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Watermelon Man is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Melvin Van Peebles and starring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Kay Kimberley, Mantan Moreland, and Erin Moran.
"Watermelon Man" is a jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock for his debut album, Takin' Off (1962). Hancock's first version was recorded in a hard bop style, featuring solos by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and saxophonist Dexter Gordon. A single release reached the Top 100 of the Billboard pop charts.
Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man [1962] Classic Mood Experience. 462K subscribers. 192. 15K views 4 years ago. ...more. Classic Mood Experience The best masterpieces ever recorded in the music...
Jan 7, 2012 · Herbie Hancock explains how he composed Watermelon Man and how Mongo Santamaria influenced it. He then performs both the original 1962 and the 1973 Headhunt...
Jan 25, 2017 · Watermelon Man. Provided to YouTube by Columbia/Legacy Watermelon Man · Herbie Hancock Head Hunters ℗ 1973 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment Released on: 1973-10-26 ...
A white insurance salesman, Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge), gets the surprise of his life when he wakes up and discovers that his skin now resembles a black man's.
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Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) lives in an average suburban neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley with his seemingly liberal housewife Althea (Estelle Parsons), who tolerates her husband's character flaws out of love, and two children, 10-year-old Burton (Scott Garrett) and eight-year-old Janice (Erin Moran).
Bigoted suburbanite Jeff Gerber wakes up to discover that he has become black. Horrified, he indulges in an orgy of hot showers, bleaches, hair straighteners, and milk.
Sep 28, 2021 · Melvin Van Peebles takes aim at Hollywood’s way of representing race in this blistering satire about a white man who wakes up one morning to discover that he has turned Black overnight.
May 27, 1970 · Watermelon Man: Directed by Melvin Van Peebles. With Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin. Jeff Gerber, a racist white man, wakes up one morning to discover that he has become black.
