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Music Scene 1969
Type:
Video > Music videos
Files:
11
Size:
4.03 GB

Tag(s):
James Brown Crosby Stills Nash & Young Tom Jones Rascals Miracles Sly & The Family Stone Temptations Jerry Lee Lewis Ten Years After Janis Joplin Issac Hayes

Uploaded:
Apr 1, 2013
By:
winiwini



A ratings disaster when it premiered on the ABC network on September 22, 1969 (and lasting a mere 16 weeks before cancellation), Music Scene now stands as a sublime time capsule of the "flower power" era. Although it was smartly conceived by the hipper-than-average producers of the controversial Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the show was riskily scheduled opposite ratings juggernauts Gunsmoke and Laugh-In, and its fate was sealed. Now, with the passage of decades, these shows display a laudable effort to lure serious rock music into the pop-cultural mainstream--there were few if any opportunities for these acts to gain prime-time TV exposure, so it wasn't unusual to find Janis Joplin, Sly & the Family Stone, or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young colliding on the guest list with bubble-gum pop stars like Bobby Sherman and MOR crooners like Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. 

Struggling to bridge the generation gap, host comedian David Steinberg--with a group of five regular cohosts including Lily Tomlin and occasional guest hosts--is a well-chosen mouthpiece for Hollywood's anti-Nixon liberalism, able to distinguish the important (Joe Cocker, Richie Havens) from the ridiculous (the nonexistent Archies and their #1 hit "Sugar Sugar" are duly dismissed). 

James Brown, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Tom Jones,Rascals,Miracles, Sly & The Family Stone, Temptations, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ten Years After, Janis Joplin, Issac Hayes a.o.

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