-
Wattstax was a
benefit concert organized by Stax
Records to
commemorate the
seventh anniversary of the 1965
riots in the African-American
community of...
-
Isaac Hayes with a '
Wattstax' screening".
Chicago Tribune. Hirsh, Marc (July 16, 2010). "The
Summer Of
Music Do****entaries: '
Wattstax'". Pop
Culture Happy...
- Jackson, with the ****embled
crowd at Los
Angeles Coliseum for the
famous Wattstax Music Festival on
August 20, 1972. It also
appears in When We Were Kings...
- Woodstock",
Wattstax was
hosted by
Reverend Jesse Jackson and drew a
crowd of over 100,000 people, most of them African-American.
Wattstax was
filmed by...
- The album's
title was
derived from a
remark made by
Pryor himself in
Wattstax.[citation needed]
Initially released on Stax
Records under their "Partee"...
-
featured in Mel Stuart's 1973 do****entary film "
Wattstax". This film
chronicles the
historic 1972
Wattstax concert at the Los
Angeles Memorial Coliseum in...
-
years later Pryor,
still relatively unknown,
appeared in the do****entary
Wattstax (1972),
wherein he
riffed on the tragic-comic
absurdities of race relations...
- F.
Kennedy do****entary Four Days in
November and the 1973
concert film
Wattstax. In
addition he
directed or
produced over 180
films including movies of...
-
samples of "Children's Story",
performed by
Slick Rick, and
dialogue from
Wattstax,
spoken by
Richard Pryor. "Bonjour"
contains samples of "Dance Music" from...
- Yeller, Mary
Poppins Mel Stuart:
Willy Wonka & the
Chocolate Factory,
Wattstax John Sturges: Bad Day at
Black Rock, The
Magnificent Seven Frank Tashlin:...
