Calvin 'Doc' Stephenson interview - Magic Tones

[G F]

Here's another one now on YouTube....

 

 

 

[Robbk]

Great interview.  Thanks!  Nice to learn more about The Magictones.

[Phild]

Not to be picky. But it's "Dhaak" not "Doc".

 

He pulled  me up on it when we had him perform in 2018

[G F]

I know he changed the spelling when African Americans began to reject slave names in the 1970s. I've used the first spelling as that's what it was at the time of these 1960's recordings. 

(When he was at school, his teacher asked him what he wanted to be and he said a doctor, and after that he classmates began teasing him and the nickname stuck.)

I'll amend it on Part 2 - when he was with Westbound and Motown in the 1970s.

 

 

 

[G F]

On 17/09/2021 at 16:58, Robbk said:

Great interview.  Thanks!  Nice to learn more about The Magictones.

Thanks, Robb.

I'll upload Part 2 soon and hopefully you enjoy hearing about the move to LA and joining Motown.

[G F]

Here's part 2:

 

 

[Robbk]

Excellent!  Nice to learn more about The Magictones' later period. I didn't buy their records in the 1970s.

[G F]

Me neither, Robb... it was predominantly mid-sixties stuff that I bought.

It was also good to learn about the late fifties and during the research I got more into that early soul sound.