David Wolper
November, 1967
"Soul--and this is my own conception, now--is fact, as opposed to fantasy," declares Lou Rawls, whose soulful singing and down-to-earth monologs have made him one of the kings of the pop-music empire. A product of Chicago's dead-end Negro ghetto, Rawls. 31, is blessed with a powerful but mellow voice, plus what a critic has termed "all-purpose phrasing" and a knack for telling it like it is. whether he's conjuring up the taste of "soul food" or the color and action...
