tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13401748.post6388986828055997801..comments2024-03-25T10:55:14.348-04:00Comments on ARCANE RADIO TRIVIA: Avant Garde BroadcastingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13401748.post-67642100531280987652021-08-10T23:34:53.740-04:002021-08-10T23:34:53.740-04:00I am Lonnie Cook, the one that was PD at 103.9 FM ...I am Lonnie Cook, the one that was PD at 103.9 FM in 1962. Some of the info above is incorrect. I discuss some of it on my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/lonnie.cook.731 and on The Doo Wop Hall of fame page: https://www.facebook.com/doowopsvoice/doowopsvoicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658812399062107758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13401748.post-54606902141915039772020-03-26T16:14:58.305-04:002020-03-26T16:14:58.305-04:00Best comment ever.Best comment ever.Jose Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688454434303787206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13401748.post-8261692101391612912019-12-27T04:45:44.980-05:002019-12-27T04:45:44.980-05:00Do not leave it to me to provide a full dissertati...Do not leave it to me to provide a full dissertation of who was right and who's wrong regarding activities associated with Clarence Avant and the Sixto Rodriquez record sales or his involvement in radio. However, your conclusions based on a less than adequate investigation and remarks from people subjected to extreme informational censorship in South Africa in the documentary SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN seam paltry at best and borders of defaming the Sussex Records owner. It inadvertently and/or intentionally masks a racial deception at a time that white supremacy played a major role in controlling all levels of communicative activity including commerce in both the US and South Africa. Other than a figurehead as label chief exec, Avant had little to no authority regarding the distribution matrix for selling records. Sussex Music if paid, does not reflect that it belonged to Clarence Avant. His publishing arm was Interior Music. There were and still are simply too many hands in that pot entitled record distribution and if your hand is not up in front, and I doubt either Berry Gordy with Motown or Clarence Avant at Sussex was, any thing beyond that is merely speculative assumption. Sussex never had the promotional department or budget to promote anyone other than possibly Bill Withers. The money lost in the Radio venture was chump change and only drew attention to Avant's lack of interest in actually being a true broadcast owner, and the liability of being a control freak in something you know little about. <br />He was not the head of Motown Records at a pinnacle of its prestigious era but at arguably it. However, it all helps the South Africans tell a good Rodriguez story, which itself was plagued by the fact that in the late 60s and 70s you had no one that had an interest in white controlled racist broadcasting to align themselves with a Mexican-Native American named Rodriguez. As far as the US he was before his time, and as far as South Africa was concerned, no one outside was paying attention to what the young (white) Afrikaners thought about their apartheid government's practices. They unfortunately were seen as being a part of the 4 million represented by their government oppressors out of the 31 million population of mostly black South Africans. No one outside knew that they did not endorse the government's brutal conduct and restrictions placed on the majority. Nor do the photos indicate that Rodrigueze's music was popular among the blacks, which was another problem in keeping his popularity and whatever financial success local and insulated to South Africa. brotheraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14515010051308915562noreply@blogger.com