Isn't that right? So go to school, children, and learn all you can. "You'd go for a job and you wouldn't get it. This is different: the tension between soul and funk, civil disobedience versus Black Power, the tension of Harlem itself at the time."Īt one point, Roebuck "Pops" Staples, of the Staple Singers, injects a sermon into his performance: "As opposed to, say, Wattstax, where you see a kitschy funkifying of 70s America. "You see the generations teetering," said Neville. The footage shows seas of some 100,000 Black attendees whose dress and manner blend a Fourth of July picnic, a Sunday Best church revival, an urban rock concert and a rural civil rights rally. King is among the performers featured in the documentary Summer of Soul. "It's like how all the great black jazz men had to go to Europe to be appreciated." Curiosity has been growing since Lauro leaked some footage onto a Nina Simone DVD/CD last summer, mentioning the festival in the liner notes.ī.B. "People were unwilling to remember," said Lauro. He is now teaming with Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville, who produced "Muddy Waters Can't Be Satisfied," to tell the forgotten story of the Harlem festival. He owns a good deal of Ed Sullivan material and provided most of the film for Martin Scorsese's recent Bob Dylan documentary. Lauro runs Historic Films Archives, the nation's largest collection of musical footage.
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Interest came from Joe Lauro, who discovered the Black Woodstock video amid his routine prowling of old TV Guide issues (hour-long specials had appeared on CBS and ABC).
"But I knew it was going to be like real estate, and sooner or later someone would have interest in it." "It was a peanuts operation, because nobody really cared about Black shows," said Tulchin, now 80, from his home in Bronxville, New York. Hal Tulchin, a longtime television producer, was the only one filming any of it-mostly on spec. Speakers included then-mayor John Lindsay, introduced on stage as the Black community's "blue-eyed soul brother." King, Nina Simone, Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach, the Fifth Dimension, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Moms Mabley, Pigmeat Markham and more. Instead, security came from the Black Panthers, 21 of whom had been indicted for plotting to mark Martin Luther King's assassination by bombing Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Abercrombie & Fitch and other stores across Manhattan.īesides Sly, the festival's roster included B.B. So it came as little surprise when the NYPD refused to provide security for the festival. The local NAACP chairman likened Harlem at the time to the vigilante Old West (earlier that year, five sticks of dynamite had been found behind a local precinct house a cop dampened the charred fuse with his fingers). The concert she attended, what some now call the Black Woodstock, came on the heels of two of Malcolm X's former aides being shot-one fatally. The word "trouble" back then was a euphemism for chaos. It was boiling hot but not one ounce of trouble," she said recently from her home in Newark, New Jersey.
To get some of the history behind the festival footage, enjoy this story published in 2007.Įthel Beaty-Barnes, then an 18-year-old fresh from her high-school graduation, still remembers what she wore to the Sly & The Family Stone concert in Harlem in 1969: a floral halter top and matching bellbottoms, her hair in a sidebun. Thank you Asher & Soul Knights for the best experience in Myrtle beach! A true Motown experience.Editor's note, July 8, 2021: Last week, the film documentary Summer of Soul, debuted in theaters and streaming on Hulu.
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We even bought an autographed photo of the group and they posed for selfies in a free after show meet & greet. The tickets were reasonably priced and so were the concessions. At Asher you are not just a spectator! You feel like part of the show. We have paid those prices at other tribute shows and still belt disconnected from the show. They even have a dance floor!! Unlike the other local theaters, we were up close & personal without paying exorbitant fees. The whole audience couldn’t get enough!! We begged for 2 encores and they didn’t let us down! We danced and sang along in this intimate theater with comfortable seating, romantic atmosphere & wonderful sound. Attended the Soul Knights Valentines special show and it was absolutely amazing! Each singer was so good individually but together- woooooww!! Their harmonies and smooth moves will make your heart melt.
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