Product Details

• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Shout Factory
• DVD Release Date: August 31, 2004
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002S640A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,285 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

PBS rocks the house with SUPERSTARS of '70s SOUL, the first installment from the new live concert series My Music. Hosted by the original "Lady Marmalade" herself, Ms. Patti LaBelle, this show is a crash course in Groove 101, with booty-quaking lessons from the masters, including the incomparable Commodores ("Brick House"), Earl Young’s Trammps ("Disco Inferno") and Joni & Debbie Sledge of Sister Sledge ("We Are Family"). Then slow it down, dim the lights and learn about love from "You Are Everything" by The Stylistics--and from Eugene Record, who reunites with The Chi-Lites for "Have You Seen Her" and "Oh Girl."

1. Lady Marmalade - Patti LaBelle
2. Disco Inferno – Earl Young’s Trammps
3. Always and Forever – Heatwave
4. Over The Rainbow – Patti LaBelle
5. Rock Your Baby - George McCrae
6. Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale and Pure Gold
7. Shining Star - The Manhattans featuring Gerald Alston & Blue Lovett
8. Betcha By Golly, Wow / You Are Everything – The Stylistics
9. You Make Me Feel Brand New – The Stylistics
10. Ain’t No Stopping Us Now - McFadden and Whitehead
11. If You Don't Know Me By Now - Harold Melvin's Blue Notes
12. Natural High - Bloodstone
13. Best Of My Love - The Emotions
14. Have You Seen Her – The Chi-Lites with Eugene Record
16. Oh Girl – The Chi-Lites with Eugene Record
17. Brick House – The Commodores
18. If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman
19. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel - Tavares
20. We Are Family – Debbie and Joni Sledge of Sister Sledge

Bonus Tracks
21. Cowboys To Girls – The Intruders
22. If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time – Tyrone Davis

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Rock Your Baby", March 9, 2006

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Glen Ramirez (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Music: Superstars of Seventies Soul Live (DVD)

Once again, another enjoyable concert from PBS. This event took place in November 2003 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Great line-up of artists with hits scanning years throughout the 70's. The Philadelphia sound is well represented here:

* The Stylistics (WITHOUT the GREAT Russell Thompkins, Jr. who was replaced by the much younger Harold "Eban" Brown who does a stand-out job and sounds incredibly identical).
* The Chi-Lites (WITH Eugene Record who died on July 22, 2005 after a battle with cancer).
* Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (WITHOUT of course, the GREAT Teddy Pendergrass on lead).

My personal highlight was a wonderful performance by George McRae (flying in from Amsterdam for the concert) singing his classic "Rock Your Baby". He doesn't disappoint. British Soul artist Maxine Nightingale is in top form singing "Right Back Where We Started From".

The others do a stand-out job and are very enthusiastic in their performances. It's all presented in 5.1 audio, 94 minutes long and 21 great tracks of fun.

Audio: 5 stars
Video: 5 stars
Performances: 4.5 stars

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Real Treat, September 13, 2004

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C. A. Ingram "carlanthony" (Solihull, West Midlands England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Music: Superstars of Seventies Soul Live (DVD)

Yes this is another of those great PBS specials.Great to have this once in a lifetime concert on DVD.I believe there is a part two or another installment pending,I for one can't wait!All soul fans and lovers of real music should purchase this.
A few weeks ago this was changing hands for three times the price.Buy it now before it disappears and becomes a collectable item!God Bless PBS,Keep up these quality shows.
If only the BBC and other stations could put together such shows.
Highlights for me are Chi-Lites Feat Eugene Record,Manhattans,Bloodstone,Commodores McFadden & Whitehead,Geoge McCrae and Tavares.How do you top these acts? With the loss of so many soul artists this year these shows are an important lasting legacy.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the sound of philadelphia, October 7, 2004

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Karel Ramaphosa (johannesburg, gauteng South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Music: Superstars of Seventies Soul Live (DVD)

great music,great artists and this is all about philadelphia superstars of the 70's.pbs has already released "rythm,love&soul which is according to me could be motown superstars of the 70's in as much as i rate "superstars of 70's soul" as philly groups and also "soul comes home" as stax.pbs must continue to keep up a good,and the likes of the whispers,o'jays and many more is needed.god bless pbs.