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Post by stevej on May 3, 2024 20:40:40 GMT
Yes that popped up on my youtube suggestions the other day. I'm looking forward to watching it. It's definitely videotape and not a telerecording.
The same channel also has an ATV Cliff special from 1964:
There's also 'After Ten, Fellas', a very late Rediffusion production from Jun 1968:
And if that's not enough, how about an audio recording of Hank Marvin's appearance on an early (and presumably missing) Thames Sooty Show from August 1969:
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Post by stevej on Apr 28, 2024 18:49:54 GMT
Reelin' In The Years youtube channel has recently added some pop performances from a videotaped colour outside broadcast called 'Operation Entertainment' staged for US military troops. Sound and picture quality are excellent!
Wikipedia states that there were 31 x 52 minute episodes. What's the betting they all survive?
Dusty Springfield performs a great live version of 'Soulville'
Lulu: 'At The Crossroads' / 'Boy'
The 5th Dimension - Carpet Man/Stoned Soul Picnic/Up Up & Away Kenny Rogers & The First Edition- Just Dropped In
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Post by stevej on Apr 4, 2024 7:15:11 GMT
Fascinating to see a glimpse of 'Outta Space' in that BBC1 trailer from early 1973. I've not heard of it before, but it appears very much in the style of 'Zokko' (and occupies the same Saturday lunchtime slot) with various segments, music and cartoons linked by a voice-synthesized computer on a space ship. The trail is in amazing quality too. Good find!
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Post by stevej on Mar 19, 2024 15:56:05 GMT
Very sorry to hear this Peter after all the time, effort and research you put into the project. It must be hugely frustrating.
DC really doesn't do himself any favours does he? He'll end up being a forgotten man of pop if he controls and suppresses everything concerning the group to such an extent that they become virtually invisible, with no back catalogue reissues or books being made available. The band were popular more than half a century ago now, so one would have thought anything that put the DC5 name back in the public consciousness would be welcomed.
I suppose we shall just have to wait for the *official* book of the band's story, written & researched by Dave Clark, edited by Dave Clark, with pictures supplied by Dave Clark, published by Dave Clark Publishing for Dave Clark Enterprises... with foreword by Dave Clark.
As a side-note, I'm surprised there are any clips or performances of the band on youtube, as I would have thought DC would have had them all taken down as soon as they appear. Maybe that's beyond even his powers.
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Post by stevej on Mar 11, 2024 14:06:50 GMT
'Before The Ball' looked astonishingly good for a telerecording (35mm perhaps?) and I'm guessing it has a magnetic soundtrack as that was exceptionally clear too. I'm surprised these b&w episodes have (so far) never made it to dvd.
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Post by stevej on Jan 29, 2024 21:58:09 GMT
This has just popped up on Lulu's channel and wow it looks and sound amazing! I don't think this edition of 'Lulu's Back In Town' has been repeated (unless BBC4 have shown it) so it's nice to see an extract.
also this
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Post by stevej on Nov 6, 2023 21:05:12 GMT
Yes that was a fascinating watch wasn't it? Good (and very surprising) to know that the series survives- it looks like a good mix of music and sketches. I loved the part showing the 'girls' driving on to the set in their sports cars. Just so sixties! It would be great to see how that sequence looked in the broadcast version.
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Post by stevej on Nov 6, 2023 20:30:49 GMT
Yes I'll second that- a Julie Felix evening would be terrific! These early colour music shows have a very special charm of their own. A few more relevant clips:
I think several of these performances survive thanks to the legendary Bob Pratt.
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Post by stevej on Oct 28, 2023 10:35:03 GMT
I don't know if BBC4 have run these before, but on Friday Nov 3rd they are showing five surviving editions of 'Bobbie Gentry' screened by BBC2 in 1968:
I've only ever seen clips so it will be fantastic to see the programmes complete. I did wonder whether they originally ran longer than 30 minutes, but a quick look at BBC Genome confirms that they were indeed half hour shows. Guests include Donovan and The Hollies. Can't wait!
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Post by stevej on Sept 29, 2023 18:14:44 GMT
It really is a fun series- the shows are colourful, well directed, quite fast-paced and everyone involved seems to be having a great time. Such a shame they'll probably never see the light of day on dvd.
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Post by stevej on Jul 22, 2023 21:13:18 GMT
Well I liked it William, thanks for sharing! What a great late-60s period piece. It's interesting to see how in the face of the unstoppable rise of pop music in the 1960s some band leaders fell by the wayside, whilst others updated their sound and continued to make some very worthwhile music, as in this programme, which I'm glad has been preserved on a domestic recording (although wouldn't it have looked fantastic on the original colour 2" tape!) I guess the interviews were edited out to make the 45 minute show fit on a reel of Sony CV2000 tape.
Incidentally, Woody Herman recorded a storming version of 'Hush' the Joe South/Deep Purple hit in this period. I haven't watched this complete show yet, so maybe they'll play it!
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Post by stevej on Jun 16, 2023 14:41:52 GMT
The behind-the-scenes colour cine footage of this raucous variety series was one of many highlights of the recent Kal event. I'd assumed that no editions survived, but just stumbled across this..
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Post by stevej on Jun 6, 2023 20:30:25 GMT
A perfect summing up of a real vintage telly marathon. There was so much to take in, it's good to be reminded of what was shown, so well done Kev for taking notes! It was quite strange emerging from the dark of the theatre after all that time into the glare of a sunny afternoon in downtown Edgbaston.
Big Night Out was excellent fun and showed the Beatles when they were happy to play along with this kind of thing. I must say the the Lionel Blair dance sequences were very well executed with some neat editing. Very classy hoofing indeed.
The Pan's People/Nationwide segment was an early highlight and in pristine quality too. I also enjoyed the atmospheric behind-the-scenes colour footage of Stars & Garters. Can's improvised toe-tapper for OGWT was probably more fun to play than to listen to!
The Southern TV compilation really was magical and gave a fine impression of some of their output. It was a nice surprise seeing footage of the 'Tale Of Two Rivers' series as I have a domestic audio recording of one of these shows. Some other highlights of the compilation included videotape of a young Jan Leeming in the studio reporting the successful return of Sir Francis Chichester from his solo around-the-world voyage in 1967. 'Time For Blackburn' looked like a fun show with some excellent musical guests and plenty of terrible one-liners from Tony (and he's still at it today!). I was ready to look away when he approached Roger Daltry for some jokey post 'Magic Bus' banter... Am I right in thinking this show is an older optical conversion from 405?. I'd be interested to know more about how this edition came to survive- presumably more by luck than anything else? Such a shame the series is mostly lost.
Top Of The Pops 500 was fascinating and I had no idea it survived in such a fragmented state. It kicked off with a great version of CCS 'Whole Lotta Love' performed live in the studio, with Cozy Powell on drums. David Cassidy looked pretty jet-lagged and I'm sure performing two songs on a cold night on the tarmac at London Airport was just what he needed... The black & white segments seem to suggest that at least part of the show exists on Sony domestic VTR?
Mention of Clive Thacker reminds me that I'm sure I saw Peddlers' drummer Trevor Morais on one of the clips, but I can't for the life of me remember which.
Anyway, a wonderful day and thanks to everyone involved for their time and dedication in putting it all together.
Steve
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Post by stevej on Jun 4, 2023 17:37:38 GMT
Brilliant to see a 90-minute screening of these Super 8 performances at the Kaleidoscope pop event yesterday. Considering they were shot from a little 13" Sony Trinitron, they looked pretty impressive when shown on a huge screen. Well done to all involved in their recovery, not least to Roger Hill for his ingenuity back in 1973.
A partial VT performance of '20th Century Boy' by T Rex existed as an insert in the Disco '73 programme. Here it is married up with the Super 8 footage to provide a 'best of both' complete version, courtesy of the youtube T.Rex channel:
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Post by stevej on Apr 28, 2023 20:41:29 GMT
Well I was quite charmed by this; outside broadcast colour VT of a Play School episode from Nov/Dec 1969. Due to an appearance of a pair of local bobbies it's almost like watching an episode of Heartbeat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ubdE8R1GQFascinating! That goes nicely with the 1968 colour VT edition recorded by a riverside, which is equally charming. I assumed that was a one-off but the Linton edition suggests Playschool strayed outside the studio more often than I had thought. I wonder how many pre 1970 Playschools were done on location?
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