- Description
Tap Dance America is a reference work of bibliographic information and does not point to digitized versions of the items described. The Library of Congress may or may not own a copy of a particular film or video. To request additional information Ask a Librarian.
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Duke Ellington: Love You Madly / Bunny Briggs [television/video]
- Title
- Duke Ellington: Love You Madly [Television/Video]
- Performer
- Briggs, Bunny
- Published/Created
- 1967-06-16
- Genre
- Television/Video
- Abstract
- Filmed and recorded August-September 1965; and first telecast over WNET 14 June 1967, this profile of the complex Ellington personality was one of the most talked-about television programs of its time. Two separate one-hour shows, the first telecast 6/14 served as a kind of introduction to the world of Duke Ellington, had brief clips from the Sacred Concert, preparing the viewer for the second, telecast on June 16 and consisting of film shot during the September 16, 1965 Concert of Sacred Music at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, and featuring vocalist Esther Morrow singing "Come Sunday" from Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, followed by "David Danced Before the Lord" danced by Bunny Briggs with vocalist Jon Henricks and the Herman McCoy Choir. "David Danced" is actually an adaptation of "Come Sunday" first used in this form in "My People" and serves as underscore "to the fleet-footed dancing of Bunny Briggs, one of the few remaining tap dancers" who was to repeat this performance many times in subsequent Ellington concerts. Each of these one-hour shows was nominated for an Emmy Award later that year.
- Source
- Strattemann, Klaus: Duke Ellington: Day by Day, Film by Film. Copenhagen: Jazz Media (1992).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015