• Playlist KPFA Across The Great Divide 2/13/11 African-American History, 2 local singer-songwriter-activists

    Kevin Vance Posted On February 14, 2011
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    This morning I put together a collage of songs and sounds for African American History Month. Then I brought in two of my favorite Berkeley Singer-Songwriter-Activists, my friend Betsy Rose as well as the Broadside Balladeer Vic Sadot.
    Hope none of you caught my cold.

    time played
    artist
    song (length of song)
    album (year of recording or issue)
    label and/or website

    11:01 AM
    Kate Wolf
    Across The Great Divide (4:14)
    Weaver Of Visions The Kate Wolf Anthology
    originally on Close To You (1981)
    Rhino
    http://www.katewolf.com/

    11:06 AM
    Booker T Washington
    on the negro population in the south (0:22)
    speech given in Atlanta in 1895
    Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America
    Rhino

    11:07 AM
    Odetta
    No More Auction Block For Me (2:17)
    Odetta at Carnegie Hall (1960)
    Vanguard

    11:09 AM
    news story from 1948
    Harry S Truman Civil Rights Legislation (0:46)
    Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America (2001)
    Rhino

    11:10 AM
    Taj Mahal
    The Bourgeois Blues (2:46)
    Folkways: A Vision Shared-A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly (1988)
    Columbia

    11:13 AM
    W E B Du Bois in 1952
    on the place of the Black Man in Society (0:28)
    Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America (2001)
    Rhino

    11:13 AM
    Big Bill Broonzy
    I Wonder When I’ll Be Called a Man (2:23)
    Folk Song America – A 20th Century Revival (1956)
    smithsonian collection-sony special products

    11:15 AM
    news story from 1957
    Civil Rights bill narrowly defeated (0:22)
    Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America (2001)
    Rhino

    11:16 AM
    The SNCC Freedom Singers, Dorothy Cotton & Pete Seeger
    We Shall Overcome (2:43)
    Smithsonian Folkways: American Roots Collection (1974)
    Smithsonian Folkways

    11:19 AM
    Thurgood Marshall (late 60s? early 70s?)
    Supreme Court Justice on Segregation (0:44)
    Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America (2001)
    Rhino

    11:19 AM
    Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
    Wake Up Everybody (Part 1) (3:40)
    Wake Up Everybody (1975)
    Philadelphia International

    11:23 AM
    Malcolm X in 1965
    ‘whites can help us but can’t join us’ (1:15)
    I Can Hear It Now – The Sixties (1970)
    Columbia

    11:24 AM
    James Brown
    Say It Loud – I’m Black And I’m Proud (2:48)
    Say It Loud – I’m Black And I’m Proud (1968)
    King records

    11:27 AM
    Martin Luther King Jr in 1968
    last speech 4/3/68, announcement of his killing next day (1:06)
    Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America (2001)
    Rhino

    11:28 AM
    Nina Simone
    Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead) (5:48)
    Anthology (1970)
    BMG/RCA

    11:34 AM
    Huey P. Newton in 1969
    The Black Panther Party Calls For… (0:28)
    Black Power: Music Of A Revolution (2004)
    Shout Factory

    11:34 AM
    Gil Scott-Heron
    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (3:07)
    Small Talk at 125th & Lenox (1974)
    Flying Dutchman

    11:37 AM
    Kathleen Cleaver (late 60s?)
    Change It (0:21)
    Black Power: Music Of A Revolution (2004)
    Shout Factory

    11:38 AM
    The Isley Brothers
    Fight The Power (slightly expurgated) (3:19)
    The Heat Is On (1975)
    T Neck

    11:41 AM
    Jesse Jackson
    1984 Democratic Convention (0:50)
    Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America (2001)
    Rhino

    11:42 AM
    Sweet Honey In The Rock
    How Long? (2:30)
    Breaths (1989)
    Flying Fish

    11:44 AM
    Tom Bradley LA Mayor in 1992
    on the Rodney King beating verdict (0:52)
    Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America (2001)
    Rhino

    11:45 AM
    Ben Harper
    Like A King (4:18)
    Welcome To The Cruel World (1993)
    Virgin

    11:49 AM
    Ray Nagin New Orleans mayor, Kanye West in 2005
    radio interview about Hurricane Katrina, ‘Bush doesn’t care about black people’ (2:03)
    Found on youtube

    11:51 AM
    Mavis Staples
    My Own Eyes (7:19)
    We’ll Never Turn Back (2006)
    Anti-

    11:56 AM
    Senator Barack Obama
    ‘a skinny kid with a funny name…the Audacity of Hope’ (1:23)
    speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention
    iTunes Audiobooks

    11:57 AM
    news story about New Years Eve 2009
    re:Oscar Grant killed at the BART Fruitvale Station (0:34)
    Found on youtube

    11:57 AM
    Solomon Burke
    None Of Us Are Free (5:27)
    Putumayo Presents: American Blues (2002)
    Putumayo

    12:05 PM
    Betsy Rose
    Real To Me (4 minutes)
    Real To Me (2011)
    http://betsyrosemusic.org/

    12:13 PM
    Betsy Rose
    Going Home (3 minutes)
    performed live in the KPFA studio
    will appear on Real To Me (2011)
    http://betsyrosemusic.org/

    12:22 PM
    Betsy Rose
    Today I’m Wearing Pink (3 minutes)
    Real To Me (2011)
    http://betsyrosemusic.org/

    12:28 PM
    Betsy Rose
    Teenage Baby Boy (2 minutes)
    Real To Me (2011)
    http://betsyrosemusic.org/

    12:30 PM
    Vic Sadot
    Courage To Resist (6 minutes) (2010)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyI8ya4o4Wk

    12:36 PM
    Vic Sadot
    A Simple Song Of Freedom (Bobby Darin/Tim Hardin) (4 minutes)
    performed live in the KPFA studio (2011)

    12:44 PM
    Vic Sadot
    An Act Of State: The Execution of MLK (5 minutes)
    performed live in the KPFA studio (2011)

    12:54 PM
    Vic Sadot
    Cheney’s In The Bunker (4:43) (2000s)
    http://www.youtube.com/user/vasyvic#p/a/u/2/hnqPmGS3Ioc

     

    Playlist for Across The Great Divide
    Sundays 11am-1pm
    February 13, 2011
    KPFA 94.1 & KPFB 89.3 Berkeley
    http://www.kpfa.org
    KFCF 88.1 Fresno
    http://www.kfcf.org
    1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way
    Berkeley, CA 94704

    Kevin Vance, substitute host & producer
    kevin_vance@yahoo.com

    https://www.nodepression.com/profile/KevinVance

    want to hear it? click on:
    http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/67533
    until February 27, 2011




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