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The City Weeps Tonight (intro live 2017)

Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul
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Thank you so much We're gonna take you all the way back now Back to the very beginning of rock and roll Before it was even called rock and roll At first it was called race music, and then R&B Long before it was called rock and roll In the beginning, four or five kids Down on the street corner and harmonized with each other They didn't need no instruments, no, no money No agents, lawyers, managers Didn't matter what gender they were, what race, what religion But they discovered that by harmonizing with each other It created this magical vibration And they knew it made 'em feel good but they didn't know why But they knew that they could not Achieve that kind of magic on their own They needed to interact with other People for that kind of special magic And that magic, uh, was so strong it would end up giving Birth to the entire rock and roll industry that followed That's why we're here today The problem was, in America, in the early 50s You had black radio and you had white radio And most of the kids harmonizing were black And it took the courage of some very Important white DJs like Alan Freed To play that black music for some white kids And the minute those white kids heard that black Music and absorbed it, the whole world changed And, uh, they crucified Alan Freed for doing that He died a broken man but, uh, we all owe him A great debt of gratitude, and others like him Those days of innocence, you know, can never be lived again But we can visit there every now and then Remind ourselves of a more innocent time That's what this song's all about, we're about to do 'Cause I miss that, I miss that innocence And I miss that harmonizing with each other I wish we had more of that in our society these Days, you know, just in real life, you know A little bit more harmony, you know what I'm saying? So this is our tribute to those days, those great Doo-wop groups and those great DJs that played them Something called "The City Weeps Tonight"