Wes Montgomery with Liza Minnelli

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Uploaded by on Nov 28, 2010

Excerpt taken from Hollywood Palace circa 1967.

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  • This was really the beginning of desegregation. They showed a Black, the great Wes Montgomery, an Italian Liza Minelli and an advertisement to mix everybody in the American pudding melting pot.

  • @GeorgiaBoy1961 My father had a friend in the UK called Ike Isaacs who interviewed Wes in 1965. During the interview Wes was self deprecating.

    Said "I can't play fast because i use my thumb..i cant read music so i'm inferior to most..i dont know many chord shapes like Howard Roberts"''

    Compare his words with most egotist guitar players who think they are GOD.

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  • hahaha theres no cable!!

  • @paulyrulo1

    Oh, absolutely true. .

    It's even worse when we realise that very few pro- athletes are substance free (LOL) ..but the Nationalistic element in every society has to be pampered above ALL else.

    But if we look we see that when cuts come it always affects the Arts projects and i think it's a lethal blow to creativity.

    But the age of innovators, like Wes, is way behind us now.

    What we have are copyists.

  • @taildragger53 How sad that our culture doesnt support these great talents who offer us their extreme gifts....but yet we pay our athletes HUGE sums.....I dont think this is fair or morally right....that is why we need the govt to keep supporting and encouraging talented artists...so they can live better and keep doing what they do best...that would benefit us all. Keep the NEA strong....lets not waste our tax dollars on war...lets improve our culture thru peace and the arts.

  • Thanks to Herb Alpert great talents like Wes were able to get some exposure to the masses.

    Liza was actually very cute at that age and she had her mothers voice for sure. Its great that most musicians and singers were color blind and were way ahead of the rest of society in their respect for minorities......their love of music and art etc was their bond.....beautiful.

  • Wes was the man. No doubt. But having lived during this time I can firmly attest that "Shake a Puddin" sucked. Bleeccchhhh!

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