TV/film/books Three great (completely unrelated) music movies

[squeak]

#1: Standing in the Shadows of Motown
This movie about the band that played on the Motown hits we all know and most love. You couldn't make this up.

#2: Cadillac Records
About Chess Records (Adrian Brody) and recording artists, including Muddy Waters (Gerry Wright), Etta James (Beyonce), Howling' Wolf (Eamonn Walker) and others. All around great movie and I believe it works so well, because it is not about a single composer/performer.

#3: Good Ol' Freda
I challenge you to find a better employee than Freda Kelly, who started working as secretary for the Beatles at age 17. Where did all the gossip about the Beatles personal lives go while they conquered the globe? It stayed with Freda and it still does.

 

[squeak]

BTW, if Howling' Wolf was half as scary as enacted by Eamonn Walker, I would not want to get on his wrong side!

 

[Jules]

Can I add two classic to the list- Summer of Soul (bizarrely, on Disney Plus) and Satan & Adam (on Netflix).

Re Howling Wolf- Big Mama Thornton, she who sang the original of Your Ain't nothing but a Hound Dog, apparently once punched him out cold! Now that's scary

 

[JamesOxford]

Thanks @squeak and @Jules my weekend viewing sorted.

I had seen a clip of Cadillac Records a while back, but had no idea what is was called and then forgot about it.
Had no idea Summer of Soul was in Disney+ which I have for Mandalorian purposes and good to know Satan & Adam is on Netflix, which is great as I am dabbling with Harmonica.

 

[thomsax]

FAME Studio Muscle Shoals, AL. A Swedish dokumentary from 1970.

View: https://youtu.be/X9iuOXQaKo8


"Honeydripper". Eddie Shaw is acting and playing. Sax Gordon played some sax as well.

View: https://youtu.be/r7j1M-Rf9-Y

 

[JayeNM]

Nice one @thomsax ! Honeydripper very unknown film, but a great one with a music theme (actually John Sayles films....they are all very good, one of my favorite writers/directors).

Hey...what about...

The Lenningrad Cowboys Go America ?

That film should be bronzed.....

 

[Jules]

The Lenningrad Cowboys Go America ?

Great movie, not seen that one in ages....