Monday, July 25, 2016

New York City by Dreams (1970)

Filmmaker Ken Shapiro created 1973's "The Groove Tube" along with Chevy Chase, Richard Belzer, writer Lane Sarasohn, musician Buzzy Linhart and others.  Here's a write-up on the film's history (and its origins in the Channel One experimental theater).  Shapiro seems to have disappeared from the face of the Earth, although his (alleged) daughters did a cute song-and-dance in SNL's 13th episode (Feb. 14, 1976).  But back to the film: my favorite segment is at the end, in which Nat King Cole's version of "Just You, Just Me" is faithfully re-recorded and then used as a laughable montage of NYC.  As a bonus, another segment -- the cop-show parody "The Dealers" -- uses a re-recording of Dreams' 1970 song "New York City."  Here's the original, complete with some great NYC-session-cat jamming.

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