By Jim Carnes
McClatchy Newspapers

I don’t want your MTV.
Who needs short-attention-span theater when there are full-blown performances and artist profiles that actually tie into the music as they do in the new “British Invasion” documentary box set?

Four discs — “Dusty Springfield: Once Upon a Time 1964-69,” “Small Faces: All or Nothing 1965-1969,” “Herman’s Hermits: Listen People 1964-1969” and “Gerry & the Pacemakers: It’s Gonna Be All Right 1963-1965” — now are available separately ($19.99 each) or in a deluxe box set with a fifth disc containing more than 2 hours of additional content ($79.99).

Each disc is assembled from the vast music-footage library of San Diego-based Reelin’ in the Years Productions and features complete performances (from vintage TV broadcasts such as “The Ed Sullivan Show” and “Shindig,” and from concerts such as England’s New Musical Express shows). New, informative interviews with the performers and others bolster each set.

These are promised to be the first four in a whole series of documentaries, and there are surprises and delights in each. Springfield’s disc is most satisfying because it finally gives the singer her due as producer on many of her recordings, although she didn’t get credit at the time because she was a woman. Her white-soul performances are knockouts, too, especially “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me” and “Son of a Preacher Man.” Springfield died in 1999. The disc includes a newly discovered interview with her from 1978 as well as a new interview with songwriter Burt Bacharach (and a duet between Springfield and Bacharach on “A House Is Not a Home”).