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Post by Peter Stirling on Jan 13, 2024 20:14:33 GMT
A collector says he has discovered about half of the very lost pop movie ' Farewell Performance' (1963) in his collection.
For those not familiar with the plot it is about a nasty 'teenage heartthrob' pop star who gets murdered.
Alfred Burke is in it plus a few familiar acting faces.
Pop star Heinz is the good guy.
The film vanished soon after it been on release and the Joe Meek connection enhanced the mystery.
You Tube teaser
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Post by petercheck on Jan 15, 2024 8:32:21 GMT
There's possibilities that Africa Shakes might surface. It was shown at a Johannesburg film festival in 2016, so it definately still exists. Would be good to finally see, as would 'Farewell Performance'. |
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Post by Thomas Walsh on Jan 17, 2024 6:14:49 GMT
Somewhat off topic: I still hope Popdown may be viewable one day. I saw it at the Scala in 84 & although my memory is very blurry it was very groovy & nicely psychedelic in places. Just to stop my Columbo like approach to this bloody film, can you confirm if you saw the Idle Race perform in the cut of the movie that you saw in '84? Cheers. |
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Post by Peter Prentice on Jan 17, 2024 9:59:22 GMT
Somewhat off topic: I still hope Popdown may be viewable one day. I saw it at the Scala in 84 & although my memory is very blurry it was very groovy & nicely psychedelic in places. Just to stop my Columbo like approach to this bloody film, can you confirm if you saw the Idle Race perform in the cut of the movie that you saw in '84? Cheers. And not just the Idle Race. The biggest mystery of all is Nanette Workman's participation. If you told me you saw her I could die with a smile on my face. |
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Post by Peter Prentice on Jan 17, 2024 11:18:00 GMT
Here's why:
24 March 1964 Nanette Workman makes her debut in the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the 46th Street Theatre on Broadway. The singer had auditioned for the show on the suggestion of its star Rudy Vallée following a presentation put together by the New York restaurateur and nightclub owner Hy Uchitel. Often described as her uncle, and sometimes cousin, Uchitel was in fact the cousin of her mother Beatryce*.
*As head of the so-called Uchitel Group, Uchitel’s brother Maurice was at that time co-owner of Scopitone Inc., a video jukebox operation organised by Miami Beach attorney Alvin Malnik. He and the Uchitel Group were equal partners in the operation.
February 1966 Nanette Workman is brought to Montreal by the Canadian singer Tony Roman. That same year he would launch his own record company, Canusa.
c.February/March 1967 Nanette Workman meets Pierre Cardin in Paris during a short European vacation with Tony Roman. The meeting was to result in the designer offering her a job modelling his next collection.
c.March 1967 Nanette, Nanette Workman’s debut LP, is released in Canada.
27 April 1967 The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or Expo 67 as it was more commonly known, opens in Montreal, Canada. It was while driving away from the event that Nanette Workman’s future manager, Richard Armitage, first heard her sing. They were to meet shortly after*.
*As Armitage remembered events in his sleeve notes to Nanette’s Columbia LP of 1970:
Driving away from the opening of Expo 67 in Montreal I heard one track of a - to me - unknown Canadian singer, Nanette. I cancelled my flight to New York, tracked down the owner of the Supervoice, and discovered that the person matched the song. Unusually, the ability to write words and music, is capped by an unspoiled friendliness, all of which well repays the eighteen months of negotiation that have now led to London becoming her base, 4,326 jet miles from her home in Jackson, Mississippi. Blow the dust off all those punch-drunk adjectives. Nanette is one of three or four singers in a generation who wears them all with grace.
28 April 1967 Nanette Workman and Tony Roman participate in the opening show of Expo 67 at la Place des Nations.
Last week of April/first week of May 1967 Nanette Workman models in a fashion show organised by La Gaminerie, a new Montreal boutique.
June 1967 Nanette Workman is voted Female Discovery of the Year at the 1967 Gala des Artistes in Montreal.
Pre-17 June 1967 Richard Armitage is signed to handle the personal management of Nanette Workman and Tony Roman in Britain. Armitage was the son of Noel Gay and head of the Noel Gay Organisation, one of the biggest showbusiness agencies in Britain.
17 June 1967 Nanette Workman records her version of The Look of Love at a major studio in New York. Issued as a single ten days later, the track was coupled with I’m Going Home, her only known contribution to the Popdown soundtrack.
24 June 1967 Billboard includes a full-page advertisement for Nanette Workman’s Canusa 45, The Look of Love. Despite a $12,000 publicity drive, the record failed to make an impression.
27 June 1967 Nanette Workman’s first U.S. single, The Look of Love, is launched in the USA with the singer promoting the disc in Detroit, Michigan. Appearances were planned in a further fourteen cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
July 1967 Nanette Workman and Tony Roman perform in front of 5,400 people over two nights at Kamouraska in Quebec.
15 October 1967 Nanette - the “super new singer in pow now knits” - is seen in a fashion spread for U.S. Vogue. David Bailey was the photographer.
20 November 1967 Tony Roman presents Nanette Workman with an expensive diamond engagement ring on her twenty-second birthday.
December 1967 Nanette Workman’s second U.S. single, You Know Where to Find Me/He Knows How, is released to much the same reception as the first. The A-side was a co-composition by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder, the Strangers in the Night songwriter who had been involved with Fred Marshall in Miami.
19 December 1967 Nanette Workman records a guest appearance for Pat Boone in Hollywood at NBC Studios in Burbank, Los Angeles. She would perform two songs - El Maintenant and new U.S. single You Know Where to Find Me - in the syndicated talk/variety show.
2-16 January 1968 The Nanette Workman episode of Pat Boone in Hollywood is broadcast across the USA. Other guests in the show included Pat Paulsen, Erroll Garner and Jack Palance*.
*In a curious foretelling of the future, Nanette was described as a model in some American newspaper listings.
27 January 1968 Nanette Workman is named Canada’s fifth best-selling recording artist at the closing gala of the second MIDEM. The festival had marked her first appearance on a European stage.
11 March 1968 Nanette Workman begins a week’s residency at the Casa Loma in Toronto accompanied by a thirteen-piece orchestra.
Early June 1968 Nanette Workman and Tony Roman record Fleurs d’amour, fleurs d’amitié, the title song of their new television series, and Les petites choses, a Francophone interpretation of Sonny and Cher’s It’s the Little Things.
3 June 1968 Nanette Workman and Tony Roman appear on Canadian television show Le Club des Jnobs to talk about their new series Fleurs d’amour, fleurs d’amitié. They also performed the title song.
5 June 1968 After recording the first show of her new television series, Fleurs d’amour, fleurs d’amitié, Nanette Workman arrives back in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, to perform at the Jackson Op Pops Concert*.
*Her concert appearance meant she would be missing from the second show in the series.
11 June 1968 Backed by the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, seven local musicians, and two others she had brought with her from Montreal, Nanette Workman makes her guest appearance at the Op Pops Concert*.
*The two others being guitarist/arranger Yves Vincent and drummer Michel Nordeleau.
Late June 1968 Nanette Workman appears at the 1968 Gala des Artistes in Montreal wearing a Scarlett O’Hara-style dress.
30 August 1968 Fleurs d’amour, fleurs d’amitié is broadcast for the last time. Her television commitments completed, Nanette Workman was free to leave for England.
“Late Summer” 1968 Nanette Workman flies to London to begin working under the aegis of the Noel Gay Organisation. The tracks Once Upon A Time and Rebecca, an Elton John song, were recorded at Olympic Studios in Barnes shortly after.
7 September 1968 Nanette Workman is the cover star of Canadian music papers Echos Vedettes and Photo Vedettes. The latter shows her alongside Tony Roman and his latest girlfriend at a recent social gathering.
27-29 September 1968 Nanette Workman and George Brummell represent Canada in the Festival Internacional de la Canción de Barcelona.
16 & 17 November 1968 The Rolling Stones record You Can’t Always Get What You Want at Olympic Studios. Nanette Workman, later credited as Nanette Newman in the sleeve notes of Let It Bleed, provided backing vocals alongside Doris Troy and Madeline Bell.
December 1968 Tony Roman and Nanette Workman’s LP, Fleurs d’amour, fleurs d’amitié, is released in Canada.
Pre-17 January 1969 Judith Finkelstein, a representative of the Petal Model Agency, spots Nanette Workman in the Chelsea Drugstore and offers her the chance to become a top model*.
*Finkelstein was herself a former model in New York.
17 January 1969 Nanette Workman writes a letter to her family back in Jackson recounting her recent encounter with Judith Finkelstein:
The most unusual thing happened to me the other day. I was sitting in a restaurant with my girlfriend, and a girl came to the table. She owns the top modelling agency here, and told me she wanted to see me in her office immediately. So I went with her, and right away she said I could be a top paying model here and said she wanted me very badly. Right away she was on the phone to all the top photographers in England. She went to the “Vogue” office library and got the issue of Vogue that I was in, and she really flipped. Anyway, I told her my whole story. The very next day I had 3 photograph sessions. And they pay fantastic. I should get up to $150.00 a day. She said within a few weeks I would be one of the highest paid models in her agency.
NANETTE WORKMAN: “To be perfectly honest with you, I do not recall Fred Marshall. I do remember that agency Petal, though. I remember because it was an unusual meeting with the lady (I don’t recall her name) who approached me to model for their agency. I met her when I was having lunch in the Drugstore, and she came up to me and asked if I was an American model. I told her that I was, in fact, a singer and hadn’t ever done any professional modelling. She said she loved my look because I didn’t look anything like the British models at that time and she thought I could work a lot. She had me do a book, with the photos that I had done in New York for American Vogue with David Bailey. And she was right, I did many shootings for magazines, newspapers, billboards etc. I enjoyed it for a while, but then got itchy to get back into the music world. So I guess I modelled for about nine months and quit.”
27 February 1969 [MICHAEL FOALE DIARIES: Denham 10.45am, Denham Labs. Barry Edson. 1st print away. Inserts or removals: Mary Jane?, Driscoll By The Sea, Nanette, Mr Love, End of the Road, Cut after Body*]
MICHAEL FOALE: “I suspect these were either editing instructions from Fred and/or grading instructions from me to Denlabs. I had an appointment that day at 10.45 for 11am at Denlabs. Another entry clearly reads 1st Print Away. Therefore it is quite common to suggest regrading suggestions at that stage to the lab rep before subsequent prints are made.”
*The reference to Nanette is important because it confirms her sequence as “Woman of the Sea” was in the can before that date. No visual evidence exists of the singer’s participation in Popdown, and there remains uncertainty as to where and when her contribution was filmed. Nanette herself has no memory of Popdown, nor of any filming taking place. Neither was any mention made of filming in her correspondence home.
22 March 1969 Echos Vedettes publishes a long-distance telephone interview with Nanette Workman, the singer speaking from the Atlantic Hotel in Queens Gate, Paddington, where she had been staying since her arrival in London.
24 March 1969 Nanette Workman returns to Montreal for a period of several weeks. Her version of Lulu’s Boom Bang-a-Bang was in all probability recorded during the visit.
April 1969 Nanette Workman makes her debut as a London model in “the soft touch for spring”, a fashion spread for Flair magazine.
April 1969 Je t’aimerai toujours, a ‘hippie western’ starring Tex, Robert Charlebois, Louise Forestier, Les Sinners, Claire Lepage and Nanette Workman, is broadcast on Canadian television. The programme was produced by Richard Martin, who had previously directed Nanette in her and Tony Roman’s television series, Fleurs d’amour, fleurs d’amitié.
First week of April 1969 Nanette Workman meets the singer Michel Pagliaro in Montreal discotheque Le Crash. For the next month they are inseparable.
20 April 1969 Le Petit Journal publishes an interview with Nanette Workman in which she complains about the constraints of the five-year contract binding her to Tony Roman. The singer/model would also speak of her decision to stay in London after the Festival Internacional de la Canción de Barcelona and of doing voluntary work at a London hospital.
May 1969 Nanette Workman is seen in a special fold-out section of the British Harper’s Bazaar celebrating the attractions of an English summer.
May 1969 Nanette Workman swaps her room at the Atlantic Hotel for a larger apartment at 3 Redcliffe Gardens in Kensington which she shares with a French fine arts student and a South African singer by the name of Zayn Adams*.
C.A.: “During 1966 to 1969 I was living in Cape Town and befriended a young singer, Zayn Adams. He lived with his family on Grandview Street in District Six and sang at various nightspots around town, including Ronnie Singer’s Place. During 1969 Zayn told us that he was going to London to find himself a recording contract. Later that year I followed, and for a brief time Zayn and I shared an apartment at 3 Redcliffe Gardens, just off Fulham Road near Earls Court. Zayn’s girlfriend at the time was a girl called Nanette Workman, a Canadian singer who went on to be very successful in Canada, particularly Montreal.”
H.R.: “Nanette was our greatest friend in London. She was an especially close friend of **** **** *****. Nanette and her boyfriend [Zayn Adams] used to live in a flat with **** in South Kensington/Chelsea. When **** moved out I moved in with them. It was upstairs of a famous night club. I can’t remember the name, nor the name of the road. It was on a corner at the Fulham Road crossing, a short walk to the King’s Road.”
C.A.: “Another girl was living with Nanette, Zayn and I above the Café des Artistes at Redcliffe Gardens. She was French and worked as a waitress. 3 Redcliffe Gardens had a top floor, where we stayed. The photograph of Zayn and I was taken on a window ledge on the top floor. It has very vivid memories for me as it is where I wrote one of my first London poems called ‘The Pigeons’ (after the pigeons who would perch on that window ledge each morning). 3 Redcliffe Gardens of course is on the Fulham Road.”
*Also Zayne and sometimes Zane.
Beginning of June 1969 Nanette Workman’s younger brother Billy arrives in London and sits in on one of her recording sessions with the Rolling Stones.
c.June 1969 Nanette Workman sings on the Rolling Stones’ Country Honk, the country version of Honky Tonk Women later heard on Let It Bleed.
c.June 1969 Nanette Workman records a guest appearance on The Roy Castle Show. The programme, in which Françoise Hardy also appeared, was broadcast by BBC1 in August*.
10 June 1969 The Flames play a gig at Blaises in Queen’s Gate with Nanette Workman’s current flame Zayn Adams on vocal duties.
H.R.: “He was such a charming guy and was also a singer, like Nanette. He loved her very much. She loved him too.”
c.August 1969 Rebecca and Once Upon A Time, two tracks recorded by Nanette Workman in London, are issued as a single in Canada by Capitol Records - her first non-Canusa release in Canada.
Late August 1969 Nanette Workman participates in another fashion shoot for Harper’s Bazaar.
1 September 1969 Michel Pagliaro arrives in London to spend two weeks with Nanette Workman, the Canadian swapping places with Zayn Adams, the South African singer who had briefly supplanted Pagliaro in Nanette’s affections*.
*Adams had returned home by the time of Pagliaro’s arrival, according to Nanette’s 2008 biography Rock ‘n’ Romance. Odd timing with August 29 the release date of his first UK single: Can’t You See Me/If You Were My Woman (as Zayne Adams).
13 September 1969 Echos Vedettes publishes a three-page article, “A Londres Epouse de la Misère”, in which a tearful Nanette Workman speaks of her financial plight (she was apparently earning just £30-35 per week modelling) and of her ongoing contractual problems with Tony Roman. The article was accompanied by photographs of the singer taken both inside and outside 3 Redcliffe Gardens.
Mid-September 1969 Nanette Workman and Michel Pagliaro leave for Montreal to spend a further fortnight in each other’s company. The visit would also give Nanette an opportunity of resolving her contractual dispute with Tony Roman.
Autumn 1969 Nanette Workman begins the recording of her eponymous 1970 album. Seven of the album’s twelve songs would be her own compositions.
Autumn 1969 Nanette Workman tours Scotland, Ireland and Wales in preparation for her projected participation at the January 1970 MIDEM Festival.
Early December 1969 Nanette Workman plays cabaret dates at the Rainbow Rooms in Manor House and Bellingham. She returned to Canada soon after.
1 January 1970 Nanette Workman makes the first of three appearances on The David Frost Show singing This Is My Life. Other guests in the programme, recorded in New York, included the comic Jackie Kahane and singer Emmylou Harris.
6 January 1970 Nanette Workman is a guest on BBC Radio’s Night Ride.
8 January 1970 Nanette Workman leaves Jackson, Mississippi, for ten days in Montreal, after which she returned to London to prepare for her appearance at the 1970 MIDEM.
9 January 1970 Nanette Workman’s first fifteen months in London are the subject of a quarter-page article in her hometown newspaper The Jackson Daily News. According to the article, compiled from clippings the newspaper’s arts editor had been receiving from her mother Beatryce, the singer’s Let It Bleed alias had been adopted for “work-permit reasons”.
Late January 1970 Nanette Workman participates at the fourth MIDEM in Cannes.
31 January 1970 The Daily Mirror publishes an interview with Nanette Workman in which it reports the singer is living with Goliath, her Yorkshire terrier, in a “grotty Paddington bedsitter” which she had moved into “soon after her arrival here, when she worked as a waitress in a discotheque”.
February 1970 Nanette Workman is a special guest on BBC1’s The Val Doonican Show.
February 1970 Nanette Workman and Michel Pagliaro’s Francophone version of Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye is released on the Spectrum label in Canada. The duo’s cover of Steam’s 1969 U.S. number one was coupled with a similar stab at Leon Russell’s Delta Lady.
13 February 1970 Flying Machine and You’re Wastin’ Your Time, two tracks from Nanette Workman’s soon-to-be-released LP for Columbia Records, are released as a single in the UK. That same day would also see the release of Doris Troy’s Ain’t That Cute/Vaya Con Dios 45 on the Beatles’ Apple label. Nanette and Madeline Bell had provided backing vocals on the record.
18 February 1970 The first episode of the third and final series of Not Only... But Also is broadcast by the BBC with Nanette Workman, musical guest in all seven episodes of the series, singing her new single Flying Machine.
19 February 1970 Nanette Workman makes her one and only appearance on Top of the Pops, promoting Flying Machine. To coincide with the broadcast, Jim Carter-Fea hosts a party in Nanette’s honour at the Revolution Club, with journalists and showbusiness personalities invited to watch the programme on the club’s colour television*.
*The same Revolution Club that had once employed her as a cloakroom attendant, or waitress, depending on which source you choose to believe.
(Probably) March 1970 Nanette Workman travels to West Germany with Pink Floyd, where the group have a series of concert dates. She was later to invite guitarist Dave Gilmour round for dinner at her new Harley Street apartment*.
*The dinner date didn’t end in quite the way Gilmour hoped, and he wasn’t alone in his disappointment. Legendary King’s Road lothario ****** *****, a figure much revered in Fred Marshall circles for his sexual prowess, suffered a similar rejection. Such was the stain on his reputation that he took to labelling the singer a lesbian.
21 March 1970 Nanette Workman is the special guest of Cliff Richard, Una Stubbs and Hank Marvin in BBC1’s It’s Cliff Richard.
April 1970 Nanette Workman plays a cabaret date at the St. James’s Suite beneath the Quaglino restaurant in London’s Mayfair.
24 April 1970 Nanette Workman’s second Columbia single, Every Night When I Cry Myself To Sleep/Jamie, is released in the UK. That same day saw her in Paignton, Devon, supporting Roy Orbison in the opening date of a six-week British tour*.
*The full itinerary:
April
24 Paignton Festival Theatre
26-30 Stockton Fiesta
May
1-9 Stockton Fiesta
10-16 Batley Variety
17 Bournemouth ABC
22-24 Blackpool ABC
28 Bristol Colston Hall
31 Wythenshawe Golden Garter
June
1-6 Wythenshawe Golden Garter
7 Birmingham Odeon
8-13 Wythehshawe Golden Garter
14-19 Batley Variety
22 Walthamstow Granada
25 May 1970 Nanette Workman and Rod McKuen guest on the Bank Holiday edition of BBC1’s The Rolf Harris Show.
19? June 1970 Nanette Workman makes her second appearance on The David Frost Show en route to Memphis for recording sessions with producers Tommy Cogbill and Chips Moman. The Memphis sessions put to bed, she would then fly on to California for meetings with representatives of Capitol Records.
27 June 1970 Nanette Workman makes a second appearance on The Roy Castle Show. Other guests included Vince Hill, Hope and Keen, and Sid James.
5 September 1970 In Canada for the release of her new LP, Nanette Workman dismisses newspaper reports she is to make a ‘sexy’ film with Michel Pagliaro.
14 September 1970 Nanette Workman’s Nanette LP is released in Canada. She was to mark its release with a short promotional tour of the United States and a quick trip home to see her parents before returning to the UK.
14 September 1970 Nanette Workman’s To Be Loved/Going in Circles 45 is released by Capitol Records in the U.S. The A-side would be relegated to a B-side in the UK.
2 October 1970 Nanette Workman makes a third and final appearance on The David Frost Show, sharing her hotel room with fellow guests Richard and Karen Carpenter.
20 November 1970 Let Me Be The One, the third of Nanette Workman’s four Columbia 45s, is released in the UK with To Be Loved, an American single two months earlier, heard on the flipside.
24 November 1970 Nanette Workman and the Foggy Dew-o are the musical guests of Roger Whittaker in his weekly radio show for the BBC.
29 November 1970 Nanette Workman is seen performing Free Again, the closing track of her eponymous LP, on the German TV show Hits à gogo.
15 January 1971 Everybody’s Singing Like Now, Nanette Workman’s fourth and final 45 for Columbia is released in the UK. Could I Forget was the all-too-prophetic title of its flipside*.
*NANETTE WORKMAN DISCOGRAPHY 1966-1971:
Canada 45s
Et Maintenant/Chez-moi (Canusa C-302) 1966
La Merveille De Tout Ça/Peint En Noir (Paint It Black) (Canusa C-306) 1966
Guantanamera/J’y Parvient Avec Toi (Canusa C-309) 1966
Petit Homme/T’es Ma Vie (Canusa C-311) 1967 (with Tony Roman)
Hey Joe/Où (Canusa C-320) Mar 1967 (with Tony Roman)
Je Me Rétracte/Alfie (Canusa C-332) 1967
Mercy Mercy/Ann Koran (Canusa C-333) 1967 (with Tony Roman)
C’est L’amour Qui Nous Mène A L’autel/Tu Peux T’en Aller (Canusa C-334) 1967 (with Tony Roman)
Le Bonhomme Hiver/Joyeux Noël (Canusa C-338) 1967 (with Tony Roman)
Je T’aimerai Toujours/Je Rentre Chez Nous (Canusa C-346) 1968
Fleurs D’Amour Et D’Amitié/Les Petites Choses (Canusa C-355) 1968 (with Tony Roman)
Parce Que Je T’aime/Tu T’en Ira (Canusa C-365) 1968
Rien D’autre/J’entends Cette Mélodie (Canusa C-378) 1968
Boum-Bang A Bang/Lorsque Je M’Couche Dans Mon Lit (Canusa C-389) 1969
Reviens/Une Raison Pour Te Croire (Canusa C-392) 1969 (with Tony Roman)
Je T’applaudis/Ici, Ailleurs Et N’importe Où (Canusa C-400) 1969
Rebecca/Once Upon A Time (Capitol 72586) Aug 1969
Na Na Na Hey Goodbye/Delta Lady (Spectrum #14) Feb 1970 (with Michel Pagliaro)
U.S. 45s
The Look Of Love/I’m Going Out (Canusa 502) Jun 1967
You Know Where To Find Me/He Knows How (Canusa 506) Dec 1967
To Be Loved/Going In Circles (Capitol 2922) Sep 1970
UK 45s
Flying Machine/You’re Wastin’ Your Time (Columbia DB 8659) Feb 1970
Every Night When I Cry Myself To Sleep/Jamie (Columbia DB 8673) Apr 1970
Let Me Be The One/To Be Loved (Columbia DB 8733) Nov 1970
Everybody’s Singing Like Now/Could I Forget (Columbia DB 8751) Jan 1971
Canada LPs
Nanette (Canusa CLJ-33-100) Mar 1967
La merveille de tout ça; J’y parviens avec toi; Chez moi; Love is a Long Journey; The Sky Without the Sun; El maintenant; Guantanamera; Peint en noir; Who (Où); You Keep Me Hanging On; Petit homme; I’m Going Out
Fleurs d’amour, fleurs d’amitié (Canusa, CLJ-33-602) Dec 1968 (with Tony Roman)
Fleurs d’amour, fleurs d’amitié; C’est ce que Tony dit; Tu t’en iras; Ann Koran; Les bicyclettes de Belsize; Mercy, mercy; Petites choses; Petit homme; Parce que je t’aime; Hey Joe; C’est l’amour qui nous a conduit à l’autel; Rien d’autre
Canada Compilation LPs
Various - Un réveillon chez la famille Canusa (Canusa CLJ-33-111) 1968
Bonhomme hiver (with Tony Roman); Joyeux Noël (with Tony Roman)
Various - La Famille Canusa, Volume 1 (Canusa CT-35171)
Hey Joe (with Tony Roman); La Merveille De Tout Ça; Guantanamera; Petit Homme (with Tony Roman)
Various - La Famille Canusa, Volume 2 (Canusa CT-35887)
Alfie; Mercy, Mercy (with Tony Roman)
Various - La Famille Canusa, Volume 3 (Canusa CT-36254)
Je Rentre Chez-Nous
Various - La Famille Canusa, Volume 4 (Canusa CT-36???) 1969
Les Petites Choses (with Tony Roman)
Various - La Famille Canusa, Volume 5 (Canusa CT-36938) 1969
J’entends Cette Mélodie; Boum Bang A Bang
UK LPs
Nanette (Columbia SCX 6398 1970)
Flying Machine; Best Of Both Worlds; A Woman; You’re Wastin’ Your Time; Why Did I Choose You; This Is My Life; For You; River Of My Mind; Only Human; Poetry; Make It Easy On Yourself; Free Again
France EP
Et Tout Recommence; Je T’applaudis; Où T’en Vas-tu?; Ici, Ailleurs Ou N’importe Où (Disques Festival CEP 19.102 M) 1967
18 January 1971 Nanette Workman begins a prestigious three-week cabaret engagement at the Savoy Hotel accompanied by a fifteen-piece orchestra.
Early February 1971 Fresh from her Savoy residency, Nanette Workman receives news her work permit is not going to be renewed. Within days a wedding plan is hatched with Apple accountancy clerk Alan Lewis stepping into the breach as bridegroom*.
*The Apple employee wasn’t the only person prepared to help Nanette. At some point in proceedings, probably unconnected with the events of 1971, Fred Marshall offered ******* ******* a £500 inducement to marry the singer “for his own ends” - namely, to keep Nanette in the country for her appearance in Popdown. Why her residency should have been an issue is a mystery, one of many surrounding her involvement with the filmmaker and his associates in London.
10 February 1971 The wedding of Nanette Workman and Alan Lewis is called off two days shy of the ceremony following a last-minute intervention by his mother. The pair had been due to tie the knot at St. Marylebone Register Office.
11-16 February 1971 John Lennon records Power to the People in his own Ascot Sound Studios at Tittenhurst Park. Providing backing vocals alongside Madeline Bell, Doris Troy and a dozen other singers was Nanette Workman.
24 February 1971 Nanette Workman performs her latest single Everybody’s Singing Like Now in a guest spot for Thames Television’s The Benny Hill Show.
13 March 1971 Nanette Workman closes out the second edition of German television show Disco 71 with a performance of Everybody’s Singing Like Now.
19 March 1971 Nanette Workman leaves the UK for Paris, where she would stay with the songwriter Hubert Giraud and his wife.
c.April 1971 Nanette Workman returns to the UK on a tourist visa to sing on Johnny Hallyday’s Flagrant Délit recording sessions.
Early May 1971 Nanette Workman, now a blonde, arrives in Morocco for the first leg of a three-week tour with Johnny Hallyday.
17 February 1972 Actress Charlotte Rampling, the inspiration for Popdown’s Stamp Collector sequence and Fred’s one-time neighbour in Walpole Street, marries 34-year-old Bryan Southcombe at Kensington Register Office. The New Zealander was Nanette Workman’s London publicist.
From "I am sincerely....", a never-to-be-published chronology of Fred Marshall, friends and family.
For the record, I consider Nanette Workman a major talent.
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Post by timmunton on Jan 17, 2024 18:49:32 GMT
Somewhat off topic: I still hope Popdown may be viewable one day. I saw it at the Scala in 84 & although my memory is very blurry it was very groovy & nicely psychedelic in places. Just to stop my Columbo like approach to this bloody film, can you confirm if you saw the Idle Race perform in the cut of the movie that you saw in '84? Cheers. Re. the Idle Race - & also Nanette Workman as mentioned by Peter Prentice - unfortunately my memory is too fuzzy (& has never been that great) to remember much detail including this. The main thing I remember is Julie Driscoll & people probably meant to be aliens (presumably symbolic of hippies/ alternative types/people awoken by hallucinogenics or other means). These aliens were I think walking through the streets in a sort of magical open hearted, bright eyed way. Probably the visible parts of their bodies were painted green or blue (or maybe some other colour). A male alien & female alien walk (or maybe skip or dance) closer to each other, approaching each other from opposite ends of a busy-ish street. When they meet they spontaneously recognise each other as kindred spirits & gracefully & fluidly hook their arms together. Possibly them, or others, at some point drive along in an open topped small sports car the same colour as the paint on their skin (green or blue). Due to the time elapsed even these fuzzy details may be incorrect of course, so hopefully I'm not misleading anyone. I'm pretty sure my great friend Simon was also there at the Scala that night (an all-nighter event if memory serves). He generally has a very good memory & also knows a lot about & has a huge collection of music of the psychedelic variety (mainly on cd & probably downloads now as I know he got rid of most of his vinyl for storage reasons some time ago). I know he likes the Idle Race so he may remember if they were in the film. I should hopefully be meeting up with him in March or April. So, if I do I'll ask him about his memories - including Idle Race/Nanette Workman. The film was quite short (or that version of it anyway) - maybe half an hour or so. I went to 2 of those Scala events back then & I thought Popdown was the 2nd best thing shown at those events. Better than say The Trip (though that's pretty good too) My very favourite (& a lot of other people's) being the inimitable Psych-Out, shown in the shorter non-director's cut there (personally I prefer the shorter version). As people will know, it later became available on vhs & disc. Psych-Out is amongst my very favourite films & the best film imo of a psychedelic/psychedelic-related type ( eg. a lot better than Easy Rider- though that has many merits of course). Further off-topic: It'll perhaps never happen, especially since Network is no more, but I'd love to see a good quality release of Work Is A Four-Letter Word (a great film imo, not missing but only available unofficially & in fairly poor condition in that version, rather indistinct & with little detail, viewable but not very - though I think I read it does still exist somewhere in good condition in its native medium of film). |
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Post by Thomas Walsh on Jan 17, 2024 23:30:46 GMT
Wow Nanette Workman eh? I knew bits but not ALL THE BITS!! 'Never to be published memoir..". I get it. Mr. Marshall seems unsavoury on many levels. At least from those notes we know that 'The Idle Race' were definitely filmed and included in the first cut of the movie ('The end of the road' being mentioned in these notes..)
"27 February 1969 [MICHAEL FOALE DIARIES: Denham 10.45am, Denham Labs. Barry Edson. 1st print away. Inserts or removals: Mary Jane?, Driscoll By The Sea, Nanette, Mr Love, End of the Road, Cut after Body*]"
The stuff is out there.....somewhere!! And Tim, there are such things as phones/emails if you fancy asking your friend with the good memory before late spring!!?? 🤣
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Post by Peter Prentice on Jan 18, 2024 2:27:00 GMT
Wow Nanette Workman eh? I knew bits but not ALL THE BITS!! 'Never to be published memoir..". I get it. Mr. Marshall seems unsavoury on many levels. At least from those notes we know that 'The Idle Race' were definitely filmed and included in the first cut of the movie ('The end of the road' being mentioned in these notes..) "27 February 1969 [MICHAEL FOALE DIARIES: Denham 10.45am, Denham Labs. Barry Edson. 1st print away. Inserts or removals: Mary Jane?, Driscoll By The Sea, Nanette, Mr Love, End of the Road, Cut after Body*]" The stuff is out there.....somewhere!! And Tim, there are such things as phones/emails if you fancy asking your friend with the good memory before late spring!!?? 🤣 Not so much unsavoury as misunderstood. The chronology was only ever meant as a research tool and fails to answer the central question of why Freddy made films the way he did. |
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Post by timmunton on Oct 20, 2024 5:26:42 GMT
I spoke to my friend Simon a couple of days ago about "Pop Down" - see my posts on this thread on 16th & 17th January 2024.
Sorry for the delay; I forgot to mention it when I saw him in March & indeed again in July.
He was indeed also at the Scala that night & enjoyed the film immensely. Unfortunately he can't remember if the Idle Race (who he likes a lot) were visually on-screen as part of the film. I forgot to mention Nanette Workman - so I've no idea if he has any memory of her re. "Pop Down".
I'll email him soon (or soon-ish at worst) & - as well as mentioning Nanette Workman - I'll tell him how to find this forum, sub-board & thread:
So if he feels like it & if on further reflection he can remember any other details about "Pop Down", he can then post any such memories here.
Our discussion of the film was relatively brief so it's not impossible he may glean further memories later.
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