- Title: TELE-1257
- Summary: Beale Street Blues (From Gospel To rock): footage shot at the 1977 Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis, TN
- Description:00:02:46 - CARLA THOMAS - WORLD DIDN'T GIVE IT TO ME ( Gospel) live on stage at out-door music festival 1977. Montage of early CARLA THOMAS photos and hit record labels 00:07:30 - Reverend James A. Jordan ( Pastor of First Baptist Church, Memphis) - preaches 00:07:53 - CARLA THOMAS - FOLLOW ME HE'LL TURN YOUR DARKNESS INTO DAY (Gospel) 00:10:10 - Reverend James A. Jordan - talks about Black Music 00:12:10 - BIG SAM CLARK - I'm Gonna Do My Own Thing 00:18:22 - LUM GUFFIN - SHAKE IT UP AND GO boy holds a large piece of watermelon 00:19:32 - GUS CANNON - WALK RIGHT IN ( very short clip) 00:20:05 - Band Leader and musician ROBERT HENRY talks about discovering B.B. King 00:20:35 - B.B. King talks about Memphis and the blues 00:21:00 - Johnny Woods with Mud Boy ( band includes JIM DICKINSON on piano) - I'M GOING HOME ( sings, yodels and plays harmonica) 00:22:00 - BB KING talks about cutting his first record at radio station WDEA talks about young Phineas Newborn getting his union card 00:23:55 - PHINEAS NEWBORN JR. TRIO - TAKE THE A TRAIN (?) 00:26:10 - BB KING, PHINEAS NEWBORN and others talk about their early days in music 00:28:54 - PHINEAS NEWBORN JR. TRIO - slow blues 00:31:05 - MS sun goes down in Memphis sun going down with inner city, Beale Street streets in foreground 00:34:41 - RUFUS THOMAS - DID YOU EVER LOVE A WOMAN? 00:38:33 - Roosevelt Sykes - DRIVIN' WHEEL ( barrel-House Piano blues) 00:41:15 - B.B. King - long introduction on stage about the early Memphis Music 00:42:08 - shots of Beale Street circa 1977 shops, pawn shop 00:42:40 - pan of PALACE THEATER and NEW DAISY THEATER on Beale Street 1977 Memphis. Beale Street neon and shop signs, pawn shops 00:43:20 - B.B. King - Three O'Clock In The Morning 00:47:50 - classic B.B. King blues guitar solo 00:48:25 - B. B. King - LOVE IS NOTHING BUT THE BLUES 00:50:51 - B.B. King - THAT SOMEONE WHO CARES IS ME
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1986
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1980s
- File Name: TELE-1257