All You Need is Love - Season 1
Season 1
Network
Episodes17
DatesFeb 12, 1977 - Jun 1, 1977
Episodes
Season 1Episode 160 min
Introductory Programme
Feb 12, 1977
Season 1Episode 260 min
God's Children
It is generally assumed that American popular music comes from the coastal regions of Africa; that the slaves brought drums to the United States; that jazz originated, somehow, in New Orleans; that the blues developed in the Mississippi Delta, and later became the cornerstone of everything from rock n roll to ragtime. All of these assumptions are untrue, and this episode with seek to uncover the real story – in Africa, on the edge of the Sahara; in Austria and the Salzkammergut; in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas; in New Orleans and in Texas.
featuring
Duke Ellington
Ginger Baker
James Brown
LeRoi Jones
Lightnin' Hopkins
Rufus Thomas
The Platters
Tina Turner
Feb 19, 1977
Season 1Episode 360 min
I Can Hypnotise 'Dis Nation (Ragtime)
Thanks to the hit movie, “The Sting”, everyone reckons they know about Ragtime. But do they? This Episode includes the oldest known piece of film (1898) showing what the cakewalk was really like. Also extracts from The Royal Ballet production based on Scott Joplin’s music, “Elite Syncopations”. Also extracts staged by the Houston Grand Opera of Joplin’s only surviving opera, “Treemonisha”. There is also rare early film of Irving Berlin (Alexander’s Ragtime Band) as well as film of Joplin’s birthplace and of the madhouse where he died. Although reference is made to other early ragtime composers, this episode is essentially the story of Scott Joplin – an extraordinary tragedy of failure, frustration, pride, of the black man’s struggle to achieve for himself a proper place in American society.
featuring
Christies Ethiopian Serenaders
Eubie Blake
Houston Grand Opera and the music of Scott Joplin
Irving Berlin
Monica Mason
Rudi Blesh
Terry Waldo
Feb 26, 1977
Season 1Episode 460 min
Jungle Music (Jazz)
This episode takes a look at the origins of jazz and challenges the theories that it is a black music form which was created in New Orleans. Featuring contributions and footage from Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus and Louis Armstrong.
Mar 5, 1977
Season 1Episode 560 min
Who's That Comin'? (The Blues)
Exploring the origins of the blues, with contributions and performance recordings by Memphis Slim, Ray Charles, Muddy Waters, Billie Holiday and BB King.
Mar 12, 1977
Season 1Episode 660 min
Rude Songs (Vaudeville and Music Hall)
The history of suggestive songs and their vaudeville and music hall beginnings, with artists featured including Judy Garland, Liberace, Mae West, Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich.
Mar 19, 1977
Season 1Episode 760 min
Always Chasin' Rainbows (Tin Pan Alley)
The story of Tin Pan Alley, where hit records were made to order and the first sightings of the popular music industry emerged. With contributions by Bing Crosby and Perry Como. Starring: Bing Crosby, Perry Como
Mar 26, 1977
Season 1Episode 860 min
Diamonds As Big As the Ritz (The Musical)
The story of the musical, an art form that emerged from vaudeville, operetta, burlesque and the British music hall. Featuring a script by Stephen Sondheim.
Apr 2, 1977
Season 1Episode 960 min
Swing That Music! (Swing)
This episode tells the story of swing. Featuring archive footage and contributions from Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman.
Apr 9, 1977
Season 1Episode 1060 min
Good Times (Rhythm and Blues)
In the late forties, white record companies labelled commercial black music “race music”. Eventually, Jerry Wexler, then working at Billboard magazine as a reporter, thought of the phrase, “rhythm and blues” and it caught on. Before long, numerous other descriptions appeared – Motown, the Philadelphia Sound, Soul – but all had in common that the music expressed the rising aspirations of the ghetto.
Meanwhile, a curious imitation of black gospel appeared called white gospel. And among those who loved the sound were two remarkable men; one a record producer, Sam Phillips, who wanted to create a sound which had the discipline of white gospel but with the abandon of black rhythm and blues; the other was Elvis Presley.
featuring
Aretha Franklin
Bill Haley
Bo Diddley
Clyde McPhatter
Ike and Tina Turner
Jerry Wexler
Johnnie Ray
Pat Boone
Stevie Wonder
The Lefevres Family
The Platters
The Supremes
Wilson Pickett
Apr 16, 1977
Season 1Episode 1160 min
Making Moonshine (Country Music)
Country music was, originally, home-made music. It described the births, marriages and deaths that happened in every community. It celebrated love, just as it bemoaned the ill-fortune that came to every man. It was music with which all felt they could identify. As such, it occupied a unique place in white culture. The music was not manufactured, as in Tin Pan Alley, nor sophisticated, and this episode describes the process by which this change came about.
Finally, we will be backstage at the Grand Ole Opry during one of its regular nationwide broadcasts, with a blessing to finish from Grand Ole Gospel Time.
featuring
Bill Anderson
Doug Kershaw
Ernest Tubb
Jimmie Driftwood
Jimmie Rodgers
Minnie Pearl
Roy Acuff
Roy Rogers
Tex Ritter
Webb Pierce
William Ivey and Stars of the Grand Ole Opry
Apr 23, 1977
Season 1Episode 1260 min
Go Down, Moses! (Folk 'War Songs')
After Nashville had raped American country music, it might seem that the folk traditions this music embodied had been lost. Not so, because these traditions had a purpose other than to entertain. We shall see how folk music used popular melodies to spell out unpopular themes, how during the American War of Independence filthy words were penned against the British Crown, but all to the tune of ‘God Save The King’. The same happened during the American Civil War – different words, depending on whether you were from the North or the South but to the same tune.
Song has been used by such as Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, Peter Seeger and Leonard Cohen as a passionate weapon for peace. The effect these singers managed to achieve in the sixties was one of the stronger causes of the American defeat in Vietnam.
featuring
Arlo Guthrie
Bing Crosby
Country Joe McDonald
James Simmons
Joan Baez
Leon Rosselson
Leonard Cohen
Pete Seeger
Peter, Paul and Mary
The Andrews Sisters
Vera Lynn
Woody Guthrie
Apr 30, 1977
Season 1Episode 1360 min
Hail! Hail! Rock n Roll (Rock n Roll)
The story of rock n roll begins and ends in Memphis, Tennessee, in the tiny studio of record producer Sam Phillips. He tells of how he discovered Elvis Presley and of the struggle he had to get Presley accepted. It was not the overnight success story that is popularly believed. Before long, however, Presley came to symbolize the spirit of an entire generation. How did this happen, and why? Or was it the product of Sam Phillips’ imagination and Presley’s stage presence?
featuring
Bill Haley
Carl Perkins
Chubby Checker
Chuck Berry
Cliff Richard
Conway Twilty
Elvis Presley
Gene Vincent
Jack Good
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Richard
Lonnie Donegan
Pat Boone
Sam Phillips
Terry Dene
Tommy Steele
May 7, 1977
Season 1Episode 1460 min
Mighty Good (The Beatles)
“They were very scruffy” recounts Allan Williams, the Beatles’ first manager, as he describes the Beatles’ early escapades in Hamburg and Liverpool Soon Brian Epstein appeared on the scene, although he didn’t like the sound the Beatles made. Nor did any record producer, and even George Martin now admits that he never believed they would make worldwide hit song writers. There was a cost, of course, which eventually had to paid for this extraordinary euphoria. But, at the time, no-one seemed to care.
featuring
Allan Williams
Bill Graham
Brian Epstein
Derek Taylor
Donovan
George Harrison
George Martin
John Lennon
Mamas and the Papas
Murray the K
Paul McCartney
Ravi Shankar
Ringo Starr
Roger McGuinn
The Beach Boys
The Byrds
May 14, 1977
Season 1Episode 1560 min
All Along the Watchtower (Sour Rock)
The sixties began, according to Eric Burdon as “a party”. “The aim of all of us, Hendrix, The Who, The Stones” Burdon goes on, “was to ball every chick in sight”. Unfortunately, the party went sour. After the death of Epstein, the Beatles quarreled and split up. Jagger was arrested. Drugs became fashionable. The swinging sixties tore itself apart in an orgy of self-congratulation and self-indulgence.
featuring
Alexis Korner
Bill Graham
Bill Wyman
Donovan
Eric Burdon
Frank Zappa
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
John Lennon
Manfred Mann
Mick Jagger
Paul McCartney
Peter Rudge
Pink Floyd
The Doors
The Rolling Stones
The Who
May 21, 1977
Season 1Episode 1660 min
Whatever Gets You Through The Night (Glitter Rock)
This Episode takes place almost entirely on stage; fans are always seen from the performer’s point of view. Thus, we begin to feel and experience first hand the pressures being put upon various individuals by the music industry. We are backstage with David Bowie as he makes himself up for a performance. We watch Alice Cooper ritualistically smashing up a doll, while the fans shriek for more and more. We are with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull as he prepares to face a screaming crowd. We watch Eric Clapton before drugs, during drugs and after drugs. We are on stage with Keith Emerson as he hurls his electric organ as the audience...
featuring
Alice Cooper
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Clive Davis
Cream
David Bowie
Elton John
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Eric Clapton
Gary Glitter
Helen Reddy
Jethro Tull
Keith Moon
Kiss
Labelle
Lester Bangs
Marie and Donny Osmond
Roxy Music
May 28, 1977
Season 1Episode 1760 min
Imagine (New Directions)
The film opens at a pop festival. Drug-smoking is very much in evidence. “These fellows will answer to God” says the Rev Jack Wyrtzen, “for all the pollution and evil they have spread around the world.” “The thing about rock n roll” says Lester Bangs, “is that it is totally about adolescence, and about consumerism brought in the highest degree”. In fact, as the film begins to point out, neither of these extreme points of view is true. Tangerine Dream perform religious music in Coventry Cathedral. Stomu Yamash’ta, a spectacular Japanese percussionist, clearly has nothing to do with adolescence: and no-one could describe Mike Oldfield as the product of consumerism.
Jun 1, 1977
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