The '60s: Original NBC Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Composer), Jed Feuer (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 26, 1999)
• Original Release Date: January 26, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B00000HXFF
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (75 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,341 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 'The '60's:Original NBC Motion Picture Soundtrack'(Polygram), February 17, 2005

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The '60s: Original NBC Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worth it for the first track, August 31, 2002

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A Customer - See all my reviews

This review is from: The '60s: Original NBC Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

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.

Instead 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.

If 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).

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars All the good songs are gone!, February 13, 1999

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[e-mail] (Ruckersville, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The '60s: Original NBC Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Having watched the 4 hours of the stereotypical view of the sixties...all kids are either draft dodger radicals or gung-ho GIs....I was surprised at how diverse the soundtrack was in the movie. But unfortunately they didn't put the real gems on the CD. "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield alone would have been worth the price of the disc, but no, we get "My Boyfriend's Back" trotted out once more. And what about any British music for God's sake? The Beatles one appearance from the landmark appearance on the 2/9/64 show is the only hint that there was music made anywhere but the good old U.S.A. So much for a truthful representation of either the era or the music. By the way, I lived through the sixties.