Tell Mama by MARVA WHITNEY
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She was saving lives here. Black, white, cop, civilian. I was attending UC Berkeley at that point and the civil rights groups on campus and in Oakland & SF had scoffed at King's Gandhi-based strategy but were justifiably outraged and large numbers of African-Americans and other Struggle supporters felt the need to deliver a swift and severe message. Police and National Guard units were determined to keep the white areas, at least, from destruction. Ms. Whitney knew what the score
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BTW MARVA IS STILL PUTTIN' DOWNB SOUL LIVE ONSTAGE!
Let's get off the computer for an hour or two & check back into real life.See here while you can folks
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anyone who thinks this is better than Etta is freakin' nuts; and I'm impartial.
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this is perfect
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She sounds much better singing like this and not forcing her voice like JB made her do too often.
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Much better than Etta James
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@soulfultony thanks for the info, can you expand on that as I am genuinely interested, was this scheduled ahead of time knowing MLK was going to be killed, or pushed on as an attempt to keep people in?
1 year ago 2
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annoying microphone...
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This woman is fantastic..a thrilling singer. Some great sides with James Brown band available on record....too bad they did not include this on the James Brown dvd....now will probably never be released. glad I purchased the bootleg copy as well as the official release.
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This is the James Brown Revue concert from Boston that was put on TV to keep people off the streets after Dr. King was killed.Marva is a great singer & could work the stage.
soulfultony 4 years ago 11
marva for me was always queen of funk & soul... amazing voice ...
prone69 2 years ago 8