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Post by johnpoole on Jan 26, 2015 0:13:26 GMT
I believe eleven episodes were shown in the Midlands (ABC Weekend) 11.15-11.40 Saturday evenings weekly from 19/10/63 to 4/1/64 (except no show on 28/12/63)
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Post by johnpoole on Jan 23, 2015 23:51:59 GMT
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Post by johnpoole on Dec 18, 2014 19:36:42 GMT
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Post by johnpoole on Dec 17, 2014 23:56:50 GMT
I'm not sure that Ronnie Scott was a member of Lord Rockinghams XI which did include Benny Green and a number of jazzmen. However, their star was the wonderful organ player Cherry Wainer, who sadly passed away last month aged 78. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11263698/Cherry-Wainer-obituary.htmlI think it was a launch party for one of the editions of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles that Benny Green attended and then wrote about. [/quote] you're quite right John. I stand corrected. All mates of Ronnie Scott of course. You don't have the original article do you? i was a big fan of his Daily Mirror column[/quote] Sorry, no. I'm not even sure if I read the original article - I think I may have seen his comments quoted and reported elsewhere.
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Post by johnpoole on Dec 17, 2014 17:39:33 GMT
I think I'm right in saying that Lord Rockinghams XI of Hoots Mon fame were made up of all the English session jazzers at the time. Ronnie Scott. Benny Green etc. Green wrote a caustic and very funny piece about it in his Daily Mirror column in the 1980s. He's been invited to one of those Guiness style corporate gatherings for everyone who had ever had a number one record. Surveying the assembled gathering of those who attend such things (ie no one of any major talent) he speculated that if a bomb had dropped on the building at that moment the damage to the music industry would have been minimal. Tch. Those jazz snobs eh! I'm not sure that Ronnie Scott was a member of Lord Rockinghams XI which did include Benny Green and a number of jazzmen. However, their star was the wonderful organ player Cherry Wainer, who sadly passed away last month aged 78. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11263698/Cherry-Wainer-obituary.htmlI think it was a launch party for one of the editions of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles that Benny Green attended and then wrote about.
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Post by johnpoole on Dec 16, 2014 19:43:09 GMT
Just 'River Man', I think. String arrangements on Nick's other songs were by Robert Kirby.
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Post by johnpoole on Dec 6, 2014 0:17:21 GMT
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Post by johnpoole on Nov 28, 2014 11:11:54 GMT
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Post by johnpoole on Nov 4, 2014 0:05:45 GMT
Last week's episode The Matador from the second series (5/7/55)
This week The Newspaper from the third series (8/2/56)
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Post by johnpoole on Nov 3, 2014 0:51:21 GMT
I haven't seen it for a long time but could this clip be from the existing December '63 Merseybeat special? It's a similar set but - from memory - I can't recall if they performed Money or not. It could be a missing item though so worth pursuing, just in case. I don't have Mark Lewisohn's book to hand here to check the song listings for that edition! Laurence, thanks for above. the excellent tvpopdiaries says...Saturday 21 December 1963, ABC Thank Your Lucky Stars 5.50 - 6.36pm, Their second Merseybeat Special. The Beatles..All My Loving, Twist And Shout, She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand. Can anyone confirm this 4 song lineup, which as Laurence says is remarkably like above, but with the one exception. Mark Lewisohn's Complete Beatles Chronicle has the following songs listed - Sunday 20 October (for Saturday 26th) - All My Loving; Money (That's What I Want), She Loves You - "The first two formed an exclusive glimpse of With The Beatles, not issued until 22 November. TYLS producer Philip Jones had acquired advanced acetate pressings of some of the album tracks and persuaded Brian Epstein to allow him the first opportunity to plug them." Sunday 15 December (for Saturday 21st) - I Want to Hold Your Hand, All My Loving, Twist and Shout, She Loves You "They were also presented, on camera with two more gold discs to add to their quickly-growing collection. This edition was selected as ITV's official entry in the next annual International Contest for Television Light Entertainment Programmes, held in Montreaux, Switzerland in April 1964, but it did not win."
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Post by johnpoole on Nov 2, 2014 0:37:34 GMT
Thank Your Lucky Stars was taped on a Sunday and screened on the following Saturday so 20th October would be the recording date for the show on the 26th.
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Post by johnpoole on Oct 20, 2014 23:25:31 GMT
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Post by johnpoole on Oct 18, 2014 23:30:13 GMT
I just came across this very early footage of Jimi Hendrix playing in the background with Buddy & Stacey. This is a great performance by all of them but I have a feeling that we haven't seen it in documentaries as the quality is low including technical glitch at 0:50. I wonder if this could be cleaned up in anyway? I'm sure you guys wound know the technicalities of what is wrong and how to fix it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o6LIJGJdREMassive Hendrix fan here , so.... I've seen this clip in at least one Hendrix documentary but I'd have to see them again to be certain which ones! Nice to see it in full though, thank you for posting this here - I'm sure I've only seen segments of it previously and it has looked not much better than it does here. I see there's another upload of this on You Tube and it looks to be lower quality but with similar 'buckling' on the picture at the bottom of the frame which leads me to believe someone uploaded this from a VHS (or other home video system) tape. It's something I often see and it makes me suspect it things are from home-recordings as I used to see VCRs do it all the time. The other clip looks even more like it's from a video cassette, IMO... Another guess here but it's possible that a PBS station in the US re-run some of these episodes (and that's likely how someone recorded them) because I also saw a full episode uploaded as well - though not featuring the early Hendrix. The full episode is the same show with Buddy & Stacey being the first act www.youtube.com/watch?v=spjYy6GTHIE
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Post by johnpoole on Aug 13, 2014 23:12:22 GMT
I watched it when it was shown by the BBC (in two parts?), can't remember when but I think it was maybe a year or two after 1979 (the US date). I doubt that it had any clips from TOTP, but I would have to watch it again to be sure. It has been posted on YouTube in 9-10 minute segments www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HCMfkzqLVM
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Post by johnpoole on Jul 10, 2014 22:53:31 GMT
Very enjoyable - thanks for posting.
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