The Soul of Stax - ACE286.5

William Bell talking about Stax then needing "a strong black individual … more focused on the black community and on black music" and commentary notes that Al Bell (photograph) was put in charge of promotions in 1965. Al Bell talks about the company’s belief that Stax music could become "the music of the world". Photograph of the performers who went on the 1967 European tour (the Stax/Volt revue), including Jones, Redding, Floyd, and Sam and Dave. Love and Jackson explain how the tour made them realise that they were all stars. Original footage of Redding singing Try a Little Tenderness (1967). Love and Cropper talk about the Monterey festival. Original footage of visitors, Hell’s Angels, etc. Dunn on Redding’s performance and original footage of "Can you do that just one more time". Newspaper report of Redding’s death in plane clash, part of I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (1966) over. Stewart talks about this event and how it affected the company. Photographs of Redding with (Sitting on) The Dock of the Bay (1968) over. The Lorraine Motel. Al Bell says he learned about the assassination of Martin Luther King (1968) while he was recording Shirley Walton’s Send Peace and Harmony Home. Photograph from the Motel on April 4th 1968; recording over. Bell talks about the split this event caused between black and white Stax employees. Wexler says that "the spirit seemed to have gone out … of rhythm and blues music". Street scenes with Albert King’s Born Under a Bad Sign (1967) over. Hayes says he agitated for more black employees at managerial levels, and talks about his song Soul Man (1967); heard over footage of troops in threes and black people being arrested.