Great topic! I'm a middle-aged Haitian American man from Flatbush, Brooklyn, and I've always had a fascination with organized crime, as a result, I'm a Mob historian of over forty years in counting. I'm also a serious collector of fine music and therefore a historian of jazz music as well. The Mob and jazz music and culture have always been in bed together. They went together like hand in glove. What I don't hear about is how these fly Black jazz musicians influenced the Italian, Jewish, and Irish gangsters in terms of style and swagger! The same way that hip-hop does today. I don't have a problem with segregation during this time because history has proven that Black communities were much more prosperous during these times. And I certainly wouldn't want to be around evil and hateful people! The biggest problem that I had during this time is how these brilliant Black American musicians were taken advantage of in terms of their monies and publishing! The record industry today owes these families reparations. I highly recommend an outstanding book on jazz music and the Mob called Dangerous Rhythms by T.J. English. It's both highly informative and entertaining. A classic in the field.
And the jews,italians,Irish ran organized crime after only 20,30,years since coming to America while the blacks dressed good some tradeoff?and I suppose shaft got his leather trench coat from africa( check nazi high command).
Rest Easy to all of the Legends. Legends never die. Thank you Harry Belafonte for the memories. My favorite storyteller, CU thank you for a good story about the Mob. I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. Peace and Blessings everyone.
I was a big fan of Sammy Davis, Jr. Read both of his books, watched many of his movies and tv projects as a young child in the late sixties. He had enormous talent. You definitely should do an entire series on this legendary man.
To this day they are the Pimps entertainers are hoes who gone work and Die when They say so. Yet People still lineup to get whored out and used as puppets and Informants
😂😂😂 all I could think about Kim and Sammie was, clearly, Sammie had no momma, aunties, or grandma's in his life. You don't just eat no random woman's red sauce.
So that part in 5 heartbeats was about Jackie Wilson being hung upside down on the umpteen floor??? Wow and I see why most of these rappers are being killed and got someidiot taking the fall just so their parents and children could be taken care of, but if you look at it they're putting their children at risk because now when they get older they gone have to repay that debt off, ish is sad ASF, sick and sad ASF
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 Black Hearts for A Black King!.... Rest easy Mr. Belafonte...we got it from here. You left us a legacy. We can yell bcuz you talked...we can run bcuz you marched...we can be heard bcuz you listened. Thank you.......
They did Dorothy dandridge like that when she stuck her foot in pool water they made pool boy drain the pool and clean it.. 😔💔 how they black's back them days was just horrible 😡
We should've kept our talent and music to ourselves. Even if we were performing it in a juke joint in the woods somewhere, like in "The Color Purple". If they wanna hear us, let them come to where we are and pay us. That's how we would've built wealth to have our own hotels and music companies. We need to stop going to them. They don't treat us right or pay us right. Even to this day. They get ALL the money while we do all the work.
Thank you so much for sharing- I never thought of the mob being so heavily involved in our music. The only person I knew who was connected was Sammy because of old blue eyes.
I am very fan of your voice and video because you tell the real truth about famous people who was in the entertainment business and I hope you can getting to one million soon 😊❤
I really enjoyed this. Very informative. Do more of these brethren. On another note, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Al Capone stories are the funniest on this episode. Their egos were insanely preposterous. Lol.
Now, this is the best commentary on the entertainment industry I've ever heard; no stammering, slang speech or "you don't know what you're talking about" word phishing until a lightbulb moment kicks in. I really appreciate your interview as though a fly on the wall delivery.
Yay I just started following you but I thought you no longer posted because your videos are older. I really enjoy the content. I learn a lot and share your videos
Loray White was beautiful just as beautiful as Kim. Sammy should have been thanking Loray instead of strangling her. She saved his life. If she hadn't said yes to marrying him, he would be dead.
Very, very well researched video. You touched on a lot of stuff that most people still don’t know about……even all these decades onward. Everything you said was 100% on point. There was literally not one black artist from the 40’s up until the mid 80’s who was not under the control of the mob. Even Barry Gordy was in deep with the mob…..they fronted the money for him to start Motown, got his artists on the radio and booked his acts in the best venues. In those days, you could not be in the music business without the mob having their say so. Ironically, the business got worse after the mob was pushed out. Once the corporate Illuminati took over the industry, it became what it is now……talentless, boring and demonic.
I always thought it was messed how Organized Crime was ok but anything Blk people do to try and survive including working for them is wrong! Gangsters are famous for being bad but they helped with our downfall as a people with the governments help!
Unfortunately, Sammy was alot like so many black men of today! Thinking that white women are superior to black women! SMMFH! That shit is wild! I am all for love, don't get me wrong! But, his insistence on being with a white woman, & then, if true, threatening the life of a black woman, is pathetic, & I can't respect SDJ for that! As always, this was another great story! Keep it coming bruh!! #NOTHIGLIKEMYBLACKWOMEN# ✊🏾
The music industry now is just full of modern-day mobsters. They do the same stuff to artist.😢 Those mobsters tried to pretend like Black people were unclean, but the majority of them were sleeping with those black, jazz singers, so that should tell you something.
Elvis loved Jackie , they had a close friendship . But it was mutual. Jackie told a reporter , I took as much from Elvis as he did from me. Even Sam Cooke knew about their friendship as he and Jackie toured together. Elvis paid Jackie’s medical bills in 1975. Etta James who had met Elvis as an upstart at 19 and really liked him. She was so happy Elvis paid those bills. Jackie on the other hand was asked by a DJ what records he’d play if he was a DJ . Jackie replied, “ Elvis records , all day long “ !
I’m born and raised in Las Vegas. But yes, back in those days if you were black, you had to stay off Jackson Street in a bungalow hotel,,well motel cove hotel on DST. or you would have to stay on Bonanza Street which is where we have the Moulin Rouge.
Lauren Bacall who was Humphrey Bogart´s wife at the time was the one credited with the name Rat Pack. The story goes that Lauren had a guest over to the house and she asked where was Humphrey to which she replied somewhere with his Rat Pack of friends. So they never called themselves that but it was the name that Frank and his crew became known by because they carried on in the same manner, Drinking, Gambling, Smoking Cigars etc.
Very good video! lol@ "back then" Some of those guys were scripted actors, carrying out psychological warfare. there are videos out there of them getting exposed.
Great topic! I'm a middle-aged Haitian American man from Flatbush, Brooklyn, and I've always had a fascination with organized crime, as a result, I'm a Mob historian of over forty years in counting.
I'm also a serious collector of fine music and therefore a historian of jazz music as well.
The Mob and jazz music and culture have always been in bed together. They went together like hand in glove. What I don't hear about is how these fly Black jazz musicians influenced the Italian, Jewish, and Irish gangsters in terms of style and swagger! The same way that hip-hop does today.
I don't have a problem with segregation during this time because history has proven that Black communities were much more prosperous during these times. And I certainly wouldn't want to be around evil and hateful people!
The biggest problem that I had during this time is how these brilliant Black American musicians were taken advantage of in terms of their monies and publishing! The record industry today owes these families reparations.
I highly recommend an outstanding book on jazz music and the Mob called Dangerous Rhythms by T.J. English. It's both highly informative and entertaining. A classic in the field.
Great comment
@@Devotionorange
Thanks!
And the jews,italians,Irish ran organized crime after only 20,30,years since coming to America while the blacks dressed good some tradeoff?and I suppose shaft got his leather trench coat from africa( check nazi high command).
Yes t.j English has written many great books on the mob plus a excellent book on nyc in the 60s savage city.
Now if blacks knew the rest of black history and African history not just pop culture maybe they'd be as strong as the white ethnics.
He should do Sonny Liston. He was connected to the mob and lived a very mysterious life. Such a sad story.
I know Sonny's younger 1st cousin...
Rest Easy to all of the Legends. Legends never die. Thank you Harry Belafonte for the memories. My favorite storyteller, CU thank you for a good story about the Mob. I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. Peace and Blessings everyone.
Good vibes
@@mustbemeech Yes indeed 🙏🏾🤍
I was a big fan of Sammy Davis, Jr. Read both of his books, watched many of his movies and tv projects as a young child in the late sixties. He had enormous talent. You definitely should do an entire series on this legendary man.
Thank you, CU! It pays to know our history. WOW! That man had a heart attack. He literally meant, "Over my dead body."
That's why your channel is so successful because you tell nothing but the truth .... Thanks Bro blessings to you always ❤️
Vegas had one Casino that catered to Black Folks. It was called the Moulin Rouge.
They used to joke and call it the Moulinyan Rouge
They burned it down
@@keshawnjack9151 damn
@@keshawnjack9151 What a shock
Joe Lewis was contacted to be the MC, at the grand opening, it was padded locked.
Sam Cooke HAD his OWN record label called Sar records.
This channel kicks butt big time... Also you should do a story about Irene Cara too
Also Do A Story about Paul Winfield And Della Reese
An Irene Cara one is long overdue.
That would be a good one
YES EXACTLY PLEASE DO The Irene Cara Story too as well okay @tayronforbes2371.
As ALWAYS, our MONEY and TALENT is ONLY welcomed when convenient, but we are STILL considered below them.
To this day they are the Pimps entertainers are hoes who gone work and Die when They say so. Yet People still lineup to get whored out and used as puppets and Informants
Facts😔
It's always a few of us that really believe in their supremacy.
😂😂😂 all I could think about Kim and Sammie was, clearly, Sammie had no momma, aunties, or grandma's in his life. You don't just eat no random woman's red sauce.
He had a mama. A Cuban mama at that, but he probably just didn't listen. 😂
@@monilaninetynine3811 He was primarily raised by his father on the road
Sammie was far pass the negro'jew'pean point. About to choke out a BW & kill yourself over not being able to have a WW
FYI: In the 1970's Elton John could Not leave Mafia owned MCA Records now owned by UMG!
I hope your channel continues to grow.. you need a million subscribers..
Al Capone actually had integrated clubs in the 20s and 30s
Bruh this was interesting.. I always heard about the mob and the music industry but not in such detail.. Keep the great work coming bruh...
So that part in 5 heartbeats was about Jackie Wilson being hung upside down on the umpteen floor??? Wow and I see why most of these rappers are being killed and got someidiot taking the fall just so their parents and children could be taken care of, but if you look at it they're putting their children at risk because now when they get older they gone have to repay that debt off, ish is sad ASF, sick and sad ASF
Oh yes Right on time for another Celebrity Underrated Video R.I.P. Harry Belafonte
Rest in Power Harry 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Yes indeed always on time. 🙏🏾
Rest Easy, Harry thank you for the memories sir. 😔🙏🏾💐
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Black Hearts for A Black King!.... Rest easy Mr. Belafonte...we got it from here. You left us a legacy. We can yell bcuz you talked...we can run bcuz you marched...we can be heard bcuz you listened. Thank you.......
They did Dorothy dandridge like that when she stuck her foot in pool water they made pool boy drain the pool and clean it.. 😔💔 how they black's back them days was just horrible 😡
Great story!!! Perfect for this night off work! Thanks CU!!! 👑👑👑💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
You always dig deep. It's appreciated. 👍🏽
Dude your research is thorough & impeccable as always!
I just wished you had touched on Sonny Listons mob ties
We should've kept our talent and music to ourselves. Even if we were performing it in a juke joint in the woods somewhere, like in "The Color Purple". If they wanna hear us, let them come to where we are and pay us. That's how we would've built wealth to have our own hotels and music companies. We need to stop going to them. They don't treat us right or pay us right. Even to this day. They get ALL the money while we do all the work.
Finally someone with sense in these comments
Because then and now blacks rather be loved and liked by white people instead of having hidden secret power stop being attention whores.
Thank you so much for sharing- I never thought of the mob being so heavily involved in our music. The only person I knew who was connected was Sammy because of old blue eyes.
I am very fan of your voice and video because you tell the real truth about famous people who was in the entertainment business and I hope you can getting to one million soon 😊❤
Rest in peace to the legends
Yes, Rest In Peace to all of them.
hey man love your videos can we get a part 2 of this black famous and the Mafia? thanks.
Wanted more as it was ending as well
Sammie had that snow bunny fever bad I see!
that's 90% of them Do Belafonte too
Most Black Men still do to this day..
I really enjoyed this. Very informative. Do more of these brethren. On another note, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Al Capone stories are the funniest on this episode. Their egos were insanely preposterous. Lol.
Harry Belafonte just died today 04-25-2023 R.I.P Harry
No way - sleep easy og
R.I.P. to the legend 🙏🏽🙏🏽
This is not all true
@boutdatlyfe must be born after 2000 😂
@Diondra Taylor how is it not true the man is deceased
Could you do a video about Pastor CL Franklin, Mary Wells, David Ruffin
The lengths sammy went to get a white woman lol
😭 risking his own life!
@@jdorecouture16 right. I mean that's crazy af lol
One of my favorite channels on TH-cam..Thanks for the upload, Chief!🤙🏾✨😌
I’m sad that the majority of black people on my social media is showing more love to Jerry Springer than Harry Belafonte this week.. RIP Mr. Belafonte
Yeah this is so very crazy 😧
#prioritiesupsidedown
@laquetaworley4791 calm down Laqueefa.😅
Quit using the race card. 🤡
Marilyn Monroe showed up to a club every night Ella Fitzgerald performed to make sure Ella was being treated fairly at the segregated club/hotel.
Marilyn 👍🏿
I seen pictures of Ella and Marilyn together. 🤩🙏🏾😍🤍
@@Melanie-xw9xg yeah thats the obly way i learned of that myself, by the photo.
@@walkerpantera Same here
O wow never knew
Keep up the good work
CU Again Thank You for ANOTHA one 🔥🙌🏽💯
Blessings to comment section, and more , keep up the amazing work my brother..❤️👁️❤️👁️❤️👁️❤️🧠💕
Yessss always on time love your videos ❤❤
I'm up just looking around and look who came up?? 👋 Thank you and keep blessing us with more.❤️
Now, this is the best commentary on the entertainment industry I've ever heard; no stammering, slang speech or "you don't know what you're talking about" word phishing until a lightbulb moment kicks in.
I really appreciate your interview as though a fly on the wall delivery.
You never disappoint my friend
Yay I just started following you but I thought you no longer posted because your videos are older. I really enjoy the content. I learn a lot and share your videos
Next Celebrity Underrated story I want to hear is Sam Cook
Def & he should def do... WWE Chris Benoit too.
They did a documentary on him
@Denzel Pinkerton that's a rabbit hole right there. That Benoit incident was so strange to me
@Denzel Pinkerton that's a rabbit hole right there. That Benoit incident was so strange to me
@@tawnimarie1402 go look up Blakk Balloons and he has a break down on Chris Benoit's death
Keep up the good work bro I really enjoy listening to your story on great star
Thanks for sharing I knew of Sammy Davis story but not not Fats Waller ❤❤
WOW AWESOME AWESOME VIDEO BROTHER THANK YOU FOR POSTING ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
$100 per song. I’d be making up new songs. I’d still be playing.
Thanks for the video, I always get excited when I see a new post from you. I KNOW it will be the 💣 😊
Yesssss I needed something to watch👁
The industry is shady backstabbing and Wil knock you off ! Don't cross them period .
Sammy's story is interesting so I'll be waiting on that story!
Can't wait for more stories
Love these stories
And don't forget to do the harry belifontae story too
Love your channel
Excellent story
Their all connected together..and we not apart of it..glad too. I will keep my soul💯💯💯
Michael Jackson was the greatest entertainer in the world and still is.
The 🐐
Not better than Sammy
Loray White was beautiful just as beautiful as Kim. Sammy should have been thanking Loray instead of strangling her. She saved his life. If she hadn't said yes to marrying him, he would be dead.
Sammie didn’t like black women
Keep up the good work ❤
That was a hell of a kidnapping he got paid a good drink good and got to go back home 💯💯💯
Very, very well researched video. You touched on a lot of stuff that most people still don’t know about……even all these decades onward. Everything you said was 100% on point. There was literally not one black artist from the 40’s up until the mid 80’s who was not under the control of the mob. Even Barry Gordy was in deep with the mob…..they fronted the money for him to start Motown, got his artists on the radio and booked his acts in the best venues. In those days, you could not be in the music business without the mob having their say so. Ironically, the business got worse after the mob was pushed out. Once the corporate Illuminati took over the industry, it became what it is now……talentless, boring and demonic.
The first thing I thought of was "The Five Heartbeats" movie for some reason. Also the movie "The Cotton Club" movie from 1984.
Thank you💜💜💋💜I miss you.
I always thought it was messed how Organized Crime was ok but anything Blk people do to try and survive including working for them is wrong! Gangsters are famous for being bad but they helped with our downfall as a people with the governments help!
Dam Sammie was going through it
from the time he was born. He hated being black and he was a satanist
Very dope video my brother
This is why you should take pride in whatever you do because it might not be appreciated until you’re gone.
Really enjoy your content can you do one on De'Angelo Wilson. He was in 8 mile name dj
Unfortunately, Sammy was alot like so many black men of today! Thinking that white women are superior to black women! SMMFH! That shit is wild! I am all for love, don't get me wrong! But, his insistence on being with a white woman, & then, if true, threatening the life of a black woman, is pathetic, & I can't respect SDJ for that! As always, this was another great story! Keep it coming bruh!!
#NOTHIGLIKEMYBLACKWOMEN# ✊🏾
His last wife was Black. Her name was Altovese Gore and she was a dancer.
Belafonte was the same he preferred white women to
@@candisrainey1446 Quincy Jones and so on lots of them do and still continue until this day .
@@Supremmo He also had a serious relationship with Lola Falana if I remember correctly.
@@CodyCole80Sammy got with BW after it was too much for him to be with WW.
The music industry now is just full of modern-day mobsters. They do the same stuff to artist.😢
Those mobsters tried to pretend like Black people were unclean, but the majority of them were sleeping with those black, jazz singers, so that should tell you something.
Great stuff! I appreciate how you’re doing it; your style.
Elvis Presley idolized Jackie Wilson ( from what I've read)
Elvis loved Jackie , they had a close friendship . But it was mutual. Jackie told a reporter , I took as much from Elvis as he did from me. Even Sam Cooke knew about their friendship as he and Jackie toured together. Elvis paid Jackie’s medical bills in 1975. Etta James who had met Elvis as an upstart at 19 and really liked him. She was so happy Elvis paid those bills. Jackie on the other hand was asked by a DJ what records he’d play if he was a DJ . Jackie replied, “ Elvis records , all day long “ !
I’m born and raised in Las Vegas. But yes, back in those days if you were black, you had to stay off Jackson Street in a bungalow hotel,,well motel cove hotel on DST. or you would have to stay on Bonanza Street which is where we have the Moulin Rouge.
As always, Great Video!
RIP Louis Armstrong
Lauren Bacall who was Humphrey Bogart´s wife at the time was the one credited with the name Rat Pack. The story goes that Lauren had a guest over to the house and she asked where was Humphrey to which she replied somewhere with his Rat Pack of friends. So they never called themselves that but it was the name that Frank and his crew became known by because they carried on in the same manner, Drinking, Gambling, Smoking Cigars etc.
Great video. Lol at his voice trailing off. I love that 😅❤😊
Very informative and I appreciate this video
The mob had there hands in everything
I love your channel bro
Right up until now but particularly in hip hop when it burst to same s***.
Top shelf🔥 THNX
You are so good at telling stories ❤👍🏽 so relaxing
Made dinner for this right on time 😊
Let me get a plate😂😂😂😂 jkjk
@@eugenedantzler4485 🤣🤣🤣
@@MakaveliThaDon444 can I have a virtual plate for $5?.
@@MakaveliThaDon444 what did you cook ?.
RIP Harry Belafonte
Very good video! lol@ "back then"
Some of those guys were scripted actors, carrying out psychological warfare. there are videos out there of them getting exposed.
Whoa 😳
Why you left out Sammy being a part of the Church of Satan???
Great story!
What about Black on Black; Sylvia Robinson and her husband didn't pay their groups. Berry Gordy also.
RIP Lena Horne and Sammy Davis Jr
Great commentary ❤
Sammy Davis needs a Netflix series
Sammie Davis...Jamie Foxx...
Sammy's wife looks like Beyoncé's backup dancer from Put a Ring On It, lol 💍
🎉 Great Reporting 👍 Video Shared 🤔
Thanks CU❤
I respect all this,
Love the video etc.
but, Our True Legendary Activist Barrier leader passed day at the age of 96.
Harry Belafonte🙏🏾
Yo bro Keep them coming tho bro