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In an analysis of Watermelon Man in Film Quarterly, scholar Raquel Gates describes it as a "cunning subversion of Hollywood and television conventions." [6] The film grossed $61,000 in its opening week. [5] [7] It earned theatrical rentals of $1.1 million in the United States and Canada. [1]
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
"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] A single release reached the Top 100 of the Billboard pop charts.
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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.
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Use of this stereotype started to die down around the 1950s, and had mostly vanished by 1970, although its continued power as a stereotype could still be recognized in films such as Watermelon Man (1970), The Watermelon Woman (1996), and Bamboozled (2001). [6] Watermelons also provided a theme for many racial jokes in the 2000s. [7]
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 ...