IN COLOR VOL.2

Sound 9 Packaging 7 Performance 9 Video 9

Label: Mayflower MF 160
Source: Tracks 1-3: Hollywood Palace 3 June 64 (on cover 13 June), Tracks 4-8: Red Skelton Show 5 August 64 (bc 22 September 64); Tracks 9-13: Ed Sullivan Show 25 October 64; Tracks 14-16: Ready, Steady, Go! 20 November 64; Tracks 17,18: Shindig! 11 August (on cover 20 January) 65; Track 19: Top Of The Pops 11 March 65; Tracks 18-25: Shindig! 20 May 65, Tracks 26,27: Shindig! 6 November 65, Track 28: Shindig!16 September 65.
Format: 1 picture DVD 16:9, NTSC
Running time: 1.14.52
Sound / source: Mono PCM 48/16.
Packaging: Single Slimline Jewel Case with OBI
Features: Interactive menu
Video / source: Pro Shot, Historical Films Colorized first time ever.

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Track list

1. Dean Martin Introduction, 2. Not Fade Away, 3. I Just Wanna Make Love To You, 4. Introduction, 5. Tell Me, 6. Carol, 7. Sketch Comedy, 8. Itâ€™s All Over Now, 9. Opening, 10. Around And Around, 11. Commercial, 12. Time Is On My Side, 13. Ending, 14. Off The Hook, 15. Interview, 16. Little Red Rooster, 17. Oh Baby, 18. Down The Road Apiece, 19. The Last Time, 20. Introduction, 21. Little Red Rooster, 22. How Many More Years (Howlinâ€™ Wolf), 23. The Last Time, 24. Play With Fire, 25. (I Canâ€™t Get No) Satisfaction, 26. Good Times, 27. Mercy, Mercy, 28. (I Canâ€™t Get No) Satisfaction.

The review

Volume 2 of the series presents more vintage footage., starting with the Hollywood Palace that has varying quality, a bit too grainy and sound dropouts; more or less the same for the Red Skelton show where the band performs in a pre-set up stage very close together, but in playback. Excellent is indeed the Ed Sullivan show first performance by the Stones, including adverts and a reading about the battle of Balaclava, whose 110^th anniversary was on that same day (did we really need this here?); Ready Steady Go footage is great, despite playback singing, the band looks lively anyway maybe due to the colours that add up a new dimension to scenes we seen many times over the years. The interview focuses on the first Stones book ever released Our Own Story by Peter Goodman. Another fantastic set is the famous Shindig episode with Howlinâ€™Wolf, finally in full colour. For the curious the piano player on that show was a young Billy Preston. This is a nice looking colour show, but we shall always remember that the b&w footage was not certainly coming from a low generation recording, imagine what could be to get a master recording treated this way. Packaging is nice but there are lots of mistakes in the sources. Very interesting are Good Times, the Sam Cook song and Mercy Mercy performed at Shindig, the latter with Charlie Watts upfront, promo films rarely seen, let alone in colour. It is interesting to notice that in the May version of Satisfaction Brian Jones played an acoustic guitar, while in the /(censored) September version he was on an electrical guitar.

So, this is yet another interesting chapter in the saga of Stones colorized films.