Nightsong

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You You You You She's go Oh She's gone she's gone You Someday She won't you So You happy crowd in the place.

I mean you've got to please the audience.

I mean get them to like you.

I'm starting out in Chicago and I want people to know me in Chicago before I leave it.

Although there is talking in the audience, I just keep on singing and this feeling that the people will like me.

I was born in East Virginia.

North Carolina are inbound.

There are better young maidens.

Her name and age I do not know.

North Carolina are inbound.

North Carolina are inbound.

Was her hair of a light brown color.

Her name and age I do not know.

On her breast she wore white lilies.

Where alone lay my head.

North Carolina are inbound.

North Carolina are inbound.

I was born in East Virginia.

North Carolina are inbound.

North Carolina are inbound.

North Carolina are inbound.

North Carolina are inbound.

North Carolina are inbound.

North Carolina are inbound.

North Carolina are inbound.

North Carolina are inbound.

North Carolina are inbound.

When am I getting out of here? Just a few minutes.

I'm going to get out of here.

I'm going to get out of here.

Chicago, you know, these people.

Chicago, you know, these people.

Chicago, you know, these people.

Chicago, you know, these people.

Chicago, you know, these people.

Chicago, you know, these people.

Chicago, you know, these people.

Chicago, you know, these people.

The people that I have seen on the street.

The people that I have seen on the street.

I mean, I never did know many people.

I mean, I never did know many people.

I mean, I just walk and look.

I mean, I just walk and look.

And you know about these things, and you know that they're not right.

Nasty, rotten, ugly, stupid, ugly, rotten, rotten.

Some rotten, pissed.

Something is bothering us.

They're vicious.

They're monstrous.

Who are they? What have we got to do about it? It's not human.

It's not human.

It's from outer space.

Anybody who doesn't believe it is a square.

A masochistic square.

It comes from one planet and one planet alone.

And I proof spot.

That these insane people are eating away at our life's blood.

Come from Uranus.

They come up from the sewers, through the toilets, and they gasp from Uranus to Uranus.

That's their motto.

You want proof? Here's one of them.

Go down, Captain.

Go down, Captain.

Tell my people hello.

Go down, Captain.

Go down, Captain.

Tell all my people hello.

Busting rocks all day.

Busting rocks all night.

Inside, this is shaking.

Go down, Captain.

Go down, Captain.

Tell all my people hello.

Go down, Captain.

Go down, Captain.

Go down, Captain.

Look there, the ball! Here he is in the flesh.

Here he is in the flesh.

I mean, I just...

I mean, I just...

Identifier

F.2009-01-0009

Date Of Production

1964

Abstract

A portrait of the Chicago Near-North nightlife scene in the mid-1960s, centering around the struggles and romantic desires of an African American singer played by long-forgotten folk sensation Willie Wright. Preserved by Chicago Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Format

16mm

Extent

700 feet

Color

color and B&W

Sound

Optical

Reel/Tape Number

1/1

Has Been Digitized?

Yes

Language Of Materials

English

Element

Preservation answer print

Form

Amateur

Subject

Folk music
Music
Musicians
Night
Chicago (Ill.)
Chicago Clubs

Related Collections

Don Klugman Collection

Related Places

North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago

Main Credits

Silverman, Sol S. (is executive producer)

Klugman, Don (is director)

Boxer, Tim (is co-producer)

Friedman, Richard E. (is co-producer)

Whirligig (is production company)

Additional Credits

Gold, Marv (is writer)

Clasky, Ron (is editor)

Hurwitz, Victor (is cinematographer)

Sanders, V. Joy (is production assistant)

Participants And Performers

Wright, Willie (is actor)

Schreiber, Avery (is actor)

Harris, Judy (is actor)

Davidson, Dorothy (is actor)

Barham, Bill (is actor)

Smith, Eddy (is actor)

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