POETRY CLASSICS TO FUNKY HIT BEATS (Worlds greatest poems set to modern music)

Music video features segments from several of the 56 songs included on the album Poetry Classics To Funky Hit Beats, Vol 1. The album features poems by: William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, E.E. Cummings, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Herrick, Elizabeth Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Frost, Joachim Du Bellay, Sara Teasdale, Carl Sandburg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edgar Allan Poe, Dante Alighieri, Robert Browning, Kahlil Gibran, Stephen Foster, Kabir, Ben Johnson, William Blake, Andrew Marvell, Lewis Carroll, Swami Vivekananda, Pierre Ronsard, John Le Gay Brereton, John Dryden, Henry Lawson, Robert Frost, Mary Ashley Townsend, Robert Burns, D. H. Lawrence, John Newton, Emily Dickinson, James Weldon Johnson, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Thomas Moore, Robert Browning, Coventry Patmore and Jimmy Spice Curry.

Quotes from: Chopin, Louis Xviii, Che, Thomas Edison, Malcolm X, Gaius Julius Caesar, Winston Churchill, Jimmy Spice Curry, Elizabeth I, Anna Pavlova, Louise, Edith Wharton, Queen of Prussia, Beethoven, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, George Gordon & George Eliot, etc.)

Poems featured on album:
Sonnet 116; She Walks In Beauty; O Captain My Captain; I Carry Your Heart With Me; To Be Or Not To Be; If; Meeting At Midnight; A Prouder Man Than You; The Road Not Taken; How Much Do I Love Thee; A Red Red Rose; At The Window; Amazing Grace; You Left Me Sweet; Lift Every Voice And Sing; When Forty Winters; Sonnet To Liberty; The Poet; A Servant When He Reigneth; A Mother Like This; Hymn To Cupid; How Do I Love Thee; Love's Philosophy; Come In; Hymn To The Winds; I Lost A World; I Love You; Under The Harvest Moon; Night Thoughts; For Each Ecstatic Instant; Sympathy; A Dream Within A Dream; Over In The Meadow; Death Always Cruel; Meeting At Midnight; Greatest Quotes Ever - Pt 1; Love One Another; Beautiful Dreamer; There's A Moon In My Body; The Hour Glass; A Dream; To His Coy Mistress; To My Father Aka Great Unknown Men; My Fancy; Peace; To The Moon; Beauty And Hate; World's Greatest Proverbs ; Hidden Flame; Farewell; The Lost Leader; Did Not; Famous Last Words Before Dying; Dream Net; Ode To Dogs.

Featured vocalist states: "While I love Mariah Carey, Lil Wayne, Tu Pac, Bach, I also love Rage Against The Machine, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Justin Bieber, the Beatles, Elvis and KRS-one."

Additional footage/shots:
From Stanley Donen, Arthur Freed and Alan Jay Lerner's "Royal Wedding" (Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill.)

Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle is a 1932 Fleischer Studios Betty Boop animated short, directed by Dave Fleischer.

Royal Samoans. Directed by Shamus Culhane and Dave Fleischer (known also for Popeye the Sailor, Color Classics, Gulliver's Travels (1939) and Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941). He also worked on Francis (1950), The Birds (1963), and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967). The short cartoon was produced by Max Fleischer and voiced by Mae Questel (also voiced Olive Oyl. She began in vaudeville.)

Sanders of the River (director: Zoltán Korda, based on story by: Edgar Wallace, later redone by: Will Hay, staring Paul Robeson (who justifiably disowned the film for racism). Also staring: Leslie Banks, Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney, Martin Walker, Robert Cochran, Richard Grey, Tony Wane, Marqués De Portago, Eric Maturin, Allan Jeayes, Charles Carson, Jomo Kenyatta.

Dances of the Kwakiutl, filmed in 1950 in Fort Rupert, British Columbia. The dancers feature tradition of 'Hamatsa' or cannibal dancing. The film was created by Robert Gardner.

"The Quiet One", Starring: Donald Thompson, Sadie Stockton, Director: Sidney Meyers.

"Your Hit Parade" is also featured as scene from "Standing on the corner", version of Snooky Lanson, and also performing is Tad Tadlock.

The producers state: "We sought to create poetry with music that would attract the roots, Mos Def, Common, Immortal Technique, El-p, Jean Grae, Rakim, The Coup, Dead Prez, Public Enemy fans as well as fans of classical, pop, rock, Salsa and Reggae. "

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Poetry is a wonderful mechanism for messages that inspire. Mix that with appropriate funky music and you have a formula for global grooves and empowerment.

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Words that heal the world.

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