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Post by stevej on Oct 30, 2016 14:25:06 GMT
This is an intriguing one; no credits to go on and the only clue is with Bill Grundy presenting, so would this be from Thames? www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Eb57jzyWUThe story of how the original poster came to record it is rather unusual: "T he programme was broadcast in late December 1969 and I had taken an Ampex VR7800 vtr home to record some of the Christmas output (on 1-inch reel-to-reel tape!) at the time. Since then the material has been transcribed onto U-Matic format, VHS and ultimately DVD". I wonder what else he recorded at the time... not to mention how he managed to have access to a colour VTR to take home...! Steve |
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Post by paul carney on Oct 30, 2016 16:03:50 GMT
Can't help with a precise answer Steve but I have seen this before and greater detail may be contained in a previous post on this site.
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Post by markdixon on Oct 30, 2016 16:12:22 GMT
The programme was called "Getting Sentimental Over You" (although in some ITV regions it was listed as "The Big Band Sound"). It was produced by Johnny Hamp for Granada and was broadcast nationally on 26 December 1969.
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Post by stevej on Oct 31, 2016 7:51:14 GMT
That's great, many thanks. And I see that happily it still exists in the archive.
Was Johnny Hamp effectively the Stanley Dorfman of ITV? Both seem to be closely associated with music shows on their respective channels.
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Post by markdixon on Oct 31, 2016 20:34:51 GMT
That's great, many thanks. And I see that happily it still exists in the archive. Was Johnny Hamp effectively the Stanley Dorfman of ITV? Both seem to be closely associated with music shows on their respective channels. Yes, Hamp was one of the most important producers of music on ITV for quite a while. During the 1960s he produced nearly 20 networked music specials for Granada and all of these still exist. Some of them are very well-known (e.g. "The Music of Lennon and McCartney"), but even the obscure ones are of interest. For example, there's a documentary film from 1967 called "Come and Get Your Money" which contains some great footage of Swinging London. The survival rate isn't as good for Hamp's regional Granada programmes. He put hundreds of bands on "Scene at 6.30", but very little of this footage has survived. Luckily, the concert programme "Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel" still exists. It was broadcast in the Granada region as a two-parter originally, but at some point it got edited into a single programme. Hamp also produced a great music series in 1970 called "Doing Their Thing". It featured rock bands such as Deep Purple and it survives in full. |
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