Narrator:
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Welcome to the MedEvidence Monday Minute Radio Show hosted by Kevin Geddings of WSOS St. Augustine Radio and powered by ENCORE Research Group. Each Monday morning, Dr. Michael Koren calls in to bring you the latest medical updates with insightful discussions. MedEvidence is where we help you navigate the real truth behind medical research, with both a clinical and research perspective. So sit back, relax and get ready to learn about the truth behind the data in medicine and health care. This is MedEvidence!
Kevin Geddings:
0:32
Oh, silence, Simon, and
Kevin Geddings:
1:28
But the most interesting story to me is the story of this guy named Tom Wilson who probably no one has ever heard of, and it's a fascinating story. So Tom Wilson was a thin, tall black man from Waco, texas. He actually graduated Harvard in the 50s before he was born And he went into the record industry And just coincidentally he ended up getting hooked up with Simon and Garfunkel. And the funny part of the story is that Simon and Garfunkel met each other as kids and queens And they were kind of involved in the folk music coffee house scene in the late 50s, early 60s. They put together this album I think the name I remember correctly. The name was Wednesday morning, a 3 AM album in 1964. And that was with Columbia Records And Tom Wilson was a producer there. So he got to know them a little bit And Simon and Garfunkel were actually a flop.
Kevin Geddings:
2:19
If you read some of the stories from their early days it's kind of crazy. Number one they used to call themselves Tom and Jerry. Why they thought it was a good idea to call themselves after a cartoon act, i have no idea, but they came up with it And they were in the coffee house scene, as I mentioned. And when they came out with Sound of Silence in 1964 in this album it was a bit of a joke. So when they went to their coffee houses and they started with the line hello darkness, my old friend, people would actually start laughing. It was a little embarrassing. Based on the poor sales of this album and the reaction they got, they actually quit music.
Kevin Geddings:
2:56
Garfunkel went back to Columbia University And Paul Simon actually went to London. I think we went to London to do the coffee house scene there where you got a little bit, a little more respect. But if anything happened, this guy, tom Wilson, took the song and noticed that there was a following amongst college radio stations in Florida and in Boston, and he redid the song where he electrified a number of the instruments And the acoustic version. That was originally done his electrified version without Simon and Garfunkel even knowing about it, and then they re-released it And it was a huge hit. So a really interesting story And I guess one of the more of the stories that you need a cool black guy to make two goofy Jewish guys from New York more cool. Yeah, almost That was one take home, but the other take home, which is related to my business now, is that this guy, tom Wilson, actually died of a heart attack at age 47.
Kevin Geddings:
3:51
And we didn't know much about these things at the time. But he almost certainly had a genetic dyslipidemia. He's probably had lipoprotein-lilate disease And that's a problem that's a little bit more common in black than white. So all races have this problem And we know that folks that have this problem are much, much more likely to have a heart attack or stroke in their 40s or 50s. So we can hypothesize now that that's most likely what he had, and had he been living nowadays we would have had ways to deal with it.
Michael Koren:
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Wow. And he could have gone on to help all sorts of other musical acts that he probably would have benefited from his talents, right.
Kevin Geddings:
4:28
Absolutely, absolutely Apparently. He also helped Bob Dylan, i think, frank Zappa, a couple others. I remember all the people that he helped, but he was an interesting behind the scenes guy for a while and unfortunately died in way too early age. I think it was 47 years old. If I remember correctly in the 1970s.
Michael Koren:
4:46
One thing I've learned from Dr Corn is that the test for LP little A is something that isn't traditionally included in your battery of lab test right.
Kevin Geddings:
4:54
It is not, and it's something that we haven't been able to do much about in the past. Only now, through clinical trials, are we able to impact this particular lipoprotein, and for that reason, we want to know about it, and one more cardiologist and some primary care physicians are now screening for it, and if you know that you have this problem, let us know. We may be able to help you.
Michael Koren:
5:14
Yeah, absolutely, and if you'd like to get involved in any form of clinical research, we highly recommend it. I'm a part of that. Karen on our team. She is as well with Encore Docs Here locally in Northeast Florida, including offices right here in St John's County near Flagler Hospital in the West Stone Building. You can call over there and learn more. To get started, you can also go to the website, oncoredocscom. Oncoredocscom 904-730-0166. It's the telephone number you can call, 904-730-0166. And, of course, dr Corrin is on his mobile phone right now. Off to go save some more lives, correct?
Kevin Geddings:
5:55
I'm going to try to do that, at least make it a net positive today.
Michael Koren:
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There you go, there you go, dr Corrin. Thank you, we appreciate you Alright, always a pleasure well.
