1960's Music Promo Clips

[ajsmith]

Aug 14, 2020 20:17:46 GMT Mike Goldwater said:

Another promo clip I've found is a filmed insert for "Only One Woman" (1968) by The Marbles, which was filmed for Austrian tv station ORF.



A few weeks later, the Bee Gees also did a filmed insert for "I've Gotta Get a Message To You" for the same TV show, which features similar overlayed animated graphics by the same artist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fazd4NcFXBQ. Inadvertedly this promo may have provided the inspiration for the 'Idea' TV special which was filmed not long after this clip was produced.

Wow, those Marbles and Bee Gees clips are surreally fantastic!

[Mike Goldwater]

Here are some more mute clips, where the music track has been replaced with another. If anyone knows where these clips originate from, then let me know.


Petula Clark (c.1966) - Colour Film



This colour clip of Petula Clark in Paris presumably dates from around 1965/6, since she filmed a number of promo clips for French television during this period. However all those clips are in monochrome as it was not until 1967 when France started broadcasting in colour, so this clip may have been filmed by a US television network, as Clark also made a number of TV appearances in the US at the time, most of them in colour.



The Outer Limits (c.1967) - B&W Film



Before Jeff Christie had a hit with the song "Yellow River" in 1970, he was a member of a short lived band called The Outer Limits who made a few singles during 1967-8. It appears they may have filmed a promo in 1967, some footage appears in a documentary made shortly after the band broke up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=avRnFgF4-8M, yet the original music track was replaced when it featured in the doc, so the mystery continues.


Paul Anka (c.1965) - Colour Film



This presumably comes from a Scopiotone/ Cinebox source, although this footage is a mystery as I cannot source another copy of this anywhere else it seems.

[Peter Stirling]

Aug 17, 2020 18:05:50 GMT Mike Goldwater said:

Here are some more mute clips, where the music track has been replaced with another. If anyone knows where these clips originate from, then let me know.


Petula Clark (c.1966) - Colour Film



This colour clip of Petula Clark in Paris presumably dates from around 1965/6, since she filmed a number of promo clips for French television during this period. However all those clips are in monochrome as it was not until 1967 when France started broadcasting in colour, so this clip may have been filmed by a US television network, as Clark also made a number of TV appearances in the US at the time, most of them in colour.

There is a slight possibility that it was filmed for the 'Tale of Two Rivers' programme,(or programme(s) depending on where it was transmitted) which featured a boat going down the river in Paris and London with acts singing and playing. Made on VT it probably does not exist anymore?

However it did have pre-filmed inserts, the only one I have seen is a DC5 tune with Dave Clark and Cathy Mcgowan in a speed boat going up the Thames.

[Bob Savage (robstar)]

Aug 17, 2020 18:05:50 GMT Mike Goldwater said:

Here are some more mute clips, where the music track has been replaced with another. If anyone knows where these clips originate from, then let me know.


Petula Clark (c.1966) - Colour Film



This colour clip of Petula Clark in Paris presumably dates from around 1965/6, since she filmed a number of promo clips for French television during this period. However all those clips are in monochrome as it was not until 1967 when France started broadcasting in colour, so this clip may have been filmed by a US television network, as Clark also made a number of TV appearances in the US at the time, most of them in colour.



The Outer Limits (c.1967) - B&W Film



Before Jeff Christie had a hit with the song "Yellow River" in 1970, he was a member of a short lived band called The Outer Limits who made a few singles during 1967-8. It appears they may have filmed a promo in 1967, some footage appears in a documentary made shortly after the band broke up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=avRnFgF4-8M, yet the original music track was replaced when it featured in the doc, so the mystery continues.


Paul Anka (c.1965) - Colour Film



This presumably comes from a Scopiotone/ Cinebox source, although this footage is a mystery as I cannot source another copy of this anywhere else it seems.

Heres 5he Outer Limits footage from an original Yorkshire TV documentary that still survives amazingly- youtu.be/avRnFgF4-8M

[Mike Goldwater]

Here are some more recent discoveries:

"Shame and Scandal in the Family" - Shawn Elliott (1964) - B&W Film



This early promo was filmed on the Eiffel Tower in 1965, presumably as a filmed insert for a French TV show at the time.


"Maybe Tomorrow" - The Iveys (1968) - Colour Film



Before they were known as Badfinger the following year, they filmed a promo for their first single in late 1968, shortly after signing with Apple in July of that year. I've also managed find two monochrome promos for the same song filmed early the following year, which were probably filmed inserts for TV shows.