>in fact, a lot of the churches he went to didn't partake in
>the kind of expressive singing that is most often associated
>with black American Christianity (remember that his dad was
>mostly affiliated with a kind of obscure Afro-Judaic sect)

did the churches have singing? yes or no?


>
>i'm not saying that he had NO church in him whatsoever...
>it's been documented that he did do some church singing. but
>as i've argued before, his biggest influences came from the
>radio... particularly "guinea crooners" like Frank, Dino,
>Perry Como, Nat King Cole, and also from pop bluesmen like
>Big Joe Turner


did marvin grow up in the black church in america, yes or no? & the fact that marvin wanted to be like nat king cole or a black frank sinatra aint got SHIT on how he grew up & what he was initially influenced by.