|
Post by nicadare on Jul 4, 2011 15:10:58 GMT
Playback can only be as good as the original source, TOTP was recorded in PAL 720x576. And watching it on a 4:3 CRT TV (which has a superior contrast ratio to plasma & LED/LCD ) via a strong analogue signal is better than watching via a digital signal. The colours via an analogue signal are much richer and the picture more natural.
Regardless of all the hype HD digital is not in the same league as 70mm and 35mm film. Ever noticed the picture quality on films such as Laurence of Arabia or Zulu which were made about 50 years ago? It makes digital look amateurish. ;D
|
|
|
Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 4, 2011 18:32:13 GMT
I love CRT too. However, analogue has already been switched off in most areas and will be completely dead within a year: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12994183The TOTP repeats are digital copies of an analogue source and are being broadcast on a digital only channel. There's little chance of us ever viewing them in analogue again. :-( Their final analogue transmission would have been on UK Gold in the nineties, as they used Betacam SP dubs for all their early programming.
|
|
|
Post by mike phillips on Jul 27, 2011 19:33:51 GMT
I wonder if BBC Four cut out 100 Ton & a Feather (Jonathan King) out of the complete repeat showing of TOTP tonight. he was originally billed for the 7.30 edited version, but he was cut out.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2011 21:19:36 GMT
As the original show is just 38 mins long, and the timings for the repeat are 1:00 to 1:40, chances are they will show the complete edition. They only cut out two songs for the first airing, Jonathan King and Tavares (and a bit of the Chanter Sisters after the titles). Interestingly both are featuring Ruby Flipper (Jonathan King's performance is accompanied by Lulu from RF). Maybe that is the reason those two were chosen. Regarding the databases for this show, they all seem to be wrong by listing Elton John & Kiki Dee who in actual fact weren't part of this episode (they had already been featured the week before). Also, due to Noel Edmonds rather frequent use of "The Story of...", a few of the song titles in the databases are incorrect. The song by Sunfighter is simply called "Drag Race Queen" and Bobby Goldsboro's heart-wrenching offer goes by the title of "A Butterfly For Bucky". With three songs that never made the Top 50, this was quite an unusual episode.
|
|
|
Post by Chris Barratt on Jul 27, 2011 22:24:28 GMT
It was at this point in time (July 76) that the 'payola' aspect really did become screamingly obvious. It's not as if they were picking decent tracks in the main, tonights show presented 3 non-hits plus a new (flop) release as playout - to give Sunfighter their due, compared to Glamourpuss and that toe-curlingly atrocious slice of whimsy from Bobby Goldsboro they were quite good. Compared to those monstrosities JK's curious version of It Only Takes A Minute is a great pop record, even with flat vocal. The non-hit playouts are the biggest clue - that part of show did not depend on acts being available, dance routines being dreamt up or promo's. Makes a mockery of Stan Appell's insistance on the "TOTP 1976" docu that the show was bossed by what was in the Top 30, which he must know was just a myth throughout the 70s. One good thing about tonight - highlighted just how good Status Quo were at that point in time!
|
|
|
Post by Chris Barratt on Jul 27, 2011 22:27:15 GMT
With three songs that never made the Top 50, this was quite an usual episode. Or as Noel Edmonds would have said (in almost every link), "Now it's an interesting show this week, with lots of interesting contrasts. On the one hand you've got that record, and that one, that are both going nowhere. And on the other hand, there's this one, which is going nowhere too, but much faster than those two..." One to look out for in a couple of weeks - The Hairy Monstrous Ego manages to utter the pompous phrase "piece of music" 4 (!) times in one 15 second link!
|
|
|
Post by Pete Seaton on Jul 28, 2011 0:28:00 GMT
jonathan king (100ton and feather) chopped from repeat of 15/07/76 : 28/07/11
|
|
|
Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 28, 2011 1:13:20 GMT
jonathan king (100ton and feather) chopped from repeat of 15/07/76 : 28/07/11 So much for their promise of unedited repeats... Why chop a Ruby Flipper performance? Are all JK songs banned by the BBC?
|
|
|
Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 28, 2011 10:32:36 GMT
Is the cross-faded RF (a solo Lulu Cartwright routine) part of the missing performance from the July 1st episode?
|
|
|
Post by Steve Williams on Jul 28, 2011 10:36:03 GMT
Is the cross-faded RF (a solo Lulu Cartwright routine) part of the missing performance from the July 1st episode? Seemingly not, because she's wearing the same outfit she did for Back In The USSR.
|
|
|
Post by Chris Barratt on Jul 28, 2011 10:54:14 GMT
Great to see censorship is alive & well at the BBC. Puzzling in that they weren't shying away from using "Everyone's Gone To The Moon" in the recent Radio 2 documentary on 1965 - it was even used on the trailers. I wonder will this all be reversed when King's conviction is deemed unsafe at the ECHR and the Gary Glitter Vietnam fiasco revealed to be a News Of The World set-up?
|
|
|
Post by Liam Joseph on Jul 28, 2011 11:54:14 GMT
It's annoying if they are censoring out Jonathan King (not that I consider he's a giant of modern music or anything!)
Presumably that means if the surviving 1970 TOTP episodes are recolourised we won't get to see this rather groovy number in all its technicolour glory:
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Walsh on Jul 29, 2011 1:11:55 GMT
I'd rather have a papier-mache Hitler head being bowed down to by Jack The Ripper AND Jonathan King than that soul destroying horror of a tune by Bobby Goldsboro. Dear God it was gut-wrenchingly awful. Loving the TOTP repeats though.....;-)
T.
|
|
|
Post by peterfitzpatrick on Jul 29, 2011 18:20:09 GMT
I thought Pugwash was going to do a luverly version of a BG hit
"...and honey I miss yewwwww...."
go on... lash a mellotron on it and it'll be a hit
|
|
|
Post by Dale Rumbold on Aug 2, 2011 18:29:12 GMT
I'd rather have a papier-mache Hitler head being bowed down to by Jack The Ripper AND Jonathan King than that soul destroying horror of a tune by Bobby Goldsboro. Dear God it was gut-wrenchingly awful. What do you all mean? A Butterfly for Bucky, sung live by the always excellent Bobby Goldsboro, was easily the best song on the show. I speak with some authority, being the only person in the whole world who bought the single, and that entirely based upon that performance! It was the awful Glamourpuss record that made me cringe.
|
|