00:02:04 37.57 |
BB KING
HOW BLUE CAN YOU GET
(live)
|
00:02:38 71.57 |
BB KING STANDS ON BEALE STREET IN MEMPHIS AND
TALKS ABOUT THE EARLY DAYS |
00:03:02 95.57 |
BB KING - HOW BLUE CAN YOU GET? (continues)
|
00:03:41 134.57 |
PEOPLE IN NIGHTCLUB STAND & APPLAUD
|
00:03:49 142.57 |
RUFUS THOMAS TALKS ABOUT BEING BLACK ON BEALE
STREET |
00:04:30 183.57 |
VINTAGE 1930s-1940s FOOTAGE OF BLACKS ON BEALE STREET,
BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES |
00:04:35 188.57 |
BLACK MEN SHAKE HANDS OUTSIDE MEMPHIS BANK
|
00:04:37 190.57 |
BLACK WOMAN GETTING HER HAIR DONE IN BEAUTY
SHOP |
00:04:39 192.57 |
BLACK JEWELER WORKING ON PEARL NECKLACE
|
00:04:43 196.57 |
PEOPLE HANGING OUT OUTSIDE ON SIDEWALK
|
00:04:47 200.57 |
BLACK MAN GETTING SHOE SHINE OUTSIDE ON BEALE ST.
|
00:04:51 204.57 |
EVELYN YOUNG TALKS ABOUT HOW CROWDED BEALE
STREET WAS |
00:05:07 220.57 |
RUFUS THOMAS TALKS ABOUT THE TYPES OF MUSIC
YOU COULD HEAR ON BEALE STREET IN THE EARLY DAYS. |
00:05:42 255.57 |
LAURA DUKES TALKS ABOUT PERFORMING BACK IN THE
EARLY DAYS |
00:06:06 279.57 |
VINTAGE CLIP OF BLACK MAN PLAYING STREET ORGAN
OR PIANO |
00:06:22 295.57 |
BB KING SAYS HOW "ALL THIS WAS NEW FOR A COUNTRY
BOY" |
00:06:27 300.57 |
VINTAGE FOOTAGE CARS DRIVING PAST SHOPS ON BEALE
STREET |
00:06:28 301.57 |
SIGNS HANGING: "HOSIERY SHOP", "BARBER SHOP",
"ELECTRICAL REPAIRING" |
00:06:29 302.57 |
WORKERS IN SHOP FOLDING NAPKINS ON COUNTER
|
00:06:33 306.57 |
BLACK SECRETARY ON TELEPHONE WHILE USING ADDING
MACHINE. ACCOUNTING |
00:06:45 318.57 |
RESTAURANT OWNERS ERNESTINE MITCHELL & ANDREW
"SUNBEAM" MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THEIR RESTAURANT |
00:07:14 347.57 |
CU HANDS CUTTING, PEELING ONION
|
00:07:23 356.57 |
BLACK LADY CHOPPING UP ONIONS & PUTTING THEM INTO
BIG POT OF CHILI |
00:07:26 359.57 |
EVELYN YOUNG TALKS ABOUT HOW THEY WOULD GO UP
TO MITCHELL'S & GET CHILI TO SOBER UP |
00:07:34 367.57 |
CU STIRRING BIG POT OF CHILI
|
00:07:36 369.57 |
OLD MUSICIANS ARRIVE AT RESTAURANT & GREET EACH
OTHER |
00:07:44 377.57 |
LADELING CHILI FROM POT INTO BOWL AT RESTAURANT.
WAITRESS PUTS BOWLS ONTO TRAY & SERVES THEM TO TABLE |
00:08:09 402.57 |
FRED FORD SERVED HIS BOWL OF CHILI
|
00:08:25 418.57 |
RUFUS THOMAS EATING CHILI
|
00:08:29 422.57 |
CU STIRRING CRACKERS INTO CHILI BOWL
|
00:08:39 432.57 |
FRED FORD OPENING CAN OF GRAPE SODA
|
00:08:45 438.57 |
BB KING TALKS ABOUT MUSICIANS HELPING EACH
OTHER |
00:09:02 455.57 |
GATEMOUTH MOORE
WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
(live)
REV. DWIGHT GATEMOUTH MOORE TALKS ABOUT HIS START ON BEALE STREET. S
|
00:09:31 484.57 |
BOOKER T. LAURY
EARLY IN THE MORNING
(live)
|
00:10:09 522.57 |
BOOKER T. LAURY TALKS ABOUT PLAYING MUSIC IN HOT
BEALE STREET CLUBS |
00:11:07 580.57 |
MAURICE "HOT ROD" HULBERT & BOOKER LAURY WITH
ANDREW CHAPLIN JR TALK ABOUT ILLEGAL POO HALLS |
00:12:16 649.57 |
BB KING TALKS ABOUT GETTING STARTED IN AMATEUR
SHOWS |
00:13:13 706.57 |
RUFUS THOMAS TALKS ABOUT PRIZES GIVEN AT
AMATEUR SHOWS |
00:14:05 758.57 |
MUSICIANS TALKING AT MITCHELL'S RESTAURANT ABOUT
BB KING |
00:14:37 790.57 |
EVELYN YOUNG PULLS OUT BB KING RECORD ALBUM
|
00:15:47 860.57 |
MAURICE HULBERT & ANDREW CHAPLING TALKING ABOUT
CHARLIE ROBERTSON |
00:16:30 903.57 |
GATEMOUTH MOORE
SOMEBODY'S GOT TO GO
(live)
|
00:16:47 920.57 |
HONEYMOON GARNER TRIO & FRED FORD
BILLIE'S BOUNCE
(live)
|
00:17:29 962.57 |
MUSICIANS TALKING AT MITCHELL'S RESTAURANT ABOUT
PLAYING MUSIC ALL NIGHT |
00:18:26 1019.57 |
BB KING TALKS ABOUT BEING RADIO DJ
|
00:18:37 1030.57 |
RUFUS THOMAS AS DJ AT WDIA RADIO STATION IN MEMPHIS
|
00:18:55 1048.57 |
CU FINGER PUSHING BUTTON ON RADIO STATION SOUND
BOARD |
00:19:05 1058.57 |
CU FINGERS PUSHING VOLUME SWITCHES ON BOARD
|
00:19:51 1104.57 |
RUFUS THOMAS TALKS ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF RADIO
STATION WDRA |
00:20:34 1147.57 |
MAURICE "HOT ROD" HULBERT TALKS ABOUT TOURING WITH
THE "BROWN SKIN MODELS" |
00:20:37 1150.57 |
MONTAGE VINTAGE FOOTAGE OF BLACK DANCERS IN VARIOUS
COSTUMES DANCING ON STAGE. SCANTILLY CLAD |
00:20:55 1168.57 |
EVELYN YOUNG TALKS ABOUT TOUGH TOURING ROUTINE
|
00:21:34 1207.57 |
EVELYN YOUNG
OOH POOH PAH DOO
(live)
|
00:23:38 1331.57 |
MUSICIANS TALKING AT MITCHELL'S RESTAURANT ABOUT
BEING ON THE ROAD & VARIOUS ACTS THEY TOURED WITH |
00:24:31 1384.57 |
FRED FORD TALKS ABOUT TOURING
|
00:25:11 1424.57 |
BB KING TALKS ABOUT STARTING ON BEALE STREET
|
00:25:40 1453.57 |
MONTAGE VARIOUS MUSICIANS GATHER IN RESTAURANT FOR
REUNION |
00:25:56 1469.57 |
GATEMOUTH MOORE, BB KING, RUFUS THOMAS
DID YOU EVER LOVE A WOMAN
(live)
|
Description: MUSICIANS TELL PERSONAL HISTORY OF BEALE STREET. FILM HAS MANY VINTAGE STILLS OF BLACK MUSICIANS, NIGHTCLUBS, JUKE JOINTS.
Keywords: b. b. king
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