Louise Day Hicks

the agent tells me, the agent tells me the story.

He says, "You're really a lucky bastard." [laughs] I said, "Tell me about it." He, he says, she remembered all the race problems in Boston, you know, the busing problems, Louise Day Hicks, this, that, and the other thing, the problems which people knew because of, uh, the stories of, uh, what Bill Russell encountered.

You guys re- will remember that at some point, uh, someone broke into his house, I forget where it was, but it was in one of the nice suburbs, and they smeared feces on the walls and stuff like that.

Bill Russell, right? So Aretha remembered that Boston had these racism problems, and, you know, she didn't know whether or not she wanted to do the sh- do the show or not.

... as, as Hank Aaron, as Hank Aaron is hitting that home run, there are riots in the streets about busing schools.

Right, and Louise Day Hicks-

Yeah.

Well, what, what, what do you-