âHarvey Milk Music.â This is music about and inspired by the Harvey Milk Story. This show is not a history lesson; there are ample resources for that. But to my knowledge no one has gathered together the musical impact of his life. He affected and continues to affect people on a personal level, so itâs natural that a number of musicians and songwriters have been driven to create their own tributes.
Produced by JD Doyle
Harvey Milk Music
Playlist â 57:48 Danny Elfman â Harveyâs Theme (from âMilkâ Soundtrack) (2008) Mark Isham â The Times of Harvey Milk (1985, in background) Zoe Lewis â Harvey (1998) San Francisco Gay Menâs Chorus â Thou, Lord, Our Refuge (2003) Joan Baez â Amazing Grace (2006) San Francisco Gay Menâs Chorus â Amazing Grace (2008) Romanovsky & Phillips â Homophobia (1986) Ron Romanovsky & Paul Phillips Comments (2003) Neil Aaron Comments (2010) Neil Aaron â Harvey (2008) The Harvey Milk Show â We the People (1996) Harvey Milk Opera: A Street Campaign (1996) Rick Cresswell of Queer Conscience Comments (2010) Queer Conscience â Harvey (The Ballad of Harvey Milk) (1993) Causecast â Give âEm Hope Speech (2008) Tim Cain Comments (2010) Boysâ Entrance â Give âEm Hope (2010) Atlanta Gay Menâs Chorus â We the People (1992) Atlanta Feminist Womenâs Chorus â Young Man (1992) Holly Near Comments (2009) Holly Near & Ronnie Gilbert - Singing For Our Lives (1983)
Notes: entire script available on website, at http://www.queermusicheritage.com/jun2010.html
For every QMH show I have uploaded several pages to my website, http://www.queermusicheritage.com. The information includes the playlist, script, and photos of the artists and recordings, as I have always considered our music history as a visual as well as an audio experience. In addition the website also includes in depth information on such areas as gay musicals, Songs about Gay Marriage, Songs about AIDS, a Drag Music Discography, an Olivia Records Discography, Womenâs Music Magazines, a number of features on Transgendered artist and countless interviews over the years with the pioneers, then and now, of our music culture. Itâs a huge site, with over 1200 pages, and growing. Since January 2000 QMH has been dedicated to sharing and preserving music of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community
The show airs monthly on KPFT-FM in Houston as a part of the program Queer Voices, but almost every month has additional hours featured on the website. If you air this edition I would appreciate a quick email, at qmheritage@aol.com, so that I can get a feel on where my many hours of hard, labor of love work are reaching. There is a Part 2 of this show available on my site. It contains music that is not FCC compliant.