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Post by markdixon on Sept 29, 2018 20:13:42 GMT
Finders Keepers Records released an excellent compilation by Sarolta Zalatnay a few years ago.
She is known as ‘Zalatnay Sarolta’ in Hungary because Hungarian names are written in Eastern name order (last name then first name).
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Post by markdixon on Sept 29, 2018 13:13:56 GMT
Here’s some information about Series 4 that isn’t on TV Brain:
15 Oct 1967: Scott Walker performed "When Joanna Loved Me". Bruce Lacey, Jill Bruce and their robot Rosa Bosom also appeared on the show (Lacey and Bruce had got married a few days earlier and the robot had been the best man at their wedding). 22 Oct 1967: Linda Thorson, Jack Dempsey 05 Nov 1967: Marcel Marceau, Terry-Thomas, Julie Newmar 03 Dec 1967: Toby Robins (Canadian actress) 10 Dec 1967: Aimi MacDonald 17 Dec 1967: Duncan Sandys (British politician) 07 Jan 1968: Muhammad Ali appeared via satellite link-up from Chicago. An Israeli pop group called The High Windows were also on the show (this programme isn’t on the Lost Shows list. Does it exist?) 21 Jan 1968: Artie Shaw 28 Jan 1968: Phyllis Diller, Derek Nimmo, Christopher Lee 10 Mar 1968: Sheela Munro (singer) 24 Mar 1968: Liberace, Rita Hayworth 07 Apr 1968: Lulu, Joe Frazier, Lionel Stander, Spike Milligan 02 Jun 1968: Carol Channing
I haven't got precise dates for the following:
c. Oct 1967: Dejan’s Olympia Brass Band (from New Orleans) Early Dec 1967: Tom Jones sang “I’m Coming Home” (probably 03 Dec 1967) Early 1968: Don Partridge
The name of the singer who appeared on the show on 19 May 1968 was Sarolta Zalatnay.
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Post by markdixon on Sept 21, 2018 18:04:00 GMT
This is off-topic from music, but I noticed that ‘High Jinks’ starred Ray Alan and his ventriloquist puppets Tich and Quackers. I’ve found a YouTube clip which contains a brief fragment from their 1966 series ‘Tich and Quackers’. I think this series is completely missing.
The clip shows the beginning of the episode ‘The Examination’ which was broadcast on 24 July 1966. The footage is 8mm, silent and extremely short, but it might still be of interest to some of you.
The title of the clip is ‘Off Air BBC 1 TV 8mm Dutch F1, BBC 1 globe indent and Tich and quackers: the examination (LOST?)'
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Post by markdixon on Sept 20, 2018 19:22:52 GMT
Here’s some info about musical guests:
‘It’s Sunday Night With David Jacobs’
06 Jul 1969: Terri Stevens 24 Aug 1969: Susan Maughan ?? Sep 1969: Sammy Davis Jr. “This Can’t Be Love”
‘High Jinks’
22 Aug 1969: The Whales 29 Aug 1969: The Elizabethans (they later became known as Smokie)
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Post by markdixon on Sept 17, 2018 19:56:02 GMT
Here’s a list of a few more missing music performances from ‘Scene at 6.30’:
15 Mar 1963: Polly Perkins 19 Jun 1963: The Swinging Blue Jeans 07 Aug 1963: Jan and Kelly (novelty pop duo) 27 Aug 1963: ‘Late Scene’ (first edition) featured the Bachelors and Elaine Delmar
18 Nov 1963: ‘Late Scene’ special about the Vernons Girls. It featured two groups and a solo vocalist who had emerged from the original line-up. One of these groups was the Breakaways who performed ‘That Boy of Mine’
31 Dec 1963: Bobby and the Cannons (Beat group from Liverpool) 26 Feb 1964: ‘Pop Scene’ (first edition?) featured the Hollies, Big Dee Irwin and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas 04 Mar 1964: ‘Pop Scene’ featured the Rolling Stones, the Swinging Blue Jeans, the Hollies and Chad and Jeremy 31 Mar 1964: Lonnie Donegan 15 Apr 1964: Fritz Spiegel and his Liverpool Music Group interpreted Beatles tunes in a classical style 11 Mar 1965: The Kingtones - a pop group formed by four members of the King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool)
Other information
c.1964: Annie Nightingale conducted several interviews with pop stars on ‘Scene at 6.30’, possibly during the Wednesday night ‘Pop Scene’ segment.
Miming
Here’s a review of ‘Scene at 6.30’ from ‘The Liverpool Echo’ (13 July 1963). It was written by the TV critic ‘W.D.A.’
So established has the miming of pop records now become on ITV that in opposing the practice I feel like a lone voice crying in the wilderness. But just for the record, if you’ll pardon the pun, this practice was reduced to absurdity in ITV’s Scene at 6.30 last night, when a vocalist appeared miming to a disc on which the voice had been recorded in such a way as to make it sound like a chorus.
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Post by markdixon on Sept 17, 2018 17:34:42 GMT
A clip of The Pennine Folk exists in the ITV archives. It’s from the period when they were known as The Pennines. They appeared on Granada’s regional news/magazine programme ‘Newsday’ on 01 June 1971. I think they performed ‘Manchester Morning’.
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Post by markdixon on Sept 15, 2018 9:56:39 GMT
I’ve found a bit more information about ‘OK’.
Firstly, here are some more details about musical guests:
30 Jul 1973: Andy Andrews (an eccentric folk-singer from Bolton) 27 Aug 1973: Mike Harding (this episode was recorded at Hollingworth Lake, Rochdale)
I also found a preview from ‘The Liverpool Echo’ of the episode broadcast on 13 August 1973.
Down beside the Mersey this evening comes Granada’s O.K. (6.10). Actually, the action is at Otterspool Prom where Blondini explodes from a coffin before an anxious audience and a rock style band play music of the Fifties. The band is Fumble who add to the gaiety with their version of the hits of twenty years ago. Added to which there is, we are told, useful information for young people about community industry and about careers for school leavers.
Apparently, ‘Blondini’ was Mike Blondini, a stuntman and escapologist.
The next day ‘The Liverpool Echo’ carried a short review of the episode. According to the reviewer, ‘an earnest young lady’ talked about apprenticeships, but she was nearly drowned out by ‘the noise of kids at play’. It appears that the invited audience were more interested in attractions such as a gigantic inflatable football. The reviewer believed that the serious items would have been better presented in a programme dedicated to social issues. The reviewer’s conclusion was that 'OK' seemed more fun for the on-screen audience than it was for the viewer at home.
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Post by markdixon on Sept 15, 2018 9:43:15 GMT
I’ve added a few more names to the list of ‘Firstimers’ contestants above. One of these is Tom O’Connor. He is best known as a comedian and quiz show host, but he made his TV debut as a folk/country singer on an edition of ‘Firstimers’ broadcast on 12 July 1967.
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Post by markdixon on Sept 7, 2018 17:42:34 GMT
The TV Times didn’t carry any production credits for this programme. I suspect that Johnnie Hamp wasn’t the producer. In 1969, he was the head of Light Entertainment at Granada. His productions from this era (such as “Doing Their Thing”) were recorded in big studios at Granada and most of them still exist.
The Humble Pie programme was probably a production of the Local Programmes unit. It was recorded in the tiny Studio 4, which had previously been used as a continuity studio.
Most of the musical performances featured on Granada regional programmes in the 1960s were recorded in Studio 4. That seemed to work fine in the days of “Scene at 6.30” when bands and singers mimed to records. However, after the miming ban, bands such as Humble Pie found that the sound system in the studio wasn’t adequate for live performances. Studio 4 was decommissioned in the early Seventies. It was used as a storeroom for a while, and then it became part of Granada’s reception.
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Post by markdixon on Sept 6, 2018 20:51:06 GMT
A few years ago, I had a look at through several issues of the Mancunian underground/alternative press newspaper ‘Grass Eye’. Issue No. 7 (Aug/Sept 1969) contained an interview with Humble Pie. The author of the article stated that the band had recently recorded a session for a Granada programme, but it was unlikely to be broadcast because of technical difficulties with the sound.
I didn’t think I’d ever find out anything more about this obscure programme. However, today, I found a listing in the Granada region TV Times that shows that this Humble Pie session did get broadcast.
The programme was called ‘The Humble Pie Visits Studio Four’. It was shown in the Granada region only from 6.05 – 6.30 pm on 04 September 1969. It’s very likely that the band performed ‘Natural Born Bugie’, but I don’t have details of any of the other songs played in the show.
The programme doesn’t exist in the ITV archives, but it’s possible that an audio recording or a telerecording might be out there somewhere.
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Post by markdixon on Aug 29, 2018 19:32:35 GMT
The clips of ‘This Time Is Mine’ and ‘Pigeon’ are from a Spanish series called ‘Estudio abierto’. The episode can be viewed on the RTVE website (rtve.es).
Here are a few details of some more Spanish TV appearances by Billie Davis:
c.1970: Billie Davis performed ‘Venid conmigo’ on an unidentified show (the clip is on YouTube)
20 Mar 1971: She sang one of the entries in the song contest ‘Cancion 71 – Segunda fase’ (the entire show is on the RTVE website)
?? Nov 1971: She appeared on the variety show ‘Siempre En Domingo’
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Post by markdixon on Aug 19, 2018 18:16:48 GMT
Here's some more information about “Scene at 6.30” from various websites and publications (including TV Pop Diaries and ‘Channelling The Beat! by Peter Checksfield).
More missing appearances from Scene at 6.30
c.1963: The Merseybeats 28 Jan 1963: Brian Hyland 30 Jan 1963: The Vernons Girls 31 Jan 1963: Joe Brown 01 Feb 1963: Kenny Lynch 07 Jun 1963: Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen 24 Jun 1963: Johnny Cymbal (he probably performed “Mr Bass Man”) 15 Jul 1963 Gerry and the Pacemakers 26 Jul 1963: The Caravelles 30 Aug 1963: Little Peggy March 02 Sep 1963: Craig Douglas 1964: Tony Meehan – “Song of Mexico” c.1964: The Liverbirds (I think this all-female Liverpool group performed an instrumental, as they hadn’t yet acquired a vocalist) 04 Feb 1964: Frankie Davidson (Australian novelty pop singer) 06 Feb 1964: Mark Murphy 11 Feb 1964: Cleo Laine 20 Jun 1963: Eden Kane 26 Jun 1964: Chris Barber 21 Aug 1964: Tommy Tucker 22 Oct 1964: The Shangri-Las – “Remember (Walkin’ In The Sand)” (this was mentioned earlier in the thread, but I didn’t have the exact date then) 09 Nov 1964: Herman’s Hermits 10 Nov 1964: Dave Berry 02 Dec 1964: Smokey Robinson and The Miracles 12 Dec 1964: Kenny Lynch Early 1965: The Excelles (Liverpool vocal group) c.1965: The Koobas 22 Jan 1965: Paul Anka – “To Wait For Love” 18 Aug 1965: St Louis Union 25 Aug 1965: The Hollies 19 Oct 1965: The Hollies 19 Nov 1965: The Fourmost 24 Nov 1965: The Hollies 17 Dec 1965: Major Lance 1966: Friday Brown appeared several times on the programme
More missing appearances from “Scene” (late-night programme)
06 July 1966: Dusty Springfield 27 Jul 1966: Manfred Mann - “Just Like a Woman”
28 Sep 1966: The Small Faces appeared in a half-hour “Scene” special produced by Johnny Hamp and Rod Taylor. The band appeared in front of an invited audience of 250 members of their fan club. The songs performed were Understanding / One Night Stand / Sha-La-La-La-Lee/ You’d Better Believe / Ooh Pah Pah Pah Doo/ You Need Love / All Or Nothing and possibly a cover version of Little Richard’s Bama Lama Bama Loo.
The special was recorded on 10 August 1966. According to Paolo Hewitt in his Steve Marriott biography, it was never transmitted. However, another source states that it was broadcast on 12 August 1966. I spotted a reference to the special in a small article about upcoming programmes in “The Stage” (08 September 1966). Therefore, I believe it was broadcast on 28 September 1966, the date given in Issue 5 of the Small Faces fanzine “Darlings of Wapping Wharf Laundrette”.
c.1967: Ethna Campbell (Irish singer) 1967: Adge Cutler and the Wurzels
Surviving clip
Sep 1967: Yoko Ono – “Music of the Mind”
This was a Performance Art piece, not a music performance, but this clip might still be of interest to some of you. Granada filmed Yoko Ono’s performance at the Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool, on 26 September 1967, and the footage was probably broadcast on “Scene” the following night. The clip can be viewed on YouTube.
Other information
A short article in the Northern “TV Times” (9th-15th October 1965) claimed that 2 out of 3 musical guests on “Scene at 6.30” could be classed as folk singers. I suspect that quite a lot of folk-pop artists (such as Donovan, the Silkie etc.) appeared on the show around this time.
Any additional information or corrections are welcome.
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Post by markdixon on Aug 10, 2018 15:35:54 GMT
It’s great news that Kaleidoscope have recovered the ITV Children’s TV promo from 1965. It contains sequences from editions of “Five O’Clock Club” and specially-made linking material featuring Muriel Young, Pussycat Willum, Fred Barker and Ollie Beak.
Footage exists of Fred Barker on “Lift Off with Ayshea” and Ollie Beak on “Get It Together”, but I think the 1965 promo contains the only surviving sequences featuring both puppets together.
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Post by markdixon on Aug 8, 2018 17:15:00 GMT
I’ve assumed for a quite a while that “Five O’Clock Club” was always broadcast live. I was also under the impression that Rediffusion rarely made recordings of these live shows.
However, I’ve found some information recently that suggests that many episodes were pre-recorded.
Anne Robinson was a researcher on “Five O’Clock Club” circa 1964/5. In her autobiography she claims that each week the Tuesday edition went out live and then the second edition was recorded immediately afterwards for broadcast on Thursday.
This didn’t sound very believable to me at first, but her claim seems to be backed up by someone who posted a childhood recollection on the Internet Movie Database about being interviewed on one of the live Tuesday editions in 1966. Here’s the relevant section:
The show was twice weekly, they did one live and then recorded the second one. Being in the audience for the recorded one I was on twice.
If it’s true that many episodes of “Five O’Clock Club” were pre-recorded, then it raises a tiny bit of hope that some editions may still be in existence somewhere.
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Post by markdixon on Jul 13, 2018 17:44:37 GMT
Here’s a review of ‘Five O’Clock Club’ (11 February 1966) from ‘The Stage’ (17 February 1966).
For children? Five O’Clock Club on Fridays is billed as children’s television, but this I doubt. I see no difference in this pop programme and those which are shown for the adult viewers. There were some children at the back which may have been some attempt to lay claim to the title, but these were the quietest kids I’ve seen.
They did show some sort of animation when Billy J Kramer went into his song. For my part, I liked the Soulmates best of all and Mark Murphy, blues singer from America, not at all. The Soulmates, two boys and a girl, were gay with their Bring Your Love Back Home. Mark Murphy, whose forte seems to be improvisation, sang and improvised to his heart’s content, but I think his was the only heart that was. Not an interesting programme, particularly for the children. I can’t see how they can possibly join in, actively or in spirit.
Chad and Jeremy were listed as guests in the TV Times, but they must have been replaced at the last minute by the Soulmates.
It looks like the director tried to do something a bit different for Billy J. Kramer’s performance.
I found an article in ‘The Times’ (28 June 1966) that appears to back up the reviewer’s claim that children were no longer enjoying the music featured on ‘Five O’Clock Club’.
Children Go Off ‘Pop’ Music
Younger children seemed to be losing interest in pop music, Mr Michael Segal, head of children’s programmes for Rediffusion television said yesterday in announcing a new format for the company’s Five O’clock Club on Fridays. From July 1 the programme would have a new 10-minute regional quiz called The I.Q. Game.
The change is in line with others made by Mr Cyril Bennett, Rediffusion’s new director of programmes, in an effort to give the company’s output added respectability.
I also noticed the following line in an article in 'The Times' (02 August 1966) about changes to ITV schedules.
The children’s programme Five O’Clock Club is scrapped as part of a drive against pop music.
ITV’s 'drive against pop music' in late 1966 also led to the cancellation of Rediffusion’s ‘Ready Steady Go!’ and ABC’s ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’.
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