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    The Night James Brown Saved Boston

    Not sure if I should put this in Film/TV instead...

    VH1 is premiering a documentary tomorrow night, The Night James Brown Saved Boston, about a JB concert the night MLK was killed. There were questions if he should still perform, but he did, and the concert was aired live on Boston television, with authorities urging people to stay home and watch it. Boston, unlike other major cities, did not have any rioting that night, and it's because of the broadcast of the concert.

    I saw the filmmaker on Tavis Smiley's show, and it sounds really good.

    I came across this in a review:

    This program tells that story, with video that is sometimes...bizarro, like when we hear WGBH's upper-crust Brahmin announcer telling viewers to stay tuned for "the Negro singer Jimmy Brown."

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    The Night James Brown Saved Boston

    Damn! Damn! Damn! I missed this. I've seen clips but, the whole show! I have a colleague whose father, sadly deceased, was there. Damn!

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      #3
      The Night James Brown Saved Boston

      Not to worry, adams house cat. It's going to be aired multiple times on VH1 and VH1 Classic.

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        The Night James Brown Saved Boston

        And besides, ahc, I'm not sure how much of the concert is in the documentary. It's an hour long, and factor in VH1 commercials (I'm guessing they didn't forsake advertising during it), so that takes the running time down to around 45 minutes. I've watched about five minutes of it so far, and there are a lot of talking heads, so I'm just hoping at least one song is included in its entirety.

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          The Night James Brown Saved Boston

          So there probaly won't be much that I haven't seen already. But, still...

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            #6
            So, this is very long, and completely wild

            https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1092783426732736513

            https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1092783426732736513

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              #7
              Now that's something I have to read. That clip reminded me of the strangeness around his funeral.

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                #8
                UA - wow.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Incandenza View Post

                  "The Negro singer Jimmy Brown"
                  That announcement is here.

                  https://youtu.be/JfSayXyqw64?t=1879

                  The announcer was Bill Pierce (1920-1997) who normally did Boston Symphony concerts:

                  https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl...540-story.html

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                    #10
                    I saw an article or two a couple of weeks ago about the reopening of the murder inquiry. I briefly thought, 'that's odd, why wasn't more made of it at the time?' and then remembered that I'd been on holiday in Argentina when he died, so I wasn't exactly keeping my finger on the pulse of the news. Just got up, turned on the telly and they were reporting it had happened. The more one reads about why there was rumoured to be foul play, though, the more convincing the argument seems (to this admittedly less than brilliant legal mind).

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                      #11
                      Ah, I now see that ursus' post was in fact made a couple of weeks ago, so probably the same day more or less that I read the article. This is what happens when I don't come on Music very often.

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