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LET FREEDOM SING! MUSIC OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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Various artists
LET FREEDOM SING! MUSIC OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
3-CD set. Running roughly chronologically, the music cuts across genres. Includes B.B. King's "Why I Sing The Blues," Brownie McGhee's ragtime feel of "Black, Brown, And White," Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up," Bob Dylan's "Blowing In The Wind," Mahalia Jackson's "We Shall Overcome," more. 58 songs. Companion the the PBS show of the same title.
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Contents:

Disc One:

  1. Go Down Moses - The Southern Sons
  2. Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
  3. Uncle Sam Says - Josh White
  4. No Restricted Signs - The Golden Gate Quartet
  5. Black, Brown, and White - Brownie McGhee
  6. The Hammer Song (If I Had a Hammer) - The Weavers
  7. The Death of Emmett Till, Parts 1&2 - The Ramparts
  8. When Do I Get to be Called a Man? - Big Bill Broonzy
  9. The Alabama Bus - Brother Will Hairston (Hurricane of the Motor City)
  10. We Are Americans Too - Nat "King" Cole
  11. Why (Am I Treated So Bad)? - The Staple Singers
  12. I Shall Not Be Moved - The Harmonizing Four
  13. Oh Freedom - Harry Belafonte with the Belafonte Folk Singers
  14. Ride On, Red, Ride On - Louisiana Red
  15. Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone
  16. Blowin' in the Wind - Bob Dylan
  17. We Shall Overcome - Mahalia Jackson
  18. Too Many Martyrs - Phil Ochs Jackson
  19. Alabama Blues - J.B. Lenoir
  20. Our Freedom Song - The Jubilee Hummingbirds
  21. A Change is Gonna Come - Otis Redding

Disc Two:

  1. Forty Acres and a Mule - Oscar Brown, Jr.
  2. People Get Ready - The Impressions
  3. Nobody Can Turn Me Around - The Mighty Clouds Of Joy
  4. I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free) - Solomon Burke
  5. Respect - Aretha Franklin
  6. The Motor City Is Burning - John Lee Hooker
  7. Cryin' in the Streets, Part 1 - George Perkins & The Silver Stars
  8. Abraham, Martin and John - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
  9. The Prayer - Ray Scott
  10. Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud, Part 1 - James Brown
  11. And Black is Beautiful - Nickie Lee
  12. Sock It To `Em, Soul Brother - Bill Moss
  13. Why I Sing the Blues, Part 1 - B.B. King
  14. I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself), Part 1 - James Brown
  15. Stand! - Sly & The Family Stone
  16. Message from a Black Man - The Temptations
  17. Is It Because I'm Black - Syl Johnson
  18. I Was Born Blue - Swamp Dogg
  19. Yes, We Can, Part 1 - Lee Dorsey
  20. We the People who are Darker than Blue - Curtis Mayfield
  21. Young, Gifted, and Black - Bob & Marcia

Disc Three:

  1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gill Scott-Heron
  2. (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People - The Chi-Lites
  3. Smiling Faces Sometimes - The Undisputed Truth
  4. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - Marvin Gaye
  5. Hercules - Aaron Neville
  6. Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley and the Wailers
  7. Fight the Power, Part 1 - The Isley Brothers
  8. Give the People What They Want - The O'Jays
  9. Black is Black - Jungle Brothers
  10. Sister Rosa - The Neville Brothers
  11. The Pride - Chuck D
  12. Unity - Sounds of Blackness
  13. None of Us are Free - Solomon Burke
  14. Eyes on the Prize - The Sojourners
  15. Down in Mississippi - Mavis Staples
  16. Free at Last - The Blind Boys of Alabama

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