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=== My Source Damon Shuman My Brother who is 31 year of age loves the song Lean on me. He Said " I Love this song because i been through so much as a child and when i hit my teen years, i knew this song was talking about me and what I needed. Dad was in my life and my mom was in my life but they weren't together. We were never in the same house hold, but luckily I had both of them. When The Phrase "Lean On Me, when your not strong" made me think, I always had my parents to lean on, even though they weren't together and a black kid in the ghetto usually don't have two parents. So this song made me think how grateful I was. Now I have kids and me and my wife are together and they have us to lean on together " he said as he chuckled"." I thanked my brother for the interview and i can tell he really spoke from the heart. ===

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I interviewed my mom and she really can't remember artist and name of many songs. But this song was the song, she was 1 years old and the Jackson 5 was it. She danced around loving the song, and it was always on the radio. Her mom played it and she still remember the song. I want you back is still popular today she said, and she love always and forever, and basically my mother only heard African American music and grew up around.



**Link-** http://www.elvisconcerts.com/newspapers/press39b.htm

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**Audio:** I Got You ( I Feel Good)
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I interviewed my dad and I Feel Good was a hit in his child hood. He had the fresh James brown dance him, his brother and friends on the block was doing. He was the baby James Brown, and he had soul and he felt good. James brown was a hit wonder, and my dad said back in his time that the white people stole black people music and made it to there own so they get money and credit off of it. He gave me this idea to base my page on this question why not give African Americans Credit, My dad will always have soul.

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 * Summary: ** This article is about how in the middle 20th century music was changing, and they was give credit to the wrong people. How different music categorized black from whites. R & B was extremely popular for the blacks but the white didn't see it appropriate for them to listen to such music. Most R & B songs were perform by white people instead of the true artist so it can sell to the white people, so this is about money and credit. Soon after a while R & B became rock and mixture of black spirit, the articles gave names like Little Richie. R & B was strange then and white people tried to get the black people to change that as best way they could. I chose this articles because it answered questions, my dad was right. =====

** Questions: **
Why try to change the effect that was already happening on the American music cultural?