There are 22 in all since another watermelon song, Mongo Santamaria’s “Watermelon Man” — composed by jazz legend Herbie Hancock — got this fruit-stand started in 1963. The dominant fruit ...

for plagiarism. The song that Hancock is alleged to have ripped off is "Watermelon Man," an uber-catchy number from his debut album, Takin' Off (Blue Note, 1962) that quickly attained jazz standard ...

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a song: He listened acutely to the cobblestone back alleys of Chicago: He learned: The Watermelon Man became a sound, a song: Listening for sounds reminds me of sounds heard and sound seen ...

He directed 'Watermelon Man,' did everything on 'Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song' and wrote a pair of Broadway musicals. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Van Peebles, the father of actor-director ...