BNS: Charles Connor Revisited

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In honor of the late, great Little Richard, here's our 2017 conversation with Richard's drummer and friend, Charles Connor.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Trap Set is brought to you in part by Collecivo Coffee, handmade coffee since 1993.
0:07.4	Check them out online at collectivo.com.
0:10.3	This is Joe Wong.
0:24.6	Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.
0:29.6	I want to play something for you.
0:40.3	Keep a knocking, but you can't come in. Keep a knocking, but you can't come in.
0:43.3	Keep a knocking, but you can't come in.
0:46.3	Come back tomorrow night and try to get.
0:48.3	You said you love me and you can't come in.
0:51.3	You said you love me and you can't come in. woo said you love me and you can't come in
0:57.0	come out tomorrow night and try to get whewh
1:00.5	you're hearing keep a knocking by little richard and the upsetters featuring my guest charles
1:06.4	Connor on drums after a stint with New Orleans legend Professor Longhair, Connor was
1:12.0	tagged to join Little Richard's hard-charging band and forever changed the beat of rock
1:16.8	and roll. Charles has played with some of the biggest names in American music,
1:21.0	including James Brown, Sam Cook, Shirley and Lee, Jackie Wilson, and the Coasters.
1:33.2	Now 82 years old, he still works at K-Rock Radio and leads a new version of the Upsetters.
1:38.4	He recently released a new album Still Knockin, featuring singer Kate Flannery.
1:45.0	And now my conversation and you keep coming. Come back tomorrow night and try to get away. And now my conversation with Charles Conner.
1:48.0	When I was about four years old, my mother and father was in the front room.
2:04.6	And what happened was I wanted to get attention from that.
2:09.6	You know, like a child, I want their parents' attention.
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