Author Jimmy Collier
People Get Ready
da Sing for Freedom - The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through its songs. Edited and compiled by Guy and Candie Carawan.
In addition to Jimmy Collier's songs, the 'End the Slums' movement has adapted many rhythm and blues songs. To the urban Negro of today, many of these songs provide an emotional release from the omnipresent suffering, while stimulating the will to struggle, serving them in much the same manner as the spirituals served their enslaved forefathers.
David Llorens, "New Birth in the Ghetto", Sing Out! July 1966
In addition to Jimmy Collier's songs, the 'End the Slums' movement has adapted many rhythm and blues songs. To the urban Negro of today, many of these songs provide an emotional release from the omnipresent suffering, while stimulating the will to struggle, serving them in much the same manner as the spirituals served their enslaved forefathers.
David Llorens, "New Birth in the Ghetto", Sing Out! July 1966
PEOPLE GET READY
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Never Too Much Love
Words and music by Curtis Mayfield (The Impressions), 1964, (adaptation by the Chicago Movement, 1966)
There's a rock and roll group called The Impressions and we call them 'movement fellows' and we try to sing a lot of their songs. Songs like Keep on Pushing, I Been Trying, I'm So Proud, It's Gonna be a Long Long Winter, People Get Ready, There's a Meeting Over Yonder really speak to the situation a lot of us find ourselves in. One song that has really become kind of a favorite with us especially when we got a lot of mean folks around is 'Never Too Much Love'"
Jimmy Collier
"Now one thing we try to do with this song is to get people to make up verses. You'd be surprised what kind of verses come from people who don't consider themselves songwriters or singers... Some people don't even consider themselves people."
from Sing for Freedom - The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through its songs. Edited and compiled by Guy and Candie Carawan.
There's a rock and roll group called The Impressions and we call them 'movement fellows' and we try to sing a lot of their songs. Songs like Keep on Pushing, I Been Trying, I'm So Proud, It's Gonna be a Long Long Winter, People Get Ready, There's a Meeting Over Yonder really speak to the situation a lot of us find ourselves in. One song that has really become kind of a favorite with us especially when we got a lot of mean folks around is 'Never Too Much Love'"
Jimmy Collier
"Now one thing we try to do with this song is to get people to make up verses. You'd be surprised what kind of verses come from people who don't consider themselves songwriters or singers... Some people don't even consider themselves people."
from Sing for Freedom - The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through its songs. Edited and compiled by Guy and Candie Carawan.
Too much love, too much love
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Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
A Pickaxe and a Stone
[1969]
Brano trovato su Broadside Magazine n.100 del luglio 1969
Beh, non di certo una canzone pacifica…
Però ‘sto Jimmy Collier mi pare che da giovane fosse un po’ sborone… o era il comune sentire dell’epoca, che si sarebbe riusciti a far fuori tutti i “Mister”?!? Comunque Jimmy Collier continua a suonare e cantare anche oggi; lo fa con un bel cappellone da cowboy calato in testa e senza che sui cenni biografici che compaiono sulla sua pagina ci sia la benchè minima traccia del “rude rivoluzionario” che è stato da giovane…
Brano trovato su Broadside Magazine n.100 del luglio 1969
Beh, non di certo una canzone pacifica…
Però ‘sto Jimmy Collier mi pare che da giovane fosse un po’ sborone… o era il comune sentire dell’epoca, che si sarebbe riusciti a far fuori tutti i “Mister”?!? Comunque Jimmy Collier continua a suonare e cantare anche oggi; lo fa con un bel cappellone da cowboy calato in testa e senza che sui cenni biografici che compaiono sulla sua pagina ci sia la benchè minima traccia del “rude rivoluzionario” che è stato da giovane…
All over the world there are things I know about
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Contributed by Alessandro 2009/9/28 - 15:49
Everybody's Got A Right To Live
Testo pubblicato su Broadside Magazine n.89 del 1968 e sul libretto del disco di Kirkpatrick e Jimmy Collier che prende il titolo dalla canzone.
EVERYBODY'S GOT A RIGHT TO LIVE
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Contributed by Alessandro 2009/7/29 - 15:40
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Album“Everybody’s Got A Right To Live”
con il Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick
Testo pubblicato sul libretto dell’album e su Broadside Magazine n.91 del maggio 1968. Presente anche in Veleno di Piombo sul Muro, le canzoni del Black Power, a cura di Alessandro Portelli, editori Laterza, 1969.
Sul suo sito Jimmy Collier oggi compare vestito da cowboy e non c’è quasi traccia della sua vecchia discografia e, in particolare, di quel potentissimo lavoro intitolato “Everybody’s Got A Right To Live” che realizzò nel 1968 per le edizioni Broadside/Smithsonian Folkways a quattro mani con il reverendo Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, pastore, folksinger ed attivista per i diritti civili, fondatore dei “Deacons for Defense and Justice”, gruppo armato di autodifesa della gente di colore attivo in Lousiana e Mississippi e antesignano delle Black Panthers.
Eppure Collier – di padre nero... (Continues)