Joan Baez & B.B. King' Sing Sing Concert

B.B King And Joan Baez Live In Concert I SHall Be Released
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The Sing Sing Thanksgiving
Directors: David Hoffman 1 Harry Willard
Release Date: April 1974 (USA)
Genre: Documentary - Music
Length: 01:21:53



This is a documentary of a benefit concert for the prisoners of Ossining Correctional Facility (a.k.a. Sing Sing) that took place on Thanksgiving of 1972 (Nov. 22), and was broadcast on TV on Thanksgiving of the following year. The concert featured B.B. King, Joan Baez, Mimi Fariña, and The Voices of East Harlem. Comedian Jimmy Walker served as the MC.


Joan and Mimi sing a beautiful duet of the Spanish song "Viva mi patria Bolivia," and Joan sings solo on "I Shall Be Released" and "Prison Trilogy." There is also a song by Joan that is played over the end credits and, to the best of my knowledge, is not available anywhere else. Half the film is music, and the rest is made up of interviews with prisoners and prison employees.


Like any project that Joan was involved in, it is an eye-opening experience. The historical importance of the event, from a Fariña perspective, is that Mimi's visit to Sing Sing was an early inspiration for the creation of Bread & Roses in 1974.



* Traccking list with time :

17:00 - Voices of East Harlem - Fly, Bird, Fly
21:55 - Voices of East Harlem - To Be Young, Gifted and Black
25:10 - Jimmy Walker - [comedy act]
27:45 - Joan Baez - [introduction]
28:15 - Joan Baez - I Shall Be Released
30:40 - Joan Baez - [speech]
31:10 - Joan Baez & Mimi Fariña - Viva mi patria Boliva
33:00 - Pinto the Cat
35:00 - Inmates - [prison play]
40:10 - Joan Baez - Prison Trilogy
45:25 - Inmate - Game in the Apple [rap poem]
49:40 - B.B. King - [introduction]
51:20 - B.B. King - How Blue Can You Get?
56:00 - B.B. King - Someone Really Loves You
59:10 - B.B. King - I Think You're Cheatin' On Me, Baby
1:03:05 - B.B. King - [playout]
1:09:25 - Voices of East Harlem - [introduction]
1:10:05 - Voices of East Harlem - I'll Be Your Heaven
1:18:50 - Joan Baez - Sing Sing [played over closing credits]


* Note :

If you look closely during the prison play peformed by the inmates, you'll see that the main actor's t-shirt is autographed by Joan and Mimi on the front and B.B. King on the back. That's Mimi's flower, which she often added to her autograph on books and albums.