The tv series/specials All You Need Is Love are about an hour long each, no narration, mostly participants (musicians/songwriters, some social critics) talking about the history or music.
Skip the first episode (supposed to be an overview) and you can drop out sometime about when the Beatles come into view. Elvis was still alive when these were made. Most are very good. And not every comment made by someone on camera is a brilliant thought. There are some radical leftists interviewed (who’s stupidity and bigotry is on display, specifically the black nationalist supremacist) and fools like Jerry Welxer pontificate. I may not agree with everything Bill Graham says or did to the music industry, but I’m at least willing to listen.
All You Need Is Love Vol 2: I Can Hypnotize Dis Nation - Ragtime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrZNtpTy9lw
All You Need Is Love Vol 4: Who’s That Comin’? - Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvZz4lLMQ4k
All You Need Is Love Vol 6 : Always Chasing Rainbows - Tin Pan Alley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwy0xnGQYHI
All You Need Is Love Vol 5 : Rude Songs - Vaudeville & Music Hall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiRpGfwOXkk
All You Need Is Love Vol 8: Swing That Music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJdbAhYj4_U
All You Need Is Love Vol 9: Good Times - Rhythm And Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJezgdXcyc4
All You Need Is Love Vol 10: Making Moonshine - Country Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i48oEgufu-Q
All You Need Is Love vol 12.- Hail Hail Rock and Roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhOB2hMGMOU
There are around 17 or 18 episodes total I think, maybe more.
I’ll kill you if these videos have nothing but the usual interviews with the likes of variopus Linda Ronstadts informing us peasants that this or that of her heroes and predecessors was “just amazing!” and/or “incredible!”
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