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Post by John Green on May 28, 2022 21:30:02 GMT
19.05.1960 Episode No. 1 (missing) says TV Brain. I'm guessing the show was on ITV (it's not listed on IMDB) since it's not on BBC Genome, though that does list:
On Stage, Everybody! Light Programme
Sun 22nd May 1960, 21:00
where one or two numbers from the show were included in the selection.
The Library of Congress has sheet-music with songs from the show:
CONTAINS:
Class
High-hat, low-down
Life
Primitive island
Rockin' and rollin' in loch lomond
Time to love is now.
Billboard dated 11 April 1960 calls Harlem Heatwave "the floorshow at the Pigalle Restaurant London, scored by U.S. song-writer Benny Davis."
Anyone know more about the TV show?
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Post by Peter Stirling on May 28, 2022 23:12:40 GMT
Don't think it was a series just a one-off ?
The Library of Congress probably have it as it was mainly New York-based entertainers( but with some Jamaican groups as well) bringing a 'Cotton Club' style (the whole nine yards) show to a London Restaurant.
..something like that anyway.
If some appeared on the BBC later then they would have not used clips from their rivals they would be separate performances made by the BBC.
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Post by John Green on May 29, 2022 1:07:18 GMT
Yeah, the 'episode 1' bit is just a convention.
I should have made it clear that the BBC listing is for a radio show.
The Library of Congress lists: "The Time to Love is Now from the all star, all colored revue Harlem Heatwave".
I have a feeling that I read somewhere that a cast album was due to be released, but it seems to have been cancelled, which makes it even more of a pity that the TV show is missing.
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Post by johnpoole on May 29, 2022 9:11:08 GMT
The site www.thehidehoblog.com/blog/2017/05/cotton-club-revue-season-3-1959-from-chicago-to-south-america-and-new-yorkhas the following reference - "The cast of the Cotton Club Revue will have another experience with “Harlem Heatwave” a new show by Benny DAVIS with almost the same cast as with Cab Calloway: Mauri LEIGHTON, Paul MEERS and LaRAINE, Norma MILLER, The Three CHOCOLATEERS (billed as “Three Zanies From Manhattan”), Joel NOBLE, plus The Four Clefs, Jack Hammer, The Two Earls, and Baby LAWRENCE. Subtitled “La Revue Nègre 1960” for its Parisian stay at Paris Olympia, the revue was as risqué as Josephine Baker’s revue from 1924! The revue toured Europe: Madrid, Spain in November 1959, April 1960 in Paris, and from April to August 1960 at the Pigalle restaurant in London, UK. There, the show was taped and aired on May 19 on AR-TV. EMI released an LP on HMV (as Billboard notices, “probably the first time a British cabaret production has been issued in album form.” – April 11, 1960). And at that time, Mauri Leighton was signed by HMV for ‘Time to Love is Now’. Apparently, the show will be back in 1961!" The Mauri Leighton single 'Time to Love is Now (from Harlem Heatwave)' was issued on HMV on 18th March, 1960 but I cannot find any evidence of the LP being issued www.45cat.com/record/pop723The TV show was screened on ITV between 21.35 - 22.30 tvrdb.com/listings/1960-05-19 |
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Post by tonyrees on May 29, 2022 9:16:06 GMT
Hello everyone, on my TV Pop Diaries website I've got it as...
Thursday 19th May 1960
Associated Rediffusion Harlem Heatwave 9.35 - 10.30 pm
Jack Hammer
Norma Miller & Her Jazzmen
The Southlanders
Mauri Leighton
The Joel Nobel Trio
Woolf Phillips and his orchestra
but I didn't have the songs listed, so thanks for that!
The TV Times claimed "This show aims at reproducing the atmosphere and style of entertainment of New York's famous Cotton Club..."
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Post by John Green on May 29, 2022 11:05:11 GMT
"The Mauri Leighton single 'Time to Love is Now (from Harlem Heatwave)' was issued on HMV on 18th March, 1960". Worth noting, perhaps, that the B side was a standard, rather than another song from the show. Maybe none of the other numbers would have been appropriate? www.45cat.com/record/pop723Worth |
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