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Post by Larry Dutch on Dec 10, 2017 13:26:00 GMT
Is a single second of Five O'Clock Club known to survive? Are there photos of bands on the show lurking around? Four years worth of eps and the prog seems like another Gadzooks or Stramash - as though it never existed. If only that meticulous tele-snap bloke hadn't turfed his collection.
I wonder if remote places like Ghana were ever sent shows made by A-R, as I believe the company helped set up TV there in the late 50s/early 60s. Has a country like Ghana ever been fully investigated for what was screened there?
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Post by williammcgregor on Dec 10, 2017 21:21:18 GMT
The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation has a video library, set in July 1965, where all programmes - dramas, tv commercials and
ceremonial events are kept.
The first two Director-Generals of the GBC were
Mr J.B.Millar 1954-60
Mr H. F. Coleman 1960-70
continues through to present day
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Post by williammcgregor on Jan 24, 2018 19:52:14 GMT
Found a wee article in Fabulous magazine 8/1/66 from a 16 yr old girl...she was at Trafalgar Square were the show was being broadcast The Hollies were there and sang ("We're Through") also Brian Poole and the Tremeloes ....I think it must have been the December 1965 show?
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Post by williammcgregor on Jun 19, 2018 16:02:39 GMT
Review of the 09/08/66 show from the Edinburgh Evening News...  |
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Post by markdixon on Jul 1, 2018 13:20:47 GMT
I watched the Eric Clapton documentary “Life in 12 Bars” last night. It included an interesting outtake from D.A. Pennebaker’s “Don’t Look Back”.
Bob Dylan and his friend Bob Neuwirth were shown watching TV in the Savoy Hotel, London, on 04 May 1965. There were several close-ups of the TV screen. The programme they were watching was “Ollie and Fred’s Five O’Clock Club”.
Here’s a summary of what could be glimpsed on their TV screen. Muriel Young and Fred Barker appeared briefly at the beginning of the sequence. Then the camera cut to a close-up of guest presenter Craig Douglas. He introduced John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers who performed “Crocodile Walk”. The band were surrounded by a few dancers and an audience of seated children. Some of the children at the back of the studio were wearing party hats.
The picture and sound quality of these brief fragments was surprisingly good. This is the only surviving footage from the “Five O’Clock Club.”
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Post by williammcgregor on Jul 1, 2018 13:41:02 GMT
Brilliant information Mark thank you
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Post by James C on Jul 1, 2018 22:02:22 GMT
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jul 2, 2018 2:02:44 GMT
Thanks! So there's absolutely zero footage of Pussycat Willum left then? Though I didn't like him much, I would be nice to know if he was actually as wet and annoying as I remember.
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jul 2, 2018 8:53:04 GMT
Thanks! So there's absolutely zero footage of Pussycat Willum left then? Though I didn't like him much, I would be nice to know if he was actually as wet and annoying as I remember. Well not quite (I didn't mention it here while the auction was running) ..a 16mm spool appeared on auction, it had all the captions reversed, indicating it was back projected from the stage for perhaps an award ceremony or something? ...anyway from the pictures- contents appeared to be a few minute showcase of AR kids programming.....and there after all these years was dear old Muriel and Pussycat Willum- Ollie Beak- Fred Barker-Stingray etc...lovely BTW. Willum and Muriel appeared to be quite dry LOL |
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Post by williammcgregor on Jul 2, 2018 9:37:41 GMT
Love the name Willum...wish I'd known that name before I named my cat
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jul 2, 2018 12:23:11 GMT
Thanks! So there's absolutely zero footage of Pussycat Willum left then? Though I didn't like him much, I would be nice to know if he was actually as wet and annoying as I remember. Well not quite (I didn't mention it here while the auction was running) ..a 16mm spool appeared on auction, it had all the captions reversed, indicating it was back projected from the stage for perhaps an award ceremony or something? ...anyway from the pictures- contents appeared to be a few minute showcase of AR kids programming.....and there after all these years was dear old Muriel and Pussycat Willum- Ollie Beak- Fred Barker-Stingray etc...lovely BTW. Willum and Muriel appeared to be quite dry LOL Wonderful! |
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jul 2, 2018 15:31:42 GMT
It IS Five O'Clock Club, but the 04/05/1965 date does not tie up - must either be 06/05/1965, or the show WAS taped - which is not what records suggest!
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Post by williammcgregor on Jul 2, 2018 20:30:39 GMT
You are correct Ray, TV Pop Diaries has...
Thursday 6 May 1965
Ollie & Fred's Five O Clock Club
Craig Douglas
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
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Post by markdixon on Jul 2, 2018 20:37:03 GMT
TV Pop Diaries has 06 May 1965 as the date. However, other sources claim the Bluesbreakers appeared on the edition broadcast on 04 May 1965. I checked my TV Times DVD and the Bluesbreakers weren’t billed for either show. They must have been booked very close to the day of transmission.
“The Five O’Clock Club” was broadcast live, so Bob Dylan would have been watching it as it went out live. Dylan was at the Savoy Hotel on 04 May 1965. He recorded several songs in his hotel room that night which were eventually released on the Collector’s Edition of the “Cutting Edge” box-set. Dylan was in Newcastle on 06 May 1965. He performed at Newcastle City Hall that night.
Therefore, I think the correct date is 04 May 1965.
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Post by williammcgregor on Jul 2, 2018 20:44:31 GMT
Thanks Mark well done
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