Star Time #19: You Better Think
Two hours of soul protest music from the '60s and '70s. Bring a helmet, Nixon.
This episode devoted to protest soul of the '60s and '70s was coincidentally completed about a week before the Trump/Comey/Flynn/whoyagot crisis that mushroomed during the week of May 15. Or, rather, sort of coincidentally, as we don't seem to have had a break to catch our breath from this messed-up news cycle since the beauty pageant producer/street-meat hustler took office in January. But originally, the motives behind this episode were strictly pure and presentational. Well, okay, maybe not for Set 3. But the other sets, definitely.
Lots of great music in this show. I was especially moved by the songs from Delia Gartrell, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Nina Simone and Syl Johnson. There's a couple of standards here as well.
This episode devoted to protest soul of the '60s and '70s was coincidentally completed about a week before the Trump/Comey/Flynn/whoyagot crisis that mushroomed during the week of May 15. Or, rather, sort of coincidentally, as we don't seem to have had a break to catch our breath from this messed-up news cycle since the beauty pageant producer/street-meat hustler took office in January. But originally, the motives behind this episode were strictly pure and presentational. Well, okay, maybe not for Set 3. But the other sets, definitely.
Lots of great music in this show. I was especially moved by the songs from Delia Gartrell, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Nina Simone and Syl Johnson. There's a couple of standards here as well.
| Artist | Song | Year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Set 1 | |||
| Sly & the Family Stone | Poet | 1971 | Epic |
| The Alexander Review | A Change Had Better Come | 1975 | Vaya |
| Jimmy Sabater | Times Are Changin' | 1969 | Tico |
| Syl Johnson | Concrete Reservation | 1970 | Twilight |
| Hank Ballard along with The Dapps | How You Gonna Get Respect (When You Haven't Cut Your Process Yet) | 1968 | King |
| S.O.U.L. | Tell It Like It Is | 1972 | Musicor |
| Esther Marrow | Things Ain't Right | 1972 | Fantasy |
| Set 2 | |||
| The O'Jays | When the World's at Peace | 1972 | Philadelphia Int'l |
| Black Nasty | Talking to the People | 1973 | Enterprise |
| Kasandra | Flag | 1968 | Capitol |
| The Bar-Kays | Six O'Clock News Report | 1971 | Volt |
| Delia Gartrell | See What You Done Done (Hymn No. 9) | 1971 | Demin-Kalo |
| Curtis Mayfield | The Other Side of Town | 1970 | Curtom |
| Set 3 | |||
| Stevie Wonder | You Haven't Done Nothin' | 1974 | Tamla |
| The Temptations | Smiling Faces Sometimes (Star Time Edit) | 1971 | Gordy |
| Rance Allen Group | Lying on the Truth | 1973 | Stax |
| James Brown | Funky President (People It's Bad) | 1974 | Polydor |
| Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson | H2Ogate Blues | 1974 | Strata-East |
| The Honey Drippers | Impeach the President | 1973 | Alaga |
| Set 4/Outro | |||
| George Soule | Get Involved | 1973 | Fame |
| Nina Simone | Mississippi Goddam (Live In New York 1964) | 1964 | Philips |
| Parliament | Come In Out of the Rain | 1970 | Invictus |
| The Notations | Superpeople | 1974 | Gemigo |
| Rasputin's Stash | You Better Think | 1971 | Cotillon |
| Marvin Gaye | What's Going On (A Cappella) | 1971 | Tamla |