Bonzo Dog Band on 'Ten Years Of What?'

[stevej]

This has just turned up on youtube. TV Brain lists 'Ten Years Of What?' as being transmitted 28/12/69 with only sequences from the programme existing. I've no idea of whether this is BBC or ITV, or indeed anything about the show. Given the date, I'm guessing it's some kind of end-of-decade music/arts review. Anyone know more?

[mattchurchett]

Following info taken from the fabulous TV Pop Diaries website

Sunday 28th December 1969
BBC2 Ten Years Of What? 7.25 – 9.50 pm
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (pre-recorded insert from 12th December session at the BBC)
Clips of The Beatles
John Peel in Top Gear studio
The Bonzo Dog Band - Noises for the Leg

[stevej]

Excellent, thanks Matt. And a fuller description from BBC Genome:

Radio Times synopsis:

A last look at the 1960s

with Jimmy Savile
and Sir Francis Chichester, Cardinal Heenan, Yehudi Menuhin, Malcolm Muggeridge, Enoch Powell, MP, Mary Quant, Arthur Schlesinger Jr
and Thomas Barman on the Cold War, James Mossman on Vietnam, John Peel on the Youth Revolution
and The Archbishop of Canterbury talking to David Sheppard, Bishop of Woolwich and The Bonzo Dog Band
and Robert Dougall with the sounds and pictures of the news that was
(Special feature on pages 101-106)
(Colour)

I wonder if Yehudi Menuhin was impressed by 'Noises for the leg'.......

[mattchurchett]

I’m assuming it was a review show like you said, but with only a few music segments. Not like Pop Goes The Sixties which was all music.

One I’ve never heard of before. Thanks for sharing the link.

[petercheck]

I do wonder if the Rolling Stones really performed 'Let It Bleed' - a song they didn't play live until 1981. More likely to be a song from the album, perhaps even the same performance of 'Gimme Shelter' that was shown 3 days later on 'Pop Goes The Sixties'?

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Sept 1, 2022 9:36:57 GMT petercheck said:

I do wonder if the Rolling Stones really performed 'Let It Bleed' - a song they didn't play live until 1981. More likely to be a song from the album, perhaps even the same performance of 'Gimme Shelter' that was shown 3 days later on 'Pop Goes The Sixties'?

the Stones taped three songs the same day, used on 3 different BBC shows.

Honky Tonk Women, TOTP, 25/12/1969; Gimme Shelter, Pop Go the Sixties (31/12/1969) and Let it Bleed, Ten Years of What? (28/12/1969).

They were all recorded as inserts on 12/12/1969.

[petercheck]

Sept 1, 2022 11:00:09 GMT Ray Langstone (was saintsray) said:

Sept 1, 2022 9:36:57 GMT petercheck said:

I do wonder if the Rolling Stones really performed 'Let It Bleed' - a song they didn't play live until 1981. More likely to be a song from the album, perhaps even the same performance of 'Gimme Shelter' that was shown 3 days later on 'Pop Goes The Sixties'?

the Stones taped three songs the same day, used on 3 different BBC shows.

Honky Tonk Women, TOTP, 25/12/1969; Gimme Shelter, Pop Go the Sixties (31/12/1969) and Let it Bleed, Ten Years of What? (28/12/1969).

They were all recorded as inserts on 12/12/1969.

Another Stones "holy grail" then (up there with 1967's 'Sunday Night At The London Palladium' and 'The Eamonn Andrews Show'!).