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Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962),
niece of
U. S. president Theodore
Roosevelt (1858
- 1919), married
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt (1882 -
1945), governor of New York (1929 -
1932) and U. S. president (1933
- 1945).
Eleanor Roosevelt
traveled extensively,
at home and abroad,
in her 12 years as
First Lady and
afterward. She supported
the civil rights movement and
opposed
racial discrimination.
She opposed the internment of Japanese
residents and Japanese-Americans
in concentration
camps in the U. S.
during WWII.
After WWII, Eleanor Roosevelt chaired
the United
Nations Commission on Human
Rights which drafted the Universal
Declaration of Human
Rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady, supporter of Civil Rights
Biography
Eleanor Roosevelt
Speaks on Human Rights
Remembering Eleanor Roosevelt
An Interview with Patricia Baillargeon by Bruce Chapman
2015
Interview with Eleanor Roosevelt
Longines Chronoscope (1953)
Eleanor Roosevelt on the Mike Wallace Interview
November 23, 1957
(25:25)
A Conversation with Eleanor Roosevelt
With William Atwood
NBC-TV
1958
(29 min. 17 sec.)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Documentary on American Experience by PBS and WGBH-TV
in Boston (2000) (2 hrs. 20 min.)
On You Tube in two clips:
(the second clip runs 1:40:55 but the documentary ends
at the 40 min. mark)
Eleanor and Franklin
1976 TV docu-drama
Eleanor anf Franklin:
The White House Years
1977 TV docu-drama
Sequel to Eleanor and Franklin
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Marian
Anderson
Marian Anderson (1897 - 1993),
American concert and recital
singer, performed from 1925 to
1965,
Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D. C., Easter 1939
Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial, Easter 1939
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) forbade the concert singer Marian Anderson to perform at Constitution
Hall in Washington, D. C. because she was not white. So the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, resigned from the DAR and arranged for Anderson
to perform at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939.
Marian Anderson 1939 Lincoln
Memorial
Song
Marian Anderson Sings at Lincoln Memorial
Ave
Maria by Schubert
Marian Anderson with Leopold Stokowski
Christmas 1944
or
Deep River
Spiritual
Deep River
With Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 1939
They Crucified My Lord
Marian Anderson
1950 biographical film
(20:11)
or
(25:22)
Marian Anderson
Documentary (57:54)
Marian Anderson
RKO Recordings (1924 - 1927) (1:14:51)
Marian Anderson
Songs (1:15:41)
Marian Anderson
Bell Telephone Radio Hour
(1943) (29:35)
(1944) (30:13)
(1945) (30:32)
(1946) (32:20)
Marian Anderson christens the S. S. Booker T. Washington, a cargo ship built during WW2 and
the first ship named after a black American, in California in 1942.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), Baptist
pastor and
politician in New York City's Harlem.
Powell was the first black
from New York state
to be elected
to the U.
S. Congress. He represented
Harlem in the
U. S. House
of Representatives
(1945–71). Powell
was chairman of the
House
Education and
Labor Committee in the 1960s.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
A Biographical Documentary
Presented on the TV program Like It Is in 1976
(in 2 clips)
Adam Clayton Powell
1989 documentary film
1992 interview with Charles Hamilton, author of Adam, A Political
Biography of an American Dilemma
Keep the Faith, Baby
2001
movie about Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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Paul Robeson
Paul Leroy Robeson (1898 - 1976)
Swing Low Sweet Chariot (1926)
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (1926)
Deep River
Swanee River
My Old Kentucky Home
Ol' Man River (1936)
Gloomy Sunday (1936)
Shenandoah
Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child
Soviet Anthem (1944)
Song of the Volga Boatmen
Paul Robeson
Here I Stand
Documentary (1:58:05)
KPFA Interview
February 8 1958
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Jackie
Robinson Jack Roosevelt ("Jackie") Robinson (1919 - 1972), joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 - the first black professional baseball player in the major leagues in 60 years. Jackie Robinson Documentary about the first black major league baseball player since
the 1880s Robinson was an all-round athlete and all-time great baseball
player (10:42) Jackie Robinson Episode from the documentary series Sports Century (43:19) or 1939 University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins football team backfield
(left to right): Woody Strode, Kenny Washington, Jackie Robinson. The three went on to
play professional football in the US and/or Canada. Strode became
a Hollywood movie star. Washington became a policeman in Los Angeles. Robinson was also a national college track and
field champion and went on to greatness in major league baseball. The Jackie Robinson Story 1950 Hollywood movie (1:16:49) or 42 Advertisement
for 2013 Hollywood Movie Movie (1:46:53)
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Woodrow Wilson
(Woody) Strode (1914
- 1994), track and field athlete, college
and pro football player, pro wrestler, Hollywood movie actor (from 1939) best remembered for his roles in Pork Chop Hill (1959) and Spartacus (1960).
Strode played Canadian football with the Calgary Stampeders in 1947 and 1948 (1948 Grey
Cup champions)
(above photo). Strode Road The Football Years Blog by Woodrow
Strode Jr. Famous scene from the 1960 Hollywood movie Spartacus
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Joe Louis
Joseph
Louis Barrow (1914 - 1981),
world
heavyweight boxing
champion
for
12 years, from 1937 to 1949.
Joe
Louis defended his heavyweight boxing championship title only twice during World War Two, in early 1942, winning both
fights by knockout. He donated his purse from each fight to charity.
During
the war, Louis fought 96 exhibition matches for the army in the
U. S., Europe and Africa.
Oddly, for reasons that are unclear, one particular exhibition match, in Buffalo, N. Y. in November 1944, against an army
sergeant with a 3-3 won-loss record, was considered by some to be an official title defense. Louis knocked out his opponent in 1:56
of the first round.
Post-War
The Rematch with Billy Conn
World heavyweight champion Joe Louis vs World Light-heavyweight champion Billy Conn (II)
New York, June 1946
Louis knocked Conn out in the eighth round
Highlights of rounds 5, 6, 7 and 8
Joe
Louis vs Billy Conn
Episode about the two Louis -
Conn fights (in 1941 and 1946) from the documentary series Battle Lines on the program Sports Century
Unfortunately, the upload includes many of the program's advertisements
Joe Louis vs Tami Mauriello
New
York, September 1946
Louis
knocked out Mauriello in the first round
He's
Got A Punch Like Joe Louis
Alberta Hunter (1946)
The Joe Louis - Jersey Joe Walcott fights
1947 - 1948
Champion
Joe Louis and challenger Jersey Joe Walcott fought twice - in two title fights
Walcott
(right) hits Louis (left) with a right cross to the
head in their first fight in New York in December 1947
Joe
Louis vs Jersey Joe Walcott (I), New York, December 5, 1947
Walcott,
age 33, the same as Louis, was a journeyman boxer and 10-1 underdog.
Walcott
knocked Louis down in the first and fourth rounds.
The
fight went the 15-round limit.
Many
believed Walcott won - and by a sufficient margin.
But Louis was awarded the victory with
a split-decision and retained the title. The referee awarded the fight to Walcott but the two ringside judges gave it to Louis.
Most
sportswriters and the public considered the decision unfair.
Highlights
or
Blow-by-blow account:
So, there had to be a rematch
Joe
Louis vs Jersey Joe Walcott (II),
New
York, June 25, 1948
In
the rematch, six months later, Walcott knocked Louis down in the third round.
Walcott
was ahead in the fight and on his way to winning the title when Louis knocked him out in the eleventh round.
Joe Louis knocks out Jersey Joe Walcott in the 11th round of their rematch in New York in 1948.
Joe Louis vs Jersey Joe Walcott,
I & II
A review of the two Louis-Walcott fights on The Way it Was, a sports
program with Joe Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott, sportscaster Curt Gowdie and veteran ringside commentator Don Dunphy.
Louis Retires from Boxing
In March 1949 - nine months after his rematch with Walcott - Joe Louis
retired from boxing as champion.
Joe Louis was the youngest boxer to win the
heavyweight championship, at age 23, when he knocked out James J. Braddock in 1937.
Louis was heavyweight champion for 12 straight years and held the title longer than
any boxer before or since.
Louis defended the title 25 times
- winning each fight - a record that still stands today.
The
Vacant Title
Ezzard Charles vs Jersey Joe Walcott
Top contenders
Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott fought four title fights over the
next three years, from 1949 to 1952
On June 22 1949, the two top heavyweight contenders, Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott, fought for the vacant championship title
in Chicago.
The fight went the 15-round limit and Charles won the decision and the championship title.
Rounds 14 and 15:
and
Ezzard Charles
Ezzard
Mack Charles (1921 - 1975), world
heavyweight
boxing champion from 1949
to
1951.
Charles
defended the title nine times over the next two years.
Louis Returns
In
late 1949, six months after announcing his retirement from boxing, Joe Louis returned to the ring.
Louis fought
a 10-round fight, ending in a No Decision in late 1949.
Then,
in his next fight, on September 27, 1950, Louis challenged the champion, Ezzard Charles, in New York.
Joe
Louis, left, and Ezzard Charles, right, in their only fight, in New York in 1950.
Joe
Louis vs Ezzard Charles
Yankee
Stadium, New York, 1950
Louis
lost an unanimous 15-round decision to Charles, who retained the championship title.
The loss was the second of Louis's boxing career.
Louis never
fought for the title again.
Louis
fought in 27 title fights. He won the first, in 1937, and lost the last, in 1950, both times as challenger.
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The
Charles - Walcott Rematch
The
Second Fight
In Detroit in March 1951 - two years after their first fight -
Ezzard Charles, the champion, and Jersey Joe Walcott, the challenger, fought again.
Charles knocks Walcott down in the ninth
round of their second title fight
Again, Charles won the 15-round decision and retained the title.
Highlights
The Third Charles - Walcott Bout
The champion Charles met Walcott again, a third time, in Pittsburgh four months later, in July 1951.
Charles was a 5-1 favorite
Walcott wins the title
But this time Walcott dominated the fight, knocked out Charles in the 7th round and won the championship
title
Highlights
and
Jersey
Joe Walcott won the championship title on his fifth try.
At
age 37 1/2, Walcott was the oldest fighter to ever win the heavyweight title.
Jersey Joe
Arnold Raymond Cream (Jersey
Joe Walcott) (1914 - 1994), heavyweight
champion from 1951 to 1052
Meanwhile, Joe Louis kept at it.
After his loss to Ezzard Charles - the second loss of his career
- Louis fought nine more fights. He won every fight but the last.
The last fight was against leading heavyweight contender Rocky Marciano in New York
in October 1951.
Rocky
Marciano vs. Joe Louis,
New
York, October 1951
New
York Times report of the fight
1951-10-26 Joe Louis
vs Rocky Marciano
Marciano
knocked Louis out in 8 rounds.
Louis retired
from boxing without regaining the title
or.
the same:
Louis
retired with a record of 66 wins (52 by KO), 3 losses and one ND-NC.
The
Joe Louis Story
1953 Hollywood
movie
or, the same:
JOE LOUIS
This is Your Life
Weekly
NBC-TV program hosted by Ralph Edwards (1961)
Joe Louis
The
story of Joe Louis on HBO Sports in Detroit with interview of Billy Conn
Statue
of Joe Louis in Alabama
There
was Jack Dempsey . . .
.
. . and there was Joe Louis
Tribute
to the greatest heavyweight champions of all time
Newseeel
footage
World Heavyweight Boxing Champions
John L. Sullivan (USA) (1882 - 1892)
James J. Corbett (USA) (1892 - 1897)
Bob Fitzsimmons (England) (1897 - 1899)
James J. Jeffries (USA) (1899 - 1905) Retired while
champion
Marvin Hart (USA) (1905 - 1906)
Tommy Burns (Canada) (1906 - 1908)
Jack Johnson (USA) (1908 - 1915)
Jess Willard (USA) (1915 - 1919)
Jack Dempsey (USA) (1919 - 1926)
Gene Tunney (USA) (1926 - 1928) Retired as champion
Vacant (1928 - 1930)
Max Schmeling (Germany) (1930 - 1932)
Jack Sharkey (USA) (1932 - 1933)
Primo Carnera (Italy) (1933 - 1934)
Max Baer (USA) (1934 - 1935)
James J. Braddock (USA) (1935 - 1937)
Joe Louis (USA) (1937 - 1949) Retired as champion
Ezzard Charles (USA) 1949 - 1951
Jersey Joe Walcott (USA) 1951 - 1952
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Joe Louis, professional golfer
Joe
Louis played golf professionally.
He
was the first black to play in a
Professional
Golfers' Association (PGA)
Tour match - in San
Diego in 1952.
Joe
Louis Barrow
A Life and Career in Context
Opening and Preview
Opening of a traveling exhibit on Joe Louis at Emory University, Nov.
13, 2013. Includes film clips of boxing matches.
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Jersey Joe Walcott vs Ezzard Charles
Title Fight # 4
Jersey Joe Walcott, defending champion, and Ezzard Charles, challenger,
fought a fourth time, in Philadelphia, in June 1952.
The fight was close and went the 15-round limit.
Two-thirds of the ringside press thought Charles deserved the decision.
The two judges and the referee gave the fight to Walcott by a slight margin and he kept the
title.
Highlights
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Rocky Marciano
Rocco Francis Marchegiano (1923 - 1969),
from Brockton, Massachusetts, boxed
as
Rocky Marciano, called the Brockton
Blockbuster, professional
world heavyweight
boxing champion (1952 - 1956),
retired undefeated after 49 fights
Two men knocked out Joe Louis.
The first was Max Schmeling in 1936.
The other was Rocky Marciano in 1951.
Rocky Marciano: Undefeated
Documentary
Biography
Rocky Marciano vs. Rex Lane
N. Y., N. Y., July 12, 1951
and
and
and
Rocky
Marciano vs Harry (Kid) Mathews
The two top contenders
The winner to challenge
the champion Walcott
1952
Marciano knocked out Matthews in two rounds
Jersey Joe Walcott - Rocky Marciano
Rocky
Marciano challenges the champion Jersey Joe Walcott
Philadelphia,
Sept. 23, 1952
Champion
Jersey Joe Walcott vs
Challenger
Rocky Marciano
Walcott
knocked Marciano down in the first round.
Walcott
outboxed Marciano for most of the fight and was ahead on two of three cards when Marciano
knocked him out in the 13th round.
Philadelphia,
September 1952
Entire
fight:
also:
or
The Marciano - Walcott Rematch
Chicago, May 1953
Champion
Rocky Marciano and ex-champ Jersey Joe Walcott
Walcott
went down for the count in the first round and, at age 39, retired from boxing
in
3-D
Rocky
Marciano, champion, vs. Roland LaStarza, challenger
1953
Marciano
knocked out LaStarza in 11 rounds
or
or
Champion Rocky Marciano vs ex-champ Ezzard Charles (1)
1954
Marciano
won a 15-round decision.
The Rematch
1954
Champion Rocky Marciano vs ex-champ Ezzard Charles (2)
Marciano
knocked out Charles in 8 rounds
Rocky
Marciano, champion, vs Don Cockell, challenger
1955
Marciano
won by a TKO in 9 rounds
Rocky
Marciano, heavyweighht champ, vs Archie Moore, light-heavyweight champ
1955
Marciano
knocks down Archie Moore
Moore
knocked Marciano down in the second round but Marciano knocked him out in the ninth
Marciano
retired from boxing, as champion, at the age of 32, seven months later, in 1956. He was undefeated. He won all
of his 49 fights, 43 by knockout.
In
fact, Marciano was not undefeated. At age 14, using another boy's I. D. to prove that he was of age, he boxed his
first professional fight and lost a four-round decision.
World Heavyweight Boxing Champions
John L. Sullivan (USA) (1882 - 1892)
James J. Corbett (USA) (1892 - 1897)
Bob Fitzsimmons (England) (1897 - 1899)
James J. Jeffries (USA) (1899 - 1905) Retired while
champion
Marvin Hart (USA) (1905 - 1906)
Tommy Burns (Canada) (1906 - 1908)
Jack Johnson (USA) (1908 - 1915)
Jess Willard (USA) (1915 - 1919)
Jack Dempsey (USA) (1919 - 1926)
Gene Tunney (USA) (1926 - 1928) Retired as champion
Vacant (1928 - 1930)
Max Schmeling (Germany) (1930 - 1932)
Jack Sharkey (USA) (1932 - 1933)
Primo Carnera (Italy) (1933 - 1934)
Max Baer (USA) (1934 - 1935)
James J. Braddock (USA) (1935 - 1937)
Joe Louis (USA) (1937 - 1949) Retired as champion
Ezzard Charles (USA) 1949 - 1951
Jersey Joe Walcott (USA) 1951 - 1952
Rocky Marciano (USA) (1952 - 1956) Retired as champion
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Floyd Patterson
1952 Olympic gold medalist. At
age 21, Patterson
was the youngest
boxer to
win the professional world
heavyweight championship,
in 1956.
He was
also the first to regain the
title, in 1960. He
was hcampion from
1956 to 1959
and again from 1960 to
1962.
Following the retirement of heavyweight boxing champion
Rocky Marciano in April 1956, the two top contenders for the vacant title were light-heavyweights -
Archie Moore, a former light-heavyweight champion, and Floyd Patterson, a 1952 Olympic gold medalist.
Moore and Patterson fought for the vacant heavyweight championship
title in Chicago in November 1956.
Floyd Patterson knocks Moore down in round 5
Floyd Patterson vs Archie Moore
Chicago, November 30, 1956
Commnetary by Rocky Marciano
Patterson knocked out Moore in the fifth round and at age 21, became
the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXpUMV8qxsA
Patterson
was champion for three years, until he met Ingemar Johansson of Sweden in 1959.
Thor's Hammer
Ingo
Jens Ingermar Johansson
("Ingo") (1932 -
2009), world
heavyweight boxing champion
(1959 - 1960) from Gothenburg,
Sweden.
In his home town of Gothenberg, Sweden in 1958, Johansson knocked out the top contender
for the title, American boxer Eddie Machen, in the first round.
The victory made Johansson the leading challenger for the title.
The fight:
September 14, 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezLbrjlyTuQ
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RR89B4kcOM
The following year, 1959, Johansson met the champion, Floyd Patterson, in New York.
Johansson and Patterson fought each other in three fights in a row in two
years, from 1959 to 1961.
Ingemar Johansson -vs- Floyd Patterson, Yankee Stadium, New York, 6/26/59
Johansson knocked Patterson down seven times in the third round
before the referee stopped the fight.
Johannson was the new champion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsVajIK_UUc
Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wn0YclbKR0
Round 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOs896uunsM
The Rematch
Polo Grounds, New York, 6/20/60
Patterson knocked out Johansson in the fifth round and became
the first fighter to regain the heavyweight champonship title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0-RDDyNw_g
Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-J2obLSTjk
The Third Fight
Miami Beach, March 13, 1961
Both fighters were knocked down. Johansson was counted out in the sixth round.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgbMC9chMLU
Med Krut I Nävarna
Swedish Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svoDOiGDx2U
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Sonny Liston
Charles L. ("Sonny") Liston (1930
- 1970), world heavyweight boxing champion (1962 - 1964),
won 50 fights
(39 by KO) and lost 4.
According to various accounts Liston was born in 1930,
1932 or 1934. There is evidence that
Liston was born in 1930. Most accepted 1932 as his birthdate. He could have been four years older than generally believed.
Sonny Liston, the Night Train
Sonny Liston vs. Bert Whitehurst
St. Louis, Missouri, April 3 1958
Highlights
Liston won the 10-round bout on points
Sonny Liston vs Wayne Bethea
Chicago, August 6, 1958
Liston won by a TKO in the first round
Sonny Liston vs. Bert Whitehurst (II)
Liston
and Whitehurst met in a rematch in St. Louis on October 24, 1958
Louis
won a ten-round unanimous decision
4
clips
Highlights
Sonny Liston vs Cleveland Williams (I)
Miami Beach, April 15, 1959
Liston won by a TKO in three rounds (09:57)
Sonny Liston vs Willie Besmanoff of Germany
Cleveland, Ohio, December 9, 1959
Liston stopped Besmanoff in seven rounds
Sonny Liston vs Cleveland Williams (II)
Houston, Texas, March 21, 1960 (07:44)
Liston won by a TKO in two rounds
Sonny Liston
vs Roy Harris
Houston, Texas, April 25, 1960
Liston won by a TKO in the first round
After Floyd Patterson regained the championship by his knockout of Ingemar Johansson in 1960, Liston was without question the top contender
and Patterson should have fought him later in the year.
But there was to be yet another Patterson-Johansson title fight
- a third - in 1961, and Liston, considered the best heavyweight in boxing, and boxing
fans, would have to wait two long years - until 1962 - before Liston got a
chance to fight for the title.
Sonny Liston, top contender, vs Eddie Machen, # 2 contender
Elimination bout - winner to fight for the title
Seatlle, Washington, September 7, 1960
Liston won a unanimous decision in 12 rounds
Highlights:
or,
all rounds, in 5 clips:
By 1960 Liston was considered
the best heavyweight boxer by experts and the public alike.
Sonny
Liston vs Albert Westphal of Germany
Philadelphia,
December 4, 1961
Liston
knocked out Westphal in the first round
Patterson,
the champion, was accused of ducking Liston.
But,
at long last, in 1962, Liston got Patterson into the ring.
Liston
was an 8 - 5 favorite.
Floyd
Patterson, champion, vs Sonny Liston, challenger (I)
Heavyweight championship bout in Chicago, September 25, 1962 (11:03)
Liston made quick work of Patterson, knocking him
down and out in 2 minutes and six seconds of the first round.
The Other Side of Sonny Liston
1962 documentary film
The Rematch - 1963
Sonny Liston, champion, vs Floyd Patterson, challenger (II)
Las Vegas, July 22, 1963 (03:42)
In the rematch, Liston, a 4 - 1 favorite, knocked
Patterson out in two minutes and ten seconds of the first round.
Liston, on horseback, greeted by crowds in Newcastle,
England in 1963
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Blues
Delta &
Louisiana Blues
35 songs (1:44:27)
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Rock ‘n Roll
From Blues, Work Songs, Spirituals, Gospel, Dixieland, Boogie Woogie and Swing to Rhythm & Blues (R
& B) and Rock 'n Roll
The Golden Gate Quartet
1. Golden Gate Gospel Train (1937)
2. Rock My Soul
(1938)
3. Noah (1939)
4. Ride Up In The Chariot (1941)
God Told Nicodemus (1941)
Go Down Moses (1956)
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Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds
Mbube (1939)
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Rock 'n Roll from the late 1930s to the early 1960s
Rock and Roll Before the 50s
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The Ink Spots
My Prayer (1939)
The Java Jive (1940)
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire (1941)
I'm Making Believe (1944)
with Ella Fitzgerald
Prisoner of Love (1946)
or
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
c. 1940
That's All (1938)
This Train (is bound for glory) (1939)
Shout Sister Shout
(Swing, ca. 1940)
Four or Five Times
(Swing, ca. 1941)
How about You (1941)
Rock Me (Swing,
ca. 1941)
Strange
Things Happening Every Day (1944)
Down by the Riverside (1944)
Precious Memories (ca.
1947)
Up Above My Head (Gospel,
ca. 1960)
The Godmother of Rock & Roll
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
2013 documentary
or
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Louis Jordan
Let The Good Times Roll (1940s)
Caldonia
(1946)
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Jimmy
Preston
Rock the Joint (1949)
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B.
B. King
3 O'Clock Blues
1950
1951
Whole
Lotta Love (1953)
Sneakin'
Around (1954)
You
Upset Me, Baby (1954)
Ten
Long Years (1955)
Woke
Up This Morning (1956)
or
Sweet Little Angel (1956)
When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer (1956)
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The Five Keys
The Glory of Love
(1951)
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Jackie Brenston and his Delta Kats
Rocket 88 (1951)
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Bill
Haley and the Saddlers
Rocket
88 (1951)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPLS2i9dSy0
Bill
Haley and the Comets (1952 - )
Let's
Rip it Up
Excerpt from the film Don't
Knock the Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrhGtXCGn6M
or, the same:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEGqWDc0U6E
Rock around the Clock
On American Bandstand with Dick Clark (TV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zju6KbP_1xY
1955
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud_JZcC0tHI
R. O. C. K.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssQndYysTH0
See you later Alligator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0bidd0Uhvk
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI4qO5Y9M1Q
Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2UkFvKllLw
Bill Haley and the Comets
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es7D5Za8OfE
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Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton
Hound Dog
First
recorded in 1952:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrieOEPJCos
This recording
in 1965:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxoGvBQtjpM
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Lavern Baker
Soul of Fire (1953)
Tweedle Dee (1954)
Jim Dandy (1956)
and
Saved (1961)
See See Rider (1963)
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Big
Joe Turner
Shake, Rattle & Roll (Blues/Jazz, 1954)
the same:
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Fats Domino
Blueberry
Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1P7GM33so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkkL7BG-SPU
Blue Monday
(1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy5WM1xYbGo
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Jerry Lee Lewis (1956
- )
Great Balls of Fire
1957
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elZbkfxRHZg
On American Bandstand
1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lidFipyLG8k
Whole
Lotta Shakin' Going On (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yl5nafzRRA
and (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJ5Wa6FUz4
and (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBaMkm0lNwU
Hound
Dog
1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-x-BdvOiyk
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The
Platters
Only You (1955)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r2pEdc1_lI
The Great Pretender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBxeslnd0Y
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Elvis Presley (1956 -
)
Hound Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmljYkdr-w
Love Me Tender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76We6yBnIKE
King
Creole (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71S-AeOAbI8
Blue Suede Shoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Ond-OwgU8
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Mama
Afrika
Miriam
Makeba (1932 - 2008)
Lovely
Lies (1956)
with the Manhattan Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b33Jdbsvhdg
Miriam Makeba sings 1950s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyQUYJkvcUo
Pata
Pata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VrfadKbco
Chove Chuva (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4dT7l7sWVg
Mbube
(The Lion Sleeps Tonight/Wimoweh/Wimba Way/ Awimbaweimoweh)
1960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6AAtKmx6Qk
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fEHguhykD8
1966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZlLUf6sewI
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Buddy Holly and the Crickets
(1956 -
)
O, Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC48DcEnJIw
--------------
Harry Belafonte
Hold 'Em Joe
1954 and 1957
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9g2el6C6ug
Banana Boat Song (Day O) (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tou8-Cz8is
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tcAZB_KAxE
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMigXnXMhQ4
Matilda (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-aTAkCHW_g
Jamaica Farewell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4r5C6MUqO4
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvnjRbw7O0g
Water Boy (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR9MfqbRWPU
Sylvie (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZVc1Yew3tk
Island in the Sun (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-n0aT9RV0
Mama Look A Boo Boo
With Nat King Cole on NBC-TV (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3yM-i3lw60
There's a Hole in the Bucket
With Odetta (1960 or 1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElLpKewnxp4
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AthT8kw7CIo
----------------
Ricky Nelson
Bye Bye
Love (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxzR9BjbxQ4
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The Kingston Trio
Tom Dooley (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZYjc57V55U
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb6I0YkSjb8
Scotch and Soda (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9Lsd6uh-o
or, (1967):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoWfDw-v4DM
M. T.. A. (a 1949 folk song) (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP1bvY7IqZY
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Jw_v3F_Q0
------------------
Chuck
Berry
Memphis Tennessee (1955)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaimkotPAs
Maybellene (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvKDr8AgvK8
Johnny B. Goode
(1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROwVrF0Ceg
Everly Brothers
Wake up, little Susie
(1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X7b2E_Jq-k
------
The Madison
The
Buddy Deane Show (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_QNC6o24E
How to dance the Madison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6QWoLXJ9Z4
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Chubby Checker
The Twist (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cP5kxPk6uk
Let's Twist Again (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxQZQ86jJHg
Limbo Rock (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWyJKB7fcNU
-----------
Ray Charles
Hit the Road, Jack!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rEsVp5tiDQ
------------
Peter, Paul & Mary
Blowin' in the Wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6fAO4idaI
500 Miles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADN1lLEp3H0
If I had a Hammer (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxWTDcP9Y5E
Puff, the Magic Dragon
1964
1965
Lemon Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PajeIYWdze0
Tell it on the Mountain
(1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebyc93r0d7w
---------
The Tokens
The Lion Sleeps
Tonight (Wimoweh,
Wimba Way,
Awimbawe) (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxwoxWOd_dc
-------------
The Beach Boys
Surfin' Safari (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOg1MxozVPc
Surfin' USA (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s4slliAtQU&ebc=ANyPxKqj91k5veDakQIQAg7xgGLUt39aOgbdfXzQnuAhJz0Hkgi2CNmqsXoJPzvYgoCXxkpBMUb_Bk8mCUuk7P2H99xAeAJgRg
Surfer Girl (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTtRP3guR0
(1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZQ7Im3MXQ
Little Deuce Coupe (1963)
(1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHaDUhNh1sQ
The Lost Concert (1964)
Fun, Fun, Fun
Long, Tall Texan
Little Deuce Coupe
Surfer Girl
Surfin' USA
Shut Down
In My Room
Pa Pa Oh Mau Mau
Hawaii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGp1a4O29oI
All Summer Long (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Hryc5t2wQ
Dick Clark Interviews The Beach Boys on American
Bandstand (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWxj0UadXIY
California Girls (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcrbDYe4qL4
Do You Wanna Dance? (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSF2SoNaZSc
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nztxd92hl0g
The History of The Beach Boys
Short bio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBZBflwS_s
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The Supremes
Baby Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23UkIkwy5ZM
You Can't
Hurry Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ7uXX9K7Sk
Where Did Our Love Go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v8g9lC8EwM
Stop
in the Name of Love (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN-hcWau2wU
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Ol' Blue Eyes
Frank Sinatra
We Kiss in a Shadow (1951)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FASjlICpAA
That's Life
(1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODgaaQtciDE
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=samvLWQnD5s
and live on TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-ZaMkceFiY
-------
The Drifters
Under the Boardwalk (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEqRMVnZNU
-----------------
James Brown
Night Train (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BVgeEHfuG0
1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF_rZrH4yBY
I Feel Good (I Got You)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgDrJ5Z2rKw
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1wOK9yGUYM
When a Man Loves a Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVYK5lIr68Q
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
(1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV95pdw3pDw
It's a Man's World (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP5YIEdUDsk
James Brown
The Godfather of Soul
Episode from the Biography documentary series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZhyUtYzr1I
-----------
Wilson Pickett
In the Midnight Hour (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KFYUJ63nk8
----------
The
Beatles (1960 - 1969)
Twist
and Shout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ypq6_5bsg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr7JFmKoSCA
She
Loves You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKZqPMNtCYU
(Removed
from You Tube)
see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoF-7VMMihA
Rocky Racoon
(1969)
Ringo
Starr, drummer and darling of the Beatles, sings Country Western
Act Naturally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Amodaf-g8
Ringo
many years later (1992)
You're Sixteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upytFIvcMJY
The History of the Beatles
Short bio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZSHsJjsh-Y
---------------
Bob Dylan
Blowing In The Wind (1963)
Mr. Tambourine Man
Newport
Folk Festival (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeP4FFr88SQ
The Times They Are A Changin' (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qQ6_RV4VQ
Maggie's Farm (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8yU8wk67gY
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
I Got My Mojo
Workin'
Sung by Sam Lay (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9oJ07YXWQY
-----------
Jimi Hendrix
Hey, Joe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XlatbZ5k-k
The Wind Cries Mary
1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylbRDXKSauQ
Foxy Lady
1968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PVjcIO4MT4
Purple Haze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJunCsrhJjg
-------------
Sam the
Sham and the Pharoahs
L'il Red Ridin' Hood (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwNP9HOFvwQ
--------
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
America Drinks and Goes Home (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plaWJwG2kno
---------
Ren Woods
Aquarius
A reenactment of the 1967/8 hippie scene in this excerpt from the 1979 movie Hair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9oq_IskRIg
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA6wVXoHXTU
-------------
Tiny Tim
Tip Toe Thru the Tulips
(1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfQvIDTguNE
Earth Angel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT8t0VxZXEM
-------------
The Rolling Stones
I Can't Get No Satisfaction
(1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzYWTIHqutA
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrIPxlFzDi0
Brown Sugar
1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B0Y3LUqr1Q
2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0bxMWdOMbs
Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOBP7QMuHHs
The History of The Rolling Stones
Short bio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5I9Z6iPTLo
------------
The
Ike & Tina Turner Review and the Ikettes
Tina Turner (1966)
---------------
Storyville,
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Story of Jazz
A documentary on the history of jazz
Buddy Bolden (1877 - 1931), legendary
New Orleans band leader (1905 photo)
Buddy Bolden's Band
Buddy Bolden Blues in G
Cornet solo by Bolden recorded for Thomas Edison in New Orleans in 1894
http://www.divshare.com/download/25364758-704
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Jelly Roll Morton
I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5k9E717QVM
New Orleans
Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CtyQXFtu2U
King Porter Stomp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8_2ISGOIjU
Wolverine
Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU2d614ZpPQ
-----------------
James P. Johnson
The Charleston
Composed by Johnson in 1923
Player piano roll (1925)
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kJWdUFzL0Y
Honeysuckle
Rose (1930)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ0QCdF59Tk
16 recordings (47:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkywyqmUWH8
-------------
James Reese Europe
Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hellfighters Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC9m3Xie3uk
The Harlem
Hellfighters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN668P6me7w
1913
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccji95l1YGE
Too Much Mustard (1913)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0R7tdgrTxc
Down Home Rag (1913)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP8Ja68YKl0
Memphis Blues
(1919)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJPztEjzf6s
How ya gonna keep em down on the Farm (1919)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTRy59C5M7k
St. Louis Blues
(1919)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HIgdhlPqdE
The Darktown
Strutters' Ball (1919)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHr8OfNjKdg
Castle House
Rag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRQ5CU3l8tQ
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Bojangles
Luther Robinson
(1878 - 1949), born in Ricmond, Virginia; minstrel, tap dancer, actor; took the name of Bill Robinson in his youth; nicknamed
"Bojangles" in Richmond; joined the US army in the Spanish-American War; entertained the AEF in France in WW1;
performed in at least 14 Hollywood films from 1930 - 1943; highest-paid black
performer
in show business in his life-time . . .
Excerpt from the Hollywood movie
King for a Day
Step Dance (1934)
Livin' in a Great Big Way (1935)
With Fats Waller and Jeni LeGon
From the Hollywood movie Hooray for Love
or
Deleted Scenes from Cafe Metrolpole (1937)
Dances with Shirley Temple
Excerpts from the Hollywood movies The Little Colonel, The Littlest
Rebel, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Just Around the Corner (1930s)
Scene from the 1988 Hollywood movie Child Star about Shirley Temple
Excerpts from the 1988 reenactment and the actual 1930s films
Let's Scuffle
Excerpt from movie
Stormy Weather
Dance scene from Stormy Weather with Bill Robinson and
Lena Horne
1943 Hollywood movie starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller . . .
Sand Dance
Excerpt from Stormy Weather (1943)
Last Public AppearanceTed Mack Amateur Hour (TV) (1949)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Qz0gnA9rY
Statue of Bill Robinson erected in Richmond, Virginia in 1972
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Kid Ory
Edward Ory
Kid Ory's Creole Trombone
1922 recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWUkShQQwk4
Muskrat Ramble (1926)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLaFT7GB34s
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?
Paris (1959)
The Best of Kid Ory
recorded August 3, 1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTb4qfpX0Ik
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Freddie Keppard
The New Orleans Style of Jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE7k9D5I5a0
Recordings
1923 - 1928
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5cq6tq83k
----------------------------
King Oliver
Joseph Nathan ("King") Oliver (center, seated) and his Creole
Jazz Band (includes Louis and Lil Hardin Armstrong)
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
Gennett Recording Studio, Richmond, Indiana, April 5 and 6, 1923
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Sketch of the boxing champion Jack Johnson made from a photo taken in 1921
Some say many musicians got their start at the Cotton Club in Harlem,
which opened in 1923.
And
some say it began with the boxing champion Jack Johnson. He sold his exclusive high class supper club in Harlem, the
Club De Luxe, to the gangster Owney Maddon and it was renamed the Cotton Club.
Jack Johnson and his Orchestra
1929 film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ntK49v_5gandhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsKy63Rd_LA
Cotton Club
Harlem Rennaisance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdDsBg_p1v8
Cotton Club Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg7GtkbpXF4
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Bessie Smith
Gulf Coast Blues (1923)
Downhearted Blues (1923)
T'ain't
Nobody's Business If I Do (1923)
Louis Armstrong
Potato Head Blues (mid-1920s)
St. James Infirmary (1928)
After You've Gone (1929)
Ain't Misbehavin' (1929)
Body and Soul (1930)
Stardust
St. Louis Blues (1933)
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (1933)
Louis
Armstrong in Copenhagen (1933)
Movie
footage
All
That Meat And No Potatoes
When the Saints Go Marching In (1939)
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Excerpt
from Hollywood movie (1943)
Where the Blues were born in New Orleans
Louis
Armstrong, Kid Ory . . .
From the movie New Orleans (1947)
Do
you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
Song by Billie Holiday in the 1947 Hollywood movie New Orleans
or
-------------------
Sidney Bechet
Cake Walking Babies (from Home) (1925)
Really the Blues (1938)
Summertime (1939)
Egyptian Fantasy (1941)
Love for Sale (1947)
and
After You've Gone (1947)
Sweet Georgia Brown (1949)
Le Marchand de Poissons
Royal Garden Blues
Recorded in France (1952)
St. Louis Blues (1952)
Petite Fleur (1952)
Rose de Picardie (1950s)
Mack the Knife (1950s)
---------------
Miff Mole
Darktown Strutters Ball
After You've Gone
1927
1929
------------
Fats
Fats Waller
Stardust (1937)
Tea for Two (1939)
I Want Some Seafood, Mama
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
Christopher Columbus (1936)
Jitterbug Waltz (1942)
Fats Waller
& His Rhythm (1938)
-----------------------
Art Tatum
Tea for Two (1933)
The Art Tatum Legacy
Episode from the documentary series Toledo
Stories
Extracts (1934 - 1949)
Tiger Rag
Humoresque
Caravan (1940)
Jittterbug Waltz (1953)
----------------
Cab Calloway
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (1907 - 1994)
Happy Feet (1930)
Minnie the Moocher
(1930)
and
St. James Infirmary (1930)
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
(1931)
Dixie Vagabond (1933)
The Scat Song
1932
1933
Zaz
Zu Zaz (1934)
Hi De Ho (1934)
The Singing Kid (1935)
With Al Jolson
The Jumpin' Jive (1939)
From the Hollywood movie Stormy Weather (1943)
Longer excerpt of the same from
Stormy Weather (1943)
Blues in the Night (1942)
Greechy Joe
From the Hollyood movie Stormy Weather (1943)
1947 movie (1:03:29)
or
Interview by James Day on Day at Night on CUNY-TV in the 1970s
------
Elisabeth Welch
When Lights are Low
(1936)
With Benny Carter in London
Harlem in My Heart
and
The Man I Love
(1936)
London
or
Yesterday's Thrills (1936)
River
of Dreams
Excerpt from 1936 movie with Paul Robeson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SCeHZckelo
Song by Welch in the movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSjVT9FANs8
Nightfall
Song from the 1937 movie Calling All Stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcJeL_Ai_Lw
Nearness of You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXK09sMvpIE
Drums
in My Heart (1944)
From the movie Fiddlers Three
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZR7iXiYLJo
Interview
New York (1980)
Love for Sale (1986)
Tribute (2012)
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Lady Day
.jpg)
Eleanora Fagan (Billie
Holiday) (1915 - 1959)
Symphony in Black
by Duke Ellington (1935)
No Regrets (1936)
with Artie Shaw and Bunny Berigan
Any Old Time (1938)
With Artie Shaw
The Man I Love (1939)
I Can't Get Started (1938)
Time
on My Hands (1940)
Unlucky Woman (1941)
with Teddy Wilson
more footage of the above:
Out of Nowhere (1941)
with
Teddy Wilson
Where or When (1941)
Lou Bring & His Orchestra
Stormy Weather
Hollywood movie (1943) with Lena Horne,
Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Doolie Wilson,
NIcholas Brothers, Ada Brown . . .
(77 min.)
(Note: In the movie, the French military medal Croix de Guerre,
which is awarded for heroism in combat, is pronounced "Kroy de Geer" in English.)
Excerpt from the movie
The Man I Love
Jubilee Show
Los Angeles, California
-------------------
Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Dandridge (1922 - 1965)
That's Your Red Wagon
Jimmy Lunceford and the Dandridge
Sisters
(1940)
Chattanooga Choo Choo
With Glenn Miller, Tex Benecke,
the Modernaires and the Nicholas Brothers Excerpt from the Hollywood movie
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
A Jig in the Jungle (1941)
or
Lazy Bones
With Hoagy Carmichael (1941)
or
Swing for my Supper (1941)
or
Zoot Suit (1942)
Cow Cow Boogie (1942)
or
or
Whatcha Say?
With Louis Armstrong (1944)
Tarzan's Peril
Dorothy
Dandridge portrays an African queen in 1951 Hollywood movie
Excerpts
Bright Road
Hollywood movie (1953) with Harry Belafonte
3 clips:
Carmen Jones
Hollywood movie with Dorothy Dandridge (as Carmen Jones) and Harry Belafonte (1954)
Advertisement
Excerpt
Island in the Sun 1957
Hollywood movie with James Mason
and Harry Belafonte
or
Tamango Movie (1958) with Curt Jurgens
The Decks Ran Red
Hollywood movie (1958) with
James Mason
Advertisement
 Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney
Poitier in 1959 Hollywood movie Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess
Hollywood movie (1959) with Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll
Entire film (in poor quality upload)
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Halle Berry portrays Dorothy Dandridge in 1999 Hollywood film
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Artie Shaw
Begin the Beguine (1938)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCXVxE_YeP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNcPnEc99UE
I Have Eyes (1938)
With Helen Forrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg5md1JdLpA
All the Things You Are (1939)
With Helen Forrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhBQd2VMWzA
Frensi (1940)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQaHgxaa7kQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOHMYl5BCs
Any Old Time
with Billie Holiday (1937
- 1938)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GxPpTf97VI
Deep Purple (1939)
with Helen Forrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwtFcr7E0O8
Temptation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GaViq6AA-8
Alone Together (1939)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw0l2Nr3DkM
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zOILAKrG3o
This
Can't Be Love (1939)
with Helen Forrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v7y0c3j988
Non-stop Flight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFZhAKoZvaQ
Concerto for Clarinet (1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOi5vtxCbA
Lady Be Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0xM8YRMmyA
It Had To Be You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZgU8eDQboo
St. Louis Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjbOerBWRXY
The Quest for Perfection
Documentary about Artie Shaw
(c. 2000)
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnGAxyuezWY
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXT2K0Y_8c8
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4zIrf5gVmo
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tXzsv2-YD8
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2qfhxyba_o
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpTVDdpjZ8w
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9oCezYngaE
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Benny Goodman
Let's Dance! (1939)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7lQlzof4_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7HYVow1kHQ
Sing
Sing Sing
With Gene Krups on drums
from Hollywood movie Hollywood Hotel (1937)
(2:11)
(5:22)
Removed from You Tube
At Carnegie Hall (1938)
(8:53)
(14:38)
(13:06)
(8:53)
Movies of band playing (1937)
Features Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton
Features Sing Sing Sing
Radio Broadcast of Benny Goodman and his orchestra at the Palomar Ballroom,
Los Angeles, California, August 22, 1935
Bugle Call Rag (1936)
St. Louis Blues (1938)
One O'clock Jump (1938)
Stompin' at the Savoy
Jumpin' at the Woodside (1939)
The Benny Goodman Story
Steve Allen portrays Benny
Goodman in 1955 Hollywood movie
1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhI6l_vhYho
1981
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiaFMZJOUcM
1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO8bxTttdQ4
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Glenn Miller
Monlight Serenade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs
In the Mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJE-onnw2gM
St. Louis Blues
With the 418th AAF
Band (1943)
A String of Pearls
Little Brown Jug
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Harry James
You Made Me Love You
With Helen Forrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMaCoxOGXPM
Two O'Clock Jump (1942)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkOtvtfT8io
St. Louis Blues (1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsBf8Y6jQVU
Green Onions (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvBXKCFiZnI
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Tommy Dorsey
Opus One (1943)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N2aEmcEbyg
Boogie Woogie (1943)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mVfHrTaYmY
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Jimmy Dorsey
Tangerine (1942)
With Bob Eberly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JDUnZv1N0
Swing Dancing (1942)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47L1tR5kLmY
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Benny Carter
Poinciana
1943
or
I Can't Get Started
1944
Rebop Boogie (1946)
I Can't Get Started
London (1966)
Stairway to the Stars
or
We Were In Love
With King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand
In Thailand (early 1980s?)
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Prez
Lester
Young
Jitterbug Jam (1944)
The dancer is Marie Bryant
Jammin' the Blues
Entire film
The singer and dancer is Marie Bryant
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Hawk
Coleman Hawkins
Body & Soul (1939)
Riff tune
Hawkins Coleman 1944
A bebop
tune from clip from a 1945 movie called The Crimson Canary
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Ben Webster
After You've Gone (1944)
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Bird
Charlie
Parker
Body
and Soul (1942)
Charlie Parker with Strings
New
York City (1949)
Just Friends (1949)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmRkZeGFONg
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waHI-zogZMk
or
April
in Paris
Autumn in New York
Summertime
Hot
House (1951)
with Dizzy Gillespie
Funky
Blues (1952)
Jam session with
Johnny Hodges (sax), Ben Webster (sax), Oscar Peterson (piano), Ray Brown (bass), J. C. Heard (drums)
Concert at Massey Hall in Toronto (1953)
Parker with Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charlie Mingus and Max Roach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8fnoVgNSvc
The
Charlie Parker Story
Documentary
Celebrating
Bird
The Triumph of Charlie Parker
Documentary
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Diz
Dizzy Gillespie
Jivin' in Be-Bop
with Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra
1946 movie (58:06)
or
Salt Peanuts (1947)
Cubana
Be, Cubana Bop
with Luciano "Chano" Pozo Gonzalez, 1948
Oop Bop Sh' Bam
He
Beeped When He Should Have Bopped
A Night in Tunisia
(with Charlie Parker, 1945)
Manteca
with Chano Pozo (1947)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Tt6W-TxXsor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0H5RmpAezA
(1955)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbfg7i6u8-I
(1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5tRGMHfKrE
Swing Low Sweet Cadillac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX1rj5WkHyU
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Chano Pozo
El Mago Del Tres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64AlTOm9SQE
Rumba Rumbero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfLz9igch5k
Ave Maria Morena (1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=japtzEDg2cI
De Mil Diez (1947)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMDP6cxjUI
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Bud
Bud Powell
Somebody Loves Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwv0Lxa3T3o
A Night in Tunisia (1951)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b0OJAD4G5g
Collard Greens and Black Eyed Peas (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N76ErzOdk9g
Satin Doll (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akdR2jsHAeM
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Art
Art
Blakey
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
A Night In Tunisia (1958)
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Monk
Thelonius Monk
April in Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZetdQUO_E8
Dinah (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKAMNaGO5Y4
Tea for Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTswEG5XIw
Lulu's Back in Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiM_RJevQbQ
Honeysuckle Rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xted0J5upw
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Mingus 
Charles
Mingus
Eat that Chicken! (1961)
The entire
album, Oh, Yeah!
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Erroll Garner
Lullaby of Birdland
London (1955?)
Honeysuckle Rose
London
All the Things You Are (1944)
(1949)
(1962)
Where or When (1962)
April in Paris (1955)
On the Sunny Side of
the Street (1949)
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Red Garland
St. Louis Blues
Stompin' at the Savoy
I Know Why (and So Do You) (1957)
I Can't Give You Anything But Love (1957)
But Not for Me (1957)
Bye Bye Black Bird (1959)
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Bill Evans
Sonny
Sonny Rollins
Doxy
With Don Cherry, cornet; Bob Crenshaw, bass; Billy Higgins, drums (1962)
Sonny Rollins Trio Live
Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone; Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen, bass; Alan Dawson, drums
Copenhagen 1965
(Removed from You Tube)
Two excerpts are available on You Tube
It Don't Mean a Thing
Sweden 1959
There Will Never Be Another You
Live -
Denmark 1965
SONNY ROLLINS TRIO
PARIS JAZZ FESTIVAL
1965
Medley
St. Thomas
Sonny Rollins
Portraits in
Jazz Part
4 of the 1980 documentary series
Rollins plays for Bird
1956 album
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Miles
Miles Davis
Miles Davis & Charlie Parker
A Night In Tunisia (1945)
Miles Davis led two quintets that jazz fans consider legendary.
The first quintet was with John Coltrane on tenor sax,
Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums. The quintet played together from
1955 to 1957. The recording sessions of 1956 released in four albums on the Prestige lable were
very popular: Relaxin', Steamin', Workin' and Cookin'.
Workin'
Relaxin'
Steamin'
Cookin'
The Sound of Miles Davis
(Studio 61, NYC, 1957)
Miles Davis & John Coltrane Live at Newport
Bye
Bye Blackbird (1958)
So
What
Recoded at the Robert Herridge Theater,
New York, April 2, 1959
Sketches of SpainConcerto de Aranjuez (Adagio)
Live with Gil Evans, Carnegie Hall, 1961
Saeta (1959)
Solea (1959)
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Davis formed his second legendary
quintet in 1963 with George Coleman on tenor sax, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on
drums.
Coleman left the group
and was replaced by Wayne Shorter in 1964. This group was recorded by Columbia records from 1964 to 1968.
Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)
Miles Davis Quintet Live in Europe (1967)
Davis left jazz in 1968.
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Trane
 Portrait by Miles
John Coltrane
John Coltrane (1926 - 1967)
John
Coltrane ("Trane") formed his famous band, a quartet, in 1960, with McCoy Tyner on piano and Elvin Jones on drums. Steve Davis was the
bassist. The group was recorded by Atlantic records.
In
1961, Atlantic was bought out by Impulse. Reggie Workman replaced Davis on bass.
In
1962, Jimmy Garrison replaced Workman on bass. Thus was formed the legendary John Coltrane Quartet, with Tyner, Garrison and
Jones.
Coltrane
added another tenor, Pharoah Sanders ("Pharoah"), and a second drummer, Rashid Ali, in 1965.
Tyner left the group and was replaced by Coltrane's wife, Alice Coltrane.
Jones
left the group in 1966.
Many
believe avant-gard jazz reached its zenith with Coltrane and Sanders from 1964 to 1967.
With the Miles Davis Quintet (1959)
So What
John Coltrane
Live
(1960, 1961 and 1965)
John Coltrane (1926-1967)
Documentaire (56'20'')
The
World According to John Coltrane
Documentary (1990)
In a Sentimental Mood
With Duke Ellington (1962)
John Coltrane Quartet
John Coltrane, soprano sax, McCoy Tyner, piano,
Jimmy Garrison, bass, Elvin Jones, drums
Vilia
Summertime
(1961)
Body and Soul
My Favorite Things (1960)
Trane's greatest hit - and the greatest hit in Jazz ever - recorded in 1960 and released in 1961
A later audio-video recording, features Eric Dolphy
My Favrite Things at 50
2010 documentary
Greensleeves
You Don't Know What Love Is (1962)
Afro Blue (1962)
Chasin' the Trane (1962)
India (with
Eric Dolphy)
Impressions
Alabama
The
legendary John Coltrane Quartet in 1963 - Coltrane (sax), McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (bass) and Elvin
Jones (drums)
The Promise (1963)
Chim Chim Cheree (1965)
Nature Boy
(1965)
Your Lady
(1963)
My
Favorite Things (Newport 1965)
A Love Supreme (1965)
A Love Supreme
Quartet in Concert Live and on film (July 1965)
Live at Antibes (July
1965)
Live at the Village Vanguard Again (1966)
John Coltrane,
reeds; Pharoah Sanders, reeds and flute; Alice Coltrane, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Rashid Ali, drums
----------------------
Elvin
Elvin Jones
Pretty Brown (1961)
with Hank Jones
Half and Half
Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet (1963)
with McCoy Tyner
Different Drummer
Elvin Jones
Documentary (1979)
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McCoy
McCoy Tyner
Autumn Leaves
Summertime
Boston (mid-1960s)
or
Minor Blues
Boston (mid-1960s)
Satin Doll (mid-1960s)
My Favorite Things (1972)
Giant Steps (1996)
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Eric Dolphy
Music Matador (1963)
Stormy Weather (1960)
With Charles Mingus
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Archie Shepp
The Girl from Ipanema (1965)
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Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler Trio (1964)
Albert Ayler, sax; Gary Peacock, bass; Sonny Murray, drums
Ghosts
Spirits
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Ornette
Ornette Coleman
Ramblin' (1960)
Ornette Colelman,
alto saxophone; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet; Charlie Haden, bass; Billy Higgins, drums
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Roscoe Mitchell
 1968 Solo with rhythm section at mid-tempo
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The History of Jazz
Documentary
Popular Jazz Hits of the 1950s and 1960s
Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong
Mack the Knife (1956)
or, the same:
or, the same:
or, audio portion only:
or full audio
portion only:
1959:
or, the same:
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Cannonball Adderley
This Here (1958)
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Dave Brubeck
Take Five (1959)
or
or
1961:
Interview with Dave Brubeck
Buffalo, N. Y., October 11, 2009
On WW2
Conversation with Dave Brubeck
April 10, 2008
Library of Congress
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Yusef Lateef
Love Theme
from Spartacus (1961)
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Herbie Mann
St.
Thomas (1962)
----------------------
Paul Horn
We Three Kings of Orient Are (1962)
Paul Horn
The Story of a Jazz Musician
1963
documentary
3 clips
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Herbie
Hancock
Watermelon Man (1962)
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Lee Morgan Quintet
The Sidewinder
(1963)
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Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto
The Girl
from Ipanema (1964)
Hear More:
Manhã De Carnaval
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Ramsey Lewis Trio
I'm In with the In Crowd (1965)
or
-----------------------------
Jazz from Japan
Sadao
("Nobbie") Watanabe
with
Chico Hamilton
Strange
(1966)
Autumn Leaves
Osaka (ca. 1980)
Interview with Sadao Watanabe (2012)
Excerpt
----------------
Bill Evans Trio
BC studio, London
9th March 1965
Five 00:00
Introduction by Humphrey Lyttelton 00:50
How my heart sings 01:50
Nardis 05:53
Who can I turn to 11:37
Someday my prince will come 17:37
How deep is the ocean 23:11
Waltz for Debby 29:17
Five 34:11
Elsa 36:45
Summertime 41:43
Come rain or come shine 47:18
My foolish heart 52:35
Re: Person I knew 57:49
Israel 01:02:09
Five 01:07:38
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Elizeth Cardoso
Manhã de Carnaval
From the soundtrack of the movie Orfeu Negro (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEdVkWDFJYQ
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Ask any used book seller.
What are young travellers buying? What books
are they asking for?
The answer: Che Guevara and Jack Kerouac.
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, poet and novelist, born in
Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. His parents were French-Canadians from Quebec. Kerouac
died in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1969.
Kerouac attended Columbia U. in NYC on a
football scholarship (c. 1940 photo)
Kerouac joined the Merchant Marine in early 1942.
Interview
The Ben Hecht Show, October 1958
On the Road, a novel
by Jack Kerouac, completed in 1951 and published in 1957.
Kerouac recounts his travels
across the U. S. and Mexico in the late 1940s.
Full text on line:
https://archive.org/stream/OnTheRoad_642/KerouacJack-OnTheRoad_djvu.txt
Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen
The Steve Allen Show
1959
Jack Kerouac
Icône
de la Beat Generation
Hervé Quemener à Brest
On the Road
Film advertisement (2012)
Interview
French Canadian TV (1960s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yruA7ff93Jw
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Lecture
# 8 of the course The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291) by Amy Hungerford at Yale U. in the spring of 2008.
1. The Beats: Similarities and Differences to Literary Modernism
2. A
New Use of Language: Mirroring the Speed of Experience
3. "The Prophet of 'Wow'": The Language of Dean Moriarty/Neal Cassady
4.
Dean and Sal: Tangled Sexual Tensions
5. The Hunger Metaphor: The American Culture of Consumption
6. Modes of Craftedness:
Carlo Marx's Papier-Mache Mountains
You Tube:
Yale U.:
Transcript:
Jack Kerouac, On the Road (continued)
Lecture # 8 of the course The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291)
by Amy Hungerford at Yale U. in the spring of 2008.
1. Kerouac’s Mythical America: Trans-historical Communities
2. Defining American Identity: Sal’s Illusory Vision of Mystical Onenes
3. Dean and Sal, Again: The Theme of Sadness
4. The Publication History: Creating a Literary Object
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inFtwnp0R0g
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-291/lecture-9
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/486/engl-291
Poetry For The Beat Generation
Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen (piano)
Recorded in 1958 and released in 1959
1. October in the Railroad Earth
2.
Deadbelly
3. Charlie Parker
4.
The Sounds of the Universe Coming in My Window
5. One Mother
6. Goofing at the Table
7.
Bowery Blues
8. Abraham
9.
Dave Brubeck
10. I Had A Slouch Hat Too One Time
11. The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception
12.
McDougal Street Blues
13. The Moon Her Majesty
14. I'd Rather Be Thin Than Famous
Blues and Haikus
With Al Cohn and Zoot Sims (saxophones)
Recorded and released in 1959
Part 1.
Part 2.
Part 3.
Readings
by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation
Recorded during 1959 and released in January 1960
Jack Kerouac's Life in Orlando, Florida
Hipsters and hippies
The Hippie Movement
Excerpts from a discussion
about the "Hippie" movement with Jack Kerouac, William F. Buckley, others
Firing
Line (1968)
Ibiza Hippie
Ube ile pour une autr vie
Documentaire
In the 1960s the Catalonian
Balearic Islands of the Mediterranean became a centre for "hippies", in particularly the island of Formentera.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Interviewed by David Frost in London on 29 September 1967
With John Lennon and George Harrison
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1968 documentary on the Canadian Broadcasting
System (CBS) TV program Telescope
Maharishi
Documentary (c. 1970)
How to develop your full potential?
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Harvard Law Forum (1970)
Part 1. (25 min.)
Part 2. (23 min.)
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar, sitar master
Classical Indian music became popular in the mid-1960s
Monterey Folk/Rock/Pop/Whatever Festival, June 1967
and
Woodstock 1969
Interview and Sitar Lessons (1960s)
Documentary
Date? Probably late 1980s
Pandit Ravi Shankar
South Bank Special with Melvyn Bragg
Date? Late 1970s?
4 clips
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Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, sarod master
Improvisation
Julian Bream in India (1963)
Ali Akbar Khan Raga Kirwani
Recorded in concert, Los Angeles 1967
Jhinjhoti
Early 1960s?
A Lover's Melody
---------------
Ustad Bismillah Khan
Purbi Dhun
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Olatunji
 Babatunde Olatunji of Nigeria, most famous and popular
leader of African
percussion ensembles
in the 1960s
Shango
Oya
Baba Jinde
Akiwowo
Jin-Go-Lo-Ba
Kiyakiya
Oyin Momo Ado
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The Negro Soldier
U. S. Armed Forces film by Frank Capra (1944)
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US 761st Tank Battalion
Patton's Black Panthers
Documentary
or
Lena Horne with Tuskegee airmen, a black unit of the US Army Air Corps, in 1943
.JPG)
Lena Horne with the Tuskegee Airmen in 1945
Fight and Flight
Documentary
Tuskegee Airmen
Documentary
The Redtailed Angels
Documentary
Tuskegee Airmen Experiment: A Success
World War 2 History Round Table
Col. Kenneth O. Wofford, P-51 pilot, 332nd Fighter Group
Remembering the Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee airman Robert Maxwell
The Tuskegee
Airmen
HBO movie (1:38:41)
Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group
Alexander Jefferson, P-51 pilot, one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen shot
down and made a POW in WW2.
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Civil Rights and the 1950s
Session # 39 of the Crash Course on US
History with John Green
Martin
Luther King
Martin
Luther King, jr. (1929 - 1968)
of Alabama; born
Michael King, his
father renamed him after himself;
Baptist pastor, one of the leading
figures for racial equality in
the US
in the 1960s; civil rights
advocate,
advocated non-violence; led many
sit-ins, marches and boycotts;
assassinated in 1968
Martin Luther King Jr
Life and Death
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley
(1913 - 2005), Mother
of the Black Freedom
Movement, First Lady of Civil Rights
The
Montgomery
Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King jr. recounts the 1955 racial incident involving Rosa Parks and the subsequent bus boycott
by the black population of the city of Montgomery, Alabama (1955/6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLohgXpZuZo
Rosa Parks
Documentary
2 clips
Angela Bassett portrayed Rosa
Parks in Hollywood movie
Advertisement for a movie about Rosa Parks, broadcast over CBS-TV in 2002
Rosa Parks
Horrible
Histories
Lyrics only:
Robert Franklin Williams
(1925 - 1996)
Robert and Mabel Williams with Mao Tse-Tung in China
Robert Franklin Williams was born and raised in North Carollina. He
lived in Detroit in the early 1940s. He was a U. S. Marine in WW2.
A civil rights activist and president of the Monroe County, N. C. chapter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1950s and early 1960s, Williams pushed for racial desegregation.
Williams urged blacks to own guns and defend themselves against attacks by whites.
In 1961, Williams was accused of kidnapping a white couple in North Carolina and fled to Canada.
Eventually, Williams went to Cuba. With the help of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, he set up Radio
Free Dixie and broadcast addresses to southern blacks from 1962 to 1965. During the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 he encouraged
black GIs to mutiny and turn on American leaders.
Williams was disappointed with the stalled Cuban revolution and the employment of many French
and Belgian civil servants in Cuban government posts.
Williams went to China in 1966. He broadcast speeches to black G. I.s in Vietnam, encouraging
them to mutiny.
Williams liked China but decided to return to the U. S. in 1969. He settled permanently in Michigan,
buying and settling on a farm.
Charges against Williams in North Carolina were dropped in 1974.
Negroes with Guns
Documentary about Robert F. Williams and self-defense
or
Or in 6 clips:
Start here (all clips follow automatically):
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf2-WAuqhxM&list=PL7406F8A9808AD93F
2. . . . .
Documentary about Integration
(1960) (20min.)
Robert
F. Williams Interview
Tanzania (1968)
(59 min. 32 sec.)
Self-Defense, Self-Respect, & Self-Determination
By Mabel Williams and Robert F. Williams
Documentary (audio) (1:15:56)
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The 1960s in America
Session # 40 of Crash Course in
US History with John Green
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Nothing
But A Man .
1964 movie with Abbie Lincoln and
Ivan Dixon depicts life in the Deep South in the early
1960s
In 7 clips
All Africa
Abbey Lincoln with drummer Max Roach on Belgian TV (1964)
From the Freedom Now Suite by Roach
Love for Sale
Live is Paris
Abbey Lincoln with the Max Roach Quintet
January 18, 1964
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Carol
Diann Johnson (1935 - 2019), stage name: Diahann Carroll; born
in
New
York;
Broadway, Hollywood and
television
star, and singer. Age 15 in the above photo, taken in Harlem in 1950 or 1951.
.
1953
.
Dorothy Dandridge (left) with Diahann Carroll in Carmen Jones in 1954. It was Carroll's
first appearance in a movie. ,
As Clara in Porgy and Bess in 1959. This was Carroll's second movie. Like her first movie, five years earlier, it
starred Dorothy Dandridge.
Paris Blues .
1961
movie about Americans in Paris with Diahann Carroll and Sidney
Poitier. Directed by Martin Ritt and produced by Sam Shaw.
Features Louis Armstrong
or in 7 clips:
With daughter Suzanne, born in 1960.
With Sidney Poitier in 1964.
May Day 1964 in London
Julia Diahann Carroll had her own TV
show, Julia, a popular nation-wide half-hour weekly series from 1968 to 1971.
Diahann Carroll as Julia Baker, a
doctor's office nurse, widow of an
army pilot lost over Vietnam and
single mother with a young child.
Searching for the original episode, Mama's Man (the first episode of the first season), without the audience laughter track that was added
30 years later to reruns
Excerpt
from first episode, Mama's Man (1968)
Diahann Carroll on Julia
Interview in Los
Angeles in March 1998:
# 4 of 8
half-hour reels:
(go to the
25:02 mark)
# 5 of 8 half-hour reels (entire reel):
# 6 of 8 half-hour reels:
Excerpts:
Hal Kanter on creating Julia
New York, 1973
Claudine
Diahann Carroll and James Earl
Jones in 1974 comedy. Directed by John Berry.
.
1979 made-for-TV drama with Diahann Carroll and Rosalind Cash (released in 1982). Directed by John Berry.
Diahann Carroll's daughter and only child,
Suzanne Kay, with her father, Monte Kay (1924 - 1988), a musicians' agent and record producer. Kay was also a co-founder of
the legendary New York City jazz club Birdland in 1949. Kay and Carroll were married from 1956 to 1962. Carroll
was married four times. Her marriage to Kay was her first.
Diahann Carroll in
March 1998 interview.
Diahann Carroll
Summertime
Porgy and Bess
1959 movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_DHyjv3Ts
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Cassius Clay
Cassius Marcellus Clay, jr. (1942 - 2016) three-
time world heavyweight boxing champion (1964 - 1967, 1974 - 1978, 1978 - 1979), called the The
Louisville Lip, The Greatest, The People's Champion;
Won 56 fights
(37 by KO) and lost 5.
Cassius Clay was more than a great sports champion. He was a powerful social force as
well.
The
Life and Career of Muhammad Ali
Cassius Clay winning the golden gloves (1960)
Cassius Clay vs Zbigniew
Pietrzykowsky 1960 Olympics
Rome,
Italy
Interview
Cassius Clay, light-heavyweight boxer, gold medalist,
Olympics, Rome, 1960
Clay, center,
with two other members of the US Olympic boxing team competing in the
Olympics in Rome in 1960. All three won gold
medals,
In an intervew with
a New York Times columnist in Rome, Clay, then age 18, predicted
he would win the world heavyweight professional boxing championhship title and that he would be the youngest to do so
- before he was 21.
Clay turned pro when he returned home from Rome and
fought 19 times over the next three years, winning each fight, and becoming the # 1 contender.
First professional fight
1960
"The Louisville Lip"
Clay vs Sonny Banks
February 10th, 1962
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Grand Circus Theatre, Detroit
1962 Hollywood movie
Opening scene
with Cassius Clay
Excerpt, opening scene (dubbed in Spanish)
Clay K. O.'s Archie Moore
Cassius Clay vs Archie Moore
Nov.
1962
Clay
won an unpopular unanimous 10-round decision over Doug Jones
in New York in 1963
Cassius
Clay vs Doug Jones
Madison Square Garden, NYC, March 13, 1963
or
Clay vs. Cooper in London in 1963
Cassius Clay vs Henry Cooper
Wembley Stadium, London
June 18, 1963
Excerpts
"The Greatest"
"I am the Greatest!"
On The Steve Allen Show 1963
On The Jack Paar Show
Features Liberace
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Martin Luther King, jr. at the Lincoln Memorial, 1963
Martin Luther King, jr. at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D. C., 1963
Civil Rights March on Washington
with Martin Luther King Jr.
August 1963
Stock
Footage
Martin
Luther King
"I Have a Dream"
Speech in Washington,
D. C.
August
28, 1963
FULL SPEECH
(Sous-titres) (Subtitles)
or
Hollywood stars
in Washington
Among the stars
at the Lincoln Memorial
are Harry Belafonte,
Diahann Carroll,
Charlton Heston,
Marlon
Brando and Burt
Lancaster
Diahann Carroll
and James
("Bart Maverick") Garner
Carroll with
Garner and
Paul Newman
Jospehine Baker
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Sonny Liston, Champion,
fights
Cassius Clay, Challenger
Sonny Liston, World Heavyweight Champion
vs.
Cassius Clay, Challenger
Miami Beach, Florida, February 24, 1964
At long last, the Louisville Lip was to be shut.
Liston was a 7-1 favorite.
The entire fight
Commentary by Steve Ellis and Joe Louis
and, again. the same, but includes pre-fight
weigh-in and more post-fight ring commentary by Ellis and Louis
It was reported that Liston did not train for a long fight.
Liston
came out the agressor and pressed the fight. The fighters set a fast pace from the start and kept it for the first five rounds.
Clay outboxed Liston in the first round.
At the end of the round,
Joe Louis, at ringside, pointed out that Clay had outclassed Liston and could cause serious trouble for him.
Liston took the second round, outboxing and
outpunching Clay.
Clay wobbled Liston and had him in serious
trouble in the first half of the third round but Liston recovered and had Clay in trouble in the last half of the round. Clay
cut Liston under the left eye.
Liston outboxed and outpunched Clay in the fourth round.
Between rounds Clay complained that something had gotten into his
eyes in the fourth round.
For the first minute of
the fifth round Clay fought as if practically blind. Liston had Clay in serious trouble but he was unable to catch
him. Liston thoroughly dominated Clay in this round.
Liston came out for the sixth tired. He fought flatfooted. The pace slowed.
For the first time in the fight, Liston was backing away. Clay took
this round.
Liston did not come out for the seventh round. He remained
seated on his stool.
Clay won the fight and the championship belt
with a TKO in seven rounds.
Liston's two ring doctors claimed that Liston dislocated his left
shoulder when he missed
Clay with a punch.
At the end of round 6, the two judges and the referee scored the fight even.
Florida used the the ten-point-must scoring system, with the winner of a round getting ten points and the loser nine or less.
One judge gave Liston a two-point lead, 58 - 56. The other judge gave Clay a two-point lead, 58 - 56. The referee scored
the fight even at 57 - 57.
The ringside press saw Clay ahead after six rounds.
It was an unconvincing victory for
Clay. Many were dismayed by the fight's ending.
There would have to be a rematch.
Sonny Liston vs Cassius Clay
Documentary about the fight
Clay
lived up to his boast that he would one day be the champ.
But
at age 22, he was not the youngest ever to win the title.
Clay
displays world heavyweight boxing championship belt
The Greatest
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The Great Society
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908
- 1973),
US president (1963 - 1969)
Lyndon
Johnson & Martin Luther King, Jr.
November 25, 1963 telephone
conversation, third day of presidency
2011
UVA lecture
The Great Society
American president Lyndon
B. Johnson's address at graduation ceremonies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 24, 1964
or in 2 clips:
The Great Society
Lyndon B Johnson - The Great Society
Documentary
LBJ
signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
LBJ outlines his Great Society
President Johnson outlines goals of Great Society in State of the
Union speech, January 4, 1965
Complete Address:
The American Promise
LBJ's
Voting Rights Speech
President Johnson asks Congress to pass Voting Rights Act
Entire speech, March 15, 1965
LBJ - The Last Interview
Uploader's notes:
"Recorded at the LBJ Ranch in Texas on Jan. 12, 1973, 10 days before the former President's death.
"As the fifth in a special series of “conversations” with Lyndon Johnson, this CBS special, hosted by
Walter Cronkite, concentrates on the Johnson role in the struggle for civil rights. This would be the former President's final
interview."
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The Black Muslims
Elijah Muhammad
Elijah Robert Poole (Elijah Muhammad) (1897 – 1975),
leader of the Nation of Islam (Black
Muslims) from 1935 to 1975
Hon. Elijah Muhammad Interview
Part 1
documentaries about
Blacks Muslims go here
Malcolm X
Malcolm Little (1925 - 1965), black
militant, Black Muslim
Malcolm X
Life
and Death
Malcolm X
1992 movie
Lindy Hop Dance Scene
MALCOLM X
Advertisement for 1992 movie
Malcolm X
Siskel & Ebert discuss 1992 movie
MALCOLM
X
with Elijah Muhammad
1992 movie
Malcolm X
Race Relations in Crisis
PBS-TV program Open
Mind, June 12, 1963
Malcolm X with the new
world heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay in New York City, March 1, 1964
Malcolm X
University of California-Berkeley
Malcolm X
CBS News Interview with Mike Wallace, June 1964
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Cassius
X/Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali and the Black Muslims
In Chicago on March 6, 1964, Cassius Clay, left, became Muhammad Ali; with Malcolm X, center, and Elijah Muhammad, head of the Black Muslims, right
Two days later, on March 8, 1964, Malcolm X quit the Black Muslims and started his own organization. Malcolm X was assassinated one year later, on February
21, 1965.
Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali
Elijah Muhammad and Muhammad Ali, Harlem, June 28, 1964
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Published posthumously in 1965, it was quickly a
best-seller and has sold millions of copies
since
Assassination
movie version (1992)
Death of a Prophet
The Last Days of Malcolm X
with Morgan Freeman
Who
Killed Malcolm X?
Documentary
Interview
with Messenger Elijah Muhammad
(after the death of Malcolm X)
Malcolm
X - Make it Plain
PBS Documentary
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Blues for Jersey Joe
The Rematch with Liston
A rematch with Liston was not mandatory. But the publlc was not satisfied
with the first fight.
But the rematch, in the following year, 1965, was a fiasco. Everyone knew long
beforehand that Liston was going to throw the fight. No state wanted to host it.
Eventually, the bout was held in a high school
gymnasium in a small town in northern New England and fewer than 2,500 attended.
Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston (II)
1965
FULL FIGHT
If you're going to throw a fight go out early. Go down in the first.
Two minutes into the
fight, Ali landed a short right uppercut to the left side of Liston's head. Few saw the punch. Liston went down for the count. Sportswriters
called it the Phantom Punch.
 Video photo of the 'Phantom Punch' in slow-motion: a short right
chop (or uppercut) over Liston's left arm to the head.
Was the
punch hard enough to knock Liston down? Most did not think so.
Because Ali refused to go to the regulation neutral corner, the referee, ex-champ
Jersey Joe Walcott, delayed the count.
Liston got up.
As the referee, Walcott, wiped
the canvas resin off of Liston's gloves before the fight resumed, the publisher of Ring Magazine, Nat Fleischer,
seated next to the timekeeper at ringside, called out to Walcott.
Walcott went to Fleischer and the time
keeper.
Meanwhile, Ali went after Liston.
Fleischer told Walcott that Liston had
been down more than ten seconds.
So Walcott stopped the fight. 
Walcott was accused
of mishandling the bout and barred from refereeing again.
Commentary by Steve Ellis
Also:
The FAMOUS Phantom Punch - Fix?
Post-Bout
Discussion
Jack
Dempsey and Rocky Marciano on the Phantom Punch
Hosted by Howard Cossell
Ali's "Phantom Punch"
Why Liston took the dive!
A writer believes Liston was born in 1919 . . .
Liston
returned to the ring in the following year, 1966. He fought 16 more fights, winning
15 times, 14 by KO, beating some top fighters and one contender. He seemed to be making a comeback and there was
talk of challenging for the title. He won his last fight.
But Liston
never fought for the title again.
Liston died
at his home in Las Vegas in December 1970 at the age of 40.
There were questions
about Liston's death. It was claimed that Liston suffered lung and heart problems.
There were claims
that he was murdered by gangsters. There was a later claim that he was murdered by the police for
gangsters and that the police planted or altered evidence to make his death appear an accident.
The Sonny Liston Knockout
Reel
1958-1968
Highlights from some
of Liston's fights, including many in post-championship years
Liston in 1967 photo
Liston
Documentary films about Sonny Liston:
Sonny Liston
Episode from the documentary series Biography
SONNY LISTON - THE
CHAMP NOBODY WANTED
THE RISE AND FALL OF CHARLES ''SONNY'' LISTON
ESPN Boxing Documentary
Excerpt
from the documentary film Sonny Liston
- The Mysterious Life and
Death of a Champion (see below)
Sonny Liston
The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion (48:52)
Sonny Liston - The Big Bear Story
Hosted by Robert Stack
Sonny Liston
Behind the Fights
2003 documentary
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Muhammad Ali - the fighting champion
Ali was a fighting champion, taking on all contenders and fighting often
After the Liston rematch, Ali took on the ex-champ Floyd Patterson
Ali knocks Patterson down in round 6
Muhammad Ali, champion, vs Floyd Patterson, ex-champion
Las Vegas, November 22, 1965
Ali pelted Patterson with punches before the referree stopped the fight in round 12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk6kjy4tiuM
Next, Ali took on the Canadian heavyweight champion, George Chuvalo, in Toronto
on March 29, 1966
The fight went the limit, 15 rounds, and Ali won an unanimous decision.
Muhammad Ali, champion, vs George Chuvalo. challenger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRhBnojRQQM
Ali kayos London in three
Ali vs. Brian London in London, England, August 8, 1966
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Plane highjackings to Cuba goes here
BLACK
POWER
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
William Buckley interviews Huey Newton on
Firing Line
Excerpt
Free Huey Newton Rally
Bobby Seale
The Black Panther Party's Ten-Point Program
Off the Pigs!
1968
documentary features Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver says
'No Democrats . . .
No Republicans'
1968
Black
Dada Nihilismus
Poet Leroi Jones
& the New York Art Quartet (1964)
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Muhammad Ali with Martin Luther KIng, Jr.
in Louisville, Kentucky n February 1967.
Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali was drafted by the US army in
1964. He petitioned for exemption from the draft on religious grounds, citing his ministerial work for the Black Muslims.
He was denied exemption.
He refused induction.
He was convicted of draft evasion in 1967, sentenced to
jail for five years, stripped of the championship and his boxing
license was revoked.
Ali posted bond and appealed the conviction
- all the way to the Supreme Court - and won, four years later, in 1971.
He got his boxing license back in 1970, before the Supreme Court
decision.
Muhammad Ali interview on not
joining the army
Boxing champ Muhammad Ali on Fillmore Street, San Francisco (1967)
from
THE EDUCATION ARCHIVE
A Conversation with Muhammad Ali
Interview
with Bud Collins, 1968
Muhammad Ali
The David Frost Show 1968
Muhammad Ali interview with Ian Wooldridge
1969
Muhammad Ali
Interviewed by William Buckley, 1969
Blacks run riot in Detroit, July
1967
THE 1967 DETROIT RIOTS
The Assassination
of Martin Luther King, Jr.
As Martin Luther King, jr. lies dying, aides and by-standers
point to the location of the
assassin, 200 feet away, Memphis, Tennessee, April 1968
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Documentary
Who Killed Martin Luther King?
1989 episode from the documentary series Inside Story
Who killed Martin Luther King?
British doumentary
Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. blacks rioted in cities
across the U. S. for a week
Washington, D.C., Baltimore,
Louisville, Kansas City, Chicago, Wilmington, New York City . . .
Dozens killed, thousands injured, thousands arrested
How Boston was spared rioting
James Brown at the Boston
Garden the
night after the
assassination of Martin
Luther
King, Jr. The concert was
televised live and the video
tape of
the concert replayed
immediately afterward.
It kept
the blacks at home.
Mayor
Kevin White with James Brown at The Boston Garden 04/05/1968
The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Documentary
8 clips:
James Brown
Live at Boston Garden
(1968)
(1:38:02)
After receiving their medals, two black
American
Olympic teammates raise
their
fists in the defiant Black Power salut
of
protest as the American national anthem
is played. 1968
Olympic Games, Mexico
City. The two athletes were expelled
from
the Games.
Black
Power Salute
1968 Summer
Olympics
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Muhammad Ali
The Comeback
Stripped
of the championship and three-and-one-half-years out of the ring, Ali had to earn a shot at the title, held by the new
champion, Joe Frazier. Ali fought two fights in 1970.
Muhammad Ali vs Jerry Quarry
October 26, 1970
Then, as the top contender, Ali challenged
the champion, Joe Frazier, in 1971.
This fight would be their first of three.
Challenger Muhammad Ali vs Champion Joe Frazier (1)
Madison Square Garden, NYC, March 8, 1971
Ali lost the 15-round decision, the first loss of his career
Attica prison riot
poem
Ali fought and won ten fights over the next two years . . .
Muhammad
Ali vs Floyd Patterson
September
20, 1972
. . . and then Ali suffered a surprising loss,
the second
of his career . . .
Muhammad
Ali vs Ken Norton (I)
San
Diego, March 31, 1973
Entire
fight - Rounds 1 - 12 and Interviews
The fight went the limit and Ali lost the decision to seventh-ranked Ken Norton
Following this defeat, Ali considered retirement from
boxing . . . . . But, eventually, he decided to continue boxing.
Ali won the next three fights, including rematches with Norton
and Frazier. He was once again the top contender for the title . . .
Ali fights for the title
Champion
George Foreman vs. Challenger Muhammad Ali
Ali
lands a hard right cross flush to Foreman's jaw
Kinshasha,
Zaire, October 30, 1974
or
Foreman down for the count and Ali regains the title
When
we were Kings
1996
documentary about the Foreman - Ali fight
Movie
Over the next
four years, Ali defended the title in ten more fights
The
leader of the Black Muslims, Elijah Muhammad, died in 1975 and his successor converted to Sunni Islam. So Ali converted to
Sunni Islam too.
The
Thrilla in Manila
Ali
and Frazier fight for the third time
Ali batters Joe Frazier in their third fight, in Manila, 1975;
the referee stopped the fight after the 14th round
Muhammad
Ali vs. Joe Frazier (3)
Manila, October 1, 1975
But in 1978, Ali lost the championship title to
a boxer with just seven pro fights. The fight went the limit, 15 rounds, and Ali lost by a split-decision. This was
the third loss in his career.
Yet, Ali regained the title, a third time, in a rematch
several months later . . .
Ali did not defend the title and retired a year later, in 1979.
But Ali couldn't stay away from the fight game. A year
later, in 1980, he fought a former sparring partner, now the champion, and lost the fight,
stopped by his corner before the tenth round . . .
And a year later, at age 39, in 1981, Ali fought
and lost his last fight and retired permanently with a 56-5 won-lost record.
1981 photo
Muhammad Ali - THE GREATEST
1977 movie
or
Ali
Muhammad Ali Biography
2001 movie with Will Smith
Muhammad Ali, 2013
Muhammad Ali has Irish Roots (great-grandfather) (1978)
The
paternal grandfather of Muhammad Ali's mother was Abe Grady of Ennis in County Clare in southern Ireland (Eire). Grady came
to the U. S. after the Civil War and married a black woman in Kentucky who herself had a white great-grandfather.
Thus, Muhammad Ali is slightly more than one-eighth white.
Muhammad Ali in Ireland in 1972
Muhammad Ali honours his Irish
ancestors
Note:
Muhammad Ali's father was Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr.
Clay Sr. was named after Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810 - 1903), a
prominent Republican Party politician and abolitionist in the mid-1800s.
The Clay family was one of the biggest plantation owners in
Kentucky and very influential in public affairs. During the Civil War, Clay was appointed ambassador to Russia by President
Lincoln and secured Russia's support for the Union. Clay influenced Lincoln and also Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
World Heavyweight Boxing Champions
John L. Sullivan
(USA) (1882 - 1892)
James J. Corbett (USA) (1892 - 1897)
Bob Fitzsimmons (England) (1897 - 1899)
James J. Jeffries
(USA) (1899 - 1905) Retired while
champion
Marvin Hart (USA) (1905 - 1906)
Tommy Burns
(Canada) (1906 - 1908)
Jack Johnson (USA) (1908 - 1915)
Jess Willard (USA) (1915 - 1919)
Jack Dempsey (USA) (1919
- 1926)
Gene Tunney (USA) (1926 - 1928) Retired while
champion
Vacant (1928 - 1930)
Max Schmeling
(Germany) (1930 - 1932)
Jack Sharkey (USA) (1932 - 1933)
Primo Carnera (Italy) (1933 - 1934)
Max Baer (USA) (1934
- 1935)
James J. Braddock (USA) (1935 - 1937)
Joe Louis (USA) (1937 - 1949) Retired while
champion
Ezzard Charles (USA) (1949 - 1951)
Jersey
Joe Walcott (USA) 1951 - 1952
Rocky Marciano (USA) (1952 - 1956) Retired while
champion
Floyd Patterson (USA) (1956 - 1959)
Ingemar
Johansson (Sweden) (1959 - 1960)
Floyd Patterson (USA) (1960 - 1962) First to regain
heavyweight chamoionship
Sonny Liston (USA) (1962 - 1964)
Cassius
Clay/Muhammad Ali (USA) (1964 - 1967)
Stripped of title
Joe Frazier (USA) 1968 - 1973
George
Foreman (USA) 1973 - 1974
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) (USA) (1974 - 1978)
Second to regain heavyeight championship
Leon Spinks
(USA) (1978 - 1978)
Muhammad Ali (USA) (1978 - 1979) Only thee-time
heavyweight champion in history; Retired
while
champion
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Vanessa
Williams
Vanessa Lynn Williams, born in New
York in 1963; singer, actress, fashion
model and
first Miss America with
African ancestry
Miss America 1984
First Miss America with African ancestry
September 1983
The crowning of Vanessa Williams, Miss America 1984
The Road to Miss America
Vanessa Williams was also the first to give up
the Miss America title in the pageant's 64-year history, in May 1985, after nude photos of her, taken three years
earlier, appeared in a magazine and caused a stir.
Comments
Vanessa Williams
Biografia
Biographical documentary dubbed in Spanish
5 clips:
Miss
America
Episode from the documentary series American Experience
Williams went on to become a popular singer and movie star
A sample:
Keep the Faith, Baby
As singer and pianist Hazel Scott in 2001 movie about Harlem preacher
and politician Adam Clayton Powell
Stompin' at the Savoy
1992 movie starring Lynn Whitfield features Williams
Excerpts:
Part - - - -
Odyssey
As Calypso in the 1997 movie Odyssey
See excerpts in the following clips:
clip 8.
clip 9.
or entire movie:
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"Colored", "Negro", "Black", "Afro-American" or "African-American"?
"Mixed-Race" or "Racial Hybrid"?
The Myth of "African-American" Identity
Many so-called "African-Americans" do not have African ancestry.
Many people with dark skin and some "Negroid" facial features do
not come from Africa.
They come from the Near East, the Indian sub-continent, Southeast
Asia, Australia, Melanesia, MIcronesia, Polynesia and the South American Andes.
Many "African-Americans" are people of "mixed-race" or "racial
hybrids" with actually less African than European, American Indian and/or Asiatic ancestry.
Video
goes here
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Some interesting Statistics
As of 2014, African-Americans make up 13 to 14% of the total
population of the United States of 320 million. The percentage is slowly and steadily growing.
By far, most African-Americans live in the southeastern United States.
The southern states of Florida, Georgia and Texas each have 3 million African-Americans.
But the northern state of New York has the biggest African-American
population in the U. S. with more than 3 million.
The western state of California has 2.3 million African-Americans.
African-Americans make up 37% of the state of Mississippi, 32% of
the state of Louisiana, 30% of Georgia, almost 30% of Maryland, 28.5% of South Carolina, 26% of Alabama, 22% of North Carolina,
20% of Virginia, 17% of Tennessee, 16% of Florida and 16% of Arkansas.
The northern state with the largest percentage of African-Americans
is Delaware with 21%.
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While the percentage of African-Americans with high school and college
degrees has increased almost steadily over the years, at present the literacy and numeracy skills of more than
half of adult African-Americans is below the national average. (The total U. S. national average ranks almost the lowest
in the western world.)
African-Americans make up a steadily growing percentage of the total
prison population of the U. S. At least 40% of the nation's prison inmates at present are Afrcian-Americans.
African-Americans make up 18% (almost one-fifth) of the U. S. armed
forces. They make up almost one-fifth of the U. S. Army and U. S. Navy.
Less than 4% of African-Americans are self-employed.
African-Americans make up 10 to 12% of the total U. S.
civilian labor force.
20% of the African-American civilian labor force is employed in
government jobs.
African-Americans make up 18% of all U. S. government
workers (almost one-fifth).
1. African-Americans are 82% at the employees of the U. S. Court
Services and Offender Supervision Agency.
2. African-Americans are 55% of the employees (more than half)
at the U. S. Government Printing Office.
3. African-Americans are 42% of the employees of the U. S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
4. African-Americans are 38% of the employees of the U. S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development.
5. African-Americans are 37% of the employees (more than one-third)
of the U. S. Department of Education.
6. African-Americans are 31% (almost one-third) of the employees
of the U. S. State Department. (This percentage is steadily growing.)
7. African-Americans are 25% of the employees (one-quarter) of the
U. S. Department of the Treasury.
7. African-Americans are 25% of the employees (one-quarter) of the
Department of Veterans Affairs.
The above facts and figures were gleaned from various official sources.
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