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- Host/Co-Creator George Davison, along with Field Reporters Greg Costantino, Tamara Krinsky, Darieth Chisolm, David Carmine, and Jackie Long, embark on a worldwide journey to uncover innovators on the cutting edge of tomorrow's technology.
- Popular music performers from the late 1950s and early 1960s reunite in concert at the historic Benedum Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA for a PBS fund-raising special in the My Music series.
- Artists and groups from the 1960s perform.
- Singer Peter Marshall hosts a look back at the bands and singers of the big band era of the 1930s-1950s.
- In an acclaimed career spanning over half a century of timeless entertainment, husband and wife Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme represented the very best in popular music, starting with youthful pop hits in the 1950s and 1960s (Go Away Little Girl, Blame It On The Bossa Nova) followed by their Grammy® and Emmy®-winning triumphs focusing on the Great American Songbook. Their musician son David Lawrence (High School Musical) hosts STEVE LAWRENCE and EYDIE GORME: MEMORIES OF MY MOM AND DAD, featuring music-variety television performances from the 1960s and 1970s along with remembrances and tributes from longtime family friend Carol Burnett and singer Michael Feinstein.
- The beloved singer-songwriter's legendary career is celebrated with archival footage from her early country days starting with Porter Wagoner in the late 1960s to her success as a crossover pop superstar a decade later. Performances include "Coat of Many Colors," "Here You Come Again," "Islands In The Stream" (with Kenny Rogers) and "9 To 5."
- The most popular classical music by such composers as Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Strauss, heard with vibrant images from history and nature offering visual interpretations of the music.
- The music of popular composer Burt Bacharach, spanning the 1960s through the 1980s, is celebrated with vintage television footage featuring the original artists who made hits out of the classic songs.
- Michelle Phillips hosts this survey of the music of the 1960s using a mix of archive video and recent concert performances of some of the iconic acts of the decade.
- Richard Carpenter recalls yuletide television appearances by himself and sister Karen as The Carpenters with song clips spanning 1974-1978 including the following performances: Sleigh Ride; Winter Wonderland/Silver Bells/White Christmas; O Holy Night; Christ Is Born; The Christmas Song. The PBS broadcast version runs 20 minutes with an additional 20 minutes added to the DVD release: Merry Christmas Darling; Santa Claus Is Coming To Town; Carol of The Bells; Christmas Alphabet; Make Me Laugh; It's Christmas Time; Ave Maria.
- Selection of some of the greatest rock and pop music performances of the 1960s from "The Ed Sullivan Show".
- Country pop legends unite to perform their biggest and best-loved hit recordings from the 1950s, 60s and 70s in this 'My Music' special on PBS.
- This special celebrates the centennial of the timeless and inescapable artist Nat King Cole using rarely seen footage from his variety show and other archival material with full performances of his greatest hits and cherished standards.
- Great female solo singers and girl groups of 1960s pop, rock and soul hits are seen in original footage from the era hosted by Mary Wilson of the Supremes.
- Original MTV VJ Martha Quinn hosts a joyful celebration of popular hits from the 1980s with a collection of classic music videos that ruled TV screens, and comments about the fashions, culture and historical events that defined the decade.
- PBS My Music series explores the Christmas hits of yesteryear with live performances and classic videos from music's greatest voices.
- Celebrate the sweet sounds of sibling singing groups, from The Andrews Sisters to The Lennon Sisters.
- For over half a century, Grammy-winning artist Dionne Warwick has achieved legendary status with a string of hits that remain popular among audiences of all ages. This is the story of her life in song as recalled by Dionne along with friends and artistic collaborators.
- Archival clips feature pop music from 1960-1963.
- MY MUSIC: DOO WOP DISCOVERIES brings back pivotal R&B and pop vocal groups of the late fifties and sixties through never-before-broadcast archival and new live performances of their most loved hits. Pop music icons Smokey Robinson, Mike Stoller (of the writing team Lieber & Stoller), Aaron Neville, Neil Sedaka, George Clinton and more share their favorite Doo Wop styles and songs of the genre. Hosted by Jon "Bowzer" Bauman, formerly of Sha Na Na, this new special includes interviews and appearances by guest DJs Cousin Brucie, Don K. Reed, Bobby Jay, Jerry Blavat, Harvey Holiday, Art LaBoe and TJ Lubinsky.
- Tommy James hosts a look back at the pop songs of the late 1960s, revealing rare, vintage television appearances by some of the most popular artists of the psychedelic era.
- For over 50 years, Perry Como ranked as one of America's most successful and beloved entertainers. A big band singer in the late 1930s, a radio star in the 1940s and then a TV headliner into the 1990s. Perry was a warm and welcome presence in tens of millions of households for six decades, charting over 100 hit songs along the way.
- With knowledgeable insight and a bit of humor, David Ogden Stiers hosts a second survey of classical masterpieces in the My Music series featuring visual interpretations of several familiar compositions.
- Adam West hosts a compilation of musical performances from 1965, 1966, and 1967 featuring the Beach Boys, the Righteous Brothers, the Monkess and the Rascals, among others.
- Co-hosts Nick Clooney and Peter Marshall look back at the big band period of the 1930s-1950s, with vintage performance footage of the great singers - the boy "crooners" and the girl "canaries". Among those who got their start singing with big bands were Frank Sinatra (singing with the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras, among others), Peggy Lee (with Benny Goodman), Doris Day (with Les Brown), Perry Como (with Ted Weems) and Jo Stafford (with Tommy Dorsey).
- Rock, pop and soul artists from the 1960s perform some of their big hits on stage with new performances shot in the 2000s.
- Danny Aiello hosts a look at the themes of the pop music of the 1950s and 60s that had an Italian flavor. His emphasis is on the ways the music was part of family life, reflecting family values. We watch Perry Como, Julius LaRosa, Connie Francis, Rosie Clooney, and others perform one or two songs. Some are in black and white from the 1950s, others are in color at a recent "My Music" concert. We see LaRosa young and old, Frankie Laine and Tony Martin in their 90s, and a vintage appearance by Domenico Modugno on Ed Sullivan's "Toast of the Town." The program includes fund-raising breaks for PBS and Keely Smith looking bored while Louis Prima goes over the top.
- Andy's long-running, Emmy-winning music-variety series provides the many wonderful performances included on this special retrospective of ballads sung by perfection by the legendary vocalist. Recollections are provided by friends and colleagues Petula Clark, Johnny Mathis, Michael Feinstein, Donny Osmond, Pat Boone and The Lennon Sisters.
- Whoopi Goldberg introduces vintage 1970s and early 1980s soul-pop favorites with original footage by the artists who made the songs hits.
- Veteran singers from the golden age of song perform their greatest hits and Great American popular standards in new concert footage with a few special archive clips of other legendary performers.
- The queen of soul is celebrated with musical performances spanning the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s including her hits Respect; Chain of Fools; (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman; Call Me; I Say A Little Prayer; Baby I Love You; Do Right Woman, Do Right Man; I Never Loved A Man The Way That I Love You; (Sweet, Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone; Rock Steady; Freeway Of Love; I Knew You Were Waiting (with George Michael); Jumping Jack Flash; Think - plus an early clip of Won't Be Long and a late career highlight Nessun Dorma. Friends and colleagues recall her remarkable life in music.