An initiative of the nonprofit Center for Transforming Communities, the Creative Underground uses performers and other artists - singers, rappers, actors, jookers, storytellers and so on - to "culturally organize" social change, to "cultivate community joy," and to help "heal" traumatized neighborhoods, in the words of CTC executive director Justin Merrick, 34, who arranged and directed the performance of "The 12 Days of Memphis." (Merrick also provides a bit of percussive accompaniment on an improvised drum.) Formerly with the Stax Music Academy, Merrick has master's degrees in Opera and in Nonprofit Management from Indiana University. 17 in Crosstown Concourse, our five vocalists are representatives of the Freedom Singers of the Creative Underground. Justin Merrick leads the Freedom Singers of the Center for Transforming Communities in their rendition of 'The 12 Days of Memphis' at Crosstown Concourse, Friday, Dec. "Jookin" is a highly fluid improvisatory Memphis dance style developed in the 1990s. 1), "Neon Rainbow" (24), "Cry Like a Baby" (2), "Choo Choo Train" (26), "I Met Her in Church" (37), "Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March" (28), "I Shall Be Released" (67), "Soul Deep" (18), "Turn on a Dream" (58) and "You Keep Tightening Up on Me" (92).ġ1. The Memphis rock-soul combo the Box Tops did, in fact, place 10 songs in the Billboard Hot 100 chart from 1967 to 1970: "The Letter" (which reached No. McLemore is the address of the old Stax Records studio and the current Stax Museum of American Soul Music.ġ0. In 1976, Memphis deejay Rick Dees had a No. If you include a chicken, you must also include a duck. In 1969, Memphis' "Crown Prince of Dance," Rufus Thomas, recorded his immortal hit "Do the Funky Chicken."Ĩ. Assuming they aren't relegated to the bottom-rung "play-in" round, the Memphis Tigers, if they make it to the NCAA basketball tournament, will need six wins to be national champions.ħ.
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If you need a Memphis substitute for "golden rings," what better than "wrestling rings," the professional home away from home for such beloved grapplers, past and present, as Jerry Lawler, Jackie Fargo and Sputnik Monroe?Ħ. "The Million Dollar Quartet" is the nickname given to the four famous Sun recording artists who came together for an impromptu jam session in 1956: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash.ĥ. Three 6 Mafia is a Memphis rap group best known for the "Hustle & Flow" anthem "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" (co-written with Frayser Boy), which in 2006 won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.Ĥ. The local "dual government" system means that Memphis residents essentially have a city and county mayor, posts currently held by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland and Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris.ģ. Memphis Grizzlies star point guard Ja Morant suffered a sprained knee during a Nov. On the twelfth day of Memphis my true love sent to meĪnd Ja Morant, with a healthy knee Notes:ġ. Lil Buck leads the dance ensemble in "Memphis Jookin': The Show." 12. To bring life to this carol (or should a Memphis holiday song be called a carla, in homage to Carla Thomas?), we recruited the Freedom Singers, a vocal ensemble that is part of the Creative Underground arts mission of the Center for Transforming Communities, an organization that uses art to uplift and help "heal" neighborhoods hit by violence and other traumas (read more below, after the song lyrics).
While some of the references are obvious, others perhaps aren't, so footnotes at the end of the song offer an explanation. Instead, the lyrics are a mix of actual pre-existing numbered designations (see the fourth day of Christmas, for an example) and arbitrary numerical assignments (as in the original song, in which there just as logically could have been nine rather than eight "maids a-milking"). I had hoped to figure out a numerically legitimate Memphis reference for each day of Christmas, but the challenge proved too taxing for my probably still tryptophanically infused brain cells. HOLIDAY EVENTS IN MEMPHIS: Zoo Lights, Starry Nights and a whole bunch of Santa visits HOLIDAY MUSIC: A Memphis Christmas music mix: From Elvis to Carla, here's a soundtrack for the season In other words, in place of "10 lords a-leaping" you won't find "10 flattened pedestrians," nor will the "11 pipers piping" be replaced with "11 anti-vaxxers." This is The Commercial Appeal, not Mad magazine.
So here it is, "The 12 Days of Memphis," a song that scans like the original, but with a Memphis flavor.Īnd like the original, it's a feel-good anthem.
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