ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - GOOD TIMES: RHYTHM AND BLUES
Tony Palmer's The Story of Popular Music; Volume 9
Aretha Franklin, Bill Haley, Bo Diddley, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, and Many Others
This critically acclaimed TV series, originally broadcast worldwide between 1976-80, is featured here in its entirety: 17 episodes contained on 5 discs, encompassing ragtime, blues, jazz, vaudeville, the musical, folk, swing, country and western, rock n' roll and beyond.
In this episode we turn our attention to Rhythm and Blues. In the late forties, white record companies labeled commercial black music "race music". Eventually, Jerry Wexler, then working at Billboard magazine as a reporter, thought of the phrase, "rhythm and blues" and it caught on. Before long, numerous other descriptions appeared - Motown, the Philadelphia Sound, Soul - but all had in common that the music expressed the rising aspirations of the ghetto. Meanwhile, a curious imitation of black gospel appeared called white gospel - and among those who loved the sound were two remarkable men; one a record producer, Sam Phillips, who wanted to create a sound which had the discipline of white gospel but with the abandon of black rhythm and blues; the other was Elvis Presley. This volume of the highly regarded series of films includes interviews and performances with the artists Ike and Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and Stevie Wonder. Record producer Jerry Wexler and Aretha Franklin are also interviewed.
Note: Full series, also available, catalog number 00320795. Other episodes also available individually.
Contents
- Bo Diddley [4:50]
- Jerry Wexler & Race Music - Lefty Diz & Wilson Pickett [5:29]
- Berry Gordy - The Supremes [1:33]
- Fisk Jubilee Singers & Spirituals LeRoi Jones & Joy Cometh in the Mornin' [3:58]
- Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder & Gospel [4:31]
- White Gosper & the Pat Boone Family the Lefevres & Heaven [6:03]
- The Diamonds & Lieber & Stoller [3:10]
- Bill Haley, Pat Boone, Earl King & Johnie Ray [7:54]
- Classic Rip-off-Bo Diddley; The Platters [3:50]
- Phil Spector; Ike & Tina Turner [7:18]
- Sam Phillips [2:13]
- Buddy Holly [1:12]
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Product Details: DVD (NTSC/ALL REGION)
53 Minutes
Product Code: 604388719907
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