BuddyHolly/Crickets England 3 TV, 1 Radio

[williammcgregor]

OFF THE RECORD

SERIES 3

27.03.1958 With Buddy Holly And The Crickets, Ronnie Hilton, Spike Milligan, The Mudlarks, Brendan O'Dowda (missing)

19:30

Off the Record

genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/47428e37e21b4be2a991135b398554b2

genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_television_service/1958-03-27#at-19.30

Jack Payne introduces stars and personalities who are Off the Record together with the latest news from the record industry including Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Ronnie Hilton, Spike Milligan, The Mudlarks, Brendan O'Dowda, Diane Todd and George Melly with Mick Mulligan's Band
with the Concert Orchestra and the George Mitchell Singers
Conducted by Stanley Black

(Buddy Holly and the Crickets were specially telerecorded for this programme)

Contributors
Presenter:
Jack Payne
Musicians:
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Singer:
Ronnie Hilton
Singer:
Spike Milligan
Tenor:
Brendan O'Dowda
Singers:
The Mudlarks
Singer:
Diane Todd
Singer:
George Melly
Musicians:
Mick Mulligan's Band
Musicians:
The Concert Orchestra
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers
Conductor:
Stanley Black
Producer:
James Gilbert

Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Maybe Baby live 1958 on BBC's "Off The Record".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWPtsWx_Vnc

Was this the only number Buddy Holly and The Crickets did on this episode?

Also here is Brain May playing his 45 rpm records and enthusing about Buddy Holly and The Crickets

Brian May Plays His Old Buddy Holly & The Crickets Vinyl 45s | That'll Be the Day | Maybe Baby


www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtKzWsS71ck

[ashleywood]

This was released a few years back on the rather excellent Rollercoaster Records label
www.discogs.com/release/2683882-Buddy-Holly-And-The-Crickets-Off-The-Record

[williammcgregor]

Sorry folks, had to amend thread title to enable us to incorporate the following ...

Joe Brown hosted a Radio 2 Documentary called Buddy In Britain, which is available to listen to in 3 parts on Youtube as BBC Radio 2 Documentary Buddy In Britain

Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison and Joe B. Mauldin endured a 14 hour propellar-driven flight from New York to London arriving at 4 pm Friday 28 March 1958.

The plane was late arriving and they had to rush to Wembley Studios for the Associated-Rediffusion television programme Cool For Cats.

Kent Walton the compere/host of Cool For Cats says usually the programme went out from Studio 2, for some reason on this occasion it went out from Studio 1.
Joe Brown says they mimed to I'm Gonna Love You Too, which was released that same day in the UK.

Sunday 2 March 1958 ATV

Val Parnell's Sunday Night at The London Palladium

Buddy Holly and The Crickets

Here is the surviving audio of them performing Oh Boy

uk.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t-s&ei=UTF-8&p=buddy+holly+and+the+crickets+London+Palladium+1958#id=1&vid=90f52fd75ddc98c2ae6ecc55be9d2ff4&action=click

Did they do any other 'numbers' besides Oh Boy ? ...

Thursday 13 March 1958 Associated-Rediffusion Jack Hylton's Thursday Show: (See You, Soho)

Buddy Holly and The Crickets were due to appear, but the Nottingham Evening News reported that "a contractual misunderstanding" led to the cancellation of appearance.

TV Pop Diaries says ' cancelled as a fee couldn't be agreed.'

Friday 21 March 1958 6.45 - 7 pm Leslie Dunn introduces The Bright Lights Record Show on BBC Home Service Midland

Interview with Buddy, Jerry and Joe - here is the surviving interview

uk.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t-s&ei=UTF-8&p=buddy+holly+and+the+crickets+interview+14+March+1958#id=1&vid=041ae8479149965e12e99c026e72c7b3&action=click


Joe Brown on Buddy In Britain relates

Thursday 13 March 1958, they arrived at BBC Riverside Studios Hammersmith to record a number for Off The Record, (as covered in the opening post to this thread)
Joe says They performed Maybe Baby which was telerecorded, for transmission on 27 March 1958, by which time they were back in New York.
Joe continues... The telerecording of this went missing in March 1960, then Joe played the surviving audio, as above.

[dave1turner]

from i gather the telerecording was held at the BBC until 1960...when it was then binned...a few years back the complete audio was found from the original source...