2-20-18 Black History Month part 1

Preposterous. To attempt to distill 2 hours of music from all recorded history of African American music. Even if I narrow the focus it's impossible. I rarely even try. But this was 2 hours of good!!!
;)

8:00pm

Ike and Tina Turner “Don't Fight It/Knock on Wood”
from Back In the Day Album (32 Jazz Records 1997)

8:04pm

Chubby Checker “Dance the Mess Around”
from Chubby Checker's Greatest Hits (Dominion)

8:06pm

Rufus Thomas “Funky Robot (Part 1)”
from 100 Funk (Universal Music Group International)

8:14pm

Blanche Calloway & Joy Boys “Just a Crazy Song (Hi-Hi-Hi)”
from Early Viper Jive (1927-1933) Comp (Stash 1977)

8:17pm

Keb' Mo' “Everybody Be Yourself”
from Big Wide Grin Album (OKeh 2001)

8:23pm

Mavis Staples “For What It's Worth (Live)”
from Live: Hope at the Hideout Album (Anti- 2008)

8:26pm

Maya Angelou “Mambo In Africa”
from Miss Calypso--Maya Angelou Album (Scamp 1957)

8:28pm

Bettye LaVette “Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others)”
from Things Have Changed Album (Verve 2018) N  —Release date: March 30

8:31pm

Nina Simone “Suzanne”
from Just Like a Woman: Nina Simone Sings Classic Songs of the '60s Comp (RCA 2007)

8:35pm

Gil Scott-Heron “Black History of the World”
from Moving Target (Arista)

8:42pm

Dr. Lonnie Smith “Straight No Chaser”
from Evolution Album (Blue Note 2016) —sound bed for billboard

8:50pm

Gil Scott-Heron “Washington DC”
from Moving Target (Arista)

8:54pm

Ray Charles “Alexander's Ragtime Band”
from Berlin, 1962 Album (Pablo 1996)

8:57pm

Earl Hines And His Orchestra “Have You Ever Felt That Way?”
from Early Viper Jive (1927-1933) Comp (Stash 1977)

9:01pm

Chubby Checker “My Mind”
from Chubby Checker Album (Underground Masters 1971)

9:06pm

The Chambers Brothers “Time Has Come Today”
from The Time Has Come Album (Sony Music 1968)

9:10pm

King Curtis - Jimi Hendrix “Instant Groove”
from West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology Comp (Experience Hendrix/Legacy 2010)

9:13pm

The Jimi Hendrix Experience “May This Be Love”
from West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology Comp (Sony/Legacy 2010)

9:16pm

Chubby Checker “Ballad of Jimi”
from Chubby Checker Album (Underground Masters 1971)

9:19pm

Mavis Staples “This Little Light (Live)”
from Live: Hope at the Hideout Album (Anti- 2008)

9:23pm

Odetta “Prettiest Train”
from The Ultimate Collection (Classic Music International)

9:28pm

Odetta “Jim Crow Blues”
from Looking for a Home (M.C. Records)

9:32pm

Nina Simone “Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair”
from Ne Me Quitte Pas (Philips)

9:36pm

Odetta “Roberta”
from Lookin for a Home (M.C. Records)

9:43pm

Sweet Honey In the Rock “Ella's Song”
from Breaths Album (Flying Fish 1992)

9:49pm

Miles Davis “Come Get It”
from Star People (Columbia 1983) —soundbed for calendar

9:52pm

Ike and Tina Turner “Golden Empire”
from Back In the Day Album (32 Jazz Records 1997)

9:56pm

Science Faxtion “What It Is”
from Living In Another Frequency (Mascot Records 2008)