Say it loud! : a celebration of Black music in America.

Format:

Sound recording

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Songs and music.

African Americans.

Popular music--United States.

Popular music.

United States.

Ragtime music.

Blues (Music).

Gospel music.

Jazz.

Rhythm and blues music.

Rock music.

Genre:

Songs and music.

Sound recordings.

Songs.

Music.

Physical Description:

6 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (72 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm)

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Celebration of Black music in America

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Rhino Entertainment Company, [2001]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Contents:

Disc 1. Maple leaf rag / Joplin (Scott Joplin). Booker T. Washington on the Negro population in the South. The St. Louis blues / Handy (Bessie Smith). Black bottom stomp / Morton (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hop Peppers). Heebie jeebies / Atkins (Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five). Ol' man river / Kern (Paul Robeson ; Paul Whiteman Concert Orchestra and Chorus ; Paul Whiteman). Ain't misbehavin' / Brooks ; Razaf ; Waller (Fats Waller). Pony blues / Patton (Charlie Patton). My black mama. Part 1 / House, Jr. (Son House). Tiger rag / DaCosta...[et al.] (Mills Brothers). Minnie the moocher / Calloway ; Mills ; Gaskill (Cab Calloway & His Orchestra). It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) / Ellington ; Mills (Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra). Jesse Owens on the 1936 Olympics.

Cross road blues / Johnson (Robert Johnson). Rock my soul : trad. (Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet). If I didn't care / Lawrence (Ink Spots). Jumpin' at the Woodside / Basie (Count Basie & His Orchestra). Strange fruit / Allan (Billie Holiday). Stormy weather / Koehler ; Arlen (Lena Horne). Tiger rag / DaCosta...[et al.] (Art Tatum)

Disc 2. Straighten up and fly right / Cole (The King Cole Trio). Ko ko / Parker (Charlie Parker's Ri Bop Boys). If you could see me now / Dameron (Sarah Vaughan). Joe Louis returns from the army. The midnight special / Ledbetter (Leadbelly). Call it stormy Monday (but Tuesday is just as bad) / Walker (T-Bone Walker). 'Round about midnight / Monk (Thelonious Monk Quartet). Frank Stanley on Negro Newspaper Week. How high the moon / Hamilton ; Lewis, Jr. (Ella Fitzgerald). It's too soon to know / Chessler (Orioles). I fell like going home / Morganfield (Muddy Waters). Boogie chillen' / Hooker ; Besman (John Lee Hooker). President Harry S. Truman's civil rights legislation. In the evening when the sun goes down / Carr (Charles Brown Trio). Baby, get lost / Feather (Dinah Washington). Civil rights bill narrowly defeated in Senate. Saturday night fish fry. Parts I & II / Jordan ; Walsh (Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five).

Mardi Gras in New Orleans / Byrd (Professor Longhair). Jackie Robinson on the eve of the 1949 World Series. Rocket "88" / Brenston (Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats). (Mama) He treats your daughter mean / Lance ; Singleton ; Wallace (Ruth Brown). Honey honey / Stone (Drifters). Shake, rattle and roll / Calhoun (Joe Turner & His Blues Kings)

Disc 3. I've got a woman / Charles ; Richards (Ray Charles). Ain't it a shame / Domino ; Bartholomew (Fats Domino). Bo Diddley / McDaniel (Bo Diddley). Sammy Davis, Jr. on prejudice. That old black magic / Arlen ; Mercer (Sammy Davis, Jr.). Four / Davis (Miles Davis Quintet). The great pretender / Ram (Platters). W.E.B. Du Bois on the place of the black man in society. Long tall Sally / Blackwell ; Johnson ; Penniman (Little Richard). Brown eyed handsome man / Berry (Chuck Berry & His Combo). Banana boat : (Day-o) / Arkin ; Carey ; Darling (Harry Belafonte). Touch the hem of His garment / Cooke (Soul Stirrers, featuring Sam Cooke). Sometime I feel like a motherless child : trad. (Marian Anderson). Misty / Burke ; Garner (Johnny Mathis). President Dwight D. Eisenhower's address to the nation on segregation. The twist / Ballard (Hank Ballard & The Midnighters). I ain't superstitious / Dixon (Howlin' Wolf).

Pity the fool / Malone (Bobby Bland). At last / Warren ; Gordon (Etta James). Interview with a Dade County janitor. Wednesday night prayer meeting / Mingus (Charles Mingus). Giant steps / Coltrane (John Coltrane). Maiden voyage / Hancock (Herbie Hancock)

Disc 4. You've really got a hold on me / Robinson, Jr. (Miracles). Take my hand, precious Lord / Dorsey (Mahalia Jackson). Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. Cotton fields / Ledbetter (Odetta). How blue can you get? / L. Feather ; J. Feather (B.B. King). No pity (in the naked city) / Roberts ; Tucker ; Wilson (Jackie Wilson). President John F. Kennedy's address to the nation. Change gonna come / Cooke (Otis Redding). Walk on by / Bacharach ; David (Dionne Warwick). Reach out I'll be there / Dozier ; B. Holland ; E. Holland (Four Tops). Maldolm X on "Our common enemy." Land of 1000 dances / Kenner (Wilson Pickett). Respect / Redding (Aretha Franklin). Hey Joe / Roberts (Jimi Hendrix Experience). The Klan / A. Grey ; D. Grey (Richie Havens). Love child / Richards...[et al.] (Diana Ross & The Supremes). Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Mountain top" speech & the report on his assassination.

Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud / Brown ; Ellis (James Brown). Don't call me nigger, whitey / Stewart (Sly & The Family Stone). Choice of colors / Mayfield (Impressions). To be young, gifted and black / Simone ; Irving, Jr. (Nina Simone). Is anybody goin' to San Antone / Kirby ; Martin (Charley Pride)

Disc 5. I want you back / Gordy Jr....[et al.] (Jackson 5). I want to take you higher / Stewart (Ike & Tina Turner & The Ikettes). Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall on segregation. Ball of confusion (That's what the world is today) / Strong ; Whitfield (Temptations). What's going on / Benson ; Cleveland ; Gaye (Marvin Gaye). The revolution will not be televised / Scott-Heron (Gil Scott-Heron). My tribute / Crouch (Andraé Crouch). Respect yourself / Ingram ; Rice (Stapel Singers). Tired of being alone / Green (Al Green). Gordon Parks & Melvin Van Peebles on Shaft. Theme from Shaft / Hayes (Isaac Hayes). Be real black for me / Flack ; Hathaway ; Mann (Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway). Sanford and son / Jones (Quincy Jones). Love train / Gamble ; Huff (The O'Jays). Ghetto child / Bell ; Creed (Spinners). Midnight train to Georgia / Weatherly (Gladys Knight & The Pips).

Jungle boogie / Bell...[et al.] (Kool & The Gang). You're the first, the last, my everything / White ; Radcliffe ; Sepe (Barry White). Shining star / Bailey ; Dunn ; White (Earth, Wind & Fire). Chocolate city / Clinton, Jr. ; Collins ; Worrell (Parliament). Wake up everybody. Part 1 / Carstarphen ; McFadden ; Whitehead (Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes)

Disc 6. We are family / Edwards ; Rodgers (Sister Sledge). I will survive / Fekaris ; Perren (Gloria Gaynor). Fight the power. Part 1 / Isley...[et al.] (Isley Brothers). Rapper's delight / Edwards ; Rodgers (Sugarhill Gang). The breaks. Part 1 / Ford...[et al.] (Kurtis Blow). The message / Chase...[et al.] (Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five). A house is not a home / Bacharach ; David (Luther Vandross). If you only knew / Biggs ; Gamble ; Wansel (Patti LaBelle). Jesse Jackson at the 1984 Democratic National Convention. Proud to be black / Brown ; Simmons ; McDaniels (Run-D.M.C.). Colors / Ice-T ; Islam (Ice-T). Sister Rosa / Johnson...[et al.] (Neville Brothers). Express yourself / Wright ; Ice Cube (N.W.A.). Louis Farrakhan on the Million Man March. Me myself and I / Mercer...[et al.] (De La Soul). Ladies first / Owens...[et al.] (Queen Latifah). Elvis is dead / Reid (Living Colour). Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley on the Rodney King verdict. Fantastic voyage / Ivey, Jr....[et al.] (Coolio).

Participant:

Various performers.

Credits:

Compilation produced by Patrick Milligan, Shawn Amos & Quincy Newell ; sound produced by Bill Inglot.

Notes:

Principally music by and/or performed by African Americans; also includes brief speeches by African Americans.

Compact discs.

Booklet contains an illustrated, historical commentary on 100 years of Black music in America, with essays by David Ritz, Gerald Early, Ingrid Monson, and Ernest Hardy.

ISBN:

0737902132

OCLC:

48234253

Publisher Number:

081227666026

R2 76660 Rhino