Re: [bomp] Let The Good Times Roll? (CBS-FM saved my life)

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http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1985806&domain_id=1877&meta_id=3

you can also view the orig film ON film through NY Pub Lib

cbs: RIP

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Immortal Porpoises" <immortalporpoises@earthlink.net>
To: <bomp@xnet2.com>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 6:29 PM
Subject: [bomp] Let The Good Times Roll? (CBS-FM saved my life)


>
> The other day I unburdened my soul following the sudden death of the NY
> institution WCBS-FM. For anyone who was keeping score, and there were a
> couple of you, the next major step in my rock & roll early childhood
> education after discovering the oldies station was a chaperoned trip to 
> see
> Let The Good Times Roll, an experience many of us also seemed to have
> shared.
>
> So here's the update, 33 years down the road. Cousin Brucie is getting his
> own Sirius show, I can still hear all my fave AM jocks on those internet 
> air
> check sites, and the dumpy motel in the story, which isn't dumpy any more,
> not only still exists, but is very near my current home in New Paltz and I
> was just there in April on the occasion of my local volunteer fire 
> deparment
> (to which I belong) annual installation dinner.
>
> But there is always a but. So here it is.
>
> BUT -- Is it possible that Let The Good Times Roll has never been released
> on video or DVD? I just got off my library system's website, through which 
> I
> order tons of movies, and they don't have it. Neither does Blockbuster or 
> my
> local "hip" video store. I just checked IMDB and they don't have any info 
> on
> a video or DVD. I'm sure this movie has been on television, and of the
> hundreds of concerts available on video it's kind of hard to imagine that
> one this groundbreaking and successful (the movie established the
> marketplace for the several decades' worth of Original Rock & Roll 
> Revivals)
> is still moldering in some vault.
>
> Does anybody know how to get this film?
>
> Steve
>
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