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Title Let freedom sing : the music of the civil rights movement.

Publication Info. [New York] : Time Life, 2009.
℗1939

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 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  CD POP LET OVERSIZED    Check Shelf
Description 3 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Time Life: 80051-D (80052-D--80054-D); additional no. on outer container: A732990; B0012352-02.
Performer Various performers.
Event Recorded between 1939 and ca. 2008; selections previously released.
Note Compact discs.
Booklet (39 p. : ill.) includes detailed commentaries, a timeline, discographical information, and rare photos.
Contents [Vol.] 1. Go down Moses (The Southern Sons) -- Strange fruit (Billie Holiday) -- Uncle Sam says (Josh White) -- No restricted signs (The Golden Gate Quartet) -- Black, brown, and white (Brownie McGhee) -- The hammer song : (If I had a hammer) (The Weavers) -- The death of Emmett Till, parts 1 & 2 (The Ramparts) -- When do I get to be called a man? (Big Bill Broonzy) -- The Alabama bus (Brother Will Hairston (Hurricane of the Motor City)) -- We are Americans too (Nat "King" Cole) -- Why (am I treated so bad)? (The Staple Singers) -- I shall not be moved (The Harmonizing Four) -- Oh freedom (Harry Belafonte with the Belafonte Folk Singers) -- Ride on, Red, ride on (Louisiana Red) -- Mississippi goddam (Nina Simone) -- Blowin' in the wind (Bob Dylan) -- We shall overcome (Mahalia Jackson) -- Too many martyrs (Phil Ochs) -- Alabama blues (J.B. Lenoir) -- Our freedom song (The Jubilee Hummingbirds) -- A change is gonna come (Otis Redding).
[Vol.] 2. Forty acres and a mule (Oscar Brown, Jr.) -- People get ready (The Impressions) -- Nobody can turn me around (The Mighty Clouds of Joy) -- I wish I knew (how it would feel to be free) (Solomon Burke) -- Respect (Aretha Franklin) -- The Motor City is burning (John Lee Hooker) -- Crying in the streets, part 1 (George Perkins & the Silver Stars) -- Abraham, Martin, and John (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles) -- The prayer (Ray Scott) -- Say it loud, I'm Black and I'm proud, part 1 (James Brown) -- And black is beautiful (Nickie Lee) -- Sock it to 'em, soul brother (Bill Moss) -- Why I sing the blues, part 1 (B.B. King) -- I don't want nobody to give me nothing (open up the door, I'll get it myself), part 1 (James Brown) -- Stand! (Sly & the Family Stone) -- Message from a Black man (The Temptations) -- Is it because I'm Black (Syl Johnson) -- I was born blue (Swamp Dogg) -- Yes, we can, part 1 (Lee Dorsey) -- We the people who are darker than blue (Curtis Mayfield) -- Young, gifted, and Black (Bob & Marcia).
[Vol.] 3. The revolution will not be televised (Gil Scott-Heron) -- (For God's sake) Give more power to the people (The Chi-Lites) -- Smiling faces sometimes (The Undisputed Truth) -- Inner city blues (make me wanna holler) (Marvin Gaye) -- Hercules (Aaron Neville) -- Get up, stand up (Bob Marley and the Wailers) -- Fight the power, part 1 (The Isley Brothers) -- Give the people what they want (The O'Jays) -- Black is black (Jungle Brothers) -- Sister Rosa (The Neville Brothers) -- The pride (Chuck D) -- Unity (Sounds of Blackness) -- None of us are free (Solomon Burke) -- Eyes on the prize (The Soujourners) -- Down in Mississippi (Mavis Staples) -- Free at last (The Blind Boys of Alabama).
Note GMD: sound recording.
Subject Civil rights movements -- United States -- Songs and music.
Segregation -- United States -- Songs and music.
Protest songs -- United States.
Popular music -- United States.
Blues (Music)
Rock music -- United States.
Added Author Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959. voc
White, Josh. voc
McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996. voc
Broonzy, Big Bill, 1893-1958. voc
Hairston, Brother Will. voc
Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965. voc
Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023. voc
Louisiana Red. voc
Simone, Nina, 1933-2003. voc
Dylan, Bob, 1941- voc Instrumentalist.
Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972. voc
Ochs, Phil. voc Instrumentalist.
Lenoir, J. B., 1929-1967. voc
Redding, Otis, 1941-1967. voc
Brown, Oscar, Jr., 1926-2005. voc
Burke, Solomon. voc
Franklin, Aretha. voc
Hooker, John Lee. voc
Perkins, George, 1942-2013. voc
Robinson, Smokey, 1940- voc
Scott, Ray, disc jockey. voc
Brown, James, 1933-2006. voc
Lee, Nickie. voc
Moss, Bill. voc
King, B. B. voc
Johnson, Syl, 1936-2022. voc
Swamp Dogg. voc
Dorsey, Lee. voc
Mayfield, Curtis. voc
Scott-Heron, Gil, 1949-2011. voc
Gaye, Marvin. voc
Neville, Aaron, 1941- voc
Marley, Bob. voc
Chuck D, 1960- voc
Staples, Mavis. voc
Southern Sons (Musical group) Performer.
Golden Gate Quartet. Performer.
Weavers (Musical group) Performer.
Ramparts (Musical group) Performer.
Staple Singers. Performer.
Harmonizing Four. Performer.
Belafonte Folk Singers. Performer.
Jubilee Hummingbirds. Performer.
Impressions (Musical group) Performer.
Mighty Clouds of Joy (Musical group) Performer.
Silver Stars (Musical group) Performer.
Miracles (Musical group) Performer.
Sly & the Family Stone (Musical group) Performer.
Temptations (Musical group) Performer.
Bob & Marcia. Performer.
Chi-Lites (Musical group) Performer.
Undisputed Truth (Musical group) Performer.
Neville Brothers. Performer.
Wailers (Reggae group) Performer.
Isley Brothers. Performer.
O'Jays (Musical group) Performer.
Jungle Brothers. Performer.
Sounds of Blackness (Musical group) Performer.
Sojourners (Musical group) Performer.
Blind Boys of Alabama. Performer.
Added Title Music of the civil rights movement
Standard No. 610583199529
Music No. 80051-D Time Life
80052-D Time Life
80053-D Time Life
80054-D Time Life
A732990 Time Life
B0012352-02 Time Life
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