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John Travolta traded in disco duds for a cowboy hat in this corny love story about a working man who breaks up with his girlfriend (Debra Winger), then plays out their relationship's turmoil inside a huge honky-tonk called Gilley's. The story essentially parallels Travolta's prior hit film, Saturday Night Fever, in its blend of ordinary life, incomplete relationships, and personal pride channeled into niche stardom at a neighborhood club. But for all its regional flavor, Urban Cowboy never enjoys the immediacy and urgency of Fever, and after awhile you can't help but feel bemused by the macho silliness of ongoing "mechanical bull" competitions (basically a faux rodeo device only brave men can master at great chiropractic risk). The Travolta-Winger relationship is pure soap, as well. But this film really is a kind of time-capsule piece on a lot of levels--notably Travolta's career and late '70s Western kitsch--and while it's silly, it's certainly not disagreeable. --Tom Keogh
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Urban Cowboy
Starring: Brooke Alderson , Sheryl Briedel , Barry Corbin , Steve Chambers , and Charlie Daniels Director: James Bridges Manufacturer: Paramount ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005JKVA Release Date: 2002-10-08 |
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John Travolta traded in disco duds for a cowboy hat in this corny love story about a working man who breaks up with his girlfriend (Debra Winger), then plays out their relationship's turmoil inside a huge honky-tonk called Gilley's. The story essentially parallels Travolta's prior hit film, Saturday Night Fever, in its blend of ordinary life, incomplete relationships, and personal pride channeled into niche stardom at a neighborhood club. But for all its regional flavor, Urban Cowboy never enjoys the immediacy and urgency of Fever, and after awhile you can't help but feel bemused by the macho silliness of ongoing "mechanical bull" competitions (basically a faux rodeo device only brave men can master at great chiropractic risk). The Travolta-Winger relationship is pure soap, as well. But this film really is a kind of time-capsule piece on a lot of levels--notably Travolta's career and late '70s Western kitsch--and while it's silly, it's certainly not disagreeable. --Tom KeoghCustomer Reviews:
LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES.......2007-04-11
Urban Cowboy Movie on DVD must have.......2007-03-10
Great movie.......2007-01-08
WORTH A MILLION STARS!!!.......2006-12-17
A terrific li'l album that evokes a fun period and flick.......2006-08-26
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Kenny Rogers - Live by Request
Starring: Kenny Rogers Manufacturer: Dream Catcher ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005QCWU Release Date: 2001-10-23 |
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Though a little older and a little more gruff, Kenny Rogers is still a charmer who knows how to rope in an audience and keep them happily captive. Kenny Rogers: Live by Request (2001) is an hour and a half of the country artist's greatest hits and audience favorites backed by a tight and smooth band. Starting with an upbeat "Islands in the Stream" (solo, no Dolly), he sets the pace for a lively, friendly show. Following the usual format of A&E's Live by Request series, fans from North America call in to talk to Kenny and ask him to sing a song for them. Seventeen songs are featured, including "Daytime Friends," "Lucille," "Lady," "Coward of the Country," "We've Got Tonight," "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town," "Love Will Turn You Around," and, of course, "The Gambler." Kenny fans will adore this easygoing performance of popular tunes. --Dana Van NestCustomer Reviews:
Live version. Either you will love it or hate it. This is my second favorite Kenny Rogers album........2006-10-13
Kenny Rogers - Live by Request.......2006-08-30
If you love Kenny...........2003-02-03
Warm and perfect.......2002-11-23
An Absolute Must for Kenny Rogers Fans!.......2002-02-11
The filming angles and closeness make you feel just like you are there...not like some in-concert videos that are far away or grainy. Like I said, if you are a Kenny Rogers fan, this DVD is for you!
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DVD Dance Pack Collection (Grease Rockin' Rydell Edition / Saturday Night Fever / Footloose / Flashdance / Urban Cowboy)
Starring: John Travolta , Olivia Newton-John , Stockard Channing , Jeff Conaway , and Barry Pearl Director: Randal Kleiser , Adrian Lyne , and Herbert Ross Manufacturer: Paramount ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000HWZ4KC Release Date: 2006-10-10 |
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This 5 pack contains Grease Rockin Rydell Edition, Flashdance, Footloose SCE, Saturday Night Fever, and Urban Cowboy.Customer Reviews:
Fun, Fun, Fun.......2007-05-25
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Chris LeDoux Video Hits
Starring: Chris LeDoux Manufacturer: Capitol ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001Z36RI Release Date: 2004-05-04 |
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Not what I expected.......2006-07-02
Video Hits.......2005-10-24
Much too little.......2005-10-17
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Live at Billy Bob's Texas
Starring: Gatlin Brothers Manufacturer: Smith Music Group ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0009A3ZXA Release Date: 2005-05-10 |
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Led by Larry Gatlin, the Gatlin Brothers are one of the most popular country groups in the music's history. Adopting the close harmony vocal techniques of the Louvins and the Everlys to the highly polished country-pop era, Larry and the Gatlin Brothers scored a number of hits during the '70s and '80s. Often, the group walked the line between intricate, inventive country and pure commercial material, which resulted in strong sales. Throughout the '80s, the Gatlin Brothers ran up a string of 15 Top 40 hits, including "Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer to You)," "Denver," "The Lady Takes the Cowboy Everytime," and "She Used to Be Somebody's Baby."Customer Reviews:
disappointed gatlin bros fan.......2005-06-22
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In Concert
Starring: Crystal Gayle Manufacturer: White Star ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0006SSQ2U Release Date: 2005-01-25 |
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One of music's best song stylists, Crystal Gayle, in an unforgettable sixty minutes of music which includes her popular Don't It Make Your Brown Eyes Blue, as well as Half the Way, Talking In Your Sleep, When I Dream, Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For and more. .In 1999 "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" was recognized by ASCAP as being one of the ten most performed songs of the 20th century. This groundbreaking HBO concert special has been viewed by millions.While still in school, she signed her first recording contact. Her debut single, "I've Cried The Blue Right Out Of My Eyes," was written by Loretta Lynn (already a star) and reached the Top 20 on the national country music charts. Three more singles were released over the next three yearsall making an impact with radio and listeners. What next emerged was uniquely Crystal. Her warm, resonant vocal styling, individual as a fingerprint, captured the imagination and attention of audiences not usually tuned in and turned on by country music. There was an undeniable sophistication and a beguiling charm about her look and her voice that was a memorable imprint on every audienceevery listener. Her first album project began a roll out of smash singles to come. "Wrong Road Again," (her first of many hit singles with producer Allen Reynolds) became her debut Top 10 record. "I'll Get Over You," became her first #1 single. By her fourth album, "We Must Believe In Magic," Crystal Gayle became the first female artist in country music history to achieve platinum album sales. Driving the engine of the album was the song that was to become her enduring career signature song to date: "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." "Brown Eyes" opened the world's eyes to Crystal Gayle. She became a household name in homes, grand and small, from Louisville to Leningrad.Customer Reviews:
In Concert - Crystal Gale.......2006-08-28
Sweet sparkly Crystal.......2006-02-04
Nostalgic.......2005-04-04
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The Travolta Collection (Saturday Night Fever / Grease / Urban Cowboy)
Starring: John Travolta , Karen Lynn Gorney , Barry Miller , Joseph Cali , and Paul Pape Director: John Badham , Randal Kleiser , and James Bridges Manufacturer: Paramount ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006CFJI Release Date: 2002-10-08 |
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The Travolta DVD Collection collects three films from the beginning of John Travolta's career after he was plucked from the cast of the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. In Saturday Night Fever (1977), Travolta plays Tony Manero, a 19-year-old Italian American from Brooklyn who works in a humble paint store and lives with his family. After dark, he becomes the polyester-clad stallion of the local nightclub. Director John Badham captures the electric connection between music and dance, and also the desperation that lies beneath Tony's ambitions to break out of his limited world. The soundtrack, which spawned a massively successful album, is dominated by the disco classics of the Bee Gees, including "Staying Alive" and "Night Fever." The Oscar ®-nominated Travolta, in his first starring role, is incandescent and unbelievably confident, and his dancing is terrific. Oh, and the white suit rules.In 1978, Travolta went on to Grease, an adaptation of the Broadway musical. With vibrant colors, unforgettably campy and catchy tunes (like "Greased Lightning," "Summer Nights," and "You're the One That I Want"), and fabulously choreographed musical numbers, the '50s-nostalgia story about the romantic dilemmas experienced by a group of graduating high school seniors remains fresh, fun, and incredibly imaginative. Travolta struts, swaggers, sings, and dances appropriately, while Olivia Newton-John's portrayal of virgin innocence is the only decent acting she's ever done.
Travolta traded in disco duds for a cowboy hat in Urban Cowboy (1980), a corny love story about a workingman who breaks up with his girlfriend (Debra Winger), then plays out their relationship's turmoil inside a huge honky-tonk called Gilley's. The story essentially parallels Saturday Night Fever in its blend of ordinary life, incomplete relationships, and personal pride channeled into niche stardom at a neighborhood club, and the film is really a time capsule on a lot of levels--notably Travolta's career and late-'70s Western kitsch.
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travolta.......2003-07-20
how many times people can watch the same movies.......2002-11-05
Travolta In His Prime.......2002-10-09
Grease has finally made its debut on the DVD format. The movie is a long time favorite thanks to countless airings on television that constantly brought in new fans of the movie who weren't even born when the movie was released in 1978. Adapting the immensely popular Broadway show to the big screen brought forth some changes. The theater production had a raunchier edge to it with much more overt ... nature. The film tones that side quite a bit, but it makes up for it in sheer exuberance. John Travolta was the hottest star in Hollywood at the time with the success of Saturday Night Fever on the big screen and Welcome Back Kotter on television. He is perfectly cast as Danny Zuko, the likable greaser and leader of the T-Birds who falls for the wholesome Sandy Olsen played by Olivia Newton-John in her big screen debut. Ms. Newton-John can clearly handle the singing side of the role, but her acting and dancing are suspect at best. Jeff Conaway adds the right amount of toughness as Kenicke and Stockard Channing is excellent as Rizzo, the tough as nails head of the Pink Ladies (Ms. Channing's singing is better than Ms. Newton-John's acting, but not by much and seems oddly out of place as a teenager). The films is full of actors and singers who were popular in the 50's like Frankie Avalon, Sid Caesar, Edd Byrnes and Eve Arden. Grease is extremely entertaining and pure fun to watch and is really the last success old fashioned movie musical Hollywood produced.
Saturday Night Fever was not only the film that made John Travolta a superstar, but also it defined the style of a generation. Disco started to infiltrate the music scene as early as 1974 (with hits like "Rock Your Baby" by George McRae). Discos were wildly popular in New York City by 1976 and they provided an outlet for the youth of the city to escape reality and dance away the night amid drinks, ... Inspired by an article in the New Yorker magazine that described the scene, producer Robert Stigwood wanted to capture it in a movie. He realized the music is what drove the discos and he recruited his biggest act, The Bee Gees to record songs for the film. This proved ingenious as the soundtrack and the movie are inseparable. Although the band does not physically appear in the film, they are the co-stars of the film with Mr. Travolta. The film and soundtrack became huge hits in late 1977 and into 1978 and disco moved from the urban cities to the heartland of America. The film itself seems a bit dated, but it is saved from being a complete period piece by Mr. Travolta's superb acting. He completely embodies the character of Brooklynite Tony Manero who works in a paint store during the week and lives to dance at the local disco on the weekends. At work and at home, he's a nobody, but at the disco, he is the king. The dancing scenes are classics and often imitated, but Mr. Travolta is the real deal on the dance floor. Mr. Travolta earned the first of his two Best Actor Academy Award nominations for the film and it was richly deserved. The soundtrack went on to spend 24 weeks at number one, spawn 4 number one singles and for a time was the biggest selling album in music history.
Urban Cowboy is an attempt to replicate the success John Travolta had with the disco scene with the country music scene that was burgeoning at the time in 1980. Whereas Mr. Travolta was perfectly cast as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever, he seems out of place as Bud in this film. The characters in the film, much like those in Saturday Night Fever, as working stiffs who escape the monotony of their lives by going to a bar to dance, drink and ride a mechanical bull. Instead of a discotheque, the main hang out is a honky tonk called Gilley's (which is a real bar owned by country music singer Mickey Gilley). The film revolves around the relationship of Bud and Sissy (played by a young Debra Winger) who meet at Gilley's. They fall in love, get married, separate as each go on dalliances with others and in the end get back together. While the film has some decent moments, the bull riding does get old after a while, a very fine soundtrack, it ultimately comes off as an attempt to recreate Saturday Night Fever and it doesn't succeed.
Great Overview of Early Travolta.......2002-10-07
The best of "Young Travolta".......2002-10-01
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In Concert
Starring: Mickey Gilley Manufacturer: Cleopatra ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0009VI4KS Release Date: 2005-07-12 |
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IN CONCERT (GILLEY,MICKEY)
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The 25 Year Collection: Around The World
Starring: The Bellamy Brothers Manufacturer: Bellamy Brothers ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00062132Q Release Date: 2004-09-28 |
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The Bellamy Brothers have become one of the most popular and enduring acts in country music. After getting their start in pop and soul music, they crossed over into country with a sound that incorporated elements of rock, reggae, and soul, formulating a style that was uniquely theirs. After topping the charts in 1976 with the single "Let Your Love Flow," the duo released a steady stream of hits throughout the late 70s and 80s, including 15 number one singles, and 40 chart records. THE 25 YEAR COLLECTION celebrates the Bellamys' continued success and wide fan base throughout the world by following them on tour through Switzerland, England, Italy, Germany, Japan, and more.Customer Reviews:
Very Disappointing !!!.......2007-06-27
Bellamy Bros.......2007-03-07
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DVD Dance Pack: Saturday Night Fever / Footloose / Urban Cowboy / Flashdance / Grease
Starring: Jennifer Beals , John Travolta , and Olivia Newton-John Manufacturer: Paramount ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00065GX7I Release Date: 2002-10-08 |
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Awsome.......2006-08-09
Great deal!.......2005-09-26
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