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- Popular music performers from the late 1950s and early 1960s reunite in concert at the historic Benedum Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA for a PBS fund-raising special in the My Music series.
- Singer Peter Marshall hosts a look back at the bands and singers of the big band era of the 1930s-1950s.
- Artists and groups from the 1960s perform.
- Host/Co-Creator George Davison, along with Field Reporters Greg Costantino, Tamara Krinsky, Darieth Chisolm, David Carmine, and Jackie Long, embark on a worldwide journey to uncover innovators on the cutting edge of tomorrow's technology.
- In an acclaimed career spanning over half a century of timeless entertainment, husband and wife Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme represented the very best in popular music, starting with youthful pop hits in the 1950s and 1960s (Go Away Little Girl, Blame It On The Bossa Nova) followed by their Grammy® and Emmy®-winning triumphs focusing on the Great American Songbook. Their musician son David Lawrence (High School Musical) hosts STEVE LAWRENCE and EYDIE GORME: MEMORIES OF MY MOM AND DAD, featuring music-variety television performances from the 1960s and 1970s along with remembrances and tributes from longtime family friend Carol Burnett and singer Michael Feinstein.
- The music of popular composer Burt Bacharach, spanning the 1960s through the 1980s, is celebrated with vintage television footage featuring the original artists who made hits out of the classic songs.
- For over half a century, Grammy-winning artist Dionne Warwick has achieved legendary status with a string of hits that remain popular among audiences of all ages. This is the story of her life in song as recalled by Dionne along with friends and artistic collaborators.
- With knowledgeable insight and a bit of humor, David Ogden Stiers hosts a second survey of classical masterpieces in the My Music series featuring visual interpretations of several familiar compositions.
- Whoopi Goldberg introduces vintage 1970s and early 1980s soul-pop favorites with original footage by the artists who made the songs hits.
- For over 50 years, Perry Como ranked as one of America's most successful and beloved entertainers. A big band singer in the late 1930s, a radio star in the 1940s and then a TV headliner into the 1990s. Perry was a warm and welcome presence in tens of millions of households for six decades, charting over 100 hit songs along the way.
- This special celebrates the centennial of the timeless and inescapable artist Nat King Cole using rarely seen footage from his variety show and other archival material with full performances of his greatest hits and cherished standards.
- Selection of some of the greatest rock and pop music performances of the 1960s from "The Ed Sullivan Show".
- Country pop legends unite to perform their biggest and best-loved hit recordings from the 1950s, 60s and 70s in this 'My Music' special on PBS.
- Danny Aiello hosts a look at the themes of the pop music of the 1950s and 60s that had an Italian flavor. His emphasis is on the ways the music was part of family life, reflecting family values. We watch Perry Como, Julius LaRosa, Connie Francis, Rosie Clooney, and others perform one or two songs. Some are in black and white from the 1950s, others are in color at a recent "My Music" concert. We see LaRosa young and old, Frankie Laine and Tony Martin in their 90s, and a vintage appearance by Domenico Modugno on Ed Sullivan's "Toast of the Town." The program includes fund-raising breaks for PBS and Keely Smith looking bored while Louis Prima goes over the top.
- Rock, pop and soul artists from the 1960s perform some of their big hits on stage with new performances shot in the 2000s.