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Music Scene - Best of 1969-1970 (Vol. 2)

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788603129
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0788603124
Label: Mpi Home Video
Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Mpi Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2001
Running Time: 240 minutes
Sales Rank: 42311
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 22, 1969



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Amazon.com:
Whereas Music Scene, Vol. 1 preserved a daring TV show's moment in the low-rated limelight, Vol. 2 shows the series in a fascinating tailspin, in the ratings cellar before cancellation in January of 1970. A bold attempt to combine liberal political comedy, harmless pop, and Woodstock-era rock & roll, Music Scene drew its guests from current Billboard pop charts, supplementing those acts with host David Steinberg's intellectual sarcasm and shrewd assaults on the Nixon administration. In these four complete episodes, however, the show is clearly dying, and while the collected performances still qualify as outstanding relics from the volatile Woodstock/Altamont time frame, it's amazing to watch Steinberg--now stripped of his merry band of cohosts--exchanging genial wisecracks for a darker, more cynical acceptance that Music Scene was doomed from the start.

The music is an eclectic, full-course buffet, from lip-synced performances by Creedence Clearwater Revival to the chart-topping ballads of Neil Diamond and Gordon Lightfoot to the defiantly leftist folk of Pete Seeger and Buffy Sainte- Marie. Unexpected highlights include Joe Cocker's sublime rendition of the Beatles' 'Something' and Frankie Laine's emotional delivery of 'Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain.' Throughout, Steinberg is like a protestor with a lost cause, and by the time he's joined by cohost Groucho Marx for the mesmerizing final show, he's lost all pretense of mainstream propriety, and it's TV history like nothing before or since. A full menu of 21 bonus songs is icing on a bittersweet cake, from one-hit-wonders Zager & Evans ('In the Year 2525') to an impassioned 'Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)' by Janis Joplin, whose own fate would soon echo that of this remarkable, short-lived TV show. --Jeff Shannon



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - An amusing blast into the past
If the DVD was in stereo, I would have given a higher score.
Although this program might be ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Nostaliga 1969
Not quite what I thought it was going to be, my dvd never played right.


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - A reminder
This disc of videos and performances from the late 60s is an embarrassing reminder of how silly some ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - THIS WAS A GOOD MUSICAL VARIETY SHOW,THAT BEGGED TO BE DIFFERENT.
THIS IS PART TWO OF MUSIC SCENE.!!!SEE MY PART ONE REVIEW.THE SHOW FEATURED MANY ROCK GROUPS,COMEDY ,FOLK ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Top 40 nightmare, not flower power heaven
These comments apply to both Music Scene dvds equally (this dvd and the other dvd).

Disappointing ... Read More

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