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"One for the Road:" Morgan Freeman Sings

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 30, 2011 10:00PM

For many of us our first encounter with Morgan Freeman was on the 1970s PBS children's show The Electric Company. When he had his breakthrough role as Joe Clark, the baseball bat wielding high school principal in Lean on Me, we pointed at the screen and shouted, "That's Easy Reader!"

Here's a segment from a 1971 episode of The Electric Company where the Voice of God sings. If Freeman were on stage at Green Mill, he'd have our attention