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Post by stevej on Sept 26, 2015 11:09:16 GMT
Did anyone else catch this compilation the other night?
I wondered if they would be able to come up with a performance of the band's first hit 'Love is Life'... and sure enough they did, from 'Ed and Zed', the 1970 Saturday lunchtime kids' show. This must be the first time this has been aired since the original tx (31.10.70?). Wonderful to see it, complete with a brief intro from Ed Stewart and Zed the robot. The musical guests on the series were pretty diverse, including a late appearance from the dynamic Sounds Incorporated, Gulliver's People and for Bonzo fans Roger Ruskin Spear's Giant Kinetic Wardrobe. Seven out of the nine shows exist, although as each included a clip of the latest Disney film ('Aristocats' etc) I assume any kind of repeat showing (most unlikely anyway) would be mired in rights issues. Was the show related to the earlier 'Zokko'? series? It seems to share some production credits.
I also enjoyed another early Hot Chocolate performance 'You'll Always Be A Friend'. A terrific single from '72, which I don't recall hearing before. The clip was obviously TOTP and in black and white, although it looked so good I almost convinced myself it was from VT rather than telerecording. As I was watching on i-player it was difficult to tell. Maybe someone can confirm!
Steve
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Post by Rich Cornock on Sept 26, 2015 12:39:36 GMT
thanks for the tip off, just watched this on iplayer. Really good compilation. One thing thats obvious is how heavily they draw on TOTP'S for these compilations. Its certainly not going to be as easy to do this sort compilation in the future for current bands
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Post by stevej on Sept 26, 2015 16:06:07 GMT
Yes, certainly heavy on TOTP for most of the clips. I wouldn't have said I was a particular fan of the band but I'm glad I took the time to watch, as this compilation highlighted some memorable tunes and good songwriting, with surprisingly eclectic subject matter. 'Brother Louie' was notable by its absence but possibly no BBC performance survives.
Unfortunately it's generally only 'You Sexy Thing' or 'Everyone's a Winner' that ever get played on the radio, lumbering the band with a generic '70s disco' image when evidently there was much more to them than that. Hopefully this compilation will redress the balance somewhat and bring the lesser known releases to a wider audience.
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Post by nicadare on Sept 26, 2015 18:14:08 GMT
Repeated tonight at 23:30 BBC4 and BBC4 HD. The 1972 TOTP clip was most impressive, as for Brother Louie, there's no way they would of shown that even if it did exist in the BBC archives although German TV had no problem with it shown recently from Hits a Gogo. "I don't want no honky in my family" no can't see the PC BBC broadcasting that!
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Post by Kev Hunter on Sept 26, 2015 22:07:17 GMT
Repeated tonight at 23:30 BBC4 and BBC4 HD. The 1972 TOTP clip was most impressive, as for Brother Louie, there's no way they would of shown that even if it did exist in the BBC archives although German TV had no problem with it shown recently from Hits a Gogo. "I don't want no honky in my family" no can't see the PC BBC broadcasting that! ..and if that wasn't enough to put the willies up the BBC (if you'll excuse the expression) then the later verse, where the girl's father says "I don't want no spook in my family", was probably even more contentious.
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Post by markg on Sept 26, 2015 22:33:22 GMT
Alexis Korner does that bit, I'm sure.
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Post by Richard Marple on Sept 26, 2015 23:12:53 GMT
Stories cover of Brother Louie doesn't have the spoken sections.
It didn't stop it from being an American No.1.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Sept 27, 2015 16:50:58 GMT
Alexis Korner does that bit, I'm sure. Indeed he did. So it's racist to play an anti-racism song now?
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 27, 2015 18:49:02 GMT
Indeed Dale, the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
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Post by Dave Woods on Sept 27, 2015 20:50:27 GMT
Or maybe they didn't have a useable clip.
As I understand it they were going to use a clip from the Christmas edition of The Black And White Minstrel Show where the minstrels covered the song dressed as snowmen dressed as chimney sweeps dressed as flour grinders dressed as coal miners dressed as ceiling whitewashers. But it turns out the clip had been stolen and burnt by a one-legged lesbian white supremacist who objected to the words white and black appearing in the same title. She still has the ashes, which she continues to hate to this day. It's frustrating because the BBC boffins have developed a means of extracting video from burnt tapes but she won't give them access. And typically the BBC has decided not to offer her money because they'd rather spend it on dross like Strictly Come Massive Audiences. One rumour I've heard is that the BBC isn't interested in pursuing the matter because the recovery process can't reliably extract the colour from the tape. But I am speculating to a degree about that.
(I do vividly remember seeing that performance though, because I spent Christmas 1973 in hospital after being trampled by a herd of zebras. And one of the nurses, who looked a lot like a rhinoceros, brought in a TV and let me watch it.)
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Post by stevej on Sept 27, 2015 21:08:52 GMT
Dragging this back on track, does the TOTP edition used to source 'You'll Always Be A Friend' exist as a telerecording or is it b&w video (it's hard to tell when watching on i-player)? If it's the latter does that make it unique in being colour TOTP held as a b&w videotape copy and not a b&w film recording, as some early 70s editions are.
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Post by Richard Marple on Sept 27, 2015 21:44:58 GMT
I remember You'll Always Be A Friend being featured on TOTP at least once, & looking like a telerecording.
Quite a good song, but not on the HT compilation I have.
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Post by Kev Hunter on Sept 28, 2015 9:14:02 GMT
Dragging this back on track, does the TOTP edition used to source 'You'll Always Be A Friend' exist as a telerecording or is it b&w video (it's hard to tell when watching on i-player)? If it's the latter does that make it unique in being colour TOTP held as a b&w videotape copy and not a b&w film recording, as some early 70s editions are. I think this comes from an existing b/w video from 16 Nov 1972 - that edition also featured The Strawbs' performance of "Lay Down", which has been shown on TOTP2 a couple of times over the years.
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Post by stevej on Sept 28, 2015 15:46:20 GMT
Thanks Kev. That sounds highly plausible as the song was released in October of that year.
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Post by Danny Payne on Sept 28, 2015 16:22:10 GMT
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