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Soul! # 302 Ashford & Simpson
Ellis Haizlip comes out, thanks Ashford and Simpson. Credits roll.
Del Reeves Country Carnival # 102
Del Reeves "Rollin' In My Baby's Arms" Jimmy Martin "Tennessee" (bluegrass w/ Sunny Mountain Boys) Jamey Ryan "Sunshine Blue" Chase Webster "Once More With Feeling" Jimmy Martin "Free Born Man" (bluegrass w/ Sunny Mountain Boys) Del Reeves "Son of a Coalman" Del Reeves and Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys "Will You Be Loving Another Man"
Wilburn Brothers # 525
Wilburn Brothers "Less of Me" Peggy Sue "Love What You Got at Home" Jimmy Martin "The Sunny Side of the Mountain" (bluegrass w/ Sunny Mountain Boys) Wilburn Brothers "Just Call Me Lonesome" Peggy Sue "Kick It Again" Curley & Jimmy "C & C Boogie" (instrumental) Jimmy Martin "When the Savior Reached Down For Me" (bluegrass gospel) Wilburn Brothers "Travelin"
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
Gerry Bledsoe introduces program from audience of Club Soul. Excerpt of The Spinners performing "I'll Be Around" in Club Soul.
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
Gerry Bledsoe introduces The Jimmy Castor Bunch. The Jimmy Castor Bunch perform "It's Just Begun." Groovy, soulful funk. Jimmy Castor solos on tenor saxophone. Breakdown on percussion (drums, congas, timbales) that segues into guitar solo.
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
Jimmy Castor Bunch performs their 1966 hit "Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Callin You" (latin-flavored pop) that segues into their 1970s hit "Say Leroy (The Creature from the Black Lagoon is Your Father)." Jimmy Castor plays timbales. Somewhat of a novelty song but there's some great soul moments. Rock guitar solo.
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
Jimmy Castor Bunch perform an instrumental cover version of the soft rock hit "The First Time Ever I Say You Face." Jimmy Castor plays lead, solos on saxophone.
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
Jimmy Castor Bunch perform the R n B novelty hit "Troglodyte (Cave Man)."
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
Jimmy Castor Bunch perform "I'm Not A Child Anymore." Soul ballad.
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
Jimmy Castor introduces the Jimmy Castor Bunch: Gerry Thomas (trumpet/keyboard); "Big Daddy" Doug Gibson (bass guitar); Richie Daughtry (guitar); Lenny Fridle, Jr. (congas); Bobby Manigault (drums). Jimmy Castor Bunch perform "Tribute to Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze / Foxey Lady." The editors have a field day with the trippy, psychedelic graphic effects.
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
Gerry Bledsoe, sitting at table in studio audience, mentions that Jimmy Castor was recently released from the hospital, the doctors having informed him that he may never play the sax again-- alas, Jimmy beat the odds. Gerry B reads viewer mail: WLBT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, says "Soul" will finally air there; letter from black men incarcerated in Las Lunas Correctional Center, New Mexico; Beverly J. Rhodes of Houston says she was impressed by Louis Farrakhan, and is saddened ot hear that "Soul" may be cancelled-- "So long as the CBS Evening News is aired, Soul must be too!"
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
Gerry Bledsoe continues reading viewer mail. Pat Abram of Milwaukee says he enjoys the show, especially the Wonderlove episode-- "We need Soul!" Linda Lewis of New Jersey says that she was "spiritually with the audience" while watching the Wonderlove episode, even though she is white. Marcellus C. Barksdale of Clark College in Atlanta praises the show & the talent appearing on the show. Gerry Bledsoe asks the viewers to write to Soul.
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
FOR FULL PERFORMANCE WITH AUDIO, PLEASE CONTACT WPA. Gerry Bledsoe introduces The Spinners. The Spinners perform the 1970 R&B hit "It's A Shame" (live).
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
The Spinners perform their 1961 R&B hit "That's What Girls Are Made For."
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
The Spinners perform their R&B hit "I'll Be Around."
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
The Spinners perform the R&B hit "How Could I Let You Get Away."
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
The Spinners continue performing "How Could I Let You Get Away." Phillippe Wynne introduces his fellow Spinners: Henry Fambrough; Bobbie Smith; Billy Henderson; Pervis Jackson. Phil Wynne imitates the Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, & Billy Stewart approach to "How Could I Let You Get Away."
Soul! # 316 "In A New Way"
Phil Wynne of The Spinners thanks Thom Bell, Atlantic Records and the audience. The Spinners perform the 1972 R&B hit "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love."
Soul! # 306 "Baraka the Artist"
FOR FULL CLIP WITH AUDIO, PLEASE CONTACT WPA. Imamu Amiri Baraka recites poem "We" (black unity); bouncing, lilting, stuttering, bebop, beat meter; crowd in Club Soul receives it warmly. Amiri Baraka recites poem "Snapshots of Everything." What we are is gestures of the master without space, without time.
Soul! # 306 "Baraka the Artist"
Funky "Soul!" opening credits, narrated by Gerry Blesdoe, layover audio of King Curtis & the Kingpins performing "Soul!" theme song.
Soul! # 306 "Baraka the Artist"
Ellis Haizlip interviews Imamu Amiri Baraka. Mr. Haizlip reads back jacket of Mr. Baraka's latest collection of poems. Mr. Baraka says he had a son Oct 6th, but has yet to name him. MCU collection of works by Amiri Baraka (aka Le Roi Jones): "Blues People", "Black Magic Poetry", "Home", "Black Spirits", "African Congress", "The Dutchman", "Four Black Revolutionary Plays", etc. Mr. Baraka says he started writing short stories in high school, poetry in college, continued writing through his army service. Mr. Baraka says he was under the influence of science fiction, Edgar Allen Poe & Richard Wright when he started writing in HS.
Soul! # 306 "Baraka the Artist"
Ellis Haizlip continues interviewing Imamu Amiri Baraka. Amiri Baraka says his shift from writing for theater, much like his shift to black nationalism, was sudden & yet it was also gradual. Mr. Baraka says "One of the terrible things about living in a metropolis like this is that so much of the so-called urbane influence is really slick Western degeneracy."
Soul! # 306 "Baraka the Artist"
Ellis Haizlip continues interviewing Imamu Amiri Baraka. Amiri Baraka recounts his experiences with fellow black nationalist Maulana Karenga & cites the influence of his Seven Principles of Kawaida. Mr. Baraka has the audience recite the Seven Principles of Kawaida with him (unity, self-determination, collective work & responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, faith). Ellis says he knows Amiri as a gentle man, yet he wonders what inspires the controversy surrounding him; Mr. Baraka replies it's b/c his ideas run counter to the white establishment, that it's difficult to find the middle ground in the U.S.
Soul! # 306 "Baraka the Artist"
Ellis Haizlip continues interviewing Imamu Amiri Baraka. Amiri Baraka says his family & his organization (Committee for Unified Newark) are deeply involved in the promotion of his Pan-African & Nationalist value system & ideas; "You can tell how revolutionary a people will be by how revolutionary their women are." Ellis Haizlip asks Amiri Baraka how drug addicts, homosexuals & single mothers fit into his organization; Mr. Baraka replies, "The things we have to do are in so many other directions that basically it is revolutionary for a black man & black woman to live together according to a black value system & raise a revolutionary family." Mr. Baraka pushes family values, only in a "revolutionary" context.