Music As It Was Meant to Be, Before the Major Players Disappeared
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Soul Deep BBC2, 9.00pm (Saturday) Destination Scotland BBC2, 9.00pm HISTORY will tell you that if you put Otis Redding, Booker T & the MGs and the Memphis Horns in a recording studio, your chances of going wrong are so statistically insignificant they beat the odds on pigs taking wing. No-one knew this in 1962. History also mentions Otis had come and gone within just five years. No-one guessed that in 1962, either.
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Music As It Was Meant to Be, Before the Major Players Disappeared
Given that it contains quite a bit of music, the programme involves a simple test: are those pieces of Spam on the sides of your head, or can you hear?
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