By R&B (138.238.41.118) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:00 pm:

HEY GANG,HERE'S ANOTHER ONE FOR YOU..WHAT FAMOUS SOUL SINGER TOLD ANOTHER FAMOUS SOUL SINGER UPON HEARING HIM IN THE STUDIO THAT HIS SOUND WAS SIMILAR TO ANOTHER SOUL SINGER,WHICH PROMPTED THE SINGER GETTING THE COMPLIMENT TO TAKE A SWING AT THE SINGER GIVING IT?NOT AS CONFUSING AS IT SOUNDS!HINT..THE 60'S,THE SOUTH.

By Sue (205.188.209.38) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:14 pm:

James Brown has got to be involved ...

By R&B (138.238.41.118) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:16 pm:

IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY HE IS!

By Soulpuss (24.102.217.36) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:18 pm:

I smell the Wicked Pickett. Could it also involve Little Royal?

By LTLFTC (12.210.76.205) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:24 pm:

I'm thinking Wilson Pickett and Eddie Floyd duked it out

SteveK

By R&B (138.238.41.118) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:27 pm:

I'LL LET THE SUSPENSE BUILD A LITTLE LONGER BE FORE I ANSWER,UNLESS SOMEONE HAS THE ANSWER!

By Scratcher (65.132.79.95) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:35 pm:

R&B you're talking about a confrontation between Wilson Pickett and Percy Sledge. Sledge complimented Pickett (he thought) by saying he sounded like Otis Redding and Pickett called him a gaptooth...

By R&B (138.238.41.118) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:51 pm:

SCRATCHER,I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YOU WOULD GET IT,BUT IT WAS JAMES BROWN WHO PICKETT WAS COMPARED TO,IT SEEMS HE AND PICKETT HAD A FALLING OUT OVER A WOMAN AND THE LAST PERSON HE WANTED TO BE COMPARED TO WAS JB.

By Scratcher (65.132.79.95) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 03:06 pm:

He had a similar falling out with Percy Sledge that I mentioned. Check Rob Bowman's book on Stax Records.

By R&B (138.238.41.118) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 03:17 pm:

YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT PERCY SLEDGE,BUT IN THE ACCOUNT THAT I READ PERCY SAID THAT PICKETT SOUNDED LIKE BROWN AND THAT SET HIM OFF.

By Scratcher (65.132.79.95) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 03:23 pm:

R&B, I believe you read what you read. Bowman said it was Redding. Who knows, he may have got it wrong. Or, could be the one who wrote what your read got the parties mixed up. Did the piece you read say that Pickett called Sledge a gaptooth son of a ...? Mine did.

By R&B (138.238.41.118) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 04:12 pm:

THE FUNNY THING IS THAT PERCY SLEDGE WAS ONCE A BOXER,I WONDER IF PICKETT KNEW THAT?

By STUBASS (152.163.188.68) on Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 01:39 am:

AND ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT THAT WILSON PICKETT SOUNDED LIKE JOHNNY TAYLOR!!!...STU