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Post by johnstewart on Jul 29, 2014 19:45:23 GMT
Noted on recent BBC4 documentary repeat on Northern soul a clip of the four tops doing 'can't help myself'. Intrigued as to what it was from; looked like a BBC show T/R maybe 1969-70. Of course the TOTP appearance would be 60s and doesn't exist. Also wondered about how many Motown bands actually appeared in the flesh on TOTP in the 60s and 70s. Of course the supremes '64 appearance 'baby love' does exist. Or waht was used to represent various motown hits.
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Post by graham hammond on Jul 30, 2014 8:02:31 GMT
The Four Tops-I Can't Help Myself from the Julie Felix show from 12 April 1970
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Post by Liam Joseph on Jul 30, 2014 15:27:54 GMT
The Stevie Wonder Uptight performance on TOTP is often shown, and the Temptations appearance from 1970 still exists. The Northern Soul programme was another very enjoyable BBC4 music doc. Strange that the Four Tops Julie Felix appearance was in black and white, yet in the Motown clips show that immediately followed the same clip was shown in colour. Did the Northern Soul doc producers not know a colour clip existed?
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Post by John Green on Jul 30, 2014 15:51:08 GMT
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Post by johnstewart on Aug 19, 2014 16:45:15 GMT
Motown had their own tape and promo archive I guess that might have clips sent for the BBC to use. The failsafe on TOTP of course was the audience dancing or later Pans People.
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Post by Chris Barratt on Aug 20, 2014 7:30:08 GMT
I'm guessing the programme makers made the Julie Felix performance b&w for the docu in order to give the impression of it being 'early days' in terms of the burgeoning soon-to-be Northern Soul scene, and in black & white the clip is a bit less obvious.
The many 'revivalist' Motown hits of 1968-onwards actually had more to do with Alan Freeman than Tony Blackburn at that time (in particular he was almost instrumental in the revived Dancing In The Streets finally going Top Five in early '69) but Tony's PR is second-to-none these days
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