78 videos collected

Aug

2007

Son House - John The Revelator

May

2007

Brother Gene Martin - The Singing Slave

Brother Gene Martin from the A. A. Allen Revival Team, performs "The Singing Slave", the story of a slave about to be hanged by her master, who poignantly tells him (just before the rope is put around her neck) "I'll be waiting up yonder, FOR YOU!" This is a magnificent performance from one of the great black gospel singers of all time. Be sure to make it to the end, where Gene is filled with t...

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Rare Live Footage of one of the first anti racism songs ever.

John Lee Hooker - Tupelo

Great Blues Man, Great Blues Music. "John Lee Hooker was an influential American post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. From a musical family, he was a cousin of Earl Hooker. John was also influenced by his stepfather, a local blues guitarist, who learned in Shreveport, Louisiana to play a droning, one-chord blues that was strikingl...

Frank Sinatra - The House I Live In: Short Film 1945

Starring Frank Sinatra, this short ten minute film was given an honorary Oscar and a Golden Globe. Sinatra raises awareness for religious tolerance.

Nat King Cole - Mona Lisa: 1949

Sammy Davis Junior For The March Of Dimes

Famous "Rat Packer" Sammy Davis Junior impersonates celebrities from his era, in an attempt to rally others to join the March of Dimes fight against Polio. (1955)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head (I hear music in the air) unknown performance date (appox. around the 1950's-60's) on the show TV Gospel Time with the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church Choir an amazing performance with a Gibson Les Paul SG custom with (polar white finish?)