Aretha Franklin Promotional Billboard, 1960s Miami

Aretha Franklin Promotional Billboard, 1960s Miami

Franklin, Aretha

Though much of the Circuit remained “underground” throughout the 1960s and 1970s, national and international artists often toured the larger stops in Florida. This promotional billboard advertised an Aretha Franklin performance in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood in the early 1960s. Miami promoter Clyde Killens produced a number of similar promotional billboards between 1940 and 1960 for a stellar cast of touring artists including Count Basie, B.B. King, Redd Foxx, and Bo Diddley. National recording artists often deviated from their “pop” image on the Circuit, however. Sam Cooke recorded a raucous live album before a rowdy Overtown audience at the Harlem Square Club in 1963. RCA Records chose to archive the raw recording instead of releasing it out of fear that it would damage Cooke’s career. Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Sqaure Club, 1963 was not released until 1985.

Killens, Clyde

Rabin, Sammie

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