Gregory Porter's Popular Voices Crooners & Co (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV Episode | 59 min | Documentary, History, Music

Gregory Porter's Popular Voices

Crooners & Co (Season 1, Episode 2)

TV Episode | 59 min | Documentary, History, Music

Gregory explores the soft, intimate art of crooning. Charting how the style that was born with the arrival of the microphone in the 1930s has developed into a haunting and abiding strand of contemporary music.

Director

Benjamin Whalley (directed by) (as Ben Whalley)

Cinematographer

Geoffrey Sentamu

Editor

Bradley Richards

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Release date

Nov 24, 2017 (United Kingdom)

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27 cast members

Name	Known for
Gregory Porter Self - Presenter Self - Presenter See fewer	Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Lenny Kaye Self Self See fewer	Noah (2014)
Clarke Peters Self - Actor Self - Actor See fewer	The Wire (2002)
Mary Crosby Self Self See fewer	The Ice Pirates (1984)
Emma Smith Self - Singer Self - Singer See fewer	BBC Proms (2012)
Iggy Pop Self Self See fewer	Cry-Baby (1990)
George Benson Self Self See fewer	Spiderhead (2022)
Josh Homme Self - Queens of the Stone Age (as Joshua Homme) Self - Queens of the Stone Age (as Joshua Homme) See fewer	End of Watch (2012)
Nelson George Self - Author Self - Author See fewer	Brooklyn Boheme (2011)
Engelbert Humperdinck Self Self See fewer	Game Night (I) (2018)
Tony Visconti Self Self See fewer	Black Rain (1989)
Beck Self Self See fewer	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
David Bowie Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Labyrinth (1986)
Nat 'King' Cole Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Nat King Cole Show (1956)
Bing Crosby Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	White Christmas (1954)
Marvin Gaye Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	High Fidelity (2000)
Little Richard Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Predator (1987)
Curtis Mayfield Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Armageddon (1998)
Anthony Newley Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)
Roy Orbison Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Love and Monsters (2020)
Patti Page Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Die Hard 2 (1990)
Elvis Presley Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Frank Sinatra Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	From Here to Eternity (1953)
Patti Smith Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Noah (2014)
Rudy Vallee Rudy Bronson (archive footage) Rudy Bronson (archive footage) See fewer	The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Sally Blane Jean Whitehall (archive footage) (uncredited) Jean Whitehall (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Forbidden Company (1932)
Larry Hagman J.R. Ewing (archive footage) (uncredited) J.R. Ewing (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Dallas (1978)