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Post by geoffleonard on Nov 24, 2017 22:31:10 GMT
I'm fairly sure it's not, William. The Eagles were a Shadows-like 4-piece group that specialised in guitar instrumentals. The clip sounds much more recent than '63. BTW, do you know which edition of NME carried that info? Hi Geoff, Thanks for your interest, I don't know which issue of the NME but I will have a look and try and locate it for you. Might take a while? Thanks, William, no hurry at all. Since both record and series were scheduled for release in October '63, one assumes it would have been around that time.
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Post by geoffleonard on Nov 23, 2017 21:35:55 GMT
An NME from 1963 mentioned that Ron Grainer wrote the theme tune for the 5 O'Clock Club which was entitled "Eagles Nest" by a group called "The Eagles" I have searched on YouTube for this but can't find the song...I then came across this website and it had this... www.televisiontunes.com/5_O_Clock_Show_(The).htmldoes any forum member know if this the "Eagles Nest" theme tune? I'm fairly sure it's not, William. The Eagles were a Shadows-like 4-piece group that specialised in guitar instrumentals. The clip sounds much more recent than '63. BTW, do you know which edition of NME carried that info?
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Post by geoffleonard on Oct 30, 2017 23:56:19 GMT
I would have thought there is plenty of cricket in the BBC archives, particularly home test matches, but also Gillette Cup, B & H Trophy, etc.. I remember seeing a clip of a 60s test match on A Question of Sport, and it was just a couple of deliveries from a completely uneventful passage of play. This led me to believe they probably had the entire match stored. There is a clip on youtube of Mike Proctor taking a hat-trick for Glos v. Hants in a B & H match in the 70s, and I know the BBC have the famous Lancs v. Glos Gillette Cup match from 1971, which finished around 9 o'clock in the evening. Laker's 19-90 test v. Australia in 1956 appears to be available, though when shown it usually seems to be as part of a Newsreel report with some of the commentary being lost because of the voiceover.
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Post by geoffleonard on Oct 24, 2017 23:58:46 GMT
Yes, they appeared on 21st March 1964. I note IMDb has credited the wrong "Coasters" in this case -- I'll submit a correction.
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Post by geoffleonard on Sept 26, 2017 19:50:31 GMT
Very sorry to learn of the death of Jack Good a couple of days ago, apparently after a fall at home. His work on TV series such as Six-Five Special, Oh Boy! and Boy Meets Girls should ensure he will always have his place in TV history, but there was much more to him than that, as I'm sure longer obits will show. RIP, Jack, you were the greatest.
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Post by geoffleonard on Sept 15, 2017 22:17:38 GMT
There's a lot of detail here about the songs "performed", though I can't guarantee it's 100% accurate! ohboy.org.uk/thank-your-lucky-stars/Good luck with the book, if I find anything else I'll let you know.
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Post by geoffleonard on May 28, 2017 12:09:44 GMT
Great news for you Geoff! its the November 1958 episode featuring John Barry Seven's final appearance performing 'Farrago' Yes, Paul, it's also the first TV appearance for three musicians who had just joined the band: Dougie Wright (drums), Dennis King (tenor sax) and Vic Flick (guitar). So looking forward to this, assuming I can get a ticket.
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Post by geoffleonard on May 27, 2017 10:11:53 GMT
I missed this -- was there any mention of the episode of Oh Boy! that's been discovered?
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Post by geoffleonard on Mar 27, 2017 0:05:35 GMT
It is a pity, I agree, but it was always difficult to manage and the constant trolling probably occupied staff who could have been better employed elsewhere on the site. I used to enjoy the contributors help board and occasionally tried to help there, but I rarely checked out the other boards -- life's too short.
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Post by geoffleonard on Mar 15, 2017 12:53:07 GMT
I'm not 100% sure that we can take anything Wikipedia says as gospel, John. For a start, they have a still of the supposed opening title in their Newcomers entry, but it's not from the BBC soap - it's from a US documentary film of the same name. Check it out: The UK Newcomers had it's theme taken out of John Barry's session cupboard recorded circa 1962. The theme didn't exactly come out of John Barry's session cupboard. "Fancy Dance" was a single (45) released on the Ember label in 1963. The BBC seemed to have discovered it from a John Barry e.p. released by Ember in 1964, called "The Loneliness of Autumn", which also included the theme. Incidentally, the sax was played by John Scott, who later became an accomplished composer of TV and film scores.
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Post by geoffleonard on Mar 8, 2017 21:29:01 GMT
I know that the JB7 appeared on an existing Sunday Night At The Palladium but it doesn't look like a SNALP set though? No, it's not SNALP, though the time-frame fits. I've seen that episode and it's a very plain set and one of the JB7 was absent through illness. It's quite sad, really, that most of their TV work is missing or wiped. Appearances on Six-Five Special, Oh Boy!, Music Shop, Drumbeat, The Jack Jackson Show, TYLS, The Melody Dances -- all gone.
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Post by geoffleonard on Mar 7, 2017 23:49:22 GMT
I'm getting to this several years late, I realise, but Bernie Andrews bequeathed all his BBC recordings to a collector and archivist, and at least one double CD was released a few years ago consisting of Cliff Richard & The Shadows -- all from Saturday Club sessions.
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Post by geoffleonard on Mar 7, 2017 23:35:56 GMT
Quite apart from the silly new start time, presumably just to get Dermot O'Leary a breakfast show, Tony Blackburn is by far from the perfect replacement if his first show is anything to go by. It was really just "The Tony Blackburn Show", with the usual "jokes" and talking over the start and endings of records. Not for me, I'm afraid.
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Post by geoffleonard on Mar 7, 2017 23:25:35 GMT
All That Jazz *could* be a contender, despite the JB7's appearances being filmed in November '61, because JB did say he might consider appearing again "if some TV or radio comes along." They also appeared a couple of times in "Sunday Break" (ABC) but I get the impression that was filmed in a small studio. Another contact feels that TYLS is still a possibility, especially because in the photo no amps are visible -- signifying miming to a record.
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Post by geoffleonard on Mar 7, 2017 1:44:36 GMT
""Drumbeat was a BBC television series that aired every Saturday from 4 April to 29 August 1959. It was the BBC's answer and rival to ITV's Oh Boy! series, though as the latter finished on 30 May, for most of its run Drumbeat had no comparable competition. The series was broadcast live with the exception of the episode of 18 July, which was telerecorded. None of the episodes are known to have survived."" (from Wikipedia, edited) Dougie Wright, the JB7's drummer at the time, remains convinced that the show was sold to Australian TV, though if that was the case, presumably the BBC would have had to film all the live broadcasts? I hope one day to verify this, possibly from a visit to BBC Written Archives.
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