Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Album

Tracklist

1	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised	3:07
2	Home Is Where The Hatred Is	3:22

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
FD-26011	Gil Scott-Heron With Pretty Purdie & The Playboys	Gil Scott-Heron With Pretty Purdie & The Playboys - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised / Home Is Where The Hatred Is ‎(7")	Flying Dutchman	FD-26011	US	1971
FD 26011	Gil Scott-Heron	Home Is Where The Hatred Is / The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ‎(7", Promo)	Flying Dutchman	FD 26011	US	1971
FD 26011	Gil Scott-Heron	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ‎(7", Single, Promo)	Flying Dutchman	FD 26011	US	1971
FD-26011	Gil Scott-Heron With Pretty Purdie And The Playboys	Gil Scott-Heron With Pretty Purdie And The Playboys - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised / Home Is Where The Hatred Is ‎(7")	Flying Dutchman	FD-26011	US	1971
BGPS 038	Gil Scott-Heron	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ‎(7", Single, RE)	BGP Records	BGPS 038	Europe	2013

Credits

• Featuring – Pretty Purdie, The Playboys
• Producer – Bob Thiele

Barcodes

• Matrix / Runout (A-side label): FD-64167 SP
• Matrix / Runout (B-side label): FD-64161 SP

Companies

• Published By – Bob Thiele Music
• Distributed By – ATCO Records
• Mastered At – Atlantic Studios
• Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation

Video

Album

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a compilation album by American singer and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron. It was released in 1974 by Flying Dutchman Records and titled after Scott-Heron's 1971 song of the same name. The album features recordings previously featured on Scott-Heron's first three records for Flying Dutchman-Small Talk at 125th and Lenox 1970, Pieces of a Man 1971, and Free Will 1972, which were produced by jazz producer Bob Thiele. The music compiled incorporates funk, jazz. Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Pieces of a Man 1971 Flying DutchmanRCA - New York Johnny Pate - conductor Brian Jackson - Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a poem and song by Gil Scott-Heron. Scott-Heron first recorded it for his 1970 album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, on which he recited the lyrics, accompanied by congas and bongo drums. A re-recorded version, with a full band, was the B-side to Scott-Heron's first single, Home Is Where the Hatred Is, from his album Pieces of a Man 1971. It was also included on his compilation album, The. This is a '60s Black Power tune written by Gill Scott-Heron. It makes a point that everything is skewed towards white people, television, advertising, TV shows, with black people being portrayed in condescending or stereotypical racial roles. The revolution will be no re-run brother, the revolution will be live. Gil Scott-Heron. Released 1974. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Tracklist. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Lyrics. Spanning 1970-1972, this superb collection takes us back to Gil Scott-Heron's early years, when he was working with jazz producer Bob Thiele - a man who had been in the studio with everyone from John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders to Coleman Hawkins. Gil Scott-Heron wrote this song when he was 21 years old. He would perform and release several reworkings of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised in his lifetime. The lyrics build a strong, intelligent and humorous case against American consumerism: The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal. The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner. These words remind us that big business owns almost everything we see on television. Scott-Heron contends that if the common people were to rise to rebellion, there will be no news coverage of the event. Songs in album Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 1974. Political activist, rap pioneer and poet Gil Scott-Heron shaped the sound of today. His friends and famous fans on why he still matters. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised This was originally a spoken-word piece from 1970 and rerecorded with a band in 71. You could draw a straight line all the way from this thrilling piece of invective to Public. Home Is Where the Hatred Is Sampled by Kanye West on My Way Home , this grim depiction of ghetto misery and narcotic misadventures assumed a new resonance in the light of Scott-Herons own drug addiction