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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 29, 2015 13:12:29 GMT
OK thanks for filling me in.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 28, 2015 18:38:40 GMT
Mabye slightly OT: where did the tapes of Claws of Axos & other NTSC Pertwee episodes turn up in Canada?
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 22, 2015 12:54:51 GMT
Has the one with David Yip been recovered?
I remember someone mentioned online years ago it was one that had been wiped.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 7, 2015 20:38:42 GMT
I remember Les Dennis & Dustin Gee did a very good spoof of it, where Paul magic-ed away a contestent causing trouble.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 7, 2015 13:13:31 GMT
Interestingly I heard CKTC's Down To Earth being played in a shop last week, the first time in over 20 years I had heard it away from my chart tape from early 1987.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 6, 2015 18:16:28 GMT
As the 1980s make up almost all my pre-teen years I do have a soft spot for the music of that time, though I've savvy enough to tell the really bad stuff from the "not really good but it was as everywhere" material.
As videos became standard there seemed to a shift towards watching TV shows that featured music. As well as TOTP & the ITV chart show the weekend morning shows featured a lot. Even after hearing a song a few times on the radio seeing the video often added an extra dimension to it.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 6, 2015 13:26:23 GMT
Paul Lynde was also a regular in Bewitched, & the inspiration for Roger The Alien in American Dad.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 5, 2015 21:56:41 GMT
The Tube seemed to overtake The Old Grey Whistle Test as the best music programme for non-mainstream acts.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 3, 2015 22:46:02 GMT
TV Cream estimated that there will be the same number of episodes as for 1979, 34 IIRC.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 3, 2015 13:09:51 GMT
The 2 programmes about TOTP in 1980 were very good, especially showing the changeover of style after the MU strike, leading to the "party" era that I first remember TOTP being like.
The pilot looked odd with BBC staffers miming very badly.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 2, 2015 12:44:21 GMT
I've heard of some 78 rpm disc being used for playback of songs for miming in films, I guess the output was patched into the sound recording rather than been dubbed on later.
Some from Elivs Presley, The Beatles & Cliff Richard's films I've seen listed in a collectable records book.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 1, 2015 23:33:18 GMT
I've heard of 16" discs being used for radio transcriptons, not sure what speed, possibly 33rpm.
One quirk on some was the groove started in the centre & worked outward, I guess it's easier to queue up live on air.
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Post by Richard Marple on Dec 31, 2014 21:55:48 GMT
I remember my parents first had digital cable from Cable & Wireless. It was supposedly possible to browse certain websites & do emails through the box, but worked so slowly as to be useless.
Lucky for us we had a 2nd phone line through the cable so we could go online through that until we got broadband a few years later.
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Post by Richard Marple on Dec 31, 2014 16:52:53 GMT
I've heard of some companies using 80 rpm for shellac discs, & many could have been recorded anywere between 65 - 100 rpm due to basic equipment used in recording & mastering.
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Post by Richard Marple on Dec 29, 2014 12:14:16 GMT
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