Nostalgic Music TV
Looking back over 50 years of archive music tv
2G's & THE POP PEOPLE.
2G's & The Pop People was a short lived
ITV series.
It ran between June and July
1972.
A variety of musical and variety acts appeared on the show such
as
The Bee Gees, The Move, Slade, Lulu & Spike Milligan.
The show
also featured DJ's of the day such as Ed Stewart, Tony Blackburn & Dave
Lee Travis.
Transmission
The Second Generation.
There were 6 editions all of
which survive in the ITV archives.
London
Weekend Television.
10th June 1972 to 15th July 1971.
Photos
Episode Guide
10 June 1972 - (EPISODE 0001)
The Second Generation - 'Proud
Mary'
Lulu - 'It Takes A Real Man (To Bring Out The Woman In Me).'
The Bee Gees - 'Morning of My Life,'
Jimmy Young - 'It's So
Easy'
The Second Generation dance to 'Festival Time'
The Second
Generation - 'Sweet Talkin' Guy'
Larry Grayson makes a cameo
appearance.
The Bee Gees - 'Walking Back To Waterloo.'
Lulu -
'Nights in White Satin.'
Lulu – MEDLEY: 'Shout', 'Lulu's Back In
Town’, ‘To Sir With Love,', 'Boom Bang-a-Bang', 'Don't Bring Lulu’, 'I'm
a Tiger’. 'Shout,' 'Boom Bang-a-Bang' and 'To Sir, With Love'.
The Second Generation - 'We're The Second Generation.'
Running
time - minutes: 38:46
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17 June 1972 - (EPISODE 0002)
Tony Blackburn - 'House of Cards.'
Slade - 'Get Down And Get With It.'
The Second Generation –
MEDLEY: 'In The Mood,' 'I Got A Gal in Kalamazoo,' 'The Road to
Morocco,' 'Down Argentina Way,' 'The Road to Zanzibar,' Carmen Miranda's
'I Yi Yi Yi Yi Yi Like You Very Much,' 'The Road to Singapore,'
'Chattanooga Choo Choo,' and 'We'll Meet Again.'
The Second
Generation - 'Love.'
Sweet Charity - 'Country Girl, City Man.'
The
Second Generation - 'Back Off Boogaloo.'
Slade - 'Take Me Bak 'Ome.'
Spike Milligan - 'Sideways Through The Sewers Of The Strand.'
Spike Milligan - 'This Goodbye.'
The Second Generation - 'Higher.'
Running time - minutes: 38:21
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24 June 1972 - (EPISODE 0003)
The Second Generation
with Cheryl St. Clair - 'Nowhere to Run.'
The Second Generation 'Turn
Your Radio On.'
The Second Generation - 'A Touch of Velvet - A Sting of
Brass.'
Dave Lee Travis dances with Linda Lawrence.
Argent - 'Hold
Your Head Up.'
Cleo Laine - 'Love in Slow Motion' followed by a medley
of songs from 'Godspell.'
include 'Prepare Ye (The Way of
the Lord),' 'Day by Day,' and 'Hallelujah.'
The Second Generation
- 'Imagine.'
Argent - 'Tragedy.'
Dave Lee Travis introduces a rock
'n' roll medley of songs which begins with Dave and Rock Rebellion
performing the Jerry Lee Lewis song 'Great Balls of Fire.' Chris from Rock
Rebellion plays The Move's 'California Man' and Cleo Laine sings Connie
Francis' 1958 hit song 'Stupid Cupid.' Raving Rupert appears as Elvis
Presley and closes the medley with the song 'Jailhouse Rock.'
Gilbert
O'Sullivan - 'Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day.'
Gilbert O'Sullivan - 'January
Git.'
Gilbert O'Sullivan - 'Matrimony.'
Running time -
minutes: 38:17
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01 July 1972 - (EPISODE 0004)
The Second Generation -
'Something Tells Me (Something's Gonna Happen Tonight).'
Heads, Hands
and Feet, featuring Chas Hodges - 'Hot Property' & 'Harlequin.'
Sandie
Shaw – MEDLEY: ’One is the Loneliest Number', 'Without Him,'
The
Second Generation & Sandie Shaw - '?'
The Second Generation – MEDLEY:
'Beg, Steal or Borrow, Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Sing Little
Birdie, Say Wonderful Things to Me, Boom Bang-a-Bang, Knock Knock, Who’s
There, Congratulations, Puppet on a String. '
The Second
Generation - 'Trains, Boats and Planes.'
Mike Raven & The Second
Generation - 'The Monster Mash.'
Scott Walker - 'Sunflower,' & 'We
Could Be Flying.'
Running time - minutes: 38.08
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08 July 1972 - (EPISODE 0005)
The Second Generation - 'We're
Going to Make It Together, Nothing Can Hold Us Down' & 'Down by the Lazy
River.’’’
The Move - 'California Man.'
Tony Brandon - 'Little
Green Apples.'
Offspring - 'Windfall.'
The Second Generation -
'Take a Course in Happiness.'
The Electric Light Orchestra - '10538
Overture.'
Labi Siffre - 'Watch Me.'
Labi Sifffre & the 2Gs - 'It
Must Be Love' & 'There's nothing in the World like Love.'
The Second
Generation – MEDLEY: 'Thanks for the Memory,' 'Keep Young and
Beautiful,' 'September in the Rain,' 'Isn't this a Lovely Day,' 'Pennies
from Heaven,' 'There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder' and 'Painting the
Clouds with Sunshine.'
Running time - minutes: 38:46
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15 July 1972 - (EPISODE 0006)
The Second Generation – MEDLEY:
‘Were The Second Generation’, 'Take up a Course in Happiness', 'You've
Got a Friend.'
Ed Stewart - 'Talk to the Animals.’
The Second
Generation dance to an unidentified instrumental track.
Osibisa -
'Making Everybody Happy' & 'Jam.'
The Second Generation - 'I Am the
Lion.'
Wei Wei Wong - 'Sing Song Boat.'
Neil Reid - 'Little Piece
of Leather.'
The Second Generation performs a medley of Baby related
songs.
The Second Generation – ‘We'll Fly You to the Promised Land.'
Running time - minutes: 38:25
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