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video playlist is 15 parts, with 12 segments of the lecture and 3 bonus videos of Question and Answer session with Al Bell. An Evening With Al Bell, Former Leader at Stax Records, Motown Records. He is a "servant leader", music producer, and Arkansas native. Thursday, February 23, 2012, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The African and African American studies program of the University of Arkansas hosted "An Evening with Al Bell" on Thursday, Feb. 23, bringing recording legend Al Bell to Fayetteville to speak to faculty and students and the public in the Arkansas Union Theatre. A reception followed with jazz music. Bell, born in Brinkley, Ark., grew up in Little Rock and became a local radio DJ (radio station KKOY he talks about in this video series) before making the jump to Memphis-based WLOK. After a successful on-air career, he joined Stax Records in 1965. At Stax, Bell eventually led the legendary label as its chair, where he worked with soul music icons Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, the Staples Singers, and The Emotions. With Hayes, Bell produced the landmark album Hot Buttered Soul and spoken-word albums by comedians Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor. In one of the videos here, Bell talks about coming up with the words and inspiration for the Staples Singers successful song "I'll Take You There". At a time when the Civil Rights Movement engulfed the United States, Bell, a veteran of the movement who had worked with Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta, built Stax Records to become one of the largest black-owned businesses in the United States. After he left Stax, Bell continued to influence the music industry when he became president of Motown Records. After helping to engineer the sale of Motown to MCA/Boston Ventures Group, Bell began working with artists including Prince and Tag Team under his Bellmark label. Bell was instrumental in producing the 1993 Tag Team hit "Whoomp! (There It Is)" which went platinum four times over, selling more than 4 million copies and reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. This song continues to be played at sporting events worldwide. He also released Prince's 1994 hit single "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The African and African American studies program is an academically focused interdisciplinary program based in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. It promotes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the history, culture and identity of Africans and African Americans. Students may elect to pursue a combined major or a minor in African and African American studies with any approved major offered at the University of Arkansas. "An Evening with Al Bell" is also sponsored by the Sam M. Walton College of Business' Office of Diversity Programs. Al Bell bio, poster image and announcement from UA Fayetteville news wire, http://newswire.uark.edu/Article.aspx?ID=17702 Al Bell lecture video series recorded and edited by Dgold -- Subscribe on Youtube, http://youtube.com/colbruce Find @dgold on Twitter http://twitter.com/dgold Used a Kodak zi8 camera, mixed the stereo audio to mono 2 channel. Pictures courtesy of Stax Records Museum of Soul Music. Read the poem "It Couldn't Be Done" by Edgar Albert Guest, Al Bell recited this poem in the conclusion of his talk (on the videos), http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173579 Al Bell Presents website http://www.albellpresents.com/ Al Bell on Twitter http://twitter.com/albellpresents African and African American Studies Department at University of Arkansas, http://aast.uark.edu/ African and African American Studies Department on Twitter, http://twitter.com/UofArAAST file name: Stax-Records-Al-Bell-2012-lecture-Part09-HD720p-Gospel-Music.mp4