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Post by markdixon on May 27, 2017 9:45:26 GMT
I couldn’t find anything online about “My Kind of Folk”. The best source for information about the series will be issues of “TV Times” (Southern TV region) from early 1966, but I don’t have access to copies of these.
I did find information about guests who appeared on “Sing Out with The Settlers”, a lunchtime music show made by Tyne Tees, which was broadcast across the ITV network in 1973. It’s possible that some of these guests also appeared with the Settlers in “My Kind of Folk” in 1966.
03 Jan 1973: Roger Whittaker 10 Jan 1973: Los Zafiros 17 Jan 1973: Bonnie Dobson 24 Jan 1973: The McCalmans 31 Jan 1973: Lyn and Graham McCarthy 07 Feb 1973: Wally Whyton 14 Feb 1973: Friday Brown 21 Feb 1973: Johnny Silvo and David Moses 28 Feb 1973: Diz Disley 07 Mar 1973: The Lorne Gibson Trio 14 Mar 1973: The McCalmans 21 Mar 1973: Foggy (a.k.a. Foggy Dew-O) 28 Mar 1973: The Marion Segal Trio 04 April 1973: No special guests
It appears that the complete series of “Sing Out with the Settlers” is held at the BFI.
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Post by markdixon on May 17, 2017 19:55:22 GMT
“How Do You View?” has been mentioned a few times before on this forum and it appears that no footage survives from the series.
Apparently, “How Do You View?” was the first comedy series shown on British TV. It appears to have been a visually inventive, often surreal sketch show. It was probably a big influence on the early TV work of Spike Milligan and Michael Bentine.
The series was broadcast live, but it’s possible that it used some film inserts. In his book “Bounder! The Biography of Terry-Thomas”, Graham McCann refers to a “home movie” section of the show in which Terry-Thomas mocked various cinema styles.
I hope that some scripts or telesnaps have survived, because these would give us a better idea about the content and style of the show. I’ve seen a couple of photographs from the 1951 series and these show that some of the sketches featured quite unusual costumes and studio sets. For example, there’s a photo showing some of the cast playing space travellers in a sketch set on the surface of a planet.
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Post by markdixon on May 10, 2017 17:37:33 GMT
It appears that the BFI have the film inserts from 8 episodes of the final black and white series of “Candid Camera”. Presumably, David Nixon’s studio links were wiped decades ago.
Here are the programme descriptions for the series from the Northern “TV Times”. The transmission dates are for ABC. Other ITV regions would have shown these episodes on other dates.
25 February 1968
In the first of this new series the team go into the Washing Machine business, to the bewilderment of unsuspecting salesmen. Des has trouble with a door, Susan has trouble with an umbrella and Terence has trouble with a mini-car which is not all it seems to be.
03 March 1968
The Candid Camera Team decide without any more ado to start their own system of changing the country to decimal coinage. A temporary secretary spends hours in confusion on a telephone and customers see their teaspoons disappear before their very eyes.
10 March 1968
Again, the public at large play the leading parts in this week’s all laughter show. See for yourself what happens when a golf caddy develops Hayfever and the day a Barnsley Housewife wins the Jackpot and proves the old saying ‘laugh and the world laughs with you’.
17 March 1968
In this week’s episode see for yourself what happens when Terence Carroll goes to a bullfight in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre, he then tries to steal silver from a Stately Home. See what also happens when a fruit machine pays out with – fruit, and Susan attired in pyjamas goes to a large store to buy a bed.
24 March 1968
What is the mystery surrounding rather a large bird nesting on the top of Blackpool Tower in a gale force wind? Who is the glamorous riveter at a Scottish shipyard? What is a haggis? Who is the mysterious cleaner in a telephone box? All these questions answered in this week’s all fun, all laughter episode of Candid Camera.
31 March 1968
The Candid Camera poet writes messages in greetings cards to order. A “Brain Drain” enthusiast finds he cannot spell. Two wee Scots boys put us right about the Loch Ness Monster and a charming secretary tries to run an Escort Agency with a most unlikely escort.
07 April 1968
Special guests: Alasdair Gillies, Archie McCulloch
Would you believe burly Scottish shipworkers taking ballet classes? The supply of free milk in the form of a cow? The antics of a temporary secretary with a whining telephone? See all these and more in this week’s programme.
14 April 1968
Terence joins a pop group etc. See earlier post.
21 April 1968
Children are the feature of this week’s Candid Camera – also a temporary secretary who tries to cope with six telephones.
28 April 1968
Smile along with the Candid Camera team as we bring you some of the best stunts of the series.
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Post by markdixon on May 5, 2017 19:34:00 GMT
I think it's highly likely that Orange Bicycle are featured in the BFI clip mentioned by William. 1966 is a bit too early for “Laura’s Garden”, but maybe the BFI made a slight error when dating the footage.
The Northern edition of the “TV Times” (13 April 1968-19 April 1968) featured the following description for an episode of “Candid Camera” broadcast on 14 April 1968:
In this week’s small laughter show Terence joins a pop group, children give their views on The Thinker and show us, not perhaps the best, but the quickest way, of making a bed. The show is concluded with a hilarious fashion parade, staged, of course, by the Candid Camera team.
Could this be the episode that featured Orange Bicycle? I doubt the series featured many pranks involving pop groups.
By the way, 'Terence' was Terence Carroll, a regular member of the "Candid Camera" team.
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Post by markdixon on May 2, 2017 17:02:10 GMT
I wasn’t aware that “Candid Camera” featured musical guests. However, I found the following about Orange Bicycle on the November 1967 page of the “Marmalade Skies” website.
Laura’s Garden: During the rehearsal for this number, everything went wrong for the group - they didn't know they were on Candid Camera at the time! But the finished product is fine - a colourful rhythmic ballad, with ear catching harmonies and fugal influences.
I think Anglia was the only ITV company broadcasting “Candid Camera” in late 1967, but other regions would have shown the episode featuring Orange Bicycle on various dates in 1968. The “Lost Shows” database doesn’t refer to any editions of “Candid Camera” from 1967 or 1968, so I don’t know if they exist or not.
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Post by markdixon on Apr 9, 2017 19:28:16 GMT
Philip Donnellan’s Radio Ballad films still exist and can be viewed on YouTube. They are “Shoals of Herrings” (1972), “The Fight Game” (1973) and “The Big Hewer” (1974).
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Post by markdixon on Apr 7, 2017 20:53:30 GMT
“A Kind of Exile: Peggy Seeger” still exists and is listed on ITN Source. It was directed and produced by John Goldschmidt for ATV and was broadcast across most of the ITV network, including Thames and Granada. It turns out that “A Kind of Exile” was a 3-part series which profiled a different person each week. Episode 1 was about the South African cricketer Basil D’Oliveira and Episode 3 was a profile of Sir Oswald Mosley.
By the way, Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl appeared in one of Granada’s earliest music programmes – “The Ramblers”. This was a 5-part series broadcast in the Granada region only in June and July 1956. The Ramblers were a folk/skiffle group that featured MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Alan Lomax, Shirley Collins and others. The series is completely missing. However, some of the scripts can be viewed on the Library of Congress website.
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Post by markdixon on Mar 18, 2017 11:23:45 GMT
There’s an ITN interview with John and Yoko from 16 September 1969 that’s available to view on the Getty Images website. The running time is 01:04, so it’s probably the clip that William has described.
The title is ‘John Lennon and Yoko Ono interview on “howling”.
I suspect that Kaleidoscope have been given an audio recording of the same interview.
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Post by markdixon on Mar 15, 2017 21:11:07 GMT
Thanks for posting the link to the recording, Dan.
I had a look on the “Lost Shows” database and it appears that the edition of “What’s My Line” from 21 December 1957 is now missing. So, it seems that the BBC were still wiping 1950s material in the late Sixties or early Seventies.
However, that 6-minute clip from “What’s My Line” still exists because “A Portrait of Gilbert Harding” is one of the editions of “Plunder” that has survived in the BBC Archives. It’s listed on the Getty Images website and the exact timing of the programme is given as 50 minutes 51 seconds, so there’s only about 5 minutes missing from the reel to reel audio recording.`
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Post by markdixon on Mar 13, 2017 12:44:07 GMT
“Plunder” was billed as “a weekly raid on the archives of BBC Television” and it was broadcast once a week from October 1965 to May 1967 as part of BBC-2’s “Late Night Line-Up”. It was probably the earliest British TV series that regularly featured clips from old TV programmes. It ran for about 65 editions, so it was presumably popular (although not all viewers had access to BBC-2 during the Sixties). I don’t think “Plunder” has ever been discussed on this forum before. Therefore, I wanted to start this thread because I think it’s worth noting that there was an audience for archival TV before the mass wiping of programmes during the early Seventies.
Only a very small number of editions of “Plunder” still exist, but it’s still possible to get a sense of what kind of material was shown throughout the series because the listings in the “Radio Times” are very detailed.
“Plunder” mainly showed clips from BBC programmes ranging in date from the mid-Fifties to the start of the Sixties. Obviously, the producers were limited in their choice by the fact that the BBC didn’t perfect their telerecording system until about 1953. Therefore, the early days of live television could only be represented in the programme by behind-the-scenes film footage of broadcasts from Alexandra Palace.
I suspect that “Plunder” didn’t feature much archival material that is now missing. It appears that only a relatively small amount of BBC TV programmes from the 1950s still existed in 1965. It’s possible that most of these recordings managed to survive the purges of the late Sixties/early Seventies because they were old enough to be deemed historically important.
“Plunder” included clips from “Orson Welles’ Sketch Book” and “Face to Face” (which still survive in full). The series also featured film inserts from programmes such as “Monitor” and “Tonight” which are likely to still exist because there’s quite a high survival rate for items that originated on film.
The producers of "Plunder” solved their problem regarding the lack of available archival material by including new interviews with participants from the early days of TV. The programme also contained archive footage from other sources such as Pathé newsreels, silent film serials and early talkies. There were also extracts from BBC radio programmes (presumably accompanied by associated film footage or sequences of photographs).
It appears that the series was cancelled because the producer and presenter, Michell Raper, believed that all the interesting archive clips had already been shown.
By the way, Lisa Kerrigan from the BFI has written a detailed article about “Plunder” which is worth reading and this is available online at viewjournal.eu
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Post by markdixon on Feb 19, 2017 17:25:18 GMT
Here’s an update featuring information I’ve found in “TV Times”, “The Stage” and various books and websites
More missing music performances from “Scene at 6.30”
c. Jul 1963: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates - “I’ll Never Get Over You” (apparently, this clip was repeated in Oct 1966 after Kidd was killed in a road accident in Lancashire) Aug 1963: The Chants 1963: The Penguins (Mancunian beat group) 1963: Alberta Laine (‘double-voiced’ jazz/pop vocalist) c. 1963: The Undertakers (Liverpool beat group featuring vocalist Jackie Lomax) Early 1964: TV debut of the Yardbirds (?) c. Feb 1964: The Naturals (‘harmonising trio with guitar’) c. Apr 1964: Jeannie and the Big Guys (beat group from Chester) Oct 1964: Shangri-Las - “Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand)” c. Nov 1964: Jan Douglas - “Walking in the Rain” (Scottish singer) 1964: Millie (probably “My Boy Lollipop”) 6 Aug 1965: Carolyn Hester c. Aug 1965: Sonny and Cher - “I Got You Babe” 06 Sep 1965: Manfred Mann 1966: The Cryin’ Shames (probably “Please Stay”)
Additional information about performances already listed in this thread
22 Nov 1963: It’s likely that the performance by Brian Poole and the Tremeloes was cut short or cancelled to allow presenter Mike Scott to announce the news of President Kennedy’s assassination. 04 May 1964: It’s possible that the Rolling Stones performed “I’m a King Bee”, a track off their debut album 4 Aug 1965: The Byrds performed “Mr Tambourine Man” 13 Jul 1966: Simon and Garfunkel performed “Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.” (a song that was never released as a single).
More surviving film inserts listed on ITN Source
01 Jul 1963: Interview with Adrian Henri about artistic ‘Happenings’ staged at Hope Hall, Liverpool (I think this clip contains footage of the Roadrunners, a Liverpool r ‘n’ b group, who provided the music at these events). 01 Jun 1965: Interview with Herman’s Hermits 1967: Feature about the Lemon Line, a psychedelic band from Manchester who released one single on Decca. 1967: Footage of the King Mojo club, a Northern Soul club in Sheffield run by Peter Stringfellow and his brothers
Related programmes
I estimate that over a thousand pop music performances were shown on "Scene at 6.30" and other Granada regional news programmes during the period 1963-1968. Most of these are now missing. Many of these performances were broadcast on the afternoon bulletins “Good Evening from Granada in the North” (Oct 1964- Mar 1967) and “On Air” (Mar 1967-April 1968) and the late-night magazine programmes “Late Scene” (Aug 1963-Mar 1964) and “Granada in the North” (Nov 1964-Jun 1966).
Here are details of some of these missing performances:
“Late Scene”: 01 Nov 1963: Joe Brown and the Bruvvers - “Little Ukelele” (this cover version of a George Formby song was banned by the BBC at the time)
“Good Evening from Granada in the North”: 31 Aug 1965: Fritz, Mike and Mo – “Someone Stole the Sun” (folk-pop trio featuring Fritz Fryer, formerly of the Four Pennies) Sep 1965: The Strollers (folk-pop group from Lewisham, South London, featuring Dave and Toni Arthur) Sep 1965: Paddy, Klaus and Gibson (trio managed by Brian Epstein) 06 Oct 1965: The Strollers
“Granada in the North”: 04 Feb 1965: Chris Sandford (actor who started a musical career after playing “singing window-cleaner” Walter Potts in “Coronation Street”) 1965: Cabaret duo David and Marianne Dalmour appeared on the show about 7 times 26 Oct 1965: “Wee Willie Harris at the Talk of The North, Eccles” (30-minute special also featuring the Tony Thorpe Group and Jerry Harris) 30 Dec 1965: Herman’s Hermits - “A Must to Avoid”.
Any additions or corrections are welcome.
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Post by markdixon on Feb 5, 2017 20:27:09 GMT
Sorry this has taken so long. I'm pretty sure that this was the clip of WGGOOTP that was shown. This isn't the same program, it's from the US and the quality is worse. It seems likely that the clip is from a US archive too. youtu.be/TpNWSW49IBMDoes anyone know where this performance originally came from? I think that this performance might be from an episode of “Shindig” broadcast on ABC TV in the USA on 14 October 1965.
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Post by markdixon on Feb 5, 2017 17:44:08 GMT
Sorry, I can’t post a link because it turns out that clips from that edition of “The Hippodrome Show” aren’t on YouTube after all. Before I wrote the earlier post, I watched some colour clips of the Animals performing “We’ve Gotta Get Out of This Place” and “Inside Looking Out” on YouTube. I assumed these were from “The Hippodrome Show”, but I’ve found out since they’re from an edition of “The Ed Sullivan Show” broadcast on 06 February 1966.
As far as I can tell, the Animals only performed one song on the edition of “The Hippodrome Show” broadcast on 02 August 1966. It was “Squeeze Her, Tease Her”.
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Post by markdixon on Jan 8, 2017 13:54:40 GMT
Here’s some information about Granada’s “People and Places”, the topical magazine programme which is remembered mainly for featuring the TV debut of the Beatles. Only a few film inserts survive from the show, none of which include musical performances.
“People and Places” began on 09 July 1957 as a seven-part networked programme presented by Elaine Grand and comedy actor Peter Jones. It contained interviews, satirical sketches and music from guests such as Jackie Lee (later better known for “White Horses” and “Rupert”) and modern jazz combo the Derek Hilton Quartet.
“People and Places” was revived on 23 May 1958 as a Northern regional programme presented by Bill Grundy. He was joined by a co-presenter, Chris Howland, in November 1958. Howland was already well-known in West Germany as a schlager singer and film star and on a couple of occasions he sang on “People and Places”.
The programme had its own house band, the Derek Hilton Trio (who also provided the theme tune). Hilton became a minor celebrity in the North because he would often exchange banter with Grundy during the show.
Howland left in Autumn 1960 and his successor Gay Byrne joined the show in June 1961. It seems that Bill Grundy didn’t appear on “People and Places” from September 1962 onwards. Therefore, it was Byrne who introduced the early appearances by the Beatles. “People and Places” finished on 18 January 1963 and the following week Gay Byrne became one of the presenters of its successor, “Scene at 6.30”.
Missing studio performances
Musical guests on “People and Places” over the years included variety star Tessie O’Shea, flamenco guitarist Pepe Martinez and pop singers Johnnie Ray, Alma Cogan, Adam Faith, Michael Holliday, Joe Brown, Susan Maughan, Gary Miller and Dick Francis.
In 1960, the programme also had a resident rock ‘n’ roll singer, Paul Beattie from Manchester. He appeared on the show at least 20 times performing popular songs of the day. Prior to that he’d released 4 singles on the Parlophone label, which were produced by George Martin.
Jazz was also featured regularly on the show. Guests from the jazz world included Humphrey Lyttelton, Sheila Buxton, Leslie ‘Jiver’ Hutchinson, Rose Murphy and ‘double-voiced’ vocalist Alberta Laine. Northern jazz bands such as the Saints Jazz Band, the Crescent City Jazz Band and the Jimmy Chadburn Trio also appeared. The programme featured regularly a jazz/pop vocalist called Chris Langford from 1960 to 1962. She was also well-known in the North East at the time due to her appearances on the Tyne-Tees programme “The One O’clock Show”.
I’ve managed to find specific dates for the following performances:
27 Aug 1958: Shelley Marshall (Australian pop singer) 15 Oct 1958: Muddy Waters and his pianist Otis Spann 25 Dec 1959: Ronnie Hilton, Eula Parker and calypso singer Ivan Browne 13 Apr 1960: Matt Monro 17 Oct 1962: The Beatles - “Some Other Guy” and “Love Me Do” (Apple Records have an audio recording of these performances) 02 Nov 1962: The Beatles - “Love Me Do” and “A Taste of Honey” (Apple Records have an audio recording of “A Taste of Honey” and photographs of images taken off a TV screen also exist) 21 Nov 1962: Bobby Vee 14 Dec 1962: The Statesmen (Mancunian beat group who were managed briefly by Brian Epstein) 17 Dec 1962: The Beatles - “Love Me Do” and “Twist and Shout” 25 Dec 1962: Kenny Lynch, Jimmy Savile and Chris Langford 16 Jan 1963: The Beatles - “Ask Me Why” and “Please, Please Me” (rehearsal photograph exists)
“Coast to Coast” and “Pier to Pier”
The producers of “People and Places” staged a number of outside broadcasts that featured musical performances. From 28 June - 21 July 1960 a convoy of vehicles carried Grundy, Howland and the Derek Hilton Trio on a coast to coast tour of the North of England. The tour started at Bridlington harbour and ended at Southport Pier. They were joined at various towns along the way by the jazz/pop vocalists Sheila Southern, Marion Ryan and Chris Langford. The Derek Hilton Trio were shown performing in odd locations such as a windswept field near Rochdale and on a raft at Carr Mill Dam, St Helens.
From 03 July- 20 July 1961, Grundy, Byrne, the Derek Hilton Trio and vocalist Marion Keene travelled on a double-decker bus as part of a “Pier to Pier” tour, stretching from Skegness to Llandudno. Keene was shown singing at the top of a helter-skelter in Mablethorpe and on board a schooner at Morecambe Bay.
Any additions or corrections to the above are welcome. Does anyone know if any American rock ‘n’ roll stars appeared on the programme?
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Post by markdixon on Dec 12, 2016 21:06:47 GMT
There were lots of sessions on the BBC Light Programme and Radio One in 1967 of a broadly psychedelic nature. Probably the easiest way to work out what still exists is to look at what has been made commercially available. Sessions from 1967 by the following artists have been released on CD: Pink Floyd, the Soft Machine, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Tomorrow, the Pretty Things, the Move, Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Moody Blues and Cream. There are probably lots more.
The Top Sounds label has released compilations featuring BBC radio material. One of their albums features two tracks from a 1967 session by Kaleidoscope.
There are probably other BBC radio session tracks of a psychedelic nature in existence that haven't had an official release. There's a 'Top Gear' session by the Incredible String Band from 1967 which I think is only available on a bootleg album.
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