James took the microphone and said ‘There’s 12 of you and 3,000 of us – what’s it gonna be?’ Well, the police left the stage, the house lights were dimmed and James finished his show.
At one point, the house lights went on and a dozen police came on the stage and said that the show had to stop. He was famous for putting on very long shows. When I was a little older, they took me along to see James Brown at Place Des Arts. They went to see Chuck Berry on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, and as a two-year old, I got up and duck-walked across the stage with Chuck Berry. They just took me along and I sat on one of their laps. “Like other young people, my young parents liked to go to live shows. I like all music, but I admit that I have a preference for artists who are socially conscious and make a commentary with their material artists like Chuck D, Bob Dylan and Prince.” However, I’ve been so busy with my broadcasting career that I’ve not played much lately. I’m self-taught on piano, bass guitar and a couple of other instruments like mandolin. “We have accomplished musicians in our family in Canada and the U.S. I was only two and couldn’t even read the labels – but I could remember what label colours and letters went with the songs on the records.” They’d have house parties, and my ‘job’ was to play the records.
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“My mom brought home a new 45 record every week, and I learned how to work the record player. Being music fans, they named me after Duke Ellington.” They were young when they married my mom wasn’t yet twenty. My Dad was a regular, checking out the records. My mother was managing a record store in the East End on Ontario St. In fact, it was music that brought them together. “I have an Afro-Canadian father and a Native-Canadian Mother, and both are big music fans.
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Today Duke Eatmon is full time with the CBC, taking on additional hosting duties when needed. Duke’s popularity grew, his on-air contributions multiplied and expanded to include television appearances. Listeners and staffers alike were impressed by his encyclopedic knowledge of such a wide variety of musical genres, from rockers AC/DC to jazz singer Dalla Reese. Duke Eatmon won the inaugural Montreal Dynastie Award in 2017 for Best Anglophone Radio Personality of the Yearĭuke Eatmon started with CBC by doing weekly on air vignettes about musical performers with a wide range of styles Pop, Hip Hip, Jazz, Rhythm ‘n’ Blues and all forms of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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