Legends of Folk: The Village Scene

Legends of Folk. The Village Scene.This DVD lets us see again the youthful faces of the folk singers who sang the folk songs that most of us remember. Thankfully these performances were filmed and not just recorded as audio records. This TIME-LIFE collection contains seventeen hit recordings, plus two throwaway songs by Peter Yarrow (Deep Blue Sea), and John Cohen (Black Jack Daisy), and an hour or so of interviews with John Cohen, Don McLean, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, Michelle Phillips, John Sebastian, and Peter Yarrow. These trivia interviews are rather yawn producing, and are best handled by viewing them between coffee breaks to keep you from dozing off. Some of the songs are closer to rock than folk, but all the songs on the main part of the DVD are hits, not misses. Starting with "If I Had A Hammer", by Peter Paul and Mary, and ending with "California Dreamin'", by The Mamas & The Papas, the great folk songs just keep on coming. I kept wishing that the hit songs on the main part of the DVD would never end. There is a lot more song material out there that could have been included. This DVD only scratched the surface of what could have been a multiple DVD collection.

Companion to Greenwich Village and excellent. Sm\e obscure performers that one rarely sees performing...

Took me wayyyyy back. Baez is pure joy. What fun!

O.K. Would have liked to see more of Dylan and Baez

if you are into folk music, this video has some excellent footage of singers that normally aren't seen. I would recommend it to anyone!

Reliving some musical moments with the real stars of Folk!

The songs are great the interviews are long but interesting if you weren't there

it was a gift. I cannot rate it.

This is a great DVD that I first saw on PBS and, having lived through the folk era in Toronto which was almost as important folk hot-spot as NYC, I knew that getting my own copy was a priority.The DVD takes you through a short history of the folk phenomenum and the people who made it all happen. Dylan, Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Judy Collins, The Spoonful and other greats all sing a complete version of their best songs and there is even a copy of the original unplugged version of Simon and Garfunkle's Sounds of Silence.If you have a love of folk and folk rock music, you must have this great DVD.

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