Why do the companies let old footage sit in a warehouse somewhere deteriorating, when they can find a way to put it out. They don't have to release it to stores, but sell it on infomercials which is a cheaper way to get it out there. Only the people who want it will buy it, and they don't have to worry about distributors, returns, or stock collecting dust in a store.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
Why do the companies let old footage sit in a warehouse somewhere deteriorating, when they can find a way to put it out. They don't have to release it to stores, but sell it on infomercials which is a cheaper way to get it out there. Only the people who want it will buy it, and they don't have to worry about distributors, returns, or stock collecting dust in a store.
I don't know. I'm just now seeing a lot of Aretha live that has NEVER been released on DVD and it needs to just so folks can be reminded why SO MANY female vocalists try SO HARD to emulate this woman. True her being alive still singing with whatever is in her heart is good but go back to the good old days when she vocally and entertainingly could do NO WRONG. She rocked the audience back in the day, we need to bring that back to the fray when discussing Aretha and not just because there is a possibility we may lose her in a few years.
Why do the companies let old footage sit in a warehouse somewhere deteriorating, when they can find a way to put it out. They don't have to release it to stores, but sell it on infomercials which is a cheaper way to get it out there. Only the people who want it will buy it, and they don't have to worry about distributors, returns, or stock collecting dust in a store.
I don't know. I'm just now seeing a lot of Aretha live that has NEVER been released on DVD and it needs to just so folks can be reminded why SO MANY female vocalists try SO HARD to emulate this woman. True her being alive still singing with whatever is in her heart is good but go back to the good old days when she vocally and entertainingly could do NO WRONG. She rocked the audience back in the day, we need to bring that back to the fray when discussing Aretha and not just because there is a possibility we may lose her in a few years.
I'm not just talking about Aretha, but older acts in general, easpecially blues/jazz/R&B/soul/funk. You can probably find DVD's of Elvis Presley fishing or The Beatles sitting with a Guru. But black performers get ignored. Then if someone happens to have the footage (in 10th generation quality) and uploads it to Youtube, then they want to shut them down because of copyright infringement. It's not like whoever owns the footage was doing anything with it anyway, so they're not losing money.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton