Belafonte, Streisand, Cosby, Alpert at the Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, California
July 17, 1968
This all-star concert benefitted the Southern Christian Leadership conference and raised $142,000.
Bill Cosby opened, following by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
After the intermission, Harry Belafonte (and orchestra) introduced the SCL's leader, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, and reminded the audience of the seriousness of the evening. “A few nights ago,” Belafonte said, “Bobby Kennedy was murdered in this city. And a few weeks before that a black man named Martin Luther King was killed.”
Belafonte, speaking passionately from the stage, urged the audience “to take up the banner not only of the civil rights movement but of the human movement.”
Then Barbra Streisand closed the show with “People,” singing center stage in a blue spotlight.
Streisand, who'd been filming the parade scene for Hello, Dolly! that week, rehearsed for this concert till 12:30 a.m. the night before.
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