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lemonade kid
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 Posted - 11/06/2016 : 20:21:26
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Scenes from 1966 LA and interviews and songs of the day...
Inside Pop -- The Rock Revolution
is a CBS News special, broadcast in April 1967. The show was hosted by Leonard Bernstein and is probably one of the first examples of pop music being examined as a "serious" art form. The film features many scenes shot in Los Angeles in late 1966, including interviews with Frank Zappa and Graham Nash, as well as the now-legendary Brian Wilson solo performance of "Surf's Up."
Inside Pop -- The Rock Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afU76JJcquI
LEONARD BERNSTEIN EXPLAINS THE ROCK REVOLUTION
TO SQUARES IN 1967ÕS ÔINSIDE POPÕ DOC
ÒA lot of the kids who are walking around the street with long hair.. a lot of the kids that you see from time to timeÑand retch overÑare going to be running your government for you.Ó
ÑFrank Zappa
For a while now, tantalizing bit and pieces of Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution, a 1967 CBS News special presented by the great Leonard Bernstein have popped up on YouTube but this is the best version IÕve seen.
This program marked the first time that pop music was presented as a legitimate art form, with sympathetic host Bernstein lending an intellectual gravitas to the proceedings that only he could bestow upon the Òstrange and compelling scene called pop music.Ó ItÕs fascinating to watch the famous composer/conductor look straight at the audience as he tries to make sense of what rock music was becoming, one would presume, for a ÒsquareÓ middle-aged audience. The second part of the show goes into the field and was mostly shot in 1966.
One of the ultimate time capsules of the moment when the world went from black and white to vivid color in the space of one year. This must have been riveting television in its time, because it still is.
With great bits from Frank Zappa, Graham Nash, Tim Buckley, HermanÕs Hermits, Reger McQuinn and the legendary performance of Brian WilsonÕs ÒSurfÕs UpÓ that will cause your mind to explode into a million pieces if you are a Beach Boys fan. Inside Pop also includes 15-year-old Janis Ian performing ÒSocietyÕs Child,Ó a then highly controversial song about interracial romance. It was BernsteinÕs championing of the song that saw it become a hit. Before Inside Pop aired, radio programmers were still skittish about the number.
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The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation.
I can't contrive a song. Ð GENE CLARK |
Edited by - lemonade kid on 11/06/2016 20:24:04 |
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Inside Pop-The Rock Revolution 1966 Bernstein show
