Sunday With Stevie :: I'll Be Seeing You

Sunday With Whitney :: Greatest Love Of All

Goosebumps.

Sunday With Curtis :: People Get Ready

Sunday With Take 6 :: Get Away Jordan

BACK AT HARVARD, when I was the music director of the Callbacks, my college co-ed a capella singing group, I was flipping through radio stations on a Sunday morning and I heard this tune. It was love at first sound. No group executes harmonies this tight. A first tenor myself, I couldn't even conceive of some of those high notes. What a finale.

Sunday With Nat - Autumn Leaves

Laughter Is The Best Medicine

Michael Jackson Memorial

FOLLOWING this open thread.

Never Can Say Goodbye

The Flip Wilson Show. If you never saw that television variety show, then you haven't seen anything at all. It was pure genius. To this day, Geraldine is my all-time favorite variety-show character.

Sunday With Isaac - Walk On By

I'm On TV!

I FOUND the brief interview after the house vote on marriage equality in Maine here. I updated the last entry but thought to post this new one as well. Call me redundant.

Sunday With Roberta - Killing Me Softly

Sunday With Ray - Georgia On My Mind

That Sound You Hear

IS THE screaming of the executives at CNBC and their parent company General Electric. You see, comedian Jon Stewart just exposed them for the snake oil salesman they all are.

An all because Rick Santelli bailed on the show.

I've never put a penny in Wall Street. I'm sorry for those whose retirement accounts are gambled away by lying, greedy, con artist gambling addicts.

Jon Stewart reveals it all for the casino it is and exposes the shilling cheerleaders for their role in all the corruption.

Give the man a Peabody and an Emmy. Give Joe Nocera, interviewed in the third segment, who breaks down the AIG scam here the Pulitzer. Now.

He has done the job the corporate media anchors can't do. They shill for the beneficiaries of the bullshit you're about to have broken down for you like counting for kindergartners.

This needs to go viral.









This man needs to disappear like a ghost.

Black History Month: The White House Honors Stevie Wonder

An evening of celebration with President and Mrs. Obama at the White House in honor of musician Stevie Wonder's receipt of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song takes place February 25, 2009. The concert will include performances by Wonder with a cavalcade of popular musicians, performing a selection of Wonder's hit songs.

WHAT was it I just wrote about the measure of a culture?

The 81st Annual Academy Awards

(This post is stolen straight from rikyrah at JJP. She did my work for me and I thank her!)

TONIGHT is Oscar Night.

There are two Black Actresses nominated this year:

Viola Davis for Doubt

Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Here is a the list for All Black Nominees in the Academy’s History.

Winner Acceptance Speeches

Hattie McDaniel, Best Supporting Actress - 1939, Gone With The Wind

Sidney Poitier, Best Actor- 1963, Lilies of the Field

Cuba Gooding, Jr., Best Supporting Actor - 1996, Jerry Maguire

Denzel Washington, Best Actor - 2001, Training Day

Halle Berry, Best Actress - 2001, Monster’s Ball

Sidney Poitier Accepting an Honorary Oscar - 2001

Jamie Foxx, Best Actor - 2004, Ray



Morgan Freeman, Best Supporting Actor - 2004, Million Dollar Baby

Forest Whitaker, Best Actor -2006, Last King of Scotland

Jennifer Hudson, Best Supporting Actress- 2006, Dreamgirls

Isaac Hayes, Winning Best Original Song for Shaft -1972

Could not find videos for the Best Supporting Actor Wins of Louis Gossett, Jr - 1982, An Officer and a Gentleman and Denzel Washington - 1989, Glory or Whoopi Goldberg, Best Supporting Actress - 1990, Ghost.

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This is the first time in my adult life I haven't seen a single film or performance nominated for an Academy Award.

Pure Soul

NO. I'm not talking about the D.C. based girl group of powerhouse voices that gave us our wedding processional song "We Must Be In Love." I'm talking about this:

Knowing all of your appreciation for great old school, wanted to send you this link. There was a PBS show in the late 60s/early 70s called "Soul" that aired on WNET New York.

Anyway, they made 40 episodes of the show over the period of 1968 to 1973, so you can just imagine the treasure trove of performances. I'd heard of it, but had never gotten to see any.

They just put 6 episdoes on line, they plan to get all 40 up at some point. The ones they have include EW&F, Ashford and SImpson, the Persuasions, Max Roach and more. If you look at the program listing for all the eps, you can see what's coming when they get the rest on line.

This is some amazing stuff that hasn't been seen in years:

http://www.thirteen.org/soul/

Simply thrilling.

Sunday With Nat - Nature Boy

Sunday With The Staples Singers - I'll Take You There

Remember the Flip Wilson Show?

Sunday With Jennifer - I Am Changing

Sunday With Luther - A House Is Not A Home