As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.

He had to fight the system so things never quite fell into place. B as an idol.

Eckstine's recording of "I Apologize" (MGM Pop Single 1948) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. William Clarence Eckstine (July 8 1914 – March 8 1993) was an American singer of ballads and a bandleader of the swing era.