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YouTube video by artistonfire 🎼Nina Simone - "To Be Young, Gifted & Black" @NYC Philharmonic Hall – Oct. 26, 1969 (👂🏽audio)

🎼Nina Simone - "To Be Young, Gifted & Black" @NYC Philharmonic Hall – Oct. 26, 1969 (👂🏽audio):
youtu.be/WlfA4UbbdiU?...

YouTube video by artistonfire 🎼Nina Simone - "Four Women" (1971 - full clip)

✊🏽@Black History Month:
🎼Nina Simone - "Four Women" (1971 - full clip):
youtu.be/i64WH6JWdFE?...

YouTube video by artistonfire 🕺🏽🕺🏽Gregory Hines + Gregory Hines (excerpt from "Tap Dance in America", 1989)

🕺🏽🕺🏽Gregory Hines + Gregory Hines (excerpt from "Tap Dance in America", 1989):
youtu.be/CX44AdWly60?...

YouTube video by artistonfire 🎼🎤Sammy Davis Jr. - "Better Luck Next Time" (LIVE!)

🎼🎤Sammy Davis Jr. - "Better Luck Next Time" (LIVE!):
youtu.be/nekQqchIZEE?...

YouTube video by artistonfire 🎤🎹Della Reese & Mel Tormé - "Ordinary Fool" (LIVE)

🎤🎹Della Reese & Mel Tormé - "Ordinary Fool" (LIVE):
youtu.be/bvEgQ-EhAPU?...

YouTube video by artistonfire 🎼📺Gil Scott-Heron - "The Bottle", "Must Be Something" (Live 1975)

🎼📺Gil Scott-Heron - "The Bottle", "Must Be Something" (Live 1975):
youtu.be/veLyI6z_N_4?...

YouTube video by artistonfire 🎬🏫"The Blue Dashiki" (aka "Jeffrey and His City Neighbors", 1969)

reel-rarity:
🎬"The Blue Dashiki" (aka "Jeffrey and His City Neighbors", 1969):
youtu.be/Xokgms-6-Ag?...

YouTube video by artistonfire 🎼🎬Diana Ross - "Crazy He Calls Me" (Lady Sings the Blues outtake)

🎼Diana Ross - "Crazy He Calls Me" (🎬Lady Sings the Blues outtake):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg3o...

YouTube video by artistonfire 🎼🎤Nancy Wilson - "You'd Better Go" (single, 1969)

🎼🎤Nancy Wilson - "You'd Better Go":
youtu.be/hBeHa0M-u1Q?...

📺From an unaired episode of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (S3/E25...April 1969)

YouTube video by artistonfire 🎼🎤Nancy Wilson - "The Greatest Performance of My Life" (1972)

🎼🎤Nancy Wilson - "The Greatest Performance of My Life" (always on-purpose, raging flu or not, the show must go on):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvi5...

🫶🏽Live @ Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH Expo, 1972
(🎞️"Save The Children" concert documentary, 1973)

YouTube video by artistonfire 🎼🎤Carmen McRae - "My Shining Hour" (1970)

🎼🎤Carmen McRae - "My Shining Hour" (1970):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Xi...

YouTube video by artistonfire 🎼🎤🎹 Carmen McRae - "I Got It Bad" + "Come Live With Me" (1968)

🎤🎹 Carmen McRae - 🎼📺 Playboy After Dark, 1968:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DICI...

🎤🥳🎼It's Tom Lellis Day! Peace! Light! & Much Respect!😎✌🏽🕊️

YouTube video by artistonfire June Jordan - "I Must Become A Menace To My Enemies"

June Jordan - "I Must Become A Menace To My Enemies" :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbCy...

YouTube video by artistonfire 🎼📺Roberta Flack & Luther Vandross - "Löwenbräu" jingle

🎼📺Roberta Flack & Luther Vandross - "Löwenbräu" jingle:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEUT...

YouTube video by artistonfire 🎤🎹Carmen McRae - "This Year" (Hotel)

🎤🎹Carmen McRae - "This Year" (Hotel):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=axML...

YouTube video by artistonfire Roberta Flack - "Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer"

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youtu.be/ABhMgvlrY6o?...

YouTube video by artistonfire 📺🎼🕺🏽Sammy Davis Jr. - "Parade" (1959)

🎼🎭Black Arts/Black History:
In 1959, Sammy Davis Jr. starred in his first televised solo-special - launching a Canadian music-variety series.

🕺🏽📺Sammy Davis Jr. - "Parade":
youtu.be/i8PkHnJkMOE?...

YouTube video by artistonfire 🌓Gil Scott Heron, with Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis - " Winter in America"

🌓Gil Scott Heron, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis - " Winter in America": youtu.be/0iIdiOC-X1w

🌄"There are years that ask questions and years that answer...." - Zora Neale Hurston ("Their Eyes Were Watching God")

🌟🕊️Seasons Greetings!❄️🫶🏽

YouTube video by artistonfire brief excerpt: Nikki Giovanni, 11-4-24 - (square-biz, indeed)

brief excerpt: Nikki Giovanni, 11-4-24 - (square-biz, indeed):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Az3...

YouTube video by artistonfire Carmen de Lavallade, Geoffrey Holder - Banda (excerpt from - "House of Flowers")

Carmen de Lavallade, Geoffrey Holder - Banda (excerpt from - "House of Flowers"):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROoi...

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YouTube video by artistonfire Carmen McRae - Live in Montreal "Round Midnight" (1988)

🎼 Carmen McRae - Live in Montreal "Round Midnight" (1988):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyqL...
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YouTube video by artistonfire Sarah Vaughan - "If You Went Away" - The Tonight Show (1978)

🎼Sarah Vaughan - "If You Went Away" ("Preciso Aprender A Ser Só"):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG1D...

Tonight Show (1978) - Waymon Reed, trumpet, Doc Severinsen/NBC Orchestra

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❄️🌟12 Days of Christmas...(🎼...in a magi-mood)

YouTube video by artistonfire 🙏🏽🕯️Nikki Giovanni - "Legacies"

Nikki Giovanni - "Legacies":
www.youtube.com/shorts/R43mZ...

LP/Source: Nikki Giovanni - "Legacies" (1976)

YouTube video by artistonfire Nikki Giovanni - "Choices"

Nikki Giovanni - "Choices":
www.youtube.com/shorts/wGIfV...

LP/Source: Nikki Giovanni - "Cotton Candy On A Rainy Day" (1978)