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Watermelon Man is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Melvin Van Peebles and starring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Kay Kimberley, Mantan Moreland, and Erin Moran.
May 12, 2020 · Classic Mood Experience The best masterpieces ever recorded in the music history. Join our Youtube: https://goo.gl/8AOGaN Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man [1962] "Watermelon Man" is a...
Herbie Hancock explains how he composed Watermelon Man and how Mongo Santamaria influenced it. He then performs both the original 1962 and the 1973 Headhunt...
"Watermelon Man" is a jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock for his debut album, Takin' Off (1962). Hancock's first version was recorded in a hard bop style, featuring solos by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and saxophonist Dexter Gordon . [1]
Dec 31, 2014 · Melvin Van Peebles’s only foray into Hollywood filmmaking, Watermelon Man is one of the most audacious, radically conceived works to be financed by a major American studio in the 1970s.
Feb 26, 2024 · Written by pianist Herbie Hancock, ‘Watermelon Man’ is one of the great ear-worms of jazz. But whilst many know it for its appearance on legendary jazz fusion album Head Hunters in the 1970s, it actually started life a decade earlier…
Watermelon Man. Provided to YouTube by Columbia/Legacy Watermelon Man · Herbie Hancock Head Hunters ℗ 1973 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment Released on: 1973-10-26 ...
May 27, 1970 · Watermelon Man: Directed by Melvin Van Peebles. With Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin. Jeff Gerber, a racist white man, wakes up one morning to discover that he has become black.
A white insurance salesman, Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge), gets the surprise of his life when he wakes up and discovers that his skin now resembles a black man's. In day-to-day life,...
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1 h 40 m. Summary An extremely bigoted white man finds out the hard (and somewhat humorous) way what it's like being a black man, firsthand! Comedy. Drama. Fantasy. Directed By: Melvin Van Peebles. Written By: Herman Raucher. Watermelon Man. Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews. 60. User Score Available after 4 ratings. tbd.
