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Title
Don't bother me, I can't cope, 1972
Date Created and/or Issued
1972
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Gospel Music History Archive
Rights Information
4802 South McKinley Ave., LA, CA 90011
USC owns digital images only. Send requests to Pastor W. Jenkins at address or email given. Phone (323) 231-2424.
Victory Baptist Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Victory Baptist Church
wejenkins@earthlink.com
Description
Long playing record, "Don't bother me, I can't cope", 1972, with picture of cast mid-performance on front cover. "Winner! Best musical
1972 outer circle critics' award
1972 obie awards
Promotion copy
not for sale
Polydor
PD 6013 2452 003". Part of front is covered by 6 x 12 sheet of paper with price information, suggested cuts, brief history of the play, and extracts from reviews.
Back includes photograph of cast, cast and production list, track list, and brief summary and commentary, "Edward Padula and Arch Lustberg present
Vinnette Carroll's Urban Arts Corps production of: Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, a new musical entertainment by Micki Grant with Alex Bradford, Hope Clarke, Bobby Hill, Arnold Wilkerson, and Micki Grant
Scenery by Richard A. Miller, supervised by Neil Peter Jampolis
Costumes by Edna Watson, supervised by Sara Brook
Lighting by B. J. Sammler, supervised by Ken BIllington
Musical direction & arrangements, Danny Holgate
Associate producer, Gordon Gray Jr.
Production supervisor, Sam Ellis
Choreographer, George Faison
Conveived and directed by Vinnette Carrol"
Track listings include, "Side one
I gotta keep movin' (2:50), Alex Bradford and company
Harlem streets (3:36)
Lookin' over from your side, Bobby Hill and company
Don't bother me, I can't cope (2:15), entire company
Fighting for pharoah (6:03), Alex Bradford, Bobby Hill, Alberta Bradford, Charles Campbell
Good vibrations (2:55), Alex Bradford and company
You think I got rhythm?, entire company, They keep coming, entire company, My name is man (6:25), Arnold Wilkerson and company
Side Two
Love Power (2:20), Bobby Hill, Hope Clarke, and company
Questions (3:55), Micki Grant
It takes a whole lot of human feeling (3:21), Micki Grant
You think I got rhythm? (2:34)
Time brings about a change (2:34), Arnold Wilkerson, Micki Grant and company
So little time (4:06), Micki Grant
Thank heaven for you, Bobby Hill, Micky Grant
All I need (3:37), Alberta Bradford and company
I gotta keep movin' (Reprise) (4:36), Micki Grant, Alex Bradford and Company"
Type
image
Identifier
gmha-m371 [Legacy record ID]
gmha-victorybaptist-054~01...~02
http://doi.org/10.25549/gmha-m371
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/gmha-victorybaptist-054~01.jpg
Subject
Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
Musicals
Padula, Edward
Lustberg, Arch
Carroll, Vinnette
Grant, Micki
Clarke, Hope
Bradford, Alex
Hill, Bobby
Wilkerson, Arnold
Miller, Richard A
Watson, Edna
Sammler, B. J
Holgate, Danny
Gray, Gordon, Jr
Ellis, Sam
Faison, George
Valando, Tommy
Jampolis, Neil Peter
Brook, Sara
Billington, Ken
Nackman, Ron
Time Period
1972
Source
gmha-m415 [Source (legacy collection record ID)]
Relation
Gospel Music History Archive
Victory Baptist Church (Los Angeles) Archival Collection

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