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3) Whitney
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Whitney Houston is a musical icon, known for such hit songs as "How Will I Know," "I Will Always Love You" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)." Her debut album, "Whitney Houston," set industry records as the best-selling debut album for a female singer. The documentary follows her life and career, culminating in her untimely death at the age of 48. Her friends and family describe their relationship with the singer and her private struggles....
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It revolves around the life of the great traditional Irish singer, Joe Heaney. The harsh Irish landscape combined with the myths, fables, and songs of his Connemara youth helped shape this fascinating character. Enigmatic and complex, Heaney's devotion to his art came at a huge personal cost. But by the time of his death in 1984, he was widely recognized as one of the most important figures in Irish traditional music, having won fans and admires from...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was the first artist to top the Pop, Country, and R&B charts...
6) The song
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 116 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Aspiring singer, songwriter Jed King is struggling to catch a break and escape the long shadow of his famous father when he reluctantly agrees to a gig at a local vineyard harvest festival. Jed meets the vineyard owner's daughter, Rose, and a romance quickly blooms. Soon after their wedding, Jed writes Rose a song, which becomes a breakout hit. Suddenly thrust into a life of stardom and a world of temptation, his life and marriage begin to fall apart....
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Best selling comic book artist Joann Sfar delivers an inventive biography of famed French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, his transition from painter to jazz musician to pop superstar and his many relationships including Juliette Greco, Brigitte Bardot, and Jane Birkin while employing a witty surrealistic style and a soundtrack that acts like a time...
9) Becks
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Inspired by the real life of singer/songwriter Alyssa Robbins, it follows a musician who moves back to her childhood home in St. Louis after a crushing breakup with her longtime girlfriend. While performing for tips at a local tavern and struggling to reconnect with her ultra-Catholic mother, she strikes up a unique friendship with the wife of an old friend. Becks begins to discover her musical voice as she performs deeply personal songs about...
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 video recording (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role and the washed-up talent agent who seeks to revive his career...
Pub. Date
(c)2016
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rather thank taking a reverent look back at an established artist, Bechard's new film serves as an introduction of sorts to a musical life in progress, diving deep into the evolving career of the gloriously talented Loveless and the bandmates alongside her. Lydia and company may be on a familar and off-repeated journey--from tour van to rock club to recording studio and repeat--but theirs is a singular vision thanks to the geniune, honest, and charismatic...
12) Dalida
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From her birth in Cairo in 1933 to her first concert at the Olympia in Paris in 1956; from her marriage to Lucien Morisse, director of the newly emerging Europe one radio to the height of the disco scene; from her journey of discovery to India to the international success of Gigi L'Amoroso in 1974, Dalida the film is a touching and tragic portrait of an emotionally complex woman who was born to be a star. An unconventional modern woman living in conventional...
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Set high in the Indian Himalaya, Ladakh is home to a rich Buddhist culture and an ancient tradition of folk singing. In the 1960s as economic development thrust change upon Ladakh, Morup Namgyal, Ladakh's greatest folk artist, began his lifelong efforts to preserve his beloved folk songs. Using song as the medium, Morup and his peers sparked a social movement that would bring about profound and enduring change in Ladakh. It was a movement built...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A television movie event based on the inspiring true story of living legend Dolly Parton's remarkable upbringing in rural Tennessee. This once-in-a-lifetime special takes place inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith and a raggedy patchwork coat, vividly described in the well-known song of the film's title that helped make Parton who she is today. Set in the...
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (49 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adele is a double Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter who caught the attention of the media after becoming the first recipient of the Critics Choice award at the BRIT Awards in 2008. 'Fire And Rain' tells the story of Adele plus interviews and more. A superb unauthorized documentary.
17) Amy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The incredible story of six-time Grammy winner Amy Winehouse - in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archival footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving, and vital film shines a light on our culture and the world we live in today.
18) Judy
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Thirty years after rising to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. While preparing for the shows, Garland battles with management, reminisces with friends and adoring fans, and embarks on a whirlwind romance with soon-to-be fifth husband Mickey Deans, all while bravely struggling to overcome intensifying anxiety and physical decline.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. With a career that spanned 50 years, Mercedes Sosa sold millions of records, performed thousands of concerts all over the world, and left behind an incredible legacy as an artist who went beyond the borders of music to become one of the most influential and loved personalities of the twentieth century. This intimate documentary reveals her early life and her rise to worldwide stardom, and explores the impact she had on the musical and political...
20) Genius: season 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (352 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An Emmy-winning anthology series that dramatizes the fascinating stories of the world's most brilliant innovators, exploring their extraordinary achievements along with their volatile, passionate and complex personal relationships. The third season will explore Aretha Franklin's musical genius and incomparable career, as well as the immeasurable impact and lasting influence she has had on music and culture around the world. Grammy Award winner Franklin...
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