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Post by robchapman on Mar 27, 2013 13:12:36 GMT
Re C.H.O. I was inspired to go and dig out the original communication from Stephen Hinton (the older brother of the school friend) who appears on the show. Here is what he said to me in 2004.
"The show was come here often, rediffusion, not a music show as such, a young people's magazine.
Post card voting. Some girls at school who used to shun me actually started collecting postcards to vote! (Pulling power soon returned to normal low levels).
I remember sending in a tape I think, and then being asked to come to the studio. The same program showed a science spot about mag lev trains.
I sang live I believe!
Two contestants per show and then a final ( I did not make the final).
The producer assistant was Mick Jackson who went on to do some great stuff if it is the same man.
I'm assuming it is the same future tv mogul!
it went on the week before feb 28 1968".
So there you have it. We can at least date Stephens appearance if not the whole duration of the talent show. Maybe someone here can dig deeper and find out who else appeared.
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Post by tonyrees on Mar 29, 2013 10:50:31 GMT
Some more info...
Monday 17th July 1967
Rediffusion Living Music: Come Here Often 11:25 - 11:55 pm
Documentary about DJ Mike Quinn, filmed at Tiles club in London
The Pink Floyd
Tuesday 9th January 1968 was the first regular edition 5:25 – 5:55 pm
Tuesday 23rd July 1968 was the last
The only appearance details I have are...
The Herd appeared on Tuesday 30th January 1968
Tuesday 25th June 1968 Includes winner of a songwriting contest. Their song will be arranged for a recording session by George Martin
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Post by robchapman on Mar 29, 2013 11:20:56 GMT
Much appreciated Tony. If the competition went on till June 68 my contact must have appeared fairly early on. I do remember it going on for ages (or what seemed like ages to a 13 year old) and there being a very wide variety of acts on it, and as i say i have a clear memory of at least a couple of bands being on the psychedelic side of things. one had a name like the cats or the bats or ice or something. certainly a one syllable name, but that's just guesswork and of no help to anyone. I wonder what became of that George Martin recording session.
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Post by John Green on Mar 29, 2013 11:27:13 GMT
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Post by SydV on Mar 30, 2013 0:06:06 GMT
Some more info... Monday 17th July 1967 Rediffusion Living Music: Come Here Often 11:25 - 11:55 pm Documentary about DJ Mike Quinn, filmed at Tiles club in London The Pink Floyd Tuesday 9th January 1968 was the first regular edition 5:25 – 5:55 pm It's confusing I know, but I'm pretty certain that the late night "Living Music" series had absolutely nothing to do with the "Come Here Often" series. It looks as though that particular edition of "Living Music" with Pink Floyd just happened to be subtitled "Come here often?" as it was filmed at a club. Also the children's series "Come Here Often" was up and running in 1967, there was an edition shown on Tuesday 18th June 1967 (the day after the "Living Music" programme). |
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Post by John Green on Mar 30, 2013 1:26:00 GMT
Thanks,Syd.Fairly incredible that everything from this period isn't thoroughly documented.
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Post by tonyrees on Mar 31, 2013 8:52:34 GMT
You're right Syd...
Come Here Often
First edition Tuesday 4th July 1967. There was a photo of presenters Sarah Ward and Cliff Moragn in the Daily Mirror on that day.
The show was initially twice a week with shows on Tuesday and Friday, the days that Magpie would folow. It went Tuesdays only at the beginning of 1968.
Daily Mirror
Tuesday 17th October 1967
Zoom! Cliff roars down the track
CLIFF MORGAN, the former Welsh Rugby International, drives a car round Brands Hatch
tonight tor the children's programme " Come Here Often " (ITV. most areas, 5.25).
Cliff. who joined Rediffusion as producer of " This Week," says that while he prefers to be
creating a programme rather than appearing in It, he stlI enJoys Introducing " Come Here
Often " twice a week. " Children," he says, " are far more mature and articulate nowadays
than I was at thetr age." They have a better command of the English language. "They are a very critical audienre and, because of their unspoiled views, are fresh and exciting to
work with."
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Post by brianfretwell on Apr 4, 2013 14:54:55 GMT
I've just found a very few seconds of the intro to the last programme on my second ever audio reel to reel tape.
Theme (part)
Sarah : Hello there and welcome to the 80th Come Here Often and the very last too......
Cliff?: We've had sack fulls of postcards asking for groups , millions and millions pleas asking for everything from the Chicago Hush Town Band to the Beatles...
Then - "As the sun sinks slowly in the west we say farewell, but before we go".. there seems to have been some surprise as there is a bit of a squeal, but that's all I have, it then cuts to a piece of the Dickie Henderson Show with Pete Murray and Wendy Padbury I recorded later.
And it played back on the same Fidelity valve recorder I used (CCIR recording pre-emphasis not NAB like most recorders so it sounds very bassy on anything else.)
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Post by Peter Prentice on Apr 6, 2015 15:39:05 GMT
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Apr 8, 2015 8:58:04 GMT
I'd love to know where this is from! |
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