Say it loud!: a celebration of black music in America

disc 1. Maple leaf rag (Scott Joplin) -- Booker T. Washington on the Negro population in the South -- The St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith) -- Black bottom stomp (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) -- Heebie jeebies (Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five) -- Ol' Man River (Paul Robeson) -- Ain't misbehavin' (Fats Waller) -- Pony blues (Charlie Patton) -- My black mama (part 1) (Son House) -- Tiger rag (Mills Brothers) -- Minnie the Moocher (Cab Calloway & his orchestra) -- It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) (Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra) -- Jesse Owens on the 1936 Olympics -- Cross road blues (Robert Johnson) -- Rock my soul (Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet) -- If I didn't care (Ink Spots) -- Jumpin' at the Woodside (Count Basie & his orchestra) -- Strange fruit (Billie Holiday) -- Stormy weather (Lena Horne) -- Tiger rag (Art Tatum) --

Straighten up and fly right (the King Cole Trio) -- Ko ko (Charlie Parker's Ri Bop Boys) -- If you could see me now (Sarah Vaughan) -- Joe Louis returns from the Army -- The Midnight Special (Leadbelly) -- Call it stormy Monday (but Tuesday is just as bad) (T-Bone Walker) -- 'Round about midnight (the Thelonious Monk Quartet) -- Frank Stanley on Negro Newspaper Week -- How high the moon (Ella Fitzgerald) -- It's too soon to know (the Orioles) -- I feel like going home (Muddy Waters) -- Boogie chillen' (John Lee Hooker) -- President Harry S. Truman's civil rights legislation -- In the evening when the sun goes down (Charles Brown Trio) -- Baby, get lost (Dinah Washington) -- Civil rights bill narrowly defeated in Senate -- Saturday night fish fry (parts 1 & 2) (Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five) -- Mardi gras in New Orleans (Professor Longhair) -- Jackie Robinson on the eve of the 1949 World Series -- Rocket "88" (Jackie Brenston & his Delta Cats) -- (Mama) he treats your daughter mean (Ruth Brown) -- Money honey (the Drifters) -- Shake, rattle and roll (Joe Turner & his Blues Kings) --

I've got a woman (Ray Charles) -- Ain't it a shame (fats Domino) -- Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley) -- Sammy Davis, Jr. on prejudice -- That old black magic (Sammy Davis, Jr.) -- Four (Miles Davis Quintet) -- The great pretender (the Platters) -- W.E.B. Du Bois on the place of the black man in society -- Long Tally Sally (Little Richard) -- Brown eyed handsome man (Chuck Berry & his combo) -- Banana boat (Day-o) (Harry Belafonte) -- Touch the hem of his garment (the Soul Stirrers feat. Sam Cooke) -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (Marian Anderson) -- Misty (Johnny Mathis) -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower's address to the nation on segregation -- The twist (Hank Ballard & the Midnighters) -- I ain't superstitious (Howlin' Wolf) -- I pity the fool (Bobby Bland) -- At last (Etta James) Interview with a Dade County janitor -- Wednesday night prayer meeting (Charles Mingus) -- Giant steps (John Coltrane) -- Maiden voyage (Herbie Hancock) --

You've really got a hold on me (the Miracles) -- Take my hand precious Lord (Mahalia Jackson) -- Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech -- Cotton fields (Odetta) -- How blue can you get! (B.B. King) -- No pity (in the naked city) (Jackie Wilson) -- President John F. Kennedy's address to the nation -- Change gonna come (Otis Redding) -- Walk on by (Dionne Warwick) -- Reach out I'll be there (Four Tops) -- Malcolm X on "our common enemy" -- Land of 1000 dances (Wilson Pickett) -- Respect (Aretha Franklin) -- Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix) -- The Klan (Richie Havens) -- Love child (Diana Ross & the Supremes) -- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Mountain top" speech & the report on his assassination -- Say it--I'm black and I'm proud (James Brown) -- Don't call me Nigger, Whitey (Sly & the Family Stone) -- Choice of colors (the Impressions) -- To be young, gifted and black (Nina Simone) -- Is anyone goin' to San Antone (Charley Pride) --

I want you back (Jackson 5) -- I want to take you higher (Ike & Tina Turner & the Ikettes) -- Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall on segregation -- Ball of confusion (That's what the world is today) (the Temptations) -- What's going on (Marvin Gaye) -- The revolution will not be televised (Gil Scott-Heron) -- My tribute (Andrae Crouch) -- Respect yourself (the Staple Singers) -- Tired of being alone (Al Green) -- Gordon Parks & Melvin van Peebles on Shaft -- Theme from Shaft (Isaac Hayes) -- Be real black for me (Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway) -- Sanford and Son (Quincy Jones) -- Love train (the O'Jays) -- Ghetto child (the Spinners) -- Mignight train to Georgia (Gladys Knight & the Pips) -- Jungle boogie (Kool & the Gang) -- You're the first, the last, my everything (Barry White) -- Shining star (Earth, Wind & Fire) -- Chocolate City (Parliament) -- Wake up everybody (part 1) (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) --

We are family (Sister Sledge)

I will survive (Gloria Gaynor)

Fight the power part 1 (the Isley Brothers)

Rapper's delight (Sugarhill Gang)

The breaks (part 1) (Kurtis Blow)

The message (Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five)

A house is not a home (Luther Vandross)

If you only knew (Patti LaBelle)

Jesse Jackson at the 1984 Democratic Convention

Proud to be black (Run-D.M.C.)

Colors (Ice-T)

Sister Rosa (the Neville Brothers)

Express yourself (N.W.A.)

Louis Farrakhan on the Million Man March

Me myself and I (De La Soul)

Ladies first (Queen Latifah)

Elvis is dead (Living Colour)

Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley on the Rodney King verdict

Fantastic voyage (Coolio).