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Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story (PBS-R)

DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
edited July 2007 in Strut Central
I ran across this while putting together some highlights, and thought this was right up the Strut's alley:
Great Performances: Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story[/b]: Between 1959 and 1975, Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, released international chart-topping hits such as ???Soul Man,??? ???Dock of the Bay,??? ???Green Onions,??? ???Midnight Hour,??? ???Respect Yourself??? and the theme from Shaft. The label???s artists included Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Booker T. and the MGs, Wilson Pickett, Isaac Hayes -- even Richard Pryor and Jesse Jackson. Founded by a conservative white bank teller who played country fiddle music, Stax became the pre-eminent soul music label in America. Entwined with the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the rise of black nationalism in the 1970s, the program documents the Stax label, its visionaries and most of all, its music.
For you Bostonians, it airs Wednesday, August 1, 9 ??? 11pm on WGBH 2. For e'erbody else, check your local listings.

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