Someone here recently mentioned the documentary “Summer of Soul (… or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised)” — about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. It was a six-week music festival that was, as far as I can tell, attended by everyone on Harlem, and nobody else. And it was unbelievable. The bands, the music, the crowd, the energy. Everything. I’ll admit that I never really gave Gladys Knight & the Pips their due until I saw them just rip through their version of “Heard It Through the Grapevine” in the film. But now I know.
Respect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxippYD8Y6U
As a bonus, here is a little clip from the film, just so you can see the Pips doing their amazing Pip thing, which is … I don’t even know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4kVn3xqxw0
