Comments on: 2009 Georgia Music Hall of Famers hit all the right notes

By: Jeff Lord

Jeff Lord — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:26:56 +0000

Who is “Satellite Popper”? What is his name? Is there a picture of him some place in history?

By: Regina Guilford

Regina Guilford — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:38:11 +0000

Richard Eldredge…. why didn’t you mention Roy Hamilton??? He was also inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame!! We had a great time at the event! Just shocked that you didn’t mention one of the greatest entertainers of all times….ROY HAMILTON ~”THE GOLDEN BOY OF SONG”!!!

By: cj

cj — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:52:05 +0000

Got to love Collective Soul, it still amazes me after all their hits still how unappreciated this guys are. Good to see them get some recognition. THere new CD is really good also.

By: sb

sb — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:09:43 +0000

BTW, does anyone know if there’s any way to get video of the event? I can’t find anything on YouTube, the Hall of Fame site, or on the GA Public Broadcasting site. I would love to be able to see this again!!

By: sb

sb — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:07:52 +0000

Georgiadawg, why have this on Rosh Hashanah, a far more important date than that for a single football game? This was a big fundraiser, and a lot of supporters couldn’t be there for legitimate religious reasons.

By: Robert Ivey

Robert Ivey — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:14:03 +0000

JSS, You are correct and to give Jodi further info, I grew up in Macon in the 50’s and early 60’s. When high school was out we tuned our car radios to WIBB- Macon
black station with the “Satellite Popper” the afternoon DJ. He would come on and play his bump music in the background. His introduction to his show was ” This is the Satellite Popper coming in loud and clear from the strautershere,all I need is a little piece of tail. he and King Bee played all the James brown, Little Richard, Otis and many other that made “MACOM” as we from Macon call it.
Little Richard worked for my Father Grocery Store for a short time. I was very young at the time.

By: mdnitrdr

mdnitrdr — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:41:00 +0000

Why have this in Atlanta when the HOF is in Macon?

By: Gene Tompkins

Gene Tompkins — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:59:27 +0000

How could you not mention Roy Hamilton award?

By: JSS

JSS — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:43:42 +0000

1. Jodi… How old are you? That is not asking angrily or condescendingly…
2. Before Athens, Before the Atlanta Hip Hop explosion, before Atlanta New Music scene there was nearly a 30 year history of performers and genres of musicians coming from Macon. Lena Horne first performances came at amateur shows on the stage of Macon’s Douglass Theater. So did Little Richard, James Brown, and Otis Redding. The Allmans Brothers craved out what would become Southern Rock on the stages of Macon’s Black clubs, bar, and college parties… Country performers like Randy Travis performed their formative shows at the old Nashville South. So ask again, why would the Georgia Music Hall of Fame be in Macon?

And Huh…
Most would mean a majority… Would you like you like to rephrase or reexamine that statement?

By: HUH

HUH — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:12:01 +0000

Most of the inductees over the past few years should have been on hold until they had many more successful years in the music business. Look at Luda for example, not even 10 successful years yet and he was voted in last year. Give me a break!