All Episodes of I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock
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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...
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Four
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Season 1
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Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/14/2019
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.
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Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/21/2019
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.
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