Playlist for Juneteenth, 2020

The Rocket Morton Show, WRFI-FM Ithaca

Happy 155th Juneteenth! Homemade pandemic show #14.

1st hour:

  • S.M. Dorsey High School Jazz Workshop - Frankenstein

  • Holy Hour Singers - I'm A Soldier

  • Argent - Be Free

  • Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Astro Black

  • The Swan Silvertones - The Day Will Surely Come

  • Ritchie Havens - Freedom (live)

  • Dondero High School Band & Choir - I Just Want To Celebrate (live)

  • James Carr - Freedom Train

  • The Patterson Singers - I Wanna Be Free

  • Little Richard - Freedom Blues

  • James Brown - Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud (live)

  • Aretha Franklin - Spirit In the Dark

  • Bo Diddley - Black Soul

  • J. Hines & The Fellows - Victory Strut

  • Cross Jordan Singers - Troubled No More

2nd hour:

  • Joe Tex - I Wanna Be Free

  • The Rolling Stones - I'm Free

  • Sly & The Family Stone - Underdog

  • Art Hoyle - The Name Sound (mashup)

  • Funkadelic - I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody Got a Thing (live)

  • Nina Simone - I Shall Be Released

  • The Marching Spirituals - I Got It

  • Silvertones of Cincinnati - Gospel Train

  • Jimi Hendrix - Stone Free (live)

  • Charles Mingus - My Jelly Roll Soul

  • Chuck Barrister & The Voices Of Darkness - Be Kind, Be Foolish, Be Happy (Nigeria)

  • Max Roach - Triptych: Prayer Protest Peace