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Jun. 14.

162 Classic Big Band Music Old Time Radio Broadcasts on DVD (over 68 Hours 41 Minutes running time)

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162 Classic Big Band Music Old Time Radio Broadcasts on DVD (over 68 Hours 41 Minutes running time)

This unique old time radio DVD collectible features 162 digitized reels of classic Big Band Music radio broadcasts and over 68 Hours 41 Minutes of total running time on 1 DVD. Take a journey back through radio broadcasting history with this large audio library of OTR memorabilia. The golden age of old time radio has been rescued, digitized, and packaged into a gift set that any classic radio lover can appreciate. The DVD opens and plays in a computer DVD drive and the collector can listen to the audio on a MP3 player, DVD/MP3-compatible car stereo, computer, MP3-compatible DVD player, or just compile favorites onto CD for greater user flexibility.

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Jun. 13.

Beach Boys – An American Band / Brian Wilson – I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times (1995)

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Beach Boys - An American Band / Brian Wilson - I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

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A magnificent DVD pairing for Beach Boys fans, these two stylistically different films here pretty much represent the two sides of “America’s Band.” First up is The Beach Boys: An American Band, made at the height of their Reagan-era resurgence after then Interior Secretary James Watt banned them from performing at the nation’s capitol on the 4th of July. A colorful, upbeat film, it doesn’t entirely gloss over the more downbeat aspects of the Beach Boys saga (parental abuse, mental illness, uncomfortably tight pants, loads of drugs, and Charles Manson), though it does go out of its way to give the story a happy ending, despite the recent death of drummer Dennis Wilson and the group’s complete creative standstill. However, what it lacks in perspective, it more than makes up for in priceless footage, including Smile-era studio outtakes, the unreleased 1967 concert in Hawaii, numerous TV appearances, and extensive interview footage from the mid-’70s. I Just Was (more…)

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