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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 11, 2015 12:57:04 GMT
There seemed to be an experimental period in the early 1970s of inviting on acts who hadn't made the charts, Humpty Bong is one that comes to mind.
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Post by williammcgregor on Mar 13, 2015 14:24:41 GMT
There seemed to be an experimental period in the early 1970s of inviting on acts who hadn't made the charts, Humpty Bong is one that comes to mind. I had'nt heard of Humpty Bong so I googled that name and found out this information from a Queen website... In 1968, Astronomy student and guitarist Brian May (b. 19 July 1947, Hampton, Middlesex, England) and bass player Tim Staffell, both students at Imperial College, decided they wanted to form a group. Brian placed an advertisement on the college notice board for a “Ginger Baker type” drummer, and a young dental student called Roger Taylor (b. Roger Meddows-Taylor, 26 July 1949, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England) auditioned and got the job. They called the group “Smile”. Smile were signed to Mercury Records in 1969, and had their first experience recording at Trident Studios that year. Tim Staffell was at Ealing College of Art with Freddie Mercury (then Freddie Bulsara) (b. Farrokh Bulsara, 5 September 1946, Zanzibar, Africa, d. 24 November 1991, London, England), and introduced him to the band. Freddie soon became a keen fan. Sadly, in 1970, “Smile” decided to call it a day, as nothing seemed to be happening for them. Tim went off and joined a band called Humpty Bong (featuring former Bee Gees drummer Colin Petersen). so thanks Richard for increasing my musical knowledge.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2015 15:07:47 GMT
And Colin Petersen in turn starred in the first of the Smiley films with that doyen of the Australian screen, Chips Rafferty. Those films were shown on BBC in the early 70's ...
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Post by Kev Hunter on Mar 13, 2015 16:04:48 GMT
Hope this doesn't come across as being pedantic, but the band was actually called Humpy Bong (see http://www.45cat.com), their sole 1970 single being produced by the aforementioned Colin Petersen.
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Post by robchapman on Mar 13, 2015 16:47:40 GMT
This just in from the "I swear I'm not making this up" department. I've just been talking to a friend who claims that he saw Chuck Berry performing My Ding A Ling on TOTP while Rolf Harris drew live illustrations! If this is true its probably the most unrepeatable TOTP clip of all time.
Don't shoot me I'm just the messenger, and my mate is sound of body and mind but can anyone verify this?
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Post by David Saunders on Mar 13, 2015 16:57:27 GMT
This just in from the "I swear I'm not making this up" department. I've just been talking to a friend who claims that he saw Chuck Berry performing My Ding A Ling on TOTP while Rolf Harris drew live illustrations! If this is true its probably the most unrepeatable TOTP clip of all time. Don't shoot me I'm just the messenger, and my mate is sound of body and mind but can anyone verify this? Here you go, Rob: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXJEtUTRI1E
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Post by richardwoods on Mar 13, 2015 17:11:51 GMT
Well, you certainly couldn't make that one up. If it had been Jimmy Saville rather than Tony Blackburn presenting............
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Post by williammcgregor on Mar 13, 2015 17:24:21 GMT
Hope this doesn't come across as being pedantic, but the band was actually called Humpy Bong (see http://www.45cat.com), their sole 1970 single being produced by the aforementioned Colin Petersen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpy_Bong
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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 13, 2015 18:18:47 GMT
There seemed to be an experimental period in the early 1970s of inviting on acts who hadn't made the charts, Humpty Bong is one that comes to mind. I had'nt heard of Humpty Bong so I googled that name and found out this information from a Queen website... In 1968, Astronomy student and guitarist Brian May (b. 19 July 1947, Hampton, Middlesex, England) and bass player Tim Staffell, both students at Imperial College, decided they wanted to form a group. Brian placed an advertisement on the college notice board for a “Ginger Baker type” drummer, and a young dental student called Roger Taylor (b. Roger Meddows-Taylor, 26 July 1949, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England) auditioned and got the job. They called the group “Smile”. Smile were signed to Mercury Records in 1969, and had their first experience recording at Trident Studios that year. Tim Staffell was at Ealing College of Art with Freddie Mercury (then Freddie Bulsara) (b. Farrokh Bulsara, 5 September 1946, Zanzibar, Africa, d. 24 November 1991, London, England), and introduced him to the band. Freddie soon became a keen fan. Sadly, in 1970, “Smile” decided to call it a day, as nothing seemed to be happening for them. Tim went off and joined a band called Humpty Bong (featuring former Bee Gees drummer Colin Petersen). so thanks Richard for increasing my musical knowledge. You are welcome, sorry I got the spelling of Humpy Bong wrong, it's been a long time since I read the offical Queen biography. Smile did record a few tracks for Mercury, but the only single was a USA only release which flopped. The tracks were released on an album in Japan in the 1980s, & a eventually had a limited UK release in the 1990s, which I couldn't afford at the time & now is worth quite a bit. Tim Staffell was later a model maker on Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends IIRC.
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Post by williammcgregor on Mar 13, 2015 20:34:04 GMT
This Disc and Music Echo's readers review of Top of the Pops is dated Saturday the 19/08/67 so it would probably relate to the Top of the Pops on the 10/08/67 ?
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Post by robchapman on Mar 14, 2015 13:25:19 GMT
[/quote]Here you go, Rob: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXJEtUTRI1E[/quote]thanks David. My mate was overjoyed to have his memory confirmed. As he put it "one of these men has performed unspeakable acts..and the other is Rolf Harris." Once again don't shoot me. Now, lets raise the tone a little. On the subject of TOTP memories, does anyone remember that edition of the programme in the early 80s where they accidentally ran the closing credits half way through the programme. Or has it already been dealt with on here?
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Post by David Saunders on Mar 14, 2015 13:44:54 GMT
thanks David. My mate was overjoyed to have his memory confirmed. As he put it "one of these men has performed unspeakable acts..and the other is Rolf Harris."[/quote] You're welcome. Once again don't shoot me. Now, lets raise the tone a little. On the subject of TOTP memories, does anyone remember that edition of the programme in the early 80s where they accidentally ran the closing credits half way through the programme. Or has it already been dealt with on here? Depending on which year and edition this is from, as I don't remember this happening so might not have seen the edition this error happened in at the time, it could come up in one of the forthcoming 1980 repeats.
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Post by williammcgregor on Mar 14, 2015 21:31:08 GMT
looking through the Disc and Music Echo dated Saturday the 7th October 1967 it mentions a film of a Swedish group called Ola and the Janglers was to be shown on Top of the Pops on Thursday the 5th October 1967 the film was made during their recent visit to Britain.
I've looked on youtube but I'm not sure what song they might have been singing? anybody any clues?
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Post by Kev Hunter on Mar 14, 2015 23:06:51 GMT
looking through the Disc and Music Echo dated Saturday the 7th October 1967 it mentions a film of a Swedish group called Ola and the Janglers was to be shown on Top of the Pops on Thursday the 5th October 1967 the film was made during their recent visit to Britain.
I've looked on youtube but I'm not sure what song they might have been singing? anybody any clues? It was probably "I Can Wait", which was released by Decca here in the UK in mid-September '67.
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Post by williammcgregor on Mar 14, 2015 23:21:11 GMT
Thanks Kev you're right they sang "I Can Wait" on Top of the Pops (see this comment by Chris Boro)
chris boro3 years ago i remember this group singing this song appearing on top of the pops and being introduced by the not so late jimmy saville ive still got the 45 it jumps a little though eeny meeny miney moe is on the flipside it was a cracking time for all music.
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