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‘Save the Children,’ Long-Lost ’70s Concert Film With the Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye, Staple Singers and Other Black Superstars, Gets a Netflix Rebirth
'Save the Children' captured top '70s Black music stars like the Jackson 5 and Marvin Gaye. After 50 years of languishing in a vault, it's on Netflix.
Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH, with an all-star cast of performers that also included the Staple Singers, Roberta Flack, Isaac Hayes, Gladys Knight, the Tempations, Ramsey Lewis, Wilson Pickett, Sammy Davis Jr., Cannonball Adderley and Jerry Butler. Yet it truly ghosted the world after its initial rollout (and two Motown soundtracks that followed), to the point that the IMDB website doesn’t list a single user review for this lost doc. “Jesse Jackson’s PUSH Expo was a huge yearly event that brought lots of people together for civil rights, and he wanted to do a big concert with some of the top artists.
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