In Class with Carr, Ep. 146: "Don't You Know We Love You, Sweet Sadie?": A Tribute to Thom Bell
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- Dr. Greg Carr taps into our momentum of memory in his tribute to Thom Bell, producer and cultural meaning maker, who made transition this week at the age of 79. There is also a #YouShouldKnow segment on powerhouse percussionist Elayne Jones, who made transition last Saturday at the age of 94. Lots of songs sung and a brief breakdown of #Kwanzaa. #InClasswithCarr #ThomBell #ElayneJones
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I think Dr Carr is a R& B singer at heart.
I know right 💕
As a pro musician. I can identify 😅
I think Dr Carr had cape. He is for sure a super hero. Karen Hunter is his brilliant beautiful side kick. ❤️
@@sherryingram6200 Lol!!!❣
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I’ve never been more joyful to see two people with whom I’ve never met before on this day. I THANK YOU 2!!!
you have met us...here. Happy everything, FAM!
@@KarenHunterShow Amen! We’re family now! 😂
Will never ever forget Greg Carr's activism at OSU. He saved our jobs & lives. Would never have been able to retire if it was not for him. He cared about the elderly. Eternal love & respect!
We worked together. It was an honor and a duty to join with everyone else as part of Afrikans Committed to Improving Our Nation (A.C.T.I.O.N.). Together, we took the responsibility of heeding the direction of the generations who had fought on Ohio State's campus and join in that thrust. Anything that came of that moment in an unbroken line of struggle is a testament to what we achieve when we act together!
@@TheEncyclopediaBrown Of course I agree with Dr. Carr but at the same time he is being a little shy. I respect all of our youth and the movement that saved our lives and current ability to have been able to retire. One had to have been there to have heard his speech. To have felt the fire & strength of spirit coming through him. In an atmosphere where he and others were and did put their lives on the line; we cried a very real heartfelt sense of loss when he departed. I am nearing 73 years of age: he needs to know that the sacrifices were not in vain. The gratitude is still present. The knowledge that you are putting forth today is more important than ever before as I look at what I feel is happening in Ohio today and trying to understand how to move forward with spiritual politics. Your insights & knowledge on this sights are critical. You guys are great!
Dr. Carr is amazing with his wealth of knowledge and music. I love when he sings.
I also enjoy his singing. He’s on que every single time.
Dr. Carrrr !!! You got it going on in every sense of the word. Including your good looks and your singing voice.
I’m filled up. So grateful for the gifts of Tom Bell and for the love Prof. Karen & Dr. Carr have for our people. 💕
Phenomenal class, Thank you both!
Tom Bell (Jan. 26, 1943 - Dec. 22, 2022) musician, producer, arranger, composer, songwriter etc.
Howard Thurman (Nov. 18, 1899 - Apr. 10, 1981) theologian, philosopher, educator, mystic, author, civil rights leader etc.
Elayne Jones (Jun. 30, 1928 - Dec. 17, 2022) trailblazing percussionist/timpanist.
Dorothy Pitman Hughes (Oct. 2, 1938 - Dec. 1, 2022) activist, business woman, etc.
AS WE ACKNOWLEDGE THEM, THEY LIVE!
Hearing and watching Babba Carr's excitement about our ancestor Thom Bell and especially the music of The Spinners brought back so many beautiful memories of my childhood. Thank you again for a beautiful session. Happy Kwanzaa to you both, Ase✌🏿✊🏿❤️
Dr. Carr was on fire 🔥. I remember and can sing all those songs, at at age 52. Simply amazing historian 💙
GREAT CONCERT Dr. Carr👏🏾 and Philly Sound music history lesson for the ages. 🔥🔥🔥
I am so enjoying this tribute to the Amazing Thom Bell!! It's like the Minnie Riperton song, Back Down Memory Lane!!!
Thank you Dr Carr and professor Hunter for the weekly gift of knowledge. I am trying to impart this knowledge to my adult children, sometimes there is resistance, but I will continue to pass on whatever you two are giving us weekly, "a clean glass of water"..I love the music of the Spinners and learning about Thom Bell makes me even more proud to be a Jamaican. I love your singing Dr Carr, it warms my heart ❤️
WOW! This lesson for today, took me back to Saturday morning cleaning, and my parents High-Fi stereo blaring every song Dr Carr sang. Blessings to both of you ❤
Thank you again Dr.Carr and Professor K.Hurter for bring the knowledge of our heritage and coulter to the people. Wake up Black America to know is to grow 🪴 Sankofor 🌎👑 Nemmattree See's all things and brings both lands together upper Egypt and Lower. Love you guys. 💞🌲
I can relate to that
@@patrickmccarthy4593 Yes indeed! Brought back a lot of memories
I heard a joke once when "WAP" was released. Someone said that all the girls who know the lyrics to "WAP," their mothers knew all the lyrics to "As We Lay." At the time I said that may be true, but in 20yrs no one will remember WAP. Thanks, Dr. Carr for giving me better language. Shirley Murdock endures, Cardi B is a moment.
I love your point, but I must respectfully disagree. I think in 20yrs Cardi B. will be remembered more than Shirley Murdock, eventhough I think both should be equally remembered. For difference reasons and purposes, but still remembered the same!
Thank you for that example. Isn't it something? All we have to do is sit with that question as time moves on. What endures? Not as a matter of artificial marketing or curation from Social Structures that have never recognized or had any interest in our humanity, but from how we view and interact with each other. Time tells...
I can feel Dr. Carr vibes...joy and happiness 😊
My Mama said they listened to Country Music growing up and I love it. Some of these young people act like the Colonizers with "discovering stuff" .. We been on the Country Music train.
So blessed and highly favored to experience two great minds! Thank you two for being so gracious and blessing us with your wealth of knowledge! Another AWESOME class!
I love Dr. Carr's analysis of music that endures, going back, taking us back to context, when Dr Carr sings! Brought me back to jr high school, to high school, to college and I'm singing along full voice ....
"marking our time and space"
You are so right Dr. Carr about Dionne Warrick.
Yessss, the back in the day sounds said something then and it's even more meaningful today!
I am here to hear Dr. Carr sing.
Noted. Gonna have to practice now haha
I'm late but I have to hear Dr. Carr singggg. 😂
And this morning I am honoring Karen Hunter: a woman with beauty, brains and conviction. Happy New Years!!!!
Awww. THANK YOU! I appreciate that and you.
Dr. Carr giving us Luther Vandross vibes. 🎼🎵
HAHAHA Not Luther! The Master!
I grew up with all those songs and find nyself quoting them to co-workers and younger family members .
What Prof. Carr is describing is why we call music like that "soul music". The music goes beyond the ears and straight to the spirit. They are both time based and timeless. Song like those timestamps memories in our minds and lifts our spirits. They trigger daydreaming and a nostalgic ach for better days gone by, even if for only a moment.
At least that's what effect they have on me.
Thank you for the tribute to Thom Bell! I grew up listening to the Philly sound. My parents were always playing The Spinners, Stylistics and Delfonics. Growing up in DC, I also learned those songs by listening to The Quiet Storm on WHUR. ❤
YESS 😍 every weekend in my home growing up. Even my girls/ young ladies love the " Real sounds!"💕
Dr Carr Thank you for the memories
Was waiting for y’all to drop on CZcams today - thank you!!!!
We in here!
I was wondering if we were having CZcams session today. I’m soo excited to see the alert for Class with Dr. Carr and Prof Hunter on this Saturday afternoon. Thanks to my two favorite educators for the upload. Merry Christmas Family 💕!!!
Happy Holidays and all good things!
Thank you Dr. Carr and Prof. Hunter for making it all relevant. 🙏
Our pleasure!
Thank you for being here!
Yes!!!!! My 5 year old requests Marvin Gaye!!! Real music, soul music endures. I played it one time and she looked like she discovered gold!
I’m an ‘85 baby but I surely accompanied 🎶 Dr. Carr when he started singing The Spinners lol
So glad to be in class!
Me too!
My siblings and I grew up with Bobby Blue Bland, Bobby Rush, Albert King, Howlin’ Wolf, Lil Walter, BB King, Buddy Ace, etc (blues legends) playing in the background of our home
YESSS 💕
Great education. Happy Kwanzaa, will catch you next Saturday the 31st. Appreciate you. Thanks Professor Hunter and Dr Carr 🙏
This is phenomenally beautiful! It contextualizes and centers the present simultaneously.
Thank you for another gem. ❤🎉
I took our music for granted and now it’s gone. Language spoken thru music, life laid out thru song. I miss that.
It endures. As Earth Wind and Fire inscribed with "I'll Write a Song," "sounds never dissipate/they only recreate/to another place and time." The Sound of Philadelphia is only one of so many instances of collective Cultural Meaning Making that mark very specific moments in our lives and experiences and continue on to tie memory and experience to vision. That's why we had to craft an Africana Conceptual Category like "Movement and Memory." Together we renew.
I'm late for Episode 146, Prof Hunter and Dr. Carr, but I'm not gonna miss listening to you two for anything today!!
This is another 🔥🔥 🔥 "In Class With Carr" what with Dr. Carr interspersing his commentaries with those throwback boombox sounds (y'all have the memories flooding in like an avalanche, lol)!!
Saddened to learn of the passing of Thom Bell and Elayne Jones!
May these ancestors Rest Easy in Power!!
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They're gone but their legacies live on through the great and dynamic work they shared!
They made our lives more meaningful because they passed this way!!
This was truly an enjoyable Class, y'all!!
Thank you for taking us down memory lane with all the beautiful memories and music you shared today!!
I LOVED this Class!!
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Prof Hunter, I totally agree as it relates to the music of today. It will not endure, I tell my younger family members this all the time. This generation will not have the dusties, as my generation does. Dr Carr, thank you for singing the oldies..but goodies of genuine soulful music
Thank you for being with us all. Time will reveal. Its just that clear. we were young and everything from our "day" didn't endure. It will be interesting when those youngsters reach your age and reflect on the conversations they had with you and they have similar conversations with the younger ones in their lives.
Thanks love y’all never stop
How can we? ❤🖤💚
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️🖤💚
I knew Baba would be crooning today and I'm here for it!
I enjoy hearing Dr. Carr sing
Dr. Carr, Professor Hunter, Ep.146 and counting! Thank you for caring and sharing our rich history. You are appreciated, kudos.
Appreciate you! Together!
I'm from Philly the Spinners and the Stylistics were staples in my home growing up. Thank you Mr Bell for creating the soundtrack to my childhood ❤️
The Sound of Philadelphia. A triumph in the long arc of our collective history.
It is now New Years Eve. What a wonderful way to bring in the new year. Truly blessed. Thanks so much Professor Hunter and Dr. Carr.
The Spinners were the best group l ever heard at the convention hall in Asbury Park, NJ. I still love their music!!!❤
Sadie is my fav sounds from the Spinners.. it was our time/ era. The Lord had us there for such a time as this 🙏
Thank you guys for all the education that Professor Hunter and Dr. Car share with us. You guys are very special and caring people. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too you both.
Our pleasure!
And the doctor sings too. My heart flutters while my mind is immersed in the knowledge.
Thank you for this explanation Dr. Carr!!! I remember this time and the smell of garbage on the streets...
The Hawk is up in this jawn... However Hunter and Carr bring us unparalleled warmth. Thank you as always.
Yes, we must respect this Hawk 😂 I can hear my Mama and Neni telling me "Cover up them ears or you gon be sick" I'm a grown ass Master level clinician and you can't tell me u can't catch a cold or pneumonia from uncovered ears! 🖤💙💜❤️
I was rewatching Episode 50 before this uploaded. The episode titled Reform Vs Revolution. Man.....i almost didn't wanna change it, im going back right after this lol
This is a true blessing. Week after week, we get to be together and bring moments in our past to the now to teach and strengthen us. Thank you for exploring and sharing with us all.
You guys have ignited my love for reading again. It is my goal to read a book at least one a month.
Wonderful news. That love is always there. Grateful to be among those playing a part in rekindling the joy!
Fantastic, just fantastic and I knew all those songs my father was a lover of the Spinners and the sound of Phili.
Thom Bell a musical genius of the late '60s into the '70s. Mother Father God bless him forever.
R&B music like soul food IS a continuum a bridge its priceless and its lyrics that you'd not be ashamed of granma or the toddler hearing or repeating. Happy Holidays you all BROUGHT ME SO MUCH JOY today, I'm in tears and so happy to give audience to this segment.
Thank you! The power of our cultural meaning makers really does elicit those feelings.
That Philly Sound.......CLASSIC!
Yes Dr Carr, Denzel Washington played the heck out of his atty character Roman J. Israel, Esq
That was a great character, wasn't it? You're gonna make me watch it again!
Not only is Dr. Carr brilliant & fine but he can sing too.
I agree smart, fine,and can sing too. He is the type of man I would want.
Love Love Dr.Carr and Professor Hunter 🌹💐💙💜 forever grateful always here for this Happy Kwanzaa
It's good to know that I am in good company with Professor Karen and Dr Carr. It drives me up the wall when I purchase duplicates! 😆
We are hardly alone. So many of us do it! More to share with others!
I needed to hear and see this. Thank you Dr. Carr and Professor Hunter. That
Wow what an amazing class. Dr.Carr (The Human Google)and sister Hunter (A clean glass of water). This class made my holidays joyful. Love hearing y'all sing. Hope we get a duet one day.🙏🏾Wishing y'all peace love and blessings during this holiday season. Thank you thank you for all you do. One 🤎.
I am for the duet too! We got a taste of one one time, and we gonna get some more before long! One
The music written & produced by Thom Bell, Linda Creed, Gamble and Huff is still the soundtrack of my life. My top 10 are:
1. Betcha by golly wow
2. Stop, look and listen
3. People make the world go round
4. Tell me this is a dream
5. Backstabbers
6. Where are all my friends
7. Ready or not, here I come
8. I'll always love my momma
9. Wake up everybody
10. Bad luck
Timeless songs, sung by timeless artists..during a vibrant period of creativity.
Respect to Melvin Lindsey, - WHUR-FM. Frankie Crocker WBLS-FM Nighthawk WOL-AM, Doctor Feelgood WAOK-AM, Youngblood WCLK-FM
sent to my daughter awsome show my hand is waving this is my 87 year enjoying dec holiday.
Good morning loves.
Karen. I agree. Let Whitney rest. She was a beautiful spirit. And let's just leave it at that.
Dr. Carr. I enjoy your singing. Being a a joy to my heart.
Hi all merry Christmas to you both. This was another great class. You both kept it light but at the same time the central theme is READ STUDY AND REMEMBER YOUR HISTORY. Peace ALL
Merry Christmas & Happy Kwanzaa Prof. Hunter & Dr. Carr , I pray for you both 🙏 because our children need you. The meals of knowledge you nourish them with is priceless. 💝🎁🎄🎊🎉🎁🎓🎓🎓🎄🎁🎄🎁💝💝
Great tribute and respect to you both, rip and respect Thom Bell one of the greatest musical talents ever
I set up a bookcase in the foyer for our duplicates. Whoever visits is welcome to take a book.
good idea!
As a life-long Philadelphian, I grew up on the music of Thom Bell. I 💖 what the Philly sound has contributed to music history and how it has immortalized our musical legacy. Also, Dr. Carr, whenever you have the time, it would be nice if you look up Dr. Eric Mason, pastor of Epiphany Fellowship @ 15th and Diamond in Philly.
Speak an sing Dr Carr, am singing with you!
I know you are! Im sure everybody was! We all sing these songs all the time!
Dr. Carr and Professor Hunter you truly demonstrate doing as much as we can the best we can to leave our community better toward a greater vision. Thank you!
Asante Sana: Together, we can and do just that! It takes all of us.
Dr. Carr said, "Art allows us to have shared meaning." I agree.
I receive that. I also believe that we should love people because of their humanity (not hate and despise folks due to their differences). And everyone deserves justice -- not only the "JUST US" crowd. Everyone!
Damn Dr CARR is Crushing it, I love Mr Tom Bell’s Music A Pure Genius our Genius God Grant You Your REST!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
Asé-oo!!
Working my way through this one. Made me think of the song Working My Way Back To You.😀😀😀
AHHHHHHHHHHH....HHAHAHAHAHAHAH.....OUCHHHHH!....Dr. Carr...you have me in grasp....goose bumps and all!.....THANK YOU!!
Happy holidays!! ❤️
Happy holidays!
Happy Holidays 😊
Happy Holidays!
Joyful moments recalled that makes one to never feel like a bird without a song 🎵. Graze Mille!
Professor Karen, great Elder and spiritual healer, this segment took me to the highest place. I will be here next Saturday to hear the spiritual Elder Dr. Carr teach on matters of religion. I love to uproot the toxic spells indoctrinated into the minds of Black people due to the colonizer's religious teachings. If anyone can shout, dance fall out speak in make believe tongues, give 10% of the income and still walk around bound and unliberated all the while trying to convert others to believe in your toxic religion lets me know those Council of Bishops under Empire Constantine must have been "Wizards" and this book composed and restructured to control and possess the spirit and mind can only be a book of curses disguised as a holy manual.
That is def. one of my all-time favorites - get down brother Carr!!! you sound too Karen!!
Tom Bell did touch so many of our lives with the lyrics of all those songs. You brought back so many of my memories when you sang those songs. The songs of 60 and 70's are still so relevant today. Tom Bell was a musical genius. Most of the music that is pushed out today is designed to keep our people in chaos. If you look at what changed, it is white folks have figured out how to control our production companies, and minds through music and song. That's why they (the music producers ie. Sony. ) push trash music, the almighty dollar is keeping our good positive musicians out and off the air waves. When we lost Motown and the mighty three we lost not only a iconic music producer and company we lost two generations to a lot more crime, self destruction, and serious drug addiction. In my opinion. Just Listen to the lyrics...
Just listen to the lyrics....Thank you for taking the time to write this witness lesson.
1974 graduated High school Spinners , Stylistics , Herbie Hancock , EWF Gladys Night, Aretha., SOP,O’Jays
, on and on and on I can’t name them all.
Yes same here and I was born summer of 1975! My connection to this music is so spiritual. Those memories are so strong and powerful...going through Mama's 45's and 33's as a child, listening, singing and cleaning the records with alcohol lovingly as I'd seen her do so many times. This music was seared into my soul. Somehow I knew...not only was this music made for me, I was MADE TO this music. It's a part of me. Loved every moment of this class today. Took me back and let me enjoy my childhood again. Holidays suck since my Mama and Neni made transition but listening today allowed me to be back with them again for just a moment, it was beautiful 🤗🖤💙💜 ❤️
Keep taking me back Dr Greg Carr ❤️ I have the original recording of these Classics
Hello Professor Hunter and Dr Carr, glad y’all came on, thanks and happy Holidays!
Always!
Happy Holidays Dr Greg Carr and Professor Karen Hunter ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Happy Holidays!
West coast catch up! Thank you!
Thank you!
When I was a child, I spent a lot of time at Linda Creeds house, for she used to pick me up from school, not knowing "who she was," and was exposed for years to Tom Bell and Linda's music all through out the house, all the time. Hence why my ear ain't no joke! lol
Thank you for sharing that memory Cory. What a blessing and what a window into the everyday coming and going of a musical titan! This is why we do this collective work: Our collective memory reinforces and extends our humanity!
Dr. Wright sure did bring you into song I remember him singing “What’s Going On” and we rocked that church you hear me
Loudly and clearly! It really is something to share in and experience in person, isn't it?
@@TheEncyclopediaBrown It’s magical he has so much love for his people it was palpable..
Outstanding Class! Professor Karen Hunter & Dr. Greg Carr are Amazing!!
Yooooooo, Saturdays are tough for me. My son plays baseball on Saturday mornings or during the off season, that's the only day that I get to wake up late so I cannot catch you guys live on Knubia.
But never have I regretted it until just now because I missed Professor Karen Hunter making that guitar sound LIVE (IN UNISON, I am quite sure of it, with the rest of the knubians watching this in various parts of the world) as Dr. Carr did his best Spinners rendition. I was born in 1983, and my mother was surely the Sweet Sadie in my life. Thank you Thom Bell.
In reference to music Dr Hunter nailed it : "Today there is no substance in our culture" and this lacking is reflective in modern popular music. It is vacant and nihilistic, depressing and hollow.
Also back in the day musicians had to work HARD to actually learn how to play their instruments and work HARD to learn how to play together with each other. Now it is just a dude using a computer to make beats, no co-operation, no mastery. It is sad. It makes the music of the Spinners, TSOP, Philly International, Motown, Stax, and the literally hundreds of smaller black owned labels of the 50's-70's so monumental and timeless.
Lets take a look at the history of musical evolution in the 20th century. Here are the major styles of music developed in the 20th century : Ragtime, Blues, Gospel, New Orleans Jazz, Big Band Jazz, Kansas City Jazz, Bebop, Soul Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll, Funk, Disco and then something happened in the mid 70's : Hip Hop was born and since that time there has been only one further musical evolution which is House music. So in the first 75 years of the century music evolved and new styles were developed 12-15 times. Since 1975 Hip Hop and House and that is it. Nearly 50 years of zero progress, I would argue actual devolution.
Thank you for TREACHING, correlating then with now and serenading us!!!!!! Merry Christmas, Professor Hunter and Dr Carr!!!!!!
I thank Dr. Carr for responding to one of my comments. The info contained in his response was golden, as are all of his words. Love you my brother.
How Prof. Hunter chose to transition us from class #146 into future class #147 was smooth and genuine. I loved the KWANZAA presentation. Truly Dr. Carr and Prof. Hunter's drive to teach extends far beyond the confines of a university classroom. I thank Bro. Greg and Sis. Karen for selflessly giving of themselves in order that our knowledge and burning love for our ancestors might continually increase. And I am honored to be considered one of their humble students. Continue to Rock Steady baby.🙂
Please don't thank me. Having conversations in the comments is something I haven't carved out time to do like I intend to do going forward. We're building together. We mean it when we say that our weekly conversations here are just sparks to help elicit exactly these types of conversations and contributions. Our memory belongs to all of us. Each of us has stories to share. Love you too, brother. To evoke the spirit of the first day of Kwanzaa, UMOJA, in our unity lies our strength!
Ameen
Blessings and happy holidays 🎤🎶🎵🎶❤
I have to listen to this again while sitting still this is such great topic I love you knowledge!!!!
Okay, okay now. Now I have to go and play the whole album from The Spinners. After the rest of this, of course. ❤️✌🏾
LOVE all these records, wasn't familiar with the brother responsible! RIP Thom Bell
Context lends clarity.
Thx Professor Hunter and Dr. Carr.
Great episode, Happy New Year!
Dr. Carr needs to publish a regular reading list for the people. Not trying to hate on Oprah or anything, but we need to have a book club for the culture!
We read several books together in Knubia this year, and in Part II of the Introduction to Africana Studies course over the next couple of months we're going to do several more! Not to mention that big things in store for 2023 in Knarrative and Knubia. Thanks for the direction. On it!
I had too listen again 😀😀😀😀🤣
Thank you both Prof. Hunter and Dr. Carr. Happy Holidays.