The History of Rock 'n' Roll Gift Set Review

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(More customer reviews)Incredibly entertaining; especially for anyone who has lived through the times talked about. Many, many of the songs ARE full-length versions, albeit with commentary provided over the top. But, after all, it is a documentary and not a CD set. I watched it about three times already and have included here what I would have liked to have known, mainly what songs and artists are covered, in essentially the order they're presented in. I may have missed a few, but what follows is 99% correct:
Episode One: Rock `n' Roll Explodes
*With or Without You - U2
*Wild Think - Jimi Hendrix
*Money Honey - Elvis Presley
*Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
*Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
*Shut `Em Down - Public Enemy
*I Just Want to Make Love to You - the Rolling Stones
*Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
*Hey, Good Looking - Hank Williams Sr.
*That'll be the Day - Buddy Holly
*Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Ruth Brown
*Caldonia - Louis Jordon & the Tympani 5
*Shake, Rattle & Roll - Big Joe Turner
*I Got a Woman - Ray Charles
*Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
*Blue Monday - Fats Domino
*Maybellene - Chuck Berry
*Reddy Teddy - Little Richard
*Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
*Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & the Comets
Episode Two: Good Rockin' Tonight
*Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry
*Lucille - Little Richard
*How Much is that Doggy in the Window - Patti Page
*Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
*Don't Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
*Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
*Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis
*Oh, Boy! - Buddy Holly & the Crickets
*Bye Bye Love - the Everly Brothers
*Only the Lonely (Know How I Feel) - Roy Orbison
*At the Hop - Danny and the Juniors
*Words of Love - Buddy Holly
*Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka
*You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling - the Righteous Brothers
*Be My Baby - The Ronettes
*Searchin' - the Coasters
*Stand By Me - Ben E. King
*The Twist - Chubby Checker
Episode Three: Britain Invades, America Fights Back
*Twist and Shout - the Beatles
*I Get Around - the Beach Boys
*The Way You Do the Things You Do - the Temptations
*Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying - Gerry & the Pacemakers
*House of the Rising Sun - the Animals
*Needles and Pins - the Searchers
*Around and Around - the Rolling Stones
*Satisfaction - the Rolling Stones
*I'm Into Something Good - Herman's Hermits
*A World Without Love - Peter and Gordon
*You Really Got Me - the Kinks
*As Tears Go By - Marianne Faithful
*You Can't Hurry Love - the Supremes
*Do You Believe In Magic? - The Lovin' Spoonful
*Good Lovin' - the Young Rascals
*Turn! Turn! Turn! - The Byrds
*Creeque Alley - Mama and Papas
*Can't Explain - the Who
*Carrie-Anne - the Hollies
*Keep on Running - the Spencer Davis Group (featuring Steve Winwood)
*Paint It Black - the Rolling Stones
Episode Four: The Sounds of Soul
*Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
*Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles/Michael Bolton
*Papas Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown
*You Send Me - Sam Cooke
*Baby Workout - Jackie Wilson
*What'd I Say - Ray Charles
*In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
*I've Been Loving You Too Long (to Stop Now) - Otis Redding
*Dr. Feelgood - Aretha Franklin
*I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Gladys Knight & the Pips
*Love is Like a Heatwave - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
*I Can't Help Myself - the Four Tops
*Ooo Baby Baby - the Miracles
*Come See About Me - the Supremes
*My Girl - the Temptations
*Choice of Colors - Curtis Mayfield
*Say It Loud, I'm Black & I'm Proud - James Brown
*A House is not a Home - Luther Vandross
*Ain't that Peculiar - Marvin Gaye
*I Want You Back - the Jackson 5
*For the Love of Money - O'Jays
Episode Five: Plugging In
*On the Road Again - Bob Dylan
*It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Bob Dylan
*Talkin' New York - Bob Dylan
*Mojo Hand - Sam "Lightenin'" Hopkins
*I Ain't Marchin' Anymore - Phil Ochs
*Handsome Johnny - Richie Havens
*Blowin' In the Wind - Peter, Paul & Mary
*All My Trials - Joan Baez
*The Times They Are a-Changin' - Bob Dylan
*I'll Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms - the Monroe Brothers (?)
*Maggie's Farm - Bob Dylan
*Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
*My Back Pages - Bob Dylan
*Mr. Tambourine Man - the Byrds
*California Dreamin' - the Mamas & Papas
*Surfer Girl - the Beach Boys
*God Only Knows - the Beach Boys
*Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
*Paint It Black - the Animals
*Ball & Chain - Janis Joplin
Episode Six: My Generation
*Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
*Tell Mama - Janis Joplin
*China Cat Sunflowers - the Grateful Dead
*Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
*When the Music's Over - the Doors
*Up on Cripple Creek - the Band
*Street Fighting Man - the Rolling Stones
*I Feel Free - Cream
*Baba O'Riley - the Who
*Handsome Johnny - Richie Havens
*Fixin' to Die Rag - Country Joe and the Fish
*Soul Sacrifice - Santana
*Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills & Nash
*Down By the River - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
*Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
*Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix
*Touch of Grey - the Grateful Dead
Episode Seven: Guitar Heroes
*Black Magic Woman - Santana
*Eruption - Van Halen
*Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
*Won't Get Fooled Again - the Who
*Blue Moon of Kentucky - Elvis
*Hello, Mary Lou - Ricky Nelson
*Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
*Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
*Sweet Sixteen - B.B. King
*The Last Time - the Rolling Stones
*Train Keep A Rollin' - the Yardbirds
*Layla - Derek and the Dominos
*Dazed and Confused - Led Zepplin
*Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
*Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix
*Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns & Roses
*Bullet the Blue Sky - U2
Episode Eight: The 70's: Have a Nice Decade
*Bennie & the Jets - Elton John
*Reeling in the Years - Steely Dan
*How Many More Times - Led Zepplin
*Paranoid - Black Sabbath
*Whipping Post - Allman Brothers
*Do That Stuff - Parliament/Funkadelic
*Get Up Stand - Bob Marley
*I Want to Take You Higher - Sly and the Family Stone
*Superstition - Stevie Wonder
*Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
*Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
*Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
*Rock and Roll All Night - Kiss
*School's Out - Alice Cooper
*Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
*Fame - David Bowie
*Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
*Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
*Do You Feel Like We Do - Peter Frampton
*Y.M.C.A. - the Village People
*Refugee - Tom Petty
*Quarter to Three - Bruce Springsteen
*Episode Nine: Punk
*Anarchy in the U.K. - the Sex Pistols
*The Passenger - Iggy Pop
*Sweet Jane - the Velvet Underground
*Back in the U.S.A. - the New York Dolls
*Blank Generation - the Heartbreakers
*Rockaway Beach - the Ramones
*Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
*Gloria - Patti Smith Group
*Garageland - the Clash
*Go There Natty - U-Roy
*Alison - Elvis Costello
*God Save the Queen - the Sex Pistols
*No Fun - the Sex Pistols
*Johnny Hit and Run Pauline - X
*Radio Radio - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
*Jackson, Monk and Rowe - Elvis Costello
*London Calling - the Clash
*Message of Love - the Pretenders
*I Will Follow - U2
*Every Breath You Take - the Police
*Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
*Basket Case - Green Day
Episode Ten: Up From Underground
*Whip It - Devo
*Our Lips are Sealed - the GoGos
*Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? - Culture Club
*The Breaks - Kurtis Blow
*The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
*Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
*Rock Box - Run-D.M.C.
*Walk this Way - Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith
*Fight the Power - Public Enemy
*Sabotage - Beastie Boys
*Justify My Love - Madonna
*Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
*Money for Nothing - Dire Straits with Sting
*Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
*Express Yourself - N.W.A.
*Escape from the Killing Fields - Ice-T
*My Hometown - Bruce Springsteen
*Let's Talk About Sex - Salt 'n' Pepa
*Even Better Than the Real Thing - U2
*Long View - Green Day
*Radio Song - R.E.M. with Krs-One
*Rumblefish - the Goats


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Tiny Planets: Making Rainbows and Other Adventures (2002) Review

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Tiny Planets is a computer animated educational show for very young children. It features two furry white aliens - thoughtful Bing and playful little Bong - who zip about their universe on a furry white sofa solving little problems on one of 6 tiny planets. On each planet a diferent range of topics is explored: nature, technology, self, sound, light and color, and "stuff" (physics and geometry). Each episode is fairly short - typically well under 10 minutes, and requires no reading or numerical skills, and so is suitable for toddlers and pre-K kids.However, I find that older kids will watch with some interest, even though the material is too easy for them.


This DVD features 8 episodes in 2 groups of 4. At the beginning of each group is a short intro segment, showing Bing and Bong starting their day inside a giant crystal in their home planet, and introducing the narrator, Halley, the only character who talks (if you've the hand drawn "Maisy" series,then this approach will be familiar).


The computer animation is well done, and adults will at first enjoy how cleverly it is put together. That is, until your toddler wants to to watch it for the 400th time. Mine loves these, and prefers them to most other videos we have.


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Ken Burns Presents The West (1996) Review

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(More customer reviews)The West
DVD ~ Peter Coyote
When some people use the word "documentary" they seem to imbue it with an expectation of total objectivity--as if one could eliminate all traces of cultural experience from one's makeup and discover a shining path of ultimate "truth" simply by the act of becoming a filmmaker. Nonsense. We are all a product of our times and of the culture in which we were raised and educated. Documentaries are always, always, always selective. There is no such thing as total objectivity, either in writing or in filmmaking.
That said, this is an enormously valuable effort to sift through an extraordinary cross-section of materials and condense them into 12 and 1/2 hours of very viewable, enlightening and often extremely moving stories. Yes, that's right, I said "condense". The documents available on the history of the West literally fill many museums, and unless you plan to spend every waking moment of your life from the time you learn to read until the day you die as a serious scholar of western lore, you will never gain a complete knowledge of the subject. This is an outstanding effort to provide a distillation of the sense and feel of the west from the earliest days of indian tribal inhabitation to the passing of the frontier. To have even attempted that feat in a 12 and 1/2 hour presentation took courage and imagination. Although I have often grumbled to myself about Ken Burn's relentless imposition of an over-stylized montage technique on the presentation of his documentaries, I have nothing but astonished admiration for his accomplishment in crafting this mini-series. Bravo.
Yes, yes, it doesn't tell the whole story of the West. Yes, it is selective. And, yes, there are other things that could have been included. C'mon guys, quit sitting back like Monday morning quarterbacks and griping about what is missing from this presentation. Think about what he WAS able to accomplish! He captured a sense of sweep, a sense of the development of the frontier, and an extraordinarily vivid impression of the cultural, religious, social, economic and racial collisions that occurred in this vast space over a period of a couple of centuries. Good grief, what do you want, blood? If he had never made another movie, this series would still have placed him in the pantheon of American documentarians. No one is claiming that this is the only document you need to expose yourself to in order to achieve perfect understanding of the history of the West. But it's certainly one absolute requirement for inclusion in any attempt to understand the subject.
For any collector of Western memorabilia and lore, for any teacher who wants to enrich a class in American studies, and for anyone at all who simply wishes to gain a sense of the West in our history, this is a must-have set of dvds to add to your collection. It should be available in every school and public library and rerun regularly on PBS. It's the best thing Burns has ever done--the Civil War series notwithstanding--and those who chirp like little toads that it should have been better are welcome to make an effort to direct and produce a version that improves on it. Don't hold your breath until that happens.
Now I'm about to suggest a bit of social heresy in this day of 30 second commercials and infinitesimal attention spans. If you really want to gain the ultimate impact, try total immersion. Choose a rainy or snowy Saturday or Sunday, lay in a goodly supply of your favorite food and drink, lock the door and turn your phone off (!), and then do a total viewing immersion. Watch the entire series from beginning to end in one marathon day. And by the way, treat yourself to some solitude. That's right, do it alone; spend one day watching this without having to pay attention to the needs or attitudes or reactions of a viewing companion. Let it surround and soak into your senses. Embrace the barrage of images and sounds. Plunge headlong into that amazing collection of stories about people and places and events. It will change you. You won't come away with total recall of details, but you will achieve a new sensory and intellectual appreciation of our history that is geometrically greater than watching it piecemeal with days or weeks intervening between the episodes. Later on, after some time has passed, you can go back and view it again in the self-contained capsules; that time through, you will absorb the detail. Go ahead, try it. Challenge your mind.
Well done, Mr. Burns! My hat is off to you. And thank you PBS for reminding us that our brains are for thinking.


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Soupy Sales Collection: The Whole Gang Is Here (2006) Review

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(More customer reviews)...let me start by saying that "The New Soupy Sales Show" (which is what almost all of this collection is based on) is an extremely funny set of skits, riffs, and humorous repartee' from one of the giants of children's shows from the '70s and early '80s.
The only major complaint that I have with this set is that there is borderline false advertising regarding the inclusion of ORIGINAL material from this comic genius. If the buyer doesn't read the description on the back of the DVD carefully, he or she might believe that this DVD set contains material from Soupy's late '50s and '60s children's show. It actually contains very little (with the exception of a great skit from the original show that includes Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Trini Lopez). Tragically, most of the original show has been erased and will never be available for viewing again.
Another concern deals with the inclusion of what is one of the funniest outtakes in TV history....Soupy's visit by a backstage stripper. If the viewer has seen footage of this on some of the Dick Clark "Bloopers" shows on television over the years, they would know that the viewer only sees what's in front of the set and how it unnerves Soupy. This DVD contains the actual "stripper footage" from the BACK of the set that exposes the well-endowed dancer in all of her glory. Not for viewing by children! (Soupy's reaction to the prank is PRICELESS, though!)
With all of this being said, let me close by saying that this DVD set is certainly worth the price I paid for it. Soupy Sales was a comic genius and his good-natured puns and humor never tire. He appeared to love his work and often times "cut himself up" with what he was saying or what was going on around him. One can't watch these 3 disks without laughing out loud!
RECOMMENDED for fans of the old show!

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December Bride Collection - Classic TV Shows Review

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(More customer reviews)Finally! DECEMBER BRIDE, 24 episodes, has been released by The Nostalgia Merchant. Although I would have liked to have the entire series released by season, I know that many of these films are no longer available, or have been damaged beyond repair.
I have this set from Nostalgia Merchant and am very happy with the quality. Although not digital quality, I consider the quality to be good for these very old episodes.
Up until now it has been impossible to find any episodes of this show. Thanks Nostalgia Merchant for offering these classic episodes!

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Courage the Cowardly Dog - Season 1 - 2-DVD Set ( Courage the Cowardly Dog - Season One ) Review

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(More customer reviews)Back in the day, when Cartoon Network was in their prime, they had a killer lineup every Friday night. This included Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, and my personal favorite, a show about a cowardly dog named Courage. I was hooked from the first episode I ever watched, which featured the little black duckling. This show had it all. Great stories were first and foremost. They were like mini-films. The stories were ridiculous, but it didn't matter because they were treated in such an epic way. The animation was great, and the backgrounds were out of this world. As much as I liked Dexter and Powerpuff Girls, their backgrounds were VERY simplistic. It was refreshing to see the style used for Courage, where the backgrounds displayed so much detail and atmosphere, which drew you in to the story all the more. As for Courage himself, true, he was a coward, but in each episode, he had to find a way to put that all aside to save his owners, Muriel and Eustace. Courage was the kind of hero you could relate to. He didn't wanna be the hero, and if you had to go up against some of the crazy stuff he did, you wouldn't wanna be either. But there was something about the dog's anxious disposition and terrified personality that made him a likeable character. He didn't talk much, but what he said mattered. "I know I'm not gonna like this" was his battle cry when it came time for action. Then he would pull out some off-the-wall prop or devise some master plan to save the day, and things would go back to normal again, except for the fact that most of the time, the family house was destroyed by the end of the episode.
This is one of the best cartoon series ever made. It's timeless and truly fun to watch. I'm ordering a copy, and so should everyone else who enjoys good storytelling.
P.S.- It's too bad all the negative reviews for a DIFFERENT DVD release are showing up here. Those are for the Australian release, not this one.

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The Great Depression (History Channel - 4 video set) (1998) Review

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(More customer reviews)"The Great Depression" is a four chapter documentary of the Great Depression during the 1930's. Each is interesting and can be watched separately as it will take over 3 hours to watch all four. They are 1) The New Deal, 2)Mass Media, 3) Marathon Dancing, and 4)Hard Times and American Hobo. This is a great historical time and shows the foundations of many of today's organizations, media and government programs. The History Channel does an excellent job and Mario Cuomo narrates and introduces each piece. It is interesting how his family survived during the Depression as well as thrived when the economy recoverd. I also learned tidbits on where "Depression Glass" came from and how it was connected to the movies.

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The memories of those who lived through it and extensive footage makes this the definitive chronicle of an era of dashed dreams and desperation that defined a generation.Documentary, approx. mins.

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