I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock

Miniseries

2019 · 2 episodes · 1h 57m in all

Episodes

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   1. Episode 1

   14 Jun 2019 · 59 min

   Katie Puckrik begins a voyage through a halcyon period of Los Angeles studio craft when studio-based artists like The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan and Hall & Oates produced the smoothest R&B and married it to adult themes about longing, aspiration and melancholy.

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   2. Episode 2

   21 Jun 2019 · 58 min

   Katie charts the progress of yacht rock through the 1980s, when it became the soundtrack to America in the Reagan era, and when artists like Toto, Hall & Oates and George Benson created a technicolor second wave of a super smooth sound.