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Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972.
The Staple Singers performing at Wattstax on Aug. 20, 1972. (Michael Ochs Archives) The summer of 1972 was a decisive time for Raymond Shields. He’d just graduated from high school and was about ...
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.
On August 20, 1972, the Stax label presented a major concert, Wattstax, featured performances by Stax recording artists and humor from rising young comedian Richard Pryor. [3] 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]
In 1972, Al Bell supervised the Wattstax festival, a day-long concert featuring Stax artists which was held in Los Angeles in response to the Watts riots. [2] The 1973 documentary film Wattstax was produced by the label's new film division.
It was also the title track of their second album, released in 1972, recorded in Muscle Shoals and produced by Phillip Mitchell. Mel and Tim performed at the Wattstax charity concert that year, but later recordings could not repeat their earlier successes. Tim McPherson died in 1986. [3] "Backfield in Motion" was covered by Anthony Swete. [4] "
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 ...
"I Am – Somebody" was also recited by Jackson, with the assembled crowd at Los Angeles Coliseum for the famous Wattstax Music Festival on August 20, 1972. [ 4 ] It also appears in When We Were Kings , a 1996 documentary examining the historic 1974 Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in the Democratic ...