Goofs

Petey Green is hired to do a daily morning show when in reality, he only did a Sunday show on WOL.

When Petey says the telephone number of the radio station is 215-JK5-0199. The radio station is in Washington DC but the 215 area code is Philadelphia.

James Brown played a hugely important concert the day after Dr. King's assassination. It was broadcast live on local TV to help keep people off the streets. But the concert, and the broadcast, were both in Boston. Why Petey Greene would have been a part of that is mystifying.

During a WOL staff meeting, the DJ line-up is said to include Nighthawk and "Soul Poppa". The late night DJ at that time was Fred "Soul Finger" Correy.

In the pool game Boston, he calls every shot, but not the last - the 8 ball - which is a mandatory must call shot.

In the scene where Dewey overhears 3 men at a bar talking about Petey's show, there is a road sign mounted on the wall behind the men. The writing on the sign (indicating the way to Teaneck) is backwards.

In the pool hall, they are playing 9-ball, which would make the 9 ball the highest numbered ball on the table. But there is a quick shot of the green-striped 14 ball on the table.

In the scene where Petey and Dewey lock themselves in the DJ booth, Greene puts on an LP featuring Les McCann and Eddie Harris' song "Compared to What". The album the song appears on, 'Swiss Movement', wasn't released until 1969, though the scene predates Martin Luther King's assassination in April 1968. Another circa-1968 montage, set to Sly & the Family Stone's "I Want to Take You Higher", is set to a song released in 1969.

In the opening scene, we see Petey Greene thumbing through a selection of vinyl records, eventually picking out the album 'It's A New Day - Let A Man Come In'. At this point in the film, it would appear that Petey is still in prison, however the James Brown album that he picks out was not released until June 1970. Moreover, the track played - 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World' - is a different version to that which appears on this 1970 album. Indeed, the version that is heard at the beginning of the film was not available commercially until the release of the 'Star Time' box set in 1991.

During his broadcast on April 4, 1968, Petye refers to James Brown as "The Godfather of Soul", a term not given to him until the early 1970s.

A DJ plays "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" by Diana Ross & The Supremes and The Temptations, a record which was released seven months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (which takes place later on in the film).

The segment that features the James Brown concert, after the assassination of ML King, opens with the song 'Say It Loud' (I'm Black and I'm Proud). This song was never part of the set list of the original concert because the song wasn't written and recorded until August 1968 - 4 months after the assassination.