Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story

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Actor: Various Artists
Brand: Uni
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Compilation, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 155 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Stax

DVD Reviews of Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story

DVD Review: Superbly done
Summary: 5 Stars

Few of the Stax artists were to my taste, but this is the best documentary I've ever seen about modern pop music. It is musically and historically fascinating. It tells the story of Stax clearly and concisely, eliciting relevant commentary from the most important living participants. Even if you are not a great fan of Stax music, this is well worth watching.

DVD Review: Stax Review
Summary: 4 Stars

Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story is informative and historical without being political or favorable to one or more performing artists portrayed in this DVD. I liked the presententation.

r.c.

DVD Review: An exciting story, told really well
Summary: 5 Stars

I am a big Stax-fan, but I was unprepared for how exciting and interesting the story of Stax Records is. And this documentary tells it extremely well.

DVD Review: more than i hoped for
Summary: 5 Stars

i learned a lot of history about stax and memphis. the footage was great as well as the music. super

DVD Review: the Memphis Sound
Summary: 5 Stars

The story of Stax Records is a great story. The rise and fall of a legendary record company that produced some of the greatest music during a time when there was no shortage of great music. Stax was one of those places where you had the right people at the right time. RESPECT YOURSELF is a cool documentary on a record company that was home to legends of American music including Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, The Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes, Eddie Floyd, Carla and Rufus Thomas, Albert King and Booker T. and the MGs. Check it out.

Description of Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story

Funky. Emotional. Raw. Powerful. That was soul music in the Civil Rights era; and Stax Records did it like no other. Stax quickly became a hit-making machine, producing a massive catalog of Top 100 records that defined the "Memphis Sound;" such as "Soul Man," "(Sittin On) The Dock Of The Bay," "Green Onions," "Midnight Hour," "I'll Take You There," "Respect Yourself," "Theme from Shaft" and many more. Stax also launched the careers of a who's-who of soul music greats: Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, The Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes, Eddie Floyd, Carla and Rufus Thomas, Albert King and Booker T. and the MGs, to name just a few. Now, with the release of this exciting new DVD, Grammy-nominated filmakers Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville ("Muddy Waters Can't Be Satisfied") present the first comprehensive look at Stax, the greatest soul label of all time.

The rise and fall of Memphis-based Stax Records remains one of the more compelling sagas in American popular music history. Founded in 1957 as Satellite Records, renamed in 1961 by blending the surnames of brother-sister co-founders Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton, Stax was Motown's funky Deep South counterpart. From its loose atmosphere came giants, including Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas and daughter Carla, Booker T and the MGs, Eddie Floyd, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Isaac Hayes, and the Bar-Kays. Recording in a converted movie theater, the earthy results were often as stunning and transcendent as anything from the equally loose Sun Records across town or Motown itself. While celebrating Stax, its triumphs and the genius of its artists and musicians, the documentary doesn't shy away from the label's woes, like unexamined fine print that gave Atlantic Records, who distributed Stax, the rights to classic Stax masters. While it resurged following its sale, through the successes of Isaac Hayes, the Shaft soundtrack and legendary Wattstax show, those triumphs were a prelude to the label's final, ugly collapse. The redemption comes by detailing Stax's legacy into the 21st century. The DVD extra consists of rehearsal footage from the rehearsals for a Stax reunion show. --Rich Kienzle

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