Let's Git It On
Let's Git It On
12/30/1974 | 58m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
1974 dance-party program features dancing local teens and performances by the funk group “Gabriel”.
Recorded live at WQED studios in 1974, this dance-party style program from the Black Horizons series is hosted by Jimmy Tripp and features local teens dancing to popular soul and R&B hits of the day. Also featured are performances by the funk group “Gabriel”.
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Let's Git It On is a local public television program presented by WQED
Let's Git It On
Let's Git It On
12/30/1974 | 58m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
Recorded live at WQED studios in 1974, this dance-party style program from the Black Horizons series is hosted by Jimmy Tripp and features local teens dancing to popular soul and R&B hits of the day. Also featured are performances by the funk group “Gabriel”.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipIs that, Jimmy Tripp?
Well, when I say good evening I'm Jimmy Tripp, you love the pa Black horizons is playin the biggest party of the season.
This is the season of the party to go ahead and jump on your good foot.
You want it?
Yeah, I want it.
Yeah, you got it.
Oh, yeah.
The Black Horizons program and training for minority professionals are made possible by grant from the PPG Industry Foundation and the Statesman Fund, the Pennsylvania Public Television Network and by your local contributions.
Let's get it on.
Let's get it on.
Let's get it on.
No matter how often we say it, it never comes out too soon.
So, brother Man and sister too, I invite you to party heart with every muscle in your body.
And when you through, if you will, for the sake of harmony with peace, be still.
Listen as we deliver the word.
Ain't nothing but a party, y'all.
Get it on, y'all.
All right.
Watchmen.
And Jimmy Tripp on top of everything.
The sun.
Stevie Wonder, the voice of thunder.
Broke it down.
Reggae woman.
Let's get it on.
Party y'all I like to see y'all ride across.
I like to do it till till if call a fun ball I like to break.
But you can't do that for me.
I like to make.
You can make me.
Boy on woman.
What is wrong with me?
Fire on me.
What?
Baby came.
I like see both the fire deeply and night.
I like singing and then I stop Cuz I would.
I like to see the whole debate and love Yeah, yeah.
I like to see, you know, under the stars above.
I'm looking all the women.
What is wrong with you?
What you try to do And I play.
Can I play oh, man.
What?
Whats wrong with Yo!
I am here, What you trying to do All right.
Well, I mean, leaving the song the Stevie Wonder into the sound.
The rest of this is brand new man of fun.
This is here.
This lays me up.
Ain't no need of crying, baby.
Hey, no need of crying When it's raining Cause crying only adds to the rain Ain't no need a worrying about your problem Cause crying only adds to the pain.
If when you feel like you've been caught in a hurricane.
caught in a hurricane Just wait on the sunshine after the rain.
Whoa oh.
Ah, let me tell you why (oh-oh-oh-oh, life) Life's got ups, just like it's got downs (oh-oh-oh-oh, life) And life's got smiles, just like it's got frowns Ain't no need of crying when it's raining.
You're crying.
They only make the flood.
Have a little faith in yourself.
That's all you need to do you some good If they cut off the lights in your house (in your little house) I see y'all.
Don't you let them Cut off the sunshine in your heart.
Oh, let me tell you why.
Life's got ups just like it's got downs (oh-oh-oh-oh, life) And life's, got smiling.
just like it's got frowns (well) Well, he he now, look real hard Can't you see the sunshine?
(Can't you see the sunshine?)
We wasn't born in a life of just good times (ti Thank the Lord above For the strength to see (for the strength to see) It's going to be all right (all right) all right.
For you.
For you And me, eh-eh-eh-eh-ooh-ooh (for me) For you.
Around me.
For you.
When it's raining.
Its gonna be alright When it's raining.
The sun is gonna shine Let us matter, son.
The rest hour.
Oh, yeah.
My design, the rest.
Aint no need in crown at this point, I like how I'm expressing our thanks to the Pittsburgh Musical Society local on 60 dash 471 American Federation of Musicians.
Herb Osgood president for letting us get it out.
All right, all right.
Jimmy Tripp inside Make a little music for you recently.
Last week, we did a thing with, Well, I did a thing with a group called Gabriel here in town.
And Gabriel is like one of the latest upcoming groups featuring Cornell Del Rey, formerly lead guitar from the Betty Davi Band, along with Elvin Haywood from Luther Allison's band and, with them, Anthony Bowens.
Loud.
That's him.
So no further ado, let's check out Gabriel.
Find the Cost of Freedom may meet in the ground, Other Earth will swallow you.
Lay your body down.
I know something you wont I aint talking about your dues and don't.
I'm here to rock your mind.
That I'm here to rock.
Oh.
All you do is waiting on here everybody.
You know that Put down your roots Everybody you know me.
On them.
On the me seven.
Say you got a boy.
I'm coming.
He's gonna be a son of a gun.
Gotta make the women jump inside.
The world's gonna know what thats all about Everybody.
Around me.
Everybody knows about.
Hey, baby, I got some you wont talking about you.
Do the dont I'm here to rock you night and day.
I'm here to rock your place away.
You know Im here Everybody you know.
Go down.
Your goose goose.
Everybody.
The whole time.
Hey babe On them.
Off for me.
So like I said, look out.
I'm gonna make you dummies out.
The world's gonna know Whats all about.
Everybody, Go down to Everybody know.
Everybody.
know And I'm a fan of Gabriel.
Gabriel Be back later on in the program.
Meantime, in between time, it's time to call in again.
Its called the Rhyme Tyme peopl Strange No smiling faces to help along the way Your mind seems to be an open door.
What's it for, whoa-oh... Try to find a way to clean up your mind Your lovely mother can't always dig a change Over how your whole lifestyle has been so rearranged Round and round the changes you It's what you wanna do, whoa-oh... what you wanna do, whoa-oh... Wanna do When you're foolin' with that stuff Strange chances are poppin' in the air Them Rhyme Tyme People, you can always find them there Your mind is all about a doubt You just can't work it out, whoa can't work it out work it out Rhyme Tyme People Ain't no way.
Can you come in, man.
That's now all right, all right, all right.
And might have sounded coo in the game out of Philadelphia.
Call that Rhyme Tyme People.
Jimmy Tripp inside your music, man.
Mix a little music as we get it on from WQED, the home of Black Horizons.
Cast us again.
We'd like to express our thanks to the Pittsburgh Musical Society local 60 dash 471.
That's American Federation of Musicians.
Herb Osgood, presiden for letting us get our thing on all right.
Jimmy Tripp, jumping out of sight, headed down the turnpike as we throw down.
Some might have some aspirin and simp simp, Who about we have some simp simp Everybody got to give it up sometime.
Oh to yourself sneaking in the dark in silent in contemplation.
On the nation coming down.
People trying hard to break down.
You got to tell them they'll be no less.
Now I'll be in the sun.
Never let until you stand up.
Oh, and hold it up.
Break it up.
Cause everybody's got to give up.
Oh, sometime so that my eyes.
burn break be mine.
Hey, you got it over now.
Got it down.
To find decision And I know it's like 60ft.
Until the drivers complete racing in order.
Get set!
Hey, fire!
I know you, no need to resist, but I came.
Oh, my plan is to stash tires.
Everybody's got to givet it up.
Oh, sometimes So you might as well be mine.
Oh, held and held it.
Until I break your tough cause.
Everybody's got to give it up.
Sometimes some.
mine as well.
Cause everybody's got to give it up everybody gotta give it up sometime.
Matter of fact you owe it to yourself.
Oh my.
To some after some, some.
Everybody got to give it up some time.
Oh they wrong with that.
That's going to start getting it.
Oh 1974 1975 Jimmy Tripp inside the music mind WQED.
This is Black Horizons.
Call it a special whatever.
As we throw down to the hour to the party, on this night a party night in the city.
Everything's cool.
And the gang.
Oh, let's get the groove going on.
Y'all all together now.
If it's good to you, it's good for you.
All right, let's do it.
The sound of Gabriel.
One more gang, Let's welcome Gabriel to the audience She's out there.
She's out there.
In a strange kind of way, yeah.
To meet her at the crossroads.
In it does.
I pray.
Ooh.
You're dope.
You're person.
Utopia.
A person.
So to say.
Oh, I say.
When I think of the beauty.
White milk and your honey.
To think of this is ever.
Utopia, dreaming Utopia A possible Utopia.
A possible So they say so they say.
She's so beautiful, so beautiful.
That's all I can say.. I guess maybe the way she looks to me.
I've got to set her on her way.
Yeah.
Utopia, a possible.
Utopia, Possible.
So they say.
So they say.
So they say.
So they say.
So they say.
So they say.
So they say.
All right, let us down to Gabriel.
One more again.
Utopia.
Oh, yeah.
Group of brothers out of Boston, Massachusetts.
They go by the name of Tavares.
They called us.
She's gone.
No longer here.
This is the latest.
Y'all can do this.
satisfied Don't hurt me.
But.
Everybody Consulation Everybody's trying to tell me what is right for me.
I need a drink and a quick decision.
Now it's up to me.
Whoa, whoa, wait for me.
She's got a whole.
I better let out a face and she's going nowhere.
Ill pay the downroad to replace She's got what went wrong.
Oh, you look at the morning.
Look in the mirror.
In the mirror One of the toothbrush is hanging in the stand.
My face ain't looking at me younger.
Now I can see those taking her down a toll on me.
She's gone, I I'd better learn how to face it.
She's gone I pay the devil to replace.
She's gone what went wrong.
Oh.
I think I spend eternity in the sea.
And I'm on the ceiling.
Let the carbon monoxide choking my thoughts away.
Pretty bad is help is on the is.
They can never be.
She was just to me.
She is gone.
I better look how to face it she is gone.
Oh.
Oh, I, I pay the devil to replace it She's gone.
What went wrong Oh, I'm talking to myself.
She's gone.
Oh.
Oh.
I'd better learn how to face it.
She's gone.
Oh, yeah.
You better watch me now.
Mine minus down at the bar is.
She's gone.
Out of one thing.
Into another.
Into the sound of.
For the love of money.
Maddie.
O'Jays' This is solid gold.
As we throw down.
Some people got to have it, yeah Some people really need it, huh, listen to me y'all Do things, do things, do things, bad things with it You wanna do things, do things, do things, good things with it.
Yeah, uh-huh, People will steal from their mother from their own mother Can't even walk the streets.
Because they never know when in the world they're gonna meet Oh, Money.
Oh.
Money.
Oh, my desire, my money.
People will lie, rob, they will cheat People don't care who they hurt or beat A woman will sell her precious body For a small piece of paper, it carries a lot of weight For that mean, oh mean Mean green on money dollar.
Talking about.
Talking about I know that money is the root of all evil Do funny things to some people Give me a nickel, Brother, can you spare a dime?
Money can drive some people out of their minds Got to have it I really need it just say Don't let it Don't let that money.
Screw you And you say don't let it.
Don't let that money screw you.
Da da da da da da.
Changin', changin' up your mind Deep down you know that.
But.
Oh, oh.
All right, so.
All right.
Yeah.
That's the money sound.
I don't know if you can know how they call that.
For the love of money, I'd lik to also express our thanks once again to the Pittsburgh Musical Society.
That's local 6471.
The American Federation of Musicians.
Herb Osgood, president, Corporation.
Let us in the spirit experience, get it together.
Since you, Gabriel, are getting it all done.
What we can how we can just to make this place, you know, help us so that we can all continue to carry on.
All night long.
Just me and them.
Im Jimmy Tripp.
This is black Horizons, WQED.
Move your hand so I can see.
Move your head so I can see.
I remember that day.
But you came my way.
I Remember that day?
You came my way.
So I say move your hand so I can see.
Like that baby.
Move your hand so I can see.
We can see.
baby I want to see.
Take it out.
Hey hey hey hey.
all right Hey hey hey hey hey hey.
Hey.
Move your clothes so I can see.
Move your clothes so I can see Remember that day?
You came my way.
I. Remember that day.
You came my way Move Your hand so I can see Ayah!
Move your hand.
So I can see we will get together Make it all right.
Hey, hey!
Get down!
One more time Hey hey hey hey.
Get down!
All right.
Move your hand I can see it.
Move your hand So I can see I remember that day.
You came my way.
I remember that day.
You came my way.
So I say.
Move your hand so I can see All right.
Move your hand so I can see, I can see, baby I want to see.
Hey hey hey hey hey.
Thank you.
And you know.
All right.
Sound of Gabriel.
Let's say it for Gabriel.
Hey.
All right.
Let's pull Cordell Deli over here.
Cordell deli lead guitar from the Gabriel Cordell, I want you to give us the pleasure of introducing the rest of the group.
Well, first of all, I'm all right.
I'm basically having the album.
Hey.
All right.
Hey, you got to me on percussion.
We have Mr.
Anthony Lou.
Oh, yeah.
Known as Bowen.
No, brother Bowen, I don't know how long the group been together, man.
We've been togethe about three weeks.
Three weeks.
Wait, wait.
Hey.
We're very younger.
very young What are Some of the things you've been doing, like, in the Pittsburgh area, we only did one thing.
Like we've been at the Alpine Arena last weekend.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was there, all right, I was there.
That was our first engagement.
Yeah, but that was about it.
You know, the group is very young.
What type of things you pla to get off in the near future?
We're hoping to get into, like, the concert atmosphere.
You know, the concert, the college circuit.
Yeah.
Definitely schools.
You know, out of that, we like playing for the youngest set.
We'll take a few questions from the audience.
You have a question you like.
to talk to Gabriel I want to know how long y'all been together?
And, you know, when did y'all first start?
Well, like I said, we've been together for three weeks.
You know, we got together in New Kensington.
You know, like me and Alvin been playing together for a while.
Yeah.
How about prison?
Wow.
We have another question.
I'd like to know, who makes your clothes?
Hahaha.
Yeah.
Are you serious?
Let's see how you man lik my jeans I got from Kaufman's.
All right.
And this ain't nothing but army shirt.
Yeah, we have another question right here.
My name's Pam Watson.
I want to know what's your sign?
I'm a Libra.
Libra.
Another question.
My name is John.
My name is James Brown.
I like to know why you only got three men in y'all group.
Like, why don't you want to answer that?
Yeah.
Well, I think that a three ma band sort of gives the feeling we want to get them get across to, you know, want to get high energy.
Yeah.
Right.
So.
Yeah.
So could you tell me my name is Senior Skinny and I would like to know where you originated that.
Oh, yeah.
I'm from New Kensington Pennsylvania, but I've traveled to Wisconsin, the Chicago, Illinois.
We have a question back here in the back.
But the bones.
But the bones from what you have from Brother Bones, from New Kensington.
Brother bones is from New Kensington.
Here's another question right here.
Oh, I have one.
I like to know when you star playing the drums, I mean, you first begin start playin the drums about four years ago.
Four years ago.
Question.
Right.
Yeah.
My name is Belinda Jackson.
I'd like to know, do you just play your own records or other people's records?
Just your own, personally, we're doing other people's stuff, but we're getting into, like, the one composition was out, all right?
That's.
That's the time.
That's all the time we have for questions.
Let's hear it again for Gabriel.
All right.
Getting it on.
Get it on WQED Studios, Black Horizons.
This is almost same on a telling of a good thing, I'd like to give our special thanks out to, Ricky's house of music.
Gabriel's, use this train, equipment that, Rickys house of music furnished exclusively with, appreciate the celebration by, Ricky.
I don't Leesburg Road.
No, bro.
Like in Pennsylvania.
All right.
In the down 1974 75 and Morristown, Ohio play.
all this stuff.
Until the dude and then all of your vision stuff.
Slowed.
Going down first.
For real?
Some.
Where?
But your better way to say stop stop.
Stop.
and for some.
And all for some some friends.
And I haven't told.
Well, yeah.
All.
And you'll be like they call so.
And this is for.
I didn't download it all I know.
Stop.
Thank you for all your help.
Get work to like all of our stuff and stuff.
So stuff I can find my way out.
Smoke Yeah Above yourself Up.
Up to I want that.
Don't don't.
That don't make me glisten.
Him.
Do you?
Do you?
Do it.
You do it, you do it.
You don't.
Don't stop.
Oh, that's that's that's engine room.
Dont Smoke Smoke.
Smoke Bro.
Slow Slow Slow Slow.
Slow down.
Slow down Slow Slow Slow Drive away.
Slow Smoke Smoke Slow down and I go and you.
All right.
And do it any way you want.
You know the fac you can do it to your satisfied.
That's going to put a fork in and just call about done.
I like to express my appreciation.
The Pittsburgh Musical Society, local 6471 American Federation of Musicians.
That's Herb Osgood, president also like to send o thanks to the guitars of music for supplying the training equipmen that Gabriel so proudly used to.
Oh yeah.
Getting it on and.
The Black Horizons program and training for minority professionals have been made possible by grants from the PPG Industries Foundation, the Sachem fund, and from the Pennsylvania Public Television.
Network And by your own loca contributions, let's git it up.
Well, you want it.
You got it.
Keep in mind, it may never be the same.
I'm Jimmy Tripp saying, continue to keep on gitting it on, Do you get hooked?
It's been enjoying the pleasure of being with you.
Matter of fact, it's been real.
So until then, he's powered Hes love to don't forget whatch Black Horizons in January when he drinks the most.
Take care of y'all.


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