Listening List for May 05, 2026 (and notes for Gospel)

Okay, first here are the notes for Gospel (Can I get an 'Amen'?!)

Anyway, here is the listening list for class May 05, 2026.

I don't have the time to check if each video is still there. If you find any dead links, please let me know.

Extra credit for anyone who can figure out the theme (yes, there is one).

Ethel Waters (1933)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zywZUhaUqMo

One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
Lena Horne (1945)

Tired
Pearl Bailey (1945)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz5gV6_MRoQ

Blue moon
Billy Eckstine (1948)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g83L5M_8Nt8

Nature boy
Nat King Cole (1948)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQerH4nRTUA

Banana Boat Song
Harry Belafonte (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMigXnXMhQ4

Wonderful wonderful
Johnny Mathis (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7wr2FBxcyI

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
Leontyne Price (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXhFiUaNksU

Guess who I saw today
Nancy Wilson (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFbDj5RBouE

Do you know the way to San Jose?
Dionne Warwick (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnzTgUc5ycc

Kiss an angel good morning
Charley Pride (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-pU-DHEVaU

Wedding bell blues
The 5th Dimension (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhtCGZbxTfc


Some auxiliary videos:

Ethel Waters singing "His Eye is on the Sparrow" in the 1952 movie "Member of the wedding"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gua-NE8y8lE

Pearl Bailey and Nat King Cole (1957 TV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmnx49qMs2U

Harry Belafonte British pop singer Petula Clark in 1968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXVjY1oqRo

Ethel Waters singing Suppertime on TV in 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Zvjjbc-Hk

Pearl Bailey doing Hello Dolly! (Tony Awards 1968) Pearl's part begins around 3.45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4eS0x16v1k

Pearl Bailey with Ethel Waters (around 1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpSmPaisB6o

Charley Pride and Johnny Cash (in 1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=276aBrM2-FM

The Pointer Sisters singing Fairytale (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQWgKvvbT1g

Leontyne Price at the White House (around 1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGwyXrWuSyw

see y'all in class in May!