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

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January 11, 2026 at 1:12 AM

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

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

January 11, 2026 at 1:09 AM

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

🎤🎹Della Reese & Mel Tormé - "Ordinary Fool" (LIVE)

January 11, 2026 at 1:07 AM

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

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

January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM

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

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

January 11, 2026 at 1:05 AM

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

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

January 11, 2026 at 1:02 AM

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

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

May 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM

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

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

🎼🎤Nancy Wilson - "The Greatest Performance of My Life" (1972)

May 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM

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🎼🎤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)

🎼🎤Carmen McRae - "My Shining Hour" (1970)

April 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM

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

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

April 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM

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

June Jordan - "I Must Become A Menace To My Enemies"

April 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM

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

🎼📺Roberta Flack & Luther Vandross - "Löwenbräu" jingle

March 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM

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

🎤🎹Carmen McRae - "This Year" (Hotel)

March 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM

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

Roberta Flack - "Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer"

March 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM

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🙏🏽🕯️🎼
youtu.be/ABhMgvlrY6o?...

📺🎼🕺🏽Sammy Davis Jr. - "Parade" (1959)

February 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM

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🎼🎭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?...

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

February 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM

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

brief excerpt: Nikki Giovanni, 11-4-24 - (square-biz, indeed)

January 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM

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January 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM

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

January 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM

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🌟🕊️Seasons Greetings!❄️🫶🏽

December 25, 2024 at 11:31 PM

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

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

December 25, 2024 at 11:30 PM

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

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Carmen McRae - Live in Montreal "Round Midnight" (1988)

December 15, 2024 at 11:15 PM

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

December 15, 2024 at 11:13 PM

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🎼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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