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Say Brother; Vaudeville
Part of Say Brother.
03/16/1976
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Vaudeville
- Program Number
609
- 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
Host Tanya Hart provides a brief survey of the unique contributions African Americans have made to music, film, dance, and theater in the United States, and describes the vaudeville experience, which is the focus of the program. In an effort to recreate vaudeville shows, Say Brother arranged for in-studio performances by some of the popular entertainers of the 1920s-1950s in Boston (and elsewhere): vocalist Novella Crocket, tap dancers Willie Spencer and Winnie Brown, dancer Norman Wallace (famous for his backward dance up a wall with flip), comic/singer/dancer Bobby Underwood (performing "Mack the Knife" and "Bye Bye Blues"), the Jones Brothers (a musical group), and Sabby Lewis and Company (who accompany other program performers and perform individually). Program includes a conversation between Sabby Lewis and vocalist Mae Arnette, in which they discuss the popular clubs in Boston of the 1950s and the different performers they knew.
- Duration
00:64:00
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Vaudeville--United States
- African American women
- Wallace, Norman
- Spencer, Willie
- Crocket, Novella
- Brown, Winnie
- African American entertainers
- Hart, Tanya
- Lewis, Sabby
- Underwood, Bobby
- Sabby Lewis and Company (Musical group)
- Arnette, Mae
- Jones Brothers, The (Musical group)
- African American musicians
- Music--Performance
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Jones, Vickie (Associate Producer)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Associate Producer)
- Marita Rivero (Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Contributors
- Spooner, Dighton (Researcher)
- Wilson, Bob (Camera)
- Coleman, Vern (Audio)
- Lane, Frank (Camera)
- Bundy, Kissette (Intern)
- Kane, Pat (Video)
- Hill, Rebecca (Make Up)
- Cross, June (Production Assistant)
- Mahard, Fran (Scenic Design)
- Bordett, Bruce (Stage Manager)
- Clarke, Brian (Intern)
- Holden, Dick (Technical Production)
- Smith, Kathy (Switcher)
- Kramer, Sharon (Graphic Designer)
- Plausse, John (Lighting Director)
- Allen, Lydia (Intern)
- Fairweather, Bill (Video)
- Hart, Tanya (Host)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Vaudeville,” 03/16/1976, GBH Archives, accessed December 22, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_70C9C949286E4F459A6FACF4A7399929.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Vaudeville.” 03/16/1976. GBH Archives. Web. December 22, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_70C9C949286E4F459A6FACF4A7399929>.
- APA: Say Brother; Vaudeville. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_70C9C949286E4F459A6FACF4A7399929