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GREAT PERFORMANCES' Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story details the story behind the legendary label that launched soul music greats -- from Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes to The Staple Singers and Booker T. & the MGs -- on Wednesday, August 1 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information visit www.pbs.org/gperf

Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, the PBS broadcast coincides with the 50th anniversary of Stax and the relaunch of the label by Concord Music Group.

One of the longest-running performing arts anthologies on television, the award-winning GREAT PERFORMANCES series presents the best in music, dance and theater. The series is a production of Thirteen/WNET New York and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, public television viewers, and PBS. Major corporate funding is provided by UBS.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: July 20, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Author: PBS

Length: 00:04:39
Rating: 4.97
Views: 31660

Tags: PBS Isaac Hayes Otis Redding Stax Records Samuel L. Jackson Angie Stone Concord South Park Booker T. & The MGs Sam and D

Video Comments:
loopy77 (November 20, 2008 at 10:49 am)
When Otis started signing "I've been loving you", I fell OUT. Whoo! And the other musicians talking about hearing it for the first time...wow.

And, I love Rufus--that man is a FREAK of the highest order (I mean that with love).

Sidenote: PBS showed Wattstax a while ago--in the dead of the night. But, I was happy to run by it. Why does PBS show the best documentaries in the dead of night!
Ashwin42 (September 29, 2008 at 3:33 pm)
saw the STAX doco during the Memphis Tour down under this year. Awesome stuff, never ever knew! So they put me onto allmemphismusic livestream. THERE are the legends
ulster44 (August 25, 2008 at 5:26 pm)
I missed the programme, does anyone know how i can watch it?
Pilotpatty1 (September 6, 2008 at 6:20 pm)
I saw it just a week or less ago on channel 2 (in boston). PBS. Do you have PBS broadcasted in your area? What was great about it was there was no fund raiser so the show went on nonstop, uninterrupted! It was fantastic!!! I work at night so it was broadcasted about 2 am or 3am my time.
RedwoodCurtain (August 17, 2008 at 6:17 pm)
What's up? I tried to post 3 times yesterday that the song was Soul Finger.....
applestead (August 16, 2008 at 5:16 pm)
What is the name of that piece of music that starts at 0.22 I just gotta find out. Anyone know????
PBS (August 16, 2008 at 9:06 pm)
"Soul Finger" by The Bar-Kays
applestead (August 17, 2008 at 4:03 am)
thank you, youre a star.
alexk3lly (July 30, 2008 at 12:14 pm)
i watched this on bbc4 the other day in the uk and it is definettley worth watching some of the greatest preformers ever were on that label
LaMorenaMusic (July 29, 2008 at 6:58 am)
I watched the doco just two days ago, here in the UK. STAX was inspirational, their musicians epitomised SOUL as you could see that they put their very essence into the music they recorded. Thank you Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton for being pioneers and innovators. I still get goosebumps listening to Otis Redding -- man what a prolific talent. My mom and Gran were into Isaac Hayes - I know we have the Black Moses original gatefold and the Isaac Hayes Movement album. Soulville forerver!