Lou Rawls Interview, part 6 of 7

I first started singing in a choir, and later in quartets and so forth, so by the time I made it out on my own I was ready for it / Host admires Lou’s ability to talk his way into a song / Rawls: Chitlin Circuit “I started doing that (talking way into a song) on the ‘chitlin circuit’" "That (Chitlin Circuit), folks, is usually a small neighborhood bar where you work, behind the bar, next to the cash register and over the ice machine,” (laughs) Rawls started talking introductions to songs to get the audience’s attention away from the many distractions in the noisy clubs.