After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. I have this VHS in the 1983 White Clamshell Release. Going forward, only the certainly non-family musicals would draw great attention and reviews (Cabaret, Chicago, etc.). The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a rally song for President Grover Cleveland at the party's 1888 convention. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. When Cleveland wins the popular vote, but Harrison the presidency due to the electoral college votes, the Dakotans (particularly the feuding young couple) resolve to live together in peace, and Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas before he leaves office (along with two Democrat-voting states, evening the gains for both parties). Please enable JavaScript if you would like to watch videos on this site. After hearing the song, Disney decided to add more songs to the film and turn it into a musical. They are also opinionated politically, but their opinions do differ. The film reunited Lesley Ann Warren and John Davidson as the romantic leads in a Disney musical, having previously been paired in The Happiest Millionaire. The Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one (so as to send four Republican senators to Washington rather than two). A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country. This movie has great songs, dance numbers, a cantankerous, politically opinionated grandfather, a musically talented family with eight kids, and the story of the Dakota Territory statehood and a presidential election in which the winner had far fewer actual votes than the loser, with the electoral college choosing Benjamin Harrison (R) over Grover Cleveland (D-Incumbent). The Family Band Album was very nice. And I was so happy when I found out that this was coming out on DVD. The last thing I want to see in a Disney musical is so much politics. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Originally planned as a two-part television show titled, The Family Band, the project was based on a book by Laura Bower Van Nuys. The Shermans wrote the song "The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band", which was ultimately used as the title of the motion picture. Mother Janet Blair has a hard and fast rule, no politics be discussed when they enter the house. Walt Disney had asked the Sherman Brothers for their help on the project, feeling the story was too flat. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. A teenage boy is cursed with periodically turning into an sheepdog. When Cleveland wins the popular vote, but Harrison the presidency due to the electoral college votes, the Dakotans (particularly the feuding young couple) resolve to live together in peace, and Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas before he leaves office (along with two Democrat-voting states, evening the gains for both parties). This is one of the great Disney live action films. In fact Brennan has whipped up a campaign song for Grover Cleveland in his re-election bid in 1888. Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Lesley Ann Warren, and John Davidson head the cast. Laura and Joe are having romantic fun. Ya, Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2020. Cleveland opposed this plan, refusing to refer to Congress the plan to organize the Dakotas this way. There, Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas, as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as … Trying to fit in, ... See full summary », Dexter Riley and his friends accidently discover a new chemical mixed with a cereal seems to give anyone temporary superhuman strength. The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band Trailer, Feature Commentary With Lesley Ann Warren, John Davidson, And Richard Sherman. In the end, more ballots are cast for Cleveland, but Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison nonetheless wins the presidency—the first time in the nation's history that the Electoral College reverses the popular vote. For even more, visit our Family Entertainment Guide. This movie brings back such fond memories. But politics and the election of 1888 between Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison threaten everybody's happiness.Family Band holds up well today as a fine family film and one gets a little history lesson thrown in for the bargain.