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Walter’s World: Amateur Night Returns to the Apollo

Harlemworld

By Walter Rutledge The legendary Apollo Theater, located at 253 west 125th Street will begin a new season of its signature program, Amateur Night. Dubbed the world’s most famous and enduring amateur talent competition, Amateur Night returns live to the... »

My Image Studios Aims to Be Filmmaking and Cultural Hub of Harlem

Harlemworld

Decades from now, Roland Laird wants My Image Studios LLC to be mentioned in the same breath as legendary Harlem venues like the Apollo Theater. Scheduled to open in June, the $21 million film screening, performance space and restaurant will … Continue... »

Celebrate Black History Month at the World Famous Apollo Theater

Harlemworld

This February, the world famous Apollo Theater will host a series of wide-ranging artistic and community programming to celebrate Black History Month. Throughout its history, the Apollo has consistently been a model of innovation and excellence, and a ... »

Crooning And Pooling: More On Obama NYC

Capitol Confidential

Proving that some cliches (in this case, "saving the best for last") are born of reality, here's the viral video of President Obama tunefully offering the opening bars of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" (get the election-year message?) last night at h... »

President Obama Fundraiser at the Apollo Theater Mashup (video)

Harlemworld

It was Amateur Night at the Apollo as the President did a sultry Al Green impression  last night at a campaign fundraising event at the at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater, ……where he sang the opening line to “Let’s Stay Together,” 1972 … Continue read... »

Damn, President Obama Is Hot When He Sings Al Green [Video]

Jezebel

#swoon Last night President Obama appeared at a fundraiser at the Apollo Theater and decided to give the audience a little taste of his silky smooth singing voice. He busted out the opening line of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," and, well, it's enou... »

Watch Barack Obama Sing a Little Al Green

Runnin' Scared

Yesterday President Obama was in town messing up your commute fund-raising. His fourth stop of the whirlwind tour was at the Apollo Theater where, as you see in the video above, he expanded his known »

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Al Green sales jump after Obama sings "Let's Stay Together"

NYDailyNews.com Headlines

Weekly online sales of "Let's Stay Together" jumped 490% after the President sang a few lines of the 1972 hit at a fundraiser at Harlem's Apollo Theater last week, Billboard magazine reported. »

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