- Title: F-1129
- Summary: BLIND PHILADELPHIA STREET SINGERS: RAW FOOTAGE SHOT IN 1962 OF VARIOUS BLIND, PHILADELPHIA BLACK STREET PERFORMERS. GREAT GOSPEL-BLUES MUSICIANS, ACCAPELLA SINGERS. BLACK FOLK MUSICIANS, STREET SINGERS, BLACK LIFE
- Description:00:03:00 - BLACK BLIND GOSPEL SINGER - IF I COULD HEAR MY MOTHER PRAY AGAIN 00:06:20 - (SAME MAN) - NEARING MY HOME WHERE JESUS LIVES 00:08:39 - WHITE, FOLK-ERA, COLLEGE AUDIENCE. NERDY COLLEGE BEATNIK-TYPE AUDIENCE REACTION SHOTS 00:12:50 - RALPH WILLIS & WASHBOARD PETE: IT WAS A DREAM (live) RALPH WILLIS & WASHBOARD PETE - IT WAS A DREAM (WILLIS WAS A SOUTH CAROLINA BLUESMAN ALA BLIND BOY FULLER. TRAVELING BLUES STREET MUSICIAN, HOKUM BLUES) 00:15:30 - TWO BLIND, BLACK GOSPEL SINGERS WITH ACCORDION ACCOMPANIMENT SINGING ON STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA. BLIND, BLACK ACCORDION PLAYER WITH DARK GLASSES. ROOTS MUSIC, GOSPEL STREET SINGERS 00:19:40 - BLIND BLACK GUITARIST SINGS GOSPEL - TAKE MY HAND PRECIOUS LORD. (SONG WRITTEN BY THOMAS A DORSEY) CU BLACK MUSICIAN PLAYS SLIDE GUITAR. PERFORMS SEATED ON CHAIR ON STAGE. 00:22:45 - BLACK BLIND GUITARIST GOSPEL SINGER - I'M GOING TOO 00:23:15 - BLIND BARRELHOUSE-STYLE HONKY-TONK PIANIST - TAKE YOUR BURDEN TO THE LORD & LEAVE IT THERE (ANOTHER THOMAS A DORSEY COMPOSITION) 00:24:30 - BLIND RAGTIME STRIDE PIANO PLAYER PERFORMS RAGGY PIANO ON GOSPEL SONG - SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT GOOD SHOTS OF CLASSIC BLACK HONKY-TONK STYLE 00:26:00 - BLACK RAGTIME STRIDE PIANO PLAYER - IT'S A SIN TO TELL A LIE (ALA FATS WALLER) PERFORMS IN BAR. CU GREAT STRIDE PIANO PLAYING JAZZ PIANO 00:28:00 - WHITE PEOPLE ON STREET WATCH STREET MUSICIANS PERFORM (MOS). GROUP OF MEN ON STREET WATCH PERFORMANCE CIRCA 1960. MULTIPLE SHOTS 00:30:30 - MOS SHOTS OF URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD PHILADELPHIA. CAMERA FOLLOWS BLIND BLACK STREET SINGERS AS THEY SLOWLY WALK DOWN STREET. CU TIP JAR. ACCORDION BLIND MAN WITH CANE 00:33:30 - CU WHITE FOLK MUSIC-ERA AUDIENCE REACTION SHOTS. APPLAUD, COLLEGE KIDS CIRCA 1960 00:35:00 - BLIND, BLACK MIDGET, ONE MAN BAND. PLAYS TRUMPET & DRUMS AT SAME TIME. PERFORMS ON STREET. CRIPPLED BLACK WAR VET. ONE MAN BAND PLAYS FOR TIPS 00:36:30 - VARIOUS SHOTS URBAN DOWNTOWN PHILADELPHIA CIRCA 1962. BUSY STREET SCENES BLACKS. CU PALACE THEATRE MARQUEE "LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER" 00:38:25 - NICE PHILADELPHIA STREET SCENES. BLIND MAN WITH GUIDE DOG & TIP JAR. BEGS ON STREET. NEWSSTAND. CU READING TERMINAL. URBAN STREET SCENES. BUSTLING CITY. DISCOUNT STORES, MARQUEES, STORE SIGNS, SUBWAY 00:40:00 - NEWSSTAND. AERIALS OF PHILADELPHIA BUSINESS DISTRICT 00:42:10 - RALPH WILLIS & WASHBOARD PETE: I'VE BEEN LIVING WITH THE BLUES (live) STREET SINGERS RALPH WILLIS & WASHBOARD PETE PERFORM ON STREET - I'VE BEEN LIVING WITH THE BLUES (COULD BE BLUES IN MY SOUL) AUTHENTIC BLACK BLUES SONGSTER BLUES STREET SINGERS 00:44:20 - RALPH WILLIS & WASHBOARD PETE: MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (live) 00:46:40 - INTERVIEW WITH PIEDMONT BLUES GUITARIST - SINGER RALPH WILLIS AND WASHBOARD PETE . NORTH CAROLINA BLUES SINGER MENTIONS BLIND BOY FULLER & ROBERT JOHNSON. DISCUSS LEARNING GUITAR BLUES OFF OF SON HOUSE RECORDS PRE-WAR BLUES THESE GUYS KNEW & WERE CONTEMPOARYS OF ROBERT JOHNSON DISCUSS THEIR MUSIC & LIFE AS TRAVELING BLUES PERFORMERS TALK ABOUT LEARNING DIRECTLY FROM PRE-WAR DELTA BLUES LEGENDS SON HOUSE & ROBERT JOHNSON WILLIS TALKS ABOUT PALLING AROUND WITH ROBERT JOHNSON - PERHPAPS THE FIRST FILMED INTERVIEW WHERE A CONTEMPORAY OF ROBERT JOHNSON SHARES A DIRECT MEMORY OF JOHNSON 00:50:40 - BLIND FEMALE BLACK GOSPEL SINGER ALA WASHINGTON PHILLIPS. ANCIENT 19TH CENTURY STYLE GOSPEL SONGS WOMAN STRUMS UKELELE ON STREET SINGS MAUDELIN SINGS MAUDLIN BALLAD ON STREET 00:53:00 - SINGS OLD TIME HYMN "TELL MOTHER I'LL BE THERE" 00:55:00 - SINGS HYMN "MY LORD WHAT A MORNING" GOSPEL HYMN IS RELUCTANTLY INTERVIEWED
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1962
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: F-1129