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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301969437
Format: Black & White, Color, Compilation, NTSC
ISBN: 630196943X
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: December 07, 1994
Running Time: 65 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 07, 1994
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I am the credited director and co-producer of this documentary. I was surprised to see that Amazon actually has the video, I thought it was long gone. No DVD's, too bad. I drifted onto Amazon because a good buddy of mine loved this era and I wanted to get a copy for him. Glad to see that Girl Groups, The Story of a Sound still lives, such as it is.
This film took almost a year of my life, a very stressful year at that since it is always difficult to juggle the creative storytelling aspect of making a film with the realities of budget and music/clip clearance. We went to ABC for footage from the show, Hullabaloo that they did not even know they had. We dug up stuff in Detroit. I flew there for a blizzard that winter and found footage from a local afternoon program, Teen Town that was Detroit's local American Bandstand. That stuff was sitting in a damp basement at a TV station in Windsor, Canada on two-inch video, long extinct even then in 1982. This is the station where ... Read More
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I had to do a lot of searching to come across this and what a gem!!!!
over here in Europe it is very difficult to source something like this but I must say it was worth the wait ,for a wrinkly like myself to SEE and HEAR the Ronettes again brought back lots of happy memories of just going to the local casino to hear these guyz belting out the hits as we could not afford records then!!!! but from a singles point of view it was quite good value nowadays and although NTSC no problems with my Sony DVD/VHS combi deck but it would not copy to DVD direct so had to use differnt method purely for my own collection.
Also some nice and not so nice comments from Ronnie Spector about Phil ah sure that's marriage for you can't live without them and can't live with them!!!!!
Overall though a splendid selection and commentary about that time but just a pity there were not more complete tracks.
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I have had 2 copies of this video. It is that good! I first bought this video only because it contained The Ronettes of whom I am a great fan. But this video contains so much more. Not only great and rare performances, but also insightful interviews and documentary. That is what sets this video apart from others. It is extremely well edited and perfectly balanced. Just the right amount of documentary that is paired with the performances. Often I've seen other videos with too much of one or the other. But this video strives for an even balance of the two.
Often you listen to a video solely for the music. But this video tells you why you listen. Why the sound is the way it is. How it all came about. By knowing all this gives you a better understanding of the music and/or the group. It's like having a recipe to your favorite food. By knowing the ingredients you can appreciate your food more. By knowing what went into the sound or the song or the group you can appreciate the music even more. ... Read More
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This is the ultimate 60s girl group documentary. Excellent commentary by Ellie Greenwich, Ronnie Spector, Darlene Love.
And those TV performances-mostly done LIVE (none of that
cheap lip-synced garbage)were to die for-especially by
the Shangri-Las. But the total absence of the Chiffons
("I Have A Boyfriend")-promised on the VHS artwork-was a
big disappointment. The VHS Hi-Fi sound was very good
to excellent. For this reason alone, it's a shame that no major
re-issuing studio (Image, Anchor Bay, Kino, Criterion
Collection-let alone Sony, who just bought the entire MGM
film library)has released this on DVD.
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great great video on girl groups. Wish it was available on DVD...
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