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Post by simoncurtis on Jan 1, 2012 15:45:40 GMT
Chris,interesting you should mention Alan Parsons because i'm sure he produced january?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2012 15:52:54 GMT
Alan Parsons produced 'Magic', 'January', 'Call Me Round', 'Just A Smile' and 'Lady Luck'. Or I might have well said he produced their first five singles.
Anyone who has 'Lady Luck' should flip it over and listen to 'Dear Artist', one of my favourite Pilot songs which should have been the A side.
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Post by Alan Turrell on Jan 1, 2012 19:20:11 GMT
I remember buying "Second Flight" when it first came out, i haven't got it anymore so can't remember what it was like , but i'm getting it again after seeing these clips although i don't think it was their first album , i'm sure that was just called "Pilot" good to hear these songs again.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jan 3, 2012 14:22:07 GMT
Very interesting performances indeed. All of them appear to be from wiped editions of Top Of The Pops. Maybe Ray ought to get onto this lot? I have now messaged the poster! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2012 14:43:14 GMT
Now if only we could find some early Bay City Rollers footage with the Pilot members, that would be a treat! Like this picture shows... Presumably that will be an appearance for Keep On Dancing? The set looks like 1971. Pilot were an underrated band. Their first album, which I bought at the time, is full of good pop with catchy hooks. Definitely they existed at the wrong time; they had a '60s ethic of short sharp songs in a period when 20 minute jams were the order of the day (and they also had too much integrity to really be a teeny band, at the other end of the spectrum). They might have fared better 5 or 6 years earlier or later (after the new wave had made it ok to play 3 minute songs again). Not many groups in the mid '70s managed to straddle pop appeal and musical credibility successfully, the original 10cc and Steely Dan being two of the few examples that achieved it. |
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Post by ajsmith on Jan 3, 2012 15:32:31 GMT
Re: The 71 line up of BCR on TV. There was a BCR documentary around 1999/2000 (about the time the classic mid-70s line up very briefly united for a Millenium gig in Edinburgh) that used brief clips of what seemed to be the 71-era Rollers playing "Keep On Dancing" on a pop programme (I assumed TOTP at the time): HOWEVER I do recall that the footage was edited in such a way as to never show the lead singer. I wondered at the time if original vocalist Nobby Clarke had refused permission for his image to be used. However now I'm wondeirng if the film was of the McKeown line up and just edited to give the illusion of a performance of Keep on Dancing by the 71 line up (hence the singer never being shown): does anyone else recall this documentary, and can anyone shed any light on what the origin of this Keep On Dancing footage was?
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jan 3, 2012 15:32:32 GMT
Now if only we could find some early Bay City Rollers footage with the Pilot members, that would be a treat! Like this picture shows... Presumably that will be an appearance for Keep On Dancing? The set looks like 1971. It's from 30/09/1971, repeated 14/10/1971....Keep on Dancing! |
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Post by Alan Turrell on Jan 3, 2012 15:44:20 GMT
I remember BCR performing Keep On Dancing on Shang A Lang but obviously this wouldn't have been the 71 line up.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jan 3, 2012 15:59:10 GMT
That was '75.
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Post by markjhaley on Jan 4, 2012 0:49:36 GMT
Back to Pilot.
Apparently, the youtube user has a "part clip of Call Me Round" which she'll be posting soon.
I don't know if it's from TOTP. Hope so...
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jan 4, 2012 9:25:41 GMT
If they do have it it would be 03/04/1975.
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Post by Alan Turrell on Jan 4, 2012 10:45:55 GMT
I Wonder if Pilot were ever on supersonic , does anyone know ?
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jan 4, 2012 10:56:49 GMT
I Wonder if Pilot were ever on supersonic , does anyone know ? Yep - Show 3 18/09/75 Just a Smile Show 22 24/01/76 January Both exist at ITN Source. ;D |
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Post by Chris Dabbs on Jan 4, 2012 11:57:50 GMT
They also performed High Into The Sky too, but without checking my tapes I can't recall which episode it was from. The band much later appeared on a BBC TV show TX ca. 1994 called Bygones, hosted by Danny Baker, performing the said January. The series also included The Rubettes. Showaddywaddy also appeared, but the show remains unbroadcast. I Wonder if Pilot were ever on supersonic , does anyone know ? Yep - Show 3 18/09/75 Just a Smile Show 22 24/01/76 January Both exist at ITN Source. ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2012 13:50:25 GMT
I Wonder if Pilot were ever on supersonic , does anyone know ? Yep - Show 3 18/09/75 Just a Smile Show 22 24/01/76 January Both exist at ITN Source. ;D The same Supersonic episode where they did 'January' they also played 'Take Me High'. Pilot also appeared on Basil Brush performing 'Just A Smile' (25/10/75) and 'Penny In My Pocket' was on The Arrows TV Show too. |
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