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R&B singer Kim Weston sings "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" in front of a 100,000 at Wattstax--a festival at the Los Angeles Coliseum on August 20, 1972 organized by the Memphis Stax label to commemorate the 7th anniversary of the Watts riots and black power, pride, culture, tradition and heritage struggle. The party and peacefulness was seen by some as "African Americans answer to Woodstock". Be it charity or benefit, in order to encourage as many members of the black Americans community in LA to attend the event at Memorial Coliseum, tickets were sold at $1.00 each. Customs included advertisements and commercials in play for the event. There have been several recordings from this festival and a documentary film. It was a celebration to upstage all celebrations. Reverend Jesse Jackson gave the invocation, which included his "I Am - Somebody" poem, which was recited in a call and response with the assembled stadium crowd. There was a film directed by Mel Stuart which was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Documentary in 1974. The songs in the film, in order of appearance: "What You See Is What You Get", performed by The Dramatics "Oh La De Da", performed by the Staple Singers "We the People", performed by the Staple Singers "Respect Yourself", performed by the Staple Singers "Star-Spangled Banner", performed by Kim Weston "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing", performed by Kim Weston "Someone Greater Than I", performed by Jimmy Jones "Lying on the Truth", performed by the Rance Allen Group "Peace Be Still", performed by The Emotions "Old-Time Religion", performed by William Bell, Louise McCord, Debra Manning, Eric Mercury, Freddy Robinson, Lee Sain, Ernie Hines, Little Sonny, the Newcomers, Eddie Floyd, the Temprees, Frederick Knight "Son of Shaft/Feel It", performed by The Bar-Kays "I'll Play The Blues For You", performed by Albert King "Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone", performed by Johnnie Taylor "Walking the Backstreet and Crying", performed by Little Milton "I May Not Be What You Want", performed by Mel and Tim "Picking Up the Pieces", sung by Carla Thomas "The Breakdown", sung by Rufus Thomas "If Lovin' You Is Wrong, I Don't Want to be Right", sung by Luther Ingram "Theme from Shaft", sung by Isaac Hayes "Soulsville", sung by Isaac Hayes More on the song: Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing is often called "The Negro National Anthem" (or Black National Anthem)—was written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) and then set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954) in 1900. It was first performed in public in the Johnsons' hometown of Jacksonville, Florida as part of a celebration of Lincoln's Birthday on February 12, 1900 by a choir of 500 schoolchildren at the segregated Stanton School, where James Weldon Johnson was principal. Singing this song quickly became a way for African Americans to demonstrate their patriotism and hope for the future. In calling for earth and heaven to "ring with the harmonies of Liberty," they could speak out subtly against racism and Jim Crow laws — and especially the huge number of lynchings accompanying the rise of the Ku Klux Klan at the turn of the century. In 1919, the NAACP adopted the song as "The Negro National Anthem." By the 1920s, copies of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" could be found in black churches across the country, often pasted into the hymnals. During and after the American Civil Rights Movement, the song experienced a rebirth, and by the 1970's was often sung immediately after The Star Spangled Banner at public events and performances across the United States where the event had a significant African-American population. In 1990, singer Melba Moore released a modern rendition of the song, which she recorded along with others including R&B artists Anita Baker, Stephanie Mills, Dionne Warwick, Bobby Brown, Stevie Wonder, Jeffrey Osborne, and Howard Hewett; and gospel artists BeBe and CeCe Winans, Take 6 and The Clark Sisters. Partly because of the success of this recording, Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing was entered into the Congressional Record as the official African American National Hymn. More on singer Kim Weston: Kim Weston born December 20, 1939 in Detroit Michigan is a Motown Records alumna. She made an album for the label This Is America which included her popular version of the Black National Anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was released as a single and featured in the movie Wattstax. All the money from the single was donated to the United Negro College Fund. Similar words include Al Sharpton 2pac Shakur Tupac Shakur Afeni Shakur Assata Shakur Amiri Baraka, 70's, 1970s, 70s, nationalism socialism communism democracy Public Enemy Huey Newton Kwame Ture Stokley Carmichael Spoken Word dub poetry justice segregation Jim Crow, Maya Angelou Africans slavery slaves Nina Simone afros politics political issues Malcolm X Militants activists activism black panthers liberals black advocates advocation

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Kim Weston's superb 'Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While)', a H-D-H production from 1965

Randy Weston African Rhythm Trio Blue Moses

Edward Henry Weston was born in Highland Park, Illinois on March 24, 1886. In 1902, he received his first camera for his 16th birthday, a Kodak Bull's-Eye #2, and began taking photographs in Chicago parks and at his aunt's farm. Weston met with quick success and the Chicago Art Institute exhibited his photographs a year later, in 1903. He attended the Illinois College of Photography. In 1906, Weston moved to California, where he decided to stay and pursue a career in photography. He married Flora May Chandler in 1909, and together they had four sons: Edward Chandler (1910), Theodore Brett (1911), Laurence (1914) and Cole (1919). In 1910, Weston opened his first photographic studio in Tropico, California (now Glendale) and wrote articles about his unconventional methods of portraiture for several high-circulation magazines. 1922 marked a period of transition for Weston. Renouncing pictorialism in favor of straight photography, he would later become known as the "pioneer of precise and sharp presentation" with images of natural forms such as the human figure, seashells, plants, vegetables, and landscapes. He began regular visits to Mexico with his professional and romantic partner, Tina Modotti, whose relationship with Weston caused much gossip in the media. They were often accompanied by one of Weston's sons, who received a sound instruction in photography. Brett and Cole later embarked on their own successful careers in this field; likewise his grandson Kim, and his great-granddaughter Christine Weston (born 1958). After 1927, Weston worked mainly with nudes, still life — his shells and vegetable studies were especially important — and landscape subjects. After a few exhibitions of his works in New York, he co-founded Group f/64 in 1932 with Ansel Adams, Willard Van Dyke and others. The term f/64 referred to a very small aperture setting on a large format camera, which secured great depth of field, making a photograph appear evenly sharp from foreground to background. Weston also achieved great sharpness by not enlarging. He made contact prints from his 4x5" or 8x10" negatives. The detailed, straight photography that the group espoused was in opposition to the pictorialist soft-edged methods that were still in fashion at the time. In 1937 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation awarded Weston a fellowship, the first given to a photographer. He married his assistant, Charis Wilson, the following year (they had lived together since 1934, and divorced in 1946). During this time he received exclusive commissions and published several books, some with Wilson, including an edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass illustrated with his photographs. He also produced some of his few color photographs with Willard Van Dyke in 1947. Weston also collaborated on several volumes of his photographs with photography critic Nancy Newhall, beginning in 1946. The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson houses a full archive of Edward Weston's work. Stricken with Parkinson's Disease, Weston made his last photographs at Point Lobos State Reserve in 1948. 1952 saw the publication of a 50th-anniversary portfolio of his work, printed by his son Brett. Brett and Cole Weston, as well as Brett's wife Dody Warren, were appointed to print 800 of what he considered his most important negatives under his supervision in the years 1955 to 1956. Edward Weston died in his house on Wildcat Hill in Big Sur, California on January 1, 1958, aged 71. His comprehensive legacy includes the detailed and articulate Daybooks he kept regularly from the mid-1920s to 1934, which allow a very intimate glimpse into his personal life, his views on photography, and his working methods. Weston is generally recognized as one of the greatest photographic artists of the 20th century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Weston Search: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/weston_edward.html The Edward Weston/ Cole Weston family webisite: http://www.edward-weston.com/index.htm

Off of 'Tanjah', 1973

En las últimas Jornadas del Comic Villa De Avilés Cris Weston se lanzó a escribir un rap y cantarlo a todos los presentes.

Max Roach and Randy Weston Duo

Veryan Weston (piano) and Phil Minton (voice) improvise at Mopomoso at the Vortex Jazz club in London. 21st September 2008. Filmed by Helen Petts.

from the album " Little Niles " Randy Weston(pf)/Johnny Griffin(ts)/ Ray Copeland(tp)/Idrees Sulieman(tp)/ Melba Liston(tb)/George Joyner(b)/ Charlie Persip(ds) 1958

http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/cs/forums/1795/ShowForum.aspx In memory of Weston Grand Pier Weston Pier was built in 1904 (5 years before the Titanic) Hi they are 'midi tunes' of popular songs - the first one is the song "Dream" (all you have to do is dream)to represent the ability of us to remember the pier as it was, I kind of remember my aunts/mum talking about holiday's in Weston in the 50's/60's for example - and simon and garfunkel's "sound of silence" - which is the empty kind of feeling you get when something has changed in your everyday life that you have no control over.

This facility, in Clearwater, South Carolina, provides medical care and treatment to an underserved population. It was the recipient of a 2008 Community Health Care Grant from Johnson & Johnson.

"Helpless" is one of those true iconic Motown classics, and it was simply inevitable that once I got to work with Kim, that I would HAVE to re-record it on her. As I have said before, I had known Kim since 1969, when I met Motown songwriting legend and head of A&R, Mickey Stevenson on a plane while on vacation with my parents. Needless to say, I spent the whole journey chatting to him, and at the airport his wife, Kim Weston, met him off the plane, and then she arranged to pick me up at the hotel next day, and took me shopping all over Los Angeles, and Mickey arranged for me to go to Motown's West Coast warehouse, and buy singles for my collection at wholesale prices. Eighteen years later, my friend Henry Sellars was in touch with Kim, and brought her over for me to record - the very very first former Motown artist to start the Motorcity project. We first recorded a new Motownesque song, although with a High Energy flavour, called "Signal Your Intention", and Motorcity was born. This video of "Helpless" was filmed for the documentary, "The Strange World Of Northern Soul", and was literally filmed outside Kim's house at the last minute, because my assistant Adi had been staying with her to do all the filming, and was about to leave for the airport before he realised he hadn't actually gotten round to filming Kim herself, and frantic phone calls from England were insisting it got done before he left for the airport. As they say, the STRANGE world of Northern Soul.

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PLEASE READ THIS. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. Up to today, I have put three hundred and eleven videos up here on YouTube, and they have been viewed nearly two million times, according to my account information on my home page. Two million hits is, I feel, a pretty amazing achievement for the music that I love. Well basically, if my hundreds of long long hours putting up free videos for you to watch, have brought you any form of enjoyment or satisfaction at all, then PLEASE PLEASE, I ask you, no I BEG you to do just one thing in return. PLEASE support the "Yesterday And Tomorrow" album, and show me that you care about this music. I have put my heart and soul, and thirty three years of my career into this album, and we're flying blind, doing it ourselves and without a distributor. Unless people take the trouble to go to our website, which at the moment has a direct link to the album on E-Bay, or unless people go onto amazon.co.uk and search for the album, they are simply not going to find it in their local shop. I put a huge amount of loving care into these videos on YouTube, and nearly two million hits prove it's not in vain. Surely you can spend just fifteen pounds of your money and buy it, just to show me I am not wasting my time. PLEASE do this for me, PLEASE. It's painful and heartwrenching to see it sell so little, mainly because it's not easily available. So PLEASE show me your support, and I shall continue to do my bit to bring you this music. I ask you not to ignore this plea - I need to see a sign that people care. I would hate to be so disheartened that I remove all my 311 videos from here. So just this once, all I ask of you is to do your bit, and please buy this one CD. This was the one time I teamed up Kim Weston with Marvin Gaye's brother Frankie, to recreate Marvin and Kim's hit, "It Takes Two", and watching this now, it's so hard to believe that he passed away a few years later. When we all first went to Los Angeles, in April 1989, to have a second public reunion there of all the California based former Motown artists, immediately following the one we'd just done in Detroit, Frankie came along, and we were all shocked and numbed by how much he looked like his late brother Marvin. So I had the brilliant idea of teaming him up with Kim for them to re-do "It Takes Two". Frankie was Marvin's younger brother , and had been the inspiration for "What's Going On", and indeed Frankie sang on that, alongside Marvin, and if you listen closely you can hear both voices on there. Frankie and his wife Irene were actually in the house when Frankie's father shot Marvin dead, in 1984. Anyway, Frankie seemed such an obvious and necessary addition to Motorcity. In 1990, Frankie and Kim got to perform this classic to a huge crowd on the rooftop of the enormous Pontchartrain Hotel in Detroit, on a hot humid summer Saturday night, after it had poured down all day. I was sitting next to Berry Gordy's sister, Esther Edwards, and she gasped in shock when Frankie appeared, and said it was like seeing a ghost. Sadly Frankie, just like his brother Marvin, has now passed on to that soul concert in the sky, but I shall always be so proud of working with him. I had known Kim Weston since 1969, because very close to my sixteenth birthday, in 1969, my parents took me to the USA for the first time. We changed planes in New York to go to Los Angeles. Sitting across the aisle was a smart affluent black man with an attache case containing assorted vinyl 45s. My Mother asked the stewardess to find out if he was a soul singer, and it turned out he was Motown songwriting legend and head of A&R, Mickey Stevenson. Needless to say, I spent the whole journey chatting to him, and at the airport his wife, Kim Weston, met him off the plane. I was fascinated by her - a Motown legend - so suave and glamorous. She arranged to pick me up at the hotel next day, and took me shopping all over Los Angeles, and Mickey arranged for me to go to Motown's West Coast warehouse, and buy singles for my collection at wholesale prices. Eighteen years later, my friend Henry Sellars was in touch with Kim, and brought her over for me to record - the very very first former Motown artist to start the Motorcity project. She vividly remembered me from being sixteen, although she still swears to this day that I was fifteen. We recorded a new Motownesque song, "Signal Your Intention", and Motorcity was born.

I'm not religious or nowt but this song (using a midi here, but you get the idea) is kind of nice - in a shrek kind of way :-)also it's a goodbye to Woolworths - a long standing retail chain on UK high streets hasn't been resued by a rich billionaire anywhere - I thing you could have purchased the chain for £1.00 (about $1.50usd) as long as you took on their debt of 300 million pounds or so - peanuts if you are a billionaire - yet bye bye another piece of tradition - pick and mix is 10p cheaper in Wilkinsons per quarter- so I didn't use the place much myself. Hallelujah Jeff Buckley version Well I heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do ya? Well it goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah Well Your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you she tied you to her kitchen chair And she broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah Well baby I've been here before I've seen this room and I've walked this floor I used to live alone before I knew ya I've seen your flag on the marble arch Love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah Well there was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show that to me do you? And remember when I moved in you? And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah Hallelujah Well maybe there's a God above But all I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who'd OUT DREW YA And it's not a cry that you hear at night It's not somebody who's seen the light It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah

"IT TAKES TWO" - Released 1967. "It Takes Two" was a hit single recorded in late 1966 by Kim Weston and Marvin Gaye for Motown's Tamla label. Produced by Weston's then-husband, longtime Gaye collaborator William "Mickey" Stevenson, and co-written by Stevenson and Sylvia Moy, "It Takes Two" centered around a romantic lyric which depicted many things in life (dreams, love, wishes, etc.) being better with two people instead of one. The single became Gaye's most successful duet single to date, later outperformed by Gaye's duets with Tammi Terrell. Gaye and Weston's duet peaked at #14 on the Billboard Pop charts and #4 on Billboard's Soul Singles chart in January of 1967. "It Takes Two" was also Gaye's first major hit in the UK, where it peaked at #16 on the British singles charts in the spring of that same year. Also in 1967, soul singers Otis Redding and Carla Thomas covered the song for their duet album, King & Queen. In 1990 "It Takes Two" was covered by Tina Turner & Rod Stewart. It was released as the lead single of Stewart's album Vagabond Heart produced by Bernard Edwards, released in early 1991. The duet was a hit peaking in the UK charts at #5 and a Top 10 hit single in most European countries, later appearing on both artists' Greatest Hits packages Simply The Best (1991) and The Very Best of Rod Stewart (2001). Billie Piper also made a cover version of the song in late 1998 as B-Side to her third single "She Wants You".

Posted with the kind permission of West Weston and the Bluesonics performing Chicken Shack at Dusty's Holmer Green. A fantastic band and a great sound. Check out his my space site for gigs near you.

Do you have an idol? Concerning myself, there are only a few people around the globe that really fascinate me. One of them is Dwain Weston - a daredevil basejumper who should be an inspiration to many of us. Therefore I dedicate this video to him, his family and his friends. Scenes are extracted from a documentary called "fearless".

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Calvin Weston, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Vernon Reid live at the Tritone, Philadelphia, PA 3.17.07. Special thanks to Bear for the audio.

Gaetano Proclo (Jack Weston) is present with his wife's (Kay Ballard) family at her father's deathbed. Her father (Jerry Stiller), has never liked his son-in-law and before he dies, asks the other men of the family to kill him. Since theirs is a mob family, Gaetano takes the threat seriously and he runs, asking the cab driver to take him someplace where the Vespucci's will never find him. The cab driver's answer? The Ritz. The Ritz is a typical 70's gay bath house. Here you meet Chris ( F. Murray Abraham), a regular visitor who's on the prowl for the newest and/or hottest guy he can find. Also there's Claude Perkins (Paul B. Price), a chubby-chaser who takes a shine to Gaetano. Unfortunately for Gaetano, the cab driver was in the employ of his in-laws and so he tells them where he went. They send in Micheal Brick (Treat Williams) who speaks with a very high voice that, in the mind of the mobsters, makes him more likely to pass with the queers. Also here is a performer, Googie Gomez, played by the talented Rita Moreno. Googie is playing the bath houses for now and hoping to hit it big. She vascillates between looking for a producer that she was told would be in attendence and decrying the belief of some that she is a drag queen. The result is a grand chase and a lot of laughs in very 70's style.

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(1) Kim Weston & Marvin Gaye- Album Take Two Plus-I Want You 'Round (2) Kim Weston & Marvin Gaye- Album Take Two Plus-It Takes Two name Agatha Natalie Weston Born December 20, 1939(1939-12-20) Origin Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Kim Weston (born Agatha Natalie Weston, December 20, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan) is an African American soul singer, and Motown Records alumna. She was signed to the record label in 1963, scoring a minor hit with "Love Me All the Way" (R&B #24, Pop #88). Her biggest solo hits with Motown were "Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)" (R&B #4, Pop #50, 1965; later covered by The Isley Brothers, Blood, Sweat & Tears and The Doobie Brothers) and "Helpless" (R&B #13, Pop #56, 1966; previously recorded by The Four Tops on their Second Album LP). Her biggest claim to fame was singing the classic hit "It Takes Two" with Marvin Gaye in 1966 and her later recording of the Black National Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing." It was the success of "It Takes Two" with Marvin Gaye that caused Motown to seek Tammi Terrell to replace her as his singing partner, which spawned even more success for the label. Weston left Motown in 1967 and later sued the label over disputes about royalties. She and her then-husband William "Mickey" Stevenson (former A&R head at Motown) both went to MGM Records. Weston cut a couple of singles for MGM, "I Got What You Need," and "Nobody," which went largely unnoticed due to lack of airplay and promotion. She made an album for the label, This Is America, which included her popular version of the Black National Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," was released as a single and featured in the movie Wattstax. All the money from the single was donated to the United Negro College Fund. all copyrights belong to the respective owners, artists and music companies. ENJOY AND PLEASE LEAVE YOUR COMMENT. THANK YOU