Doo Wop at 50
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Starring: Johnny Maestro, Jerry Butler (II), Gene Chandler, Zeke Carey
Directed By: George Veras
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0603497665723
Format: Black & White
Label: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2000-09-26
Running Time: 140
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Theatrical Release Date: 2000-09-12
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Summary: One of a kind show, all things considered.
Comment: I saw these shows (really all the American Soundtrack and MY Music shows) on PBS at various times throughout the years, and received this show as well as Doo Wop 51 and Rock, Rhythm, and Doo Wop for Christmas gifts, and am glad to have them as part of my music performance library. I found the quality of the DVDs excellent, but I have noticed that the acoustics sometimes interfere with hearing the performers at times (this applies to all the shows). With that said, I thought that the entire show was outstanding. These kinds of shows are a way to preserve much of twentieth century music that is sadly becoming harder and harder to find these days. While I can understand that every generation has its own music that it prefers to listen to, frankly most of the crap that has been propagated as popular music over the last twenty plus years or so has been less than inspiring and the little that is any good is usually based on the music from the forties through the seventies. Something that I personally find aggravating is reading nitwit reviews from people who seem to think that the music evidently should sound exactly the same today as it did fifty plus years when all the original performers were still alive and in their twenties. Welocme to Mortality 101 - every one either grows older or passes away before being able to do so, and the fact that all of these performers, most of whom seem to be in their fifties or older, can still perform at all, let alone some of the exemplary performances one is treated to on this DVD, is a tribute both to their talent and the longevity of the music and the songs. This applies not only to this show, but to all these nostalgia concerts, both on PBS and elsewhere. I solidly recommend all three of these shows, and encourage anyone with an interest in watching performers who can actually sing to add them to their DVD library.
Vol. 1
Only You and The Great Pretender - The Platters
Come Go With Me - Del-Vikings
This I Swear and Since I Don't Have You - Jimmy Beaumont and Skyliners
Earth Angel - The Penguins
Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler and Pure Gold
16 Candles and Worst That Could Happen - Johnny Maestro and Brooklyn Bridge
Long Lonely Nights - Lee Andrews and the Hearts
Little Girl of Mine and Heart and Soul - The Cleftones
There's A Moon Out Tonight - Capris
Blue Moon - Marcels
My True Story and What Time Is It - Jive Five
Just to Be With You, Oh Rosemarie, and Guardian Angel - Legends of Doo Wop
That's My Desire and The Closer You Are - Earl Lewis and the Channels
Vol. 2
Zoom, Gloria, and Speedo - The Cadillacs
Unchained Melody and Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) - Golden Group Memories
Look In My Eyes - Chantels
Maybe - Arlene Smith and the Chantels
Sincerely and Ten Commandments of Love - Harvey Fuqua and the Moonglows
For Your Precious Love - Jerry Butler and Pure Gold
Sunday Kind of Love and Life is But A Dream - Harptones
I Only Have Eyes for You and Lovers Never Say Goodbye - Flamingoes
Gloria medley - Cadillacs, Legends of Doo Wop, Golden Group Memories, and Earl Lewis and the Channels
Stormy weather - The Spaniels
Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight - Spaniels and all performers
Customer Rating: 
Summary: We all make mistakes
Comment: We all make mistakes. When I first looked at this show I was bothered by too many things. The obvious age of the performers and it's affect on their voices, looks, and movements. But I recently went back to view it again and I must say.....instead of being totally put off I admit there were some bright moments that for whatever the reason I missed the first time. All I can say is that my moments may be different from your moments. That being the case no amount of pitch problems, slow dance movements, and aging can ever take away the innocense of youth. This program (depending on how forgiving your imagination is) will take you back to a simpler and more romantic time. The night I put this back on I must have skipped through over 100 stations just to finally settle on this. It was my best choice then and most likely I will find those times in the future that this show will again transport me back to my youth. For that alone it's worth it!
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Summary: A must-have for music lovers
Comment: Watching Doo Wop 50 is like sitting down and eating an old fashioned banana split or hot fudge sundae... You remember what it was like, but you'd forgotten how good it really is!!
Not only is the music still pure and simple, but the class and sophistication used to tell the tales of love lost and found makes hearing it just that much better.
Many of the groups featured on this DVD actually sound more mature and better than when they originally recorded. On the other hand, it brings a tear to your heart to hear Jimmy Beaumont struggle to pour his soul into "Since I Don't Have You."
I'm not a DVD fanatic--far from it, but I bought this one simply to hear and see many of my favorite groups perform one last time. Many of these groups will never be seen again, and it's too bad that they weren't given the forum to perform extended sets. Still, where else will you see (and hear) the Spaniels sing "Stormy Weather", the Jive Five with Earl Pitts sing "What Time Is It?", or the Marcels sing "Blue Moon"?
You don't need the DVD to hear the music--God knows you can drop into any discount store and find a compliation of most of this music; but it's worth the few extra bucks to see the creased pants, the shining shoes, the hand gestures, and the appreciation these groups have for people that love their music.
It's not grunge---it's not hip hop or country rock. It was a period of time that many can only appreciate because they've been there. Sit back and take bite out of that sundae and savor how good it is...one more time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: DOO WOP RECORDED HISTORY- A MUST HAVE ITEM
Comment: Get it, also get Doo Wop 51 & Rock, rhythm & Doo Wop. These are a triology collection. Each performance is like the original 45's except with modern, nice and crisp sound of today's cds.
Customer Rating:
Summary: excellent performances.
Comment: I saw this vhs tape on television and I thought it was a very excellent performace by all the groups. they need to make more like these.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: One of a kind show, all things considered.
Comment: I saw these shows (really all the American Soundtrack and MY Music shows) on PBS at various times throughout the years, and received this show as well as Doo Wop 51 and Rock, Rhythm, and Doo Wop for Christmas gifts, and am glad to have them as part of my music performance library. I found the quality of the DVDs excellent, but I have noticed that the acoustics sometimes interfere with hearing the performers at times (this applies to all the shows). With that said, I thought that the entire show was outstanding. These kinds of shows are a way to preserve much of twentieth century music that is sadly becoming harder and harder to find these days. While I can understand that every generation has its own music that it prefers to listen to, frankly most of the crap that has been propagated as popular music over the last twenty plus years or so has been less than inspiring and the little that is any good is usually based on the music from the forties through the seventies. Something that I personally find aggravating is reading nitwit reviews from people who seem to think that the music evidently should sound exactly the same today as it did fifty plus years when all the original performers were still alive and in their twenties. Welocme to Mortality 101 - every one either grows older or passes away before being able to do so, and the fact that all of these performers, most of whom seem to be in their fifties or older, can still perform at all, let alone some of the exemplary performances one is treated to on this DVD, is a tribute both to their talent and the longevity of the music and the songs. This applies not only to this show, but to all these nostalgia concerts, both on PBS and elsewhere. I solidly recommend all three of these shows, and encourage anyone with an interest in watching performers who can actually sing to add them to their DVD library.
Vol. 1
Only You and The Great Pretender - The Platters
Come Go With Me - Del-Vikings
This I Swear and Since I Don't Have You - Jimmy Beaumont and Skyliners
Earth Angel - The Penguins
Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler and Pure Gold
16 Candles and Worst That Could Happen - Johnny Maestro and Brooklyn Bridge
Long Lonely Nights - Lee Andrews and the Hearts
Little Girl of Mine and Heart and Soul - The Cleftones
There's A Moon Out Tonight - Capris
Blue Moon - Marcels
My True Story and What Time Is It - Jive Five
Just to Be With You, Oh Rosemarie, and Guardian Angel - Legends of Doo Wop
That's My Desire and The Closer You Are - Earl Lewis and the Channels
Vol. 2
Zoom, Gloria, and Speedo - The Cadillacs
Unchained Melody and Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) - Golden Group Memories
Look In My Eyes - Chantels
Maybe - Arlene Smith and the Chantels
Sincerely and Ten Commandments of Love - Harvey Fuqua and the Moonglows
For Your Precious Love - Jerry Butler and Pure Gold
Sunday Kind of Love and Life is But A Dream - Harptones
I Only Have Eyes for You and Lovers Never Say Goodbye - Flamingoes
Gloria medley - Cadillacs, Legends of Doo Wop, Golden Group Memories, and Earl Lewis and the Channels
Stormy weather - The Spaniels
Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight - Spaniels and all performers
Customer Rating:
Summary: We all make mistakes
Comment: We all make mistakes. When I first looked at this show I was bothered by too many things. The obvious age of the performers and it's affect on their voices, looks, and movements. But I recently went back to view it again and I must say.....instead of being totally put off I admit there were some bright moments that for whatever the reason I missed the first time. All I can say is that my moments may be different from your moments. That being the case no amount of pitch problems, slow dance movements, and aging can ever take away the innocense of youth. This program (depending on how forgiving your imagination is) will take you back to a simpler and more romantic time. The night I put this back on I must have skipped through over 100 stations just to finally settle on this. It was my best choice then and most likely I will find those times in the future that this show will again transport me back to my youth. For that alone it's worth it!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A must-have for music lovers
Comment: Watching Doo Wop 50 is like sitting down and eating an old fashioned banana split or hot fudge sundae... You remember what it was like, but you'd forgotten how good it really is!!
Not only is the music still pure and simple, but the class and sophistication used to tell the tales of love lost and found makes hearing it just that much better.
Many of the groups featured on this DVD actually sound more mature and better than when they originally recorded. On the other hand, it brings a tear to your heart to hear Jimmy Beaumont struggle to pour his soul into "Since I Don't Have You."
I'm not a DVD fanatic--far from it, but I bought this one simply to hear and see many of my favorite groups perform one last time. Many of these groups will never be seen again, and it's too bad that they weren't given the forum to perform extended sets. Still, where else will you see (and hear) the Spaniels sing "Stormy Weather", the Jive Five with Earl Pitts sing "What Time Is It?", or the Marcels sing "Blue Moon"?
You don't need the DVD to hear the music--God knows you can drop into any discount store and find a compliation of most of this music; but it's worth the few extra bucks to see the creased pants, the shining shoes, the hand gestures, and the appreciation these groups have for people that love their music.
It's not grunge---it's not hip hop or country rock. It was a period of time that many can only appreciate because they've been there. Sit back and take bite out of that sundae and savor how good it is...one more time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: DOO WOP RECORDED HISTORY- A MUST HAVE ITEM
Comment: Get it, also get Doo Wop 51 & Rock, rhythm & Doo Wop. These are a triology collection. Each performance is like the original 45's except with modern, nice and crisp sound of today's cds.
Customer Rating:
Summary: excellent performances.
Comment: I saw this vhs tape on television and I thought it was a very excellent performace by all the groups. they need to make more like these.
Taped during a 1999 tribute in Pittsburgh, this straightforward, live review honors rock 'n' roll's '50s and early '60s legacy of vocal groups. For oldies fans hoping to bask in nostalgia, the caliber of the hits and the inclusion of most of the groups originally associated with the recorded hits make Doo Wop at 50 a satisfying stroll down memory lane. In light of the focal importance of the songs, rather than the singers, for the majority of listeners the program's choice of material will be sufficient reason to watch, as underscored by the success of PBS's broadcast of the complete concert. Veteran soul stylist Jerry Butler, who hosts the show, is himself a legitimate bridge between the street corner symphonies of the '50s and the more sophisticated urban pop and soul that succeeded them. Butler shepherds a lineup including current editions of the Platters, the Del-Vikings, Jimmy Beaumont and the Skyliners, the Penguins, the Cadillacs, the Moonglows, the Flamingos, and other fondly remembered groups. A competent if not exactly inspired revue band accompanies all the acts, taped performing on a set decorated with oversized portraits of '50s icons like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, with a few vintage hot rods parked alongside to hammer home the nostalgic thrust of the night. More impassioned doo-wop fans and rock historians, however, will be a tougher sell. If the groups indeed carry the names associated with the hits, many feature reconstituted lineups with few of the members actually heard on the original singles, a practice that can be traced back to the '60s (as with the Platters). Alternatively, more authentic lineups, like The Marcels (heard performing their galloping version of "Blue Moon" for the first time in decades), reflect their advancing years in rough vocal edges or arrangements transposed to lower keys. Given the show's inspiration (Rhino's exemplary Doo Wop Box anthologies, which unearthed both big hits and forgotten gems and placed the music and performers in a rich historical context), it would have been intriguing to provide some documentary context. --Sam Sutherland
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