Jesse Jackson – Introduction / I Am Somebody

Jesse Jackson, Wattstax...

https://youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?si=W4T52heKICmX5uY

#jessejackson #wattstax #civilrightsmovement

For this week's #SaturdayOnStage I've chosen one of my favorite video clips, which is from the 1972 concert movie "Wattstax".

The Emotions: Peace Be Still (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFWZcMxFmd0

At the time, the Emotions were making excellent secular recordings for Stax's Volt subsidiary, but it's a revelation to see how incredibly good they were when they were singing gospel music at a small Los Angeles church.

#music #emotions #gospelmusic #soulmusic #Wattstax #staxrecords #1970s #LosAngeles

Heads up, film and music fans of Denton, TX and the surrounding DFW area!

The Denton Black Film Festival will be presenting a FREE screening of "Wattstax" on June 8th at the
Golden Triangle Mall/ Theatre Denton Annex.

Doors open at 3:30 pm, film starts at 4pm. Sign up on Eventbrite (there's a link on the webpage). RSVP is requested.

https://dentonbff.com/events/free-community-screening-of-wattstax/

#Denton #DentonTX #DTX #DFW #DentonBlackFilmFestival #DentonBFF #Wattstax #70sMovies #ConcertMovies

1000 Day Album Challenge (#64) The Cure: Boys Don’t Cry (1980) [04.03.24]

if you pick up on it quick / you can say you were there…

I’m pretty sure I bought Boys Don’t Cry while I was still in high school because I remember playing it often during my freshman year of college. I absolutely loved it. I had thought at the time and for many years to come that this was their debut. I later discovered that it was a compilation for the U.S. market. it features eight songs from their actual debut, Three Imaginary Boys (1979) plus three a-sides, a b-side, and one new tune, World War. (for the youngsters out there “a-side” and “b-side” is how we refer to the different sides of 45 rpm 7” singles.)

to this day Jumping Someone Else’s Train is my favorite track on the album. for me it is one of the top songs of the era. it still makes me all twitchy which I guess is akin to “it’s got a good beat. you can dance to it.” (again for the youngsters that’s a reference to how audience members of American Bandstand would often describe a song they heard.)

in terms of genre, I don’t know how I though of or described The Cure at the time. maybe punk. maybe new wave. something else? for sure, now I would refer to this era of The Cure as post-punk, but I don’t recall when that particular name became a part of my vernacular. genres are strange things. they are convenient signposts to give someone a broad sense of what a particular artist might sound like. as Jesse Jackson said in his introduction to the WattStax Festival in 1972, “all those are just labels. we know that music is music.” Duke Ellington wrote in 1962, “There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind…” well, The Cure - Boys Don’t Cry is good music. in addition to Jumping Someone Else’s Train there are eight other songs that I remember loving – Boys Don’t Cry, 10:15 Saturday Night, Accuracy, Object, Killing An Arab, Fire in Cairo, Grinding Halt, and Three Imaginary Boys.

#1000DayAlbumChallenge #TheCure #BoysDontCry #JesseJackson #WattStax #DukeEllington

#JukeboxFridayNight
#LivePerformance

Rufus Thomas handling the crowd like the old pro he is. He's got this thing under control the whole time.

Some really wonderful dancing in the crowd shots and the 70s hair/fashion are really fun to look at.

"Breakdown" and "Funky Chicken"- Rufus Thomas (from "Wattstax", 1973)

#RufusThomas #Wattstax #FunkyChicken #ClassicSoul #ClassicR&B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCFyKRtlLOI

well.....

The Bar Kays - Son Of Shaft / Feel It (Live At #Wattstax Festival 1972)
#BarKays
#Shaft
#Funk

https://youtu.be/3O27YBvaXW8