45 HORSEPOWER 05/08/23: Fire/Fury and Enjoy! Records 1959-1986 (Blues, Girl Groups, Soul, Rap)

Rounder concludes his look at Bobby Robinson and his labels.

This week: How selling 3 million copies of a song can destroy your record company; the New Orleans drag queen who made R&B hits, solo and with a group called the Clowns; bluesmen Elmore James, Lightnin Hopkins, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup and Dr. Horse (!); doo-wop cries its last tears, bites the dust and gives rise to the girl group sounds of Gladys Knight & the Pips and Linda Martell & The Anglos; Bobby's second miracle run through the early heydey of rap music; rap's first beatmaker, a man named Pumpkin; Enjoy! records releases the first good rap records; the first female MC on wax; the first beat boxing on wax; the first battle rap; the first rock-rap hybrid; the first country-rap hybrid.