{"id":2535,"date":"2017-02-18T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2017-02-20T09:11:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:11:51","slug":"framed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/framed\/","title":{"rendered":"Framed (Robins\/Leiber &#038; Stoller\/racism)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Framed\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kKHg95HRcgQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to cell phone videos and Black Lives Matter, it has become a lot harder for white Americans to ignore how badly black Americans are routinely treated by the US legal system&#8230; though that doesn&#8217;t mean everybody now gets it, or wants to get it. One way people don&#8217;t get it is to treat the recent spate of killings of young black men by police as something new &#8212; what is new is the videos, not what they show &#8212; or to treat those killings as isolated events rather than the normal, day-to-day experience of <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Robins-for-framed-300x196.jpg?resize=329%2C215\" width=\"329\" height=\"215\" \/>young black men in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, rappers have been talking about this subject for years, and this song is a reminder of just how many years. It was recorded in 1954 by the Robins, a group of young black men in Los Angeles, several of whom shortly moved to New York and became the Coasters (as in West Coast).<\/p>\n<p>The songwriters were a pair of young white (to be specific, Jewish) men who had fallen in love with blues and R&amp;B: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. They recognized the comic storytelling possibilities of the Muddy Waters\/Willie Dixon &#8220;Hoochie Coochie Man&#8221; arrangement, reworked and expanded it, and as Stoller told Dave Ritz in their dual memoir: &#8220;We can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t claim credit as the inventors of rap, but if you listen to our early output, you&#8217;ll hear lots of black men talking poem-stories over a heavy backbeat.&#8221;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2538\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Leiber-Stoller.jpg?resize=226%2C242\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Their first hit along these lines was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/riot-number-nine\/\">Riot in Cell Bock #9<\/a>,&#8221; and they shortly followed with this prequel. As Leiber told Ritz, &#8220;We called it &#8216;Framed&#8217; and gave it a subtext that, despite the humor, refers to the legal brutality that impacted the black community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I started singing &#8220;Framed,&#8221; I didn&#8217;t give a lot of thought to that subtext. I was in my early twenties, a product of the sixties counterculture, and\u00a0 just thought of the lyric as a comic exaggeration of the way the court system railroaded people &#8212; not specifically black people.<\/p>\n<p>These days it&#8217;s impossible for me not to think of this as a protest song, and the joke seems a lot more bitter than it did when I was singing this onstage in the early 1980s. 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