Just finished reading the book

Page 39 refers "Like many kids growing up in Detroit the young Gordy had a soft spot for Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates, a one legged dancer whose leg was crudely amputated on his mothers kitchen table after an accident in a cotton field". Brilliant! would have loved to see him dancing to the Motown sounds.

 

He ran a niteclub up in the Catskills for many years. He also had his own orchestra (resident @ his club) & they were used on some recordings (Rene Bailey on B.B.D.) + he produced stuff that was released on his own label (Peg Leg Bates Records).

He died in 1998 ......... 

Edited August 6, 20168 yr by Roburt

That Mad hatters tune is pretty good !