel Michael.
When a demon named Ornias harasses a young lad ( who is favored by Solomon ) by stealing half his pay and sucking out his vitality through the thumb on his right hand, Solomon prays in the temple and receives from the archangel Michael a ring with the seal of God ( in the shape of a hexagram having the name of God inscribed within ) on it which will enable him to command the demons ( c. f.

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