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Published on 2 Comments on Music Added This Week

Here is the list of music added into rotation this week on Radio Baha'i, WLGI. Listen for these songs and tell us what you think! And, let us know what else you think we should be adding to our playlist.

  • Kierra Sheard, "Love Like Crazy"
  • Chris August, "Center of It"
  • Damon Little, "Because of You"
  • Dorinda Clark-Cole, "You Are"
  • The Jackson Southernaires, "Thank you Mama"
  • Moriah Peters, “Brave"
  • Taylor Swift, "Change"
  • Jennifer Hudson, "Bring Back the Music"
  • Alicia Keys, "We Are Here"
  • Kierra Sheard, "You Don't Know"
  • Chris August, "This Side of Heaven"
  • Ray, Goodman & Brown, "Special Lady”
  • Taylor Swift, "Best Day"
  • Kierra Sheard, "Why Me"
  • Chris August, "Let There Be Light"
  • The Jackson Southernaires, "Smile"
  • The Controllers, "People Want Music"
  • Kerrie Roberts, "No Matter What"
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Published on 3 Comments on Song Feature: “Black and White America”

July 20, 2014, by Briana

LennyKravits-BlackandWhiteAmericaLenny Kravitz, Grammy award winner, decided to step outside of his comfort zone in 2011 when he wrote the song “Black and White America”. As a rock star, Kravitz would normally write strictly rock songs, but he decided to take a different approach with this one by combining different genres. Kravitz told sources that this piece was written after he observed a documentary he found one night while flipping through the television. This documentary was about a group of Americans that weren’t in agreement with how the United States was being run. They were not fond of President Barack Obama and they were not supportive of equality between different races. They wished for America to be how it was years ago.

Lenny grew up with interracial parents, so he wanted people to understand his viewpoint and how he lived. He wanted people to understand that this isn’t just America, its black and white America, no matter where you go. The lyrics of this song are trying to help people understand that we are all one, as people. We may have different color skin, but that does not make us any better than the next person.

Below are the lyrics of the song.

"Black And White America"

Martin Luther King, he had a vision
And that's a fact
He died so we could see that was his mission
So don't look back
There is no division, don't you understand
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We're the children of one father
If you're looking back don't bother
We're black and white America
Rob from Always on the run is bad bad bad

In nineteen sixty three my father married
A black woman
And when they walked the street they were in danger
Look what you've done

But they just kept on walking forward hand in hand
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We're the children of one father
If you're looking back don't bother
We're black and white America

The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We're the children of one father
If you're looking back don't bother
We're black and white America

We've waited so long
We've waited so long

There is no division, don't you understand
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We're the children of one father
If you're looking back don't bother
We're black and white America

The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We're the children of one father
If you're looking back don't bother
We're black and white America

The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We're the children of one father
If you're looking back don't bother
We're black and white America

Oh, yeah
Black and white America
Gonna keep moving forward, oh
Blow Harold !

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Published on 1 Comment on Programming Changes at Radio Baha’i

Friday, March 21st, is the Baha’i New Year, or Naw Ruz, as well as being the first day of Spring, and it’s a great time to start something new. New flowers, new leaves, and new and improved programming!

The changes to our programming include new, fresh music, improved  music mix, and  some new programs. But don’t worry, we aren’t changing all of  the music -- we’ll still sound like Radio Baha’i, playing a mix of R&B, Contemporary Gospel, some Traditional Gospel, and Jazz. We’ll still have prayers at the top of the hour, Insight, Peace Talks, Drum Beat, etc.

Each of us is, in reality, a spiritual being living in a material world. Our constant test in life is trying to harmonize the spiritual and material aspects of our lives. Radio Baha’i wants to be your spiritual supporter, one of the places that you go to recharge your batteries, to feel better about yourself, to help you deal with the challenges this life throws at you. We can’t replace personal prayer and meditation, reading the Holy verses, and service to others, but music can be a ladder for your soul. That’s what our changes are all about – becoming better at holding that ladder for you.

Listen and tell us what you think, or at least. We want to know what you like, what you don’t like, and what you think we can improve.

When you listen to Radio Baha’i, even for a few minutes, we want you to feel better about your day, to feel happier, to feel inspired to do the right thing, to feel encouraged, and to smile at those who cross your path!

 

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Many people have asked us about putting our playlist on air. We are currently testing and experimenting with an online playlist service called Spinitron that does just that. Eventually, the playlist will be incorporated into our website, but in the meantime you can find it here. We are working on getting all of the song data updated so that all songs will display the song title, artist, and record label. Give us a few weeks to get that process completed and then you'll be able to see everything we play.

Since this is a test, we would appreciate your feedback. You can either leave that here under this post, send it to by email at info@wlgi.org, or leave your thoughts on our Facebook page.

Once on the WLGI Spinitron page, there are a number of helpful places you can go:

  • The Current playlist is the landing page for link above, and is available in the navigation box on the left from any of the WLGI pages on Spinitron. This will display most of the songs that have played in the current show.
  • To find songs that played on an earlier show, or on another day, simply click on the date in the small calendar in the left-hand navigation box, look for the show or time frame that you heard the song, and then look for the particular time and you'll find the song - if we have the data entered for it.
  • Another option to look for songs, or to just browse what was aired, is to click on Program schedule in the navigation box. Then you can select which show you want to see the playlists for, and then click on the date.
  • A whole other way to look at the playlist is by Artists, Disks, or Labels. These links are also in the left-hand navigation box. This way you can look to see what songs we play from a particular artist.

Please tell us what you think and how we might be able to make this better.

 

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When one thinks of cities and states that played pivotal roles in the development of jazz, one is likely to think of New Orleans, La; St. Louis, Mo.; and Chicago, Il., not Charleston, SC. But through Charleston's history with the Jenkins Orphanage band, from which several nationally renowned jazz artists such as Freddie Green and Jabbo Smith emerged, and the state being the home of jazz icon Dizzy Gillespie, Charleston and South Carolina have a vital place in the history and development of jazz. Today, Charleston boasts arguably the most vibrant jazz scene of any city in the state. That's in large part due to the Charleston Jazz Initiative (CJI), a multi-year research project that documents the African American jazz tradition in Charleston, the South Carolina Lowcountry, and its diasporic movement throughout the United States and Europe between the late 19th century through today.

On the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Dr. Karen Chandler, co-principal of CJI and an arts management professor at the College of Charleston.

For more information on CJI and the Jenkins Orphanage band, visit:

http://www.charlestonjazz.net/index.php

http://www.jenkinsinstitute.org/

Insight airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 am, 7 pm and midnight.

 

 

 

 

 

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