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Tomorrow Night -[51]
One of King's artist was Wynonie Harris, a Nebraskan signed
in 1947. The musicians' strike was scheduled to begin on January
1, 1948; to build a back-log, in December, 1947 Harris recorded
twenty songs, including a cover version of a song written and
first recorded by Roy Brown in New Orleans.

New Orlean had a popular disc jockey, Poppa Stoppa, a white
man, who was fed black slang by Dillard University professor
Vernon Winslow, hired by the station.²⁰ Poppa Stoppa made Brown's
version a local hit - a natural vehicle for Harris who was called
"Mr. Blues." Harris' version became a # 1 R&B hit, and spawned a
series of "rocking" records. Here is:

Good Rockin' Tonight [.51]
Not every white disk jockey needed to fed hep-talk by a
black college professor, and not all had an easy time playing
black music on white-owned radio stations. Zenas Sears, who had
learned about black rhythm 'n' blues as an Army disc jockey,
returned to his Atlanta station after the War.

"There were four stations and not one record with a black
artist on any. Not even a Duke Ellington or Mills Brothers. And
the station I came back to, where I had been before, was number
four in popularity, and it would have been number eight if there
were eight stations. So I started a program and played some
black music at six o'clock in the morning to seven. The manager
drank a good bit and never came to work before ten, with a
serious hangover. He didn't know what was going on. We got a lot