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Soul! Ep 45 (403)
Ellis Haizlip continues to interview Georgia Jackson, mother of John Jackson & Black Panther Party Field Marshal George Jackson, who was killed at San Quentin Penitentiary on Aug 21, 1971. Mrs. Jackson says she lives in California, but hails originally from Illinois, where her five children were also born. Mrs. Jackson says her entire family was flabbergasted w/ the incarceration of George Jackson, but they made the trip to visit him regularly. Georgia Jacksons says she was grieved by the death of her son, George, but wasn't shocked mostly b/c he had made it known for years that persons were after him. "Black people don't have a voice in this country. Although we are a part of this country-- we've worked & we've ded for this country-- we don't have a voice." "For evey black man who dies, for every oppressed person who dies, it should mean something to us in a way where we are going to make the fight harder so it will be harder for them to kill another black man or oppressed person the next time."
Soul! Ep 45 (403)
Ellis Haizlip continues to interview Georgia Jackson, mother of John Jackson & Black Panther Party Field Marshal George Jackson, who was killed at San Quentin Penitentiary on Aug 21, 1971. Mrs. Jackson says "We have to do something more concrete. We have to get everybody interested in changing things. Situations can be changed if there are enough people willing to change them. We have to stop sitting at home waiting for the next man to do something that we should be doing ourselves." Mrs. Jackson discusses the George L. Jackson Prison movement whose agenda she will be taking to the United Nations. "I am George's mother. I am his next of kin. I would like to know what happened to my son. I don't believe the lies that have been printed in the paper b/c everyday the story changes. If they had one lie that they could stick to for a week then maybe I might believe it." Mrs. Jackson says Gov. Ronald Reagan of California called her son George a "mad dog" which infuriated her.
Soul! Ep 45 (403)
Ellis Haizlip continues ot interview Georgia Jackson, mother of John Jackson & Black Panther Party Field Marshal George Jackson, who was killed at San Quentin Penitentiary on Aug 21, 1971. Mrs. Jackson says black people aren't making necessary progress. "If we had progress I wouldn't need to be sitting here talking to you now. I think black people & all oppressed people, no matter how hard we try to hide it, we've got to stand up & do something about what's happening to us. We are not in the minority, you know. The people who are doing these things to us are in the minority." TLS seated audience applauding. Ellis Haizlip thanks Georgia Jackson, closes segment.
Soul! Ep 45 (403)
Ellis Haizlip introduces LaBelle. LaBelle (Sarah Dash, Nona Hendryx, Patti LaBelle) perform a soulful gospel version of the James Taylor hit "You've Got A Friend."
Soul! Ep 45 (403)
LaBelle (Sarah Dash, Nona Hendryx, Patti LaBelle) perform "Morning Much Better." Tight R 'n' B soul with gospel feel, Patti LaBelle singing like the end days are near. At outset, Ellis Haizlip thanks Patti LaBelle for being a loyal supporter of "Soul!" Mr. Haizlip thanks Labelle, Georgia Jackson, Mandrill, then re-introduces Mandrill.
Soul! Ep 45 (403)
Mandrill (Claude Coffee Cave, Omar Mesa, Charles Padro, Fudgie Solomon, Carlos Wilson, Lou Wilson, Ric Wilson) perform "Git It All." Deep, dirty funk rock (with cowbell breakdown) that inspires some members of the studio audience to dance in the aisles. Fantastic! Groovy pandemonium in the "Soul" studio! "Shake some booty/Get up, Lord have mercy." Great MSs Ellis Haizlip grooving in chair, dancers in BG. Harmonica solo.
Soul! Ep 45 (403)
Mandrill (Claude Coffee Cave, Omar Mesa, Charles Padro, Fudgie Solomon, Carlos Wilson, Lou Wilson, Ric Wilson) perform "Rollin On." Soulful funk rock that gets everybody clapping. Ellis Haizlip rocks in his chair (chair grooving, chair dancing). TLSs audience clapping, dancing, digging the groove. Credits roll while Mandrill continues to perform.
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Funky "Soul!" opening with audio layover of King Curtis & Kingpins playing "Soul!" theme. Ellis Haizlip introduces program: "Tonight we are featuring a work that was shaped by one of the giants of our black musical history, Max Roach. Max, together with the J.C. White Singers conducted by J.C. White, has drawn on the sound of contemporary black music & the spiritual as materials for this work. Protest comes in var forms. Marching, sitting-in, fasting, fighting-- I mean, getting down with it. Protest can be a brick hurled through some dumb window & it can be the simple refusal to participate in some inhuman but popular act." "Taken in historical context, the spirituals were songs of protest & inspiration which sometimes even chronicled our history in America. Gospel music, however, has mainly dealt w/ songs of devotion to Christianity as defined by the King James Bible. Frederick Douglass was the very embodiment of protest & resistance. He protested his own enslavement by escaping. He protested the enslavement of our people w/ his writings & his oratory & his tireless activity in the abolitionist movement."
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Actor Arthur Burghardt portrays elderly Frederick Douglass recounting his life story, interspersed w/ stories of slavery. "I have never met a slave who could ever tell of his birthday." "The white children could tell of their ages. I wondered why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege." "The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father but the correctness of this opinion I know not. The means of knowing was withheld from me. My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant, too young to know her as my mother."
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Cover of Max Roach with the J.C. White Singers "Lift Every Voice and Sing" LP. Brief keyed effect bubble over album cover of solo vocalist singing. Max Roach with the J.C. White Singers conducted by J.C. White perform "Motherless Child." Deep spiritual over baleful, mid-60s period Trane-like jazz. Interesting musical experiment. Max Roach ensemble features: Joe Bonner, piano; Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet; Omar Clay, drums; Billy Harper, tenor saxophone; Reggie Workman, bass; Max Roach, drums.
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Max Roach with the J.C. White Singers conducted by J.C. White continue to perform "Motherless Child." Deep spiritual over baleful, mid-60s period Trane-like jazz. Interesting musical experiment. Max Roach ensemble features: Joe Bonner, piano; Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet; Omar Clay, drums; Billy Harper, tenor saxophone; Reggie Workman, bass; Max Roach, drums. At outset, TLS seated audience applauding.
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Max Roach with the J.C. White Singers conducted by J.C. White perform "Garden of Prayer." Gospel spiritual with lead vocal by J.C. White. Max Roach ensemble features: Joe Bonner, piano & organ; Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet; Omar Clay, drums; Billy Harper, tenor saxophone; Reggie Workman, bass; Max Roach, drums.
Bathing Beauties
Bathing Beauties Toronto, Ontario Baithing Beauties all lined up in a row. What a contest, these pretty young lassies are vying for the title of Miss Toronto. Only one can be crowned Miss Toronto and it looks like the judges like red heads today.
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Actor Arthur Burghardt portrays Frederick Douglass delivering oratory: "In whatever else the Negro may have been a failure, he has in one respect been a marked & brilliant success. He has managed by one means or another to make himself one of the most prominent & intersting figures that track & hold the attention of the world. Go where you will, you will meet w/ him." "Despite it all, the Negro remains like iron or granite. Cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful. It is his sad lot to live in a land where all presumptions are arraigned against him unless we accept the presumption of inferiority. If his course is downward he meets very little resistance. But if upward, his way is disputed at every turn of the road." "No matter what may be his attainments or his abilities, there is always presumption based upon his color or his previous condition. It is a real calamity in this country for any man to be accused of a crime. But it is an incomparable calamity for any black man to be so accused." The racism of the courts. "For as in the eyes of most white people, all negroes look alike, and as the man arrested is black he is undoubtedly the criminal. A still greater misfortunte to the Negro is the press." Racism in the media.
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Actor Arthur Burghardt continues to portray Frederick Douglass delivering oratory: "What Abraham Lincoln said of the United States is as true of the colored people as of the relation of those states. They cannot remain half slave and half free. You must give them all or take from them all. Until this half & half condition is ended, you will have an aggrieved class & this discussion will go on." "Until color shall cease to be a bar to equal participation, this discussion will go on." "Until the American people shall make character & not color the criterion of respectability, this discussion will go on." "When will he cease to be a bone of contention between the two great political parties. Speaking for myself, I can honestly say that I wish it to cease." "I want the whole American people to unite in sentiment w/ their greatest captain, Ulysses S. Grant, and say w/ him on this subject, Let us have peace. But it is utterly idle to dream of peace anywhere in this world while any part of the human family are victims of marked injustice & oppression."
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Actor Arthur Burghardt continues to portray Frederick Douglass delivering oratory: "Now that slavery is abolished, the newly emancipated black man has none of the conditions of self-protection. He is free of the individual slave-master, but the slave of society. He has neither money nor property nor friends." "The old master class hates the slave b/c he has been freed as a punishment onto them, or so they think, b/c they feel that they have been robbed of his labor." "The liberties of the whole American people are dependent upon the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box, and without these no class of people can live & flourish in this country."
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Max Roach with the J.C. White Singers conducted by J.C. White perform "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord." Gospel spiritual with lead vocal by J.C. White. Max Roach ensemble features: Joe Bonner, piano & organ; Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet; Omar Clay, drums; Billy Harper, tenor saxophone; Reggie Workman, bass; Max Roach, drums.
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Actor Arthur Burghardt portrays Frederick Douglass delivering 4th of July oratory: "The papers & the placards say I am to deliver a 4th of July oration. Oppression makes a wise man mad. Your fathers were wise men. And if they did not go mad they became restive under this treatment." "With brave men there is always a remedy for oppression." "My business is w/ the present. The accepted time w/ God & his cause is the ever-loving now. Washington could not die until he had broken the chains of his slaves, yet his monument is built up by the price of human blood." "The evil that men do lives after them and the good is often interred w/ their bones. Fellow citizen, allow me to ask why I am called upon to speak here today. What have I or those I represent have to do w/ your national independence? I am not included w/in the pale of this glorious anniversary. The blessings which you rejoice-- liberty, prosperity, independence-- bequethed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. You may rejoice; I must mourn." "Must I argue that a system thus marked w;/ blood is wrong?"
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Actor Arthur Burghardt continues to portray Frederick Douglass delivery 4th of July oratory: "What then to the American black slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him the gross injustices to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham." "A thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a national of savages. There is not a nation guilty of practices more shocking & bloody than the people of the United States at this very hour. Americans, your republican politics, not less than your republican religion are flagrantly inconsistant." "You profess to believe that of one blood God hath made all nations of men to dwell upon the face of the earth, and yet you hate all men whose skin are not colored like your own." "Fellow citizens, the existence of slavery in your land brands your republicanism a sham, your humanity as a base pretense, and your Christianity as a lie. It destroys your moral power abroad & corrupts your politicians at home."
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Max Roach with the J.C. White Singers conducted by J.C. White perform "Let Thy People Go." Gospel spiritual mixed with jazz. Max Roach ensemble features: Joe Bonner, piano & organ; Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet; Omar Clay, drums; Billy Harper, tenor saxophone; Reggie Workman, bass; Max Roach, drums. Cecil Bridgewater solos on trumpet. Nice shots of Max Roach on drums.
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
FOR FULL PERFORMANCE WITH AUDIO, PLEASE CONTACT WPA. Studio audience applauding. Max Roach with the J.C. White Singers conducted by J.C. White perform "Joshua." Gospel spiritual mixed with jazz. Max Roach ensemble features: Joe Bonner, piano & organ; Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet; Omar Clay, drums; Billy Harper, tenor saxophone; Reggie Workman, bass; Max Roach, drums. Billy Harper solos on tenor saxophone.
Soul! EP # 47 (405)
Actor Arthur Burghardt portrays Frederick Douglass delivering oratory: "Let me give you a word on the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress." Credits eventualy roll along right side of screen.
Soul! EP 48 (406)
Funky "Soul!" opening credit sequence w/ audio of King Curtis & Kingpins performing "Soul!" theme.
Soul! EP 48 (406)
Poetess Wanda Robinson recites "Instant Replay," an original poem about meeting a strong, young, black revolutionary & falling in love with all that he represents, only to watch him mack on another woman; playing softly in background is an instrumental soul tune, heavy on strings; fidgety black man wearing ascot, derby hat, sporting scraggly beard, stands in FG. "So much for love at first sight." Soul jazz poetry.