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DVD-6677 - Shakin' All Over - January 30, 2006
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Recorded By: Mister T. Collection: The Mister T. DVD Collection Medium Type: DVD Uploaded Format: DVD ISO DVD-6677 - Shakin' All Over - January 30, 2006 Shakin' All Over CBC 1/30/2006 TORONTO (CP) - Long before MuchMusic, rock FM and Canadian content rules, Canada had a vibrant pop music scene and as quaint as it seems today, it made its national presence known on television more than on radio. While everyone knows the Guess Who, Neil Young and Ronnie Hawkins, who remembers such Canadian groups as Mashmakhan, the Collectors, the Stormy Clovers and the Staccatos? TV also had its then-hip counterparts to Dick Clark's American Bandstand in CBC's It's Happening and Let's Go and CTV's After Four. It's all revisited in Shakin' All Over, an ambitious documentary airing on CBC next Monday night, based on rock critic Nick Jennings's seminal book Before the Gold Rush: Flashbacks to the Dawn of the Canadian Sound. The producers have come up with a rich cache of clips from CBC film and video archives. Jennings concedes the country's music scene changed drastically in January 1971 when the CRTC introduced rules requiring radio stations to play 30 per cent Canadian content. But even before Canad…
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Shakin' All Over
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The Mister T. DVD Collection, TV Recording, television broadcast, television, VHS, Canadian pop music scene, CBC documentary, CRTC rules, Canadian, documentary, Beaver Bin, The Guess Who, Mashmakhan group, Stormy Clovers, Staccatos group, Nick Jennings, Before Gold Rush, Shakin' All Over
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