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blackinperiodfilms · 1 year

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In 1977 Alex Haley's Roots series made Primetime Emmy Awards History.

#Roots #Roots 1977 #Alex Haley #Emmy Awards #LeVar Burton #John Amos #Louis Gossett Jr.#Olivia Cole #Black in Period Series #Black in Period Films

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forever70s · 2 months

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Cicely Tyson and LeVar Burton in a scene from the groundbreaking historical miniseries, "Roots" (1977)

#cicely tyson #actress #levar burton #actor #roots #alex haley's roots #roots tv series #tv series #tv shows #1977 #black history month

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tisajest · 6 months

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Imagine James and Regulus are out and about somewhere, maybe Diagon Alley, when they happen to run into Charlus and Dorea Potter (née Black).

While James starts catching up with his uncle, Dorea looks at Regulus, then looks at James, who’s holding multiple bags, up and down, turns her gaze back at Regulus and says, her voice full of sympathy and humor,

“You too?”

#jegulus #james potter #regulus black #dorea black #charlus potter #i think dorea would find it funny lol #yet another black wooed and won over by a potter #she’s rooting for those crazy kids #(i know she died in 1977 shhh)#marauders #harry potter

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pretty-little-fools · 6 months

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#a&w #root beer #70's #vintage #soda #late 70's #1977

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jellyfishrave · 1 month

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#peter tosh #get up stand up #equal rights #1977 #roots reggae

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curryvillain · 1 year

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OLDIES SUNDAY: Culture - Two Sevens Clash (1977)

Today we celebrate the birthday of a Reggae Icon who has contributed greatly to the culture, and funny enough he was the founder of a band called, Culture. We feature the late Joseph Hill today on Oldies Sunday by highlighting his band’s track called, “Two Sevens Clash“. Produced by Joe Gibbs and released through Joe Gibbs Music in 1977, the Joseph Hill-led Culture shared an apocalyptic message…

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#13thstreetpromo #13thstreetpromotions #1977 #blog #culture #jamaica #jamaican #Joe Gibbs #Joseph Hill #music #Old School #Oldies #Oldies Sunday #reggae #Roots Reggae #Two Sevens Clash #wordpress

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plus-low-overthrow · 1 year

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VIDEO: Charlie Roots - Pastime Paradise (Kalinda)

wrt. Stevie Wonder, 1977.

#soul #funk #stevie wonder #Charlie Roots #past time paradise #versions #video #YouTube #calypso label #songs in the key of life #pastime paradise #1977 #disco

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longliverockback · 7 years

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Grateful Dead Terrapin Station 1977 Arista ————————————————— Tracks: 1. Estimated Prophet 2. Dancing in the Streets 3. Passenger 4. Samson and Delilah 5. Sunrise 6. Terrapin Station —————————————————

Jerry García

Donna Godchaux

Keith Godchaux

Mickey Hart

Bill Kreutzmann

Phil Lesh

Bob Weir

* Long Live Rock Archive

#GratefulDead #Grateful Dead #Jerry Garcia #Donna Godchaux #Keith Godchaux #Mickey Hart #Bill Kreutzmann #Phil Lesh #Bob Weir #Terrapin Station #LP #Roots Rock #1977

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mariocki · 2 years

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Infinite list of favourite lyrics: 213/?

Thin Lizzy - Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in It's Spotlight) (1977)

"When I passed you

In the doorway,

Well, you took me with a glance;

I should've took that last bus home

But I asked you for a dance.

Now we go steady

To the pictures -

I always get chocolate stains on my pants -

And my father, he's going crazy,

He says I'm living in a trance;

But I'm dancing in the moonlight,

It's caught me in its spotlight..."

#favourite lyrics #thin lizzy #dancing in the moonlight #dancing in the moonlight (it's caught me in it's spotlight)#phil lynott #1977 #bad reputation #ok right off the bat i have to say: yes that title is grammatically incorrect (with an it's where an its should be)#but that's how the title appears on every single release and on the album label and back cover. and being a pedant‚ it's the title as #written that I'll use. anyway. had to clear that up.#not to be confused with the King Harvest song (later covered by Toploader)‚ Dancing was Thin Lizzy's only single release of 77 and the sole #single from Bad Reputation. the band were going through something of a minor crisis; they'd become known as a fourpiece with two guitarists #providing duelling solos‚ but Brian Robertson was effectively out of the band following a hand injury and disagreements with frontman #Lynott; he appeared on a couple of tracks for the album but was denied a place on the cover photo and soon parted ways with the boys for #good. Lynott had also spent much of the previous year seriously ill with hepatitis‚ and cancelled tours and the lukewarm critical reception #of their previous album (despite solid sales) had left the band a little jittery. at this point it might have made sense to go back to #their heavy rock roots with Irish folk trappings‚ the sound which had first won them a devoted audience; how typically like Phil L then to #head in the entirely opposite direction. building on one of the all time greatest bass lines (courtesy of Phil himself)‚ Dancing #is pure American juvenalia‚ a bluesy funk tale of adolescent love and awkward first dates. it's also a genuinely sweet love song #with a central refrain that's as beautiful as it is deceptively simplistic. when established rock bands write about teen love #there seems to be a tendency toward sneering irony‚ or bitter reflection; Lynott is content to sing earnestly and openly of pure‚ heartfelt #first love. I've always been taken with the casual aside about chocolate stains; it's nothing‚ an apparently meaningless detail which is #nonetheless sung with out any ounce of embarrassment or regret or mockery. it's delivered instead like a fond shared memory between lovers #although the band had been around for all of the 70s‚ Phil was still only in his 20s and i think it's that youthful optimism which both #shines out and makes this song stand apart from thematically similar tracks by their contemporaries. in a little less than a decade Phil #would be dead‚ but his music lives on and although this was by no means the band's biggest hit‚ it's the one i go to when i feel like #revisiting them

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abs0luteb4stard · 2 years

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W A T C H I N G

My mom said she wanted to see it for many years, but my grandfather didn't allow it. He was a fairly bigoted person.

I only ever saw pieces of it throughout the years on history channel or whatever it was.

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disappearingsisterruth · 2 months

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Every now and then I remember the masterpiece that was Roots (1977) and how it lead to the extinction of all those movies that were nostalgic for the good ol’ times of slavery in the southern states of the USA and I fall in love even more with it.

#two of my favoutite shows in history are from 1977.#roots #my beloved #not to say that it’s flawless (looking at the depiction of Kunta’s ‘village’#but oh wow still one of the best shows to ever exist #such amazing actors. levar button you will always be famous

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gancanagh · 3 months

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"Kunta Kinte. Behold, the only thing greater than yourself."

Roots (1977)

#Roots #Roots: The Saga of an American Family #Roots (tv miniseries)#Roots (1977)#Omoro Kinte #Kunta Kinte #powerful #black culture #Thalmus Rasulala #Youtube

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filmszeresz · 7 months

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FILMSZERÉSZ TOP 100 TÉVÉSOROZAT - 53. Gyökerek

Rabszolgasors - de hol volt még ekkor Isaura hazug romantikája a magyar tévéképernyőktől (is)... Messze.

Alex Haley nagyregényének tévésorozat-változata egészen óriási sikert aratott az ABC képernyőjén. És szinte azonnal elkezdték vetíteni más országokban is. Hozzánk 1979-ben érkezett (nem sok nappal a születésnapom előtt, de ezt csak úgy mondom), s olyan hatása volt, hogy nekem még a 90-es évek vége felé is emlegette egy munkásember Kunta Kinte nevét egy építkezésen, ahol diákmunkában dolgoztam: szerinte ő (mármint a munkásember) olyan szépen le volt barnulva, mint abban a sorozatban a Kunta Kinte. Mutogatta nekem a bőrét mindig, hogy milyen szépen le van barnulva. Aztán meghúzta a sörösüveget.