SOUL!
SOUL! is a pioneering performance/variety television program produced by New York City PBS affiliate, WNET, broadcast from 1968 to 1973. Showcasing African-American music, dance and literature, it was created and hosted by Ellis Haizlip, an openly gay Black man closely associated with the Black Arts Movement.
Episodes
Guest: an evening with singer Al Green Host: Ellis Haizlip
Guests: Tony Award-winning singer Linda Hopkins & the Soul Quintet, and musical group Earth, Wind & Fire Hosts: Gerry Bledsoe and Ellis Haizlip
Guests: The Spinners and the Jimmy Castor Bunch
Guest: Stokely Carmichael
Guest: singer Esther Phillips, and a performance of “The Johnson Girls,” which centers around six young Southern ladies.
Guests: vocal group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, singer Esther Marrow, and Encore magazine editor Ida Lewis
Guest: performer/composer/keyboard artist Billy Preston and his musical group.
Soul! staff: Ellis Haizlip, Alonzo Brown Jr., Anna Horsford, Sherri Santifer, Loretta Green and Leslie Demus read poetry – and letters from viewers throughout the country, and share clips of LaBelle (from the first episode of Soul!), and King Curtis (musical director of Soul!, who passed away during the show’s run). Host: Ellis Haizlip
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