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Rosa Pryor. Is that R-O-S-A? Uh-huh. Spell your last name. Pryor, P-R-O-Y-O-R. Like Richard Pryor, Pryor. You are the Baltimore Times rambling rose. Yes. How'd you, how?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=21.5,46.86"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, what happened was that I've been in the entertainment field and the music industry for like 30-something years, and I was having a chance of giving a function. As a matter of fact, it was for Walter Carr, and I wanted to advertise it. And so I went to the newspapers that was around at the time, and that was The Sun, and I went to the Afro, and someone said, Rosa, why don't you put it in a bowl two more times? And matter of fact, it was a friend of mine's, Dr. Louise Johnson, said that it's a black owned paper and they had just started out, but you would like to, you should advertise with it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=51.44,90.9"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay, that's really ignoring too far. Again, we're on a couple of minutes, so we're just okay. Let me let me rephrase. You're doing great. It's just that I asked the wrong question. You, you are rambling Rose. Yes. How long have you been?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=91.32,109.36"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e rambling rose I've been rambling rose for approximately 35 years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=110.06,118.94"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e And finally, not too long ago, you decided that someone offered you a newspaper column.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=122.71,128.41"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, it was Joey Brown at the Baltimore Times and because of my namesake she had heard about this rambling rose and people told that I was in the bars and the clubs and concerts and plays and you know all the time and working with a lot of entertainers. So she then asked me would I please write a column for her start an entertainment section in her newspaper. I told her no because I'm not a journalist and I've never did that before, all I know is to socialize. She said, great, that's the way I want you to write, just the way you socialize. But I wasn't sure I knew how to transfer the socialism into words. So she told me she knew, realized the fact that I've never done it before, but she felt very strongly that I was capable of doing it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=128.84,177.83"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e So I did it. How long you been doing that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=178.69,180.49"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e I've been doing this thing going on eight years people seem","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=181.17,184.65"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e to enjoy your column.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=184.96,185.78"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e about it I can't figure out why but they love it. Well you let them know what where to go and who to see? True but I also I think what really clicked with the Rambling Rose section and their favoritism towards me is because I enjoy writing about the local people the everyday people the no name people, the customers that sits at the bar, the People that just, they're barmaids that serve them. The club owners that struggle to keep their spot open. People, musicians, entertainers never been heard of before trying to get a record out or trying to get a gig at some club. Even if they perform, I kind of find out where they are and go and talk to them, take pictures of them and let people know. that so-and-so is at such-and-such a club, and they wind up getting a clientele because I put it in my comp. So I kind of enjoy mostly writing about the local, unknown people, and for the first time in their life, ever in their life, they've ever been in a newspaper, and of a great magnitude as the Baltimore Times is. You've done an article or two on the Sportsman's Lounge. Oh yes, my favorite spot. Yes, I have. Because Bob Haynes and Anita, who's the owners of the club, has, since they've owned that club for so many years, they kind of, what they have done was gave so many, the young musician, unknown musician again, and it kind of clicks to my heart what they do, is to give them a name by allowing them some place to play and getting a critic of the general audience to come see them. where they were never prior to Bob Haynes' and the Sportsman's Lounge had an opportunity to play before an audience and they're playing professional with professional musicians and that is because the Sportsman's there that's just one of a kind here in Baltimore.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=187.02,316.0"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me ask you that again, only really cut it. You have done an article or two, I suppose, on the sportsman's lounge.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=317.42,326.92"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I have, and it's because of, again, of the local musicians that also have been unknown, have come, had the opportunity to perform in a large jazz club as the Sportsman's Lounge. Sportsman's Lounge kind of opens their doors to these unknown talents. Yes, they does. The Sportsman's Lounge does open their doors to them, and I have the opportunity, having the power to pen to go write about them and let people know that they there. And not only that, you can sit there and listen to these new artists.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=327.54,360.02"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e them too!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=361.53,361.87"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, that's true. I certainly can you ever done one with Eleanor Eleanor my girl Eleanor. Yes, I have did several things in a paper about Eleanor Janie she something else. Oh, that's my girl Eleanor is like What's kind of my assistant when I was promoting in a promotion and booking business? and when I decide to retire from that I kind of gave her all of my contacts until a takeover and her home base have always been the Sportsman Lounge. So she utilized that to bring in the local entertainers. So, you know, she's did a fantastic job of doing that. How about Al Brown? Al Brown, another person, a very Also a former entertainer, musician. Well, I'm not going to say it for him, because Al Brown, he's still doing it, you know, down at his spot, down at Summit Social Club, Social Club in East Baltimore, he brings in also local entertainers, but believe it or not, Al Brown sings and performs with them. So he gives you plenty to write.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=362.32,430.8"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e I suppose no question about that keeps me busy as well, and you did you you had the final word on a really good buddy of mine Mickey Fields","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=430.97,440.25"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e A jewel, yes. Mickey Fields. We've been friends for so many years along with him and his sister Shirley. And I kind of had to follow words. Matter of fact, my last piece on him, prior to him passing away, I was able to do a life story on him in my column. And you did his obituary. Yes, I kind of did his obituary prior to him passing away, as people call it his because it really was this life story. as a whole, and they used part of that as the original bituary, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=441.82,476.8"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e You are a Baltimore girl, native.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=479.42,482.72"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e born and raised.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=484.01,484.57"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Which area?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=484.93,485.29"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e West Baltimore. I was born on Madison Avenue, and I was raised on Lexington Street, in the 2200 block, matter of fact, where my mother still resides.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=486.4,496.46"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e a teenager, you became a professional entertainer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=498.97,503.29"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, it didn't start off being professional. I didn't realize that I could sing. I enjoy singing, always did, and loved music all my life because of records that my mother and father played. I found myself singing along with it. And as I was growing up, I found myself wanting to play something, and it was a saxophone. My father and mother bought me my first saxophone, which was kind of a secondhand thing, but it kind of made sound the right way, so. As I got older, they brought me a better one. And I still as a teenager, then I started singing. I put together a group. And I called Lil Johnny and the Twilight's. And I was one of the leaders, if not the leader of the group.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=504.76,548.25"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=548.57,548.57"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e But that's fine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=550.34,550.9"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Rock and Robin and Fat Daddy. They got you and took you on the road.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=552.96,558.82"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. Yes, they did. At the time, they were very popular, very well-known DJs. I believe that was WBB. They was working on the radio station. And I used to go there and hang out at the station. So for 10 years, you performed? Yeah. Yep. I performed non-professionally for a few years prior to that and became professional because I got a little paycheck when I finished though. We performed, thanks to Rock and Robin again, and Fat Daddy, who originally started taking us around to perform with different groups. And then they took us on the road, and we kind of was the opening act for the Charelles, the Chantelles, and groups of that sort. Then the doctor said, no more, Rosa. I was a very hard singer. I don't know if that was the problem or what, but I started having so much problem with my throat. that swallowing and all and the doctor said that I had to give up singing or I would totally lose my voice and so I did. And started managing your own groups. I had to because I could not try for a year so I was upset I didn't know what to do because music was just in my blood for whatever reason and so I decided to take my talent and just give it to somebody else by managing and training them. So I formed the Rose of Prime Production and started taking on other young musicians and singers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=559.6,650.43"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e And now you have a whole wall of people that you have had an influence on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=651.25,656.43"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, it kind of my keepsake. You manage them? I manage these. These are entertainers and musicians that I either manage, promote, booked, or interview at some time or another.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=657.55,672.75"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e So you have had a long, fruitful...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315#t=674.56,677.72"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144620/file/267315/transcript/77492/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e career right here in Baltimore. Yes I didn't think it could happen. All my saying was you can't be a star in Baltimore or even be successful if you're in the entertainment industry because it's one of the most difficult hardest industry you can get into especially to climb the ladder or to be known in any aspect or respected. You have to leave Baltimore that's what I always believe but I obviously have made a point of what I'm trying to do now. feel very strongly. 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