LG077 Recordings and Interview: Salute to Dr. King (WGNO-TV); Elliot Beal (LG077Goreau_Side1)

LG077Goreau_Side1

Day, Iris

Beal, Elliot
Day, Iris

1974-01-23

2020-03-14
2020-03-14

Side 1: A Salute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Channel 26, WGNO-TV, on 1974-01-23. Side 2: Interview with Elliot Beal by Iris Day in New Orleans, Louisiana on 1974-02-01. Abstract for Beal: [15:57-47:33] On LG077Goreau_Side2, while Laurraine Goreau is in Biloxi working on her book, her friend and assistant, Iris Day, interviews Elliot Beal from his home in New Orleans. Day has a list of questions provided by Goreau regarding dates and details of various events in Mahalia Jackson's life which Beal answers. He shares a humorous anecdote about driving through the desert on the way to Los Angeles in a hot car because Jackson was "afraid of air conditioning" – 17:10. Beal also describes meeting Sidney Poitier after an appearance in A Raisin in the Sun around the time of Jackson's first Madison Square Garden affair – 23:24. Day and Beal discuss Jackson's first meeting with Harry Belafonte – 27:48. Beal mentions Jackson's uncanny ability to "smell death" – 36:30. They spend some time discussing the lyrics to Jackson's song Didn't It Rain with Beal singing a few bars – 38:19. Day laments to Beal that she has been unable to locate a copy of Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige album which Goreau needs as research for the book. Beal says he has the record and offers to loan it to Day once she returns from visiting Goreau in Biloxi – 39:11.

37 min., 59 sec.

sound recording

Audio

interviews

Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, Tulane University Special Collections

Laurraine Goreau collection, HJA-059

https://archives.tulane.edu/

Extrasensory perception

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Tulane University Digital Library

eng

HJA059_LG077_1.mp3

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This recording was digitized in 2020 as part of a Recordings at Risk grant funded project administered by CLIR, "Tell the real story of me": Mahalia Jackson and Black Gospel Quartets in the South.

LG077 Recordings and Interview: Salute to Dr. King (WGNO-TV); Elliot Beal, Laurraine Goreau collection, HJA-059, Tulane University Special Collections, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

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