Dion Live DVD
Directed by David Niles Produced by Scott Worthington
Distributed by Image Entertainment
DVD # ID2601DQDVD
Copyright Dion Productions, Inc.
Released August 2004
Some of which was recorded live in concert at the Tropicana, Atlantic City, NJ
interspersed with Dion telling stories, singing and playing his Dion series Martin guitar
Fades into Walkin’ Blues (not from the concert)/I Wonder Why (concert)/I Let My Baby Do That (not from the concert) Dion is discussing influence of horns at the Apollo on his vocal sound, which leads into Ruby where he’s singing with his acoustic guitar cross cuts into live concert of Ruby Baby with Dion playing a Fender Telecaster electric guitar/Amazing Grace-Love Came to Me (concert)/Drip Drop (concert)/Ride with You (not from the concert)/A Teenager in Love (concert)/Blue Monday (concert)/The Truth Will Set You Free (not from the concert)/King of the New York Streets(concert)/Abraham, Martin & John (concert)/story (not in concert) about learning Jewish music from Cantor Rosenblatt leads into Donna the Prima Donna (concert)/Runaround Sue concert)/story about Jackie Burns and his tattoos (not in concert) into The Wanderer(concert).
Bonus Features:
Photo Gallery
One on One with Dion - bonus footage and music
Warm Up with Dion playing acoustic guitar/Drop Down Baby/talking about Hank Williams/Stop Drinkin’/Walkin’ Blues (full version)/talking about Willie the janitor and black music filtered through an Italian Neighborhood /talks about the Winter Dance Party Tour-sings a bit of Hug My Radiator/talks about Bo Diddley and plays Who Do You Love
Dion performing “Ruby Baby” with three other musicians on American Bandstand
Written Celebrity Testimonials (Lou Reed’s 1989 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction speech, Lou Reed, Paul Simon, Waylon Jennings, Bruce Springsteen & Bob Dylan
HEROES: GIANTS OF EARLY GUITAR ROCK CD/ DVD
Saguaro Road Records #M19667 ( September 30, 2008 )
Disc 2- DVD: Dion remembers his heroes
DVD produced by Jeffrey Peisch
1. Time Life DVD title The Wanderer track from the Heroes CD with photos of Dion and album covers of Ruby Baby, Wonder Where I’m Bound and Yo Frankie.
2. Dion talks about the concept for the Heroes album and sings and plays acoustic guitar on a blues song with the lyric “everybody rock & roll”.
3. Gene Vincent-Dion sings and plays some of Be-bop-a-lula Dion & Bob “Crow” Richardson talk about guitarist Cliff Gallup. Crow demonstrates on a Gretsch guitar Cliff’s style Dion & Crow perform some of Be-bop-a-lula.
4. Eddie Cochran- Dion & Crow perform part of Summertime Blues and tell stories about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent.
5. Elvis Presley- Dion & Crow play a portion of Jailhouse Rock
6. Carl Perkins- Dion tells very short story.
7. Johnny Cash Dion tells stories. Dion mentions that Johnny Cash liked Dion’s song Born to Cry.
8. Chuck Berry Dion & Crow play some Sweet Little Rcok & Roller. Dion quotes lyrics from Chuck Berry’s song Nadine.
9. Roy Orbison. Dion tells stories about Roy.He talks about going to Australia w/ Roy in 1960. They discuss songwriting techniques. Dion quotes the lyrics to Dion’s “Gotta Get to You” as an example of Dion’s songwriting style. Dion talks about his father who played opera records for Jackie Wilson & Roy. Dion heard Roy backstage in 1987 add a bridge to Dream Baby which Dion tried to replicate on this project.
10. Ricky Nelson- Dion talks about Ricky and guitarist james burton
11. Bill Haley- story
12. Everly Brothers- Dion talks about Phil and Don. Dion mentions the performance by Dion and Phil Everly of Dion’s song Queen of 59 on the TV program Soundstage.
13. Bo Diddley- Dion tells stories about Bo. Dion & Crow play Who do You Love. Crow talks and demonstrates Bo’s guitar style. Crow, Dion and bass player play Who do You Love. Dion performs some of the song Hoo Doo Man on acoustic guitar
14. Del Shannon- Dion talks about Del and how Dion & Del would love to sing country music.
15. Richie Valens- Dion performs some of “Come On Let’s Go”
16. Buddy Holly- Winter Dance Party story. Dion says he put Oh Boy on the album. Obviously that changed after the DVD taping and he did Rave On for the Heroes album and “Oh Boy” became a bonus track. Dion sings a bit of Oh Boy. Dion and Crow perform a portion of The Wanderer.