This is an honorable homage to one of the best short stories I have ever read, written by one of the best short story writers this planet has ever seen: James Alan McPherson, who wrote the collections, Hue and Cry & Elbow Room. These two short story collection, the first of which won McPherson the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, are the strongest collections I have ever read. Go out and get them and read them and give them as gifts to black people. They are priceless...
With Ossie & Ruby. [1982-05-18], A SOLO SONG : for DOC The program presents the television adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Alan McPherson's dramatic short story ['A solo song for Doc' from Hue and cry] of a black dining-car waiter during the 1940s who is being forced to retire by the railroad company he has long and faithfully served."--1982 Peabody Awards entry form. Roscoe Lee Browne serves as a narrator/participant in the story. Ossie Davis plays the lead role of Doc, the head waiter in the train's dining car. Anthony Zerbe plays the railroad inspector assigned to find error with Doc's service in order to force him into retirement and replace him with a white employee. Bill McGhee plays a younger seasonal black waiter. www.worldcat.org/title/with-ossie-ruby-1982-05-18-a-solo-song-for-doc/oclc/44693300
I'm glad to find this on RUclips. I saw it when it was on PBS back in the day.
This is an honorable homage to one of the best short stories I have ever read, written by one of the best short story writers this planet has ever seen: James Alan McPherson, who wrote the collections, Hue and Cry & Elbow Room. These two short story collection, the first of which won McPherson the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, are the strongest collections I have ever read. Go out and get them and read them and give them as gifts to black people. They are priceless...
With Ossie & Ruby. [1982-05-18], A SOLO SONG : for DOC
The program presents the television adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Alan McPherson's dramatic short story ['A solo song for Doc' from Hue and cry] of a black dining-car waiter during the 1940s who is being forced to retire by the railroad company he has long and faithfully served."--1982 Peabody Awards entry form. Roscoe Lee Browne serves as a narrator/participant in the story. Ossie Davis plays the lead role of Doc, the head waiter in the train's dining car. Anthony Zerbe plays the railroad inspector assigned to find error with Doc's service in order to force him into retirement and replace him with a white employee. Bill McGhee plays a younger seasonal black waiter. www.worldcat.org/title/with-ossie-ruby-1982-05-18-a-solo-song-for-doc/oclc/44693300