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Post by Paul Rumbol on Mar 16, 2024 6:30:30 GMT
Cliff Richard performing 'Where Did Our Love Go' comes from the 1964 Royal Command Performance broadcast by the BBC on 2nd November that year. From memory Cliff sang 'Wonderful Life' (the title track from his new film, 'Twelfth of Never'(a Top Ten hit for him that year) and closed with the Supremes 'Where Did Our Love Go'. The Shadows performed their current hit 'Flingel Bunt','Tonight'(from 'West Side Story') and the folk song 'Five Hundred Miles'(vocal).
There's a wealth of unseen clips from other artists in this Royal Variety Show too, but until recently the sclerotic BBC never made a decent transfer of it. Little wonder its contents have rarely been seen.
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Post by petercheck on Mar 16, 2024 7:00:00 GMT
Did anyone catch 'Lamont Dozier at the BBC' a few years back? Apparently it included rare footage from 1964 of Cliff Richard performing The Supremes' 'Where Did Our Love Go'. It's on Facebook, but filmed from a TV set: www.facebook.com/635731443/videos/5851714664894203Thank you anyway. |
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Post by petercheck on Mar 16, 2024 7:02:14 GMT
Cliff Richard performing 'Where Did Our Love Go' comes from the 1964 Royal Command Performance broadcast by the BBC on 2nd November that year. From memory Cliff sang 'Wonderful Life'(the title track from his new film, 'Twelfth of Never'( a Top Ten hit for him that year) and closed with the Supremes 'Where Did Our Love Go'.The Shadows performed their current hit 'Flingel Bunt'. There's a wealth of unseen clips from other artists in this Royal Variety Show too, but until recently the sclerotic BBC didn't even bother to make a decent transfer of it. Little wonder its contents have rarely been seen. I do have the three Cliff songs from this - albeit in very poor quality, downloaded from youtube years ago. |
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Post by petercheck on Oct 7, 2024 10:18:27 GMT
Peter i've been after this German TV show for years. Here's the notes i made over a decade ago: Cliff & The Shadows recorded this live show for German television in May 1967 and remains unseen to this day. I believe ZDF own the copyright and their studio performance was edited into two separate broadcasts. SHOW ONE 1. Rise & Fall of Flingel Bunt (Shadows) 2. The Minute You're Gone 3. Somewhere (Shadows) 4. Time Drags By 5. Spanish Harlem 6. A Little Bitty Tear (Shadows) 7. In The Country SHOW TWO 1. Apache (Shadows) 2. Lucky Lips 3. Move It 4. Time Drags By (Repeat from Show One) 5. FBI (Shadows) 6. What'd I Say Clips of five songs from this show have found their way onto YouTube in the past - In The Country, Lucky Lips, Move It,Apache (Shads) and 'What I'd Say'. This final track is a real cracking performance which i have on audio. The big let-down in the whole production is the camera director - a rank amateur who infuriatingly for the most part focuses on the audience and not the performers! Looks like all 7 Cliff Richard songs (only) will be on Cliff's youtube channel next week: |
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Post by Nathan Dickel on Oct 12, 2024 14:07:18 GMT
Peter i've been after this German TV show for years. Here's the notes i made over a decade ago: Cliff & The Shadows recorded this live show for German television in May 1967 and remains unseen to this day. I believe ZDF own the copyright and their studio performance was edited into two separate broadcasts. SHOW ONE 1. Rise & Fall of Flingel Bunt (Shadows) 2. The Minute You're Gone 3. Somewhere (Shadows) 4. Time Drags By 5. Spanish Harlem 6. A Little Bitty Tear (Shadows) 7. In The Country SHOW TWO 1. Apache (Shadows) 2. Lucky Lips 3. Move It 4. Time Drags By (Repeat from Show One) 5. FBI (Shadows) 6. What'd I Say Clips of five songs from this show have found their way onto YouTube in the past - In The Country, Lucky Lips, Move It,Apache (Shads) and 'What I'd Say'. This final track is a real cracking performance which i have on audio. The big let-down in the whole production is the camera director - a rank amateur who infuriatingly for the most part focuses on the audience and not the performers! Looks like all 7 Cliff Richard songs (only) will be on Cliff's youtube channel next week: I definitely remember In The Country from this on YouTube in the early days. |
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Post by petercheck on Oct 12, 2024 14:16:51 GMT
And 'Move It', with Cliff watching himself on TV in 1970, can be seen here at around the 18 minutes and 35 seconds mark (complete with a very strange Hank guitar solo!):
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Post by paul carney on Oct 12, 2024 17:56:26 GMT
And 'Move It', with Cliff watching himself on TV in 1970, can be seen here at around the 18 minutes and 35 seconds mark (complete with a very strange Hank guitar solo!): That is a full on rocking version of Move It. Impressive.😎 |
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Post by petercheck on Oct 14, 2024 16:25:08 GMT
Just watched it for the first time, brilliant footage! 'Time Drags By' is sublime.
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Oct 14, 2024 20:24:56 GMT
My favourite too Peter, a forgotten classic that one. I also enjoyed 'What'd I Say' from what little I saw of the group. Most of the time the cameras were fixed on the frenzied girls in the audience which may be entertaining at first, but soon becomes tiresome after the first couple of numbers.
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Post by petercheck on Nov 1, 2024 12:23:11 GMT
Hi all, I've a new book out that may interest some of you... CLIFF RICHARD - THE SHADOWS YEARS!
Exploding into the charts in The Fifties, Cliff Richard and The Shadows invented The Sixties: a string of largely self-composed hit singles, global success that rivalled Elvis Presley, ‘Beat Group’ two guitars, bass and drums instrumentation, appearances on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’, classic movies with their memorable music and zany humour, and the era’s most influential guitarist - they truly set the template for The Beatles and all that followed. In this remarkable book, acclaimed author and music historian Peter Checksfield looks at the music Cliff Richard made - both with and without The Shadows - during the first decade of his sensational career. Music that quite literally changed the world!
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Post by petercheck on Nov 12, 2024 20:16:33 GMT
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