Music documentaries on amazon prime

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11-08-2019, 04:39 AM
glencro

Music documentaries on amazon prime

I was recently searching movies on Amazon Prime and ran into a few interesting titles.

Tear The Roof Off: The Untold Story of Parliament Funkadelic
Gospel According To Al Green
Gil Scott Heron: Black Wax
Whitney Houston: We Will Always Love You
Sammy Davis Jr: I Gotta Be Me
Lady You Shot Me: The Life & Death of Sam Cooke
Michael Jackson: Chase The Truth
Free Meek [[rapper Meek Mill)
Paradise Boogie [[bluesmen from Detroit's Black Bottom era)

I will be watching them all.
11-08-2019, 06:17 AM
Motown Eddie

Yes Indeed: Amazon Prime has a lot of interesting films to watch. I saw Parliament/Funkadelic's Tear The Roof Off documentary and the other day I ran into That's The Way Of The World* [[the 1975 movie featuring Earth, Wind & Fire).

PS: After watching TTWOTW, I finally see EWF distanced themselves from the film since it's terrible [[but seeing The Group in action made it somewhat worthwhile).
11-08-2019, 09:25 AM
alexstassi

Ahh I got happy then... really wanna watch the Sam Cooke doc.... and then found these are only on the U.S. site.
11-08-2019, 04:39 PM
glencro

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Originally Posted by Motown Eddie

Yes Indeed: Amazon Prime has a lot of interesting films to watch. I saw Parliament/Funkadelic's Tear The Roof Off documentary and the other day I ran into That's The Way Of The World* [[the 1975 movie featuring Earth, Wind & Fire).

PS: After watching TTWOTW, I finally see EWF distanced themselves from the film since it's terrible [[but seeing The Group in action made it somewhat worthwhile).

I'll have to watch that. I remember hearing about that years ago TTWOTW
11-08-2019, 08:01 PM
lockhartgary

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Originally Posted by Motown Eddie

Yes Indeed: Amazon Prime has a lot of interesting films to watch. I saw Parliament/Funkadelic's Tear The Roof Off documentary and the other day I ran into That's The Way Of The World* [[the 1975 movie featuring Earth, Wind & Fire).

PS: After watching TTWOTW, I finally see EWF distanced themselves from the film since it's terrible [[but seeing The Group in action made it somewhat worthwhile).

Yes, they certainly distanced themselves from the movie. They even went so far as to not have the words "SOUNDTRACK FROM THE MOTION PICTURE", or any variation, appear on the album.
11-16-2019, 11:55 PM
jboy88

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Originally Posted by alexstassi

Ahh I got happy then... really wanna watch the Sam Cooke doc.... and then found these are only on the U.S. site.

There’s a very good Sam Cooke documentary on Netflix. It’s part of their Remastered series. I learned a lot of new information about Sam that was quite fascinating.
11-17-2019, 12:27 AM
marv2

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Originally Posted by jboy88

There’s a very good Sam Cooke documentary on Netflix. It’s part of their Remastered series. I learned a lot of new information about Sam that was quite fascinating.

I saw the one on Netflix. It was excellent. Also the one on Nina Simone.
11-17-2019, 12:30 PM
midnightman

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Originally Posted by glencro

I was recently searching movies on Amazon Prime and ran into a few interesting titles.

Tear The Roof Off: The Untold Story of Parliament Funkadelic
Gospel According To Al Green
Gil Scott Heron: Black Wax
Whitney Houston: We Will Always Love You
Sammy Davis Jr: I Gotta Be Me
Lady You Shot Me: The Life & Death of Sam Cooke
Michael Jackson: Chase The Truth
Free Meek [[rapper Meek Mill)
Paradise Boogie [[bluesmen from Detroit's Black Bottom era)

I will be watching them all.

I wouldn't call this one an actual music doc, just a doc based on a musician lol

Not the same thing. But yeah interesting titles otherwise with the rest of the docs.

CTT is just some doc about whether or not the Neverland train station existed when one of MJ's victims/accusers [[whichever side you're on) claim he was abused at lol it's not really good.
11-17-2019, 01:49 PM
jboy88

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Originally Posted by midnightman

I wouldn't call this one an actual music doc, just a doc based on a musician lol

Not the same thing. But yeah interesting titles otherwise with the rest of the docs.

CTT is just some doc about whether or not the Neverland train station existed when one of MJ's victims/accusers [[whichever side you're on) claim he was abused at lol it's not really good.

I watched CTT last night. Didn’t really learn anything I didn’t already know from other LN rebuttals. You can find a bunch of them on YouTube.

But it did have the guts to do what a lot of them didn’t. Michael himself, started the negative press against him even before the molestation allegations surfaced. He had his PR team concoct the “Elephant Man” and “Sleep Chamber” rumors. This would eventually snowball into the countless “Wacko Jacko” tales that continues to this day. That I have no argument with.

One MJ doc I saw years ago called Life Of an Icon [[which featured our late friend Weldon Arthur McDougall) pretty much set the record straight for me. It too pointed out where Michael was rightfully in the wrong, as well as providing proof of his innocence for his crimes.
11-18-2019, 07:14 AM
Motown Eddie

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Originally Posted by lockhartgary

Yes, they certainly distanced themselves from the movie. They even went so far as to not have the words "SOUNDTRACK FROM THE MOTION PICTURE", or any variation, appear on the album.

The words 'Original Soundtrack from the motion picture TTWOTW, Produced & Directed by Sig Shore' do appear on the back cover of the album in fine print [[unlike most other soundtrack albums which put those statements on the front cover in big letters). Maurice White had directed Columbia Records to do this after the saw the film & saw how bad it was [[he also made sure that the LP came out long before the movie did). EWF did such a great job of distancing themselves from the movie that they had their first LP to top the Soul & Pop charts [[and almost no one saw Sig Shore's film).

https://img.discogs.com/w34aQ9tT-y2e...10880.jpeg.jpg
11-18-2019, 01:04 PM
midnightman

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Originally Posted by jboy88

I watched CTT last night. Didn’t really learn anything I didn’t already know from other LN rebuttals. You can find a bunch of them on YouTube.

But it did have the guts to do what a lot of them didn’t. Michael himself, started the negative press against him even before the molestation allegations surfaced. He had his PR team concoct the “Elephant Man” and “Sleep Chamber” rumors. This would eventually snowball into the countless “Wacko Jacko” tales that continues to this day. That I have no argument with.

One MJ doc I saw years ago called Life Of an Icon [[which featured our late friend Weldon Arthur McDougall) pretty much set the record straight for me. It too pointed out where Michael was rightfully in the wrong, as well as providing proof of his innocence for his crimes.

Well at least they gave MJ some blame for starting some of the tabloid stuff about him.
11-20-2019, 04:26 PM
alexstassi

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Originally Posted by jboy88

There’s a very good Sam Cooke documentary on Netflix. It’s part of their Remastered series. I learned a lot of new information about Sam that was quite fascinating.

Was it "The two killings of Sam Cooke" I've seen it... and yes, was well made.
11-20-2019, 08:36 PM
jboy88

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Originally Posted by midnightman

Well at least they gave MJ some blame for starting some of the tabloid stuff about him.

And that’s what any documentary is supposed to do. Regardless of the subject, it has to at least try to see things from multiple perspectives.
11-20-2019, 08:44 PM
jboy88

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Originally Posted by alexstassi

Was it "The two killings of Sam Cooke" I've seen it... and yes, was well made.

Yup, that’s the one. Sam Cooke was more radical than most people think. It also delved into some the events that preceded his murder. Definitely makes me believe that there was an orchestrated plot to not only take him out, but to make him a pariah as well. They basically tried to do the same thing to him that they did with MJ decades later.
11-26-2019, 03:05 PM
Cincinnati_Kid

Netflix has two good docs on Quincy Jones and The Black Godfather, Clarence Avant.
12-01-2019, 02:22 PM
glencro

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Originally Posted by Cincinnati_Kid

Netflix has two good docs on Quincy Jones and The Black Godfather, Clarence Avant.

The Black God Father is a MUST SEE. I'll have to find the other Quincey document.
12-02-2019, 02:43 PM
Jerry Oz

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Originally Posted by Cincinnati_Kid

Netflix has two good docs on Quincy Jones and The Black Godfather, Clarence Avant.

I recall seeing Listen Up, The Lives of Quincy Jones in the theaters 20 years ago. I enjoyed it greatly and should find time to watch it again. Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sCMawIwa1U