Independent Lens - Season 4 Episode 2
“Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story,” a wry exploration of the industry in which record producers set amateurs' poems to music and record them (for a fee, of course). Included are interviews with producers, performers, observers and people who have submitted their poems for musical adaptation. And there's a sampling of the results (examples include “Non-Violent Tae-kwon-do Trooper” and “I Am a Ginseng Digger”). Most songs are “in one ear and out the other,” says musician Ellery Eskelin (the son of a song-poem “auteur”). But, he adds, “There's the 10 or 20 percent that are from another planet.”
First Air Date : 1999-08-09
Last Air date : 2025-04-08
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
Cast : Stanley Tucci
Crew : Roger Huynh (Lighting Technician)
Quality : 
Subtitles :
- Season 4 : Episode 12003-02-04
- Season 4 : Episode 22003-02-11
- Season 4 : Episode 32003-02-18
- Season 4 : Episode 42003-02-25
- Season 4 : Episode 52003-03-25
- Season 4 : Episode 62003-04-01
- Season 4 : Episode 72003-04-08
- Season 4 : Episode 82003-04-22
- Season 4 : Episode 92003-04-29
- Season 4 : Episode 102003-05-06
- Season 4 : Episode 112003-05-13
- Season 4 : Episode 122003-05-20
- Season 4 : Episode 132003-05-27
- Season 4 : Episode 142003-06-03
