Funky Turns 40
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THE MUSEUM OF UNCUT FUNK PRESENTS FUNKY TURNS 40™: BLACK CHARACTER REVOLUTION A RETROSPECTIVE OF 1970‘S CARTOON ANIMATION ART FEATURING BLACK CHARACTERS THE MUSEUM OF UNCUT FUNK PRESENTS FUNKY TURNS 40: BLACK CHARACTER REVOLUTION EXHIBITION INVENTORY Contact Information Museum First Name Last Name Phone Address E-Mail Curator The Museum Of UnCut Funk Pamela Thomas Co-Curator The Museum Of UnCut Funk Loreen Williamson Art Item Photo Artwork Cartoon Studio Network Run Historical Notes Description I. BLACK CAST CARTOONS: Billy Jo Jive Billy Jo Jive - Original Production Cel Features Billy Billy Jo Jive Sesame Street PBS: Billy Jo Jive was the first positive Saturday morning cartoon Jo Jive and 11/27/78 - series featuring Black characters to be created from a series of Smart Susie through the children’s books. Billy Jo Jive was a self-described super crime Sunset 1980’s fighting ace, a prepubescent Black detective in animated segments on Sesame Street in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Billy Jo Jive and his sidekick, Smart Susie Sunset, originated in a series of children's books by John Shearer, with illustrations by his father Ted Shearer. The series debuted with Billy Jo Jive, Super Private Eye: The Case of the Missing Ten Speed Bike in 1976. The earliest known TV appearance: Sesame Street Episode 1186. Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids - “Band Features Fat Fat Albert And Filmation CBS: Fat Albert is the longest running positive Black cast Saturday Practice” Limited Edition Cel Albert gang The Cosby Kids 9/9/72 - 8/10/85 morning cartoon series and the third positive Black cast from Halloween Run: Saturday morning cartoon series. Fat Albert first appeared in the Special - Fat 110 episodes, Hey, Hey, Hey, It’s Fat Albert primetime special that aired on Albert, Bill, 4 specials November 12, 1969. This was the first positive Black cast cartoon Bucky, Dumb to appear on TV. Donald, Mush Mouth, Rudy, Russell, Weird Harold Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids - Original Features Fat Fat Albert And Filmation CBS: The director of the special was Ken Mundie. Two Black animators Production Cel Albert gang The Cosby Kids 9/9/72 - 8/10/85 were Floyd Norman and Leo Sullivan. The characters Fat Albert playing football Run: Jackson, Bill Cosby and Mushmouth were voiced by Bill Cosby. The - Fat Albert, Bill, 110 episodes, music for the special was written and performed by jazz pianist / Bucky, Dumb 4 specials keyboardist Herbie Hancock and was released on the album Fat Donald, Mush Albert Rotunda. Mouth, Rudy, Russell, Weird Harold 2 Art Item Photo Artwork Cartoon Studio Network Run Historical Notes Description Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids - Original Features Fat Fat Albert And Filmation CBS: Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids ran for 22 episodes from 9/9/72 - Production Cel Albert on a go The Cosby Kids 9/9/72 - 8/10/85 10/27/73, and then again for 14 episodes from 9/6/75 - 10/30/76. The cart Run: New Fat Albert Show ran for 24 episodes from 9/8/79 - 9/16/81. The 110 episodes, Adventures of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids ran for 50 episodes 4 specials from 9/1/84 - 8/10/85. The show was in syndication from 1984 - 1985. Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids - Original Features Fat Fat Albert And Filmation CBS: The four Fat Albert specials are: Hey, Hey, Hey, It’s Fat Albert Production Cel Albert playing The Cosby Kids 9/9/72 - 8/10/85 (11/12/69), The Fat Albert Halloween Special (10/24/77), The Fat an instrument Run: Albert Christmas Special (12/18/77), The Fat Albert Easter Special 110 episodes, (4/3/82) 4 specials Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids - Features Fat Fat Albert And Filmation CBS: Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids included ten Black and white advisors Halloween Special - Original Production Albert gang The Cosby Kids 9/9/72 - 8/10/85 who were degreed professional psychologists from UCLA. This series Cel from Halloween Run: had clear educational elements and addressed issues of poverty, Special - Fat 110 episodes, child abuse, kidnapping, teen parenting, smoking, bullying and Albert, Bill, 4 specials vandalism. This series won mass parent approval and Cosby and Bucky, Dumb Filmation Associates kept tight reins on the popular uses of the Donald, Mush series. Mouth, Russell, Weird Harold Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids - Features Fat Fat Albert And Filmation CBS: Gold Key Comics created a comic book adaptation of Fat Albert Halloween Special - Original Production Albert gang The Cosby Kids 9/9/72 - 8/10/85 which ran for 29 issues, from 1974-1979. A lunch box, a board game Cel from Halloween Run: and record album was also produced. A live action film was produced Special - Fat 110 episodes, in 2004, introducing a new generation to Fat Albert. Albert, Bill, 4 specials Bucky, Dumb Donald, Mush Mouth, Rudy, Russell, Weird Harold Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids - Features Fat Fat Albert And Filmation CBS: The original cartoon series was released on DVD in 2005-2006 and Halloween Special - Original Production Albert gang The Cosby Kids 9/9/72 - 8/10/85 again in 2013. The cartoon specials were released on DVD in Drawing from Halloween Run: 2008-2009. Special - Fat 110 episodes, Albert, Bill, 4 specials Bucky, Dumb Donald, Mush Mouth, Russell, Weird Harold Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids - Features Fat Fat Albert And Filmation CBS: Halloween Special - Original Production Albert gang The Cosby Kids 9/9/72 - 8/10/85 Drawing from Halloween Run: Special - Fat 110 episodes, Albert, Bill, 4 specials Bucky, Dumb Donald, Mush Mouth, Rudy, Russell, Weird Harold 3 Art Item Photo Artwork Cartoon Studio Network Run Historical Notes Description Harlem Globetrotters Harlem Globetrotters - Original Features Harlem Hanna-Barbera CBS: Harlem Globetrotters was the first positive Black cast Saturday Production Cel George Globetrotters 9/12/70 - 9/2/72 morning cartoon series and the first to feature a Black sports “Meadowlark” Run: team. For perspective, this cartoon aired six years after the Lemon 22 episodes enactment of the Civil Rights Act, and only two years after racist (16 - 70-71; cartoon shorts featuring derogatory depictions of Black characters 6 new plus were banned from television syndication. repeats - 71-72) Harlem Globetrotters - Original Features Harlem Hanna-Barbera CBS: The Harlem Globetrotters featured the following players: George Production Cel Meadowlark Globetrotters 9/12/70 - 9/2/72 “Meadowlark” Lemon, Freddie “Curly” Neal, Hubert “Geese” Ausbie, Lemon and Run: J.C. "Gip" Gipson, Bobby Joe Mason and Pablo Robertson. Scatman J.C. "Gip" 22 episodes Crothers provided the voice of Meadowlark Lemon. Meadowlark Gipson (16 - 70-71; Lemon also contributed to the series. He was the only Globetrotter to 6 new plus do so. repeats - 71-72) Harlem Globetrotters - Original Features J.C. Harlem Hanna-Barbera CBS: The series was an instant hit, earning the highest ratings in Saturday Production Cel "Gip" Gipson, Globetrotters 9/12/70 - 9/2/72 morning television history. It was syndicated to more than 30 Bobby Joe Run: countries, the first time any sports team had its own network Mason, Pablo 22 episodes television series. In 1972 / 1973, The Harlem Globetrotters made Robertson (16 - 70-71; three appearances in The New Scooby-Doo Movies. 6 new plus repeats - 71-72) Harlem Globetrotters - Original Features J.C. Harlem Hanna-Barbera CBS: In 1978, the series was re-run as the Go-Go Globetrotters, a two Production Drawing "Gip" Gipson, Globetrotters 9/12/70 - 9/2/72 hour program that also included old episodes of The C.B. Bears, The Pablo Run: Herculoids and Space Ghost. The Globetrotters were featured in a Robertson 22 episodes third cartoon series in 1979, The Super Globetrotters. In spring (16 - 70-71; 1999, TV Land aired repeats of the Harlem Globetrotters on Saturday 6 new plus mornings. A new Harlem Globetrotters cartoon is rumored to be in repeats - 71-72) the works. Harlem Globetrotters - Original Features Harlem Hanna-Barbera CBS: In April 1972, Gold Key Comics launched a comic book adaptation of Production Drawing Freddie “Curly” Globetrotters 9/12/70 - 9/2/72 the Harlem Globetrotters animated series. Their first comic book Neal Run: appearance was in issue #8 of Gold Key's Hanna-Barbera Fun-In, 22 episodes published in July 1971. The comic series followed and lasted for 4 (16 - 70-71; years and 12 issues through January 1975. A board game, lunch box 6 new plus and a record album, The Globetrotters, was also produced. repeats - 71-72) I Am The Greatest I Am The Greatest - Original Production Features I Am The Farmhouse NBC: Muhammad Ali was the second Black athletic personality to lead Cel Muhammad Ali Greatest: The Films, Fred 9/10/77 - 9/2/78 a positive Saturday morning cartoon series, following the Adventures Of Calvert Run: Globetrotters. I Am The Greatest was also the fourth positive Muhammad Ali Productions, 13 episodes Black cast Saturday morning cartoon series. Ali voiced his own TCF character. Ali’s public relations agent, Frank Bannister, also voiced his character. I Am The Greatest - Original Production Features I Am The Farmhouse NBC: Muhammad Ali’s adventures dealt with unexplained mysteries Drawing Muhammad Ali Greatest: The Films, Fred 9/10/77 - 9/2/78 and solving crimes. Other characters in his entourage were his Adventures Of Calvert Run: niece Nicky and nephew Damon (voiced by real-life siblings Muhammad Ali Productions, 13 episodes Patrice and Casey Carmichael). TCF 4 Art Item Photo Artwork Cartoon Studio Network Run Historical Notes Description Jackson 5ive Jackson 5ive - Original Production Cel Features Jackson 5ive Rankin-Bass ABC: The Jackson 5ive cartoon was the second positive Black cast Michael, Rosie 9/11/71 - 9/1/73 Saturday morning cartoon series and Motown Productions' first “The Run: television series.