Sitting in the Park - Chicago Radio and online interviews

The Sitting in the Park site is all about a weekly Chicago Radio show featuring regular soul interviews

Though already mentioned in the forum and the site is in the soul links, as such a worthwhile reference thought its worth a highlight here in the news/article section of soul source

The Sitting in the Park site is all about a weekly Chicago Radio show "Sitting in the Park" that broadcasts every Sunday night from 7:30-9:00PM on WHPK 88.5FM Chicago

Featuring Chicago soul and group soul, mainly from the 60s through the early 70s it also regularly features interviews with many of the people responsible for that great music.

The website features all of these interviews and is regularly updated

Have listed the interviews currently up below to demo the depth of content

You can visit the site at http://www.sittinginthepark.com and listen to all the interviews

This page contains links to audio of radio interviews with soul groups done on my radio show ("Sitting on the Park" It is important to get the stories of these groups out, in their own words -- otherwise this history will remain undocumented and lost.

2/29/2004 Melvin Mason (Mighty Marvelows) 7MB, 60 min

8/15/2004 Richard Pegue (Norvells, Nickel and Penny Labels) 9.5MB, 90 min

10/24/2004 James Westbrook, Jr. (5 Wagers) 10MB, 90 min

1/16/2005 The Steelers 7MB, 60 min 3/6/2005 Berl Bynum, Lawrence Bibbs, Kirk Davis (Vows, Major IV) 13MB, 120 min

4/2/2005 Clifford Curry, Bobby Thomas, Marcus Gentry (The Notations) 10MB, 90 min

5/15/2005 Bobby Thomas, Jerrone Johnson (Channel 3) 5MB, 30 min

6/12/2005 Gerald Dickerson (Creations, Contributors of Soul) 10MB, 90 min

9/18/2005 Jerrone Johnson, Emmet Garner Jr. (Trends) 10MB, 90 min

10/16/2005 Chris James (Natural 4) 10MB, 90 min

11/13/2005 Kenny Rightout, Kirk Davis, Ronald Christian (Traits, Center Stage) 10MB, 90 min

11/27/2005 Ron Renfro (Deltas) 2MB, 20 min

12/11/2005 Frank Clark (New Concepts) 3MB, 28 min

1/8/2006 Wayne Readus (Original Breed, People's Choice) 3.5MB, 30 min

1/22/2006 Marcus Alexander, Marzette Griffith, Fred Smith (Turbulations, Age of Bronze, Essence) 5MB, 50 min

1/29/2006 James Rushing (Devotions) 5MB, 40 min

2/19/2006 Rosie Addison, Rose E. Kelly (Opals) 6.5MB, 60 min

2/26/2006 Eugene Phillips (Moments of Truth, Wind, wrote and produced the Answers and Newsound) 8MB, 70 min

3/5/2006 Irving Coleman, John Wynn, Roger Phillips, Ronald McLaughlin, Tyrone McCullough (Conquistadors) 6.75MB, 60 min

3/26/2006 John Coleman, Kandice Patterson (Soul Majestics) 3MB, 30 min

4/2/2006 Keith Steward (Heaven and Earth) 9.5MB, 80 min

4/30/2006 Charles Perry (Naturals) 5.5MB, 47 min

6/4/2006 Nathan Carter, James Noah Jordan, Ralph Peterman (Dynamic Heartbeats, Wasters) 3MB, 27 min

7/9/2006 Bernice Willis, Tracy Williams, Laurel Ross (Muhammad) (Kittens) 8MB, 67 min

8/13/2006 Omar Arnold, Albert Hunter (Sounds of Black, Sounds of Blackness) 4MB, 36 min

8/20/2006 Marvin Glasper (Soul Suspects, Suspects) 4MB, 37 min

8/27/2006 Fred Escobar, Walter Jones, Billy Sims, Robert Smith (Soul Procedures, Procedures) 4.5MB, 40 min

9/17/2006 Mike Avery (New Image, Wreckin Crew) 5.5MB, 32 min

10/8/2006 James Brown (Calvaes, Blenders on Aladdin, Accents) 6.5MB, 36 min

11/5/2006 Lorenzo Clemons, Vernon Hammons (Mandells) 9MB, 77 min

11/19/2006 Carol Sanford (formerly Carol Samuel), Linda Smith (formerly Linda Harris), Nepata Mero (formerly Marilyn McThune) (Ivorys) 4MB, 37 min

12/3/2006 Walter Jones (Five Crowns) 3.3MB, 29 min