"People Get Ready" was not by the Chambers Brothers but the Impressions, featuring the great Curtis Mayfield. The song is more about waiting for Jesus to come again for his people than social change, though. The Chambers Brothers -- an integrated group, by the way -- were best known for an equally powerful song with a different message, "Time Has Come Today."
Well, it is "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," so someone from Antrim or Armagh has legitimate reason to protest being called British. England, Scotland and Wales are Great Britain; Northern Ireland is not.
I'll try to do the same break for a few other market, then, if you and others find it interesting. We have 64 responses and nearly 1,000 views for the original post, so that seems to indicate that it's something worth talking about.
That still confuses me, and I work very closely with the UK / Great Britain / England with the large section of my publication site that covers that part of the world. And then we have to worry who is a Commonwealth Nation, too. Heck, I still call Burkina Faso "Upper Volta"... and don't even start on the Malvinas vs. the Falklands.
One must remember that Berry Gordy's goal was not to make "black music" but "music performed by black artists". He was always going for the general market. Thanks to that big signal from The Big 8, CKLW, which dumped a lot of their 50,000 watts on Ohio farmland, I grew up on it. (Memphis was more "raw" in the soul department).
Just to clarify: Was "Midnight Plane to Houston" another Weatherly composition written as a follow-up to "Midnight Train to Georgia"? Or was it the original title of the song that would become "Midnight Train to Georgia," with the title and lyrics modified during the time it was making its way to Knight?
Yes, it's the same song.
Only "technically"...before the Republic of Ireland was born most atlases labeled the entire area "the British Isles".
Indeed, the US Govt even calls a White person with a "Jewish name" born in Argentina or Chile "Hispanic" even though many of those folks would identify only as Argentinian, Chilean, or simply just Jewish.
I realize that Norfolk, VA isn't a major market, but I do feel it has some unique features, like the huge military and military retiree population, that might make for an interesting breakdown. I'd like to put in a request for that, sir.
I've never known an Englishman to bristle at being called English. It's the Scots and the Welsh who (quite rightly) take pride in their own national identity, preferring it to being called "English" (which they aren't at all) or "British" (which is correct but not specific).
Please, being lectured by the woke crowd with so little understanding of the world is the joke that never gets burnt, and my favorite #1 hit is being called a racist when I'm laughing at the Hispanic is a race thing where I politely attempt to educate.
Jewish isn't a nationality. I doubt any of them would give that answer to a question about their citizenship. Diego Schwartzman, the tennis player with a "Jewish name," is Argentinian by birth. He played for Argentina in the most recent Olympic games. There's no reason for he, his government or the American government to use his religion as his nationality.
I never said "Jewish" was a nationality...nor did I say the U.S. Govt says its a nationality, nor did I say that anyone when asked what their "nationality" is they would give the answer "Jewish". Yes, it's a partly a religion, partly an ethnicity, partly a culture and much more. This really is not the thread for this topic, so let's just leave it with Mordecai Kaplan's concept of a "Jewish Civilization"...