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Post by stevej on Sept 7, 2017 22:05:16 GMT
Really good to see a snippet of this series although the quality makes it hard to discern what format it's on. It looks (and sounds) almost like a colour telerecording, perhaps obtained by request from the BBC as an artist's privelege for appearing in the programme (if that were possible). Looks like it might have been through a few generations of Umatic or VHS too. I can't say I've heard of Jan Daley before, but clearly she's still active and has her own website so would be easy to contact if anyone fancied following it up.
Interestingly it's titled on youtube as being an ATV show.
Steve
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Post by stevej on Aug 19, 2017 11:39:23 GMT
I'll second that. A man of extraordinary talent and professionalism. Brilliant on the piano too. I'd be interested to know which show this clip is taken from. I reckon it's pre-Generation Game, probably 1969/70. Any ideas? www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWMowYxnpP8
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Post by stevej on Aug 9, 2017 18:19:54 GMT
Don't think this has been mentioned before: www.simplyhe.com/collections/coming-soon/products/heres-harry-the-complete-surviving-episodes-dvdReally great to see Simply mining the BBC's 60s comedy archive again. It would be nice if what's left of the later 'Harry Worth' series with the classic shop window title sequence were to follow. I think these are the ones most people remember. Are there enough to warrant a separate release or should they have been extras on this set I wonder?
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Post by stevej on Jul 18, 2017 19:40:44 GMT
That's a good point. The US may have colour copies of the shows, although as Peter says, if they do exist they will probably be edited and chopped about with sketches removed or truncated to accommodate extra commercial breaks etc. In view of the gravitas of some of the musical guests, you would have thought that if colour performances exist, they may have surfaced in documentaries etc by now. Interestingly, The US-produced 'Casey Casem's American Goldmine' (which was shown over here late at night in the 1990s) featured the b&w telerecording of Traffic's '40,000 Headmen'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=12eDw6DjqNcor here's the same performance with the Pete & Dud intro: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzcojNK9EnI
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Post by stevej on Jul 18, 2017 19:27:42 GMT
Wonderful! Never seen that performance before. By the way The Family Dogg also do a killer version of 'Sympathy'.
Going back to the presentational aspect of TOTP in 1970, another innovation was superimposing the DJs over a constantly changing filmed background of shapes and patterns. I think these visuals were done by an outside agency who were credited in the end titles.
A friend of mine recalls that at the time there were letters of complaint to The Radio Times about what some viewers felt was excessive use of flashing lights, camera zooms and other eye-popping effects. Certainly all the visual excitement evident in the few existing 1970 editions, even on b&w telerecordings, was largely gone by 1971. By the mid 1970s it all looked very dull and unadventurous.
Stanley Dorfman was such an important figure in music on television at the turn of the 70s, it would be fascinating to hear his recollections of that time, particularly on the technical aspects.
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Post by stevej on Jul 16, 2017 12:18:34 GMT
As per the title really! Having (very) belatedly watched and enjoyed the 2004 dvd release of 'The very best of Goodbye Again', I wondered if there was any reason why someone like Network hasn't picked up on the series, short thought it was, for release. There were only four shows (details from Wikipedia):
Show 1, TX 18 August 1968 Music: Ike & Tina Turner, Donovan
Show 2, TX 24 August 1968 Music: Traffic, Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger and the Trinity
Show 3, TX 14 September 1968 Music: Georgie Fame, Selena Jones
Show 4, TX 3 August 1969 Music: Mel Torme
I believe that although made in colour, all four shows survive as b&w telerecordings, with various colour film inserts existing (which look to be of excellent quality- 35mm?)
The musical guests are pretty darn impressive too- The Traffic ('Triffic!) and Juliie Driscoll on the same show. Wow! Poor quality clips of both these performances exist on youtube.
A decent dvd release of the shows uncut, maybe with the colour inserts included as extras would be an enticing prospect indeed. Network have released far less commercial propositions in the past. Perhaps there are rights issues? Does anyone know?
Steve
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Post by stevej on Jul 12, 2017 21:52:02 GMT
Amazing to see this performance complete and like Paul I'm as fascinated with the technical aspects of TOTP production and camera direction of the time as I am with the performance itself. For me the show's presentation was at it's most compelling at the start of the colour era; the groups! the fashions! the dancers! It looks like they gave Flick Colby a little solo spot in this to add extra visual interest to the instrumental break (more out of kilter here than on the LP version). Also evident is the colour video effect seen on Jethro Tull's 'Witches Promise' performance from the same year.
It's a little disconcerting to see the studio audience dancing to 'Weaver's Answer', which is hardly a floor-filler by anyone's standards! In fact I would have thought it was on the edge of being a little too far-out for the mainstream TOTP audience of the time; alas it seems to have been for the TOTP2 audience in more recent years. I wonder if Fairfield Parlour's 'Bordeaux Rose' appearance, also from 1970, will one day appear....
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Post by stevej on May 3, 2017 17:55:08 GMT
Orange Bicycle recorded some really sublime singles and received plenty of radio airplay but were one of those bands that inexplicably never made the charts. Well worth checking out the CD compilation issued a few years ago if you have more than a passing interest in the late 60s UK pop scene.
Reading the Marmalade Skies quote above I take it to mean that the band were victims of a Candid Camera stunt rather than being engaged to perform a straight guest spot on the show. I guess 'During rehearsals' could either mean as they prepared to tape the 'Laura's Garden' single in the studio with record producer Monty Babson- or as they were gearing up for a performance in a tv studio. It's a bit ambiguous. Maybe the Orange Bicycle member concerned could shed some more light on it?
I don't think the Candid Camera series format allowed for regular musical guests, although I'd be delighted to be proved wrong!
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Post by stevej on Apr 13, 2017 18:33:10 GMT
Hi Steve, all I've found so far on Youtube is a number of timecoded individual performances from 'Together' which are credited to 'Love And Other Crimes', so I'm guessing these were lifted from that into the 'Together' Montreux entry. I know Lee Hazlewood relocated to Sweden around 1969/70 and seemed to establish a good working relationship with Swedish tv, making the film 'Cowboy In Sweden' with them. This is an interesting curio in itself, featuring guest groups including The George Baker Selection miming to 'Little Green Bag' and also The Family Dogg with 'Sympathy'.
Whether there are any more Lee Hazlewood specials I don't know, as I've only learned the above info within the last week. I would have thought that with a group as popular as Abba that most of their early solo or group appearances would have been well known by now, but maybe that's not the case. I must admit the state of the Swedish tv archive has never crossed my mind before, but now I am interested! I gather there was only one station until 1969 and the advent of colour and a second station brought about rebranding as (gasp) TV1 and TV2. Stumbling across 'Together' has proved something of a musical revelation to me and as a consequence I have been prompted to hear more from artists I wasn't previously aware of. One of the joys of the internet!
Steve
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Post by stevej on Apr 12, 2017 19:14:08 GMT
Whilst searching Youtube for something entirely different I found a Swedish TV music special from 1969 entitled 'Together', which it seems was their Montreux entry that year. From what I can gather it's a compilation, with several performances lifted in turn from a Lee Hazlewood tv special 'Love & Other Crimes' recorded the previous year. 'Together' has some real moments to treasure, kicking off with an arresting performance from the aptly named 'Made In Sweden', then moving seemlessly on to Miriam Makeba and some playful collaboration between Brazil's Elis Regina and Toots Thielemans. Lee Hazlewood revisits his 'Lee & Nancy' era duets very successfully with lovely Swedish singer Siw Malmkvist. And there's the engaging sight of a young lady go-go dancing to a very groovy 'High Heel Sneakers' sung by a smartly suited gent with a bongo penchant. There seem to be plenty of good quality performances from 'Together' all over Youtube, making me wonder if it (or 'Love & Other Crimes') has ever been officially released- maybe as a bonus dvd disc on a Lee Hazlewood CD retrospective or similar. Extensive trawling the web has revealed no clues, so I thought it worth asking if anyone was aware of either show. A very long shot, but.... Link to the complete show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzmaAbjzPko&t=0s
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Post by stevej on Apr 12, 2017 18:02:20 GMT
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Post by stevej on Apr 1, 2017 9:36:07 GMT
Apologies if this has featured here before (I suspect it must have done but couldn't spot any previous reference). I was really surprised and delighted to come across this super-8 footage of the Alan Bown performing the wonderful 'We Can Help You' on TOTP in 1968. The film has been married up very well with the single and gives a pretty good impression of what TOTP viewers got at the time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjYzzr6Y5mw&feature=youtu.beVisual quality is as rough as you'd expect but as we know when it comes to this kind of material we have to make the most of any crumbs we are thrown! I guess someone on here will know who else was on that particular show. Steve
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Post by stevej on Mar 9, 2017 20:51:43 GMT
I noticed that this first 'new' SOTS was comprised almost entirely of well-worn hits with the rarities restricted to just one per hour, selected by Phil Swern. The whole appeal of SOTS for me was discovering little-heard records and the stories behind them. That approach appears to have been discarded now. It was more akin to a 60s-themed wedding reception disco. All that was missing was 'Hi Ho Silver Lining'! It's gone from being a niche show to a mainstream one. All those 60s hits are cycled endlessly (between the commercials) on the AM 'Gold' stations.
With all due respect to Tony Blackburn, as Geoff rightly says, everything he presents simply becomes a variation on 'The Tony Blackburn Show' - the usual corny jokes, shout-outs and 'loving the show' tweets. How I missed Brian Matthew's measured style of presentation.
I agree that Tony B's breezy style was far more suited to Pick Of The Pops, whereas Paul G is very good with factual shows.
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Post by stevej on Feb 15, 2017 17:19:33 GMT
It's from BBC's 'Disco 2' - 10th January 1970 Excellent, well spotted! Many thanks Paul. From Lostshows: 10.01.70 with Joe Cocker and The Greaseband, Lou Christie, David Ackles, Chicago, Elton John Group A 16mm black-and-white film print exists, but the programme was originally made using 2" colour videotape.
Is that Elton John's earliest surviving BBC appearance?
Some real losses in the editions that have been wiped- Family, Honeybus, Trader Horne, Bill Fay, Orange Bicycle, Trapeze...
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Post by stevej on Feb 14, 2017 20:15:44 GMT
A clip here of Lou's groovy 1969 single 'She Sold Me Magic' : www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGvu-2qkYD4The upload is rather a mess visually, but the telerecording on the right has a BBC vibe about it. It looks initially like TOTP but the music stands and lack of audience count against it. Possibly. I've never seen it before. Any thoughts? The film on the left is a promo done for German tv as far as I know. Steve
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