Let freedom sing The music of the civil rights movement
Music - 2009
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- Published
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New York :
Time Life
[2009]
- Language
- English
- Item Description
- "Includes a 40-page book with detailed commentaries, a timeline, and rare photos"--Container.
Compilation of selections previously released. - Physical Description
- 3 compact discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
- Disc 1. Go down Moses (The Southern Sons)
- Strange fruit (Billie Holiday)
- Uncle Sam says (Josh White)
- No restricted signs (The Golden Gate Quartet)
- Black, brown, and white (Brownie McGhee)
- The hammer song (if I had a hammer) (The Weavers)
- The death of Emmett Till, parts 1 & 2 (The Ramparts)
- When do I get to be called a man? (Big Bill Broonzy)
- The Alabama bus (Brother Will Hairston (Hurricane of the Motor City))
- We are Americans too (Nat "King" Cole)
- Why (am I treated so bad)? (The Staple Singers)
- I shall not be moved (The Harmonizing Four)
- Oh freedom (Harry Belafonte with the Belafonte Folk Singers)
- Ride on, Red, ride on (Louisiana Red)
- Mississippi Goddam (Nina Simone)
- Blowin' in the wind (Bob Dylan)
- We shall overcome (Mahalia Jackson)
- Too many martyrs (Phil Ochs)
- Alabama blues (J.B. Lenoir)
- Our freedom song (The Jubilee Hummingbirds)
- A change is gonna come (Otis Redding)
- Disc 2. Forty acres and a mule (Oscar Brown, Jr.)
- People get ready (The Impressions)
- Nobody can turn me around (The Mighty Clouds of Joy)
- I wish I knew (how it would feel to be free) (Solomon Burke)
- Respect (Aretha Franklin)
- The Motor City is burning (John Lee Hooker)
- Crying in the streets, part 1 (George Perkins & the Silver Stars)
- Abraham, Martin, and John (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
- The prayer (Ray Scott)
- Say it loud-- I'm black and I'm proud, part 1 (James Brown)
- And black is beautiful (Nickie Lee)
- Sock it to 'em, soul brother (Bill Moss)
- Why I sing the blues, part 1 (B.B. King)
- I don't want nobody to give me nothing (open up the door, I'll get it myself), part 1 (James Brown)
- Stand! (Sly & the Family Stone)
- Message froma black man (The Temptations)
- Yes, we can, part 1 (Lee Dorsey)
- We are the people who are darker than blue (Curtis Mayfield)
- Young, gifted, and black (Bob & Marcia)
- Disc 3. The revolution will not be televised (Gill Scott-Heron)
- (For God's sake) Give more power to the people (The Chi-Lites)
- Smiling faces sometimes (The Undisputed Truth)
- Inner city blues (make me wanna holler) (Marvin Gaye)
- Hercules (Aaron Neville)
- Get up, stand up (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
- Fight the power, part 1 (The Isley Brothers)
- Give the people what they want (The O'Jays)
- Black is black (Jungle Brothers)
- Sister Rosa (The Neville Brothers)
- The pride (Chuck D)
- Unity (Sound of Blackness)
- None of us are free (Solomon Burke)
- Eyes on the prize (The Soujourners)
- Down in Mississippi (Mavis Staples)
- Free at last (The Blind Boys of Alabama).