Pom Pom
1984
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Jan 15, 2020 · Eddie Wong interviewed Charlie Chin, a leading figure in the development of Asian American culture. The interview was conducted in San Mateo on Nov. 26, 2019 and it explores Charlie Chin's career from the 1960s folk music scene in Greenwich Village through the rock era when his group….
William David “Charlie” Chin was born in 1944 in Jackson Heights, NY. In his teens he began his folk rock career playing venues in Greenwich Village. He would become guitarist for the band Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys from 1967-1969.
A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle of Asians in America, a 1973 Paredon Records release, is widely recognized as the first album of Asian American music. Chris Kando Iijima, Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, and William “Charlie” Chin deliver their activist message through simply–recorded acoustic guitars and vocals, with the occasional ...
Charlie Chin is an folksinger guitarist and banjo player. He was in group Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys who had a Top 40 hit in the Summer of 1969, reaching no. 21 on the U.S. Billboard Pop Chart, with the rock and roll medley "Good Old Rock'n'Roll" which included cover versions of "Sweet Little Sixteen" by Chuck Berry, "Long Tall Sally ...
Nov 29, 2009 · Charlie Chin performs a ballad he wrote in response to the beating death in Detroit of Vincent Chin in 1982.Live - NYC, 2009, at Project Reach - Lower East S...
A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle of Asians in America, is widely recognized as the first album of Asian American music. In the album, Chris Kando Iijima, Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto, and William “Charlie” Chin attempt to verbalize all the political and personal conclusions they have come to as activist and Asian Americans.
Singing of their direct lineage to immigrant workers as well as their affinity with freedom fighters everywhere, Chris Kando Iijima, Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto, and William “Charlie” Chin recorded the experiences of the first generation to identify with the term and concept Asian American —a pan-ethnic association formulated upon a shared history of...
