By Gloria DULAN-Wilson
2023 marks the 60th year of my going to college. I was a freshman when I began college.
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| Gloria DULAN-Wilson 'LU 1967 at LU in 1965 |
These are the songs I remember from my years in college - they are in no particular order!
We partied hardy at Lincoln U - and many of the artists personally came to perform on campus - This was the era of Motown - so we had some major artists making their debut and really giving us something to party to! Our music preferences were very ECLECTIC because our student make up was at least 20% African, 20% Caribbean 59% African American, 1% Caucasian/Asian.
I entered Lincoln University as a Rising Junior in 1965 - after having been expelled from Hampton University for being too Black, too militant, and wanting to join the March on Selma Alabama. It was still an All-Male University with 600 males and 16 coeds - including yours truly - who was the last student to be admitted in this first experimental year of bringing women on the campus.
That was also the beginning of the Black Power Era, the reunification of African and African Americans - and the beginning of cultural nationalism. An awesome time in the history of Black people. Lyndon Baines Johnson was the President of the United States - Kennedy had been assassinated in November 1963 - Sixty Years ago. Johnson had just passed the Voting Rights Act the Civil Rights Act, the Pell Grants, and a whole host of things to try to establishe the Great Society. The Vietnam "war" was raging - primarily because the newly formed rabid repuglycon party was trying to find a way to stop Johnson from giving any more programs that would benefit Black people. He had alread started Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start and a host of other things - so they were trying to tie the economy up in an undeclared war - while at the same time sending Black college students - male - to fight in a war that was started by the French oppressors in VietNam - which used to be known as French Indo China.
It was just prior to Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) declaring BLACK POWER and BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL, in an effort to help Black people start loving themselves and each other for our natural beauty. We were loving our liberation - So we listened to EVERYTHING: Soul Music, Jazz, Caribbean, African, and even had our own homegrown Caribbean Steel Drum Band - the Artists who performed live on our campus ranged from Jazz Musicians to R&B to Blues and Soul.
The Artists we followed for the most part included - in no particular order of preference - Sam Cooke, James Brown, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone, Mavin Gaye, Martha & The Vandellas, Jackie Wilson, Four Tops, Temptations, Drifters, Ruby & The Romantics, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Otis Redding, Ike & Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, Impressions, Smokie Robinson & The Miracles, The Supremes, The Marvelettes, Gene Chandler, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, The Contours, The Platters! We were most definitely into Jazz and knew most of the Jazz Artists, Sarah Vaughn, Nat King Cole, Sonny Rollins, Ben E. King, MFSB, Harry Belafonte. Additionally we listened and danced to music of contemporary African and Caribbean artists - Lord Kichener, Manu Dibango, performing African High Life Music! Even though there were only 16 co-eds on campus, the guys would import their own date - however, those of us who were new had no problem getting dance partners. No doubt many of my contemporaries would have different artists they listened to during that time - which attests to our diversity as well as our cultural awareness and our love of Black music from all across the spectrum.
1l Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
2. Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler
3. Our Day Will Come - Ruby & the Romantics
4. My Girl - The Temptations
SUPREMES
5. Come See About Me -
6. Where did our love go? "
7. Baby Love
8. Stop in the name of love
9. Can't Hurry Love
10. Set Me Free Why Don't You babe
11. Love Child
12. Some Day We'll be together
13. Ain't no mountain high enough
14. Reach out and touch -
15. When a Man Loves A Woman
16. Sugar Pie Honey Bunch
17. Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
ARETHA FRANKLIN
18. RESPECT
19. Dr. Feel Good
20. Miss Otis Regrets
21. Chain of Fools, Ain't No Way, I Say a Little prayer, SkyLark, Do Right Woman/Do Right Man, Natural Woman
MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS
22. Dancing In The Street
23. Please Mr. Postman
24. I Second That Emotion
25. Baby I need your loving
26, Change's gonna come
27. To Be Loved - Jackie Wilson
28. It Takes Two Baby
29. My Guy
30. Can't Help Myself
31. Track of My Tears
32. Get Ready Here I Come
33. Papa Was a Rolling Stone
34. What two can easily do
35. Rockin' Robin
36, Heat Wave
JAMES BROWN
37. I Break Out in a Cold Sweat - James Brown
38. I Feel Good
39. It's a Man's World
40. Please! Please! Please! Please!
41. Try Me
42. St. James Infirmary
43. Prisoner of Love
44. Think About the Good Things
45. Give it up - turn it loose
46. I got the feeling
47. Get on the Good Foot
48. Ain't it Funky Now
49. Out of Sight
50. Night Train
51. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
52. I Can't Stand Myself
53. Bewildered
54. Popcorn
NINA SIMONE:
55. Young, Gifted & Black
56, I Put a Spell On You
57. Ain't Got NO
58. I Loves You Porgy
59. Feeling God
60. Mississippi Goddam
61. 4 Women
62. He's Not the Man For Me
63. See Line Woman
JAZZ ARTISTS:
LEE MORGAN
64. The Sidewinder
MILES DAVIS
65 Bitches Brew
other Jazz Artists we listened to and loved:
John Coltrane
Art Blakely
Sonny Rollins
Pharoah Sanders
Sarah Vaughn
Lena Horne
Pearl Bailey
Cannonball Adderley
Ramsey Lewis
DIONNE WARWICK
66. Don't Make Me Over
67. Do You Know the Way to San Jose
68. Anyone Who Had A Heart
69. I Say A Little Prayer For You
70. I'll Never Fall In Love Again
71. Walk On By
NANCY WILSON
72. Guess Who I saw Today
73. How Glad I am
74. Save Your Love For Me
75. Ten Good Years
76. I Wish You Love
77. You Can Have Him (He's not the man for me)
78. You'd Better Go Now
79. Greatest Performance of my Life
LOU RAWLS
80. Tobacco Road
81. Lady Love
82. Love's a Hurting Thing
83. Dead End Street
FOUR TOPS
84. Same Old Song
85. Sugar Pie Honey Bunch (Can't help myself) -
86. Baby I Need Your Loving
87. Bernadette
88. Standing in The Shadow of Love
89. Walk Away Renee'
90. Wake Me, Shake Me
STEVIE WONDER:
91. Nothing's too good for my Baby
92. Up Tight - Everything's All Right
93. For Once in my life
94. Made To Love Her
95. I Just Called to Say I Love You
96. Signed, Sealed, Delivered - I'm Yours
97. My Cherie Amour
98. Finger Tips
99. Superstition
SAM COOKE
100. Changes Gonna Come
101. Bring It On Home To Me
102. You Send Me
103. Twistin The Night Away
IMPRESSIONS
104. Amen
105. Keep On Pushing
106. Gypsy Woman
107. I'm So Proud
108. We're A Winner
109. Talking About My Baby
110. People Get Ready
111. It's All Right
112. For Your Precious Love
113. You Must Believe Me
114. Fool For You
GLADYS KNIGHT
115. Heard it Through The Grapevine
116. Midnight Train to Georgia
117. I've Got to Use My Imagination
118. Real Nitty Gritty
119. The End of Our Road
120. Letter Full of Tears
121. Giving Up
IKE AND TINA TURNER
122. You're Just a Fool
123. Proud Mary
124. It's Gonna Work Out Fine
125. Rivers Deep, Mountains High
126. Ooh Poo Pa Doo
127. Do Ya Love Me
128. Nutbush City Limits
SMOKIE ROBINSON AND THE MIRACLES
129. You Really Got A Hold On Me
130. Tears of a Clown
131. Tracks of My Tears
132. Mickey's Monkey
133. Being With You
135. You'd Better Shop Around
136. Love Machine
JACKIE WILSON
137. Night
138. To Be Loved
139. A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
140. Lonely Teardrops
141. Doggin' Me Around
142. Baby Workout!
143. Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher
TEMPTATIONS:
144. Just My Imagination
145. I Wish It Would Rain
146. Ain't to proud to beg
147. I Can't Get Next To You
148. Get Ready
149. Beauty's Only Skin Deep
150. Since I Lost My Baby
151. You're My Everything
152. I'm Losing You
153. My Girl
154. The Way You Do The Things You Do
155. Don't Look Back
156. Papa Was A Rolling Stone
FOUR TOPS
157. Baby I Need Your Loving
158. Reach Out
159. It's The Same Old Song
160. Can't Help Myself
161. Wake Me, Shake Me When It's Over
162. Standing In The Shadow Of Love
163. Bernadette
164. Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got
I used to tease our African Classmates about their contribution to our culture was the intrinsic rhythm that we all have - we partied on campus, off campus, in Philadelphia and areas nearby. Music was a solidifier - a way through which we re-forged our ancestry and contemporary heritages.
PS: There were more than 250 songs that we listened to on a regular basis - between the Grill, our Dorm Rooms and the lounge area. Thought I'd let you find the remainer on your own.
So Stay Blessed
&
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
STAY BLESSED
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| Gloria DULAN-Wilson |
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