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MusicThatDoesn'tSuck
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This list features honest, authentic, genuine, real folk music of every kind, such as Metal, Punk, Big Band Swing, Blues, Funk, Reggae, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Bluegrass, Bebop, Hardbop, drum & bugle corps, international, indigenous & the classical masters, of course.

Of course, it’s frustrating some need links, so it’s nice if you add them.






If you're reading this & are currently feeling like a lost kitten since things have changed, send me a pm & I'll help.

Sometimes (but not always) the only accepted link providers for this domain are Archive.org. Vimeo, Dailymotion & the accursed corporate yootoob. If perchance that’s the way it is, then use your search options & good luck to you in finding treasure from the playlists.

This list isn’t a portal to yootoob. If you dig that site, go there. Use their search to find what you want & stay. This list is for actual downloadable movies & tv shows. Videos that cannot be found easily. This list doesn’t exist to generate traffic for invalid sites like that. Care is given that anything listed is connected to a DOWNLOADABLE post.


Toob site link hijacking should be banned since linking to a toob site will guarantee that valid posts from a valid DOWNLOAD host will NEVER appear on the front page- preventing fans from knowing when brand new posts are made. It's not rocket science. Go to the forum & ask that link hijacking to toob sites be banned.

This website is currently accepting link requests, so now’s the time to go the forum & do that. If links aren’t found here, then DuckDuckGo is your friend. Or try Mojeek. It’s new. It has it’s own bots, so unlike DDG or Brave, it’s not a front-end. It’s a TRUE search engine.

Archive.org is also a good place to dig around for stuff. Playlists like this will have some links, but are also useful as a reference, not unlike IMDB or TVmaze.







Due to the rarity of availability of actual real music, all other non-corporate sincere world musics that never got equal time in the press, radio, tv, etc are added when found, including films about musicians & music or where music figures into the film in a significant way or is made by a musician. ♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫

There’s not a lot of good stuff to be found. The best is mostly just not available. Yet for what can be found, it’ll be listed.


This list is fun to sort by Date to group musical eras, and by Title too.

It’s important to say what is NOT here just as much as what is: Ergo, if you’re looking for the heartless, soulless, corporate cookie-cutter assembly line formulaic copycat filth assembled on a computer in a board room with “focus group” data for trashy tv shows that can be found all over Westernized media- or the abomination known as 80’s Hair Pop, or False Metal, where they wear their instruments rather than play them- that’s not here.


Authentic Metal of the 80’s was Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Sabbath, Venom, Bathory, Kreator, Coroner, Vader, Sodom, Deicide, Slayer, Nuclear Assault, Sacred Reich, Dark Angel, Death Angel, Voivod, Death, C.O.C., Napalm Death, Pentagram, D.R.I. Metallica before Cliff died, etc. And NOTHING that was on radio or mtv- NOT that cheap manufactured Hollywood boyband hairspray crap. Not here.


The only jazz recognized here is SWING- not that bland awful out of tune elevator muzak junk that calls itself jazz by stealing the name- You can call it jazz all you want, that doesn’t make it jazz.


IT DON’T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN’T GOT THAT SWING! Artists sought after here are the likes of Louis Prima, Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Ziggy Elman, Harry James, Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton, Martha Tilton, Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Edyth Wright, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Snakes Powell, Buddy Rich, Louis Belson, Jo Stafford, Kay Star, Chick Webb, Peggy Lee, Connie Haines, Vic Schoen, The Andrews Sisters, The Boswell Sisters, Dick Stabiel, Paul Whiteman, Jack Teagarden, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Count Basie, Billy Eckstein, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Barnette, Stan Kenton, Charlie Spivak, Les Brown, Johnny Mercer, Xavier Cugat, Glen Grey, Casa Loma… only the true swing masters who invented & perfected authentic jazz… none of their failed pupils who took all the fun out of jazz & bruised it & stole the name. Fact is, all music is about freeing yourself, and all music is identifiable by a rigid discipline that one can freely fly within. The moment it doesn’t sound like that anymore, it isn’t that anymore.


-The music here was born in the garages & sidewalks of the world, not in a Madison Avenue office.


This list is about MUSIC & MUSICIANS who work collaboratively, not self-deluded solo act singers who have no talent, can’t play an instrument or write their own material, but yet look good ONLY due to the labor of uncredited musicians & market saturation. That’s not music. That’s noise.




Aren't you tired of the bland homogenized cultural treason defecating all over media? Have a GOOD TIME! Choose GOOD MUSIC!



Louis Armstrong said there’s two kinds of music: Good, & then that other stuff.

Music is defined as that which is pleasing to the ear. Noise is that which is not.

This list is for people who like music rather than noise. You're welcome.





A note: Some films have no photo or maybe no synopsis but do indeed have links.

● Contributors cannot magickally have links for everything just because a page for it exists since contributors don’t make the pages. Software does that, not people, since it is mirroring IMDB & TVmaze. Software makes the pages, posts the pics, it does all the work. It’s automated.


ALL PAGES ARE PLACE HOLDERS when created.


● Only later are links placed WHEN POSSIBLE. Some things are very rare & hard to find. If you are unwilling to contribute the link yourself, then you’re out of luck.

✔ Requests are currently accepted in the website forum. Sometimes that isn’t the case which is too bad, but that’s the way it is at times, so it’s best to suck it up & move on.

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Movie: Hey Boy! Hey Girl! ( 1959 )
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Movie: The Continental Twist ( 1962 )
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Movie: Universal Special: The Wildest ( 1958 )
This Universal musical short was filmed in Lake Tahoe and features the music of Louis Prima, Keely Smith, and Sam Butera and the Witnesses. There is an effort to use some added dialogue, between songs, to provide a short story line. Music heard includes: "When Your're Smiling" - "Listen to the Mocking Bird" - "The Sheik of Araby" - "The Birth of the Blues" and others. Much of what's seen here also served as archive footage of a 1999 compilation film about Louis Prima.
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Movie: Swing It ( 1936 )
Louis Prima, between song numbers, tells how he happened to get a job in a Hollywood cafe playing music while a couple, unrelated to anything else, play a slot machine in the background. This short was reissued in 1944 and again in 1952. Lucille Ball has a bit part. Song numbers include; "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", "Up a Lazy River", "Dinah","Basin Street Blues" and "Johnny Get Your Gun."
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Movie: Vitaphone Varieties ( 1935 )
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Movie: Swing Banditry ( 1936 )
In this fictional-story short (which takes Self listings out of the equation), George Stoll(as Georgie Stoll) and his hot-swing orchestra, and the band's singer, Virginia Dale, appearing in this short under her real name, Virginia Paxton, are in a radio station building hoping to get an audition. Recognizing the president of a broadcasting company,Royal C. Cummings (Maurice Cass), as he enters the elevator, Stoll and band members, with their instruments, enter it with him. THey toss out the operator and proceed to audition for the outraged Cummins , while making many up-and-down trips on the elevator. Once off the elevator he summons the police who promptly arrive and promptly arrest the studio band. Georgie Stoll (as he was most frequently billed) and his band get the gig, and a contract. The singing of Virginia Dale nee Virginia Paxton didn't hurt their chances any at all.
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Movie: Swing Kids ( 1993 )
A close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany listen to banned swing music from the U.S. Soon, dancing and fun lead to more difficult choices, as the Nazis begin tightening their grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.
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Movie: All That Jazz ( 1979 )
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
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Movie: The Benny Goodman Story ( 1956 )
The young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a Chicago music professor. He is advised by bandleader Kid Ory to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.
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Movie: The Glenn Miller Story ( 1954 )
Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.
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Movie: Glenn Miller: The Birthplace of His Music ( 2016 )
This film explores the link between Glenn Miller's musical education as a teen in Fort Morgan and his famous signature sound.
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Movie: Hollywood Hotel ( 1938 )
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this lady doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use for Mona a double, Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as singing waiter in a drive in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for an leading actor in a musical. After the first screening the actor is invited by Louella Parsons to sing in her program "Hollywood Hotel". He accepts, but he doesn't know that Ronny Bowers does not want to lend him his voice again. So everybody starts to play his little game to solve his own problems.
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Movie: Manhattan Merry-Go-Round ( 1937 )
Gangsters take control of a record company and use toughguy tactics on unwilling performers.
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Movie: Murder at the Vanities ( 1934 )
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager in charge Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack if offering to let him see the show from an unusual view point, after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered women. Bill suspects Eric of the crime, especially, after the second female lead Rita Ross told him she saw the women leaving from Eric's room. Then Rita is shot onstage with Eric's gun. Jack and Bill decide not to stop the show, but Bill preparing to arrest Eric. Is he on the right track ?
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Movie: Sun Valley Serenade ( 1941 )
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.
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Movie: Orchestra Wives ( 1942 )
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
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Movie: A Song Is Born ( 1948 )
With her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, a nightclub singer hides out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors - one of whom begins to fall for her.
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Movie: Music Land ( 1955 )
This is a compilation film featuring selected segments from two earlier Walt Disney films called Make Mine Music" and "Music Time". The segments from those films are: Johnny Fedora and ...
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Movie: Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon ( 2014 )
The life and career of the legendary Hollywood insider, Shep Gordon.
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Movie: 'Weird Al' Yankovic Live! ( 1999 )
"Weird Al" Yankovic and his band perform songs from his 1999 album "Running With Scissors" plus most of his older hits, including a showstopping parody medley. Also includes the music videos for "The Saga Begins" and "It's All About The Pentiums."
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Movie: No Gods No Masters: Liberty Tree Set ( 2013 )
A live event featuring artist No Gods No Masters. They preform in front of a live crowd and take QA. Recorded live on July 31, 2011 at La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley, CA.
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Movie: Mr Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO ( 2012 )
As the creative force behind Electric Light Orchestra and a singularly accomplished singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer, Jeff Lynne is one of rock's most iconic--yet mysterious--figures.
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Movie: The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash ( 1978 )
Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time.
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Movie: The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch ( 2004 )
After sitting on a shelf at Warner Brothers for over a year, Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch, the much anticipated sequel to Eric Idle and Gerard Corvin's 1978 mockumentary, is finally on release, revealing the final exploits of The Rutles as they do a reunion tour of America. Documentor, Dirk McQuickly, interviews many artists and personalities who were inspired by the legendary band, from David Bowie to Tom Hanks.
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Movie: A Mighty Wind ( 2003 )
Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.
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Movie: Permissive ( 1972 )
Suzy arrives in London with nowhere to stay and meets Fiona, a group who has settled into a relationship with Lee, a singer/bassist in a rock band.
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Movie: The Last of the High Kings ( 1996 )
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer organising a beach party, having lustful thoughts about two girls he believes are unobtainable and fending off the advances from a visiting American family friend, all whilst coping with his oddball family.
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Movie: Whiplash ( 2014 )
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
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Movie: Buddy Rich and His Band: Channel One Suite ( 2003 )
Recorded live at One Pass King Street Studios, San Francisco, California, USA, April 3, 1985.
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Movie: King of Jazz ( 1930 )
American Pre-Code color film starring Paul Whiteman and his Jazz orchestra.
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Movie: What's Cookin' ( 1942 )
A group of entertainers visit the home of a radio singer to try to get her to book them on her show.
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Movie: Always a Bridesmaid ( 1943 )
A detective working undercover joins a Lonely Hearts Club in order to to expose a swindler using it for nefarious reasons.
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Movie: My Music: Sister Acts ( 2015 )
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Movie: My Music: The Big Band Years ( 2009 )
Singer Peter Marshall hosts a look back at the bands and singers of the big band era of the 1930s-1950s.
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Movie: My Music: Big Band Vocalists ( 2012 )
Co-hosts Nick Clooney and Peter Marshall look back at the big band period of the 1930s-1950s, with vintage performance footage of the great singers - the boy "crooners" and the girl "canaries". Among those who got their start singing with big bands were Frank Sinatra (singing with the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras, among others), Peggy Lee (with Benny Goodman), Doris Day (with Les Brown), Perry Como (with Ted Weems) and Jo Stafford (with Tommy Dorsey).
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Movie: My Music: Classical Rewind ( 2013 )
The most popular classical music by such composers as Bach, Handel, Beethoven,Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Straus, seen with vibrant images of history and nature.
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Movie: Queen Victoria: My Musical Britain ( 2019 )
Historian Lucy Worsley explores the musical influences on Victoria from when she was a young woman to her years as Queen of the British empire.
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Movie: Cirque du Soleil: Zaia Crossroads in Macau ( 2013 )
Inspired by the vastness and diversity of the cosmos, Writer and Director Gilles Maheu soaked up multiple cultures to create a show imbued with the different colours and flavours of the world: ZAIA, the former Cirque du Soleil show in Macau, China. "Crossroads in Macau" is a making-of documentary that demonstrates the concepts from which ZAIA was created and how they are layered onto the real life challenges of its artists and creators. Macau becomes a permanent junction for diverse cultures, new ways of moving, new languages and distinct creative visions. Through captivating footage, "Crossroads in Macau" highlights the artists of ZAIA, their struggles in the show and their new lives in Montreal and Macau. The documentary shows that while the trappings of our cultures are vast, what lies underneath is basically the same. These are the themes that make ZAIA a meeting place on many levels; and a crossroads for humanity.
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Movie: Cirque du Soleil: Zed in Tokyo ( 2013 )
In this stylistic documentary, director Vali Fugulin uses a series of vignettes and Japanese style anime to reveal ZED. Artists tell the stories of their new lives in Tokyo and reveal the difficulties they face in such a massive production.
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Movie: Cirque du Soleil: The Mystery of Mystere ( 2013 )
Cirque du Soleil presents The Mystery of Mystère, a captivating documentary that explores how arts and science merge together using Mystère, the critically acclaimed Las Vegas show at Treasure Island, as the outlet for this message.
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Movie: Cirque du Soleil: Delirium ( 2008 )
A live Cirque du Soleil performance featuring remixed music, visuals, musicians, singers, and dancers. Delirium is the quest for balance in a world increasingly out of sync with reality. Delirium is an urban tale, a mix of music, dance, theater, and multimedia.
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Movie: Cirque du Soleil: LoveSick ( 2008 )
Dare to enter the sensual world of LOVESICK, an adult-themed, reality-based drama that explores the eccentric lives lead by Sin City's most provocative performers.
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Movie: Cirque du Soleil: Midnight Sun ( 2004 )
The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Cirque Du Soleil at the 25th anniversary of the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
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Movie: Cirque du Soleil: Varekai ( 2003 )
The Cirque du Soleil creation telling the story of Icarus, whose wings melt when he flies to close to the run, sending him crashing into the volcanic and mysterious world of Varekai.
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Movie: Alegria: Cirque du Soleil ( 2001 )
The Cirque du Soleil production of Alegria filmed live in Sydney, Australia.
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Movie: Cirque du Soleil: Quidam ( 1999 )
A young girl named Zoë dreams up an alternate reality to escape her monotonous life and aloof parents who have always ignored her.
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Movie: Cirque du Soleil - Baroque Odyssey ( 1994 )
A unique and inspiring look into the heart of the Cirque du Soleil universe. This 10-year anniversary retrospective made in 1994 highlights the essence of Cirque du Soleil - the amazing ...
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Movie: Cirque du Soleil: The Magic Circus ( 1989 )
The grandeur and breathtaking spectacle of a Cirque du Soleil show has been widely recognised for years, but the individual experience of participating in these massive productions has gone unremarked. This documentary goes behind the scenes of the cabaret-themed show 'Zumanity' to explore the intensity, the sensuality, and the volatility that occurs living in the circus environment.
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Movie: The Concert ( 2007 )
The account of a Girl Group on a hot summer night in Los Angeles on the eve of their sold out concert.
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Movie: The Tao of Bluegrass: A Portrait of Peter Rowan ( 2013 )
There are only a few Bluegrass Boys still around that played with the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe. Peter Rowan was a bluegrass boy in the 1960's for only a short time, but Bill's influence and musical knowledge still resonates with Peter. Even as he branched out into his own music after leaving Bill's band, his bluegrass roots were never far away. This portrait of Peter expands beyond his music to his artistic and spiritual endeavors spanning four decades giving the viewer an in-depth look at a true legend within our Americana musical history. His lyrical quality and melodies are memorable; influencing the next generation of musicians, sharing what Bill taught him and what he has learned being a troubadour traveling the world.
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Movie: Emmylou Harris: From a Deeper Well ( 2004 )
Profile of veteran country singer Emmylou Harris, witnessing the heady success of her career while also discussing her late flowering of intensely personal and groundbreaking music, dealing with loss and the passing years. Contributors include Elvis Costello, Keith Richards, Ryan Adams, Beth Orton, Willie Nelson and Linda Ronstadt.
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Movie: The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris ( 2016 )
Earle joined several of those lucky writers, along with a long list of collaborators, friends and disciples at the event, billed The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris: An All-Star Concert Celebration. Held at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., the show boasted a set-list spanning four decades of Harris' iconic catalog. Lucinda Williams sang "Hickory Wind," a 1974 Gram Parsons hit later recorded by Harris, who toured in Parsons' band and recorded several albums with the late singer. Another frequent duet partner, Rodney Crowell sang "You're Still on My Mind" - a song he first heard Harris sing when she was playing coffee shops in Washington back in the early Seventies. Vince Gill and Sheryl Crow teamed for "Two More Bottles of Wine," while Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin and Conor Oberst harmonized on "The Pearl." All were backed by a house band of country greats: Buddy Miller, Don Was, Sam Bush, Audley Freed, Fred Eltringham, Matt Rollings, Greg Leisz and Sara Watkins. Other artists on the bill included Lee Ann Womack, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Chris Coleman, Chris Hillman, Iron & Wine, Alison Krauss, Kris Kristofferson, Daniel Lanois, Martina McBride, the Milk Carton Kids, Herb Pedersen, Shovels & Rope, Mavis Staples, John Starling, Trampled by Turtles, Holly Williams and Emmylou Harris herself, who joined friends on several tunes. Watch her sing "Boulder to Birmingham" with the entire cast below. This once-in-a-lifetime show was recorded for a live album and DVD, which will be released November 11th via Rounder Records. Also available via Blu-Ray and several combo packs, The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris: An All-Star Concert Celebration was created and produced by Blackbird Presents.
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Movie: Man with a Movie Camera ( 1929 )
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
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Movie: The Broadway Melody ( 1929 )
A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
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Movie: The Big Revue ( 1929 )
This musical short film features a song and dance revue with performances by children, including The Meglin Kiddies and The Gumm Sisters, featuring a seven-year-old Frances Gumm, later to be known as Judy Garland.
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Movie: On with the Show! ( 1929 )
A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.
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Movie: That's Dancing! ( 1985 )
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
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Movie: That's Entertainment! ( 1974 )
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favourite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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Movie: That's Entertainment, Part II ( 1976 )
The second installment in the "That's Entertainment" trilogy features more classic scenes from MGM's vast musical library with the addition of comedy and drama films.
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Movie: That's Entertainment! III ( 1994 )
Third installment in the "That's Entertainment" series, featuring scenes from "The Hollywood Revue of 1929," "Brigadoon," "Singin' In The Rain," and many more MGM films.
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Movie: That's Entertainment III: Behind the Screen ( 1994 )
Featurette featuring nine MGM stars of the golden age talking about their experiences at the studio.
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Movie: Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia G-moll ( 1965 )
A man plays the Bach piece of the title on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, intercut with images of doors and wire-meshed windows.
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Movie: Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past ( 2018 )
Bandleader Vince Giordano keeps the Jazz Age alive with his 11-member band The Nighthawks, vintage musical instruments, and a collection of more than 60,000 original arrangements from the 1920s and '30s.
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Movie: Blues Under the Skin ( 1973 )
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Movie: A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly ( 1988 )
Folkways: A Vision Shared--A Tribute To Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly pays stunning tribute to two legends of folk and blues. Narrated by Robbie Robertson, this documentary features performances by John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger and U2.
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Movie: Bound for Glory ( 1976 )
The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.
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Movie: To Hear Your Banjo Play ( 1947 )
Presents the origin of the banjo, the development of southern folk music and its influence upon Americans. Pete Seeger plays his banjo and narrates the story.
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Movie: The Return of Joe Hill ( 1990 )
The Return of Joe Hill is a musical documentary about the famed Swedish labor songwriter / IWW organizer whose 1915 execution by the state of Utah for a crime he probably did not commit transformed him into a martyr for the labor movement and an international folk hero. 75 years after his execution, a packet of his ashes turned up at the National Archives. Is this mysterious 'return' a sign of a rebirth of the labor movement? Historians, artists and activists discuss the contributions of Joe Hill and performances of some of his best known songs are featured. Featuring IWW singer Utah Phillips, Joe Hill biographer Gibbs Smith, and Wobby artist Carlos Cortez. The 2012 version is restored and reedited.
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Movie: Alice's Restaurant ( 1969 )
A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.
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Movie: GasLand ( 2011 )
An exploration of the fracking petroleum extraction industry and the serious environmental consequences involved.
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Movie: An Act of Conscience ( 1997 )
When a young couple buys the contested home at auction from the U.S. government for $5,400, they become involved in a political and moral battle much larger than what they originally bargained for.
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Movie: Rooted in Peace ( 2016 )
ROOTED in PEACE challenges viewers to examine their values as Americans and human beings. Today we are at war within ourselves, with our environment, and with the world. Director and award-winning filmmaker Greg Reitman invites viewers on a film journey to take notice of the world we live in, proactively seek ways to find personal and ecological peace, and stop the cycle of violence. The film relies not only on memoir, but also interviews with such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love, and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Noble Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, media mogul Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, green architect William McDonough, neuroscientist Dan Siegel and many others. Reitman learns from all of them, and heeds Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's words, that if the forest is to be green, every tree must be green; if there's going to be Peace on earth, then everybody needs to experience that quality of Peace within themselves. And so in asking viewers to do the same, Reitman poses the basic question: How do we want to live? Reitman's journey is an example of transformation - how one person can learn to make the necessary changes to enjoy a better life - and in so doing inspire others to want to improve their own lives, and society as a whole.
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Movie: The Internationale ( 2000 )
THE INTERNATIONALE draws on people's stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to celebrate the relationship between music and social change, and to evaluate the uncertain fate of once thriving movements of the left.
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Movie: Crossing the Line ( 1999 )
"Crossing the Line" shows Martin Sheen leading 2,319 people in the largest act of civil disobedience in the U.S. since the Vietnam war. Risking arrest, they all crossed the line onto the grounds of Ft. Benning, which houses the U.S. Army School of the Americas (now called Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation). It took place on November 22, 1998, with over 7,000 people from all over the U.S. and other nations--some trained Ft. Benning--met just outside the gates of the army base.Carrying symbolic coffins and crosses bearing the names of thousands of men, women and children assassinated by SOA graduates in Latin America, they demanded that the U.S. government stop training foreign soldiers and close SOA's doors forever. "Crossing the Line" documents this inspiring and dramatic non-violent protest.
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Movie: The Power of Their Song: The Untold Story of Latin America's New Song Movement ( 2008 )
A full-length documentary motion picture exploring the history and enduring legacy of Latin America's Nueva Cancion song movement.
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Movie: Pete & Toshi Get a Camera ( 2014 )
Condemned by the 1950's anti-communist 'Blacklist' and unable to perform, folksinger Pete Seeger decided to try making movies. He buys an old newsreel camera and starts filming his fellow musicians while training his family to be the crew. After several small movies under their belt, Pete decides to take his family out of the country on an around the world adventure, filming musicians in the most remote corners of the earth. From Ghana to India, from Belfast to Russia they go, immersed in a global hootenanny. It is a glimpse into a world that no longer exists.
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Movie: The Robeson Concert & Riots of 1949 ( 2012 )
In 1949, an internationally known anticommunism riot broke out in NY State when Paul Robeson came to give a concert. This documentary discusses what happened - in the words of Pete Seeger and others.
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Movie: Lead Belly: Life, Legend, Legacy ( 2014 )
The life story of Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter.
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Movie: The Blackout ( 2013 )
Some people drink to forget. Rock stars drink to remember.
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Movie: I Am a Groupie ( 1970 )
A bored teenage girl decides that she wants to meet rock stars, and the best way to do that is to become a groupie. She finds herself going on the road with a rock band called Opal Butterfly, and soon discovers that being a rock band's groupie isn't as glamorous or exciting as she thought it would be.
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Movie: Hard Core Logo ( 1996 )
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.
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Movie: Pop Odyssee 1 - Die Beach Boys und der Satan ( 1997 )
The Beach Boys and Satan is a documentary film made as part of the Pop Odyssee series and directed by music documentary specialist Christoph Dreher. This documentary, in addition to placing...
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Movie: The Legend Floyd: The Dark Side of the Rainbow ( 2000 )
The coincidental pairing between Victor Fleming's 'The Wizard of Oz' with Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon as soundtrack for the movie, combining some of the images with the lyrics and the sound effects used in most of the tracks, is an unique experience and a magical project that takes both medias into a whole new level.
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Movie: Jamboree ( 1944 )
Two bands vying for the same radio spot outwit themselves by impersonating each other.
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Movie: Melody for Two ( 1937 )
A professional triangle with some personal twists thrown in is presented. Bandleader Tod Weaver has a successful New York career with Gale Starr, his girl, his lead female vocalist - Tod being the lead male vocalist - performing urbane classy melodically driven songs, expertly arranged by Mel Lynch, in upscale uptown clubs. Tod and Mel have a falling out, partly because of Mel's interest in Gale professionally and personally, with neither backing down from their principled positions of Tod not wanting anything to do with Mel ever again, and Mel wanting to ruin Tod. Gale somewhat sides with Mel if only for the survival of her own career, which leads to Gale taking over Tod's band at their latest gig at the Sky Terrace, and Tod being blacklisted by uptown clubs and the bandleaders' association. But with Tod goes his faithful manager Remorse Rumson and publicist Scoop Trotter, whose professional lives are also at stake. The three have different perspectives of how to get Tod on his feet again. They collectively have to decide whether to take the risk of a different direction spurred by an idea by Camille Casey, one of Remorse's hangers-on who he thought was only going to be a casual one-nighter. Those changes include featuring an all female band, and not playing classy uptown music but rather down and dirty downtown swing.