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The Ancestors Welcome Singer-Songwriter Eugene ‘Gene’ McDaniels, 76, Who Wrote “A 100 Lbs. of Clay,” “Feel Like Making Love” and “Compared to What?”

• August 1, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Eugene McDaniels, Love, Music, Protestant Denominations, Race, Roberta Flack, Sexuality, Stroke, The Heart, Women
Tags: "A Hundred Pounds of Clay", "Feel Like Making Love", "Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse", A Tribe Called Quest, Actor, Atlantic Records, Billboard Hot 100, Black Rock Coalition, Eddie Harris, Eugene McDaniels, Films, Four Octave Range, Frankie Vaughan, Gene McDaniels, Jackie Wilson, Les McCann, Maine, Roberta Flack, Ron Carter, Singer, Singer Songwriter, Songwriter, Spiro Agnew, Swiss Movement, The Left Rev. McD, The Seventies, The Sixties, UK Singles Chart

Aretha Is Back

• May 10, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, Aretha Franklin, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Democrats, Fashion, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Music, Obama Administration, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Spirituality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Respect", "Sunday Morning", Anthony Mason, Carolyn Franklin, CBS, Civil Rights, Dennis Edwards, Detroit, Good Friday, James Brown, Lady Soul, Michigan, Mystery, Privacy, Queen of Soul, Reticence, Reverend C.L. Franklin, Sam Cooke, Singer, Songwriter, Ted White, West Detroit

Friday Night Music, April 1, 2001: A Double Header of Van Morrison, “Tupelo Honey” and “Into The Mystic”

• April 1, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Love, Music, Sexuality, Spirituality, Van Morrison, Women
Tags: "Brown Eyed Girl", "Crazy Love", "Domino", "Gloria", "Moondance", Caledonia, Concerts, Crabtree and Evelyn, Florida, Honey Plant, Ireland, Irish, Living Legend, Marriage, Northern Florida, Pepperidge Trees, Radio, Scots, Scots-Irish, Singer, Songwriter, The Irish Soul Man, Van, Van Morrison

The Ancestors Claim Singer/Actress/Songwriter Abbey Lincoln, 80

• August 15, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Abbey Lincoln, Acting, African American History, American History, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Drama, Film, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Public Intellectualism, Race, Sexuality, Womanism
Tags: "Mo Better Blues", "Nothing But a Man, "The Freedom Suite", Abbey Lincoln, Acting, Activism, Actress, Africa, African Americans, Anna Marie Wooldridge, Billie Holiday, Black Nationalist, Black Women, Blacks, Braided Hair, Chicago IL, Corn Rows, Divorce, Drama, Glamour, Ivan Dixon, Jazz, Jazz Singer, Kinky Hair, Love, Marriage, Max Roach, Michael Jackson, Natural Hair, Racism, Sidney Poitier, Songwriter, Spike Lee, The 2000s, The Eighties, The Nineties, The Sixties, Thelonious Monk, Vitiligo

Friday Night Music Doubleheader, April 23, 2010: “If I Ever Lose This Heaven” 1974, and “Love, I Never Had It So Good” 1978, Quincy Jones and Company

• April 24, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Love, Music, Women
Tags: "Body Heat", "Sounds...And Stuff Like That", "You've Got It Bad Girl", African Americans, Al Jarreau, Arranger, Blacks, Danceable Jazz, Fusion, Jazz Funk, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Musicians, Leon Ware, Mercury Records, Mikell's, Minnie Riperton, New York, Pam Sawyer, Patti Austin, Producer, Quincy Jones, Richard Tee, Session Musicians, Smooth Jazz, Songwriter, Soul, Studio Musicians, Tom Bahler, Wynton Marsalis

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