Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
Soul! Episode # 79 (420, 62). Al Green, Alice Childress, Camille Yarborough, Isaac Douglas, Verta Mae Grosvenor, The Isaac Douglas Singers, Ellis Haizlip, Gerry Bledsoe
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
Soul! Opening Credits. Soul show excerpt of author-playwright Alice Childress reading to studio audience. Soul show excerpt of Al Green performing "Let's Stay Together." Soul show excert of Verta Mae Grosvenor reciting poem. Soul show excerpt of Isaac Douglas Singers performing gospel number. Soul show excerpt of Camille Yarborough reading work.
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
Author & playwright ALICE CHILDRESS reads from her work "Listen to the Sound of the People" to studio audience. Alice Childress sings rural & urban holler songs of various food vendors (shrimp, ice cream, sweet potatoes, etc), ruminates on the dialect of the Carolinas. "Life can't be all grit and no grace." At outset, nice zooming out shot of African-American audience (mostly women) applauding.
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
Host ELLIS HAIZLIP thanks Alice Childress, introduces the ISAAC DOUGLAS SINGERS. The Isaac Douglas Singers (Benny Diggs, Arthur Freeman, Wilbert Johnson, Rev. Isaac Johnson) perform stirring gospel version of "Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water" with piano, electric organ, electric bass & drum accompaniment.
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
The Isaac Douglas Singers perform "Don't Forget About Me" (up-tempo gospel).
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
ALICE CHILDRESS reads from work of fiction about a woman named Tomorrow Marie. C/A shots of blacks in audience listening to Ms. Childress read her work, apparently part of "Listen to the Sound of the People."
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
Alice Childress reads from another work of fiction, an amusing story about a black woman named Mildred who works for an infered white woman who insists on calling her "girl"-- apparently part of "Listen to the Sound of the People."
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
The always fantastic AL GREEN performs "I'd Can't Get Next to You." Rollicking soul blues w/ brief guitar solo.
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
AL GREEN performs the hit "Tired of Being Alone."
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
Ellis Haizlip introduces Verta Mae Grosvenor. VERTA MAE GROSVENOR reads excerpts from her book, "Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off." "It's a domestic rap. WFs in the book refer to white people, white folks." The selected excerpt is titled. "Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, The Gold Dust Twins, Mamie & the Rest of the Family." Verta Mae Grosvenor comments on the psychological damage upon African-Americans caused by negative black stereotypes in American adverstising. C/As of photographs of racial stereotypes in American culture taken by S.V, Dillard & Doug Harris; drawing of Madonna & Child (Mamie holding white woman) by Ellsworth Ausby (sp).
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
The ISAAC DOUGLAS SINGERS perform "I'm Gonna Live for the Lord" with lead vocal by Reverend Isaac Douglas (superb gospel number).
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
Host Ellis Haizlip introduces Camille Yarborough. Poet CAMILLE YARBOROUGH reads her poetry to studio audience: "To Whom It May Concern" & "A Message to a Righteous Brother."
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
Camille Yarborough reads an untitled poem about her tenuous though loving relationship with her man -- might be titled "Why Must It Always Come Out Mad?"
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
AL GREEN performs "Let's Stay Together." Oh yeah!
Soul! EP # 79 (420, 62)
The Isaac Douglas Singers perform "I've Got to Make It" (up-tempo gospel). Lead vocal by Reverend Isaac Douglas. Nice MCU snare drum being played. Nice MCU electric organ being played. MSs seated black audience clapping along, smiling. One would have to be deceased to not feel the groove of this song. Credits roll at outset. Ellis Haizlip shakes hands with Singers, Singers shake hands with crowd.