QUINCY JONES: THE FIRST 50 YEARS (TV)
Summary
A television special celebrating the work of musician and music producer Quincy Jones.
Highlights include: Stevie Wonder performing “We Are the World,” including a dance accompaniment by the tap-dancing group Tap Dogs; a video presentation about Jones’s life and career; Ashford & Simpson and Chaka Khan performing “Stuff Like That,” accompanied by Savion Glover; an appearance by Beau Bridges; Jones’ daughter Jolie Jones performing “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?”; a video of Ray Charles performing “My Buddy”; Bernadette Peters performing “I’m a Fool to Want You”; Albita performing “Ta’ Bueno Ya”; a rap performance by Yo-Yo and Melle Mel, accompanied by Stomp; Lesley Gore performing a medley including “Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows,” “You Don’t Own Me,” and “It’s My Party”; an appearance by Halle Berry; Patti Austin and James Ingram performing “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?”; Glover performing a tap routine scored to music by Jones and Michael Jackson, including “Beat It,” “Billie Jean,” and “Thriller”; Austin and Ingram performing “Baby Come to Me”; Tamia performing “You Put a Move On My Heart”; Tevin Campbell performing “Tomorrow (A Better You, A Better Me)”; an appearance by James Avery; Nancy Wilson performing “Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me”; Little Richard performing “Let the Good Times Roll”; Smokey Robinson performing “Fly Me to the Moon”; another performance by Tap Dogs; Wonder performing “One Hundred Ways”; an appearance by Maya Angelou; Gloria Estefan performing “Soon as I Get Home”; and a final word from Jones himself. Includes commercials.
(This program contains audiovisual errors. It represents the best quality available at this time.)
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: April 11, 1998 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:53:41
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:53331
- GENRE: Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - Music; TV - Music
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1998
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV – Commercials – Accolate asthma treatment
- TV – Commercials – Allstate insurance
- TV – Commercials – Arm & Hammer deodorizing products
- TV – Commercials – Betty Crocker cake mix
- TV – Commercials – Brummel & Brown spread
- TV – Commercials – Burger King restaurants
- TV – Commercials – Century 21 real estate agency
- TV – Commercials – Cheerios breakfast cereal
- TV – Commercials – Chiquita bananas
- TV – Commercials – Colgate toothpaste
- TV – Commercials – Dove body wash
- TV – Commercials – Excedrin headache relief
- TV – Commercials – Finesse shampoo
- TV – Commercials – General Motors automobiles
- TV – Commercials – Home Depot home improvement stores
- TV – Commercials – Jeep automobiles
- TV – Commercials – KFC restaurants
- TV – Commercials – Kenmore dishwashers
- TV – Commercials – Kodak film
- TV – Commercials – Lincoln automobiles
- TV – Commercials – Little Caesars pizza
- TV – Commercials – McDonald’s restaurants
- TV – Commercials – Pier 1 furniture
- TV – Commercials – Planters nuts
- TV – Commercials – Red Lobster restaurants
- TV – Commercials – Saturn automobiles
- TV – Commercials – Slim-Fast diet shakes
- TV – Commercials – Sprint phone service
- TV – Commercials – Sudafed sinus relief
- TV – Commercials – Target department stores
- TV – Commercials – Tylenol pain relief
- TV – Commercials – Vagisil feminine itch cream
- TV – Commercials – Zomig migraine relief
- TV – Promos – “20/20”
- TV – Promos – “ABC News Saturday Night”
- TV – Promos – “Apollo 13”
- TV – Promos – “Home Improvement”
- TV – Promos – “Peter Benchley’s Creature”
- TV – Promos – “Push”
- TV – Promos – “Since You’ve Been Gone”
- TV – Promos – “Something So Right”
- TV – Promos – “Soul Man”
- TV – Promos – “The Practice”
- TV – Promos – “The Ten Commandments”
- TV – Promos – “Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place”
- TV – Promos – “Waiting to Exhale”
CREDITS
- Jeff Margolis … Executive Producer, Director
- Susan Abramson … Coordinating Producer
- Mick McCullough … Producer
- Gloria Fujita O'Brien … Producer
- Douglass M. Stewart Jr. … Producer
- Peter Calabrese … Producer
- Stephen Pouliot … Co-Producer, Writer
- Hugh Camargo … Associate Producer
- Rita Cash … Writer
- Glen Roven … Music by
- Oprah Winfrey … Host
- John Harlin … Announcer
- Stevie Wonder … Performer
- Tap Dogs … Performer
- Ashford & Simpson … Performer
- Chaka Khan … Performer
- Savion Glover … Performer
- Jolie Jones … Performer
- Bernadette Peters … Performer
- Albita (See also: Albita Rodriguez) … Performer
- Stomp … Performer
- Yo-Yo … Performer
- Melle Mel … Performer
- Lesley Gore … Performer
- Patti Austin … Performer
- James Ingram … Performer
- Tamia … Performer
- Tevin Campbell … Performer
- Nancy Wilson … Performer
- Little Richard … Performer
- Smokey Robinson … Performer
- Gloria Estefan … Performer
- Quincy Jones … Guest
- Beau Bridges … Guest
- Halle Berry … Guest
- James Avery … Guest
- Maya Angelou … Guest
- Ray Charles
- Michael Jackson