All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music — Season 1, Episode 6: Rude Songs (Vaudeville and Music Hall)
Documentary • 55 min • 1 season, 17 episodes • ★ 6.5/10
Episode synopsis
The history of suggestive songs and their vaudeville and music hall beginnings, with artists featured including Judy Garland, Liberace, Mae West, Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich.
About All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
A 17-part television documentary series on the history of modern pop music covering some of the many different genres that have fallen under the label of "popular music" between the mid-19th century and 1976, including folk, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, vaudeville and music hall, musical theatre, country, swing, jazz, blues, R&B, rock 'n' roll and others.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Introductory Programme
- E2God's Children
- E3I Can Hypnotise 'Dis Nation (Ragtime)
- E4Jungle Music (Jazz)
- E5Who's That Comin'? (The Blues)
- E7Always Chasin' Rainbows (Tin Pan Alley)
- E8Diamonds As Big As the Ritz (The Musical)
- E9Swing That Music! (Swing)
- E10Good Times (Rhythm and Blues)
- E11Making Moonshine (Country Music)
- E12Go Down, Moses! (Folk 'War Songs')
- E13Hail! Hail! Rock n Roll (Rock n Roll)