Excellent Good Fair Poor : VIDEOCASSETTES

“American Suite/Rodeo Gypsies.” Sony. $29.95. This affectionate salute to rodeo performers and the modern cowboy life style combines rodeo footage with a sound track featuring related songs by such country singers as Merle Haggard, Roy Clark, Hank Thompson and Ed Bruce. There’s enough color and dynamics in the rodeo/cowboy world to come up with a program that would appeal to general audiences, but the execution--from concept to editing--is too plain to lift “American Suite” out of the special-interest market.