the label became a showcase for artists like betty wright, helene smith, frank williams and the rocketeerslist, quite an amazing list. >> willie: it is about 1,200. >> anthony: 1,200 songs. >> willie: it just flows. i'm like a song mechanic. you bring it to me. i'll help you fix it. >> anthony: william and his writing partner clarence "blowfly" reed wrote such classics as "clean up woman" and "rocking chair." deep city was miami's answer to motown. >> anthony: 50 years, 100 years from now, search and punch in the miami sound, your name is going to come up right away as principal creator of the miami sound. what were the distinctive features of the music you were making that separated it from motown, philadelphia, new york? >> willie: the culture was a mixture of bahamian, jamaican, and then some people came down from georgia and alabama, but that bahamian influence was dominant. >> anthony: right. >> willie: we would have bands who would march from over town all the way to liberty city and back in big parades. this influence, the dancing and the moving and the marching, i would say that wa