Soul! — Season 6
Guests include: Al Green, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Spinners, Stokely Carmichael, Esther Phillips, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Billy Preston, and others.
About this season
Guests include: Al Green, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Spinners, Stokely Carmichael, Esther Phillips, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Billy Preston, and others.
Episodes (8)
1. January 3, 1973
Aired 3 January 1973
Guest: an evening with singer Al Green Host: Ellis Haizlip
2. January 10, 1973
Aired 10 January 1973
Guests: Tony Award-winning singer Linda Hopkins & the Soul Quintet, and musical group Earth, Wind & Fire Hosts: Gerry Bledsoe and Ellis Haizlip
3. January 17, 1973
Aired 17 January 1973
Guests: The Spinners and the Jimmy Castor Bunch
4. February 7, 1973
Aired 7 February 1973
Guest: Stokely Carmichael
5. February 14, 1973
Aired 14 February 1973
Guest: singer Esther Phillips, and a performance of “The Johnson Girls,” which centers around six young Southern ladies.
6. February 21, 1973
Aired 21 February 1973
Guests: vocal group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, singer Esther Marrow, and Encore magazine editor Ida Lewis
7. February 28, 1973
Aired 28 February 1973
Guest: performer/composer/keyboard artist Billy Preston and his musical group.
8. March 7, 1973 (the last episode)
Aired 7 March 1973
Soul! staff: Ellis Haizlip, Alonzo Brown Jr., Anna Horsford, Sherri Santifer, Loretta Green and Leslie Demus read poetry – and letters from viewers throughout the country, and share clips of LaBelle (from the first episode of Soul!), and King Curtis (musical director of Soul!, who passed away during the show’s run). Host: Ellis Haizlip