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All You Need Is Love - The Story Of Popular Music (1977)

Year of release : 1977
Genre : Documentary
Duration : 14:37:10

Description :
Episode 1 - Opening
Episode 2 - God's Children - Origins
Episode 3 - I Can Hypnotise 'Dis Nation' - Ragtime
Episode 4 - Jungle Music - Jazz
Episode 5 - Who's That Comin '- Blues
Episode 6 - Rude Songs - Musical Hall and Vaudeville
Episode 7 - Always Chasin 'Rainbows - The Tin Pan Alley
Episode 8 - Diamonds As Big As The Ritz - The Musical
Episode 9 - Swing That Music
Episode 10 - Good Times - Rhythm and Blues
Episode 11 - Making Moonshine - Country
Episode 12 - Go Down Moses - War Songs
Episode 13- Hail Hail - Rock and Roll
Episode 14 - Mighty Good - The Beatles
Episode 15 - All Along The Watchtower - Sour Rock
Episode 16 - Whatever Get You Through The Night - Glitter Rock
Episode 17 - Imagine ... New Directions

Add. Information : The grandiose 17-episode documentary by Tony Palmer about the history 
of popular music combined almost 15 hours of interviews and concert filming of almost 
all significant figures in the musical world of the 50-70s. A feature of this film is 
that it is not a studio "project" (when the speculations of numerous experts in the 
studio are interspersed with archival footage), but a continuous documentary tape, 
consisting exclusively of interviews, chronicles and concert introductions of the 50-70s.
Unfortunately, the film is not translated. Nevertheless, even if you are not fluent 
in English, viewing will be very interesting.


Quality : TVRip
Format : AVI
Video codec : XviD
Audio codec : MP3
Video : XVID 720x536 25.00fps 1146Kbps
Audio : MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz stereo 128Kbps




Episode 1 - Opening
All You Need is Love takes a close look at every strand of Anglo-American popular music. This opening program considers how pop music has become an essential part of our daily lives.

Episode 2 - God's Children - Origins
It is generally assumed that American popular music comes from the coastal regions of Africa and the Blues developed in the Mississippi Delta and became the corner stone of everything from ragtime to Rock 'n' Roll. All these assumptions are untrue however as the second episode of Tony Palmer's 17-part series seeks to uncover the real story.
'All You Need Is Love' takes you to the edge of the Sahara, Austria, Arkansas, New Orleans, Texas - and includes rare footage of Duke Ellington, James Brown and the original Platters.

Interviewees include Leroi Jones, Ligtnin 'Hopkins, Duke Ellington, Rufus Thomas, James Brown, Ginger Baker and Tina Turner.

Episode 3 - I Can Hypnotise 'Dis Nation' - Ragtime
The third episode in the series includes extracts from Elite Syncopations, the Royal Ballet production based on Scott Joplin's music from 1976, plus his only surviving opera, 'Treemonisha' and how years after he passed away buried in a pauper's grave ragtime music has finally broken
away from it's exclusive black roots to claim it's rightful place with a wider audience.

Interviewees include - Terry Waldo, Eubie Blake, Rubi Blesh and Monica Mason.

Episode 4 - Jungle Music - Jazz
Palmer attempts to discover jazz's roots which began from misconceived beginnings and led to an history which it's black artists were exploited and eventually lost by greed.
To survive jazz fractured in to different directions with different artists, black and white, making different interpretations of the genre moving it so far away from it's beginnings that in some cases it is no longer recognizable from it's origins.

Archive footage includes Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington.
Interviewees includes Hoagy Carmichael, Dave Brubeck, Ian Carr and Mike Gibbs.

Episode 5 - Who's That Comin '- Blues
This episode follows the history of Blues and its position in the popular music today. With film of the Mississippi Delta and the factories of Chicago, tracing folk blues to electric blues, vaudeville blues and the influence of the blues on jazz, popular song and white rock music.
With rare archive footage of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ledbelly and BB King, Tony Palmer's film gives an insight in to the gritty, poverty riven States which was the 'deep south' of America during the 'depression' where the blues music was honed and developed but widely ignored.

Interviewees include Memphis Slim, Ray Charles, Roosevelt Sykes, Willie Smith and Muddy Waters.

Episode 6 - Rude Songs - Musical Hall and Vaudeville
This episode takes a look at the story of British music hall, beginning with the music hall of 18th century London when it was very much aimed at a working class audience who could relate to the artists performing and their earthy humor. Crossing the Atlantic these shows became known as vaudeville and the more it's more risque counterpart called burlesque. Just when it looked like music hall was dying out following the First World War Hollywood saw the potential by making these shows in to lavish producions inspiring the next generation of artists.

Archive footage include many late 19th century music hall stars such as Florrie Forde, Marie Kendall, Little Tich and Harry Laude. While Judy Garland, Mae West, Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich and Liberace are all featured illustrate it's impact on this later generation.
Interviewees include Liberace, Danny La Rue and Charles Aznavour.

Episode 7 - Always Chasin 'Rainbows - The Tin Pan Alley
This episode follows story of the song-writing `factories' of Tin Pan Alley from it's early roots as part of the British vaudeville scene to 1930's USA where pluggers were employed to give the" hard sell "to individual songs so artists performances on stage would encourage the sale of sheet music. The pluggers were usually failed performers themselves who were desperate to stay in showbusiness and would resort to increasingly shadier deals in this cut throat world. With arrival of Hollywood who began demanding more songs individual songwriters got together in what was called 'Tin Pan Alley' to provide the material while the plugger began to pay artists under the counter thus beginning the trend of payola.

Archive footage includes Al Jolson, George Gerswin, Rudy Valee and Irving Berlin while interviewees include Bing Crosby, Ian Whitfield, Hoagy Carmichael and Irving Caeser.

Episode 8 - Diamonds As Big As The Ritz - The Musical
This episode follows the story of the musical, a format that developed from it's early roots which were a combination of vaudeville, variety and revue which later merged in to British music hall. Across the Atlantic however some it's own ingredients added which became burlesque and the latterly operetta.
To illustrates this point the show examines several musicals - Okalahoma, On Your Toes, Hair, Tommy, A Little Light Music, The Leaf People and Chicago to demostrate how minor changes in a performance can have a big effect on the format while others can turn a potentially successful show and into a flop.

Archive footage included are from Rodgers and Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Agnes De Mille, Glynis Johns and the Who. While those interviewed include Ken Russell, Tina Turner, Lionel Bart, Stephen Sondheim and William Hammerstein.

Episode 9 - Swing That Music
This episode follows the rise and fall of swing music. Of unknown origin swing music developed from the publics interest and desire to dance to live music. The easiest way to do this was with small compact bands with no more than four players. Suddenly there was a massive popular explosion and the bands began to get bigger and bigger, expanding the amount of instruments and players to give a new dimension to the sound. With the popularity of this music now being released on records the final piece was put in to play - a singer. The most popular of these was Bing Crosby but it wasn't until the arrival of Frank Sinatra that the 'teeny bopper' was born a mass interest created
However no sooner had it started then swing was over, the Musicians Union began a strike over jukebox payments and by the time it was over the singers had found a way around the ban and were flurishing while the large bands could no longer be sustained.

Archive footage includes Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Gene Krupper, Buddy Rich, Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey. While interviewees in the program include Crosby, Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, Bud Freeman and Artie Shaw.

Episode 10 - Good Times - Rhythm and Blues
This week's episode follows the origins of rhythm and blues from it's black gospel roots to the moment where it was embraced by a white audience through a young Southern born singer called Elvis Presley.
The program follows both white and black gospel music and how each interperated the music that was originally from source - the church. Black music was far more diversive inspiring artists like Bo Diddley to develop a harsher blues style while other black artists like Aretha Franklin and Berry Gordy's Motown stable were aiming to be more palatable to a white audience. White gospel however was almost the polar opposite with artists such as Johnny Ray and Pat Boone widely seen as non threatening but taking black music and re-releasing it to get chart success. However their were some white musicians such as Buddy Holly who saw the potential of black music for a white audience by writing his own material but it wasn't until Elvis Presley that a complete crossover artist was born.

Performances in the show include Bo Diddley, Stevie Wonder, Lefty Ditz, Tina Turner, The Chiffons and Johnny Ray while there is archive footage of The Supremes, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Buddy Holly and Bill Hayley.
Interviewees include Pat Boone, Jerry Wexler, Jerry Lieber, Mike Stoller and Tina Turner.

Episode 11 - Making Moonshine - Country
The story of country music and how commercialism gradually took over the home-made country sound. The country sound was very much a self contained format developing in Ozarks where people gathered together using whatever instruments were available. This slowly became a style of it's own diversing in to Hillbilly and Bluegrass but it wasn't until 1922 that it was thought commercial when the singing railway guardsman Jimmie Rodgers became it's first star. With the Grand Ole Opery giving artists the chance to be heard on the radio inevitably several artists like the Carter Family and Jim Reeves were signed up by record companies. With the arrival of this commercialism the country music industry has been locked in a battle with the music industry as had to go to more extreme levels to keep their original style pure.

Performances in the program include Bennie Hess, Roy Acuff and Doug Kershaw while amongst the many interviewees are Minnie Pear, Jimmy Driftwood, Ernest Tubb, Larry Yudkin and Roy Rogers.
Archive footage includes Jimmie Rodgers, Tex Ritter and Roy Rogers.

Episode 12 - Go Down Moses - War Songs
This episode follows the use of music as a method of military and political propaganda, showing how music has been used to promote patriotism and war, but also as a weapon for promoting peace.
Right from it's early beginnings traditional folk music was adapted lyrically to make a more patriotic sound as a rallying cry. Countries would even steal the music from the army they were fighting against as long as the troops would rally around that particular song and thus the flag. By the time of the Second World War songs were marketed specifically, with artists such as Vera Lynn having a massive following. However some of America's finest folk writers like Pete Seegar and Woody Guthrie found post-war that their communist past did not fit with the patriotic sound required in the fifties' McCarthyism and found were blacklisted. What this did however was to bring rise to the protest song which came to the fore with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez which in turn led to a massive folk boom in 1964.

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