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Post by ashleywood on Mar 18, 2024 23:48:04 GMT
Decades after their success and following his seeming inability to hand over the original video tapes / films of the surviving episodes of Ready Steady Go, Clark continues to lose respect for himself and his band. reissues have not been well handled, Adrian kerridge doesn’t always get props for his engineering which was an important component of their sound. DC doesn’t want anyone else to get any credit for what he thinks he did single handedly and that sadly includes Mike, Rick, Denis, Lenny and the man who apparently wrote some of their big hits, Ron Ryan.
Personally I quite like The Mike Smith Quintet but their drummer was a bit of a thingy
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Post by ashleywood on Mar 18, 2024 23:29:23 GMT
Oh dear Peter. Did you mention the rest of the band members by name or have pictures of them where DC wasn't at the front ?
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Post by ashleywood on Mar 6, 2024 20:48:43 GMT
Seems like they've added a 30-second clip to the auction listing since I originally linked to it. It appears to be composed of a couple of seconds each of various shots from the complete film rather than dwelling on any one thing for any length of time. But one would assume that each shot lasts considerably longer in the full version. But the quality at least is very good (for 8mm anyway.) I wonder where the Billy J.Kramer footage (about half way through) is from? probs RSG Mod Ball 8 April 64 ? They mimed Little Children and Sugar Babe
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Post by ashleywood on Mar 1, 2024 0:01:40 GMT
Just a quick heads up, Mighty Good is now available in the UK. More than 120 tracks from the series plus a very informative 64 page booklet all for the bargain price of 22 squids.
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Post by ashleywood on Jan 17, 2024 12:58:31 GMT
Amazon is showing February 2nd for release. For those interested, if you go google you can order it from other sellers in US, Europe.
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Post by ashleywood on Jan 11, 2024 17:36:18 GMT
So in terms of the missing episodes count, Mighty Good has - Four complete episodes (15, 19, 20, 24) Excerpts from nine other episodes (5, 13, 14, 16, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26) and excerpts from unknown shows from episodes 1 to 13. I expect many of those are from episodes 5 and 13 plus at least one more episode. So somewhere around half of the 26 episodes are now recovered in audio terms. I think the on set engineer Ron Parker is no longer with us but it's thanks to him and certain unknown home tapers that we have anything of this show left.
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Post by ashleywood on Jan 11, 2024 17:28:37 GMT
Looks like you have done some sterling work on this most comprehensive compilation Ash so well done. I have some encouraging news to impart regarding my own long running 'Oh Boy!' project you will be pleased to hear. I finally have clearances for two of my three documentaries with a distributor on board too... so both should be seeing the light of day in the next few months.I will start a new thread on this soon to give you more detail. That's fantastic news Paul. I've been following your work on this for years and hoping it would get suitable backing. Really looking forward to whatever comes out.
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Post by ashleywood on Jan 11, 2024 12:47:36 GMT
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Post by ashleywood on Jan 2, 2024 21:21:33 GMT
On the 14th May 1965 Ready Steady Go, Denis also played sax with The Kinks and RSG house band on Louie Louie. I forget if anyone else from DC5 is audible but Denis is.
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Post by ashleywood on Dec 21, 2023 13:16:41 GMT
BTW. that promo blurb looks like it got mangled. Here's what should be appearing in ads etc..
On 12th September 1959, ABC TV in the UK launched it’s follow up to Jack Good’s legendary pop tv series “Oh Boy!”. With Good once more in charge of production duties and Marty Wilde installed as compere, “Boy Meets Girls” had a more sedate presentation style compared to the frantic pacing of “Oh Boy!” but Good switched things around and by the end of the show’s run in March 1960, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Ronnie Hawkins and Billy Fury had all delivered electrifying performances leaving fond memories of the show. Tragically, six weeks after the series ended, Cochran was killed in a car crash and weeks later, hoping to re-broadcast his appearances in tribute, Jack Good discovered that ABC had wiped every single episode of “Boy Meets Girls”.
Fortunately, home tapers had been preserving music history and off air recordings of Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent were released early on in the Rockstar Records catalogue.
Decades later, on set audio recordings made by ABC TV engineer Ron Parker of Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent were located and in 2013, Rockstar Records released a CD taken from Ron’s tapes. “Boy Meets Girls TV Shows Vol. 1” also featured host Marty Wilde, Ronnie Hawkins, Lyn Cornell, The Vernons Girls and Johnny Cash as well as singer Johnny Gentle who, shortly after his “Boy Meets Girls” appearances, recruited a Liverpudlian band called The Silver Beetles for a May 1960 tour of Scotland. I wonder what happened to them….
Now it’s 2024 and Rockstar Records is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary. Naturally it was decided that something mighty good ought to be issued for such a prestigious occasion and so here is “Mighty Good”, a 3 CD archeological dig that presents every surviving second of audio from Jack Good’s series “Boy Meets Girls”. This set features four complete episodes of “Boy Meets Girls” alongside excerpts from several other episodes. In addition to classic “must hear” sets by Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent, you will hear Johnny Cash (in his first UK TV appearance) backed by Joe Brown and The Firing Squad, the “Italian Elvis” Little Tony, the versatile Marty Wilde, Billy Fury, Michael Cox, Adam Faith, Ronnie Hawkins, Jess Conrad and many others in performances which for the most part have not been heard since transmission in 1959 and 1960. The sleeve notes trace the development of the show and where possible, details for each episode have been provided, a task made difficult due to the scripts meeting the same fate as the TV episodes themselves. Jack Good was a pivotal force in the pre-Beatle years of British popular music. His influence on Cliff Richard, Marty Wilde, Billy Fury and Johnny Kidd was essential to their success and his TV series (“6.5 Special”, “Oh Boy!”, “Boy Meets Girls” and “Wham!!”) were critical to the development of pop music TV in the UK - from “Ready Steady Go” all the way through to “The Tube”. British radio and TV archival practice (ie. throw it in the bin) has deprived original viewers and future generations of the chance to check out the mighty Good’s work but “Boy Meets Girls” has now, in part, been rescued from archival oblivion. Rockstar Records proudly presents “Mighty Good”. We think you’ll find that it’s rather good !
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Post by ashleywood on Dec 21, 2023 12:48:31 GMT
Yeah please buy it. I worked really hard on it ! If anyone has any questions please fire away in this thread and I'll do my best to answer.
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Post by ashleywood on Aug 29, 2023 10:47:00 GMT
ok that worked, thanks Peter
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Post by ashleywood on Aug 29, 2023 10:44:52 GMT
Hey, yeah it's listed as chapter 16 but not present in between TV/Film and UK discography. I'll try removing and redownloading just in case and get back to you
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Post by ashleywood on Aug 29, 2023 10:10:03 GMT
Gadzooks 2 aug 65 (live tx) - Love Me Baby and I Want Candy (both live)
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Post by ashleywood on Aug 29, 2023 10:07:19 GMT
Hi There - 25 feb 64 rec. earlier the same day - We Know and Candy Man (both live)
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