Katie Puckrik
I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock (2019)
Miniseries
Offers a reappraisal of "yacht rock", a critically neglected era of music popularized by a boom in FM radio stations and its smooth sound. The gleaming yacht sound was, in part, always defined by a group of LA-based session players and composers who worked across a range of yacht bands, informing their specific tone and level of musicianship. Some of these artists talk about the yacht phenomenon and being part of the scene back in the day. The series explores how the music adapted from the the bearded sensitivity of the '70s to the bombast of the MTV '80s, and how a satirical online drama contributed to a revival of interest and enthusiasm for these sounds in the digital era.
Released June 14, 2019
Episode 59 min
None+
Genres: Documentary, Music
Keywords: tmdb.music, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.music-documentary, imdb.yacht-rock, imdb.southern-california, imdb.studio-musician + 26 more, imdb.session-musician, imdb.sensitive-man, imdb.yacht, imdb.rollerskating, imdb.music-business, imdb.music-industry, imdb.record-business, imdb.record-industry, imdb.california, imdb.los-angeles-california, imdb.band, imdb.rock-band, imdb.rock-music, imdb.musician, imdb.rock-musician, imdb.hollywood, imdb.hollywood-california, imdb.hollywood-hills, imdb.pop-music, imdb.west-coast-of-the-united-states, imdb.convertible, imdb.convertible-automobile, imdb.driving-a-convertible, imdb.cruising-in-a-convertable, imdb.first-person-title, imdb.11-word-title
Production Companies: IWC Media
Network: BBC Four
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Episode 1
Katie Puckrik begins a voyage through a halcyon period of Los Angeles studio craft when studio-based artists like The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan and Hall & Oates produced the smoothest R&B and married it to adult themes about longing, aspiration and melancholy.
June 14, 2019, midnight
S1E2 - Episode 2
Katie charts the progress of yacht rock through the 1980s, when it became the soundtrack to America in the Reagan era, and when artists like Toto, Hall & Oates and George Benson created a technicolor second wave of a super smooth sound.
June 21, 2019, midnight
Network: BBC Four
Episode Runtime: 59 min.
Season Runtime: 59 min.
Released: June 14, 2019
Last Air Date: June 21, 2019, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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