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Thread #172891   Message #4186059
Posted By: Thomas Stern
20-Nov-23 - 10:26 PM
Thread Name: Bayard Rustin LPs
Subject: RE: Bayard Rustin LPs
NETFLIX has created an enhanced "screener" of their RUSTIN film for the press:
Rustin: A Film by George C. Wolfe 2023 Coffee Table Book.
One (1) CD Best Song Lenny Kravitz
One (1) CD Best Score Branford Marsalis
One (1) DVD of film

hear 3 songs from the 1952 recordings"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfKHTN
another recordings:
https://www.arts.gov/stories/short-cuts/heres-rare-recording-great-civil-rights-leader-bayard-rustin-singing-old-spiritual-live-concert-used

A DVD about Rustin's life:
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
https://www.brotheroutsider.org/watch

https://library.wcupa.edu/musicinthemargins/blog/Bayard-Rustin

In 1939, he was in the chorus of the short-lived Broadway musical John Henry that starred Paul Robeson.
Blues singer Josh White was also a cast member and later invited Rustin to join his gospel and vocal harmony group Josh White and the Carolinians. Rustin was in the chorus backing JOSH WHITE in
the 1940 Columbia records album CHAIN GANG.

Thomas.