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Video classics

Some personal favourites...
 
Billie Holiday - The blues are brewing Rosa Eskenazi - Ime prezakias Ray Charles - What'd I say Bessie Smith - St. Louis blues
Billie Holiday - my favourite singer of all time. I chose this clip over others such as Fine and mellow for it captures her in her prime. Louis' presence caps it off. Rosa Eskenazi, the greatest rembetika singer.
A good web site to her life is
here.
A rare clip from a British movie, Ballad in blue. 1929. The only known footage of the Queen of the Blues.
Funkadelic - Cosmic slop Gregory Isaacs - Night nurse The Staple Singers - Sit down servant John Lee Hooker - Boom boom
 
Solid gold funk. The cool ruler's classic.   Live in London, 1964. Classic!
Leonard Cohen - The stranger song Son House - Death letter blues Skip James - Crow Jane James Brown - Papa's got a brand new bag
1967. Love the intro. 1967 1967 "A human package of dynamite".
Excellent dancing by the super star.
Cat Power - Cross bones style Patsy Cline - I've loved and lost again Grandmaster Flash - The message Oum Kalsoum - Howwa Sahih El-Hawa Ghallab (nazara) improvisation part 1 of 2
  1967, age 24.    
The Seeds - Pushin' too hard Iggy Pop - I'm bored Five Blind Boys of Alabama - Too close Archie Roach & Sarah Storer -
From little things big things grow
Classic. Garage. Rock. Performed live on Australia's "Countdown", here is Iggy in all of his magnificence. The school girls in the audience are plain scared by this performance, though the camera loves him with a great pan from toe to top. A spellbinding performance.
Robert Pete Williams - 1970    Skip James - Hard time killing floor blues. 1967 Jimmy Reed - Bog boss man. 1968 Thomas Mapfumo - Moya wangu
       
Rare footage.   Rare footage. Very rare footage. Wonderful live clip recorded in Zimbabwe.
Doura Barry - Les filles de mon pays  Xray Spex - Identity    
       
Classic Guinean Fulbe music  The first 45 rpm single I bought.