Meet the Raisins! The Story of the California Raisins

Just like Spinal Tap before them, The California Raisins receive a retrospective documentary and live interview of their musical rise to fame, including snippets of their hit songs. Among some of their influences in the industry are Stevie Wonder, Little Richard, and Gladys Knight with hit songs like 'Signed, Sealed and Delivered', 'Cool Jerk', and 'Sh-Boom'. The four band members include brothers A. C. and Beebop Arborman, their cousin Red Raisin and friend Stamford Thompson.

I enjoyed the way the documentary is setup like a VH1 retro, and the interview seemed to flow as if there was no script (even though there obviously was one written for the film). Great writing skills. And kudos to the people who came up with the original idea to make the commercials for the California raisins on which this special was based. Pure genius. It's definitely an advertising campaign that will be remembered. It's already been close to 40 years and the Raisins are still well known.

They popularized the saying "heard it through the grapevine" from lyrics they sang in advertising, and it was like time warping back to the late 1980s when I watched this special and some commercials again recently. The nostalgia factor was off the charts awesome, and it was fun to share the Raisins with my own son and a new generation, even if it did seem strange to him to see singing and dancing raisins.