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<\/p>\nToday I take a look at five DVDs, all of which should be of interest to aficionados of 1960s pop culture, and all available only from The Video Beat.<\/p>\n
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National Bandstand & Dig We Must<\/b><\/i> (DVD)<\/b> Teenage Pop Culture 1967-1967<\/i> (DVD)<\/b> C’mon: 1967 New Zealand Pop Music<\/i> (DVD)<\/b> Jeunesse Oblige Discotheque<\/i> (DVD)<\/b> French-Canadian Beat Rarities<\/i> (DVD)<\/b> More to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I take a look at five DVDs, all of which should be of interest to aficionados of 1960s pop culture, and all available only from The Video Beat. National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,51,65],"tags":[2189],"class_list":["post-11824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dvd","category-pop","category-review","tag-the-video-beat","cat-25-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11824"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11854,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions\/11854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThese two programs were broadcast on Australian TV in November 1965 ( the 48-minute National Bandstand<\/i>, subtitled \u201cThe New Wave on Stage\u201d) and December 1966 (the 57-minute Dig We Must<\/i>). Both are presented here in black-and-white. Transfer quality is merely okay on the former (better on Dig<\/i>), but the overall sound’s fine, and the energy is top-notch, T.A.M.I. Show<\/i>-style. Several of the bands rock quite hard as they tear through familiar covers. Watch for the Aztecs<\/b>, rocking out on tunes including \u201cPoison Ivy\u201d and featuring a young Billy Thorpe<\/b>, many years before his sole US hit, \u201cChildren of the Sun.\u201d ORDER National Bandstand & Dig We Must<\/em> HERE, exclusively from The Video Beat<\/a><\/p>\n
\nA trio of documentaries \u2013 one each from the USA, UK and Australia \u2013 attempts to explain the mysterious teenage phenomenon of the 1960s. The American one, \u201cThe Affluent Teenager\u201d is just as hopelessly square and culturally tone-deaf as you could hope. The British doc has the benefit of being in, er, \u201ccolour.\u201d It straddles squareness and an earnest interest in the subject. The Australian adults seem even a tad hipper, and actually ask<\/i> teens what’s up. Not noted in the packaging is a bonus clip of the Beatles on U.S. TV show Shindig<\/i>. The other bonuses are also cool. ORDER Teenage Pop Culture 1967-1967<\/i> HERE, exclusively from The Video Beat<\/a><\/p>\n
\nIt fascinates me to no end to discover more about the 1960s pop music scenes of countries beyond the USA and UK. The Video Beat does important work in unearthing and compiling these collections. C’mon<\/i> aired February through August 1967, and the first and last episodes are on this DVD. You won’t know the NZ acts, but you’ll likely respect their spirited and well-chosen songs, including The Move<\/b>‘s \u201cI Can Hear the Grass Grow.\u201d These performances really do rock, and the arrangements are top-notch. A bonus compilation of other New Zealand pop clips is also a great deal of fun. ORDER C’mon: 1967 New Zealand Pop Music<\/i> HERE, exclusively from The Video Beat<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe loose translation of this French-Canadian TV show’s title is \u201cYouth must be served.\u201d Three episodes (two from ’66, one from 1964) give viewers an idea of what the dance scene was like in Quebec and Montr\u00e9al. Even in black and white, the eye-popping costumes will dazzle. I\u201dm guessing Jenny Rock<\/b> wasn’t her birth name, but the gal sings and swings convincingly enough on Rufus Thomas<\/b>‘ \u201cWalkin’ the Dog.\u201d Elsewhere is some credible fuzzed garage rock (with great vocal harmonies) courtesy Les Aristocrates<\/b> and Les Chats Hutteurs<\/b>. The overdriven bass suggests this might’ve been cut live. Truly weird bonus clips. ORDER Jeunesse Oblige Discotheque<\/i> HERE, exclusively from The Video Beat<\/a><\/p>\n
\nIf Jeunesse Oblige Discotheque<\/i> (above) whetted your appetite for more Francophone Canadian pop culture, this is the ticket. Some of it’s even in color! The selections are surprisingly varied. Some of the video quality borders on the abysmal, but overall it’s quite watchable, and owing to the rarity of this stuff, it’s worth the effort. Even the deepest crate diggers will likely be unfamiliar with most of the performances collected here. Stick around for Les Lutins<\/b>‘ fuzzed-out \u201cJe Suis de Bois.\u201d It’s proof that snotty teenagerism wasn’t purely a produce of the USA. These guys rock like they mean it. ORDER French-Canadian Beat Rarities<\/i> HERE, exclusively from The Video Beat<\/a><\/p>\n