Independent Lens - Season 4 Episode 2 Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story
“Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story,” a wry exploration of the industry in which record producers set amateurs' poems to music and record them (for a fee, of course). Included are interviews with producers, performers, observers and people who have submitted their poems for musical adaptation. And there's a sampling of the results (examples include “Non-Violent Tae-kwon-do Trooper” and “I Am a Ginseng Digger”). Most songs are “in one ear and out the other,” says musician Ellery Eskelin (the son of a song-poem “auteur”). But, he adds, “There's the 10 or 20 percent that are from another planet.”
Year: 2025
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: PBS
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Cast: Stanley Tucci
First Air Date: Aug 09, 1999
Last Air date: May 19, 2025
Season: 26 Season
Episode: 527 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 6.50/10 by 15.00 users
Popularity: 10.5038
Language: English
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