Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music impresa… Read Full Bio ↴Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music impresario, musical arranger, record producer, and film composer.
During 50 years in the entertainment industry Jones' work has earned him more than 70 Grammy Award nominations, more than 25 Grammy Awards, and a Grammy Legends Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of two of the top-selling records of all time: the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, and the charity song “We Are the World”. Also known for work with Frank Sinatra.
In 1968, Jones along with his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African-Americans nominated for an Academy Award in the "Best Original Song" category. That same year, he became the first African-American nominated twice in the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score (for In Cold Blood). Jones is also the first (and so far, only) African-American to be nominated as a producer in the category of Best Picture (in 1986, for The Color Purple). He is also the first African-American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African-American with seven nominations each.
Born on the South Side of Chicago, to Sarah Frances (née Wells) (1903-1999) and Quincy Delightt Jones, Sr (1895-1971). His father was a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter from Kentucky; his paternal grandmother was an ex-slave in Louisville. They had gone to Chicago as part of the Great Migration out of the South. Sarah was a bank officer and apartment complex manager. Jones later discovered that his paternal grandfather was Welsh. Quincy had a younger brother, Lloyd, later an engineer for the Seattle station, KOMO-TV; he died in 1998. Quincy was introduced to music by his mother, who always sang religious songs, and by his next door neighbor Lucy Jackson. When he was five or six, Jackson played stride piano next door, and he would always listen through the walls. Lucy Jackson recalled that after he heard her that one day, she could not get him off her piano if she tried.
When the boys were young, their mother suffered from a schizophrenic breakdown and was committed to a mental institution. His father obtained a divorce and remarried.
Jones' stepmother, Elvera, had three children of her own: Waymond, who became a friend of the young Quincy, Theresa and Katherine. Elvera and Quincy Senior had three more children together through 1950, after they had moved to the Northwest: Jeanette, Margie and Richard, now a judge in Seattle, making a total of eight in the family.
In 1943, when Jones was ten, his family moved to Bremerton, Washington, where his father got a wartime job at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. After the war, the Jones family moved to Seattle, the major regional city, where Jones attended Garfield High School near his home. He had discovered music when he was 12 and became more deeply involved in high school, developing his skills as a trumpeter and arranger. Classmates included Charles Taylor, who played saxophone and whose mother, Evelyn Bundy, had been one of Seattle's first society jazz-band leaders. The youths began playing with a band. At the age of 14, they were playing with a National Reserve band. Jones has said he got much more experience with music growing up in a smaller city; otherwise, he would have faced too much competition.
At the age of 14, Jones introduced himself to a 16-year-old musician from Florida Ray Charles, after watching him play at the Black Elks Club. Jones cites Ray Charles as an early inspiration for his own music career. He noted that Charles overcame a disability (blindness) to achieve his musical goals. He has credited his father's sturdy work ethic with giving him the means to proceed, and his loving strength with holding the family together. Jones has said his father had a saying: "Once a task is just begun, never leave until it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all."
In 1951, Jones won a scholarship to Seattle University, where a young Clint Eastwood—also a music major there—watched him play in the college band. After only one semester, Jones transferred to what is now the Berklee College of Music in Boston on another scholarship (as of 2016, Jones' application for admission is preserved on display at Berklee). While studying at Berklee he played at Izzy Ort's Bar & Grille with Bunny Campbell and Preston Sandiford, whom he later cited as important musical influences. He left his studies after he received an offer to tour as a trumpeter with the bandleader Lionel Hampton and embarked on his professional career. While Jones was on the road with Hampton, he displayed a gift for arranging songs. Jones relocated to New York City, where he received a number of freelance commissions arranging songs for artists including Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, and Ray Charles, by then a close friend.
At the age of 19, Jones travelled with Lionel Hampton to Europe and said it turned him upside down, altering his view of racism in the US.
"It gave you some sense of perspective of past, present and future. It took the myopic conflict between just black and white in the United States and put it on another level because you saw the turmoil between the Armenians and the Turks, and the Cypriots and the Greeks, and the Swedes and the Danes, and the Koreans and the Japanese. Everybody had these hassles, and you saw it was a basic part of human nature, these conflicts. It opened my soul, it opened my mind."
In 1956, Jones toured again as a trumpeter and musical director of the Dizzy Gillespie Band on a tour of the Middle East and South America sponsored by the United States Information Agency. Upon his return, Jones signed with ABC-Paramount Records and started his recording career as the leader of his own band. In 1957, Quincy settled in Paris, where he studied composition and theory with Nadia Boulanger and composer Olivier Messiaen. He also performed at the Paris Olympia. Jones became music director at Barclay Disques, a leading French record company and the licensee for Mercury Records in France.
During the 1950s, Jones successfully toured throughout Europe with a number of jazz orchestras. As musical director of Harold Arlen's jazz musical Free and Easy, Quincy Jones took to the road again. A European tour closed in Paris in February 1960. With musicians from the Arlen show, Jones formed his own big band, called The Jones Boys, with eighteen artists. The band included double bass player Eddie Jones and fellow trumpeter Reunald Jones, and organized a tour of North America and Europe. Though the European and American concerts met enthusiastic audiences and sparkling reviews, concert earnings could not support a band of this size. Poor budget planning resulted in an economic disaster; the band dissolved and the fallout left Jones in a financial crisis. Quoted in Musician magazine, Jones said about the ordeal,
"We had the best jazz band on the planet, and yet we were literally starving. That's when I discovered that there was music, and there was the music business. If I were to survive, I would have to learn the difference between the two."
Irving Green, head of Mercury Records, helped Jones with a personal loan and a new job as the musical director of the company's New York division. There he worked with Doug Moody, who founded Mystic Records.
In 1964, Jones was promoted to vice-president of Mercury Records, becoming the first African American to hold this executive position. In that same year, he turned his attention to film scores, another musical arena long closed to African Americans. At the invitation of director Sidney Lumet, he composed the music for The Pawnbroker (1964). It was the first of his 33 major motion picture scores.
Following the success of The Pawnbroker, Jones left Mercury Records and moved to Los Angeles. After composing the film scores for Mirage and The Slender Thread in 1965, he was in constant demand as a composer. His film credits over the next seven years included Walk, Don't Run, The Deadly Affair, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, Mackenna's Gold, The Italian Job, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Cactus Flower, The Out-of-Towners, They Call Me Mister Tibbs!, The Anderson Tapes, $ and The Getaway. In addition, he composed "The Streetbeater," which became familiar as the theme music for the television sitcom Sanford and Son, starring close friend Redd Foxx; he also composed the themes for other TV shows, including Ironside, Banacek, The Bill Cosby Show, the opening episode of Roots, and the Goodson & Todman game show Now You See It.
In the 1960s, Jones worked as an arranger for some of the most important artists of the era, including Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nana Mouskouri, Shirley Horn, Peggy Lee, and Dinah Washington. Jones's solo recordings also gained acclaim, including Walking in Space, Gula Matari, Smackwater Jack, You've Got It Bad, Girl, Body Heat, Mellow Madness, and I Heard That!!.
He is known for his 1962 tune "Soul Bossa Nova", which originated on the Big Band Bossa Nova album. "Soul Bossa Nova" was a theme used for the 1998 World Cup[citation needed], the Canadian game show Definition, the Woody Allen film Take the Money and Run, and the Austin Powers film series. It was sampled by Canadian hip hop group Dream Warriors for their song, "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style".
Jones produced all four million-selling singles for Lesley Gore during the early and mid-sixties, including "It's My Party" (UK No. 8; US No. 1), "Judy's Turn to Cry" (US No. 5), "She's a Fool" (also a US No. 5) in 1963, and "You Don't Own Me" (US No. 2 for four weeks in 1964). He continued to produce for Gore until 1966, including the Greenwich/ Barry hit "Look of Love" (US No. 27) in 1965.
In 1975, Jones founded Qwest Productions, for which he arranged and produced hugely successful albums by Frank Sinatra and other major pop figures. In 1978, he produced the soundtrack for The Wiz, the musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, starring Michael Jackson and Diana Ross. In 1982, Jones' produced Michael Jackson's all-time best-selling album Thriller.[17]
Jones's 1981 album, The Dude, yielded multiple hit singles, including "Ai No Corrida" (a remake of a song by Chaz Jankel), "Just Once," and "One Hundred Ways", the latter two featuring James Ingram on lead vocals and marking Ingram's first hits.
In 1985, Jones wrote the score for the Steven Spielberg film adaptation of the Pulitzer-prize winning epistolary novel, The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. He, Jerry Goldsmith (from Twilight Zone: The Movie), and Thomas Newman (from Bridge of Spies) are the only composers besides John Williams to have scored a Spielberg theatrical film. After the 1985 American Music Awards ceremony, Jones used his influence to draw most of the major American recording artists of the day into a studio to record the song "We Are the World" to raise money for the victims of Ethiopia's famine. When people marvelled at his ability to make the collaboration work, Jones explained that he'd taped a simple sign on the entrance: "Check Your Ego At The Door".
In 1988, Quincy Jones Productions joined forces with Warner Communications to create Quincy Jones Entertainment. He signed a ten-picture deal with Warner Brothers and signed a two-series deal with NBC Productions. The television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was completed in 1990, but producers of In the House (from UPN) later rejected its early concept stages. Jones produced the highly successful Fresh Prince of Bel Air (discovering Will Smith); UPN's In the House, and FOX's Madtv—which did 14 seasons on Fox.[18] In the early 1990s, Jones started a huge, ongoing project called "The Evolution of Black Music." Not only did the Quincy Jones Entertainment Company produce The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but it also started a weekly talk show with his friend, Reverend Jesse Jackson, as the host.
Starting in the late 1970s, Jones tried to convince Miles Davis to revive the music he had recorded on several classic albums of the 1960s, which had been arranged by Gil Evans. Davis had always refused, citing a desire not to revisit the past. In 1991, Davis, then suffering from pneumonia, relented and agreed to perform the music at a concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival. The resulting album from the recording, Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux, was Davis' last released album (he died several months afterwards). It is considered an artistic triumph.
In 1993, Jones collaborated with David Salzman to produce the concert extravaganza, An American Reunion, a celebration of Bill Clinton's inauguration as president of the United States. The same year, Jones joined forces with Salzman and renamed his company as Quincy Jones/David Salzman Entertainment (QDE). QDE is a diverse company that produces media technology, motion pictures, television programs (In the House, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and MADtv), and magazines (VIBE and Spin).
In 2001, Jones published his autobiography, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones. On July 31, 2007, he partnered with Wizzard Media to launch the Quincy Jones Video Podcast.[21] In each episode, Jones shares his knowledge and experience in the music industry. The first episode features him in the studio, producing "I Knew I Loved you" for Celine Dion. This is featured on the Ennio Morricone tribute album, We All Love Ennio Morricone. Jones is also noted for helping produce Anita Hall's CD, Send Love, which was released in 2009.
Jones's social activism began in the 1960s with his support of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Jones is one of the founders of the Institute for Black American Music (IBAM), whose events aim to raise enough funds for the creation of a national library of African-American art and music. Jones is also one of the founders of the Black Arts Festival in his hometown of Chicago. In the 1970s Jones formed The Quincy Jones Workshops. Meeting at the Los Angeles Landmark Variety Arts Center, the workshops educated and honed the skills of inner city youth in musicianship, acting and songwriting. Among its Alumni were Alton Mc Clain who had a hit song with Alton Mc Clain and Destiny, and Mark Wilkins, not the Race Car Driver, who co-wrote the hit song "Havin' A Love Attack" with Mandrill, and went on to become the National Promotion Director for Punk / Thrash record label Mystic Records.
For many years, Jones has worked closely with Bono of U2 on a number of philanthropic endeavors. He is the founder of the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation. A nonprofit organization that built more than 100 homes in South Africa which aims to connect youths with technology, education, culture and music. One of the organization's programs is an intercultural exchange between underprivileged youths from Los Angeles and South Africa.
In 2004, Jones helped launch the We Are the Future (WAF) project, which gives children in poor and conflict-ridden areas a chance to live their childhoods and develop a sense of hope. The program is the result of a strategic partnership between the Global Forum, the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, and Hani Masri, with the support of the World Bank, UN agencies and major companies. The project was launched with a concert in Rome, Italy, in front of an audience of half a million people.
Jones supports a number of other charities including the NAACP, GLAAD, Peace Games, AmfAR and The Maybach Foundation. Jones serves on the Advisory Board of HealthCorps. On July 26, 2007, he announced his endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president. But with the election of Barack Obama, Quincy Jones said that his next conversation "with President Obama [will be] to beg for a secretary of arts," This prompted the circulation of a petition on the Internet asking Obama to create such a Cabinet-level position in his administration.
In 2001, Jones became an honorary member of the board of directors of The Jazz Foundation of America. He has worked with The Jazz Foundation of America to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, including those who survived Hurricane Katrina.
Jones and his friend John Sie, founder of Liberty Starz, worked together to create the Global Down Syndrome Foundation. They were inspired by Sie's granddaughter, Sophia, who has Down syndrome.
With the help of the author Alex Haley in 1972 and Mormon researchers in Salt Lake City, Jones discovered that his mother's ancestors included James Lanier, a relative of Sidney Lanier, the poet. Jones said in an interview, "He had a baby with my great-grandmother [a slave], and my grandmother was born there [on a plantation in Kentucky]. We traced this all the way back to the Laniers, same family as Tennessee Williams."Learning that the Lanier immigrant ancestors were French Huguenot refugees, who had court musicians among their ancestors, Jones attributed some of his musicianship to them. In a 2009 BBC interview, Jones said Haley also helped him learn that his father was of part Welsh ancestry.
In 1974, he suffered a life-threatening brain aneurysm, so he decided to cut back on his schedule to spend time with his friends and family. Since his family and friends believed that his life was coming to an end, they started to plan a memorial service for him. He attended his own service with his neurologist by his side in case the excitement overwhelmed him. Some of the entertainers at his service were Richard Pryor, Marvin Gaye, Sarah Vaughan and Sidney Poitier.
Jones has been married three times and has had other relationships; he has a total of seven children:
Jeri Caldwell (1957 to 1966); they had a daughter, Jolie Jones (now married and using the surname Levine).
Ulla Andersson, Swedish actress, (1967 to 1974); they had two children, Martina and Quincy Jones III;
Peggy Lipton, actress, (1974 to 1990); they had two daughters, Kidada and Rashida Jones, both born in the United States, who have become actresses.
Jones had a brief affair with Carol Reynolds, and they had a daughter, Rachel Jones.
Jones dated and lived with the actress, Nastassja Kinski, from 1991 until 1995. They had a daughter, Kenya Julia Miambi Sarah Jones, born in 1993.
In 1994 he was criticised by rapper 2Pac for having relationships with white women.
For the 2006 PBS television program, African American Lives, Jones had his DNA tested and genealogists researched his family history again. His DNA admixture revealed he is predominately African with 34% European in ancestry, found on both sides of his family. Research showed that he has Welsh, English, French and Italian ancestry, with European ancestry in his direct patri-lineal line (Y DNA). Through his direct matri-lineal line (mt DNA), he is of West African/Central African ancestry of Tikar descent, a people centered in present-day Cameroon. Other matri-lineal ancestry includes European, such as Lanier male ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, making him eligible for Sons of Confederate Veterans. Among his ancestors is Betty Washington Lewis, the sister of president George Washington. Jones is also a direct descendant of Edward I of England; Edward's ancestors included Rurik, Polish, Swiss, and French nobility.
Jones has never learned to drive, citing an accident in which he was a passenger (at age 14) as the reason.
In addition to receiving recognition specifically for his music and arrangements, Jones has been recognized for his overall contributions to music and humanitarian goals. He has received numerous honorary doctorates and been invited to speak at college and university commencement ceremonies.
Garfield High School in Seattle named a performing arts centre after him.
Quincy Jones Elementary School located in South Central Los Angeles is named after him.
He received the Humanitarian Award at the BET Awards in 2008.
He received the John F. Kennedy Center Honors in 2001.
He received the Los Angeles Press Club Visionary Award in 2014.
He received an honorary doctorate from the Royal Academy of Music, London, in 2015.
During 50 years in the entertainment industry Jones' work has earned him more than 70 Grammy Award nominations, more than 25 Grammy Awards, and a Grammy Legends Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of two of the top-selling records of all time: the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, and the charity song “We Are the World”. Also known for work with Frank Sinatra.
In 1968, Jones along with his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African-Americans nominated for an Academy Award in the "Best Original Song" category. That same year, he became the first African-American nominated twice in the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score (for In Cold Blood). Jones is also the first (and so far, only) African-American to be nominated as a producer in the category of Best Picture (in 1986, for The Color Purple). He is also the first African-American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African-American with seven nominations each.
Born on the South Side of Chicago, to Sarah Frances (née Wells) (1903-1999) and Quincy Delightt Jones, Sr (1895-1971). His father was a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter from Kentucky; his paternal grandmother was an ex-slave in Louisville. They had gone to Chicago as part of the Great Migration out of the South. Sarah was a bank officer and apartment complex manager. Jones later discovered that his paternal grandfather was Welsh. Quincy had a younger brother, Lloyd, later an engineer for the Seattle station, KOMO-TV; he died in 1998. Quincy was introduced to music by his mother, who always sang religious songs, and by his next door neighbor Lucy Jackson. When he was five or six, Jackson played stride piano next door, and he would always listen through the walls. Lucy Jackson recalled that after he heard her that one day, she could not get him off her piano if she tried.
When the boys were young, their mother suffered from a schizophrenic breakdown and was committed to a mental institution. His father obtained a divorce and remarried.
Jones' stepmother, Elvera, had three children of her own: Waymond, who became a friend of the young Quincy, Theresa and Katherine. Elvera and Quincy Senior had three more children together through 1950, after they had moved to the Northwest: Jeanette, Margie and Richard, now a judge in Seattle, making a total of eight in the family.
In 1943, when Jones was ten, his family moved to Bremerton, Washington, where his father got a wartime job at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. After the war, the Jones family moved to Seattle, the major regional city, where Jones attended Garfield High School near his home. He had discovered music when he was 12 and became more deeply involved in high school, developing his skills as a trumpeter and arranger. Classmates included Charles Taylor, who played saxophone and whose mother, Evelyn Bundy, had been one of Seattle's first society jazz-band leaders. The youths began playing with a band. At the age of 14, they were playing with a National Reserve band. Jones has said he got much more experience with music growing up in a smaller city; otherwise, he would have faced too much competition.
At the age of 14, Jones introduced himself to a 16-year-old musician from Florida Ray Charles, after watching him play at the Black Elks Club. Jones cites Ray Charles as an early inspiration for his own music career. He noted that Charles overcame a disability (blindness) to achieve his musical goals. He has credited his father's sturdy work ethic with giving him the means to proceed, and his loving strength with holding the family together. Jones has said his father had a saying: "Once a task is just begun, never leave until it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all."
In 1951, Jones won a scholarship to Seattle University, where a young Clint Eastwood—also a music major there—watched him play in the college band. After only one semester, Jones transferred to what is now the Berklee College of Music in Boston on another scholarship (as of 2016, Jones' application for admission is preserved on display at Berklee). While studying at Berklee he played at Izzy Ort's Bar & Grille with Bunny Campbell and Preston Sandiford, whom he later cited as important musical influences. He left his studies after he received an offer to tour as a trumpeter with the bandleader Lionel Hampton and embarked on his professional career. While Jones was on the road with Hampton, he displayed a gift for arranging songs. Jones relocated to New York City, where he received a number of freelance commissions arranging songs for artists including Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, and Ray Charles, by then a close friend.
At the age of 19, Jones travelled with Lionel Hampton to Europe and said it turned him upside down, altering his view of racism in the US.
"It gave you some sense of perspective of past, present and future. It took the myopic conflict between just black and white in the United States and put it on another level because you saw the turmoil between the Armenians and the Turks, and the Cypriots and the Greeks, and the Swedes and the Danes, and the Koreans and the Japanese. Everybody had these hassles, and you saw it was a basic part of human nature, these conflicts. It opened my soul, it opened my mind."
In 1956, Jones toured again as a trumpeter and musical director of the Dizzy Gillespie Band on a tour of the Middle East and South America sponsored by the United States Information Agency. Upon his return, Jones signed with ABC-Paramount Records and started his recording career as the leader of his own band. In 1957, Quincy settled in Paris, where he studied composition and theory with Nadia Boulanger and composer Olivier Messiaen. He also performed at the Paris Olympia. Jones became music director at Barclay Disques, a leading French record company and the licensee for Mercury Records in France.
During the 1950s, Jones successfully toured throughout Europe with a number of jazz orchestras. As musical director of Harold Arlen's jazz musical Free and Easy, Quincy Jones took to the road again. A European tour closed in Paris in February 1960. With musicians from the Arlen show, Jones formed his own big band, called The Jones Boys, with eighteen artists. The band included double bass player Eddie Jones and fellow trumpeter Reunald Jones, and organized a tour of North America and Europe. Though the European and American concerts met enthusiastic audiences and sparkling reviews, concert earnings could not support a band of this size. Poor budget planning resulted in an economic disaster; the band dissolved and the fallout left Jones in a financial crisis. Quoted in Musician magazine, Jones said about the ordeal,
"We had the best jazz band on the planet, and yet we were literally starving. That's when I discovered that there was music, and there was the music business. If I were to survive, I would have to learn the difference between the two."
Irving Green, head of Mercury Records, helped Jones with a personal loan and a new job as the musical director of the company's New York division. There he worked with Doug Moody, who founded Mystic Records.
In 1964, Jones was promoted to vice-president of Mercury Records, becoming the first African American to hold this executive position. In that same year, he turned his attention to film scores, another musical arena long closed to African Americans. At the invitation of director Sidney Lumet, he composed the music for The Pawnbroker (1964). It was the first of his 33 major motion picture scores.
Following the success of The Pawnbroker, Jones left Mercury Records and moved to Los Angeles. After composing the film scores for Mirage and The Slender Thread in 1965, he was in constant demand as a composer. His film credits over the next seven years included Walk, Don't Run, The Deadly Affair, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, Mackenna's Gold, The Italian Job, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Cactus Flower, The Out-of-Towners, They Call Me Mister Tibbs!, The Anderson Tapes, $ and The Getaway. In addition, he composed "The Streetbeater," which became familiar as the theme music for the television sitcom Sanford and Son, starring close friend Redd Foxx; he also composed the themes for other TV shows, including Ironside, Banacek, The Bill Cosby Show, the opening episode of Roots, and the Goodson & Todman game show Now You See It.
In the 1960s, Jones worked as an arranger for some of the most important artists of the era, including Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nana Mouskouri, Shirley Horn, Peggy Lee, and Dinah Washington. Jones's solo recordings also gained acclaim, including Walking in Space, Gula Matari, Smackwater Jack, You've Got It Bad, Girl, Body Heat, Mellow Madness, and I Heard That!!.
He is known for his 1962 tune "Soul Bossa Nova", which originated on the Big Band Bossa Nova album. "Soul Bossa Nova" was a theme used for the 1998 World Cup[citation needed], the Canadian game show Definition, the Woody Allen film Take the Money and Run, and the Austin Powers film series. It was sampled by Canadian hip hop group Dream Warriors for their song, "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style".
Jones produced all four million-selling singles for Lesley Gore during the early and mid-sixties, including "It's My Party" (UK No. 8; US No. 1), "Judy's Turn to Cry" (US No. 5), "She's a Fool" (also a US No. 5) in 1963, and "You Don't Own Me" (US No. 2 for four weeks in 1964). He continued to produce for Gore until 1966, including the Greenwich/ Barry hit "Look of Love" (US No. 27) in 1965.
In 1975, Jones founded Qwest Productions, for which he arranged and produced hugely successful albums by Frank Sinatra and other major pop figures. In 1978, he produced the soundtrack for The Wiz, the musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, starring Michael Jackson and Diana Ross. In 1982, Jones' produced Michael Jackson's all-time best-selling album Thriller.[17]
Jones's 1981 album, The Dude, yielded multiple hit singles, including "Ai No Corrida" (a remake of a song by Chaz Jankel), "Just Once," and "One Hundred Ways", the latter two featuring James Ingram on lead vocals and marking Ingram's first hits.
In 1985, Jones wrote the score for the Steven Spielberg film adaptation of the Pulitzer-prize winning epistolary novel, The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. He, Jerry Goldsmith (from Twilight Zone: The Movie), and Thomas Newman (from Bridge of Spies) are the only composers besides John Williams to have scored a Spielberg theatrical film. After the 1985 American Music Awards ceremony, Jones used his influence to draw most of the major American recording artists of the day into a studio to record the song "We Are the World" to raise money for the victims of Ethiopia's famine. When people marvelled at his ability to make the collaboration work, Jones explained that he'd taped a simple sign on the entrance: "Check Your Ego At The Door".
In 1988, Quincy Jones Productions joined forces with Warner Communications to create Quincy Jones Entertainment. He signed a ten-picture deal with Warner Brothers and signed a two-series deal with NBC Productions. The television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was completed in 1990, but producers of In the House (from UPN) later rejected its early concept stages. Jones produced the highly successful Fresh Prince of Bel Air (discovering Will Smith); UPN's In the House, and FOX's Madtv—which did 14 seasons on Fox.[18] In the early 1990s, Jones started a huge, ongoing project called "The Evolution of Black Music." Not only did the Quincy Jones Entertainment Company produce The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but it also started a weekly talk show with his friend, Reverend Jesse Jackson, as the host.
Starting in the late 1970s, Jones tried to convince Miles Davis to revive the music he had recorded on several classic albums of the 1960s, which had been arranged by Gil Evans. Davis had always refused, citing a desire not to revisit the past. In 1991, Davis, then suffering from pneumonia, relented and agreed to perform the music at a concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival. The resulting album from the recording, Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux, was Davis' last released album (he died several months afterwards). It is considered an artistic triumph.
In 1993, Jones collaborated with David Salzman to produce the concert extravaganza, An American Reunion, a celebration of Bill Clinton's inauguration as president of the United States. The same year, Jones joined forces with Salzman and renamed his company as Quincy Jones/David Salzman Entertainment (QDE). QDE is a diverse company that produces media technology, motion pictures, television programs (In the House, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and MADtv), and magazines (VIBE and Spin).
In 2001, Jones published his autobiography, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones. On July 31, 2007, he partnered with Wizzard Media to launch the Quincy Jones Video Podcast.[21] In each episode, Jones shares his knowledge and experience in the music industry. The first episode features him in the studio, producing "I Knew I Loved you" for Celine Dion. This is featured on the Ennio Morricone tribute album, We All Love Ennio Morricone. Jones is also noted for helping produce Anita Hall's CD, Send Love, which was released in 2009.
Jones's social activism began in the 1960s with his support of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Jones is one of the founders of the Institute for Black American Music (IBAM), whose events aim to raise enough funds for the creation of a national library of African-American art and music. Jones is also one of the founders of the Black Arts Festival in his hometown of Chicago. In the 1970s Jones formed The Quincy Jones Workshops. Meeting at the Los Angeles Landmark Variety Arts Center, the workshops educated and honed the skills of inner city youth in musicianship, acting and songwriting. Among its Alumni were Alton Mc Clain who had a hit song with Alton Mc Clain and Destiny, and Mark Wilkins, not the Race Car Driver, who co-wrote the hit song "Havin' A Love Attack" with Mandrill, and went on to become the National Promotion Director for Punk / Thrash record label Mystic Records.
For many years, Jones has worked closely with Bono of U2 on a number of philanthropic endeavors. He is the founder of the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation. A nonprofit organization that built more than 100 homes in South Africa which aims to connect youths with technology, education, culture and music. One of the organization's programs is an intercultural exchange between underprivileged youths from Los Angeles and South Africa.
In 2004, Jones helped launch the We Are the Future (WAF) project, which gives children in poor and conflict-ridden areas a chance to live their childhoods and develop a sense of hope. The program is the result of a strategic partnership between the Global Forum, the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, and Hani Masri, with the support of the World Bank, UN agencies and major companies. The project was launched with a concert in Rome, Italy, in front of an audience of half a million people.
Jones supports a number of other charities including the NAACP, GLAAD, Peace Games, AmfAR and The Maybach Foundation. Jones serves on the Advisory Board of HealthCorps. On July 26, 2007, he announced his endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president. But with the election of Barack Obama, Quincy Jones said that his next conversation "with President Obama [will be] to beg for a secretary of arts," This prompted the circulation of a petition on the Internet asking Obama to create such a Cabinet-level position in his administration.
In 2001, Jones became an honorary member of the board of directors of The Jazz Foundation of America. He has worked with The Jazz Foundation of America to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, including those who survived Hurricane Katrina.
Jones and his friend John Sie, founder of Liberty Starz, worked together to create the Global Down Syndrome Foundation. They were inspired by Sie's granddaughter, Sophia, who has Down syndrome.
With the help of the author Alex Haley in 1972 and Mormon researchers in Salt Lake City, Jones discovered that his mother's ancestors included James Lanier, a relative of Sidney Lanier, the poet. Jones said in an interview, "He had a baby with my great-grandmother [a slave], and my grandmother was born there [on a plantation in Kentucky]. We traced this all the way back to the Laniers, same family as Tennessee Williams."Learning that the Lanier immigrant ancestors were French Huguenot refugees, who had court musicians among their ancestors, Jones attributed some of his musicianship to them. In a 2009 BBC interview, Jones said Haley also helped him learn that his father was of part Welsh ancestry.
In 1974, he suffered a life-threatening brain aneurysm, so he decided to cut back on his schedule to spend time with his friends and family. Since his family and friends believed that his life was coming to an end, they started to plan a memorial service for him. He attended his own service with his neurologist by his side in case the excitement overwhelmed him. Some of the entertainers at his service were Richard Pryor, Marvin Gaye, Sarah Vaughan and Sidney Poitier.
Jones has been married three times and has had other relationships; he has a total of seven children:
Jeri Caldwell (1957 to 1966); they had a daughter, Jolie Jones (now married and using the surname Levine).
Ulla Andersson, Swedish actress, (1967 to 1974); they had two children, Martina and Quincy Jones III;
Peggy Lipton, actress, (1974 to 1990); they had two daughters, Kidada and Rashida Jones, both born in the United States, who have become actresses.
Jones had a brief affair with Carol Reynolds, and they had a daughter, Rachel Jones.
Jones dated and lived with the actress, Nastassja Kinski, from 1991 until 1995. They had a daughter, Kenya Julia Miambi Sarah Jones, born in 1993.
In 1994 he was criticised by rapper 2Pac for having relationships with white women.
For the 2006 PBS television program, African American Lives, Jones had his DNA tested and genealogists researched his family history again. His DNA admixture revealed he is predominately African with 34% European in ancestry, found on both sides of his family. Research showed that he has Welsh, English, French and Italian ancestry, with European ancestry in his direct patri-lineal line (Y DNA). Through his direct matri-lineal line (mt DNA), he is of West African/Central African ancestry of Tikar descent, a people centered in present-day Cameroon. Other matri-lineal ancestry includes European, such as Lanier male ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, making him eligible for Sons of Confederate Veterans. Among his ancestors is Betty Washington Lewis, the sister of president George Washington. Jones is also a direct descendant of Edward I of England; Edward's ancestors included Rurik, Polish, Swiss, and French nobility.
Jones has never learned to drive, citing an accident in which he was a passenger (at age 14) as the reason.
In addition to receiving recognition specifically for his music and arrangements, Jones has been recognized for his overall contributions to music and humanitarian goals. He has received numerous honorary doctorates and been invited to speak at college and university commencement ceremonies.
Garfield High School in Seattle named a performing arts centre after him.
Quincy Jones Elementary School located in South Central Los Angeles is named after him.
He received the Humanitarian Award at the BET Awards in 2008.
He received the John F. Kennedy Center Honors in 2001.
He received the Los Angeles Press Club Visionary Award in 2014.
He received an honorary doctorate from the Royal Academy of Music, London, in 2015.
Little Bit of Feel Good feat. Adam Joseph
Quincy Jones Lyrics
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SomethingALaMode Just the sound of your voice Drowning out all my noise When…
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100 Ways Compliment what she does Send her roses just because If it's…
A Change of Pace There's never been a day When the world wasn't new When th…
A Hard Day's Night It's been a hard day's night, and I been working…
A Lover's Concerto How gentle is the rain, that falls softly on the…
A Taste of Honey A taste of honey 蜜の味 Tasting much sweeter than wine ワインよりも甘…
Ai No Corrida I hold you, I touch you In a maze can't find…
al no corrida I hold you, I touch you In a maze can't find…
Almost What a day this has been! What a rare mood I'm…
Along Came Betty If you're foolin', only foolin'All I ask is "Why?"If you're…
Baby Come To Me You went away I let you We broke the ties that bind I…
Back on the Block Back, on the block, so we can rock With the soul,…
Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me Loving you came easily Yet it made me blind to all…
Birdland Lullaby of Birdland, that's what I Always hear when you sigh…
Blue Gardenia Blue gardenia Now I'm alone with you And I am…
Blues in the Night My mama done tol' me, when I was in knee-pants My…
Body Heat Can you feel it Touching you Don't you feel it My tempr…
Bridge Over Troubled Water When you're down and out When you're on the street When even…
Bump In The Night My mama done tol' me, when I was in knee-pants My…
But Not For Me Old man sunshine listen you Never tell me dreams come true J…
Caravan Night and stars above that shine so bright The myst'ry…
Cast Your Fate To The Wind A month of nights, a year of days Octobers drifting into…
Charade When we played our charade We were like children posing Play…
Cherokee Sweet Indian maiden, since first I met you, I can't forget…
Come Back to Sorrento You went away I let you We broke the ties that bind I…
Cool Joe Mean Joe Shucky Ducky, quack quack kick that sh Yeah, this is how…
Count 'em Could there be a different ending To the same old story ?Cau…
Do It-To It It's my party and I'll cry if I want to Cry…
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me Do nothin' till you hear from me Pay no attention to…
Dreamsville I'm in Dreamsville, holding you A dreamy view, just we two…
End Title I saw a blind man, He was a kind man, Helping a…
Every Time We Say Goodbye Ev'ry time we say goodbye I die a little Ev'ry time we…
Everything What would i give to hold you once again What would…
Everything Must Change Everything must change Nothing stays the same Everyone must …
Everything Must Change
Falling In Love With Love Falling in love with love is falling for make-believe Fallin…
For Lena and Lennie Featuring Rihanna Introduction: Nicole. Ri-Rihanna. Ni…
Foul Owl All you little birds better lock up tight, ′Cause there's a…
Get The Funk Out Of My Face Get the funk out ma face Get the funk out ma…
Getta bloomin (England) (England) (England) (England) (England) This is t…
Getta Bloomin' Move On This is the self-preservation society This is the self-prese…
Give Me The Night We never thought You now the spirit of the party starts…
God Is Trying To Tell You Something Listen Yes Yes, Lord If I were you, I would say…
Gone Gone Gone The thrill is gone The thrill is gone away The thrill is…
Gravy Waltz Pretty mamma's in the kitchen this glorious day Smell the gr…
Hard Day's Night It's been a hard day's night, and I been working…
Hard Sock Dance Spend your days just working and shopping Depending on how …
Heaven's Girl …
Hicky Burr Ooh Lord Hikky-burr Hikky-burr burr Ooh lord I'll have s…
Hikky Burr Ooh Lord Hikky-burr Hikky-burr burr Ooh lord I'll have some …
How Do You Keep The Music Playing How do you keep the music playing? How do you make…
Human Nature Looking out Across the nighttime The city winks a sleepless …
I Compliment what she does Send her roses just because If it's…
I Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me Loving you came easily Yet it made me blind to all…
I Concentrate on You Mary wants to be a superwoman But is that really in…
I Could Write a Book A-B-C-D-E-F-G I never learned to spell At least, not well O…
I Don't Go for That Allah Allah Allah Allah bu nasıl sevmek Allah Allah Allah Al…
I Get a Kick Out of You My story is much too sad to be told But practically…
I Got You Whoa! I feel good, I knew that I would, now I…
I Had A Ball I could show the world how to smile I could be…
I Hear A Symphony You've given me a true love and ev'ry day I…
I Never Told You I miss those blue eyes How you kiss me at night I…
I'll Be Good To You I want to know, baby Just how you feel, girl Said I…
I'll Be Good to You (single mix) I want to know baby Just how you feel girl -…
I'll Close My Eyes Heaven sends A song through its doors Just as if…
I'm Gonna Miss You In The Morning Here we are Neither one of us caring why A love so…
I'm Yours Hasn't always been a sunny day Now and then there's been…
If I Ever Loose This Heaven If you're foolin', only foolin'All I ask is "Why?"If you're…
In My Solitude In my solitude You haunt me With dreadful ease Of days gone …
In The Heat Of The Night My mama done tol' me, when I was in knee-pants My…
Introduction Wilson, Wilson Wilson, Wilson Wilson Once upon a time there…
Invitation I'm tired of my life but my heads alright I got…
Ironside instrumental…
Ironside (excerpt) [Instrumental]…
Is It Love That We're Missin' Hey, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Well, the first time I saw…
Is It Love That We're Missin'? Featuring Brothers Johnson Hey, oh, oh... Well, the first …
Is It Love That We're Missing Well, the first time I saw you Was the first time…
Is It Love That We're Missing? Hey, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Well, the first time I saw…
Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby I got a man that's always late Any time we have…
It's My Party It's my party and I'll cry if I want to Cry…
It's the Falling in Love Falling in love with love is falling for make-believe Fallin…
Jazz Corner of the World (...′Cause I'd been in New York all the time, And he…
Just Once I did my best But I guess my best wasn't good…
Just Once feat James Ingram I did my best But I guess my best wasn't good…
Just Once More I did my best But I guess my best wasn't good…
Keep Reachin' There's a dream in your eyes Reflecting what's in front of…
Killer Joe Shucky Ducky, quack quack kick that sh Yeah, this is how…
Lady Be Good I want to know, baby Just how you feel, girl Said I…
Let The Good Times Roll Hey everybody! Let's have some fun You only live but once An…
Liberian Girl [Verse 1] Peace of mind Them girls gon' always Want a piece …
Little Karen We jumpin thumpin banging tha doors down we wow'in the…
Love Dance From too much talk to silent touches Sweet touches We turned…
Love Is Here To Stay It's very clear, our love is here to stay Not for…
Love Theme The Getaway The shadow of your smile When you have gone Will color all…
Love Walked In Falling in love with love is falling for make-believe Fallin…
Lover Come Back to Me You went away, I let you We broke the ties that…
Lullaby of Birdland Lullaby of Birdland, that's what I Always hear when you…
Ma Ma, she's making eyes at me Ma, she's awful nice to…
Mack the Knife Oh, the shark has pretty teeth dear And he shows 'em,…
Makin' Whoopee Another bride, another June Another sunny honeymoon Another …
Many Rains Ago Weeping willow tree Tell me what you know River were you cry…
Maybe God Is Tryin' To Tell You Somethin' Listen Yes Yes, Lord If I were you, I would say…
Midnight Sun Will Never Set The midnight sun will never set It shines forever in my…
Miss Celie's Blues Sister, You've been on my mind Sister, we're two of a kind S…
Misty Look at me, I'm as helpless as a kitten up a…
Mohair Sam Who is the hippie that's happenin' all over our town A-teari…
Money Runner moneymoneymoney moneymoneymoney moneymoneymoney moneymoneymo…
Moody's Mood For Love There I go, there I go, there I go, there…
Moon River Moon River, wider than a mile I'm crossin' you in style…
Moonglow It must have been moonglow, way up in the blue It…
Moonlight in Vermont Pennies in a stream Falling leaves a sycamore Moonlight in v…
My Cherie Amour La la la la la la, la la la la…
My Heart Baby, I just want you to understand Just exactly how you…
My Old Flame My old flame, I can't even think of his name,…
My Reverie Our love is a dream, but in my reverie I can…
Oh Happy Day Oh happy day (oh happy day) Oh happy day (oh happy…
Oluwa Weeping willow tree Tell me what you know River were you cry…
On Days Like These On days like these when skies are blue and fields…
On the Street Where You Live I have often walked Down the street before, But the paveme…
On The Sunny Side Of The Street Walked with no one and talked with no one And I…
One Hundred Ways Compliment what she does Send her roses just because If it's…
One Man Woman I got a car, a J-O-be I'm an independent man God is…
One More Time Once I was young, yesterday, perhaps Danced with Jim and Pa…
Our Love Is Here to Stay It's very clear, our love is here to stay Not for…
P.Y.T Here did you come from lady And ooh won't you take…
P.Y.T. Here did you come from lady And ooh won't you take…
Perdido Perdido, I look for my heart it's perdido I lost it…
Prologue Sticks and stones may break your bones But you ain′t never…
Prologue (2 Q's Rap) Prologue (2 Q's Rap) Quincy Jones PYONG! 0 SharePlay Sticks …
Prologue (20's rap) It was raining when I met you. You were soaking…
Quintessence B. Cox: Another B.cox joint Uh! Uh! Uh! Nicole: Oh-a…
Razzamatazz Don't believe those clouds in the sky 'Cause they'll be movi…
Robot Portrait [Spoken:] Talk to me boy Look I wanna have a word with…
Rock With You [Heavy D.] (Brandy) Uh (oh yeah) Bring the funk Big Heav in …
S Wonderful They say that falling love is wonderful It's wonderful, so t…
Sanford and Son Theme [** feat. T.I., B.o.B., Prince Charlez & Mohombi:] [Chorus:…
Secret Garden Tell me your secret I don`t just want to know About any…
Seduction Tell me your secret I don't just want to know About any…
Shadow of Your Smile The shadow of your smile When you have gone Will color all…
Slow Jams can't believe I'm here Down at the q's jook joint (no…
Smackwater Jack Now, Smackwater Jack, He bought a shotgun 'Cause he was in t…
Soldier in the Rain Young lonesome soldier, sleeping in the rain Far from home H…
Solitude In my solitude You haunt me With dreadful ease Of days gone …
Somebody Loves Me Somebody loves me; I wonder who I wonder who he can…
Somethin' Special It was only yesterday that I was down And the…
Something About You Darlin' darlin' If I could have you to call my…
Something I Cannot Have I dream about you baby every night It feels so good Yeah…
Something Special It was only yesterday that I was down And the…
Sometimes I'm Happy Every day seems like a year Sweetheart, when you are not…
Sophisticated Lady Sophisticated lady tryin' to change my ways Just because you…
Soul Bossa Nostra Yes sir, See what we are about to do right…
Soul Bossa Nova (Instrumental)…
Soul Bossa Nova (original mix) Yes sir, See what we are about to do right now is…
St. Louis Blues I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate…
Stardust And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the…
Starry Night Starry night, an unknown creation Written by, and from the a…
STAY WITH ME It's the wrong time and the wrong place Though your face…
Stomp Let me introduce to you A brand new dance I got…
Stormy Weather Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky,…
Strawberry Letter 23 Rain or shine sleet or snow You're the reason why I…
Stuff Like That Walked in the joint They were lined up back to back Anything…
Summer in the City Till I'm wheezing like a bus stop Running up the stairs,…
Sun The midnight sun will never set It shines forever in my…
Sunny Walked with no one and talked with no one And I…
Superstition Very superstitious, writings on the wall Very superstitious…
Superwoman Mary wants to be a superwoman But is that really in…
Take Five Instrumental Written by Paul Desmond…
That Midnight Sun Will Never Set The midnight sun will never set It shines forever in my…
The Best Is yet to Come Out of the tree of life I just picked me…
The Bridge When you're down and out When you're on the street When even…
The days of wine and roses The days of wine and roses laugh and run away…
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@melvis1516
@@neilstern1694 -
not getting credit???
What are you talking about??
EVERY SONGWRITER got PAID & was ARTISTICALLY RESPECTED when Elvis sang their song!!
The songwriters name was on that record!
And btw, artists were grateful and happy when Elvis sang their song!
So what do you say when black artists sings a song from a white writer??
Isn’t it all MUSIC?!?
Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller wrote Hound Dog -
Elvis, just like other singers, sang songs from both black and white writers!! He added his own flare to the songs, he produced his own music! Elvis made & changed history and he did it with humility, graciousness, respect and love which is why people love him but why people hate on him because of their own failures and jealousy!
Elvis was very aware of the negative criticism at him. He understood that with his success, his stardom, there will always be people trying to knock you down, trying to discredit you.
Elvis always stood above all that! Elvis’ spirit and soul was love!!
@CMCSE
@@djranlove dude...italians are racist since the roman empire
Even egiptians saw dark skin people low
In fact...the slaves solded to the settlers amd colonizers are coming from north afrika solded by other black tribes as "War Spoils", most islam countries are light brown skin or tanned, and the Muslim Otoman empire who ruled most of europe or more specificly what we know as the balkans were white
Is not about race, is about countries and cultures
We in latinamerica we can say the N word an nobody gets angry or b1tch about it (even if we suffee the slavery and get ruled by the spanish empire for most of 600 years)
The problem with racism in U.S.A Starts with whites and keep going by the same P.O.C who became vindictive thats why they reinforce those racist stereotypes, P.O.C sabotage themselves, SPECIALLY if somebody gets rich and leave the ghetto.
@panteraxenos4789
When Elvis played the Houston Astrodome in 1970 they told him to leave his black backup group The Sweet Inspirations , ...home. Elvis told them if they don't go then I don't go. Watch it online. And listen to what ,
Muhammad Ali
Sammy Davis
B.B, King
Red Foxx
Jackie Wilson
Fats Domino
James Brown
Rufus Thomas .....said about their love and friendship they had for and with Elvis.
@OneTwo-kc4ui
Wikipedia bio on Roy Hamilton states:
"In early July 1969, Hamilton suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage at his home in New Rochelle, New York.[1][25] He was taken to New Rochelle General Hospital where he lay in a coma for more than a week. On July 20, 1969, he was removed from life support and died.[25] Hamilton was 40 years old. Some connected his earlier illness that caused his retirement to his death, although a connection was never proven.[20]
In a 2017 documentary for the BBC, Hamilton’s son Roy Hamilton Jr. revealed that Elvis Presley sent Roy's wife, Myrna, a rose every day Hamilton was in the hospital. When Hamilton passed away from complications of his stroke, Presley sent Myrna flowers for the following six months.
At the time of his death, Hamilton was heavily in debt, forcing him, a week before he died, to borrow heavily on his insurance policy to pay off back taxes. This prompted his widow, Myrna, to publicly seek funds for his burial. Elvis Presley is said to have covered Hamilton’s outstanding medical bills and funeral costs. At Hamilton's funeral service, messages of condolence sent by Presley, Mahalia Jackson and B.B. King were read out to the mourners."
Doesn't sound like a racist.
@pgprog
Elvis refuse to play at Astro dome in Houston Texas because they wouldn't allow his black musician to play. Elvis had cancel the show. The owner finaly agreed and Elvis made the show. Be careful when talking about what you don't know.
@angelripper_420
And Elvis bought a black lady a brand new Cadillac
@Mike-vt6jj
@@angelripper_420 she was his personal cook too I believe
@melvis1516
@@angelripper_420 -
Yes, he seen a woman who was admiring a car at the dealership and he asked her which car she liked so he bought her a Cadillac along with a lot of other gifts too all delivered to her home.(Yes, she was a Black woman)
@melvis1516
@@Mike-vt6jj -
No...
Elvis bought many people cars including a woman at the car dealership who was admiring a car. He bought her a Cadillac along with other gifts and had them delivered to her home. Yes she a Black woman.
Elvis did buy his cook a home and a car as he did buy homes and cars for many people.
@cherrycain6425
So very true. 👍🏻👍🏻
@chanchan5349
I heard a story @Elvis when he was young: an elderly black woman left a grocery store carrying her groceries & walking home. He caught up to her & asked if he could help. She let him carry her groceries & they walked to her house, apparently it was quite a walk. Next day he bought her a car. According to his friend (who told the story), Elvis was truly colorblind. He didn’t care @race or color at all.
@tellittothemarines704
Pardon me for saying so but your story sounds much embellished. I don't think Elvis ever walked anywhere in his adult life and probably never saw the inside of a bank, let alone a grocery store. However, there is a story of Elvis buying a car for a Black lady but that happened at a car dealership in the 1970s during one of his car buying sprees. The woman was admiring a car and Elvis apparently bought it for her.
@alexmetista
That's correct.@@tellittothemarines704
@chavmanrush7109
My grandfather (a black jazz musician). Known as the black cat Tom in the 50s opened for Elvis 3 times in his early career. Elvis loved his style of guitar so much that he struck a conversation with him about where the music industry was headed and God knows what else. Low and behold he asked my grandfather how he had arrived to the venue, and my grandfather (19 at the time) informed him that he had walked. Later that night Elvis handed him the Keys to the car he was driving that night, and gave him his personal number, and said to ring him if he needed anything. He kept in touch with Elvis, and even paid visits to Graceland where he would play football, and yard sports with the king. When Elvis passed in 77 I was 12 years old, and I can still remember him coming over with no expression saying “that’s it they got him, the world will never be the same” and I can not agree more as music has gone down hill since his passing.