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Post by Nigel Lees on Apr 17, 2021 14:56:50 GMT
Hi folks, the Top Sounds label has released a 10" LP and CD called 'Three Saturdays With Billy', featuring 7 thought lost performances from 1968 and 1969 editions of 'Saturday Club', as well as an audio of a 1968 TV appearance on 'Dee Time', again thought lost. There are also two chats with Billy and Keith Skues. Quality of the music is superb, sourced from actual BBC broadcast tapes. Available via the Top Sounds website topsoundsrecords.co.uk/home.html and at the moment currently available on ebay too. |
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Post by John Green on Apr 18, 2021 16:26:56 GMT
Following his signing to EMI in December 1966 Billy Fury would record some eleven singles for Parlophone until late 1970, and for much of this period he continued to regularly record live sessions for the BBC. However, as was BBC policy during those times, most of these live recordings were destroyed and only eight tracks from 1967 to 1970 have since appeared, and nothing from 1968 and '69 was known to survive — until now. Top Sounds' new release — Three Saturdays With Billy — is literally just that, offering seven previously unreleased live recordings performed for the Radio One programme Saturday Club, as well as an audio of a performance taken from an appearance on Simon Dee's Dee Time TV show. Those Saturday Club performances were saved from actual broadcast tapes and survive in superb quality, and include unique versions of tracks such as David Bowie's 'Silly Boy Blue' and the Bee Gees' 'One Minute Woman', as well as some scintillating rockers like Billy's own 'Bye Bye' and Chuck Berry's 'Sweet Little Sixteen'. Billy's studio capture of 'I Love You' was never released in his lifetime and though a nice version was issued on The Missing Years compilation, the feverish rendition here recorded with his then backing group the Storm ranks as Billy's wildest recording ever. Two interviews with Billy also survive from these broadcasts and feature on this release and Billy's most left field single - 'Phone Box' - gained some TV exposure on the aforementioned Dee Time, and the maestro here plays guitar and sings it live.
Three Saturdays With Billy is available on both 10" vinyl and CD, the record comes with a profusely illustrated 24 page booklet including unpublished photographs, the CD too features a 24 page booklet and also includes a radio broadcast of his 'Lady' single introduced by Billy himself.
Three Saturdays With Billy is a legitimate release arranged with the BBC, and with the permission and blessing of the Billy Fury Estate.
SIDE 1
SILLY BOY BLUE
(Broadcast on Saturday Club, 10th February 1968)
ONE MINUTE WOMAN
(Broadcast on Saturday Club, 10th February 1968)
BILLY TALKS TO KEITH SKUES.
(Broadcast on Saturday Club,10th February 1968)
BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT
(Broadcast on Saturday Club, 10th February 1968)
BABY DO YOU LOVE ME
(Broadcast on Saturday Club,10th February 1968)
SIDE 2
PHONE BOX (THE MONKEY'S IN THE JAM JAR)
(Transmitted on Dee Time, 28th September 1968)
I LOVE YOU
(Broadcast on Saturday Club, 18th January 1969)
SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN
(Broadcast on Saturday Club,18th January 1969)
BILLY TALKS TO KEITH SKUES
(Broadcast on Saturday Club, 18th January 1969)
BYE BYE
(Broadcast on Saturday Club, 18th January 1969)
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Post by garystevens on Apr 19, 2021 12:56:29 GMT
BBC Sessions Database
Billy Fury and The Plainsmen I'll Go Along With It 2'05" 12.06.67
Billy Fury and The Plainsmen It Don't Matter Now 2'35" 12.06.67
Billy Fury and The Plainsmen Loving You 2'05" 12.06.67
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers Away From You 12.07.65
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers Baby What's Wrong 2'22" 26.05.65
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers Bye Bye 2'20" 31.05.66
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers Don't Let A Little Pride 2'51" 31.05.66
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers Find Out What's Happening 2'11" 25.07.66
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers Forbidden Fruit 2'37" 21.02.66
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers Give Me Your Word 2'17" 25.07.66
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers Hurtin' Is Loving 2'20" 23.01.67
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers I Belong To The Wind 2'12" 21.02.66
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers I Can Feel It 2'38" 26.05.65
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers I Go 2'03" 31.05.66
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers I Must Be Dreaming 1'55" 04.10.65
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers I'd Like To Know 12.07.65
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers I'll Never Quite Get Over You 2'36" 21.02.66
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers In Thoughts Of You 12.07.65
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers Lovey Dovey 2'15" 26.05.65
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers My Baby Left Me 2'10" 23.01.67
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers My Whole World Seems To Be Tumblin' Down 2'45" 25.07.66
Billy Fury, and The Gamblers Run To My Loving Arms 2'45" 04.10.65
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Post by Paul Hayes on May 13, 2021 8:50:51 GMT
I remember we repeated the 10th February 1968 recordings in Keith's old show across the BBC East stations back in 2019. Or some of them, anyway - we re-ran the first half of that edition as an archive "middle hour".
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Post by Nigel Lees on May 13, 2021 16:56:04 GMT
Hi Paul, well I'm surprised to hear that - can you remember where you got the music from? Thank you for that post.
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Post by Paul Hayes on May 15, 2021 21:38:25 GMT
Hi Paul, well I'm surprised to hear that - can you remember where you got the music from? Thank you for that post. Keith holds a complete copy of that Saturday Club, which he gave me a copy of to edit down to a few minutes of highlights for his Radio 1 50th anniversary special show in 2017. Fast-forward to Easter 2019, and Keith was off ill and I had to stand in for him at short notice. I still wanted to preserve Keith's presence in the programme, and as he usually ran an "archive hour" in the middle, I re-ran the complete first hour of the show, as I still had a copy of the whole thing. (Well, complete minus some listeners' addresses which I nipped out to be on the safe side, and also minus the news bulletin halfway through which I replaced with me doing a live re-cap on what we were running and why). |
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Post by Nigel Lees on May 16, 2021 16:49:10 GMT
Interesting Paul and thank you indeed for that, anything else similar in his cupboard do you know?
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Post by Paul Hayes on May 16, 2021 20:12:49 GMT
Interesting Paul and thank you indeed for that, anything else similar in his cupboard do you know? I believe the only other complete edition he has from his time is the 10th anniversary special. |
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Post by Nigel Lees on May 17, 2021 7:18:14 GMT
OK Paul, thank you again.
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