This documentary is about song-poems and the companies that transform them into records for a fee, and about the customers who wrote the lyrics, paid the fees, and had a dream. It's funny and uncomfortable. Link in comments. Teaser; Enjoy a short song-poem music-video right
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About 380MB and one hour long.
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I collect Song Poems. I think they're all the rage. I need help.
but, THANK YOU 4 THIS!!!
You are welcome. I like them also. If you download my INCORRECT MUSIC stuff you will find a lot of Song Poems. I bet you already have. I purchased a box of correspondence at an auction once, and towards the bottom was some badly reproduced sheet music that I now recognize as song-poems! One of them concerned a LULU MY LITTLE ZULU. I wish that I had kept that box but instead it is lost forever.
I'm sure you must know of this splendid site, but here's the link anyways...
http://bobpurse.blogspot.com/
Thanks a lot. The site was new to me and is very cool. Say, I visited youtube and found lots of edits of Non-Violent Taekwondo Troopers. I was definitely not first with this one.
Hi,
Yup, I was actively involved in the song-poem website, and its goings-on, at that time. I was told - but it was never confirmed to me -that someone even managed to get a proclamation through Congress around the time this came out, naming a day as National Song-Poem Day.
I love the first 2/3rds of the film, but in the last third, the filmmaker follows a terrifically uninteresting guy as he tries to make his way from song-poet to stage performer, and the focus on song-poems disappears entirely. The DVD of the film has some great, long takes of a group of song-poem performers in the studio, doing what they did - sight reading submissions and making a record of them - led by the great Gene Marshall. This is excerpted in the film itself, but is better in the bonus footage.
The man behind the great song-poem database website was involved in this film, and once it ran on public TV, the interest in his website spiked significantly. I believe it was that increase in attention, and the increased amount of work on it that resulted, which caused him to back away from the site, and not too long afterwards, it was mothballed entirely.
Bob Purse
Thank you Mr. Purse for the background. The last third of the DVD certainly was mystifying. I enjoyed seeing Gene Marshall and his band getting it done in one take. It makes the movie uplifting, eh?
OH, yeah, that Gene Marshall section is amazing and wonderful. best thing in the movie, by far.
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