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Post by William Martin on Nov 4, 2003 14:54:19 GMT
then what does the tape say after "don't know what to say, say anything" ............ click |
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Post by Laurence Piper on Nov 18, 2003 14:38:56 GMT
Tom Browne! I'd forgotten all about him! I just noticed this thread. I also have some recordings of the chart show with Tom from about 1972-4, taped from the radio on cassette. Not sure how many are complete though. There's also the recording of the first 90 mins of Radio 1 from 1967. This is also interesting as it includes a news bulletin too. This one I would think is in fairly wide circulation though.
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Post by peterwoods on Mar 17, 2013 4:24:05 GMT
Steve, your message was posted a long time ago but I would certainly be interested in Alan Freemans last two POTPs from September 72. I collect his shows and know one or two people that do the same. I guess if all of us who recorded shows all got together, and pooled our tapes and recordings we may have every show between us ? I am also interested in the early (72/3) Solid Gold 60 shows. For more info on Tom Browne see wiki encyclopedia which I have updated to correct some info and add some info too about his shows.
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Post by Richard M White on Mar 21, 2013 15:57:06 GMT
Peter - as the Wiki post mentions, there are lots of the Top 20 shows available (I have a selection in my archive, although not as many as some) & Alan Freeman's last POTP from 24 Sep 72 is widely in circulation (although I was not aware of the previous one until now). I am far too young to recall, but I have been told the reason people didn't really record the first 2 hours of Solid Gold 60 because it only went out on medium wave and reception was very bad in many areas of the country (I've also discovered these two hours were discontinued in March 1974).
Tom's Abba special he did for Radio 1 in 1976 also survives as well, but those 72 and 73 year-end shows are really interesting, because I am sure the sound quality is far superior than the ones I've heard.
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Post by miked on Mar 26, 2013 22:46:38 GMT
Peter...I sent you a PM if you want to respond.
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jan 7, 2019 6:27:34 GMT
I've just found a couple of Tom Browne's "Solid Gold Sixty" shows on tape. They're circa 27.1.73. and 17.2.73, and assuming that they're the Top 20 version of the show they're only missing a minutes or so at the start. These are fun to listen to, the links are amusing but not too obtrusive, and plenty of these UK hits never got airplay in Australia. There's also a Tom Browne "Pick Of The Pops"" end-of-year run down for 1971. I still have a few tapes to listen through, I'll post if there's any more UK off-airs there.
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Post by richardwoods on Jan 8, 2019 19:04:05 GMT
I've got a Tom Browne POTP from 1977. It's a lead recording off FM on to 2 track reel to reel. The quality is excellent however as I only have a 4 track machine at the moment it picks up imperfections in the recording including in places an annoying regular reduction in sound level every 20 or so seconds, so I really need to get hold of a 2 track machine in order to get the best possible digital copy.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 8, 2019 22:55:35 GMT
I have lots of the shows on CD from 1975 to the end of his run in 1978, most are good quality, or can be improoved on the computer, they include the Bohemian Rhapsody edit [3min 20 including the last note, so it appeared to be played to the end] he used for the last 3 weeks of its top 20 run, editied versions of Devil Woman & Silly Love Songs [6.6.76] and the 1 minute 2 seconds version of Simon Mays "Summer of our life" [21.11.76]. ive also made a start on the run down tracks as below, from the shows i have. the shows from 1976 that exist in various quality, that i have are 25.1.76, 1.2.76, 8.2.76, 15.2.76, 21.3.76, 18.4.76, 9.5.76, 16.5.76, 23.5.76, 6.6.76 27.6.76, 4,7,76, 11.7.76, 1,8,76, 8.8.76, 22.8.76, 12.9.76, 19.9.76, 3.10.76, 24.10.76 14.11.76, 21.11.76, 12.12.76, chart of the year.
Run Down songs
1974 Lady Madonna Apollo 100 1975 09 02 1975 - 06 04 1975 Pick Up The Pieces 13 04 1975 - 11 05 1975 Oh My My 18 05 1975 - 18 05 1975 ? [1 Week Only] [see attachment in following post] 25 05 1975 - 13 07 1975* Oh My My [Again] *End date unknown 03 08 1975 - 21 09 1975* ? 12 10 1975 - Oh My My 26 10 1975 - 23 11 1975 ? 30 11 1975 - 14 12 1975* Pick up the Pieces [Again] 21 12 1975 - In Dulci Jubilo 1976 04 01 1976 - In Dulci Jubilo Mike Oldfield [ Tom, played "On Horseback" in the chart part of the show, thats why it was listed as a Double A side during its run, as people were asking for that record in the shops. Must be one of the few records to have both sides played during the Top 20 Show] 08 02 1976 - Low Rider War [Low Rider was No20 that week, still played as rundown backing track - On Horseback mentioned in run-down] 21 03 1976 - Lady Madonna 18 04 1976 - 09 05 1976* Honky Tonk Train Blues 16 05 1976 - ? [Chinese like] [see attachment in following post] 31 07 1976 - ? 22 08 1976 - ? 14 11 1976 - Isnt She Lovely 21 11 1976 - Portsmouth 12 12 1976 - Isnt She Lovely [Again] [Portsmouth in the charts, no good B side this year.] ? Disco Connection Issac Hayes
Portsmouth Mike Oldfield [Top 20 of 1976] 1977 Utopia - Mi Giorgio [From Here To Eternity] Giorgio Moroder [Tom, started from the Utopia bit of the record] "Soul mate" by Good Bread Alley [the Bim Bim Bim bo bamba song] as on the Top20 of 1977
10 04 1977 ?
15 05 1977 ?
10 07 1977 I Feel Love Donna Summer 14 08 1977 ? [see attachment in following post] 18 09 1977 - 20 11 1977 Soul Mate 09 10 1977 - 16 10 1977 Utopia - Mi Giorgio [From Here To Eternity] Giorgio Moroder 10 12 1977 Heartsong Gordon Gilltrap 18 12 1977 Heartsong 1978 08 01 1978 Heartsong Gordon Giltrap 15 01 1978 - Heartsong Gordon Giltrap any infomation on the run down list will be helpful
due to the size limit, poor quality rundown samples
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 8, 2019 23:47:09 GMT
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 9, 2019 0:03:16 GMT
the tracks i dont know from various shows, does anybody know them |
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jan 10, 2019 10:07:40 GMT
OK, assuming the 1973 shows were all on Sundays, the songs that were new chart entries date my recordings to 28.1.73. and 18.2.73. Apart from the 1971 end-of-year, I've found nothing else of interest in this batch of tapes.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 10, 2019 10:30:12 GMT
I have a few shows from 1973 & 1974, there are so few Solid Gold of the first part of the show, most are the last 60 minutes, i will list the 1975 shows Below. There are also a few [badly] reconstructed shows where the whole record is placed between Toms vocals, not where he cut the record so the 60 minute shows are over 70 minutes long. I could do a much better job on reconstructing them as could many others on here. One missing show from 1976 is the one where "No6" Jingle is played during Elton Johns Pinball Wizard after its "No7" at the start, and a "Ha Ha" from Tom, i had the tape once, its usefull because it shows the delay Between the Number Jingles if they dont exist as later they changed to a new set of Jam Jingles. 12.1.75, 2.2.75, 2.3,75, 9.3.75, 30.3.75, 6.4.75, 13.4.75, 20.4.75, 27.4.75, 4.5.75, 11.5.75, 18.5.75, 25.5.75, 1.6.75, 15.6.75, 29.6.75 13.7.75, 20.7.75, 26.7.75, 3.8.75, 7.9.75, 14.9.75, 21.9.75, 12.10.75, 26.10.75, 16.11.75, 23.11.75, 30.11.75, 7.12.75, 14.12.75, 21.12.75, 4.1.76 (show of the year)
A lot of home recordings are missing the first bit at 6pm, it varied little over the years to 1977. I have put how it should sound on the attachment, this from 2.3.1975
Attachments:1975 show intro.mp3 (346.43 KB)
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jan 10, 2019 16:10:09 GMT
I have a few shows from 1973 & 1974, there are so few Solid Gold of the first part of the show, most are the last 60 minutes, i will list the 1975 shows Below. There are also a few [badly] reconstructed shows where the whole record is placed between Toms vocals, not where he cut the record so the 60 minute shows are over 70 minutes long. I could do a much better job on reconstructing them as could many others on here. One missing show from 1976 is the one where "No6" Jingle is played during Elton Johns Pinball Wizard after its "No7" at the start, and a "Ha Ha" from Tom, i had the tape once, its usefull because it shows the delay Between the Number Jingles if they dont exist as later they changed to a new set of Jam Jingles. 12.1.75, 2.2.75, 2.3,75, 9.3.75, 30.3.75, 6.4.75, 13.4.75, 20.4.75, 27.4.75, 4.5.75, 11.5.75, 18.5.75, 25.5.75, 1.6.75, 15.6.75, 29.6.75 13.7.75, 20.7.75, 26.7.75, 3.8.75, 7.9.75, 14.9.75, 21.9.75, 12.10.75, 26.10.75, 16.11.75, 23.11.75, 30.11.75, 7.12.75, 14.12.75, 21.12.75, 4.1.76 (show of the year)
A lot of home recordings are missing the first bit at 6pm, it varied little over the years to 1977. I have put how it should sound on the attachment, this from 2.3.1975
Sounds good was it a reel to reel? I have a couple from around that era at Christmas time recorded on one of those 'new' C120 cassettes. The Scotch tape is very cruddy now but the Philips one still plays with no problems. |
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 10, 2019 16:45:56 GMT
They were from an ex-engineers collection, and other websites over the years, some are mono, others stereo. I am slowly working on restoring them. i have the original Brother Intro track long and short verions, so have used those in the blank 3-2-1 rundowns. It would be nice to have a list of what exists, as im sure missing shows recorded on tape are much more common than TV shows, and people dont know what they have or if its missing. mine are now all on CDs so easy to find and go through, most in non-restored condition. If i restore improve any it will be on another CD, and be labelled restored. I may have a few surviving cassettes in the loft but havnt seen them in 30 years or so.
Here is a test rundown from a few years back to see if you could overlay Tom onto a record track, and it sould like the original, so this rundown from 1975 is over Baker Street from 1977/8 so at the end of Toms era, as it was not the original track behind his voice it would show up any problems in the overlaying, it would be a lot easier to overlay onto the original record as long as you could sync them up together. Sony Sound Forge has a 32 track recorder built in if you know how to change it.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jan 10, 2019 19:08:11 GMT
One missing show from 1976 is the one where "No6" Jingle is played during Elton Johns Pinball Wizard after its "No7" at the start, and a "Ha Ha" from Tom, i had the tape once, its usefull because it shows the delay Between the Number Jingles if they dont exist as later they changed to a new set of Jam Jingles.] My 1976 cassette recording of Pinball Wizard features exactly that 'play' i.e. has the incorrect jingle / Tom Browne's voice over the beginning |
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