[johnfowles]

Google alerts today brought me an interesting comment about a new DVD at:-
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-12-06/music_dvdtip3.php
it is certainly headed
DVD Tip
SHAKIN' ALL OVER (EMI)
Oh yeah!
I tried googling for it but really only found the original book at
Amazon.com:...">Amazon.com:..." />Amazon.com:... Anyway the nowtoronto article had this to say:-
This music documentary based on Nicholas Jennings's book Before The Gold Rush on the rise of Canadian popular music in the 60s and 70s aired on CBC last year, and makes its way to home video this week. Unfortunately, this is still very much a whitewashed version of the story that only alludes to the important contributions of black R&B artists, particularly on the Yonge Street strip in Toronto.
While it's great to see brief snippets of the Ugly Ducklings, the Haunted, Joni Mitchell, Lighthouse and others, as well as hear the key players discuss their influences, there's far too much screen time wasted on pointless commentary from woefully inarticulate contemporary artists like Hawksley Workman, Matthew Good and Sarah Slean, who can barely put a sentence together, let alone offer some insight into the work of performers they barely know. And who really needs to hear Margo Timmins groaning through American Woman when explosive footage of Jackie Shane tearing up the Sapphire Tavern backed by Frank Motley and the Hitchhikers would've been far more exciting?
The bonus material consists of longer solo interview segments with Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman, Gordon Lightfoot, Bruce Cockburn, Sylvia Tyson and a few others, which prove to be quite revealing and should've been part of the original broadcast.
NOW | DECEMBER 6 - 12, 2007 | VOL. 27 NO. 14

I am naturally wondering if the DVD has really been released and if so is there as hoped for more of Gord on it than was broadcast??
I did some more determined googling at http://www.google.ca searching for "emi dvd"
and found
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Lowdown/2006/01/30/1418246-ca.html
which said back in January last year when the 2 hour show was aired
"EMI Music Canada will release a DVD and companion CD based on "Shakin' All Over," the two-hour documentary about Canadian pop music in the '60s that airs tonight (Jan. 30 2006) on CBC Television at 8 p.m. ET.
It's going to have a life beyond the TV special," says noted Toronto music journalist Nicholas Jennings, who wrote the book "Before the Gold Rush -- Flashbacks To The Dawn Of The Canadian Sound" (Penguin Books), on which the film is based, and served as the writer and associate producer of "Shakin' All Over."
Details have yet to be worked out with EMI such as track listing and additional content, but Jennings says the DVD and CD should be out this year, "maybe the spring, maybe the summer"
Perhaps one of you Canucks could contact Mr Jennings and remind him that it is now winter 2007!!
I refused to give up so I also searched at
http://www.emimusic.ca/
and found

VARIOUS ARTISTSShakin' All Over: Canadian Pop Music In The 60's - DVD Video
Available Dec. 11, 2007
EMI Canada
but there is a stoopid error on that site because clicking the "shakin" picture opens up an entirely different various artists item
Various Artists
"Halo 3 Soundtrack"

shopEMI price: $15.49 CDN

Availability:
NOT IN STOCK: This product is not in stock. We hope to be able to make this product available within one to five weeks.
It appears to be only CD anyway and had this forecast

Expected Release Date: December 31, 2008
at http://www.shopemi.com/comingsoon.asp
I fared no better so perhaps a local phone call to:-
(905) 624-2246
is in order (where 905 is greater Toronto)
rereading the earlier postings here I am still very keen to see a pair of television broadcasts. the fantastic March 1968 CBC showcase

that produced the ultra rare performance of "Face Of A Thousand People" and a copy of this seems to exist in the CBC museum
and a very dynamic show on BBC2 TV back in either 1971or 1972 that included a fantastic rendition of Farewell To Nova Scotia and Miguel