{"id":83462,"date":"2021-02-10T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=83462"},"modified":"2021-02-03T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T11:25:00","slug":"27-00-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=83462","title":{"rendered":"KISS Frontman Gene Simmons: Jews \u2018Opened the Doors to Black Music\u2019 in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>KISS Frontman Gene Simmons: Jews \u2018Opened the Doors to Black Music\u2019 in the US<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Gene Simmons. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

KISS frontman Gene<\/span> Simmons<\/span> said in an interview published on Monday that \u201cthe real secret that\u2019s not widely talked about\u201d is the contribution of Jews to the success of \u201cBlack music\u201d in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jewish rock \u2018n\u2019 roll legend, who was born Chaim Witz, made the remarks while talking to the bimonthly magazine American Songwriter<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>When asked about \u201cthe long history in America\u201d of Black Americans and Jewish Americans working closely together, the 71-year-old, whose mother was a Holocaust survivor, recalled the time when \u201cBlack music was not allowed to be heard on white radio\u201d and said \u201cit was really the Jews \u2014 [Jerry] Leiber and [Mike] Stoller, who wrote, \u2018You ain\u2019t nothin\u2019 but a hound dog\u2019 and \u2018Give me fever in the morning,\u2019 all that Black music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The two songs referenced by Simmons, \u201cHound Dog\u201d and \u201cFever,\u201d were originally recorded by the Black artists Big Mama Thornton and Little Willie John, before being popularized by white singers, Elvis Presley and Peggy Lee.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Coasters and Ben E. King and all that, written by two Jews,\u201d he continued. \u201cTwo Jews who couldn\u2019t stand Broadway and that kind of schmaltzy music that the other Jews were doing. They loved Black music and they were responsible for a lot of the Black music that came out there. Elvis, Big Momma Thornton and all that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is that if it wasn\u2019t for [Jewish American record producer] Sam Phillips and a lot of the other guys, early rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, including Elvis, would have never happened. It was these Jews who owned the record companies that opened the doors to Black music. Sam Phillips recorded Bo Diddley and lots of other stuff while the rest of the record companies would never touch them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Simmons was born in Israel and immigrated to the United States at around the age of 9, not being able to speak any English. His first exposure to music was the African American singer and guitarist Chuck Berry; when Berry died in 2017, Simmons himself gave a eulogy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe original guys I heard that impacted my life basically was Black music,\u201d he said, in the Monday interview. \u201cAnd then after that, Jackie Wilson and, you know, all those guys. The white guys were okay and they appealed to the chicks and everything. But the real stuff was Black music. That made your bottom, your groin shake and move in ways that white music didn\u2019t. Even [\u2018Let\u2019s Twist Again\u2019 singer] Chubby Checker.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Simmons was the \u201cTwist\u201d champion at his school when he was younger, he told American Songwriter<\/em>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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KISS Frontman Gene Simmons: Jews \u2018Opened the Doors to Black Music\u2019 in the US Shiryn Ghermezian Gene Simmons. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. KISS frontman Gene Simmons said in an interview published on Monday that \u201cthe real secret that\u2019s not widely talked about\u201d is the contribution of Jews to the success of \u201cBlack music\u201d in the United States. The Jewish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83621,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83462\/revisions\/83621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}