April 5, 2025 • 46 mins
WDIA's Morning Man, Stan Bell speaks with Director of Bands from LeMoyne-Owen College, Mr. Derrick (Blu Chaos) Lewis.
He is also joined by Dean of Enrollment, Ms. Kim Thunderbird and a few student musicians from the "Majestic Sounds of the South". The Marching Band is back at 807 Walker Avenue!!!
He is also joined by Dean of Enrollment, Ms. Kim Thunderbird and a few student musicians from the "Majestic Sounds of the South". The Marching Band is back at 807 Walker Avenue!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Memphis, florn and bred, walking the walk and talking and talk.
It's the Stan Belle Morning Show, weekday mornings from sixty
ten am on the Heart and Soul of Memphis. Ten
seventy wd ia.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right, joll, everybody, we were back in the saddle again.
Had hard time getting the magicians out of the green room.
Nigga all them berries and we had fruit laid out
for him. We had mimosa. They were just enjoying it.
I told the student, now, y'all can't have that of that. Now, well,
we got them out of there, and ladies and gentlemen,
I'm pleased to have in the studio with me a
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part of eight o seven Walker Avenue Talks. Then got
a part of Ato Sevin Walker Avenue. Ladies and gentlemen,
after a long awaited return, rising from the silence and
ready to reclaim that throw from the heart of Memphis, Tennessee,
I got the lemarn On College and the band director
maestra as I call them, mister, put some respect on that.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Mister Derrick Lewis, you put a Michael You coming up
to that mic man? What come to w I a baby,
and sir, we appreciate you for having us man.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I know I get informal sometimes and because I get excited,
man when I see good people in here. And uh, man,
Derek may thank you man for coming out some time.
You didn't have to do it, but you did, but
we did.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's nice. It's nice to be important, but it's more
important to be nice. That's right, Yes you did, sir. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Uh, this is what I want to say. First of all,
of course, thank you for being here, and not only that,
and thank you for what you do for young folks.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You are maestro, your your genius. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't say it lightly. Man, I've watched you work
with young people throughout shoot.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
How long you been doing this decade of song?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Man, August tenth, twenty years? Oh yes, sir, August tenth,
and this year be twenty years.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Wow. We're gonna, we're gonna we're gonna chronicle this thing
in a minute, where you started in the humble beginnings
and how you matriculated, if you will, all the way
up to eight o seven walk Abbs. We're gonna talk
about that journey. Manute, tell me who you got here,
uh in the studio with you.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Well.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
First, we sent greetings from President doctor christ for David
in the studio, we have our dean of enrollment, Miss Thunderbird.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
We have our band president, Miss Ronie. In the house.
We got our drum major.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
One of our drum major, mister Kevin Bland, and of
course our captain for the enchanting Dolls, Miss Madison Madison.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It is a good group right here in the regular
You got a good group. Did they bring in the
instruments with?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Have madneybody? You ain't punishing this morning? I know it's early.
So who are the musician?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Madison?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You play?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You're what?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You're the dancer? Hold on, come up your mic for
me to bring Madson over here. Look a real cute theyday.
Come on, girl, what you do?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
I dance?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I just became captain of the dance team. Okay, what's
your classification? I'm a sophomore. I'll be a junior in
a fall.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You'll be junior there. Come on, So what do they
call the dancer? Y'all got a special name, right.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Enchanting dolls.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Enchanting dolls any more, only that of the majesty side
of y'all. You're the in channing dolls. So will you
see you all? What y'all in front of the band
dancing doing y'all thing looking so professional and flexible, and
y'all be moving and grooving. How many members?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And then the channing doll about currently we have seven?
Seven right now?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You're still recruiting and stuff like that. Yes, you're gonna
throw the commercial out there right quickly. Any young ladies
between the ages of so and so, you gotta be
a student on camp.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
If you're a senior in high school and you're ready
to try out for the college dance team.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
We're having try outs sometime during the summer before band
camp and then again.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
In the fall.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You're right there, it is, and you're the captain, yes, sir,
all right, continue on, sister, keep making the magic happen.
I think after that announcement you just made, you're gonna
have fourteen.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You're gonna double it. Come on, can we claim that
thing directory?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Sir?
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, in the name of the well who else you
got it?
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Here?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
You says, I have some thunderbird? Come on, come on,
come on up to the microphone.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's thunderbird. How you doing right now? Is a doctor?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Just wanna make sure it's Kimberly thundery?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah? What is your role in seven Walk Avenue.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
To I am the Dean of Enrollment at the lamorna
On College and a proud graduate of lamorna In College.
And you know, lamorna In College is the fifth oldest
HBCU in the country, and we are the only HBCU
in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And we bring the magic, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Swing that microphone or who he got over there next
to you on your left there we got Ronie Sha
Hayes in the bill role.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
So I'm the band president of the Mighty Sounds of
the South lamar On College Band and I'm a senior
at lamar On. You know, I've been holding it down.
I think I'm the only music major graduating this semester.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I'm not sure or not.
Speaker 9 (04:52):
I also just want to say congratulations to the band
for making up huge comeback on you know, just taking
over mifis again because we like, like the Dean Thunderbird said,
we are the only HBCU in the city of Myphis.
And uh and tonight, if you're not doing anything, I'm
having my senior recital at six p m. You know
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at lamar On College, the Little Theater.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
A little theaters. What you're gonna be. So what's your instrument?
I play drum see percussionists? Can you play trap? Trap?
Speaker 10 (05:27):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I mean you could put it.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
You could put the drums out there and on the highway.
I play for you for a minute where you want to?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I play percussionist, simple ministry, open and close, seven stroke roles, paradiddle,
flamm of diddle, rip shot.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yes, sir? What can we come to see you again? Now?
Speaker 9 (05:49):
You come see me tonight tonight and lamar on College
six pm.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
What I got to do this because I love the sound. Yeah,
I love to see you in the bill on six thirty. Okay,
l O c es what hall was that little theater?
Little theater? It's in the student center, in the student center.
This your finally go around with my final. Do you
get a grade? Onder your performance? How this works?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
It's part of your I written maker. It's nothing, it's nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You know, you got it. I got these.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What I'm doing tonight a little moving on?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yes, sir? All alright? It right?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
So will you be able to play with the majestic sounds?
I mean before you graduate? You, I mean, because now
you you're made to come back.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Yeah, I'm playing on it I'm playing.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
On it, okay, before you get out of there, Yes, sir,
uh were I listened before I got them out of
the green room at the head, you said, Radisha Rashida Rahnich,
She told me something interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
What you tell me when you do.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Two thousand in Curby High School?
Speaker 9 (06:54):
You you DJ my proma you dj my prom Curbing
High School from in two thousand eleve.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Let me know now, I'm gonna tell you where I
think we were at for the prom. Hold on, don't
tell me were we're downtown with the column thing.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
We was at the April House.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I think I want to say, I remember the April
House back then. I don't know doctor Reggie Reggie Williams principal.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yes he was Reggie. Yeah, I know you could call.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Doctor reginal william That's some memories right there.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Who is that swing that might go? All right? I appreciate,
Madam President swing that Mike, who is every god crazy
about it? Dress into the Mike? Kevin?
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Yes, sir uh, Well, good morning. First of all, my
name is Kevin Bland. I am a junior at La
Moreno in College majoring in political science pre law. I
am not only one of the drum majors. But I
am a candidate for mister Lamorna in college. I'm the
president of the collegiate one hundred. When I could keep
on going down the line, know whatever it is, Lamarn
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need me to be for everybody at every time.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
May you run from mister lamon On College?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yes, sir, what's just one hundred?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Collegia one hundred? Is that of a hundred black men?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It is some degree. Oh man, what else you say
you do? You're the drum major.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I'm the drum major. I am a percussionist.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Actually I ended up this ended up coming about because
one of my old U band directors was walking with
Director Lewis, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Man, I know, is it that Dr wats Man? I
gotta I had to stop him.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
And when I talked to him, you know, the conversation
it was so nostalgic and it brought it kind of
it really humbled me and brought me to a place
of understanding that I can do whatever I put my
mind to as long as I'm willing to, you know,
stay on their track. And doctor Lewis was like me,
Professor Lewis, Mister Lewis, y'all call him Blue Chaos, right,
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he wasn't signals and what they call love, but.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You know, he pulled me to the side.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
I had a conversation with my old band directly, was like,
you know something, he'd be a great fit for drum major.
He is a leader, uh, through and through and you know,
I like the way he carry yourself on, how he speaks,
and from there the you know, the rest is history.
So now I'm looking forward to making this move fun
fact that was a part of the band the year
before when it was just like five of us. So
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to see this now from what happened last year is monumental.
And I'm happy that the sound of an HBCU in
this city, the only HBCU in the city, is finally
back and we're not going nowhere.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Triumphant come back of the one and only majestic Sounds
of the South. I w I listeners, we're talking uh
to some band members. We're talking to kind of dean
in the building, and of course the director of bands
missed Derek, Blue Chaos Lewis be right back all right,
thank you for coming back and staying with us this morning.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
It's a beautiful Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm looking out the window to make sure, oh a
little bit of sunshine sticking.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Through the people through the clouds.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Other than that, we're looking pretty good on this uh
four or four days. The people in Atlanta are excited
over the over the moon because it's like almost unofficial
holiday for our folks in the atl They call it
fall four day Madison, you get it, the area code
four four. So it's a big deal. Folks are even
(10:32):
converging on Atlanta as we speak. They may trying to
get there for the weekend. So big shots of those
who are listening on the new and improved iHeart Radio app.
Are those do you say, the Lantins Atlantians at Aliens?
You said, Kevin at Aliens out cast, Baby, Yeah, and
I know there's gonna be some big turning up if
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you will in Atlanta. So happy for four day to
those who are listening on the iHeart Radio app. All right,
so this morning as a part of standing special people
spotlight my guests this morning ot the magicians, uh the
born on in college where the magic happens, as they say, leadership, opportunity.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
What's to see change?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Change?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, we got the majestic sounds of the South. Uh,
band director Derek Lewis is in the building. Kevin is
in the building. Kevin Banks is in the building. Pretty
boy Madison is in the building. Enchanting doll, Doctor thunder Bird,
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you heard Dean of enrollment and my girl Rundi sha
DJ up from twenty eleven Curby High School Home the
Cougars was it turned to him standing up on the
tables jamming, tore the April house up. They send me
the invoy because y'all tore it up. DJ, You responsible
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for all that? Trigger man? Yeah, I want to talk now.
How do you get Let's go do first things first, doctor,
I mean Dean, Dean Thunderberg, how do you get into
enrolled in Lamona On College.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Talk to us about the requirements. How you start?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You got some folks listening right now, got some grandparents,
y'all need to go to the morning.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Y'all need you something. Talk to us about that.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
So the first we are enrolling for the fall semester.
It starts August eleventh. Just log onto the website www
dot LC dot edu. Go to the admissions tab. Apply here.
You just need to have your official transcripts. If you
are income and freshman student, you need to have at
least a minimum of a two point oh GPA, and
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we need your musation records vericella and MMR one and two.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
And that's pretty much it.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
We just and if you are a transfer student, we
need all your official college transcripts. If you have less
than thirty credit hours, you also need your official high
school transcript And then I will say we are offering scholarships.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
That's for dean's level scholarship.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
If you have at least a three point oh we
can offer you a three thousand dollars scholarship. But it's
first come, first serve, So if you get all your
documents completed and get fully enrolled, we can offer you
a scholarship as long as you have that three point oh.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Wow. That's pretty good. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, and you know Dean of Enrollment Kimberly Thunderbirds, that right,
that's correct.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Roman.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So yeah, that's interesting to know because you know, you
can never recruit too much, you never put it out
there too much. And we want to get what is
the current enrollment now, do you know of Lamar.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
We have about five hundred and sixty students currently enrolled,
and we do have a large we are expecting a
large income of freshman students in the fall. So hey,
if you want to get in now, like I said,
go on to that website and apply.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
So what is the ideal number for enrollment? I mean
that you guys are projecting. Would you want eight hundred?
Is that too many? I mean, I don't know if
it's never never too many and never too much?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
But what is the idea what you're looking for? What's
that was the ideal for the fall?
Speaker 7 (14:01):
That would be ideal between seven fifty and eight hundred students.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Okay, that sounds like my credit score. Okay, that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, Because I've had doctor Davison before and of course
he you know, he works the magic and I think
I heard him say that would be that's his targeted goal,
you know, to get at least eight hundred by.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
The fall somewhere.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And now talk to us about this middle I heard
him mention something about the middle the middle child, the
middle student, the middle not the one with all the
and not, you know, but that middle student who really
needs a little encouragement assistance.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You know, that's your targeting that particular. That's great. Talk
to us about that.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
So we are a family oriented environment, So we don't
look at our students are just a number.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
We welcome you.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
We are a family, so we are the source of
black excellence. So we want the students to come to
lamonn On College and feel welcome. We want to help
you matriculate and graduate in four years.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
And Doctor Davis is big on, you know, getting our
students to matriculate and graduate in four years.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
So I will say about the band real quick? Is
that okay?
Speaker 7 (15:06):
So we've been doing the President's Tour with Dr Davis.
His vision was to visit all the high schools in
Mephicson Shelby County. So we take the President's Tour on
the road. We go to Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. We
take the best of Lamon. Now in college, we take
the major Reds, the cheerleaders, we take the Vine nine
and do a Greek stroll off. We show them what
black excellence looks like. So now with the band, that's
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gonna take.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Us to the next level. You hear me, that's gonna
take us to the next level.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
And I say that because we normally take a DJ
with us, but now we can take the band and
have the band the major atts perform with the band.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I get it.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
That's gonna take doctor Davis to the next level. So
this was his vision and we are excited. Mister Lewis
came on board. He hit the ground running. We did
meet the band the other day. It was outstanding.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So we are excited. So that's a nice segue. So
thank you, Adan Lewis. Talk to us about your Jordan. Now,
I know I met you several years back, but when
did you start working with the young folks, you know
in the musicianship? Was it elementary where you're in junior
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I high?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I mean where you where did you start teaching?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
In other words? Actually, for me, it was right after
I graduated. I'm a graduate of Lane College, so as
soon as I graduated, I actually went my first school
I taught. It was the school that I went to,
which was Role. I went to middle school and high
school there. So I was the middle school band director
of my first year out.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
But after graduation, graduation, you didn't want.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
To stay in Jackson and do Jackson Central, Mary and
all those schools. Jack trying to give Madison Counts some
love right quickly? Now you called that, you know they
wanted to be a dragon for a little bit longer.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Uh, you said, no, I'm coming back to Memphis. Memphid
was calling you.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
So of course when I came back to Memphis, I
saw it role to middle school. I was there a
couple of years left, as I was pursuing my masters
in education and in music, I went. I went on
from there and started teaching at Mefilship Country Schools. I
started the planthor of high schools around and then I
got a chance to talk to my good friend doctor June,
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and she reached out to me and she said, we.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Need a band. She said, we need a band.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
She said, well, the only HBCU in Memphis, and we
deserve a band. So we started working on it. Of course,
as we were working on it, the pandemic ended up
happening and all of that good stuff. But then doctor
christmaher Davis came on board with Lamorna in college. I
came back and he said to me, I remember the interview.
He said, mister Lewis, he said, we can't get our
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black car taken. We got to have a band. And
I said, I think I can do that. And so,
of course that's what we are gearing up to.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Do now. We just had our meet the band April
the first. It was a big crowd. I want to say.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
We had almost two hundred and some people that came
out on the front lawne on our campus to meet
the band. We hit the major rents out there, the
flag girls, the horn players, and the drum line.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
We put all that.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Bruce Hall, yeah, Brownle Yes, Okay, Brownlee Okay, Oh that's
the big one. Okay, yeah, but what when camp right
in front on Yes, yes, it's outstanding man. And yeah
when you say doctor Jun, you mean doctor June put the.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
T in there.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Come on, care o Chicken to DJ, come on, you know,
we gotta say her name right.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
That was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I was standing for her to kind of mention that
to you and you came on in. I gotta take
another break.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Uh. Any members of the lamarn On College.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Or lamar on On alumni or just leamarn you can
feel free to call me if you want to, you know,
shout out you got a question, even if you got
a concern about maybe getting your your child, you know,
your student into this program at La morn On College
Day said for Walker Avenue, you can call nine one
five three five nine three four two or eight hundred
five zero three nine three four two or eight two
d Hey, babay.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Did I play? Did I play that? Problem? Hey?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
They bank?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Hey three two five three five nine three four two
heart told Memphis am ten seventy.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
W d I A all right? Got it going on?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
All right, So we're back now. We've got d La
Mono in college. We got the band in here, we
got the president, we got a dean in here. President
of bands. By the way, Aneesha Hayes is in the building.
Madison is in the building, one of the members of
the uh.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
What dolls is that you call him? Then? Chanting dolls?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
All right, I want to talk now about the calendar
of events. Let's talk about some things that LLC has
got going on, even the band and what can we
look forward to?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Go right here, missus Lewis.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Indeed, so April the twenty seventh, we're gonna have the
majestic Floord Show Battle of the Band. This is gonna
take a place in Bruce Johnson Hall. It's in our gymnasium.
Doors open at two o'clock. Teekets. Our advanced tickets are
fifteen dollars and it's twenty dollars at the door. We're
gonna have local bands from Memphis. We're also gonna have
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bands from Arkansas and Mississippi. So y'all come on in
with us as we rock the house and showcase these talent.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Wow, give us a date on that again, Director of Lewis,
April twenty seven, April two seven, that's gonna follow on
the water and on Sunday, Okay, sun after church?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
What time two o'clock? That's good. Yeah, that's a good time, sir.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Good family, got.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
To eat my chicken.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I got some good word. Come on over the LOCs.
Not like that man?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
All right? Dean Jean, Dean Thunderberry. What else we got
going on?
Speaker 7 (20:34):
So, doctor Christopher Davis is our fourteenth president of Lamor
nor In College. So it's the inauguration for him. And
on Friday, April the eighteenth, at seven pm will be
his gala at the Renaissance Center. So if you want
to purchase tickets, after seven is performing.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So after seven that's right night you every red? Yes
and yes, oh I could up.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
So we wanted to celebrate our president, So please go
online again www dot l O, C, dot E d
U and purchase those tickets.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I like that. What else is going on in the calendar?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
We got RhI recital right tonight?
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Tonight is the senior recital at April, I mean at
six o'clock pm tonight tonight. It's gonna be in the
little theater below the student Center.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Wow, how long you been playing drums? I've been playing drums?
I was two. It was the gift that God gave me.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Nobody had to teach me. It was, it was. It
was annoying to me.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Just as much as you.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
As soon as you started to walk and you got
on over to the trap set?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Did it about you? Did your mom? Dad? Somebody bout you?
Speaker 9 (21:49):
My daddy bought me a drum set every two years
because I used to turn.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You know what you're gonna be. I already know what
you're gonna do. You told so many trap says up.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
But that's wonderful. Yes. Oh and what kind of sticks
you use? You use? No? I use five as the
five as okay, So that's typical.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
That's kind of normal when you get your yeah, your
your rolls on and stuff you can yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Oh yes, And and I used Vic Firth or Vader.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, those Yeah, those that's bird. That's quality.
You probably use Juan symbols.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I love them, I do. I got the custom caves,
I got the coastom Ca.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, ministry, sir, shout out to your dad. Shout out toy.
What's hey, Roderick k Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Lightning Rod.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
He put it in it, you put it in. He
proud of I know, he proud of you. He's gonna
be that probably on the front seat. He probably front
row to be hollerand I know the feeling be proud
of your kids. That's what I'm talking about. Uh, that's outstanding.
When can we see the enchanting dolls? Let me get
Madison back up here? Madison? What's your last thing? By
the way, come on up to the.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Mic, ma'am, my last name is mal Macklin. Well see okay,
let me see it.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
May see all ion.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
L I n yes, sir, all right?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
So what's on jenda for the enchanning dollars or y'all
perform win you're gonna be I know y'all probably might
be in the audience with Raneesha later on this season.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
But when can we actually see.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Y'all perform and dance and step in march and get
in front of that band.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Have you got that on agenda yet, doctor Lewis, Oh.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Yes, they're definitely gonna be showcased and of the band
right betweenty seven.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
But they have a couple of more events they're gonna
be doing before.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yes, we have an event May third, fare.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Give me that day, Give me the day again at
Fairwell May three? Okay, okay, some fair counting, Okay, okay.
Where you're gonna be in the gym.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It's gonna be inside the gym. There're they're out of
the band. Fun fact. I used to teach them for
six years, so I'm returning there. You direct the cheers
invited me to come out and bring the band. So
we're gonna have the band. The major is the Flaggers.
We want to rock the house and feed county.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Oh year was that when you try to Farewell?
Speaker 5 (24:10):
That was two thousand maybe twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Was mister Miles Wilson principally there?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Or was it Sonny Hicks or who? I was trying
to think?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Who wasn't doctor Owens? Doctor Owen's okay, okay, I was
trying to go back a little bit. That's good, I
know you're in Farewell, that's great. And did you ever
did you teach or work at uh any charter schools
or prep school or anything like that?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Go ahead, I taught it Martin Luther King m LK
Prep and then from there I became the district Fine
Arts chair there for the district over the whole Fine
Arces department. So I taught there. It's Will So yeah,
Frazie Community School. Shout out to you guys as Will Man.
Twenty years of excellence. Man, you've been in the system
and it was the district and you moved around man,
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and everywhere you've gone. Man, it's just turned the gold.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Really you you already been making the magic habit from
whatever school and the students that you work with.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
How difficult, mister lewis is it to work with? Is
there any.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Difference between the elementary and the junior high like when
you're a rolly egypt and you you now you collegiate.
Talk to us about the difference or is it? How
do you all us? How do you pivot? How do
you adjust? How do you you know?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Well, actually it's easy for me because it's not just
a job. For me, is a calling, you know, music
saved my life, you know, and so all I want
to do is I told the loryder is I want
to give that back to our students and give them
what we said Lamar leadership, opportunity and change. And so,
you know, being able to turn around and give that
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back to our students is prices for me.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
You know.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
I tell my students when they become millionaires, all they
owe me is a five for five from winded It's
fresh nuggets, fresh fries, grape, hot sea.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Like I height ju, that's all they own.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Man, I guess they owe me, but I'm it's an
opportunity for me to not only build our students at
Lamorno and College down, but send some of those students
out to be directors and great citizens and you know,
productive citizens in menfields.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
You're passing the torture.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Literally, Yes, sir, how can this WI listener email and said,
how can.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I make a donation to the band?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Indeed, come on give me tell them Mike Odean, Yes,
swinging over that to you.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
That is actually something we wanted to talk about as well.
We want to offer these students scholarships ban and academic
scholarships from the admissions team. So if there's anyone out
there's a business, you know, organization Fortune five hundred. We
are accepting donations for scholarships for these students. We say
they are the source of black excellence, so let's get
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them on the right track and provide scholarships for them.
So please log onto our website or contact Ms Joyce McGee.
She is our CFO and she will let you know
as well as the website where you can donate so
we can have scholarships for these students.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
So Miss George McGee is the chief financial officer, correct
of lamrn On College. That's correct, Okay, So they could
either go up there possibly ask for her, or make
an apartment or whatever and just and make that happen
to call first or or I know you go to
the website, but you can maybe the.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Number two is nine zero one four three five one thousand.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Say that again, miss a Dean.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Nine zero one for three five one thousand, all right,
And then the address is eight oh seven Walker Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee,
three eight one two six.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Kevin Phipps for that inquirers that he wants to make
a donation to your standing. The majestic sounds of the sound.
Thank you, Dean Man, that's all that is outstanding.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
You got others who listening, no doubt, may want to
pour into the band in what you're doing, Director Lewis,
and Man, I think that's simply awesome.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
A lot of people believe in. So many people believe
in lead lamon On College, that's for sure. Now let
me get over to Kevin real quick. What's your classification
do you say senior?
Speaker 8 (28:04):
I'm a junior right now, so next semester I'll be
going into that semester as a senior.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Okay, So you've been in La morn On what all
the way from the beginning freshman of what talk to
us about that.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
So I'm actually glad you asked it.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
I am a recipient, recipient of leadership, opportunity and change.
I'm actually a transfer student from Southwest and fun fact,
I was not the best student there. My grades were
not the best. And when I made it to Lamon
and I found a sense of understanding about why I
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should take myself serious, how to actually take myself serious,
and then provide those twos to other students so they
can take themselves serious. So essentially, when I got there
I was able to start my own club, which is
Culture for Change. Through the years since I've been there,
it is now a nonprofit. And the thing that kind
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of shocked me the most is I made it there
literally spring of twenty twenty three and it's now spring
of twenty twenty five. And the growth and the amount
of time or that growth in that amount of time
is monumental.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Man, What else do you do at the lamornon On College?
What have you done?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
What activities or organizations you're part of, or what tell
us about what you've done since you've been there.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
Okay, so I'm one of the lead student ambassadors at
lamorn In College. That role was introduced to me by
DeMarcus Little. He saw a lot in me, he saw
that I had leadership capabilities, and from there I became
the student ambassador.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I'm outside of that.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
I've been the president of FCA, which is Fellowship with
Collegsian Athletes of Christian Athletes.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
I have been a part of of course, Collegiant one
hundred as a member and now as the president. I'm
a memory b the NAACP. I can when I said
I can go on and on, I can literally go
on and on. There isn't There isn't anything I have
not done or try to not just add to my resume,
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but really be a beacon of light with that particular organization.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Man, that's good.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
So you no doubt you are receiving the total collegiate experience.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Absolutely. Are you in a fraternity?
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
You know how to ask that question? Did go ahead?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Let us know?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I hope you say the right one.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
I am a brother of Kappa Alpha PSI Fraternity Incorporated
Spring twenty four initiar one of the best decisions of
my life. I've been able to meet a lot of
good people, and I've been able to actually broaden my
reach through that service, you know, just making sure that
I'm not just being but being serviceable to other people
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because essentially that's what leadership is, you know, being a
servant leader to those showing them how to actually lead,
so that way when they step up to the plate,
they can to lead and you know, add their own
flavor tube.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Man, that's what I like. So he Kevin Bland like
in the season Rice, Yeah, man, you got the total
collegiate experience. Keep on keep achieving. I would take a break.
We Okay, let me see where I am right now.
Let me make sure we okay, yeah, let me let
me click this out of the way. All right, So
here we are. Who just has been so enjoyable, you.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I'm just saying, we're back live. We're talking to some
magicians up in here. When you walk through the doors
and you walk, when you walked through it Browning Hall,
that's the main building, and you just you're a magician,
then you and then you go around the campus and
you walk.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I was just over we on WDI by the way,
I was just over there for a tour.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
I believe it was.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
We've got the Myron Lowry Communications broadcasts and something like that.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
It's awesome. I think it was in an Esco invited me.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, in a Esco who was a radio colleague and
all of that and just podcasting. She's serious about her
work and inviting me to come over and others in
the business to come to see that center. Man, the
students are working. They got everything. They got the equipment,
they sound good, they are articulate, they got good forces diction,
and they know how to work that equipment.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
And when I went over there, I went over there.
I said, man, I'm on on man, on the on
the move. Man. So when we get back to the band.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Director lewis any scholarships I heard Deans Thunderberg mentioned about
you know, the general scholarships and maybe to get the
President's scholar scholarship and you know three thousand for this,
that and the other.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
But what about the band directly?
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Yeah, yes, sir, we do offer band scholarships and if
students want an audition, they can send me your email
at band at LC dot ed you to request the audition.
We can either come to their school or they can
come on our campus. They can audition on the spots
and we do offer scholarships, so we will be issuing
some scholarships. That's why we need our supporters help to
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continue to sow into our band so that we can
get those students in. But yes, again, if you would
like to audia you play a horn, trump, and saxophone, trombone,
anything that you play in the marching band drawn defin
they can't forget.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Tom toms tom shooting.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Yes, sir, So again the email address is band b
A N D at l OC dot E d U
to request spot for audition and we'll take care of
you from there.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Let's take a phone call.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
If you don't mind, I'm going over with these phone lines.
I want to talk to oc this morning. Good morning
on the radio. Who goes there?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
You're on the radio live?
Speaker 4 (33:51):
How you doing there?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
From como? Sounds like one and all in there? Talk
to me? You got a guess in here?
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (33:59):
I just want say kudos and good morning to your guests.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (34:04):
I don't know if that's saying the band director, but
my son Chandler, he was armstrong. He was in the
band from the ninth started in nineteen twenty nineteen and
and when he was part of the one when they
canceled at COVID, they did way you know, the band
was kind of took a hiatus during the COVID, but
he continued. He graduated in twenty three and he was
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the symbol player there.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Director remembers yeah there, Yes, And one.
Speaker 10 (34:34):
Thing I can say about one of them I wanted
to see's still there, and that's our professor Dots and
the art teachers.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
He's still there, Dean.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Do you recognize that name? He is still in the
fact that what was he one of the deans of
the art the Art Department.
Speaker 10 (34:51):
Yes, sir, okay, well, I don't know. He might have retired,
but that's one name I heard those four.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Years, the Dots, Roderick Thompson now Roger Thompsons.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Okay, uh in the apartment. Yeah, you may have retired.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
You're right, yes, sir.
Speaker 10 (35:07):
Good luck to the band. I think Misron Caller he's aware,
and I think he's gonna be coming back and kind
of hanging around, uh with the band because he still
had a feel for it, you know. And I wish
you guys god speed and all of your future and
their bursts and seeks, love and prosperity to all.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Thank you, Thank you so much. Just get back to
another phone call.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
W I A.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Thanks for calling you on the radio.
Speaker 11 (35:32):
Go ahead, good morning everybody, all right, all right, all right,
wake up.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
I ain't had no collinge nothing yet.
Speaker 11 (35:39):
But anyway, I want to say another remembers to doctor
mar Luther King Jr. The right motail folks and all that.
But listen you all, I've always seen it. They'll ring
all attended. I don't never say that I went to it,
but I attended. The more I call it, the more
garden the more On College, and uh, it was only
two semesters and I went from there Shelter State, Memphis.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
State and all that. The thing is, I always claim
the HBCU.
Speaker 11 (36:05):
You guys are doing something that I came there in
the seventies and I kept saying.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Where's the band?
Speaker 11 (36:10):
Where is the radio station? These are two things. I
look at the college. I said, Gremlan got there, Chelnessee
State got there, all these other colleges, Jackson got there.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
We need a radio station.
Speaker 11 (36:21):
We need a band to march up and down Walker Avenue,
go through La Morning Garden, to go everywhere and get
this paid. People's stirred up over here in Memphis. We're
the only ones that's got this college. So you guys
woke me up this morning with something I said had
to be God given because you all are doing it again.
You got Stacks Academy in your backyard. You all got
students all around Memphis that are in other bands that
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leave Memphis going out of town to go to something
Lane College and go somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
And they shouldn't do that.
Speaker 11 (36:49):
I say, right here, you got it right here. Whereas
the educators is there? Man, whether he college I learned
so much, and I did play at Capital there. When
I was there, I think about all the things in
good times I had at Lamon.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
It's the place to go, place to be.
Speaker 11 (37:05):
I felt safe there walking around doing things. And today
I still say I support the magicians. I said when
I was there, I put.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
A tuxedo on a couple of times. My friends we walked.
Speaker 11 (37:16):
Around with top hats of sticking our hands tapping on
stuff like we were a magician for real. We started
doing that thing.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Back in the seventies.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
And I went on.
Speaker 11 (37:23):
Like I said, I had a little time at ut Martin,
had a great time, but nothing like a black college,
nothing like and you got it. I want to encourage
all the students, whether you're school whatever, turn your head
and look, you're right at home everything you need.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
But I want you.
Speaker 11 (37:38):
All guys to look at all the students in your
backyard there that's the academy and all around, because like
I said, I'm a musician.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Myself play a lot of instruments, and.
Speaker 11 (37:47):
All my family played, but they walked away the working warehouse.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Jobs and all that.
Speaker 11 (37:50):
And all of them are college educated in the music business,
but they don't do anything at church, and nothing I
play anywhere I go.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
I don't have to get paid anything.
Speaker 11 (37:58):
But I said, if I see a need, I pull
out my equipment because I got everything to play with.
But I said, they don't do it at church anywhere.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
They just look.
Speaker 11 (38:06):
And I say, that's not right. God gifted you. I
heard that man say he got the five A sticks.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
I got some right here in my hands.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
I keep my drum sticks where I go.
Speaker 11 (38:14):
I take my bum So you guys being curged, don't
stop doing what you're doing and open your mouth and
spread the word of God and that you're doing a
great job so still in the battlefield.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Thanks so much for it. I appreciate that man. That's
that's great, pag what a testimony.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
All right.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
When we come back, when we're gonna go our room,
we're gonna wrap things up what everybody's doing individually and
collectively and part of the college, and then we'll.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Wrap things up.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Plus I gotta know some of the songs Director Lewis
that you guys are gonna be playing. You know you
got you know, come on teaser to do something, because
I want to hear it what you're working on. I
know you got some rigorous practicing rehearsal's going on over there,
and we'll talk back, all right. WDI listeners in the
waiting moments in the stand Bille Morning Show. Our special
guest in the Spotlight d le Mono in College Home
of the Magicians.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
It's have a Walker Avenue.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Director Derek Blue Chaos Lewis, got Dean Kimp, thunder byrd On,
Madison Macklin, Kevin playing in the Great Rhanetia Hayes talk
stand be right back. Yeah, we're back, everybody. We got
a lot going on in the station. Uh, but we're
getting ready to wrap up our conversation with the magicians.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
It'll walking after the man. It's been great.
Speaker 8 (39:23):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Let me see, let me do something here on this computer,
and then.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
I want to, I guess, to kind of go around
the room and then to give us our final shoutouts.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
And all that good stuff like that. All right, that's cool.
I think I got it. I think I got it
in there.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Okay, all right, so doctor Derek, I said, gonna make
you a doctor already.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Director of Bands Dereck Lewis, thank you so much, uh
for you know, carvering out some time to be with us.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
You know you you've done a great job, and you're
doing a great job with the band.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Last thing, well not last thing, but what I guess
some of the things that that you want to talk
about before we.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Go, Well, real quick, I want to just talk about
I'm gonna give a special shout out real quick to
my fiance, doctor Renetta. We just celebrated our anniversary on
April first, and so I just want to give her
a shout out real.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Quick for you gonna make things official.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
We only trying to go for the beginning of the
year twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Get invitation, doctor.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Yeah, I'm gonna give you my card for you leave here,
so if you need a DJ baby, yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
And then I know you asked me about a couple
of those songs that we're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Ye, what what can we expect from the majestic Sounds
of the South.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Well, you definitely can't expect us to be playing Backstampers.
We're gonna be playing that. We're gonna do. Ain't no
stopping us now because definitely were on the move. We're
doing boots on the ground, y'all, get your fans, bring
the fans seven and then of course flicks. We're gonna
be playing Fleix, so.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
We gotta.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Keep it on.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yes, sir man coming from a band, I don't think
I never before.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
That's all right, you better come on twenty sevent then
we're gonna be rocking the house for sure.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Okay, okay, okay, that's good. All right, So Dean Dean
Kim the Thunderbird. Yes, what I got going on? The
last things that you want to shout out? I know
the investiture is the big deal. The inauguration of doctor
Christopher B. Davis fourteen president of La morno On College.
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I know that's the big deal. And that's happening when that.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Is August the.
Speaker 7 (41:30):
I gave you my proger August eighteenth at seven pm
at the Convention Center at the Renaissance Center.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
So you got a lot of things going on. I've
got it in my hand right now.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yah. So Thursday, what's happening is what the morning on
cors Little Theater. You're gonna have the simposium, right and
what is that when people come out and just ask
questions or you just got to go through, uh just
doctor meet and greet, so to speak of doctor David.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
So that's Thursday.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
The seventeenth, right, correct, okay, and then the next day
the investiture, right Friday at the Orpheum. Now what happens there,
but they actually, I guess they you probably had to
put his hand on the Bible and all that good
stuff like. But you know, and then you know and
actually officially you know, induct them or you know, inaugurate
them that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
So I guess that's probably what that is.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
It's kind of almost like we'll be in school back
in the day, they used to have vesper you know,
before graduation, so to speak. You know, you go to
the vesper, so it has a religious type of undertone there.
And then of course that's Friday, the Orphium at ted
Friday the eighteenth, and then Friday the eighteenth, that evening
is a celebration the game all right at the Renaissance,
(42:39):
as you mentioned, fantastic, it's gonna be big. And this
is music week, right, uh, Director Lewis, this is mean
for me, Okay, thank you?
Speaker 3 (42:46):
This music week.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
So you've been doing something all things musical all during
the week Monday all the way up to now and
then even on the weekend. Yes, sir, let me swing
the mic over too, well, and you give a home
mic shot. Yes, sir, hey, yes, sir in the building, Yes, sir,
Roger's daughter, Oh yes, Lord and Mama.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Proud to everybody, proud of you. Tonight sing recital. Talk
to us again about that.
Speaker 6 (43:09):
So my senior recital is tonight.
Speaker 9 (43:12):
It's in a little theater below the student Center at
lamar On College campus, Hanson Student Center. Right, Yes, yes,
it'll be at six pm. I'm looking forward to everybody
that's listening to come on now. It's free. You know,
everybody loves free. And I also just want to give
a shout out to myself because I have been a
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published author all the way through college. I wrote five
books while in college. Right, I got Mistreated Beloved. That's
another fiction about my life. And I have five children books.
I have Dream Big, Drum Bigger, The Fairy Crunk, Mother
of Magical Friendship That Lasts Forever. I got Lundy of
Done Black Haven's Battling Beast, and I got the Mystery
(43:55):
of Kim Militant. And I also have two coloring books
and you can get those and Emma's dot com, Barnes
Andopen dot com Booksimillion dot com, Walmart dot com, just
holler yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
Congratulations.
Speaker 9 (44:09):
Also, and also you can follow me on Instagram at
ms rock nine on one.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
So that's MS R A H nine O one. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Okay, all right, then you still got a prom picture.
We took it back in twenty leaves. I don't I
know I how to take one with you. And they
had himself the phone. They had them phone.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Out like that.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
I don't know we had we had. Yeah, but we're
gonna try to check you out tonight. I appreciate. I
put that in my book. We gotta come down La
morn on your recited wish you well. All right, Kevin
Blad some of the things you're doing at La Morna
on college again.
Speaker 8 (44:43):
Uh So, one of the biggest things is I'm a
candidate for mister Lamorno in college. I think it's an
honor and a pleasure to even be a candidate for
the role. I am hoping that, uh, faculty, staff and
students all find favorite my abilities to lead the college
to the next level. Outside of that, I am still
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making pushes with my nonprofit. We actually picked up or
adopted a children's playroom at South Memphis Alliance inside of
their lundromat. That's a great place to go and check
out because they're doing some really big things there, especially
for false youth. I'm inside of it. I do want
to shout out some people that ain't along with this.
I got a lundry basket. But first off, I want
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to give honor to God because without him these things
would not be possible. That that's first and foremost. After that,
I wanted to I gotta thank my dad. He's the
person that told me, don't give up, Blands, don't quit.
We keep on going to the end. Then after that,
Dabrion Leech, Knay Robus and doctor Williams. They all believed
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in me when I feel and right now, most importantly
my campaign team because they are making sure that every
event that happens is going the way it needs to and.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
It's form properly.
Speaker 8 (45:58):
Oh and my boss is Tiffany Turney's over South Memphis Alliance.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
That's great, that's great.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
And so the AU listens you've been you've been hearing
all the things are just some of the things that's
going on at the lamorno In College, private historically black
college affiliated with the United Church of Christ and located
right here in Memphis.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
As you heard Dean Say.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Memphis is the only HBCU resulted from the nineteen sixty
eight merger of historically black colleges and other schools established
by Northern Protestant missions during and after the American Civil War.
Lamornon College are jewel right here, man, This great understanding
graduation rate is up.
Speaker 4 (46:35):
Man.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Things are looking good at Oose Civil Walker Avenue. I
want to thank you. Derek lewis bringing everybody in.
Speaker 4 (46:41):
He's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
This is the Stan Belle Morning Show week dates from
six to ten AM on the Heart and Soul of Memphis,
ten to seventy WD.
Speaker 9 (46:48):
I a
Memphis, florn and bred, walking the walk and talking and talk.
It's the Stan Belle Morning Show, weekday mornings from sixty
ten am on the Heart and Soul of Memphis. Ten
seventy wd ia.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right, joll, everybody, we were back in the saddle again.
Had hard time getting the magicians out of the green room.
Nigga all them berries and we had fruit laid out
for him. We had mimosa. They were just enjoying it.
I told the student, now, y'all can't have that of that. Now, well,
we got them out of there, and ladies and gentlemen,
I'm pleased to have in the studio with me a
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part of eight o seven Walker Avenue Talks. Then got
a part of Ato Sevin Walker Avenue. Ladies and gentlemen,
after a long awaited return, rising from the silence and
ready to reclaim that throw from the heart of Memphis, Tennessee,
I got the lemarn On College and the band director
maestra as I call them, mister, put some respect on that.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Mister Derrick Lewis, you put a Michael You coming up
to that mic man? What come to w I a baby,
and sir, we appreciate you for having us man.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I know I get informal sometimes and because I get excited,
man when I see good people in here. And uh, man,
Derek may thank you man for coming out some time.
You didn't have to do it, but you did, but
we did.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's nice. It's nice to be important, but it's more
important to be nice. That's right, Yes you did, sir. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Uh, this is what I want to say. First of all,
of course, thank you for being here, and not only that,
and thank you for what you do for young folks.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You are maestro, your your genius. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't say it lightly. Man, I've watched you work
with young people throughout shoot.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
How long you been doing this decade of song?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Man, August tenth, twenty years? Oh yes, sir, August tenth,
and this year be twenty years.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Wow. We're gonna, we're gonna we're gonna chronicle this thing
in a minute, where you started in the humble beginnings
and how you matriculated, if you will, all the way
up to eight o seven walk Abbs. We're gonna talk
about that journey. Manute, tell me who you got here,
uh in the studio with you.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Well.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
First, we sent greetings from President doctor christ for David
in the studio, we have our dean of enrollment, Miss Thunderbird.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
We have our band president, Miss Ronie. In the house.
We got our drum major.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
One of our drum major, mister Kevin Bland, and of
course our captain for the enchanting Dolls, Miss Madison Madison.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It is a good group right here in the regular
You got a good group. Did they bring in the
instruments with?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Have madneybody? You ain't punishing this morning? I know it's early.
So who are the musician?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Madison?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You play?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You're what?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You're the dancer? Hold on, come up your mic for
me to bring Madson over here. Look a real cute theyday.
Come on, girl, what you do?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
I dance?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I just became captain of the dance team. Okay, what's
your classification? I'm a sophomore. I'll be a junior in
a fall.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You'll be junior there. Come on, So what do they
call the dancer? Y'all got a special name, right.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Enchanting dolls.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Enchanting dolls any more, only that of the majesty side
of y'all. You're the in channing dolls. So will you
see you all? What y'all in front of the band
dancing doing y'all thing looking so professional and flexible, and
y'all be moving and grooving. How many members?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And then the channing doll about currently we have seven?
Seven right now?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You're still recruiting and stuff like that. Yes, you're gonna
throw the commercial out there right quickly. Any young ladies
between the ages of so and so, you gotta be
a student on camp.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
If you're a senior in high school and you're ready
to try out for the college dance team.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
We're having try outs sometime during the summer before band
camp and then again.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
In the fall.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You're right there, it is, and you're the captain, yes, sir,
all right, continue on, sister, keep making the magic happen.
I think after that announcement you just made, you're gonna
have fourteen.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You're gonna double it. Come on, can we claim that
thing directory?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Sir?
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, in the name of the well who else you
got it?
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Here?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
You says, I have some thunderbird? Come on, come on,
come on up to the microphone.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's thunderbird. How you doing right now? Is a doctor?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Just wanna make sure it's Kimberly thundery?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah? What is your role in seven Walk Avenue.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
To I am the Dean of Enrollment at the lamorna
On College and a proud graduate of lamorna In College.
And you know, lamorna In College is the fifth oldest
HBCU in the country, and we are the only HBCU
in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And we bring the magic, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Swing that microphone or who he got over there next
to you on your left there we got Ronie Sha
Hayes in the bill role.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
So I'm the band president of the Mighty Sounds of
the South lamar On College Band and I'm a senior
at lamar On. You know, I've been holding it down.
I think I'm the only music major graduating this semester.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I'm not sure or not.
Speaker 9 (04:52):
I also just want to say congratulations to the band
for making up huge comeback on you know, just taking
over mifis again because we like, like the Dean Thunderbird said,
we are the only HBCU in the city of Myphis.
And uh and tonight, if you're not doing anything, I'm
having my senior recital at six p m. You know
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at lamar On College, the Little Theater.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
A little theaters. What you're gonna be. So what's your instrument?
I play drum see percussionists? Can you play trap? Trap?
Speaker 10 (05:27):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I mean you could put it.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
You could put the drums out there and on the highway.
I play for you for a minute where you want to?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I play percussionist, simple ministry, open and close, seven stroke roles, paradiddle,
flamm of diddle, rip shot.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yes, sir? What can we come to see you again? Now?
Speaker 9 (05:49):
You come see me tonight tonight and lamar on College
six pm.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
What I got to do this because I love the sound. Yeah,
I love to see you in the bill on six thirty. Okay,
l O c es what hall was that little theater?
Little theater? It's in the student center, in the student center.
This your finally go around with my final. Do you
get a grade? Onder your performance? How this works?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
It's part of your I written maker. It's nothing, it's nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You know, you got it. I got these.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What I'm doing tonight a little moving on?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yes, sir? All alright? It right?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
So will you be able to play with the majestic sounds?
I mean before you graduate? You, I mean, because now
you you're made to come back.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Yeah, I'm playing on it I'm playing.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
On it, okay, before you get out of there, Yes, sir,
uh were I listened before I got them out of
the green room at the head, you said, Radisha Rashida Rahnich,
She told me something interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
What you tell me when you do.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Two thousand in Curby High School?
Speaker 9 (06:54):
You you DJ my proma you dj my prom Curbing
High School from in two thousand eleve.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Let me know now, I'm gonna tell you where I
think we were at for the prom. Hold on, don't
tell me were we're downtown with the column thing.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
We was at the April House.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I think I want to say, I remember the April
House back then. I don't know doctor Reggie Reggie Williams principal.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yes he was Reggie. Yeah, I know you could call.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Doctor reginal william That's some memories right there.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Who is that swing that might go? All right? I appreciate,
Madam President swing that Mike, who is every god crazy
about it? Dress into the Mike? Kevin?
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Yes, sir uh, Well, good morning. First of all, my
name is Kevin Bland. I am a junior at La
Moreno in College majoring in political science pre law. I
am not only one of the drum majors. But I
am a candidate for mister Lamorna in college. I'm the
president of the collegiate one hundred. When I could keep
on going down the line, know whatever it is, Lamarn
(08:00):
need me to be for everybody at every time.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
May you run from mister lamon On College?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yes, sir, what's just one hundred?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Collegia one hundred? Is that of a hundred black men?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It is some degree. Oh man, what else you say
you do? You're the drum major.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I'm the drum major. I am a percussionist.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Actually I ended up this ended up coming about because
one of my old U band directors was walking with
Director Lewis, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Man, I know, is it that Dr wats Man? I
gotta I had to stop him.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
And when I talked to him, you know, the conversation
it was so nostalgic and it brought it kind of
it really humbled me and brought me to a place
of understanding that I can do whatever I put my
mind to as long as I'm willing to, you know,
stay on their track. And doctor Lewis was like me,
Professor Lewis, Mister Lewis, y'all call him Blue Chaos, right,
(08:53):
he wasn't signals and what they call love, but.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You know, he pulled me to the side.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
I had a conversation with my old band directly, was like,
you know something, he'd be a great fit for drum major.
He is a leader, uh, through and through and you know,
I like the way he carry yourself on, how he speaks,
and from there the you know, the rest is history.
So now I'm looking forward to making this move fun
fact that was a part of the band the year
before when it was just like five of us. So
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to see this now from what happened last year is monumental.
And I'm happy that the sound of an HBCU in
this city, the only HBCU in the city, is finally
back and we're not going nowhere.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Triumphant come back of the one and only majestic Sounds
of the South. I w I listeners, we're talking uh
to some band members. We're talking to kind of dean
in the building, and of course the director of bands
missed Derek, Blue Chaos Lewis be right back all right,
thank you for coming back and staying with us this morning.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
It's a beautiful Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm looking out the window to make sure, oh a
little bit of sunshine sticking.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Through the people through the clouds.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Other than that, we're looking pretty good on this uh
four or four days. The people in Atlanta are excited
over the over the moon because it's like almost unofficial
holiday for our folks in the atl They call it
fall four day Madison, you get it, the area code
four four. So it's a big deal. Folks are even
(10:32):
converging on Atlanta as we speak. They may trying to
get there for the weekend. So big shots of those
who are listening on the new and improved iHeart Radio app.
Are those do you say, the Lantins Atlantians at Aliens?
You said, Kevin at Aliens out cast, Baby, Yeah, and
I know there's gonna be some big turning up if
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you will in Atlanta. So happy for four day to
those who are listening on the iHeart Radio app. All right,
so this morning as a part of standing special people
spotlight my guests this morning ot the magicians, uh the
born on in college where the magic happens, as they say, leadership, opportunity.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
What's to see change?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Change?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, we got the majestic sounds of the South. Uh,
band director Derek Lewis is in the building. Kevin is
in the building. Kevin Banks is in the building. Pretty
boy Madison is in the building. Enchanting doll, Doctor thunder Bird,
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you heard Dean of enrollment and my girl Rundi sha
DJ up from twenty eleven Curby High School Home the
Cougars was it turned to him standing up on the
tables jamming, tore the April house up. They send me
the invoy because y'all tore it up. DJ, You responsible
(11:57):
for all that? Trigger man? Yeah, I want to talk now.
How do you get Let's go do first things first, doctor,
I mean Dean, Dean Thunderberg, how do you get into
enrolled in Lamona On College.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Talk to us about the requirements. How you start?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You got some folks listening right now, got some grandparents,
y'all need to go to the morning.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Y'all need you something. Talk to us about that.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
So the first we are enrolling for the fall semester.
It starts August eleventh. Just log onto the website www
dot LC dot edu. Go to the admissions tab. Apply here.
You just need to have your official transcripts. If you
are income and freshman student, you need to have at
least a minimum of a two point oh GPA, and
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we need your musation records vericella and MMR one and two.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
And that's pretty much it.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
We just and if you are a transfer student, we
need all your official college transcripts. If you have less
than thirty credit hours, you also need your official high
school transcript And then I will say we are offering scholarships.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
That's for dean's level scholarship.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
If you have at least a three point oh we
can offer you a three thousand dollars scholarship. But it's
first come, first serve, So if you get all your
documents completed and get fully enrolled, we can offer you
a scholarship as long as you have that three point oh.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Wow. That's pretty good. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, and you know Dean of Enrollment Kimberly Thunderbirds, that right,
that's correct.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Roman.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So yeah, that's interesting to know because you know, you
can never recruit too much, you never put it out
there too much. And we want to get what is
the current enrollment now, do you know of Lamar.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
We have about five hundred and sixty students currently enrolled,
and we do have a large we are expecting a
large income of freshman students in the fall. So hey,
if you want to get in now, like I said,
go on to that website and apply.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
So what is the ideal number for enrollment? I mean
that you guys are projecting. Would you want eight hundred?
Is that too many? I mean, I don't know if
it's never never too many and never too much?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
But what is the idea what you're looking for? What's
that was the ideal for the fall?
Speaker 7 (14:01):
That would be ideal between seven fifty and eight hundred students.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Okay, that sounds like my credit score. Okay, that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, Because I've had doctor Davison before and of course
he you know, he works the magic and I think
I heard him say that would be that's his targeted goal,
you know, to get at least eight hundred by.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
The fall somewhere.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And now talk to us about this middle I heard
him mention something about the middle the middle child, the
middle student, the middle not the one with all the
and not, you know, but that middle student who really
needs a little encouragement assistance.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You know, that's your targeting that particular. That's great. Talk
to us about that.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
So we are a family oriented environment, So we don't
look at our students are just a number.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
We welcome you.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
We are a family, so we are the source of
black excellence. So we want the students to come to
lamonn On College and feel welcome. We want to help
you matriculate and graduate in four years.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
And Doctor Davis is big on, you know, getting our
students to matriculate and graduate in four years.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
So I will say about the band real quick? Is
that okay?
Speaker 7 (15:06):
So we've been doing the President's Tour with Dr Davis.
His vision was to visit all the high schools in
Mephicson Shelby County. So we take the President's Tour on
the road. We go to Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. We
take the best of Lamon. Now in college, we take
the major Reds, the cheerleaders, we take the Vine nine
and do a Greek stroll off. We show them what
black excellence looks like. So now with the band, that's
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gonna take.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Us to the next level. You hear me, that's gonna
take us to the next level.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
And I say that because we normally take a DJ
with us, but now we can take the band and
have the band the major atts perform with the band.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I get it.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
That's gonna take doctor Davis to the next level. So
this was his vision and we are excited. Mister Lewis
came on board. He hit the ground running. We did
meet the band the other day. It was outstanding.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So we are excited. So that's a nice segue. So
thank you, Adan Lewis. Talk to us about your Jordan. Now,
I know I met you several years back, but when
did you start working with the young folks, you know
in the musicianship? Was it elementary where you're in junior
(16:13):
I high?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I mean where you where did you start teaching?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
In other words? Actually, for me, it was right after
I graduated. I'm a graduate of Lane College, so as
soon as I graduated, I actually went my first school
I taught. It was the school that I went to,
which was Role. I went to middle school and high
school there. So I was the middle school band director
of my first year out.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
But after graduation, graduation, you didn't want.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
To stay in Jackson and do Jackson Central, Mary and
all those schools. Jack trying to give Madison Counts some
love right quickly? Now you called that, you know they
wanted to be a dragon for a little bit longer.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Uh, you said, no, I'm coming back to Memphis. Memphid
was calling you.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
So of course when I came back to Memphis, I
saw it role to middle school. I was there a
couple of years left, as I was pursuing my masters
in education and in music, I went. I went on
from there and started teaching at Mefilship Country Schools. I
started the planthor of high schools around and then I
got a chance to talk to my good friend doctor June,
(17:16):
and she reached out to me and she said, we.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Need a band. She said, we need a band.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
She said, well, the only HBCU in Memphis, and we
deserve a band. So we started working on it. Of course,
as we were working on it, the pandemic ended up
happening and all of that good stuff. But then doctor
christmaher Davis came on board with Lamorna in college. I
came back and he said to me, I remember the interview.
He said, mister Lewis, he said, we can't get our
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black car taken. We got to have a band. And
I said, I think I can do that. And so,
of course that's what we are gearing up to.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Do now. We just had our meet the band April
the first. It was a big crowd. I want to say.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
We had almost two hundred and some people that came
out on the front lawne on our campus to meet
the band. We hit the major rents out there, the
flag girls, the horn players, and the drum line.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
We put all that.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Bruce Hall, yeah, Brownle Yes, Okay, Brownlee Okay, Oh that's
the big one. Okay, yeah, but what when camp right
in front on Yes, yes, it's outstanding man. And yeah
when you say doctor Jun, you mean doctor June put the.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
T in there.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Come on, care o Chicken to DJ, come on, you know,
we gotta say her name right.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
That was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I was standing for her to kind of mention that
to you and you came on in. I gotta take
another break.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Uh. Any members of the lamarn On College.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Or lamar on On alumni or just leamarn you can
feel free to call me if you want to, you know,
shout out you got a question, even if you got
a concern about maybe getting your your child, you know,
your student into this program at La morn On College
Day said for Walker Avenue, you can call nine one
five three five nine three four two or eight hundred
five zero three nine three four two or eight two
d Hey, babay.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Did I play? Did I play that? Problem? Hey?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
They bank?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Hey three two five three five nine three four two
heart told Memphis am ten seventy.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
W d I A all right? Got it going on?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
All right, So we're back now. We've got d La
Mono in college. We got the band in here, we
got the president, we got a dean in here. President
of bands. By the way, Aneesha Hayes is in the building.
Madison is in the building, one of the members of
the uh.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
What dolls is that you call him? Then? Chanting dolls?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
All right, I want to talk now about the calendar
of events. Let's talk about some things that LLC has
got going on, even the band and what can we
look forward to?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Go right here, missus Lewis.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Indeed, so April the twenty seventh, we're gonna have the
majestic Floord Show Battle of the Band. This is gonna
take a place in Bruce Johnson Hall. It's in our gymnasium.
Doors open at two o'clock. Teekets. Our advanced tickets are
fifteen dollars and it's twenty dollars at the door. We're
gonna have local bands from Memphis. We're also gonna have
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bands from Arkansas and Mississippi. So y'all come on in
with us as we rock the house and showcase these talent.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Wow, give us a date on that again, Director of Lewis,
April twenty seven, April two seven, that's gonna follow on
the water and on Sunday, Okay, sun after church?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
What time two o'clock? That's good. Yeah, that's a good time, sir.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Good family, got.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
To eat my chicken.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I got some good word. Come on over the LOCs.
Not like that man?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
All right? Dean Jean, Dean Thunderberry. What else we got
going on?
Speaker 7 (20:34):
So, doctor Christopher Davis is our fourteenth president of Lamor
nor In College. So it's the inauguration for him. And
on Friday, April the eighteenth, at seven pm will be
his gala at the Renaissance Center. So if you want
to purchase tickets, after seven is performing.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So after seven that's right night you every red? Yes
and yes, oh I could up.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
So we wanted to celebrate our president, So please go
online again www dot l O, C, dot E d
U and purchase those tickets.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I like that. What else is going on in the calendar?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
We got RhI recital right tonight?
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Tonight is the senior recital at April, I mean at
six o'clock pm tonight tonight. It's gonna be in the
little theater below the student Center.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Wow, how long you been playing drums? I've been playing drums?
I was two. It was the gift that God gave me.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Nobody had to teach me. It was, it was. It
was annoying to me.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Just as much as you.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
As soon as you started to walk and you got
on over to the trap set?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Did it about you? Did your mom? Dad? Somebody bout you?
Speaker 9 (21:49):
My daddy bought me a drum set every two years
because I used to turn.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You know what you're gonna be. I already know what
you're gonna do. You told so many trap says up.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
But that's wonderful. Yes. Oh and what kind of sticks
you use? You use? No? I use five as the
five as okay, So that's typical.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
That's kind of normal when you get your yeah, your
your rolls on and stuff you can yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Oh yes, And and I used Vic Firth or Vader.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, those Yeah, those that's bird. That's quality.
You probably use Juan symbols.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I love them, I do. I got the custom caves,
I got the coastom Ca.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, ministry, sir, shout out to your dad. Shout out toy.
What's hey, Roderick k Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Lightning Rod.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
He put it in it, you put it in. He
proud of I know, he proud of you. He's gonna
be that probably on the front seat. He probably front
row to be hollerand I know the feeling be proud
of your kids. That's what I'm talking about. Uh, that's outstanding.
When can we see the enchanting dolls? Let me get
Madison back up here? Madison? What's your last thing? By
the way, come on up to the.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Mic, ma'am, my last name is mal Macklin. Well see okay,
let me see it.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
May see all ion.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
L I n yes, sir, all right?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
So what's on jenda for the enchanning dollars or y'all
perform win you're gonna be I know y'all probably might
be in the audience with Raneesha later on this season.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
But when can we actually see.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Y'all perform and dance and step in march and get
in front of that band.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Have you got that on agenda yet, doctor Lewis, Oh.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Yes, they're definitely gonna be showcased and of the band
right betweenty seven.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
But they have a couple of more events they're gonna
be doing before.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yes, we have an event May third, fare.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Give me that day, Give me the day again at
Fairwell May three? Okay, okay, some fair counting, Okay, okay.
Where you're gonna be in the gym.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It's gonna be inside the gym. There're they're out of
the band. Fun fact. I used to teach them for
six years, so I'm returning there. You direct the cheers
invited me to come out and bring the band. So
we're gonna have the band. The major is the Flaggers.
We want to rock the house and feed county.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Oh year was that when you try to Farewell?
Speaker 5 (24:10):
That was two thousand maybe twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Was mister Miles Wilson principally there?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Or was it Sonny Hicks or who? I was trying
to think?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Who wasn't doctor Owens? Doctor Owen's okay, okay, I was
trying to go back a little bit. That's good, I
know you're in Farewell, that's great. And did you ever
did you teach or work at uh any charter schools
or prep school or anything like that?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Go ahead, I taught it Martin Luther King m LK
Prep and then from there I became the district Fine
Arts chair there for the district over the whole Fine
Arces department. So I taught there. It's Will So yeah,
Frazie Community School. Shout out to you guys as Will Man.
Twenty years of excellence. Man, you've been in the system
and it was the district and you moved around man,
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and everywhere you've gone. Man, it's just turned the gold.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Really you you already been making the magic habit from
whatever school and the students that you work with.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
How difficult, mister lewis is it to work with? Is
there any.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Difference between the elementary and the junior high like when
you're a rolly egypt and you you now you collegiate.
Talk to us about the difference or is it? How
do you all us? How do you pivot? How do
you adjust? How do you you know?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Well, actually it's easy for me because it's not just
a job. For me, is a calling, you know, music
saved my life, you know, and so all I want
to do is I told the loryder is I want
to give that back to our students and give them
what we said Lamar leadership, opportunity and change. And so,
you know, being able to turn around and give that
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back to our students is prices for me.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
You know.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
I tell my students when they become millionaires, all they
owe me is a five for five from winded It's
fresh nuggets, fresh fries, grape, hot sea.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Like I height ju, that's all they own.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Man, I guess they owe me, but I'm it's an
opportunity for me to not only build our students at
Lamorno and College down, but send some of those students
out to be directors and great citizens and you know,
productive citizens in menfields.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
You're passing the torture.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Literally, Yes, sir, how can this WI listener email and said,
how can.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I make a donation to the band?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Indeed, come on give me tell them Mike Odean, Yes,
swinging over that to you.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
That is actually something we wanted to talk about as well.
We want to offer these students scholarships ban and academic
scholarships from the admissions team. So if there's anyone out
there's a business, you know, organization Fortune five hundred. We
are accepting donations for scholarships for these students. We say
they are the source of black excellence, so let's get
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them on the right track and provide scholarships for them.
So please log onto our website or contact Ms Joyce McGee.
She is our CFO and she will let you know
as well as the website where you can donate so
we can have scholarships for these students.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
So Miss George McGee is the chief financial officer, correct
of lamrn On College. That's correct, Okay, So they could
either go up there possibly ask for her, or make
an apartment or whatever and just and make that happen
to call first or or I know you go to
the website, but you can maybe the.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Number two is nine zero one four three five one thousand.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Say that again, miss a Dean.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Nine zero one for three five one thousand, all right,
And then the address is eight oh seven Walker Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee,
three eight one two six.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Kevin Phipps for that inquirers that he wants to make
a donation to your standing. The majestic sounds of the sound.
Thank you, Dean Man, that's all that is outstanding.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
You got others who listening, no doubt, may want to
pour into the band in what you're doing, Director Lewis,
and Man, I think that's simply awesome.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
A lot of people believe in. So many people believe
in lead lamon On College, that's for sure. Now let
me get over to Kevin real quick. What's your classification
do you say senior?
Speaker 8 (28:04):
I'm a junior right now, so next semester I'll be
going into that semester as a senior.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Okay, So you've been in La morn On what all
the way from the beginning freshman of what talk to
us about that.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
So I'm actually glad you asked it.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
I am a recipient, recipient of leadership, opportunity and change.
I'm actually a transfer student from Southwest and fun fact,
I was not the best student there. My grades were
not the best. And when I made it to Lamon
and I found a sense of understanding about why I
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should take myself serious, how to actually take myself serious,
and then provide those twos to other students so they
can take themselves serious. So essentially, when I got there
I was able to start my own club, which is
Culture for Change. Through the years since I've been there,
it is now a nonprofit. And the thing that kind
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of shocked me the most is I made it there
literally spring of twenty twenty three and it's now spring
of twenty twenty five. And the growth and the amount
of time or that growth in that amount of time
is monumental.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Man, What else do you do at the lamornon On College?
What have you done?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
What activities or organizations you're part of, or what tell
us about what you've done since you've been there.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
Okay, so I'm one of the lead student ambassadors at
lamorn In College. That role was introduced to me by
DeMarcus Little. He saw a lot in me, he saw
that I had leadership capabilities, and from there I became
the student ambassador.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I'm outside of that.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
I've been the president of FCA, which is Fellowship with
Collegsian Athletes of Christian Athletes.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
I have been a part of of course, Collegiant one
hundred as a member and now as the president. I'm
a memory b the NAACP. I can when I said
I can go on and on, I can literally go
on and on. There isn't There isn't anything I have
not done or try to not just add to my resume,
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but really be a beacon of light with that particular organization.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Man, that's good.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
So you no doubt you are receiving the total collegiate experience.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Absolutely. Are you in a fraternity?
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
You know how to ask that question? Did go ahead?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Let us know?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I hope you say the right one.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
I am a brother of Kappa Alpha PSI Fraternity Incorporated
Spring twenty four initiar one of the best decisions of
my life. I've been able to meet a lot of
good people, and I've been able to actually broaden my
reach through that service, you know, just making sure that
I'm not just being but being serviceable to other people
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because essentially that's what leadership is, you know, being a
servant leader to those showing them how to actually lead,
so that way when they step up to the plate,
they can to lead and you know, add their own
flavor tube.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Man, that's what I like. So he Kevin Bland like
in the season Rice, Yeah, man, you got the total
collegiate experience. Keep on keep achieving. I would take a break.
We Okay, let me see where I am right now.
Let me make sure we okay, yeah, let me let
me click this out of the way. All right, So
here we are. Who just has been so enjoyable, you.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I'm just saying, we're back live. We're talking to some
magicians up in here. When you walk through the doors
and you walk, when you walked through it Browning Hall,
that's the main building, and you just you're a magician,
then you and then you go around the campus and
you walk.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I was just over we on WDI by the way,
I was just over there for a tour.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
I believe it was.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
We've got the Myron Lowry Communications broadcasts and something like that.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
It's awesome. I think it was in an Esco invited me.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, in a Esco who was a radio colleague and
all of that and just podcasting. She's serious about her
work and inviting me to come over and others in
the business to come to see that center. Man, the
students are working. They got everything. They got the equipment,
they sound good, they are articulate, they got good forces diction,
and they know how to work that equipment.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
And when I went over there, I went over there.
I said, man, I'm on on man, on the on
the move. Man. So when we get back to the band.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Director lewis any scholarships I heard Deans Thunderberg mentioned about
you know, the general scholarships and maybe to get the
President's scholar scholarship and you know three thousand for this,
that and the other.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
But what about the band directly?
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Yeah, yes, sir, we do offer band scholarships and if
students want an audition, they can send me your email
at band at LC dot ed you to request the audition.
We can either come to their school or they can
come on our campus. They can audition on the spots
and we do offer scholarships, so we will be issuing
some scholarships. That's why we need our supporters help to
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continue to sow into our band so that we can
get those students in. But yes, again, if you would
like to audia you play a horn, trump, and saxophone, trombone,
anything that you play in the marching band drawn defin
they can't forget.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Tom toms tom shooting.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Yes, sir, So again the email address is band b
A N D at l OC dot E d U
to request spot for audition and we'll take care of
you from there.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Let's take a phone call.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
If you don't mind, I'm going over with these phone lines.
I want to talk to oc this morning. Good morning
on the radio. Who goes there?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
You're on the radio live?
Speaker 4 (33:51):
How you doing there?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
From como? Sounds like one and all in there? Talk
to me? You got a guess in here?
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (33:59):
I just want say kudos and good morning to your guests.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (34:04):
I don't know if that's saying the band director, but
my son Chandler, he was armstrong. He was in the
band from the ninth started in nineteen twenty nineteen and
and when he was part of the one when they
canceled at COVID, they did way you know, the band
was kind of took a hiatus during the COVID, but
he continued. He graduated in twenty three and he was
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the symbol player there.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Director remembers yeah there, Yes, And one.
Speaker 10 (34:34):
Thing I can say about one of them I wanted
to see's still there, and that's our professor Dots and
the art teachers.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
He's still there, Dean.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Do you recognize that name? He is still in the
fact that what was he one of the deans of
the art the Art Department.
Speaker 10 (34:51):
Yes, sir, okay, well, I don't know. He might have retired,
but that's one name I heard those four.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Years, the Dots, Roderick Thompson now Roger Thompsons.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Okay, uh in the apartment. Yeah, you may have retired.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
You're right, yes, sir.
Speaker 10 (35:07):
Good luck to the band. I think Misron Caller he's aware,
and I think he's gonna be coming back and kind
of hanging around, uh with the band because he still
had a feel for it, you know. And I wish
you guys god speed and all of your future and
their bursts and seeks, love and prosperity to all.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Thank you, Thank you so much. Just get back to
another phone call.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
W I A.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Thanks for calling you on the radio.
Speaker 11 (35:32):
Go ahead, good morning everybody, all right, all right, all right,
wake up.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
I ain't had no collinge nothing yet.
Speaker 11 (35:39):
But anyway, I want to say another remembers to doctor
mar Luther King Jr. The right motail folks and all that.
But listen you all, I've always seen it. They'll ring
all attended. I don't never say that I went to it,
but I attended. The more I call it, the more
garden the more On College, and uh, it was only
two semesters and I went from there Shelter State, Memphis.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
State and all that. The thing is, I always claim
the HBCU.
Speaker 11 (36:05):
You guys are doing something that I came there in
the seventies and I kept saying.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Where's the band?
Speaker 11 (36:10):
Where is the radio station? These are two things. I
look at the college. I said, Gremlan got there, Chelnessee
State got there, all these other colleges, Jackson got there.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
We need a radio station.
Speaker 11 (36:21):
We need a band to march up and down Walker Avenue,
go through La Morning Garden, to go everywhere and get
this paid. People's stirred up over here in Memphis. We're
the only ones that's got this college. So you guys
woke me up this morning with something I said had
to be God given because you all are doing it again.
You got Stacks Academy in your backyard. You all got
students all around Memphis that are in other bands that
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leave Memphis going out of town to go to something
Lane College and go somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
And they shouldn't do that.
Speaker 11 (36:49):
I say, right here, you got it right here. Whereas
the educators is there? Man, whether he college I learned
so much, and I did play at Capital there. When
I was there, I think about all the things in
good times I had at Lamon.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
It's the place to go, place to be.
Speaker 11 (37:05):
I felt safe there walking around doing things. And today
I still say I support the magicians. I said when
I was there, I put.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
A tuxedo on a couple of times. My friends we walked.
Speaker 11 (37:16):
Around with top hats of sticking our hands tapping on
stuff like we were a magician for real. We started
doing that thing.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Back in the seventies.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
And I went on.
Speaker 11 (37:23):
Like I said, I had a little time at ut Martin,
had a great time, but nothing like a black college,
nothing like and you got it. I want to encourage
all the students, whether you're school whatever, turn your head
and look, you're right at home everything you need.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
But I want you.
Speaker 11 (37:38):
All guys to look at all the students in your
backyard there that's the academy and all around, because like
I said, I'm a musician.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Myself play a lot of instruments, and.
Speaker 11 (37:47):
All my family played, but they walked away the working warehouse.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Jobs and all that.
Speaker 11 (37:50):
And all of them are college educated in the music business,
but they don't do anything at church, and nothing I
play anywhere I go.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
I don't have to get paid anything.
Speaker 11 (37:58):
But I said, if I see a need, I pull
out my equipment because I got everything to play with.
But I said, they don't do it at church anywhere.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
They just look.
Speaker 11 (38:06):
And I say, that's not right. God gifted you. I
heard that man say he got the five A sticks.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
I got some right here in my hands.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
I keep my drum sticks where I go.
Speaker 11 (38:14):
I take my bum So you guys being curged, don't
stop doing what you're doing and open your mouth and
spread the word of God and that you're doing a
great job so still in the battlefield.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Thanks so much for it. I appreciate that man. That's
that's great, pag what a testimony.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
All right.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
When we come back, when we're gonna go our room,
we're gonna wrap things up what everybody's doing individually and
collectively and part of the college, and then we'll.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Wrap things up.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Plus I gotta know some of the songs Director Lewis
that you guys are gonna be playing. You know you
got you know, come on teaser to do something, because
I want to hear it what you're working on. I
know you got some rigorous practicing rehearsal's going on over there,
and we'll talk back, all right. WDI listeners in the
waiting moments in the stand Bille Morning Show. Our special
guest in the Spotlight d le Mono in College Home
of the Magicians.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
It's have a Walker Avenue.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Director Derek Blue Chaos Lewis, got Dean Kimp, thunder byrd On,
Madison Macklin, Kevin playing in the Great Rhanetia Hayes talk
stand be right back. Yeah, we're back, everybody. We got
a lot going on in the station. Uh, but we're
getting ready to wrap up our conversation with the magicians.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
It'll walking after the man. It's been great.
Speaker 8 (39:23):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Let me see, let me do something here on this computer,
and then.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
I want to, I guess, to kind of go around
the room and then to give us our final shoutouts.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
And all that good stuff like that. All right, that's cool.
I think I got it. I think I got it
in there.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Okay, all right, so doctor Derek, I said, gonna make
you a doctor already.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Director of Bands Dereck Lewis, thank you so much, uh
for you know, carvering out some time to be with us.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
You know you you've done a great job, and you're
doing a great job with the band.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Last thing, well not last thing, but what I guess
some of the things that that you want to talk
about before we.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Go, Well, real quick, I want to just talk about
I'm gonna give a special shout out real quick to
my fiance, doctor Renetta. We just celebrated our anniversary on
April first, and so I just want to give her
a shout out real.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Quick for you gonna make things official.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
We only trying to go for the beginning of the
year twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Get invitation, doctor.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Yeah, I'm gonna give you my card for you leave here,
so if you need a DJ baby, yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
And then I know you asked me about a couple
of those songs that we're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Ye, what what can we expect from the majestic Sounds
of the South.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Well, you definitely can't expect us to be playing Backstampers.
We're gonna be playing that. We're gonna do. Ain't no
stopping us now because definitely were on the move. We're
doing boots on the ground, y'all, get your fans, bring
the fans seven and then of course flicks. We're gonna
be playing Fleix, so.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
We gotta.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Keep it on.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yes, sir man coming from a band, I don't think
I never before.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
That's all right, you better come on twenty sevent then
we're gonna be rocking the house for sure.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Okay, okay, okay, that's good. All right, So Dean Dean
Kim the Thunderbird. Yes, what I got going on? The
last things that you want to shout out? I know
the investiture is the big deal. The inauguration of doctor
Christopher B. Davis fourteen president of La morno On College.
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I know that's the big deal. And that's happening when that.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Is August the.
Speaker 7 (41:30):
I gave you my proger August eighteenth at seven pm
at the Convention Center at the Renaissance Center.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
So you got a lot of things going on. I've
got it in my hand right now.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yah. So Thursday, what's happening is what the morning on
cors Little Theater. You're gonna have the simposium, right and
what is that when people come out and just ask
questions or you just got to go through, uh just
doctor meet and greet, so to speak of doctor David.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
So that's Thursday.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
The seventeenth, right, correct, okay, and then the next day
the investiture, right Friday at the Orpheum. Now what happens there,
but they actually, I guess they you probably had to
put his hand on the Bible and all that good
stuff like. But you know, and then you know and
actually officially you know, induct them or you know, inaugurate
them that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
So I guess that's probably what that is.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
It's kind of almost like we'll be in school back
in the day, they used to have vesper you know,
before graduation, so to speak. You know, you go to
the vesper, so it has a religious type of undertone there.
And then of course that's Friday, the Orphium at ted
Friday the eighteenth, and then Friday the eighteenth, that evening
is a celebration the game all right at the Renaissance,
(42:39):
as you mentioned, fantastic, it's gonna be big. And this
is music week, right, uh, Director Lewis, this is mean
for me, Okay, thank you?
Speaker 3 (42:46):
This music week.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
So you've been doing something all things musical all during
the week Monday all the way up to now and
then even on the weekend. Yes, sir, let me swing
the mic over too, well, and you give a home
mic shot. Yes, sir, hey, yes, sir in the building, Yes, sir,
Roger's daughter, Oh yes, Lord and Mama.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Proud to everybody, proud of you. Tonight sing recital. Talk
to us again about that.
Speaker 6 (43:09):
So my senior recital is tonight.
Speaker 9 (43:12):
It's in a little theater below the student Center at
lamar On College campus, Hanson Student Center. Right, Yes, yes,
it'll be at six pm. I'm looking forward to everybody
that's listening to come on now. It's free. You know,
everybody loves free. And I also just want to give
a shout out to myself because I have been a
(43:33):
published author all the way through college. I wrote five
books while in college. Right, I got Mistreated Beloved. That's
another fiction about my life. And I have five children books.
I have Dream Big, Drum Bigger, The Fairy Crunk, Mother
of Magical Friendship That Lasts Forever. I got Lundy of
Done Black Haven's Battling Beast, and I got the Mystery
(43:55):
of Kim Militant. And I also have two coloring books
and you can get those and Emma's dot com, Barnes
Andopen dot com Booksimillion dot com, Walmart dot com, just
holler yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
Congratulations.
Speaker 9 (44:09):
Also, and also you can follow me on Instagram at
ms rock nine on one.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
So that's MS R A H nine O one. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Okay, all right, then you still got a prom picture.
We took it back in twenty leaves. I don't I
know I how to take one with you. And they
had himself the phone. They had them phone.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Out like that.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
I don't know we had we had. Yeah, but we're
gonna try to check you out tonight. I appreciate. I
put that in my book. We gotta come down La
morn on your recited wish you well. All right, Kevin
Blad some of the things you're doing at La Morna
on college again.
Speaker 8 (44:43):
Uh So, one of the biggest things is I'm a
candidate for mister Lamorno in college. I think it's an
honor and a pleasure to even be a candidate for
the role. I am hoping that, uh, faculty, staff and
students all find favorite my abilities to lead the college
to the next level. Outside of that, I am still
(45:06):
making pushes with my nonprofit. We actually picked up or
adopted a children's playroom at South Memphis Alliance inside of
their lundromat. That's a great place to go and check
out because they're doing some really big things there, especially
for false youth. I'm inside of it. I do want
to shout out some people that ain't along with this.
I got a lundry basket. But first off, I want
(45:26):
to give honor to God because without him these things
would not be possible. That that's first and foremost. After that,
I wanted to I gotta thank my dad. He's the
person that told me, don't give up, Blands, don't quit.
We keep on going to the end. Then after that,
Dabrion Leech, Knay Robus and doctor Williams. They all believed
(45:46):
in me when I feel and right now, most importantly
my campaign team because they are making sure that every
event that happens is going the way it needs to and.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
It's form properly.
Speaker 8 (45:58):
Oh and my boss is Tiffany Turney's over South Memphis Alliance.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
That's great, that's great.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
And so the AU listens you've been you've been hearing
all the things are just some of the things that's
going on at the lamorno In College, private historically black
college affiliated with the United Church of Christ and located
right here in Memphis.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
As you heard Dean Say.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Memphis is the only HBCU resulted from the nineteen sixty
eight merger of historically black colleges and other schools established
by Northern Protestant missions during and after the American Civil War.
Lamornon College are jewel right here, man, This great understanding
graduation rate is up.
Speaker 4 (46:35):
Man.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Things are looking good at Oose Civil Walker Avenue. I
want to thank you. Derek lewis bringing everybody in.
Speaker 4 (46:41):
He's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
This is the Stan Belle Morning Show week dates from
six to ten AM on the Heart and Soul of Memphis,
ten to seventy WD.
Speaker 9 (46:48):
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