Iz zat so?

This Mr. Music column by Jerry Osborne ran in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He charts, so to speak, racial progress.

Over the years, the R&B of the '50s became known as Soul, then later as just Black music.

The name is not all that changed.

For the eight years from 1956 through '63, the number of hits by white artists reaching No. 1 on the R&B-Soul-Black charts is 30. ...

That 30th one, "Louie Louie," would be the last of its kind.