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I should have my own publishing companies.

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I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.

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I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

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The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

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We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.

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If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.

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But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.

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I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

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My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

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Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 21st, 1940

Died: October 10th, 2010

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