About Us

Reelin' In The Years Productions LLC, founded in 1992, is the world's largest and most-respected source of music footage, representing 35 television and film archives around the globe, encompassing more than 12,000 hours of unique music-related material.

We exclusively represent the rights to all of the music footage contained within these archives and are able to license that material to all forms of media. Our music footage library runs the gamut from intense, full-length concerts to in-studio live and lip-sync performances. This constitutes the lion's share of our archive. However, we also possess many interviews with the performers, as well as a wide variety of b-roll footage. In addition to our visual library, we also have over 2,000 concerts and in-studio live performances recorded for radio that span the last 60 years.

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Most of the content in our library has never been seen or heard by the world at large; our library is unique in the fact that most of the performances contained within were only ever broadcast once or twice in the country of origin. In many cases these performances were never broadcast at all.

Here is a small sampling of how our footage has been used:

Feature film- Vanilla Sky- featuring Tom Cruise (2002)
Music video- U2- "Window In The Skies" (2007)
Documentaries- Martin Scorsese's The Blues (2003), The Who- Amazing Journey (2008), Lennon In NYC (2010)
TV Commercials- numerous Time-Life infomercials (1998-2011)
Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies (1990-2011)
Television programs- Oprah!, E! Entertainment, VH1

Reelin' In The Years Productions is happy to work with any and all parties to officially license and release both audio and video performances from within our unique and massive archive. We are very clearance conscience and we insist that all parties are on-board for any potential audio/video releases that utilize our material. With more material being discovered each day we are constantly expanding our horizons of what we can present to the world of home video and audio entertainment.

As well as licensing thousands of short clips for various projects, Reelin' In The Years Productions has also been involved in creating original programs and releasing whole performances from our archive on DVD. In 2003 we released The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 Volume One and Volume Two. Issued to unanimous critical acclaim, the series was nominated for a GRAMMY Award in the category of Best Long Form Music Video, and received The Blues Foundation 's prestigious Keeping The Blues Alive (KBA) award in the Film category. In addition to the American Folk Blues Festival series (now at 4 volumes), we have produced a multi-platinum selling Motown series (Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles), the highly-acclaimed Jazz Icons series (more than 30 titles) and the ongoing British Invasion series. For complete information about all of our DVD projects, visit our DVD page.

Industry Quotes

"Reelin' In The Years' archive is staggering in its variety and depth. David Peck is a vital contributor to the unique films exhibited at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum."

Terry Stewart,
President and C.E.O. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

"I am impressed with the depth of the Reelin' In The Years archive, the jazz footage in particular."

Charlie Watts
The Rolling Stones

"What turns you on, baby? The Electric Prunes? The Yardbirds? The Pretty Things? The Kinks? There's only one go-to cat. David Peck is the man. He's gone, he is the coolest of the cool. I mean he swings, baby. You dig?"

Little Steven

"I don't think I've met anyone more knowledgeable than David Peck when it comes to rare and classic music archive, and certainly nobody more enthusiastic. Reelin' In The Years has one of the most extensive catalogues in the business and is my first port of call when sourcing footage for documentaries. Every transaction is professional, yet friendly and uncomplicated. Always a real pleasure to do business with."

Melissa Roy
Eagle Rock Entertainment

"Reelin' In The Years produces DVDs that are not only historically significant but show an incredible amount of respect for the artists and their music."

Bill Wyman
The Rolling Stones

For more information, please contact us.