“You don’t have to be an accomplished musician, you could play for three years and listen to records and become fairly good.
Series: Tube Time
Films and videos found online, inspired by teenagers.
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Appalachian Teen Clogging
Appalachian teen competitive clogging troupe, Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers, clogging, flat-footing, foot-stomping, buck dancing, or jigging it in someone’s living room, 1964.
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Young No Doubt
An unsigned No Doubt bounces through an early live appearance on The Gig.
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Marilyn Movie Maker
In 1955, Peter Mangone was a big-eared, fourteen-year-old Bronx boy with a deep love for Marilyn Monroe.
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Teenage Drag Queens
httpv://youtu.be/x7Ylpm6o478
“There’s glamour as a guy, there’s glamour as a girl, there’s glamour as a club kidgirl, as an elegant girl, any way I want, there’s always glamour.
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80 Blocks From Tiffanys
80 Blocks From Tiffanys is a 1979 documentary by Gary Weis following the lives of two gangs in the South Bronx, the Savage Nomads and Savage Skulls.
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Madonna Bar Mitzvah
httpv://youtu.be/I8XDo4lsa10
On March 14, 1992, Shaun Sperling stepped up to the bimah, read from the sacred torah, and completed his bar mitzvah, thus becoming a man according to Jewish custom.
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Eton Boys
httpv://youtu.be/r75ajf6UEhU
A documentary on the day in the life of an Eton College boy circa 1991.
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Welcome to Wildwood, NJ.
httpv://youtu.be/2eqCBCUawKY
Wildwood, NJ. 1994. Filmmakers Carol Weaks/Cassidy and Ruth Leitman took to the shore of “the last great American blue-collar carnival town” and documented the Jersey girls in all their glory.
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Rihanna at 15
httpv://youtu.be/bTtMXLe5z3Y
Yes, it’s Rihanna, age 15. Performing Mariah Carey’s ‘Hero’ to a receptive crowd.