High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a compilation album by American recording artist Gil Scott-Heron, released in 1974 on Flying Dutchman Records in the United States. It was also released in 1975 in Spain on Flying Dutchman`s parent label, RCA, under the title La Revolucion No Podra Ser Televisada. The album takes its name from Scott-Heron`s 1971 song of the same name. Originally issued in LP format, it contains recordings previously featured on Scott-Heron`s first three albums for the Flying Dutchman label, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox (1970), Pieces of a Man (1971), and Free Will (1972), which were produced by jazz producer Bob Thiele. The album`s recordings feature musical elements of funk, jazz, and proto-rap.