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Seizoen 1
Uitzenddatum
Feb 12, 1977
Popular music is an essential part of our daily lives. Yet we know comparatively little about it – where it came from, how it developed, how it has influenced or been influence by
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Popular music is an essential part of our daily lives. Yet we know comparatively little about it – where it came from, how it developed, how it has influenced or been influence by social change. Today, the popular music industry controls billions of dollars; it has a greater revenue than the combined efforts of the cinema, theatre, sport, and all the other entertainment industries put together. Yet the industry depends, ultimately, on the creative talents of a group of remarkable individuals. The story of popular music, therefore, is a story of the struggle by these individuals to survive the demands of this gigantic industry.
This introductory episode explains some of the aims and ambitions of this seventeen part spectacular entertainment.
featuring
Aretha Franklin
Billie Holiday
Bing Crosby
Bo Diddley
Buddy Rich
Dizzy Gillespie
Duke Ellington
Dusty Springfield
Edith Piaf
Eric Clapton
Everly Brothers
Glen Campbell
Hoagy Carmichael
Jerry Lee Lewis
Joan Baez
Judy Garland
Liberace
Muddy Waters
Paul McCartney and Wings
Richard Rodgers
Ruth Etting
The Beatles
The Bee Gees
The Rolling Stones
Uitzenddatum
Feb 19, 1977
It is generally assumed that American popular music comes from the coastal regions of Africa; that the slaves brought drums to the United States; that jazz originated, somehow, in New
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It is generally assumed that American popular music comes from the coastal regions of Africa; that the slaves brought drums to the United States; that jazz originated, somehow, in New Orleans; that the blues developed in the Mississippi Delta, and later became the cornerstone of everything from rock n roll to ragtime. All of these assumptions are untrue, and this episode with seek to uncover the real story – in Africa, on the edge of the Sahara; in Austria and the Salzkammergut; in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas; in New Orleans and in Texas.
featuring
Duke Ellington
Ginger Baker
James Brown
LeRoi Jones
Lightnin' Hopkins
Rufus Thomas
The Platters
Tina Turner
Uitzenddatum
Feb 26, 1977
Thanks to the hit movie, “The Sting”, everyone reckons they know about Ragtime. But do they? This Episode includes the oldest known piece of film (1898) showing what the cakewalk was
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Thanks to the hit movie, “The Sting”, everyone reckons they know about Ragtime. But do they? This Episode includes the oldest known piece of film (1898) showing what the cakewalk was really like. Also extracts from The Royal Ballet production based on Scott Joplin’s music, “Elite Syncopations”. Also extracts staged by the Houston Grand Opera of Joplin’s only surviving opera, “Treemonisha”. There is also rare early film of Irving Berlin (Alexander’s Ragtime Band) as well as film of Joplin’s birthplace and of the madhouse where he died. Although reference is made to other early ragtime composers, this episode is essentially the story of Scott Joplin – an extraordinary tragedy of failure, frustration, pride, of the black man’s struggle to achieve for himself a proper place in American society.
featuring
Christies Ethiopian Serenaders
Eubie Blake
Houston Grand Opera and the music of Scott Joplin
Irving Berlin
Monica Mason
Rudi Blesh
Terry Waldo
Uitzenddatum
Mrt 05, 1977
Jazz is not a black music, nor a white music. Nor is it structureless improvisation. Nor did it originate in New Orleans. As created at the turn of the century throughout the Amerian
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Jazz is not a black music, nor a white music. Nor is it structureless improvisation. Nor did it originate in New Orleans. As created at the turn of the century throughout the Amerian south, it had a quite specific and limited meaning. Its form was strict, as were the morals and musical principles which guided its early exponents. This film will seek to examine the origins of jazz, and show how these were exploited and eventually lost by greed. Jazz is a story of apartheid in music in which a unique blend of white musical discipline and black sensibility was comprised and laid waste.
featuring
Charles Mingus
Charlie Parker
Chick Corea
Count Basie
Dave Brubeck
Dizzy Gillespie
Duke Ellington
Earl Fatha Hines
George Shearing
Hoagy Carmichael
Ian Carr
John Lewis
Kid Ory
Louis Armstrong
Mike Gibbs
Miles Davis
Paul Whiteman
Uitzenddatum
Mrt 12, 1977
Blues is a word you have to think about before it can be understood. Contrary to popular belief, blues – as a form of music – does not appear until 1910 or so, that is after ragtime and
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Blues is a word you have to think about before it can be understood. Contrary to popular belief, blues – as a form of music – does not appear until 1910 or so, that is after ragtime and jazz. Blues is not, therefore, the cornerstone of popular music. Rather, it has become an emotional response, through music to a variety of oppressive social conditions.
The Episode begins in the Delta of Mississippi and follow the progress of itinerant blues musicians to the steel mills and automobile factories of Chicago; from harmonica and fiddle, to electric guitar and fashionable nightclub. Finally, the Episode shows how blues phrases and harmonies were stolen by white rock n rollers in need of a new gimmick.
featuring
B.B. King
Bessie Smith
Billie Holiday
Leadbelly
Memphis Slim
Mighty Joe Young
Muddy Waters
Ray Charles
Roosevelt Sykes
Son House
Victoria Spivey
Willie 'The Lion' Smith
Uitzenddatum
Mrt 19, 1977
Music Hall, as a description, means exactly what it says. A hall, usually at the back of a tavern or pub, in which music was performed by local entertainers for financial gain. It is
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Music Hall, as a description, means exactly what it says. A hall, usually at the back of a tavern or pub, in which music was performed by local entertainers for financial gain. It is thus the earliest example of a popular music industry. In a sense, through all its manifestations, music hall or vaudeville or variety has remained true to this original description. Thus, the film begins and ends in Las Vegas (with Judy Garland), a palace of varieties to end all palaces of variety. En route, we travel via London’s Palace Theatre, the Palladium and the Windmill.
featuring
Charles Aznavour
Charles Coburn
Clara Bow
Danny La Rue
Edith Piaf
Flanagan and Allen
Florrie Forde
Harry Lauder
Judy Garland
Liberace
Little Tich
Mae West
Marie Kendall
Marlene Dietrich
Maurice Chevalier
Mrs Shufflewick
Uitzenddatum
Mrt 26, 1977
Tin Pan Alley existed to make money. IT organized and rationalized an embryonic music industry for the mutual benefit of these who did the organizing.
Tin Pan Alley brought to
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Tin Pan Alley existed to make money. IT organized and rationalized an embryonic music industry for the mutual benefit of these who did the organizing.
Tin Pan Alley brought to popular music a collective sense of purpose. Songs were no longer the creative prerogative of a few gifted, composers. They could be written to order, in ten minutes, for all combinations of instruments and voices. Its organization included pluggers, copyists, demonstrators and arrangers. Songs were written by committee, by number, and by role. There were “product”, and the greater the “product”, the greater the profit.
featuring
Al Jolson
Bing Crosby
Bob Wills
E. Y. Harburg
George Gershwin
Hoagy Carmichael
Irving Berlin
Irving Caesar
Perry Como
Rudy Vallee
The Carter Family
Uitzenddatum
Apr 02, 1977
This is a story of how a remarkable and very different number of theatrical elements were welded together into something also remarkable and very different called “the musical”. From
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This is a story of how a remarkable and very different number of theatrical elements were welded together into something also remarkable and very different called “the musical”. From operetta, vaudeville, variety, burlesque, revue and most importantly British music hall, came “the musical”. But it did not come about by accident. It was the deliberate and conscious achievement of lyricist Oscar Hammerstein (who wrote, among others, “Showboat” and “Oklahoma”) and the director Rouben Mamoulian. Against considerable opposition, both critical and commercial, they created a new art form which was unique and yet familiar.
featuring
Agnes de Mille
Bob Fosse
Galt MacDermott
Glynis Johns
Harold Prince
Joseph Papp
Ken Russell
Lionel Bart
Lorenz Hart
Oscar Hammerstein Jnr.
Richard Rodgers
Rouben Mamoulian
Stephen Sondheim
Tom O'Horgan
William Hammerstein
Uitzenddatum
Apr 09, 1977
For most of its history, popular music has rarely been that which most people like Jazz, for instance, has always been a minority interest. But in the era which was dominated by swing,
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For most of its history, popular music has rarely been that which most people like Jazz, for instance, has always been a minority interest. But in the era which was dominated by swing, the music and its popularity were equally matched. White musicians became bored with the asinine popular music they were expected to play, music pumped out by Tin Pan Alley, and tried to emulate the style and freedom of their black counterparts. Most of them were too intelligent as musicians to indulge in mere imitation. What they created was the first white music based on black music which was not stolen from black music.
featuring
Art Tatum
Artie Shaw
Benny Goodman
Bing Crosby
Bud Freeman
Buddy Rich
Cab Calloway
Dick Vance
Fletcher Henderson
Frank Sinatra
Gene Krupa
Guy Lombardo
Harry James
Lawrence Welk
Lionel Hampton
The Dutch Swing College Band
Tommy Dorsey
Woody Herman
Uitzenddatum
Apr 16, 1977
In the late forties, white record companies labelled commercial black music “race music”. Eventually, Jerry Wexler, then working at Billboard magazine as a reporter, thought of the
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In the late forties, white record companies labelled 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.
featuring
Aretha Franklin
Bill Haley
Bo Diddley
Clyde McPhatter
Ike and Tina Turner
Jerry Wexler
Johnnie Ray
Pat Boone
Stevie Wonder
The Lefevres Family
The Platters
The Supremes
Wilson Pickett
Uitzenddatum
Apr 23, 1977
Country music was, originally, home-made music. It described the births, marriages and deaths that happened in every community. It celebrated love, just as it bemoaned the ill-fortune
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Country music was, originally, home-made music. It described the births, marriages and deaths that happened in every community. It celebrated love, just as it bemoaned the ill-fortune that came to every man. It was music with which all felt they could identify. As such, it occupied a unique place in white culture. The music was not manufactured, as in Tin Pan Alley, nor sophisticated, and this episode describes the process by which this change came about.
Finally, we will be backstage at the Grand Ole Opry during one of its regular nationwide broadcasts, with a blessing to finish from Grand Ole Gospel Time.
featuring
Bill Anderson
Doug Kershaw
Ernest Tubb
Jimmie Driftwood
Jimmie Rodgers
Minnie Pearl
Roy Acuff
Roy Rogers
Tex Ritter
Webb Pierce
William Ivey and Stars of the Grand Ole Opry
Uitzenddatum
Apr 30, 1977
After Nashville had raped American country music, it might seem that the folk traditions this music embodied had been lost. Not so, because these traditions had a purpose other than to
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After Nashville had raped American country music, it might seem that the folk traditions this music embodied had been lost. Not so, because these traditions had a purpose other than to entertain. We shall see how folk music used popular melodies to spell out unpopular themes, how during the American War of Independence filthy words were penned against the British Crown, but all to the tune of ‘God Save The King’. The same happened during the American Civil War – different words, depending on whether you were from the North or the South but to the same tune.
Song has been used by such as Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, Peter Seeger and Leonard Cohen as a passionate weapon for peace. The effect these singers managed to achieve in the sixties was one of the stronger causes of the American defeat in Vietnam.
featuring
Arlo Guthrie
Bing Crosby
Country Joe McDonald
James Simmons
Joan Baez
Leon Rosselson
Leonard Cohen
Pete Seeger
Peter, Paul and Mary
The Andrews Sisters
Vera Lynn
Woody Guthrie
Uitzenddatum
Mei 07, 1977
The story of rock n roll begins and ends in Memphis, Tennessee, in the tiny studio of record producer Sam Phillips. He tells of how he discovered Elvis Presley and of the struggle he
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The story of rock n roll begins and ends in Memphis, Tennessee, in the tiny studio of record producer Sam Phillips. He tells of how he discovered Elvis Presley and of the struggle he had to get Presley accepted. It was not the overnight success story that is popularly believed. Before long, however, Presley came to symbolize the spirit of an entire generation. How did this happen, and why? Or was it the product of Sam Phillips’ imagination and Presley’s stage presence?
featuring
Bill Haley
Carl Perkins
Chubby Checker
Chuck Berry
Cliff Richard
Conway Twilty
Elvis Presley
Gene Vincent
Jack Good
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Richard
Lonnie Donegan
Pat Boone
Sam Phillips
Terry Dene
Tommy Steele
Uitzenddatum
Mei 14, 1977
“They were very scruffy” recounts Allan Williams, the Beatles’ first manager, as he describes the Beatles’ early escapades in Hamburg and Liverpool Soon Brian Epstein appeared on the
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“They were very scruffy” recounts Allan Williams, the Beatles’ first manager, as he describes the Beatles’ early escapades in Hamburg and Liverpool Soon Brian Epstein appeared on the scene, although he didn’t like the sound the Beatles made. Nor did any record producer, and even George Martin now admits that he never believed they would make worldwide hit song writers. There was a cost, of course, which eventually had to paid for this extraordinary euphoria. But, at the time, no-one seemed to care.
featuring
Allan Williams
Bill Graham
Brian Epstein
Derek Taylor
Donovan
George Harrison
George Martin
John Lennon
Mamas and the Papas
Murray the K
Paul McCartney
Ravi Shankar
Ringo Starr
Roger McGuinn
The Beach Boys
The Byrds
Uitzenddatum
Mei 21, 1977
The sixties began, according to Eric Burdon as “a party”. “The aim of all of us, Hendrix, The Who, The Stones” Burdon goes on, “was to ball every chick in sight”. Unfortunately, the
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The sixties began, according to Eric Burdon as “a party”. “The aim of all of us, Hendrix, The Who, The Stones” Burdon goes on, “was to ball every chick in sight”. Unfortunately, the party went sour. After the death of Epstein, the Beatles quarreled and split up. Jagger was arrested. Drugs became fashionable. The swinging sixties tore itself apart in an orgy of self-congratulation and self-indulgence.
featuring
Alexis Korner
Bill Graham
Bill Wyman
Donovan
Eric Burdon
Frank Zappa
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
John Lennon
Manfred Mann
Mick Jagger
Paul McCartney
Peter Rudge
Pink Floyd
The Doors
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Uitzenddatum
Mei 28, 1977
This Episode takes place almost entirely on stage; fans are always seen from the performer’s point of view. Thus, we begin to feel and experience first hand the pressures being put upon
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This Episode takes place almost entirely on stage; fans are always seen from the performer’s point of view. Thus, we begin to feel and experience first hand the pressures being put upon various individuals by the music industry. We are backstage with David Bowie as he makes himself up for a performance. We watch Alice Cooper ritualistically smashing up a doll, while the fans shriek for more and more. We are with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull as he prepares to face a screaming crowd. We watch Eric Clapton before drugs, during drugs and after drugs. We are on stage with Keith Emerson as he hurls his electric organ as the audience...
featuring
Alice Cooper
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Clive Davis
Cream
David Bowie
Elton John
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Eric Clapton
Gary Glitter
Helen Reddy
Jethro Tull
Keith Moon
Kiss
Labelle
Lester Bangs
Marie and Donny Osmond
Roxy Music
Uitzenddatum
Jun 01, 1977
The film opens at a pop festival. Drug-smoking is very much in evidence. “These fellows will answer to God” says the Rev Jack Wyrtzen, “for all the pollution and evil they have spread
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The film opens at a pop festival. Drug-smoking is very much in evidence. “These fellows will answer to God” says the Rev Jack Wyrtzen, “for all the pollution and evil they have spread around the world.” “The thing about rock n roll” says Lester Bangs, “is that it is totally about adolescence, and about consumerism brought in the highest degree”. In fact, as the film begins to point out, neither of these extreme points of view is true. Tangerine Dream perform religious music in Coventry Cathedral. Stomu Yamash’ta, a spectacular Japanese percussionist, clearly has nothing to do with adolescence: and no-one could describe Mike Oldfield as the product of consumerism.
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