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Post by Brian D not logged in on Sept 17, 2003 22:43:38 GMT
I find this database a mine of hardly believable detail regarding the butchery of my childhood memories! I just looked at Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdink and couldn't believe how badly they are represented in surviving material. However, they were both managed by Gordon Mills, who always had quite a hard-headed reputation. Is it not possible that he may have retained some tapes a la Dave Clark?
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Post by Krystyna on Sept 18, 2003 8:22:23 GMT
I know what you mean about the database. I feel the same about the Walker Brothers who were one of my favourites in the 60s. I can remember watching TOTP as a child then. It is terrible that most of the programme from the 60s no longer survives. After all the 60s was a very important time for music with so many talented bands and artists.
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Post by atomic23 on Sept 18, 2003 10:53:59 GMT
Although the database is fantastic, it is a thoroughly depressing read. All those fantastic performances wiped! Imagine watching Slade performing 'Shape of Things',Peter Noone with Bowie on 'Oh You Pretty Things' and Sweet's 'Alexander Graham Bell' to name just a few...
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Post by Adam James Smith on Sept 18, 2003 12:49:10 GMT
The tragedy is that the BBC don't care about doing anythign to get them back! I cna't beleive that (for instance) a TOTP performance of "Purple Haze" by Hendrix exists, but that the BBc aren't remotley interested,and will show us that "Happening for Lulu" clip again and AGAIN AND AGAIN.
I really feel we're living in the Stone Age as regards archive television.
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Post by H Hartley on Sept 18, 2003 13:21:33 GMT
not forgetting the angst driven performances of Rolf Harris doing 'Two Little Boys' .About seven shows and perhaps importantly (as William pointed out) the last number one of the 1960s ...all gone.
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Post by Pete Seaton on Sept 18, 2003 15:13:35 GMT
That video of TLB on Danny Baker's TV Heroes, was that ever used on TOTP  ?? |
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Post by SteveP on Sept 18, 2003 15:25:10 GMT
The tragedy is that the BBC don't care about doing anythign to get them back! I cna't beleive that (for instance) a TOTP performance of "Purple Haze" by Hendrix exists, but that the BBc aren't remotley interested,and will show us that "Happening for Lulu" clip again and AGAIN AND AGAIN. Well it's difficult to expect them to chase that Hendrix clip as nobody seems to have the faintest idea where it comes from. It would seem to be somewhere in the US, but that's as much as we know. We are told that the BBC are trying to get the "Disco" clips back, and I think that is as much as we can expect for now. Even getting that far has taken some ten years or more, since they were first told about those extracts. If people know tx dates for things, it might be easier, but it's difficult to justify spending hundreds of pounds in trying to track down mystery TOTP clips which have popped up in trading circles (e.g. the Hendrix clip, and The Who doing "5:15" for instance) with nothing else to go on. When/if they get the "Disco" ones, the next obvious ones would be ones which could be obtained fairly easily, viz: Kinks - Autumn Almanac DDBM&T - Zabadak The Who - Seeker Steve |
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Post by William Martin on Sept 19, 2003 16:22:17 GMT
not forgetting the angst driven performances of Rolf Harris doing 'Two Little Boys' .About seven shows and perhaps importantly (as William pointed out) the last number one of the 1960s ...all gone. and the 1st of the 70s "can you guess what it is yet?" |
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Post by H Hartley on Sept 19, 2003 18:28:26 GMT
no worries mate. gosh yes! it was two little boys.
I think people have seriously underestimated 'the Rolf effect' on popular music?.
indeed a couple of months beforehand David Bowie was playing a stylophone on Space Odity
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