Endited. Please welcome mavis staples. And moderating the Panel Discussion today as a catalyst for social change, hes the executive director of the Grammy Museum in los angeles. Noted music authorities, specifically on music in the 1960s, and author of more than a dozen books. His most recent, this land is your land, Woody Guthrie and the journey of an american folk song. Frequent lecturer at the white house and performance at the white house. Please welcome bob santelli. Thank you for doing this, its an honor to have you here. The last time we got a chance to sit like this we were at the white house talking about soul music and the importance of music in the Civil Rights Movement. Yes, we were, and it was around the same time. So its getting to be a habit. Next year at this time ill look for you. The staples singers are generally recognized in Music History as one of the seminole groups of American History, particularly in the post world war ii period. Yourself and sisters and pops, o
Are a few mother songs, mothers proud that youre in uniform, sonny, that sort of thing, that unfortunately had not survived. The songs are the love songs of the war are largely about a couple, whether married or not, separated. So the emotions of warfare in song are in the love songs, and youll see this a little bit later, are about separation, parting, loneliness, longing, the hope of return. You find those in the love songs of world war i, and you find them in the love songs of world war ii. And those three wars, civil, i and ii, are really the wars where there is a large body of song because there was a sense of the nation engaged, that there was not certainly in the wars since world war ii. There arent a lot of songs about korea. And im not being snotty. It was a different kind of war. The people were not engaged by it. In vietnam, you had some songs, but theyre songs in which two groups are warring with one another. Give peace a chance, and whats the im an oaky from muskokee. Iraq
This mornings cover story. The 25,000 elephants killed in africa each year. Rangers and scientists and conservationists are doing everything they can, everything in their power to keep herds like this safe from poachers. We cant keep putting resources in to elephants foreverment. The ivory poaching crisis that threatens the survival of African Elephants later this sunday morning. Osgood the two lovebirds serena at sewell has been watching. Marriage has taken life. Youd be lying if you said no. So you are . Later on sunday morning. Death defying love affair. Osgood a summer song is on tap a little later from genuine soul man. Once he starts knowing his life story theres no holding him back. Well be hearing from anthony mason. In the 60s he was one half of sam and dave. The soul act they called double dynamite. Electrifying. All spontaneous. We used the stage and nightclubs like a pulpit. Later on sunday morning. We go back to the stax studios in memphis with sam moore the original and e
Earth, too. This mornings cover story. The 25,000 elephants killed in africa each year. Rangers and scientists and conservationists are doing everything they can everything in their power to keep herds like this safe from poachers. We cant keep putting resources in to elephants foreverment. The ivory poaching crisis that threatens the survival of African Elephants later this sunday morning. Osgood the two lovebirds serena at sewell has been watching. Marriage has taken life. Youd be lying if you said no. So you are . Later on sunday morning. Death defying love affair. Osgood a summer song is on tap a little later from genuine soul man. Once he starts knowing his life story theres no holding him back. Well be hearing from anthony mason. In the 60s he was one half of sam and dave. The soul act they called double dynamite. Electrifying. All spontaneous. We used the stage and nightclubs like a pulpit. Later on sunday morning. We go back to the stax studios in memphis with sam moore the ori
This mornings cover story. The 25,000 elephants killed in africa each year. Rangers and scientists and conservationists are doing everything they can everything in their power to keep herds like this safe from poachers. We cant keep putting resources in to elephants foreverment. The ivory poaching crisis that threatens the survival of African Elephants later this sunday morning. Osgood the two lovebirds serena at sewell has been watching. Marriage has taken life. Youd be lying if you said no. So you are . Later on sunday morning. Death defying love affair. Osgood a summer song is on tap a little later from genuine soul man. Once he starts knowing his life story theres no holding him back. Well be hearing from anthony mason. In the 60s he was one half of sam and dave. The soul act they called double dynamite. Electrifying. All spontaneous. We used the stage and nightclubs like a pulpit. Later on sunday morning. We go back to the stax studios in memphis with sam moore the original and en