― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 06:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)
― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 August 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)
what album should i get?? (er maybe s1ocki just answered that question? but tell me more s1ocki!)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― spittle (spittle), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 August 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― H (Heruy), Saturday, 7 August 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Saturday, 7 August 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 8 August 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Sunday, 8 August 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:59 (nineteen years ago)
been listening to the live carnegie hall and holy shit but it is srsly awesome.
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Sunday, 16 August 2009 19:30 (sixteen years ago)
it is one of my faves
― 'steen suicide (don't drive it) (s1ocki), Sunday, 16 August 2009 19:41 (sixteen years ago)
Matilda
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Monday, 17 August 2009 21:30 (sixteen years ago)
eeesh, thought that I was going to open this thread and find out he just died. it's been that kind of year! anyway, was just listening to "Sylvie" recently, and was really loving it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZVc1Yew3tkhe rules!
― tylerw, Monday, 17 August 2009 21:47 (sixteen years ago)
"You've got to keep up with the masses, man"
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Monday, 17 August 2009 21:51 (sixteen years ago)
Dude still looks great:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0147e1cc76ec970b-400wi
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 January 2011 21:23 (fifteen years ago)
When he emerged on stage after the movie ended, walking slowly with cane in hand, moviegoers rose to their feet to clap enthusiastically.That pleasant response was abruptly cut short, however, when Belafonte began to take questions from the crowd. One African American man promptly began ranting somewhat unintelligibly. He said that Belafonte was an inspiration but that "white people" controlled Sundance and that the festival had rejected a film of his."Do you have a question?" Belafonte quipped. "I think you should rest easy, bro, because my first 100 submissions to Sundance were turned down too."
That pleasant response was abruptly cut short, however, when Belafonte began to take questions from the crowd. One African American man promptly began ranting somewhat unintelligibly. He said that Belafonte was an inspiration but that "white people" controlled Sundance and that the festival had rejected a film of his.
"Do you have a question?" Belafonte quipped. "I think you should rest easy, bro, because my first 100 submissions to Sundance were turned down too."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 January 2011 21:24 (fifteen years ago)
http://wayneandwax.com/?p=4785
Belafonte and Lil Wayne and Banana Boat song discussion
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 January 2011 22:46 (fifteen years ago)
Watching his induction speech for Public Enemy....wow, talk about fucking gravitas
― unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 May 2013 02:01 (thirteen years ago)
yup
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 25 May 2013 03:44 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gR2jnZOcUg
One of the most inspiring and memorable speeches ever given at an RnR HoF ceremony.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 25 May 2013 12:15 (thirteen years ago)
I just wanted to share this amazing piece that he wrote just before the 2016 election, because I don't think nearly enough people read it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/opinion/campaign-stops/harry-belafonte-what-do-we-have-to-lose-everything.html
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 29 October 2020 00:35 (five years ago)
Thought the revive might be for this; saw it last week, very highly recommended:https://youtu.be/bk49xNDC40w
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 29 October 2020 01:29 (five years ago)
MA
TIL
DA
95 years old today
― Josefa, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 20:05 (four years ago)
RIP
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/music/harry-belafonte-dead.html
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:38 (three years ago)
Aw man. An amazing life.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:54 (three years ago)
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-vm42r3q289
― blue6ave, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:59 (three years ago)
Questlove posted a great tribute.
Great folk singer, greatest humanitarian, one of those guys who seemed like a god among men.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:21 (three years ago)
I listened to all four sides of this not two days ago, continuing to work through an unplayed pile on my floor:
https://i.discogs.com/rxfPmVRHTZUB8lpcj3hE2_DcSfts5BFJYgMPxr5eZ4E/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgwNTE0/MDMtMTQ1NDIwOTUy/NC04ODMyLmpwZWc.jpeg
Must have been an odd issue--took a couple of minutes to find an image.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:21 (three years ago)
If you want to see a 95-year-old drop F-bombs, watch Elvis Mitchell's Is That Black Enough for You?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:23 (three years ago)
I'll add that as someone who watched Beetlejuice many times as a child, his voice made that ending seem like an endless joy - I'd like to think he's spending the afterlife that way.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:24 (three years ago)
Bob Dylan made his official recording debut on Harry Belafonte's 1962 album THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL. A 20-year-old Dylan played harmonica on the title track.How'd that come about? Here's Harry Belafonte telling the story pic.twitter.com/J6ZYPLwuU0— HarryHew (@harryhew) April 26, 2023
― Indexed, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 18:25 (three years ago)
awww
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 18:26 (three years ago)
Bob Dylan on Harry Belafonte, from “Chronicles” (1 of 2) pic.twitter.com/e8r1uqLTbU— Peter Lattman (@peterlattman) April 25, 2023
Bob Dylan on Harry Belafonte, from “Chronicles” (2 of 2) pic.twitter.com/8gMClz4a1u— Peter Lattman (@peterlattman) April 25, 2023
― Indexed, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 18:33 (three years ago)
I love how it stops at "but Harry - who could have kicked the...."
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 18:45 (three years ago)
FWIW, someone tweeted the next eight words:
"He'd play to a packed house at Carnegie Hall and then appear at a garment center union rally. The folk purists had a problem with him, but Harry- who could have kicked the shit of all of them- couldn't be bothered." Bob Dylan from 'Chronicles'. RIP to the great Harry Belafonte. pic.twitter.com/922NDfWPxC— The Paranoid Style (@paranoiacs) April 25, 2023
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 18:49 (three years ago)
(actually there's a typo in there - as seen in the book, it should read "OUT of all of them.")
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 18:50 (three years ago)
What was that Muppet thing he sang that he played at Jim Henson’s funeral, “We Come From the Fire”?
― The Lubitsch Touchscreen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 18:59 (three years ago)