Find ! TOTP April 67 Audio Including Hendrix Wind Cries Mary

[richardwoods]

Well I've finally started to go through the reel to reel collection and copy stuff over to CD-R Audio. This is the first tape I've completed. The transfer went well and I'm pleased with the results. What should I do with the digital copy? Will an archive want it? Do any You Tube wizards want to synch the Wind Cries Mary audio to the silent film? If someone wants to PM me for a copy, I can do a limited amount. Will try to work out how to post it on You Tube, advice is welcome!

First of all this is a reel to reel tape rescued from a skip in Tennyson Road Grimsby in 1981.

POTP Alan Freeman (Reasonable Quality) Recorded with a mic probably off FM at 3 3/4IPS

Joint No10 I can hear the grass grow. The Move
Joint No 10 A little bit me, A little bit you The Monkees
No 9 7 Drunken Nights The Dubliners
No 8 Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings Englebert Humpledink (Fragment)

(Probably the same chart?)

No 7 Purple Haze Jimi Hendrix
No 6 Pictures of Lily The Who
No 5 The Boat that I Row Lulu
No 4 Silence is Golden The Tremolos
No 3 Dedicated to the one I love
No 2 Something Simple Nancy & Frank Sinatra
No 1 Puppet on a String Sandy Shaw

Unidentified Alan Freeman Show

Fly me high Moody Blues ( Fragment)
The Moving Finger Writes Len Barry
A Certain Misunderstanding David Garrick
My Back Pages The Byrds
Daytime, Night time Simon Dupree and the Big Sound.

TOTP Audio April (?) 67 Presenter Jimmy Saville (Mic recording off 405 line TV, dig that whistle, quality not quite as good as POTP but listenable. Includes missing Wind Cries Mary Audio!
Jeff Beck Hi Ho Silver Lining
Troggs Night of the long grass
Jimi Hendrix The Wind Cries Mary No13
The Beach Boys And then I kissed her No7
The Kinks Waterloo Sunset
Englebert Humperdinck There goes my everything
Silence is golden The Tremolos No1
TOTP Theme (fragment)

Some but not all continuity links exist.

Unidentified Fragments of Radio Shows Variable Quality

Tonight in Tokyo - Sandy Shaw
Music While You Work - Fragment
Continuity Announcement
Someone randomly tuning the radio! Including fragments of All my love, Cliff Richard. Unidentified Classical Music Extracts, Conversation about Art Dealers, Excerpt from a Football Match, Bobby More mentioned, Chivers scores a goal, 2-0 ?, Excerpt from a play.

[richardwoods]

For those that are interested, I'm seriously old school. I've used an Akai 4000DS reel to reel, via a Leak Point 1 Stereo Pre Amp to a JVC CD-R Audio recorder. Great results

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[tom rogers]

Oct 31, 2015 23:04:50 GMT richardwoods said:

For those that are interested, I'm seriously old school. I've used an Akai 4000DS reel to reel, via a Leak Point 1 Stereo Pre Amp to a JVC CD-R Audio recorder. Great results

Nice set up, Richard! Old school is the way. I run my turn table/reel-to-reel/cassette through a Yamaha Pro-Logic pre-amp and then directly to my pc to digitize and burn cds of my vinyl and tapes. I use Audacity to create wav files (or other formats if needed) and edit. The results have always been good. 

[markjhaley]

Well done Richard on acquisitioning the tape and transferring it over. There may well be more can be done to improve the sound. Background hiss can be removed, pops, crackles and so on.
It was great to see the recent Beatles silent home movie of 'Can't buy me love' synced up to the track so I'm sure the Hendrix track will be similarly achievable.

[richardwoods]

Thanks for the kind words both.

[RWels]

Posting it to youtube might, unfortunately, not work so well. Although I don't see much harm in it myself, I imagine that the music will automatically be detected by record labels and other right holders and will get blocked or removed.

I can pass the audio on to the BBC if you wish. There it would be archived so that at least it won't get lost again.

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Oct 31, 2015 19:28:56 GMT richardwoods said:

Well I've finally started to go through the reel to reel collection and copy stuff over to CD-R Audio. This is the first tape I've completed. The transfer went well and I'm pleased with the results. What should I do with the digital copy? Will an archive want it? Do any You Tube wizards want to synch the Wind Cries Mary audio to the silent film? If someone wants to PM me for a copy, I can do a limited amount. Will try to work out how to post it on You Tube, advice is welcome!

First of all this is a reel to reel tape rescued from a skip in Tennyson Road Grimsby in 1981.

POTP Alan Freeman (Reasonable Quality) Recorded with a mic probably off FM at 3 3/4IPS

Joint No10 I can hear the grass grow. The Move
Joint No 10 A little bit me, A little bit you The Monkees
No 9 7 Drunken Nights The Dubliners
No 8 Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings Englebert Humpledink (Fragment)

(Probably the same chart?)

No 7 Purple Haze Jimi Hendrix
No 6 Pictures of Lily The Who
No 5 The Boat that I Row Lulu
No 4 Silence is Golden The Tremolos
No 3 Dedicated to the one I love
No 2 Something Simple Nancy & Frank Sinatra
No 1 Puppet on a String Sandy Shaw

I'm not sure these two are the same chart!!!!
""13-4-67: Presenter: Alan Freeman (Wiped)

(1) FRANK & NANCY SINATRA – Somethin’ Stupid (and charts)
(8) CLIFF RICHARD – It’s All Over
(28) THE MOVE – I Can Hear The Grass Grow
(20) THE DUBLINERS – Seven Drunken Nights
(NEW) THE SHADOWS – Maroc 7 (video)
(16) CAT STEVENS – I’m Gonna Get Me A Gun ®
(18) GEORGIE FAME – Because I Love You ®
(NEW) ROLF HARRIS – Fijian Girl
(2) SANDIE SHAW – Puppet On A String ®
(1) FRANK & NANCY SINATRA – Somethin’ Stupid (video)

**************************************************

20-4-67: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped)

(1) FRANK & NANCY SINATRA – Somethin’ Stupid (and charts)
(4) MANFRED MANN – Ha! Ha! Said The Clown
(NEW) THE TREMELOES – Silence Is Golden
(14) THE TURTLES – Happy Together (video)
(NEW) DAVID & JONATHAN – Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea
(NEW) P.P. ARNOLD – The First Cut Is The Deepest
(7) JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – Purple Haze ®
(17) THE MOVE – I Can Hear The Grass Grow
(1) FRANK & NANCY SINATRA – Somethin’ Stupid (video)
(1) SANDIE SHAW – Puppet On A String

**************************************************

27-4-67: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped) (Exists as audio)

(1) SANDIE SHAW – Puppet On A String (and charts)
(20) JEFF BECK – Hi-Ho Silver Lining
(16) LULU – The Boat That I Row
(10) THE DUBLINERS – Seven Drunken Nights (video)
(7) CAT STEVENS – I’m Gonna Get Me A Gun ®
(11) MAMAS & THE PAPAS – Dedicated To The One I Love (video)
(NEW) WARM SOUNDS – Birds And Bees
(25) THE WHO – Pictures Of Lily
(NEW) TOM JONES – Funny Familiar Forgotten Feeings
(1) SANDIE SHAW – Puppet On A String ®

MAY 1967:

4-5-67: Presenter: Alan Freeman (Wiped)

(1) SANDIE SHAW – Puppet On A String (and charts)
(NEW) THE KINKS – Waterloo Sunset
(3) THE MONKEES – A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You (video)
(13) THE TREMELOES – Silence Is Golden ®
(NEW) CHRIS FARLOWE – Yesterday’s Papers
(4) JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – Purple Haze *
(NEW) NEIL DIAMOND – Girl You’ll Be A Woman Soon
(7) THE MOVE – I Can Hear The Grass Grow
(14) THE WHO – Pictures Of Lily ®
(1) SANDIE SHAW – Puppet On A String ®

* although this show is wiped, this performance still exists

**************************************************

11-5-67: Presenter: Pete Murray (Wiped)

(1) SANDIE SHAW – Puppet On A String (and charts)
(5) LULU – The Boat That I Row
(19) THE BEE GEES – New York Mining Disaster 1941
(9) THE DUBLINERS – Seven Drunken Nights (video)
(NEW) VAL DOONICAN – Two Streets
(20) ARTHUR CONLEY – Sweet Soul Music (crowd dancing)
(NEW) NEW VAUDEVILLE BAND – Finchley Central
(24) THE SHADOWS – Bombay Duck (video)
(4) THE TREMELOES – Silence Is Golden ®
(1) SANDIE SHAW – Puppet On A String ®""

Unidentified Alan Freeman Show

Fly me high Moody Blues ( Fragment)
The Moving Finger Writes Len Barry
A Certain Misunderstanding David Garrick
My Back Pages The Byrds
Daytime, Night time Simon Dupree and the Big Sound.

TOTP Audio April (?) 67 Presenter Jimmy Saville (Mic recording off 405 line TV, dig that whistle, quality not quite as good as POTP but listenable. Includes missing Wind Cries Mary Audio!
Jeff Beck Hi Ho Silver Lining
Troggs Night of the long grass
Jimi Hendrix The Wind Cries Mary No13
The Beach Boys And then I kissed her No7
The Kinks Waterloo Sunset
Englebert Humperdinck There goes my everything
Silence is golden The Tremolos No1
TOTP Theme (fragment)

Some but not all continuity links exist.

I'm pretty sure this is 18/05/1967
""18-5-67: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped)

(1) THE TREMELOES – Silence Is Golden (and charts)
(NEW) ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK – There Goes My Everything
(4) THE WHO – Pictures Of Lily ®
(11) THE BEACH BOYS – Then I Kissed Her (video)
(NEW) THE TROGGS – Night Of The Long Grass
(2) MAMAS & THE PAPAS – Dedicated To The One I Love (crowd dancing)
(7) THE KINKS – Waterloo Sunset ®
(13) JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – The Wind Cries Mary *
(15) JEFF BECK – Hi-Ho Silver Lining
(1) THE TREMELOES – Silence Is Golden

* although this show is wiped, this performance still exists""

Please bear in mind that the Popscene database, while very useful indeed is far from perfect when it comes to running orders of TOTP; the information originally for wiped shows was gleaned off PasBs and the old TOTP2 website, and they are often completely wrong when it comes to what order songs were broadcast

Unidentified Fragments of Radio Shows Variable Quality

Tonight in Tokyo - Sandy Shaw
Music While You Work - Fragment
Continuity Announcement
Someone randomly tuning the radio! Including fragments of All my love, Cliff Richard. Unidentified Classical Music Extracts, Conversation about Art Dealers, Excerpt from a Football Match, Bobby More mentioned, Chivers scores a goal, 2-0 ?, Excerpt from a play.

The football match mentioned is Spurs-West Ham 09/05/1967:- www.11v11.com/matches/west-ham-united-v-tottenham-hotspur-09-may-1967-79307/

[richardwoods]

Cheers Ray, have PMed you. Love the dating of the footie

[richardwoods]

Nov 1, 2015 13:12:57 GMT RWels said:

Posting it to youtube might, unfortunately, not work so well. Although I don't see much harm in it myself, I imagine that the music will automatically be detected by record labels and other right holders and will get blocked or removed.

I can pass the audio on to the BBC if you wish. There it would be archived so that at least it won't get lost again.

Great stuff Mr Wels, I've PMed you too!

[RWels]

Thanks to both of you! So the first one isn't identified for certain, but the second one is 18-05-1967?

By the way, I had a look at your living room audio set-up - which is very nice - and just to make sure, you might want to also save the audio on a hard disk or perhaps on a few CDs of different brands. Eventually CDRs may become unreadable, it really depends on the brand, and conditions but it's not possible to say precisely what or when. I've had a few isolated cases myself.

[Neil Burniston]

Surely the POTP episode is the week that matches the 11/5/67 TOTP, presumably therefore week ending 13/5/67? Chart positions 1, 4, 5 and 9 match up.

Richard, I'm curious how you knew which skip this had been rescued from. Did you find it yourself by any chance? It's just that this is 'my patch' as I was brought up in Grimsby. Mind you, no one I knew could afford reel to reel recorders..!!

[richardwoods]

We used to live near Grimsby and was visiting a fellow valve fanatic at the time. We were out walking and noticed a builders skip outside a place being gutted. On top of the rubbish in the skip was a Grundig reel to reel with this tape on it. Took it back, switched it on and the rest you know! Different number 1 Tremolos on TOTP, Sandie Shaw on POTP.

[Tony Walshaw]

Nov 1, 2015 13:12:57 GMT RWels said:

Posting it to youtube might, unfortunately, not work so well. Although I don't see much harm in it myself, I imagine that the music will automatically be detected by record labels and other right holders and will get blocked or removed.

I have put music onto YT (albeit not missing episodes material). Although there has not really been a problem, I have had notifications that a given song breaches a rights issue in a certain country, and will not be viewable in that country.

[RWels]

Nov 6, 2015 9:57:20 GMT Tony Walshaw said:

Nov 1, 2015 13:12:57 GMT RWels said:

Posting it to youtube might, unfortunately, not work so well. Although I don't see much harm in it myself, I imagine that the music will automatically be detected by record labels and other right holders and will get blocked or removed.

I have put music onto YT (albeit not missing episodes material). Although there has not really been a problem, I have had notifications that a given song breaches a rights issue in a certain country, and will not be viewable in that country.

That is the soft treatment; the hard treatment is total removal and 1/3rd on your way to losing your account entirely.

[richardwoods]

Hopefully more to follow, will keep you all in the loop as I work my way through the tapes. So far just a distinctly non missing Monty Python episode soundtrack, "Mr Luxury Yacht, It's 9 o clock and in 15 minutes it will be 9.15", etc. Raised a smile and excellent quality lead recording from my TV in the 70's but thankfully not missing. I know that there should be at least 3 more POTPs from 72, 77 & 78 (ish) and a ruck of Early Paul Jones Blues Nights, 85 to 88. Salvaged about 6 CDs worth of the South Wold Jazz Band Live at Louth Folk Club 1965 from a 7" reel for a friends father and former band member George Sykes. Great stuff if you like Trad Jazz. Again, please let me know if anyone wants a copy. I'm more than happy to run off copies, the more there are out there, the greater the chance of survival.