The '60s: Original NBC Motion Picture Soundtrack

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

Excellent Anthology, 2007-05-22
I bought this video to show it to my High School students and it was a hit. They enjoy the history, music and the story behind the whole 60's theme. What I liked about this video is that has real footage of the events that shaped the decade. There is also two families involved and they evolve with the history, which made the students really interested in the subject. After I showed them this film everyone was into the whole theme and music.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

Great collection of the 60's, 2005-12-28
I own several collections of popular music from America in the 1960's, and this is definitely one of the best I've heard. I don't consider myself an "expert" on music from then, but one way this collection is better than most is the nice balance it has of various styles. It's got several that are lighter and more fun, yet not frivolous, such as "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels, and also has many serious and philosophical songs, such as "Chimes of Freedom" by Bob Dylan and "Chicago/We Can Ghange the World" by Graham Nash. The psychedelic is well-represented by "Winds of Change" by Eric Burdon and the Animals. It's got several R B too, such as with Marvin Gaye's "Can I Get a Witness" and The Temptations' "My Girl." Most collections don't have this much variety, and all the songs here are enjoyable too, though of course that's a subjective judgement. I believe these songs were selected as being representative of the era, and not as just being "greatest hits" like some collections are locked into, though I don't know for sure how high they all charted. I admit that I'm biased in not liking "hard" rock, so I partly like this CD because probably none of these are really hard rock, with Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" coming the closest to that. With 15 tracks here, 5 of them over 4 minutes long, it's also a relatively generous CD. In sum, "The 60's" is one of my two favorite compilations from the 1960s, the other being "Positively 60s," a 2-CD set.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

'The '60's:Original NBC Motion Picture Soundtrack'(Polygram), 2005-02-18
Loved the 3 1/2 hour made-for-TV movie as I just couldn't wait to lay my mitts on the soundtrack disc.Although it COULD have included a couple of MORE key songs from the era.There are several tunes on this fifteen track offering that I hadn't heard in years.Like Marvin Gaye's "Could I Get A Witness?"(one of the BEST Motown songs ever),Bob Dylan's "Chimes Of Freedom" and The Animal's "Winds Of Change".A few that I'll always hold close to my heart are Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody To Love" and Cream's "Sunshine Of your Love".Nice.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

What is this song???? please help!!!!, 2004-09-22
There is a song on the miniseries, and all i remember is the main guy walking down the sidewalk ia suit and the instrumental part of the song. It has guitars kinda going down the scale then doing it again. I know it's not much, but if you know it, please help.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Worth it for the first track, 2002-09-01
I've been reading the other reviews of The '60s, and first of all, I've noticed a LOT of people asking about a song that was played in the mini-series and not on the CD. That is probably the CD's biggest fault; not that it doesn't do justice to the 60s as a decade, but that it doesn't do justice to the 60s as a mini-series. Bob Dylan is sorely mis-represented on the CD while his songs get a lot of play in the movie, but I think that the first track (a duet with Joan Osborne) is worth the CD. pInstead of a rushed companion product to the NBC Mini-series, the CD could have benefited from a more thorough representation of the different music genres emerging at the time (which I must say, all got fair treatment in the series). 1/3 of the soundtrack is devoted to boy and girl band pop, leaving the other 2/3rds to float around and leave the soundtrack as a hit/miss purchase. Highlights include Chimes of Freedom, The Weight, and Draft Morning, where I think we could have done without Do Wah Diddy Diddy and Do You Believe in Magic.pIf you're getting this CD, I suggest you get The Essential Bob Dylan with it (most of the songs on that set were used in the movie).