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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780769776729
Format: Color, Compilation, NTSC
ISBN: 0769776728
Label: Standing Room Only
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Standing Room Only
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Standing Room Only
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Running Time: 42 minutes
Studio: Standing Room Only
Theatrical Release Date: April 27, 2004
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Easily the best of the five discs packaged together in host Casey Kasem's Rock n' Roll Goldmine Boxed Set, The Soul Years features riveting performances by some of immortal black musicians who helped define the decade of the 1960s. Taking nothing away from their rock & roll contemporaries, the fact is that many of the soul and R&B artists of that era (along with their musicians, producers, and songwriters) were more experienced, more professional, and simply more entertaining than their rock counterparts. The live turns by the likes of Aretha Franklin (a febrile "Respect"), Otis Redding ("Try a Little Tenderness," recorded not long before his death in a '67 plane crash), Ike and Tina Turner ("River Deep, Mountain High"), and James Brown (check out the Godfather of Soul's dancing on "I Feel Good"), among others, are galvanizing and charismatic. Even lip-synced numbers by (Little) Stevie Wonder and the Temptations have their charm, as do some brief interview excerpts (Brown in the early '80s: "I'm 54 now... hope I don't look it... but I feel good!"). At 42 minutes, there isn't enough of this stuff--but what there is is great. --Sam Graham
Description:
In the mid-sixties, a smoother style of Rhythm & Blues emerged to take the music world by storm. From the catchy tunes of Motown, to the gritty sounds of Stax, Soul music became the sound of the times. Includes full song performances of I Feel Good/ James Brown, Try A Little Tenderness/ Otis Redding, Respect/ Aretha Franklin, My Girl/ The Temptations, Stand By Me/Ben E. King, Fingertips/ Stevie Wonder, River Deep Mountain High/Ike &Tina Turner, Hold On I'm Coming/Sam & Dave, When A Man Loves A Woman/Percy Sledge.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I had so looked forward to receiving this as I was 16 when all this stuff was happening and dearly love all this music. This DVD is atrocious. Grainy black and white images of mostly lip synched performances, but the worst part is the sound. Terrible, like badly compressed AM radio sound. I have a good stereo rig and was not expecting audiophile quality, just hoping it would be close to CD quality. It is not. We could not even sit through the whole disc without skipping ahead hoping at least a couple ... Read More
Rating:  -
Sadly, DVD's of classic Soul performances in their prime years (1950s to the mid 70s) are very scarce. Ed Sullivan's DVD on the subject,a few documentaries on the major players with incomplete performances, and this are about the only domestic non-bootlegs that are currently available.
That said, it consists of lip-synched (although in the case of Otis, Aretha, and Sam & Dave it's hard to tell) performances of some of the major players from the 1960s. While it ain't exactly Shindig! or stuff ... Read More
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