Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
Buy New: $99.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 261598
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 8.2 x 1.4
UPC: 081227666026
EAN: 0081227666026
ASIN: B00005NTQB
Release Date: October 9, 2001
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Disc 1
| • | Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin | | • | Sound Bite: 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 I) - 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 | | • | Sound Bite: 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 |
Disc 2
| • | 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 | | • | Sound Bite: 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 | | • | Sound Bite: 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 | | • | Sound Bite: President Harry S. Truman's Civil Rights Legislation | | • | In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down - Charles Brown Trio | | • | Baby, Get Lost - Dinah Washington | | • | Sound Bite: Civil Rights Bill Narrowly Defeated in Senate | | • | Saturday Night Fish Fry (Parts I & II) - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five | | • | Mardi Gras In New Orleans - Professor Longhair | | • | Sound Bite: 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 |
Disc 3
| • | I've Got A Woman - Ray Charles | | • | Ain't It A Shame - Fats Domino | | • | Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley | | • | Sound Bite: Sammy Davis, Jr. on Prejudice | | • | That Old Black Magic - Sammy Davis, Jr. | | • | Four - Miles Davis Quintet | | • | The Great Pretender - The Platters | | • | Sound Bite: W.E.B. Du Bois on the Place of the Black Man in Society - W.E.B. Du Bois | | • | Long Tall 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 featuring Sam Cooke | | • | Sometime I Feel Like A Motherless Child - Marian Anderson | | • | Misty - Johnny Mathis | | • | Sound Bite: 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 | | • | Sound Bite: Interview with a Dade County Janitor | | • | Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting - Charles Mingus | | • | Giant Steps - John Coltrane | | • | Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock |
Disc 4
| • | You've Really Got A Hold On Me - The Miracles | | • | Take My Hand Precious Lord - Mahalia Jackson | | • | Sound Bite: Martin Luther King, Jr.'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 | | • | Sound Bite: 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 | | • | Sound Bite: Malcolm X on "Our Common Enemy" | | • | Land Of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett | | • | Respect - Aretha Franklin | | • | Hey Joe - The Jimi Hendrix Experience | | • | The Klan - Richie Havens | | • | Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes | | • | Sound Bite: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Mountain Top" Speech & the Report on His Assassination - Martin Luther King, Jr. | | • | Say It LouI'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 Anybody Goin' To San Antone - Charley Pride |
Disc 5
| • | I Want You Back - Jackson 5 | | • | I Want To Take You Higher - Ike & Tina Turner & The Ikettes | | • | Sound Bite: 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 - AndraH Crouch | | • | Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers | | • | Tired Of Being Alone - Al Green | | • | Sound Bite: Gordon Parks & Melvin Van Peebles on Shaft | | • | Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes | | • | Be Real Black For Me - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway | | • | Sanford & Son Theme (The Street Beater) - Quincy Jones | | • | Love Train - The O'Jays | | • | Ghetto Child - The Spinners | | • | Midnight 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 |
Disc 6
| • | 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 - Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five | | • | A House Is Not A Home - Luther Vandross | | • | If You Only Knew - Patti Labelle | | • | Sound Bite: Jesse Jackson at the 1984 Democratic National Convention | | • | Proud To Be Black - Run-D.M.C. | | • | Colors - Ice-T | | • | Sister Rosa - The Neville Brothers | | • | Express Yourself - N.W.A. | | • | Sound Bite: Louis Farrakhan on the Million Man March | | • | Me Myself And I - De La Soul | | • | Ladies First - Queen Latifah | | • | Elvis Is Dead - Living Colour | | • | Sound Bite: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley on the Rodney King Verdict | | • | Fantastic Voyage - Coolio |
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Amazon.com's Best of 2001
As with 1999's Respect box, which chronicled women recording artists, Rhino again attempts to capture and condense a mighty field with the six-CD Say It Loud! And again, it largely succeeds. A companion to the VH1 series of the same name, Say It Loud! tells one story and many. It covers the development of many related genres, the business of locking many outsize talents and personalities into the grooves of records, and the music as it mirrored a rustling, ever-changing society--that last underscored by the inclusion of spoken sound bites (everyone from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Sammy Davis Jr.). But within these larger themes move many smaller but no less compelling tales. The roughly chronological programming allows for accidental, startling juxtapositions--disc one places Paul Robeson's pained, dignified reading of "Ol' Man River" just a few tracks away from bluesman Son House's insistence in "My Black Mama (Part 1)" that "there ain't no burnin' Hell." From there, pop ballads, big bands, bop, gospel, doo-wop, rock & roll, soul from Motown! Memphis! and Philly!, gorgeous civil-rights-era jazz, funk, and rap cohere and speak to one another in a selection about as good as can be expected given its length and various legal restrictions. (The most glaring omission is Stevie Wonder.) Any taint of "this stuff is good for you" is lost in the parade of great gifts, personalities, statements, dance crazes, poetry, and word games. If the above track listing contains lots of names you don't recognize, Say It Loud! will offer you a topnotch one-stop survey course. --Rickey Wright
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 a bit silly December 5, 2005
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Isn't this a bit silly? Black music is the basis for a lot, if not most, of the American music we cherish today. Limiting it to 6 CDs just seems disrespectful. It would take someone's entire collection to do justice to black music, which is American music itself, at its finest and most original.
 A History of Black Music in America February 1, 2003
When I found this collection on Amazon.com, I nearly cried (okay, I did cry). This includes much that anyone who truly loves African American music could ever want. It's not only entertaining, it's educational. How pleased I was when it arrived that there were not only six exceptional CD's, but a beautiful book included also. Additionally, I love the excerpts of famous speeches and quotes, etc. that are included between songs. If you truly love R&B as well as it's roots, buy this compilation and be satisfied that this was money well spent.
an absolute must have!! August 4, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
To any black person who wants educate their child musically, this is a must have, yes there are some omissions, but the depth and breadth of the artists represented is astonishing. I will listen this with my child very often, as a history lesson.
 What.....No Stevie???? February 13, 2002
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Stevie Wonder has to be the epitome of stylistic uniqueness among song writers, African-American or otherwise. He is also one of the most proliferate, with a body of work that spans nearly 4 decades. The influence of his genius upon the music world is unquestionable. How, then, could this musical phenomenon been omitted from an otherwise outstanding collection?
No James Brown??? January 18, 2002
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
They really have a History of Black Music Compilation and leave out James Brown? No James Brown? Uh...what's going on here? One of the most important figures in music of this century and he's excluded...for shame
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