Hello, welcome back to another episode of Broken Record. My name is Ellie, I am your host, and today we are going to be talking about Black History Month and Black artists within the music community. So I'm just going to be going over a couple songs and artists that I adore, and before we do any of that, I'm going to give you a couple resources in case you want to further your education on Black artists, Black musicians, anything in that sort of field. So the first resource is Black Music Action Coalition, and you can go to the website bmacoalition.org to learn more there.
Or you can go to Castle of Our Skins with the website castleskins.org to learn more. Or one that I found really interesting was the National Museum of African American Music, which is, you can use the website nmaam.org to learn more there. And those are, I found all those super interesting to read about. I very much enjoyed getting to learn more about Black artists in the music industry.
And yeah, so the first artists I want to talk about is called, are called the Inks Fox, they're a band, and the song that I absolutely adore from them is called I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire. I love this song, I think it sounds so pretty, and it has like such a unique sound. It's from 1941, I forget if I said that, but it is such a cool song, I love listening to it. The next song I want to talk about is by Ella Fitzgerald, it's called Dream a Little Dream of Me, it's from 1950.
This song, oh my gosh, this song is so gorgeous and beautiful, and I love it with all my heart. I think, oh, it's so cool, I love it. This song just makes me smile. It's so fun to listen to, it just puts me in a good mood.
Oh my gosh, I love it. Another song that puts me in a great mood is called A Sunday Kind of Love, it's by Etta James, and it's from 1960. And I love this song, I love the message, I love, oh my gosh, she's like, I want to have a relationship that lasts. I want to have a long-term relationship, I want to create a good, healthy relationship that is stable, and we last a long time, and I can meet your mother, and it's, oh, I love it.
Next song, very popular song, Stand By Me by Ben E. King, also 1960. Great song, hear it all the time, I love it, I love it so much, it's so, it's like such a good beat. Next one, The Marbleettes, Please Mr.
Postman. I first discovered the song from The One Vine, where it's like, someone's singing it really well, someone's singing Please Mr. Postman, like, really well, and then it cuts to a group of girls who, like, are not singing it well at all. So that's how I first discovered the song, and then I went back and actually listened to the real version of the song, so, yeah, that's from 1961.
And then Otis Redding, These Arms of Mine, 1962, absolutely love this song, it makes me so happy. I believe this song was referenced in Outer Banks, if I'm not mistaken, I think JJ referenced it, I forget when, but I remember hearing that name and I was like, I know that guy, I've heard his songs before, I was very excited. Um, the next one that is, all these songs are just so incredible, um, the next one is My Girl by The Temptations, it's from 1964, I love this song. I went to a wedding recently, and they played this song, and it was just so fun, because everyone went out on the dance floor, and we were all having a good time.
Yeah, it was fun. And then, the next song is my absolute, possibly, I think, my favorite song from, like, this era of, like, the 60s, or maybe not my favorite of the 60s, but definitely top three is L-O-V-E, Love by Nat King Cole. I love this song so much, it reminds me of The Parent Trap, with the Lindy Lohan version, I love this song so much, it brings such a smile to my face, it's amazing, I love it so much. The next one is Clarence Frogman Henry, and his song is I Don't Know Why But I Do, it's from 1965, such a good song, I love it.
All these artists have such cool voices, like, they sound so incredible, I can't. The next song I want to talk about is called Sunny, it's by Bobby Hebb, I first learned about it, I think, two years ago, maybe? There was some sort of event where, I forget what it was called, but, like, a bunch of music artists and celebrities on the TV, were, did, like, a TV event where all the artists chose a song, and they sang it, and they, like, covered a song, and they sang it live, and it was really cool, and Billie Eilish sang Sunny by Bobby Hebb, and I remember hearing it, and I was like, this is such a good song, how did I not know about this before? And so, I listened to it, and then it quickly became my song of the summer, I would non-stop listen to it, it's so good, I love it so much.
The next song is by Miss Aretha Franklin, it's Respect, 1967, I love this song, this is one of the first songs that, like, I remember hearing, and being like, oh my gosh, that's a good song, like, this is a great song, um, I love the chorus, it's my favorite part, it's so good, it's so sassy. Next one is, this one always makes my mom cry whenever she hears it, it's What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong from 1967, also, and one time my mom, oh, we had family over, and we have a little baby cousin, who's, like, what, three, five, maybe, um, and he was singing What a Wonderful World, and my mom just started crying, and it was the funniest thing, I mean, it wasn't funny, it was cute, but it was funny, because it was a very happy moment, and then my mom just started crying, but anyway. The next song is a bit of a John Rich change, it's by Jimi Hendrix, it's Purple Haze, came out in 1970, this song is so good, Jimi Hendrix is so good with whatever instrument he plays, very talented, he's from Seattle too, which is also super fun, I feel like it's always so cool, I don't know if you did this one, but when I was a kid, I always thought it was the coolest thing, when, like, famous people were from Seattle, because I was like, oh my gosh, people know where I live, like, people know Seattle's a place, I thought it was the coolest thing that people, like, knew what Seattle was, because someone was famous and from Seattle, and so I was always so proud when, like, I would see someone on the news or something, and they were from Seattle, and they mentioned, and, like, the interviewer would ever mention they were from Seattle, and I was like, oh my gosh, they know what Seattle is, like Seattle's getting publicity, I always used to think it was so cool, that's also, I also used to do, whenever I saw my name, whenever I saw Ellie on, like, in, like, a movie, like, credit scene, I always thought it was the coolest thing, because I was like, mom, I'm famous, my name's on the screen, yeah, it was kind of stupid, but I always got really excited, I was like, mom, look at me, I'm famous now, like, Hollywood, send me a check, no, okay, next one is Tina Turner, Proud Mary, 1971, great song, Tina Turner's iconic, love her, um, next one, Prince, Lil Red Corvette, there's so many Prince songs that I wanted to choose, I had to choose Lil Red Corvette, because when I first got into Prince, that is the song that, like, helped me become obsessed with him, I love it so much, it came out in 1982, great song, my parents, this is, this song is on, like, all my playlists that I play in front of my parents, because there's, like, there's some songs that, like, I love, but my parents don't necessarily, like, listening to, and so I've created a playlist of, like, parent-approved songs, and Lil Red Corvette is, like, always on it, because it's such a good song, next one, Beyoncé, again, so many, so, so, so many songs I could have chosen, again, I chose the one that got me into her, Countdown, it's from 2011, I love this song, it is so fun, it's so, oh my gosh, I love this song, it's such a good beat, like, it just makes you want to dance, oh my gosh, it's so good, next one, this one has, like, basically the opposite, like, type of genre, type of mood, like, Countdown was so excited and peppy, but then this one's very sad, added slower, it's Godspeed by Frank Ocean, it came out in 2016, I think this song is so beautiful, the, like, opening part of the song is just incredible, um, the next one is by Lizzo, it's Cause I Love You, it came out in 2019, I love Lizzo, Lizzo is so amazing, she's so talented, too, like, there are some songs she has where she, like, hits this note, and she holds it for so long, and I'm like, girl, that is so impressive, I cannot, I cannot, actually, I can do what any of these people do, they're very talented, the last one is Arlo Parks and her song Green Eyes, which came out in 2020, it's so good, I love listening to it, Arlo Parks is, like, up and coming, like, she's, like, about to take a robot storm, she's ready for her moment, and I am, too, but yeah, thank you so much for listening, um, again, those resources I mentioned at the beginning of the, not the industry, at the beginning of the episode, about learning more about, like, Black artists within the music industry, you can go to Black Music Action Coalition, bmacoalition.org, Castle of Our Skins, with the website, castleskins.org, or National Museum of African American Music, nmaam.org, and you can learn more about Black History Month and Black artists within the music industry, and you can just continue your education, which I think is super cool and important to do, and yeah, thanks for listening, I'm Ellie, I'm the host of Broken Record, the show you're currently listening to, we're on every Tuesday at 6, on KMH 89 The Bridge, and if you can't listen then, that's okay, you can tune in on any podcast streaming platform, just search up KMH Broken Record, and you will find me in all my past episodes, and you can listen to them, and you can listen to them, and you can go to read, listen to them if you want to, but yeah, thank you so much for listening to 88.9 The Bridge.