Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux: Happy I Am
Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux and Congregation sing Happy I Am in 1935 live on CBS radio.
MORE ...Ruth Brown: Raining Teardrops from My Eyes
Ruth Brown performs Raining Teardrops from My Eyes live in 1955.
MORE ...Black Music in America
This tremendous educational documentary from the mid-1970’s examines the priceless contributions of African-Americans to musical heritage, so closely tied to their unique history in the United States. From Africa upon slave ships captive immigrants brought with them melodies, cadences and rhythms that inarguably gave rise to music considered ‘modern’ today. Beginning with the genius Louis […]
MORE ...The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe’s classic The Tell-Tale Heart, written in 1843, was produced in 1941 and directed by Jules Dassin, a one-time assistant to Alfred Hitchcock. The film explores the visceral guilt a treacherous worker feels after he murders his boss in cold blood. He cannot escape his conscience as the mundane world around him suddenly […]
MORE ...Mahalia Jackson: I Believe
Mahalia Jackson sings a truly heartfelt and soulful rendition of the gospel song “I Believe.”
MORE ...Door to Heaven
This bizarre, low-budget film was produced to propagate “the gospel of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” at least the one according to the members of this particular congreagation based in Wheaton, Illinois. Setting itself up as an instruction manual on how to get your soul through the pearly gates, the film really stretches the […]
MORE ...Hollywood Extra Girl
I need some faces there that can show soul in their eyes. – Cecil B. DeMille Produced in 1935, Hollywood Extra Girl depicts the life of an extra and what it takes to move up the next rung of the ladder. It stars the iconic director Cecil B. DeMille whose brash dramatics fit perfectly within […]
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