If the news about the Soul Train DVD's excites you, you might also be interested in a new-ish documentary called Soul Power. From the makers of When We Were Kings, Soul Power documents the concert that happened around the fight in Zaire that year between Muhammad Ali & George Foreman. The so called "Rumble In the Jungle."
"A partial list, in alphabetical order, of the reasons to see “Soul Power” might go as follows: James Brown, Celia Cruz and the Fania All-Stars, B. B. King, Miriam Makeba, the Spinners and Bill Withers. A partial list, as I say, of performers captured with remarkable sonic brilliance and visual immediacy on an outdoor stage in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Congo), in 1974." Continued here.
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Astonishingly enough, the people who are doing the film don't mention two incredibly popular Congolese bands, Franco and TP OK Jazz and Afrisa, who each get a song in the film.
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