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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Paul Burke Date: 05 Sep 08 - 07:47 AM Anything from the Bhundu Boys first record, Shabini. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 05 Sep 08 - 07:36 AM Here are four more songs for the road {or the river}: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I Ray Charles-Hit the road Jack! ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0891fMsvBy4 Keb Mo' - Folsom Prison Blues ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtTmcZzR6kI Keb' Mo' Angelina ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XRNQ2C2x0 Tina & Ike Turner - Proud Mary |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 04 Sep 08 - 03:05 PM I didn't grow up hearing the Blues. As a matter of fact I didn't start listening to hardly any Blues at all until shortly before I joined Mudcat. In 2003, I purchased an inexpensive Blues tape from a discount store and loved what I heard. That tape featured Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf and Bo Diddley. Here's one of the songs that is on that tape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z-OG7yEP8I&feature=related super super blues band muddy waters howlin' wolf bo diddley little red rooster ** Here are some other Blues songs that I love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TwEYuues6Y&NR=1 Howlin' Wolf- Spoonful {1960} ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LNt5J0Cesc Howlin' Wolf -Smokestack Lightning ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQ9OCQdnCY&feature=related Wang Dang Doodle by Willie Dixon live at Montreal Jazz Festival |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 04 Sep 08 - 02:33 PM How can I have a thread about my favorite songs by Black singers and not include any songs by Roberta Flack? Impossible!! In no particular order, here are YouTube links to some of my favorite Roberta Flack recordings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7gzXz1cHo Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 1972 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52n4K9g2hcw&feature=related, 1983 Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack - Tonight I Celebrate My Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mpqXu0z3wU&feature=related Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly with his song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sl-MHhEJxI&feature=related Where Is The Love - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw8zKfd8BcM&feature=related Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway - The Closer I Get To You |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 04 Sep 08 - 02:20 PM Here's three classics that are guaranteed to raise a person's energy. And raising your energy helps to raise your spirit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXSUEjTp_IM Little Richard - Lucille - 1957 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pklsifwryp0&feature=related Little Richard - Bama Lama Bama Loo (VERY RARE!!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlkMc0ZaJmY Little Richard - Tutti Frutti (classic rock & roll video) |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 04 Sep 08 - 02:17 PM Although, hip-hop {rap} music is not my favorite musical genre, there are some old school songs that I like. Here's one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3kRuJhIVIo Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message ** There are times-like now-when I can really identify with the chorus of that song: "Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge I'm trying not to loose my head It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder How I keep from going under ** I haven't looked for a YouTube video, but it just occurred to me that that chorus of that rap song is very similar in spirit to the African American spiritual "How I Got Over". The main words of that spiritual are: How I got o-o-o-o-ver How I got o-o-o-o-ver {Don't you know} My soul sits back and wonder My soul sits back and wonder How I got o-o-o-o-ver. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 04 Sep 08 - 02:10 PM My first time posting to Mudcat as a member was on September 5, 2004.* Since I'll be preparing for a weekend trip and then traveling later that day, I probably won't have time to mark my "annivesary date" by posting to this forum. And so I've decided to do so today by adding additional song titles/YouTube links to this thread. * Fwiw, between 7/25/2004 and that 9/4/2004 date, I posted four other comments on Mudcat. For anyone who might be interested, here's my {rather feisty for me} comment about the song "Kumbaya" that was written on September 4, 2004: thread.cfm?threadid=65010#1264364 That comment led to several posters on that thread inviting me to join Mudcat. I'm glad that I did. I have "met" a number of interesting, talented, a good hearted people as a result of my participation in Mudcat. And, although sometimes "the road has been rocky", I'm grateful for the opportunities that Mudcat has provided to learn about genres of music and other cultures that I wasn't familiar with. I'm also grateful that Mudcat has provided me with opportunities to share examples of my culture as well as to share, information and learn more about my culture. And I do so with the full recognition that-in point of fact-my culture belongs to all Americans as well as to other people who embrace it throughout the world. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 20 Aug 08 - 05:28 PM To change the pace a bit, here's a link to a compilation of soca hits from the 2008 Jamaican Carnival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k11pqCazxM Byron Lee - "Dollar Wine", Soca's Greatest Hits - "Nanny Wine" & Mighty Sparrow - "Tiny Winy". |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: PoppaGator Date: 20 Aug 08 - 11:43 AM I hadn't know that Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masakela were husband-and-wife. I was privileged to see/hear Hugh at a recent N.O. Jazz Festival (April/May of last year or the year before). He brought the house down (if there's such as thing as a "house" outdoors!) with that old favorite "Grazin' n the Grass (It's a Gas)," among others. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: GUEST,Neil D Date: 20 Aug 08 - 11:03 AM The Mississippi Sheiks Hi Azizi |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: GUEST,Marymac90 Date: 20 Aug 08 - 10:48 AM So far nobody's mentioned Patty of Tuck and Patty. Thanks whoever posted Big Mama Thornton, the one I couldn't remember last time. One great voice that sings on the folk circuit, Vance Gilbert. Also one immortalized in a song of Vance's, Charlie Pride. That's all for now--gotta go to work! Marymac |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 20 Aug 08 - 10:47 AM I was a church going, bookworm when I was growing up. The first time that I went to a nightclub was when I was a sophomore in college in 1966 or 1967. I went to the club with a fellow student who was a senior at the college I attended and her mother. Miriam Makeba was supposed to perform that evening. However, she was ill, and her husband {at that time}took her place. And that is how I got to see a great performance by musician/vocalist Hugh Masekela. Here are two links to YouTube videos of Hugh Masekela: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKCk8o5xzaM&feature=related Hugh Masekela - Mandela (Bring Him Back Home) [South Africa] ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgYhTTZXP4g&feature=related Hugh Masekela- Coal Train ** And here is a link to a video of Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJiqvPMQXAc&feature=related Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela-Soweto Blues |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 20 Aug 08 - 10:31 AM And speaking about outstanding, check out this brother from Mali, West Africa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUCIPLCXS5o Salif Keita - "Sina" ** Here are two other links to YouTube videos of Salif Keita: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkUUaxjQCfI&feature=rec-fresh Salif Keita & Cesária Évora - Yamore. ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eGAa-rfR_g&feature=related Salif Keita - Tekere [an uptempo dance song] |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 20 Aug 08 - 10:20 AM dwditty, Oscar Brown Jr. was one of the few singers on this list that I have seen in person. This was sometime around 1967 or 1968 in Newark, New Jersey. The song that I have the most vivid memory of his performing was "Brother, Where Are You?" Outstanding!!! Here's a link to a YouTube video of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRyptFPs3wM Oscar Brown Jr.-Brother Where Are You- Matthew Herbert remix ** "Brother, Where Are You" lyrics |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: dwditty Date: 20 Aug 08 - 09:40 AM So many in this thread that I love. When my high school friends tuned into pop radio, I was tuned into Rhythm & Blues on WILD in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Since I was about 13, one of my top two all-time singers is Oscar Brown, Jr. (closing in on 50 years) Maybe it is because he was a poet that supported his talent as a lyricist. Maybe it is because he was an actor that contributed to the emotion in his songs. Maybe it is because he lived the social conditions his songs describe so well that allowed others to understand. A friend remembers Oscar Brown Jr. Link to donnie l betts' documentary on OBJ dw |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Bobert Date: 20 Aug 08 - 09:13 AM Well, yeah, I got into the Motown sound purdy heavy when it came along but before they hit the scenes there were alot of black singers who laid the groundwork for things to come and are still comin'... Born 'round 1894 was one of the earliest recorded bluesmen in Blind Lemon Jefferson... Not far behind, Eddie "Son" House, who really is my favorite bluesman who started recordin' in the late 20's and was recording well into the 60's after coming out of a 15 year retirement... Then the dam broke and all kinds of black musicans hit like a tidal wave... Some of my favorits: Johnny Shines Robert Johnson McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield Bukka White Joe Turner Tampa Red Blind Boy Fuller Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup Big Bill Bronzy Leroy Carr Magic Slim Brownie McGhee Furey Lewis Then the Post-War sounds of: Elmore James Little Walter Pintop Perkins Honeyboy Edwards Guitar Slim Chuck Berry Then the Motowners: The Four Tops The Supremes Temptations Smokey Robinson Chubby Checker Ray Charles Aretha Franklin (not technially motown) Wilson Picket (not technically motown) The Big O (not technically motown) Then the Post-Motowners: Jimi Hendrix Sly Issac Hayes Marvin Gaye Stevie Wonder Roberta Flack Ike and Tina Turner Now I don't listen to much of the current passed pop black artists today but I do keep up with alot of blues performers who are still at it or recently passed and here's a few who I most enjoy: Corey Harris, who once tried to kill me (lol) Sparky Rucker, who will be visitin' us for 4 day next week Alvin Youngblood Hart Willie King Terry "Harmonica" bean R.L. Burnside, R.I.P. John Jackson, R.I.P. Jessie Maw Hemphill, R. I. P. Blind Mississippi Morris Keb Mo John Cephis and Phil Wiggons Of course, mah main man, N.J. Warren Mike Baytop Yeah, I'm sure that as the day goes on other "favorite" will jump into my head but that's a few off the top of my head... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 20 Aug 08 - 07:56 AM Here's a link to a Sade video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7OlA_Vjwz4 Sade - The Sweetest Taboo ** I'd love it if some British Mudcatters or others would add to the list of Black British singers/groups. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 20 Aug 08 - 07:31 AM Jay777, here's the only link to a YouTube of Johnny Silvo that I could find: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O40J0vHjUms Johnny Silvo (NW/UK) - I'll fly away ** Btw, what does "NW" mean? |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Jay777 Date: 20 Aug 08 - 05:20 AM Johnny Silvo has been around the English folk scene for over 40 years. Amazing voice, great entertainer, lovely bloke. My personal favourite of his is the Mingulay Boat Song. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 19 Aug 08 - 02:23 PM This song was very popular in the late 1960s among the Afrocentric folks I hung out with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZK80Mesqq0&feature=related Leon Thomas-The Creator Has A Master Plan. ** This is another Leon Thomas song that reminds me of those times when we'd get together at house parties where people would recite their poetry, play instruments, talk about saving the world, and listen to jazz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqnsMwWAwxY&feature=related Léon thomas : "Song for my father" |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: RangerSteve Date: 19 Aug 08 - 01:59 PM Ethel Waters, Big Mama Thornton (her "Hound Dog" is proof that God likes blues music), Taj Mahal, the Golden Gate Quartet, The Coasters, Mississippi John Hurt, Stoney Edwards (an unjustly forgotten C&W singer). |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 19 Aug 08 - 01:48 PM And how 'bout a shout out to the sistahs? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9uLbTkqaxc Patti LaBelle - Lady Marmalade ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9puW5ThSGw Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp5f8dEnmHY Gladys Knight and the pips - Neither one of us ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ryh5hVC1iE Pointer Sisters - Wang Dang Doodle ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R-ZE-gFcBA Dionne Warwick - Walk On By ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXGz8i0I2L0 Diana Ross & The Supremes - Someday We'll Be Together |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 19 Aug 08 - 01:30 PM And though this isn't my favorite song, "Say It Loud {I'm Black and I;m Proud} deserves a place on this list because of the positive influence it has had on so many Black children, youth, and adults. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VRSAVDlpDI james brown,say it loud i'm black and i'm proud ** And here are two other topical songs that imo, definitely also deserve to be on this list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KC7uhMY9s&feature=related Marvin Gaye- "What's Going On / What's Happening Brother" |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: pdq Date: 19 Aug 08 - 01:26 PM Add R&B greats: Louis Jordan "Slim" Gaillard" "Slam" Stewart (the latter worked for a while as as "Slim & Slam") |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 19 Aug 08 - 01:23 PM And then how could we possibly have a list of Black singers and Black music groups without having selections from the only group, in my opinion, that gave The Temptations any real competition in the late 1960s-The Four Tops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_1QwoFZWpc The Four Tops-Reach Out I'll Be There-1966 ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJXIjme6BOo&feature=related The Four Tops -Standing In The Shadows Of Love(1967) ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HQEhuylZmg&feature=related The Four Tops- Baby I Need Your Lovin' {1965} ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StwKWpMI9R8&feature=related Four Tops- "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 19 Aug 08 - 01:15 PM MaryMac90, did you say Queen Ida?!! Oh! I just love Zydeco music! Here's a link to a videoclip of Queen Ida that shows zydeco singing, instruments, dancing and also provides some information about the roots of this American music genre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gHIscVQB84 Queen Ida and The Bon Temps Zydeco Band - Rosa Majeur ** And, MaryMac90, I see you used the word "rolling" in your latest post to this thread. Guess what that made me think of? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T7TgNdN8k8&feature=related Temptations - Ol' Man River [Melvin Franklin show his skills on the lead vocals]. ** And there really shouldn't be a list about Black singers and Black groups with just one Temptations song. So here are three more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRwmgYEUr8 Temptations-My Girl ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNn361umypM The Temptations-just my imagination http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O75qOTCHOIs The Temptations - Get Ready (rare 1966 clip) |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Barry Finn Date: 19 Aug 08 - 12:47 PM Here's a real treat. I met & heard these old Afro-Caribbean/West Indian former whalers at the 23rd Mystic Seaport Music Festival (so I'm guessing that's about 6 or so yrs ago along with writer & collector Roger Abrahams (see "Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore", the Barrouallie Whalers feature heavily in his collection). This was/is a group of Island whalers that fished for whales/blackfish from open rowing boats & they sang to their work. Here's a link to a clip of 3 of their songs; The Barrouallie Whalers Barry |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 19 Aug 08 - 04:59 AM Ayub Ogada |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: GUEST,Marymac90 Date: 19 Aug 08 - 03:27 AM Some more thoughts for this thread have invaded my head, and I hafta let 'em out! Some more contemporary singers include Shirley Bassey (theme from the movie Goldfinger", Jovetta Steele (I Am Calling You, the theme from the movie Baghdad Cafe) and Jubiliant Sykes. Then there's Queen Ida and her Bon Temps Roulez Band, doing Zydeco, and the Queen of the blues, Koko Taylor. And don't forget Ma Rainey! For groups, I will never forget The Platters, whether with Clyde McPhatter or Ben E. King on the lead. There'a someone else rolling around in my head, but I haven't quite got her name yet. Hopefully tomorrow... |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Stewie Date: 19 Aug 08 - 01:21 AM Here are links to some more personal favourite songs/performances: Richard 'Rabbit' Brown James Alley blues Washington Phillips Denomination blues Furry Lewis Goin' to Brownsville Charley Patton Mississippi boll weevil blues Memphis Jug Band On the road again Scrapper Blackwell Kokomo blues Lonnie Johnson It's too late to cry, baby Sister Rosetta Tharpe Up above my head Swan Silvertones Mary don't you weep John Jackson One black cat & Ain't she sweet Whistler's Jug Band Foldin' bed Skip James Devil got my woman Mississippi John Hurt Make me a pallet on your floor WARNING: This next link is to a SERIOUSLY XXX rated performance - Lucille Bogan's infamous 1935 recording that was not released until relatively recently. Not for the faint-hearted. Lucille Bogan Shave 'em dry --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 18 Aug 08 - 08:33 PM Moving right along, here are some additional links to Black singers, and groups from Africa and the African Diaspora: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwMr3foanNk Ali Farka Toure -Soukora {Mali, West Africa} ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjwkJgMO_yg&feature=user Nation Beat @ Drom: "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" Brazil {and USA?} Nation Beat covers this classic American tune by the great Hank Williams -- with a very Brazilian spin [Note: for the purposes of this thread, racially integrated music groups are presented here under "Black groups"] ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMMSv2WpYKw&feature=related {Clifton} CJ Chenier- Bow Legged Woman - {Zydeco} USA ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVCn2WQ-cNk&feature=related Clifton Chenier - I'm a Hog for You {Zydeco} USA ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a_0BAW71E8 Rockin' Dopsie + Zydeco Twisters - Two Numbers (1984) {USA} ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Onz-USmso Raram No Limit-Kanaval 2003 {Haitian Music} ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG_rfDfrAK0&feature=related Thomas Mapfumo - Kukuvarira Mukati {Zimbabwe, South Africa} ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljv1P_bN3QU Kanda Bongo Man & Malage Soukous Clip {Congo {Zaire}, Central Africa} ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBSDE-Dywo Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry "7 Seconds" {Senegal, West Africa & USA} "It's not a second Seven seconds away Just as long as I stay I'll be waiting It's not a second Seven seconds away Just as long as I stay I'll be waiting" |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Barry Finn Date: 18 Aug 08 - 07:29 PM "Barry, my comments about Odetta were in reference to her image and her spirit." "Barry, don't be too hard on Odetta, so many of the greats don't know when it's time to leave the stage for the last time." Azizi & Kendall, her image & spirit & voice where intact & as fine as ever, if not better & as as a guest mentioned above when meeting her she's Regal is probably an understatement. It was her mirror performance of her 60's act that if found less than refreshing, maybe she thinks that, that's what's expected of her, I don't know. To me she's still a hero, it's just dissapointing when a hero fails you. Maybe she shouldn't have been on at a sea music festival where she was a fish out of water. I apologize, perhaps I should've cut her a bit more slack. Barry |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: GUEST,Mike B. Date: 18 Aug 08 - 07:23 PM Donal Leace - "The Water is Wide" (Got to see him perform it at the Washington Folk Festival two months ago). |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Bee Date: 18 Aug 08 - 07:16 PM Well, this is the strangest thing. I wanted to add a fine Black group I heard fifty years ago to this interesting list, as a way of pushing back the history some more. I've been searching online, twice now, for information about a Black Gospel Quartet (Quintet?) who were popular in the 1950s and performed in Florida, for sure, but search as I may, I cannot find them. They were called, I was sure, The Rebels, but the only gospel group by that name and that period and that state who I can find is a bunch of white guys - who appear to be good singers as well, but they ain't the guys I heard and saw. I'm still sure they were called the Rebels. When I was six years old, living on the outskirts of Orlando for a year, I got taken to a gospel concert. I remember it well; it was in a big theatre, in Orlando or Tampa (I never did sort out those two towns as a six year old) and the singers wore red jackets, and sang so beautifully I didn't utter a peep the whole time. Their bass singer had a warm, room-vibrating deep voice. My parents bought one of their records (a rare luxury expenditure that year), we brought it back to Cape Breton with us, and they wore the same jackets on the album cover. That record was around for years before disappearing. Anybody older'n dirt like me, and possibly living in the Southern States remember these great singers? I'm feeling like I got moved to an alternate dimension around 1965 or thereabouts. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: bankley Date: 18 Aug 08 - 06:37 PM Champion Jack Dupree "Junker's Blues" and "Drunk Again" |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: John Hardly Date: 18 Aug 08 - 06:30 PM wow. blast from the past. I haven't heard "Joe&Eddie" anywhere for a long time, and yet I was playing a cassette of them just a couple of weeks ago. Has that medley on it too. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: PoppaGator Date: 18 Aug 08 - 06:11 PM "that dude from Oh Brother Where art Thou, the young guy who played guitar in the movie." That's Chris Thomas King, son of Tabby Thomas, the pride of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Tabby was not only a great blues artist himself, he was also an important club owner for many years. Tabby's Blues Box provided many a showcase for new and established performers. I'm glad to see mention of the "Tan Canary," Johnny Adams, perhaps the single greatest pure vocalist ever, hands down. Imagine Marvin Gaye, Tony Bennett and Ray Charles all rolled into one. His first-time-around career, like those of so many others, was restricted to the worlds of Race Records and the Chitlin Circuit; white folks, northerners, Europeans, and the world at large didn't get a chance to hear him. In his later years, the good folks ar Rounder Records recorded him with several excellent studio bands and brought his work into wider circulation. Definitely worth checking out. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: GUEST,Joseph de Culver City Date: 18 Aug 08 - 06:04 PM Billie Holiday- Strange Fruit Joe&Eddie- Children Go Where I Send Thee/There's A Meetin' Here Tonight (Medley) Marvin Gaye-What's Goin' On Smokey Robinson and the Miracles-Tears of a Clown Jimi Hendrix-Castles Made of Sand Rahsaan Roland Kirk-Bright Moments Stevie Wonder-Living for the City Howlin' Wolf-Little Red Rooster I could go on... |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: kendall Date: 18 Aug 08 - 05:22 PM Barry, don't be too hard on Odetta, so many of the greats don't know when it's time to leave the stage for the last time. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Desert Dancer Date: 18 Aug 08 - 05:18 PM Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers singing "Daniel in the Lion's Den" can be heard via this site ("African-American Sacred Music from the Florida Folklife Collection"). YouTube has several videos of Bessie Jones in a classroom setting. ~ Becky in Tucson |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: John Hardly Date: 18 Aug 08 - 05:12 PM The other links all worked. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: John Hardly Date: 18 Aug 08 - 05:11 PM Mavis Staples |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Azizi Date: 18 Aug 08 - 05:09 PM Barry, my comments about Odetta were in reference to her image and her spirit. From that album cover, and from the few times that I chanced to see her on television or written up in some magazine {probably Ebony or some other Black magazine}, Odetta appeared to me to be not just proud but naturally engaging. Whether this was or is real or was just something that I projected on to her, it worked for me at a time when I needed all the positive self-esteem reinforcement that I could get. Therefore, regardless of how her voice is or is not now, Odetta is still a queen to me. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: John Hardly Date: 18 Aug 08 - 05:09 PM This link didn't work. It's too good to leave off... Donny Hathaway |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: GUEST Date: 18 Aug 08 - 04:56 PM I met Odetta at the Folk Fest. in Calgary 9 yrs. ago... folks were saying that she had some health problems..mild stroke or something to that effect... I remember she walked into that crowded staff and performers room like royalty... walked straight up to me, offered her hand and introduced herself... I had never met her before or since... but will always remember that moment.. talk about regal bearing...
Thanks. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: topical tom Date: 18 Aug 08 - 04:44 PM Here are a couple of other links: Taj Mahal with "The Bourgeios Blues" The Carolina Chocolate Drops with "Cornbread and Butterbeans" |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Jayto Date: 18 Aug 08 - 04:41 PM Sorry computer troubles as I was saying you can't leave out Count Basie George Clinton ( I know ya'll may hate me for that one but...) Cab Calloway John Coltrane Lester Young Howlin' Wolf Sarah Vaughn Fats Waller Ma Rainey Theolonius Monk Theolonius Monk Theo...oops sorry got carried away Jelly Roll Morton Charles Mingus Quincy Jones Ben Harper Man I could keep going and going Wes Montgomery and I said Wes Montgomery Ah man |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Barry Finn Date: 18 Aug 08 - 04:35 PM Odetta performed at The Mystic Soeaport Maritime Music Festival back 10 or so yrs ago. I was performing at that same festival as well. Well Odetta has been one of my folk hero's since the 60's & I was thrilled that I was on the same performers list as she was, quite exciting for me. What a let down when I heard her, I left the stage area in the middle of her performance after waiting for it to get better, I was nearly in tears. I had seen her a number of times but only way back in the 60's, her stage preformence was so much the same that I could almost finish her lines as she spoke. I have no idea why she was at a sea music fest ot begin with, that not being her aerea of speciality but I'm hoping that was the reason she may have relied upon such an old & familiar showing. Sorry Azizi, but though I've loved Odetta going but to my teens I said what I felt needing saying. Saying that I should also say that I seen & heard most of the others I've mentioned, The Georgia Sea Island Singers in their various line ups, the Manhanden Chanteymen (I've heard recently that they are mostly dying off) the Buckinham Lining Bar Gang (they may be dying off to, I don't know)< Kim & Reggie Harris (who I didn't mention but someone lese did), got to hear a prison gang perform at one of the last of the early Newport Folk Festivals & I don't think that I can say how moving these groups were. I grew up with a lot of the other R&B & older Blues folks mentioned but when it comes to those that are singing "from the field" as it were, there is no greater human emotion felt, musically, than when in the mists of the singers & songs that helped a group, any group with the survival & the lifting of their human condition. I don't know why folks don't go more often tpo the field recording or the source singers when they're looking for the core of a music that their trying on for a fit. Another group I neglected that some one mentioned is the Georgia Sea Island Singers . There are a few CD's featuring them one is on the Lomax collecion; "Southern Journey/Earliest Times"-Georgia Sea Island Songs for Everyday Living again on Rounder 1998 & out on New World Records "Georgia Sea Island Songs" Another from the prison work gangs that I missed above is "Prison Worksongs" recorded at Angola State Prions, Lousiana, this is on Arhoolie CD#448 & was recorded by Dr Harry Oster 1959. This is a classic. Barry |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Jayto Date: 18 Aug 08 - 04:34 PM |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups From: Jayto Date: 18 Aug 08 - 04:33 PM Oh man I can't leave out Louis Armstrong Josephine Baker |
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