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Carole Simpson - ABC News Special (1989): Black in White America
Posted on 11/10/2008 1:02 AM by dr kugler
ABC News Anchors, Carole Simpson(Hyde Park Alumni), George Strait, & Charles Thomas discuss various issues of race and racism as they affect Black Americans in a predominately white society.
Broadcast Date: August 29, 1989
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Minnie Riperton (Lovin You)
Posted on 11/10/2008 12:05 AM by dr kugler
"Lovin' You" is the 1975 hit single by Minnie Riperton (Hyde Park Alumni). The song became a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 5,1975, #2 in the UK, and #3 on the R&B charts in the US. The song is especially noteworthy due to the unusually high pitches that Riperton reaches during the song.
It was the fourth single from the album Perfect Angel (1974). The song is notable for Riperton's use of the whistle register. While it is believed that "Lovin' You" was the first song to reach number one without the help of a percussion instrument, in fact "Yesterday" by The Beatles accomplished this feat ten years earlier.
According to the liner notes from Riperton's compilation CD Petals, the melody for "Lovin' You" was created as a distraction for her daughter (Maya Rudolph) when she was a baby so that Minnie and her husband Richard could hang out. Maya was in the studio with her mother on the day the song was recorded and Riperton can be heard singing her daughter's name at the end of the song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovin%27_You_(Minnie_Riperton_song)
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Comin' Home, Baby - Mel Tormé, 1963
Posted on 11/9/2008 11:49 PM by dr kugler
Mel (Hyde Park Alumni) sings a very campy version of his hit song "Comin' Home, Baby" on the New Year's Eve episode of the Judy Garland Show.
Available on the 1964 DVD, "The Judy Garland Show: Volume 8."
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American Prayer featuring Herbie Hancock
Posted on 11/9/2008 11:34 PM by dr kugler
Herbie Hancock is a Hyde Park Alumni
American Prayer portrays a nation that offers shelter and decency to all, from poor black flood victims in New Orleans, to recent immigrants from south of the border, to Hasidic Jews who look no different than their ancestors 200 years back but have been in America for more than a century. We may differ on policy issues, but it's hard to imagine most people, whether on the left or on the right, not celebrating this America.
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Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)
Posted on 11/9/2008 11:16 PM by dr kugler
Last pictures taken of the female flyer Amelia Earhart(Hyde Park Alumni)
"In June 1937 she began a flight around the world, flying eastward from Miami, Florida, accompanied by Frederick J. Noonan, a navigator. Their plane disappeared on July 2, while en route from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island. An extensive search by planes and ships of the United States Navy failed to discover any trace of the lost flyers, and their fate remains a mystery." © 1993-2003 Microsoft Corporation.
This movie is part of the collection: Stock Footage
Producer: Universal News
Audio/Visual: silent, black and white
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
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