Okay, so I was looking for Sam Cooke, but there’s slim pickings at youtube for one of the greatest rock/soul pioneers. I try to avoid the videos that just consist of music and still pictures, but that’s pretty much all there is on Sam. At least on that Sam. I also discovered that there is another Sam Cooke, who has talents entirely different than the legend. Search the name at youtube and you’ll see what I mean.
So, by the process of free association, I got to Fats, seen here in what appears to be a clip from some sort of movie. (Is that Danny Kaye in there?) Could you possibly get away, today, with having a group of black performers play to an all white audience? It is a better world today, in many ways. Here’s Fats singing “Ain’t That a Shame”.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OG3uPULQRs[/youtube]
As a bonus, here’s another, definitely not lip synched, at a joint Ricky Nelson-Fats Domino concert from 1985, which gives me an idea for future Fridays. Blueberry Hill:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl5hknXqXps&feature=related[/youtube]
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