Listening List for January 24, 2019

 Here are the lyrics for this week.

Here's this week's listening list.

Lynching

Suppertime

Ethel Waters (original 1933 recording)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAw8ru_nQc

live performance (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Zvjjbc-Hk

Strange Fruit

Billie Holiday (1933)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mO92ll_q0k

Civil Rights Era (1954-69)

Civil Rights Hymns

I’ll fly away

The Southern Sons (1952)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKc8U3Lpdgo

We shall overcome

Mahalia Jackson (1960~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTyKJjj2oC0

live performance (1968~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmR1YvfIGng

Eyes on the prize (Gospel Plow)

Sweet Honey in the Rock (1980s~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tcZAqQUAg

Other Civil Rights Music

Alabama

John Coltrane (1963)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkVuU6G9h6o

A change is gonna come

Sam Cooke (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH25EUgFMmI

People get ready

Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions (1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdKEbnS1eBE

I Wish I Knew How it would feel to be free

Nina Simone (1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inNBpizpZkE

live performance (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEP0-8VAow

Four women

Nina Simone (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRmzQ39sXTQ

To be young, gifted and black

Nina Simone (1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEMOxRxcJpo

To be young, gifted and black

Aretha Franklin (1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc7VJAhnxlc

Say it loud – I’m black and Im’ proud

James Brown (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0A_N-wmiMo

Love Child

Diana Ross and the Supremes (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62YflH6Sqgk

In the ghetto

Candi Staton (1970~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXqcynZZYg

 Post Civil Rights Era

Lift every voice and sing

Ray Charles (1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8921j20e8

choral version (???)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7Bn7kPkLo

Living for the city

Stevie Wonder (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc0XEw4m-3w

You haven’t done nothin’

Stevie Wonder (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQCJ6PzRdA

Fear of a black planet

Public Enemy (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xIQmFk1ok0