ALFRED C. LIGGINS Ⅲ

摘要

Twas the mid-1980S. Alfred Liggins was out of work in Los Angeles and his mom, Cathy Hughes, urged him to come home to Washington and work at the family radio station, WOL(AM). Doing so turned out to be a great decision. Liggins had left D.C. after high school, heading West, selling direct mail ads for GTE, then records, then hymnals and sheet music over the phone for a gospel record label while joining the publishing arm of CBS Records as a production coordinator, a post that included work on the "critically acclaimed Mr.T rap album," he says with a laugh. But with the promise of a new gig at Motown, Liggins quit, learning what he calls the first lesson of true adulthood: "Never quit a job until you have another one." The Motown job was not signed, sealed or delivered.