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The genres of the songs performed included soul, gospel, R&B, blues, funk, and jazz. Months after the festival, Stax released a double LP of the concert's highlights, Wattstax: The Living Word. The concert was filmed by David L. Wolper's film crew and was made into the 1973 film titled Wattstax.
Blues at Sunset is a blues album by Albert King, recorded live at Wattstax (August 20, 1972) and at the Montreux Jazz Festival (July 1, 1973), and released in 1993. Material recorded at the 1973 Montreux festival had previously been released in his albums Montreux Festival and Blues At Sunrise.
The Temprees' rendition of "Dedicated to the One I Love" was one of 50 songs featured in the double album box set, Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration in 2007. [7] This song was the group's biggest seller, reaching # 17 R&B and #93 pop in 1972.
Little remembered today, Wattstax — 'the Black Woodstock' — drew nearly 100,000 fans to the L.A. Coliseum for a day of Black pride and transcendent soul music. 50 years ago, the Wattstax ...
Known as the "Black Woodstock", Wattstax was hosted by Reverend Jesse Jackson and drew a crowd of over 100,000 people, most of them African-American. [3] Wattstax was filmed by motion picture director Mel Stuart (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), and a concert film of the event was released to theaters by Columbia Pictures in February 1973.
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This film chronicles the historic 1972 Wattstax concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in which the Dramatics performed this song among a legendary lineup of R&B, Soul, Pop, and gospel artists. The Dramatics performed "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" in the racially charged and raunchy " Darktown Strutters ", a blaxploitation comedy film ...
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