Brian Poole and The Tremeloes - Three Bells Totps

[Alan Turrell]

Although not great quality here is Brian Poole & The Tremeloes version of Three Bells from Totps , another clip rarely seen that the bbc could show on Totp2 .Personally although it's great to see these clips in excellent quality , i'd much rather see them like this than not at all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_TxLfM3W9Y

[Paul Varley]

Where could that have come from? It's not been broadcast to my knowledge.

Great to see it anyway !

[Deleted]

It's in the archive. Rarely been screened though.

[petercheck]

Feb 24, 2012 23:45:17 GMT @laurencepiper said:

It's in the archive. Rarely been screened though.

I wonder why?

Anyway, here it is again:

Also, performing their No. 2 UK hit 'Someone, Someone' in colour:

[Kelvin Walker]

The Someone Someone performance is taken from Swinging UK Again, which I have on VHS. Lovely to see the Three Bells performance, I've never seen this before. Thanks for sharing.

[petercheck]

While not as consistent as 'Pop Gear' (also known as 'Go Go Mania'), 'Swinging UK' and 'UK Swings Again' (which were both taped on the same day), does include its fair share of gems, such as Brian Poole and The Tremeloes, The Merseybeats, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Hollies, The Animals and Lulu. Essential viewing for any 60s pop TV enthusiast!

Here's Brian Poole and The Tremeloes in the movie 'Just For Fun', filmed in the spring of '63:

[Patrick Coles]

Although they often get VERY badly and quite unfairly derided by some unkind Beatles fans / music writers for having the utter nerve to win the Decca contract - hardly their fault ! (they already had a Radio spot under their belts and simply were more confident and versatile overall at the time....plus Dagenham based were far more local in those pre-motorway days of the UK)

Brian Poole and The Tremeloes and of course later The Trems alone from 1966 with Len 'Chip' Hawkes had an impressive run from 1962 to 1970 and made some fine albums thereafter such as 'Shiner' lasting right up into the 80's - Dave Munden only retired the other year and his last line up now goes out as 'The Sound of The Tremeloes' I believe

The early 'Blue Peter' appearance has them doing 'Uncle Willy' live (unlike several other acts who mimed to the record)  with the late Alan Blakley playing organ while if I remember correctly a colour version of 'Do You Love Me' survives from the first of those 'Swinging UK' films

somewhere on youtube is their NME Poll winners concert appearance - and they just as screamed at as Beatles, Stones, Kinks etc....

A good DVD 'Tremeloes Greatest Hits' from Europe is around featuring the classic Trems line up plus a few clips with Bob Benham the left handed blonde guitarist / vocalist who subbed for both Rick Westwood and later Alan Blakley

a Scottish Grampian TV 'Entertainers' colour show (I think it was) devoted to The Tremeloes with Bob Benham also exists and the classic sixties line up reunited later to do 'Silence' and 'Call Me Number One' on 'Unforgettable' introduced by the late great and much missed Alan 'Fluff' Freeman - Not Arf !

An unkind album title in America I think was;
'Never Mind The Tremeloes...here are The Beatles !'

tho' after what seems a lifetime of Beatles left, right and centre...

I now find myself reversing that title re my later interest ! lol

[petercheck]

Aug 29, 2018 18:11:51 GMT Patrick Coles said:

...Dave Munden only retired the other year and his last line up now goes out as 'The Sound of The Tremeloes' I believe...

Actually, although Dave Munden has indeed left The Tremeloes, he didn't quite retire.  Dave and Chip now tour with Brian Poole as 'Brian Poole and The Tremeloes'!  I saw them on a '60s oldies tour last year, and although the three of them came out as frontmen without instruments (ably backed by Vanity Fare), I thought they were the best act of the evening.

Here's a 'Beat Club' outtake that wasn't broadcast at the time, performing one of their best singles: