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Watermelon Man is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Melvin Van Peebles and starring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Kay Kimberley, Mantan Moreland, and Erin Moran.
"Watermelon Man" is a jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock for his debut album, Takin' Off (1962). Hancock's first version was recorded in a hard bop style, featuring solos by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and saxophonist Dexter Gordon . [ 1 ]
The bluesy track "Watermelon Man" made it to the Top 100 of the singles charts, [8] and went on to become a jazz standard. Hancock released a funk arrangement of “Watermelon Man” on his 1973 album Head Hunters. Takin' Off was initially released on CD in 1996 and then again in remastered form in 2007 by Rudy Van Gelder.
Watermelon Man may refer to: "Watermelon Man" (composition) , 1962 composition written by Herbie Hancock Watermelon Man (film) , 1970 American comedy directed by Melvin Van Peebles
According to A. O. Scott of the New York Times, How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) documents "American racism and one man's crafty, angry and resourceful responses to it." [3] Throughout Van Peebles' career, he received quite a bit of flak because of the controversial movies that he produced.
The footage shows a man in Japan giving the hippos a not-so-little treat. He plops the whole watermelon into the hippo's open mouth, and just like that the hippo smashes it into pieces in one ...
WaterMelon announced a new game on their Magical Game Factory website, a site set up as both a storefront and crowd-funding page for WaterMelon and future games, as "Project Y", the then code name of Paprium, which was announced would be a new Mega Drive game on February 21, 2012, [8] which would be developed alongside WaterMelon's first ever Super NES title, code-named "Project N", which is ...
The song has a characteristic bass line and is set to a funk beat.For the most part, it is built entirely on a two-chord vamp: a i-IV in B ♭ Dorian (B ♭ m7 and E ♭ 7). [5] The piece's signature 12-note bass line was played by Hancock on an ARP Odyssey, [6] [7] as was one of the keyboard solos.