Moms Mabley HBO special. Hear MOMS sing "SUNNY" on YouTube

JACKIE MOMS MABLEY opens her show with Bobby Hebb's "SUNNY"

The flip of the 45 was "Abraham Martin & John" which became a hit for Moms Mabley

Complete show is HERE starting with "Sunny"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVg8X20Avxw

Whoopi Goldberg has appeared on Howard Stern and Jay Leno (Nov. 18, 2013) to promote the new Moms Mabley biopic on HBO

Moms Mabley sings "Sunny" on the LP
HER YOUNG THING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAx5TwJYEPg 

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MOMS MABLEY SPECIAL DIRECTED BY WHOOPI GOLDBERG


Flip side of "Sunny' is the hit record, "Abraham, Martin & John" which was the only Top 40 single by someone (at the time) in their 70s.

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Television review

An overdue look at the comedy of Moms Mabley

By Christopher Muther

 |  Globe Staff     November 18, 2013
 When Whoopi Goldberg turned to Kickstarter for cash to produce a documentary about legendary comedian Jackie “Moms” Mabley, it felt as altruistic as Zach Braff panhandling on the social media funding site for $2 million to make a sequel to “Garden State.”
“The View” host exceeded her $65,000 goal, but the happy ending is that “Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley,” airing Monday night on HBO, is not a vanity project. Her Kickstarter backers helped Goldberg create a compelling analysis of the barrier-busting Mabley, who, in wild housecoats, ill-fitting hats, and oversized shoes, brought a piece of black perspective into middle-class white living rooms in the 1960s and 1970s (Mabley passed away in 1975 at the age of 81).
“She’s been lost somewhere in comedic history,” said Joan Rivers, one of the parade of celebrities who sings Moms’s praises, and who is a graduate of Mabley’s school of satire.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2013/11/18/goldberg-offers-overdue-look-comedy-moms-mabley-hbo-documentary/8vOeYJ8j0ThBIH96RSL8JM/story.html 


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