Giles Giles and Fripp on "Colour Me Pop"

[Adam James Smith]

anyone know what songs they did?

[John Stewart Miller]

Probably material from the 'Giles, Giles and Fripp' Island L.P. I would think rather than King Crimson material. A friend had this & I can only recall an eccentric line about "your peanut teeth" (? !) The Giles stuff seemed to be far more in the folk line than Fripps jagged off beat heavy efforts (i.e. 20th century schitzoid man). I think the BBC written records archive at Caversham (?) should hold info.
Theres a lot of missing "colour me pop" that to the rock collector is more exciting by the names than what exists (!) Harvest label bands like Quatermass, Orange Bicycle, psychadelic band The timebox, Jethro Tull are missing. Small faces does exist, but in the minds of the collector you would expect to find their appearences on TOTP held, with the more 'prog rock' genre which excelled in "C M P" being held from that programme. It hasn't worked out like that though, a pity.

[Laurence Piper]

Yes. I would have "expected" to find a lot more music footage to have been preserved than has been! I think I have the track rundown for the the GGF edition here somewhere though, from the PasB (I have rundowns of some of the CMP editions). I'll try and check it out.

[Adam James Smith]

thanks Laurence, hope you can locate the track lsiting. The "Peanut teeth" song is called "The Elephant song". I know they also palyed their hilarious flop single "She is Loaded" on the show too, but that's it.

[andrew martin]

COLOUR ME POP
Giles, Giles and Fripp
Tx'd 30/11/68 BBC2
23.08.35-23.38.41 (30'06")
VT prerecorded on 16/11/68

Peter Giles, Michael Giles, Fripp (sic), Ian McDonald

Elephant Song (accompanied by filmed animation)
Thursday Morning (accompanied by film of band?)
Why Don't You Just Drop In (studio)
Diggin' My Lawn (studio)
Make it Today (studio)
She's Loaded (studio)
Tremeloe Study (studio)
Erudite Eyes (studio)
(Opening & closing music) (studio) (it's implied that this music, composed by Watkins/Renrut (sic) is performed by the band)

(This is as listed on paperwork rather than a true running order)

[Adam James Smith]

thanks a lot!
anyone see it first (and only) time round?

[Barry Davis]

IIRC, according to Ian Smith's book "In The Court Of King Crimson", Robert Fripp mentions that he recorded a copy of the programme (or was it one of the Giles brothers, I'm not sure). The book goes into detail about how GG&F managed to get a whole programme to themselves and other information, and how Peter Giles quit shortly after.

Someone really should contact Fripp or the Giles brothers, and ask if they know what happened to their tape. It must have gone walkies since then, but you never know.

[Adam James Smith]

I'm game!
first. I gotta find out whether it was Fripp or a Giles who recorded it..

[Adam James Smith]

contqcted Sid Smith wiht this query..he got back today to tell me that it was an AUDIO recording that Fripp has...and that the visuals are probably lost for good.