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Melvin Van Peebles

Melvin Van Peebles has been played over 40 times on NTS, first on 10 December 2014. Melvin Van Peebles's music has been featured on 35 episodes.

Melvin Van Peebles (born August 21, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright and composer, and the father of actor and director Mario Van Peebles.

Prior to entering Hollywood, Van Peebles directed the French film Story of a Three Day Pass (La Permission). His first Hollywood film was the 1970 comedy Watermelon Man, written by Herman Raucher. The movie told the story of a casually racist but well meaning white man who suddenly wakes up black…

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Sweetback's Theme
Melvin Van Peebles
Stax1971
Sweetback's Theme
Melvin Van PeeblesStax1971
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Sweetback Getting It Uptight And Preaching It So Hard The Bourgeois Reggin Angels In Heaven Turn Around
Melvin Van Peebles feat. Brer Soul, Earth Wind & Fire
Stax1971
Sweetback Getting It Uptight And Preaching It So Hard The Bourgeois Reggin Angels In Heaven Turn Around
Melvin Van Peebles feat. Brer Soul, Earth Wind & FireStax1971
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Life Is...
Quasimoto feat. Melvin Van Peebles
Stones Throw Records2005
Life Is...
Quasimoto feat. Melvin Van PeeblesStones Throw Records2005
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Big Bang Reincarnation
The Heliocentrics, Melvin Van Peebles
Now-Again Records2014
Big Bang Reincarnation
The Heliocentrics, Melvin Van PeeblesNow-Again Records2014
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Wont Bleed Me
Melvin Van Peebles feat. Brer Soul, Earth Wind & Fire
Stax1971
Wont Bleed Me
Melvin Van Peebles feat. Brer Soul, Earth Wind & FireStax1971
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Eviction Scene
Melvin Van Peebles
Beverly Hills0
Eviction Scene
Melvin Van PeeblesBeverly Hills0
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Come On Feet
Melvin Van Peebles feat. Brer Soul, Earth Wind & Fire
Stax1971
Come On Feet
Melvin Van Peebles feat. Brer Soul, Earth Wind & FireStax1971
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Superstition
Melvin Van Peebles
Atlantic1973
Superstition
Melvin Van PeeblesAtlantic1973
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Prologue
The Heliocentrics, Melvin Van Peebles
Now-Again Records2014
Prologue
The Heliocentrics, Melvin Van PeeblesNow-Again Records2014
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Love, That's America (Long Version)
Melvin Van Peebles
Beverly Hills1970
Love, That's America (Long Version)
Melvin Van PeeblesBeverly Hills1970
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