Some songs are so iconic, so special, and have been covered by enough artists to be deserving of a playlist with just that song. One Song Playlist focuses on one song at a time, delivering great stories and conversations every time, through podcasts available anytime.
Season One: Oh Child... Original performed by The Five Stairsteps Written by: Stan Vincent
My Two Aunts: Learning And Laughing With Family Part 2
Denise Dunbar Perkins and Cynthia Lyle Rhodes are both aunts of host Tony Dunbar, who were high school classmates (Calumet High School/Chicago-1968). At Calumet High School their school choir often won citywide music competitions. They also went to High School with R&B Vocalist, Chaka Khan. This conversation discusses the music and the times of the late-60’s and early-70’s along with providing funny antidotes you can only get when talking among family. This is part 2 of a 4-part interview.
Recorded November 12, 2020 (The week of Thanksgiving)
23 Jun 2021
My Two Aunts: Learning And Laughing With Family - Part 1
Reverend Dr. Denise Dunbar Perkins and Cynthia Lyle Rhodes are both aunts of host Tony Dunbar, who were high school classmates (Calumet High School/Chicago-1968). At Calumet High School their school choir often won citywide music competitions. They also went to High School with R&B Vocalist, Chaka Khan. This conversation discusses the music and the times of the late-60’s and early-70’s along with providing funny antidotes you can only get when talking among family. This is a 4-part interview.
Recorded November 12, 2020 The week of Thanksgiving
14 Jun 2021
Zemrah Songstress & Lyricist Pamela Wilks: Love is Possible Part 1
Zemrah Songstress is a Chicago featured vocalist with a newly released project, Love is Possible, is joined my lyricist, Pamela Wilks who wrote a number of songs for the recently released project Together they share about the spiritual connection in their relationship, collaboration around music as well as their younger days and reflections of past social movements and current racial climate. This is a 3-part interview
Recorded February 14, 2021
31 May 2021
Creola Hampton: Part One - Out There Doing Greater Work
Creola Kizart Hampton – is the Founder and President of Greater Works Inc (https://greaterworks1.com/people/). She is a former Marketing and PR Executive having work for Ogilvy and Mather Advertising as well as Burson & Marsteller (now known as Burson Cohn & Wolfe) Public Relations. Creola is a renowned AIDS (and now COVID-19) advocate in the Black Community. She generously shares her memories of the Season One song, meeting Dr. Martin Luther King as a child as well as profound insights on racial and social justice. This is part 1 of a 4-part interview
31 May 2021
Creola Hampton: Part Two - Out There Doing Greater Work
Creola Kizart Hampton – is the Founder and President of Greater Works Inc (https://greaterworks1.com/people/). She is a former Marketing and PR Executive having work for Ogilvy and Mather Advertising as well as Burson & Marsteller (now known as Burson Cohn & Wolfe) Public Relations. Creola is a renowned AIDS (and now COVID-19) advocate in the Black Community. This is Part Two of our four part One Song Playlist interview with Creola. Part 2 continues our Part One conversation on music and extends to discussions of the Vietnam War, the resistance to Martin Luther King in the Black Community as well as the murder of Sam Cooke.
17 May 2021
Monica Lewis Patrick & Gwen Winston: Motown Matriarchs Part 2
This is part 2 of the 4- part interview with our guest; two of Detroit’s legendary and most effective and influential community organizers Professor Gwen Winston (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwendolyn-winston-81617b17/) and Monica Lewis Patrick. This 2nd episode picks up where we left off in part one, transitioning the discussion from the 1967 Detroit riots to Dr Martin Luther King’s pivot in that same year to expand the civil rights movement to a broader human rights agenda towards addressing poverty in the United States along with King’s increased focus on the Vietnam War.
This episode was recorded in December of 2020
10 May 2021
Monica Lewis Patrick & Gwen Winston: Motown Matriarchs Part 1
Professor “Momma” Gwen Winston (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwendolyn-winston-81617b17/) is the Principal/President for g. bailey winston enterprises (gbwe) and Executive Director of the Wisdom Institute. Beyond being a master facilitator and one of the most respected and sought after community organizers in Southeastern Michigan, she is a fountain of wisdom and inspiration Monica, the CEO of We the People of Detroit (https://www.wethepeopleofdetroit.com/), is a renowned water as a human rights advocate connected to the Flint clean water crisis and the Detroit water shut-off crisis. She is known as the Water Warrior. This interview with the Motown Matriarchs is simply edutainment at it’s best. This is part 1 of a 4-part interview.
28 Apr 2021
Collaboraction Theater Company– “Racial Justice Is What They Do”
Interview with (https://www.collaboraction.org/staff-and-board-bios)Anthony Moseley (https://www.collaboraction.org/staff-and-board-bios), the Artistic Director, and Dr. Marcus Robinson (https://www.collaboraction.org/staff-and-board-bios), the Executive Director of Collaboraction (https://www.collaboraction.org/), a racial/social justice theatre group. Put on your seatbelts, this conversation is quite the ride; with the journey starting with the discussion of the cultural relevance of the Five Stairsteps’ 1970 classic, to commentaries on culture, economics, technology, along with sharing Collaboraction’s commitment to racial justice (https://www.collaboraction.org/our-mission). This is a 3-part interview
19 Apr 2021
Episode 3: Dr. Clifton Sanders –“They got Soul in Salt Lake City”
This native of Maryland is the current Provost of Academic Affairs at Salt Lake Community College (https://www.linkedin.com/in/clifton-sanders-phd-9b970b14/), and chemist by education and trade. He's also an established musician who was in a soul music band (saxophonist) that played soul classics throughout the Salt Lake Valley region of Utah. In this episode beyond his fond memories of O-o-h Child, the spiritual and intellectual Dr. Sanders discuss his study of Dr. Martin Luther king and Civil Rights Movement, the post-Civil Rights era that started after King’s death, the Soul Scene in Salt Lake City Utah, and his personal life journey from Maryland to Utah with a stop in Minnesota along the way. This is part 1 of a 3-part interview. For parts 2 and 3 join our One Song Playlist Patreon Community: patreon.com/onesongplaylist
Recorded December 12, 2020
7 Apr 2021
Salm Kolis Wise and Woke Part 1
We appreciate you listening to One Song Playlist, and for Season one we are featuring O-o-h Child by a Chicago family musical group the Five Stairsteps, which was released in April of 1970…. And in that year our guest Salm Kolis was a young college student on the Carbondale campus of Southern Illinois University. She was also in the midst of what she refers to as her personal radicalization along with many other college students at the time
We caught up with Salm in November of 2020 right after the national election, which lent opportunity for her to share about her decades long connection to the Socialist Workers Party. This extraordinarily interesting interview covers other topics including art, medicine, and education as well as the pandemic. I’m sure you’ll enjoy this one.
29 Mar 2021
One Song Playlist Season I - Episode I - PT2 LaDonna Tittle "Your Tittle in the Middle
Thank you for listening to Part 2 of our One Song Playlist interview with LaDonna Tittle. There are four parts to this fantastic interview. Parts 1 & 2 will be available to the general public and tier one subscribing members of our One Song Playlist Patreon Community. All four parts of our conversation with LaDonna will be available for Tier 2 and 3 subscribers. Patreon is where you can support this podcast as a subscriber and – again - become part of our One Song Playlist community.
22 Mar 2021
Episode 1 / Preview: La Donna Tittle – “Your Tittle in the Middle”
What better way to start a podcast about a song that’s a Chicago soul and r&b music classic than with an interview a Chicago radio personality legend? Episode One is an interview with LaDonna Tittle, who’s not only a groundbreaking radio icon in Chicago Black radio; she is also an actress and model, and host of her own cooking (https://cantv.org/news/2019/07/passion-at-work/) show. LaDonna was most recently featured on Showtime's The Chi as Ms. Ethel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_P-mTPAgH4) (Seasons 1-3). In this 4-part interview, the iconic Tittle shares about our season one song and so much more.
Recorded October 15, 2020
Parts 1 & 2 are free on your favorite podcast providers. The additional content is exclusive for our Patreon community. Please visit our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/onesongplaylist) to join our community and support this podcast. patreon.com/onesongplaylist (https://www.patreon.com/onesongplaylist)
Part 1 available Monday 3/22/2021
Part 2 available Monday 3/29/2021
22 Mar 2021
Episode 1/Part 1 of 4: La Donna Tittle – “Your Tittle in the Middle”
What better way to start a podcast about a song that’s a Chicago soul and r&b music classic than with an interview a Chicago radio personality legend? Episode One is an interview with LaDonna Tittle, who’s not only a groundbreaking radio icon in Chicago Black radio; she is also an actress and model, and host of her own cooking (https://cantv.org/news/2019/07/passion-at-work/) show. LaDonna was most recently featured on Showtime's The Chi as Ms. Ethel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_P-mTPAgH4) (Seasons 1-3). In this 4-part interview, the iconic Tittle shares about our season one song and so much more.
Recorded October 15, 2020
Parts 1 & 2 are free on your favorite podcast providers. The additional content is exclusive for our Patreon community. Please visit our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/onesongplaylist) to join our community and support this podcast. patreon.com/onesongplaylist (https://www.patreon.com/onesongplaylist)
Part 1 available Monday 3/22/2021
Part 2 available Monday 3/29/2021
21 Mar 2021
One Song Playlist (30-Minute) Master Sample
FROM THE HOST & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DR. TONY DUNBAR
I got the idea this summer. I decided to make a new playlist for my afternoon walk/runs. I was in the mood to listen to a song, actually my favorite song, ooh child, by Chicago's own The FiveStairsteps (Burke Fami (https://music.newcity.com/2020/07/10/o-o-h-child-the-chicago-birth-of-an-rb-anthem/)ly) (https://music.newcity.com/2020/07/10/o-o-h-child-the-chicago-birth-of-an-rb-anthem/). So after saving the original (1970), I saw all these remakes from Hall & Oates to BeBe & CeCe Winans. So I saved those and looked for more until I actually had enough for a decent playlist; thus, the notion One Song Playlist. It is an interview show using the context and power of a single song to not only discuss the song but also broaden the interview out into more dynamic points of conversation depending on who’s the guest. The full arc of the interview gives ample opportunity to discuss the background of the guest and the projects, organizations, and issues, to which they’re connected.
This 30-minute extended preview is a great to get introduced to the podcast. The program launches Monday March 22, 2021. Visit our website: onesongplaylist.com (https://www.onesongplaylist.com). You can support the One Song Playlist by joining our Patreon Community at: https://www.patreon.com/onesongplaylist (https://www.patreon.com/onesongplaylist)
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