TRIVIA: The Color Purple-John Lee Hooker

[Fernando Toral]

Yesterday night I watched on TNT -for the fifteenth time- "The Color
Purple". There's a moment when a fight starts in the juke joint, while
Celie (Whoopi Woldberg) is quietly sitting and everyone around her is
knocking each other, that I could hear John Lee Hooker singing Boogie
Chillen (it was difficult to guess because of the noise) or something
sounding like that.
The question is, since this happened around the mid-30'... did JLH
record some boogie tune by those years?
BTW, Sonny Terry and Roy Gaines were there too...

Fer

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[Wouter Marechal]

JLH recorded Boogie Chillen for the fist time in Detroit, November 1948
issued by Modern, Kent and Crown.
JLH never recorded prewar.
There are quiet a few songtitles with "Boogie" in it. See also Lucille
Boogan 'Boogan Ways'; Blind Lemon Jefferson 'Booger Rooger Blues'; ... Jimmy
Yancey, Deryck Sampson, Jimmie 'The Boogie Man' Gordon, Albert Ammons, Pete
Johnson, these are rather boogie woogie piano pieces, Willie Reed , Robert
Petway ... happy hunting
Wouter M.

[Peace, Kenneth]

According to the soundtrack listing on IMDB there is no Hooker. Here's
what's listed..

"Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)"
Music by Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton
Lyrics by Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton and Lionel Ritchie

"Sister's Theme"
Composed by Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock and Rod Temperton

"Proud Theme"
Composed by Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton and Jeremy Lubbock

"Makidada"
Music by Quincy Jones
Lyrics by Quincy Jones, Menno Meyjes and Rod Temperton

"I Ain't Gonna Sing No Mo"
Written by Quincy Jones and Sonny Terry

"Junk Bucket Blues"
Written by Porter Grainger
Performed by Get Happy Band
Courtesy of CBS Records

"The Dirty Dozens"
Written by J. Mayo Williams and Rufus Perryman

"Don't Make Me No Never Mind (Slow Drag)"
Written by Quincy Jones, James Ingram and Roy Gaines

"Heaven Belongs To You"
Written by Andrae Crouch and Saundra Crouch

"Old Ship Of Zion"
Written by Thomas A. Dorsey

"Maybe God Is Trying To Tell You Somethin'"
Written by Quincy Jones, Andrae Crouch, David Del Sesto and
Bill Maxwell

"My Heart"
Written by Lillian Armstrong
Performed by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
Courtesy of CBS Records

"Hot Lips"
Written by Henry Busse, Haenry Lange and Lou Davis
Performed by Paul Whiteman (I) and his Orchestra
Courtesy of RCA Records

"High Life"
From 'Sounds of West Africa'
Courtesy of Lyrichord Discs, Inc.

"Scarification Chant and Katutoku Corinne"
Conducted and written by Caiphus Semenya
Vocals by Letta Mbulu

"Body And Soul"
Music by John Green
Lyrics by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour and Frank Eyten
Performed by Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra
Courtesy of RCA Records

[Gary Hearn]

Les Fancourt's discography on John Lee Hooker 1948-1992 (pub: Blues &
Rhythm) gives the following information:

THE COLOR PURPLE (SOUNDTRACK)
JLH(vcl); Sonny Terry (hca), Bobby Scott (pno), Roy Gaines (gtr), Paul
Jackson Jnr (gtr)

rec. Los Angeles 1985.

"Don't Make Me No Never Mind (Slow Drag)" QWEST LP
25389-1

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