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Say Brother; Rapping with the Bluenotes; Jerry Cummings interview
Part of Say Brother.
05/14/1976
In this clip Jerry Cummings of "Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes" talks about the songwriters at Philadelphia International records. Overall the program focuses on three members of the musical group Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes. Host Barbara Barrow and intern Brian Clarke interview Bluenotes musicians Jerry Cummings, Dwight Johnson, and Bill Spratley, all from the recording label Philadelphia International Records. Topics discussed include their new featured musician, vocalist Sharon Paige, the links between Philadelphia International Records, Harold Melvin Enterprises, Inc., and Melvin and the Bluenotes, the Internationals, a music group Cummings belonged to prior to the Bluenotes, the Bluenotes' new recording, Wake Up Everybody, their current tour, and their recent four-day engagement in Boston. Program includes two performances by mime Fred Johnson (Halim Adbur Rashid). Original air date estimated. Produced by Marita Muhammad Rivero. Directed by Conrad White.
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Rapping with the Bluenotes
- Program Number
615
- Title
Jerry Cummings interview
- Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Babatunde Olatunji, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez. Series release date: 7/15/1968
- Program Description
Program focuses on three members of the musical group Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes. Host Barbara Barrow and intern Brian Clarke interview Bluenotes musicians Jerry Cummings, Dwight Johnson, and Bill Spratley, all from the recording label Philadelphia International Records. Topics discussed include their new featured musician, vocalist Sharon Paige, the links between Philadelphia International Records, Harold Melvin Enterprises, Inc., and Melvin and the Bluenotes, the Internationals, a music group Cummings belonged to prior to the Bluenotes, the Bluenotes' new recording, Wake Up Everybody, their current tour, and their recent four-day engagement in Boston. Program includes two performances by mime Fred Johnson (Halim Adbur Rashid). Original air date estimated.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Melvin, Harold
- Johnson, Dwight
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Johnson, Fred (Halim Adbur Rashid)
- Philadelphia International Records
- African American singers
- Internationals, The (Musical group)
- Spratley, Bill
- African American musicians
- Cummings, Jerry
- Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes (Musical group)
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Rivero, Marita (Producer)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Associate Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Contributors
- Smith, Lee (Camera)
- Clarke, Brian (Intern)
- Sullivan, John (Lighting)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Host)
- Kane, Pat (Videotape Editor)
- Bourne, Wendell (Intern)
- Smith, Kathy (Switcher)
- Cross, June (Production Assistant)
- Charette, Bill (Camera)
- Allen, Lydia (Intern)
- Bundy, Kissette (Intern)
- Chigas, Basil (Stage Manager)
- Morton, Wil (Audio)
- Handyside, Keith (Video)
- Spooner, Dighton (Researcher)
- MacKnight, John (Videotape Editor)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Rapping with the Bluenotes; Jerry Cummings interview,” 05/14/1976, GBH Archives, accessed December 9, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_1997680C60104BD1AB8FF24788BB68C9.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Rapping with the Bluenotes; Jerry Cummings interview.” 05/14/1976. GBH Archives. Web. December 9, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_1997680C60104BD1AB8FF24788BB68C9>.
- APA: Say Brother; Rapping with the Bluenotes; Jerry Cummings interview. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_1997680C60104BD1AB8FF24788BB68C9