Jan 16, 2023
Very happy with how the remastering went this morning ... in a Tampa, FL motel-room, as we travel to Miami for MLK Day in Little Haiti and meeting with Maryse's superlative aunt, Madame Marie-Marthe Balin Franck Paul, about her project to bring Universal Literacy across Haiti thorugh video-lessons for first-year students on YouTube and elsewhere ... her Team's Lèkol Toupatou (School Everywhere) project.

The second-by-second FTC (Fine Tooth Comber is the joke) remastering today brings out, I hope, much more of the interplay between musicians and the beautiful harmonics of Mario Abney and Kaliq Woods. Certainly, I felt, Cole Williams' magnificent and plangent voice and passion comes out in this remastering.

I hope it all moves you!

Dr. King is one whom you may admire the more you know about him.
Such was my experience. This link tells more of his history and his and his peers' greatness!

donpaulwearerev.com/flipping-the-script/dr-king-we-can-win-that-life-for-everyone.


The song was recorded n New Orleans at Rick G. Nelson's Marigny Studio in sessions of 2015. I mastered it with David Farrell in January 2020. And now the FTC remastering of today.

PERSONNEL and PARTICULARS
Mario Abney, trumpet
Matt Clark, banjo and guitar
Gene Harding, drums
Zack Knewstub, Fender Rhodes
Rick G. Nelson, bass
Don Paul, vocal
Cole Williams, vocal
Kaliq Woods, clarinet
Tom Worrell, piano


Produced by Don Paul
Mixed by DP and Rick G. Nelson.


LYRICS
"Dr. King Shines On Good For Everyone”

(A)
Dr. King Dr. King

Dr. King Dr. King

(B)
Dr. King would never
Let a family sleep outside
Dr. King would never
Dodge and duck and hide
Dr. King would never
Take a dollar to be unkind
Dr. King would never,
Never not speak his mind

(C)
(pick-up) Dr. King from the Mountain-top your voice sounds
Dr. King you're the Drum-Major forever strong
Dr. King you never left the righteous Road
Dr, King you fought where you were called.

(A)
Dr. King Dr. King Dr. King Dr. King

(C)
Dr. King you said all deserve a home
Dr. King you said it's not about skin-tone
Dr. King you said all Wars are for Banks
Dr. King you would lift America and the world
Dr. King from the mountain-top your voice sounds
Dr. King your Justice leads us on and on
Dr. King your soulful, smiling, angry Light
Still shines on good for everyone!

For everyone
For everyone
For everyone


Dr. King
We're marching--marching--…
There's right and wrong
And we march with you
There's work for all
And we strike for you
There's freedom through justice
And we fight for you

Love creates, Hate negates
All good courage is God's grace
The time is always right
To do what's right
And all of Light and Love
Are gifts from God

We're marching and striking and fighting for you

Till we win the Dream that you spoke high
Till we win the Life that you spoke high
Till we win those Rights for everyone
Till we win that Life for everyone

Dr. King!
All that's good comes from God
And we can serve for you
We're marching and striking and fighting for you
Your shining, soulful, angry Light
Still shines on good for everyone

Dr. King!
All of God
And it's thanks to you
Dr. King!
All of good
And it's thanks to you
Dr. King!
We all can serve
And it's thanks to you


Thank you--Thank you--Thank you


(4:36) Clarinet, trumpet, drums--End