Nostalgic Music TV
Looking back over 50 years of archive music tv
COLOUR ME POP.
Colour Me Pop was the first colourful
nugget from the BBC which showcased
various artists of the day. It
was the forerunner of 'Disco 2' which then morphed
into 'The Old Grey
Whistle Test'.
It ran between June 1968 and August 1969.
A variety of musical acts appeared on the show such
as
Manfred Mann, The Hollies, The Move, David Bowie and the Small
Faces.
As with many of the BBC shows of this time, the majority of
the shows have been wiped and only a handful have survived.
Transmission
Stanley Unwin.
Only 5 full editions survive in the archives.
BBC2 Television.
14th June 1968 to 30th August 1969.
*
Surviving/Recovered editions.
Photos
Episode Guide
Pilot Show - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Not Broadcast, December
67.)
14.06.68 - Manfred Mann
21.06.68 - Small Faces *
Song of a Baker, Lazy Sunday, Happiness
Stan, Rollin' Over, The Hungry Intruder
The Journey, Mad John, Happy day’s toy town.
28.06.68 -
Eclection
12.07.68 - Salena Jones & Brian Lemon Trio
(BBC Trailer survives)
19.07.68 - Fleetwood Mac
26.07.68 - The Kinks
Dedicated Follower of Fashion, Well
Respected Man, Death of a Clown, Sunny Afternoon,
Two Sisters, Sitting by the Riverside, Lincoln County, Picture Book,
Days.
09.08.68 - The Peddlers
16.08.68 - The Tremeloes
23.08.68 - Barry Noble
30.08.68 - Spooky Tooth
07.09.68 - The
Hollies *
Listen to Me (This is a behind the scenes
video of the Hollies filming CMP
which exists from French Television.)
14.09.68 - Moody
Blues *
Ride My See-Saw, Dr. Livingstone I
Presume, House of Four Doors, Voices in the Sky
The Best Way to Travel, Visions of Paradise, The Actor, Om.
21.09.68 - Unit 4+2
28.09.68 - David Ackles
05.10.68 - O'Haras
Playboys
12.10.68 - Honeybus, Clodagh Rodgers
(film inserts survive)
02.11.68 - Eclection, Spooky Tooth, Jethro Tull
(all performances were recorded on
29-Sep-68 at Olympop! - A Benefit for the British Olympic
Appeal Fund held at
Fairfield Halls in Croydon)
09.11.68 - Foggy Dew-O, Lew
Prinz & The Bedrocks
16.11.68 - The Nice
America, Ars Longa Vita Brevis, Rondo.
(Recorded on 29-Sep-68 at Olympop! -
A Benefit for the British Olympic Appeal Fund held
at Fairfield Halls in Croydon)
23.11.68 - Alan Price
Set, Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger Trinity
(Recorded on 29-Sep-68 at Olympop! -
A Benefit for the British Olympic Appeal Fund held
at Fairfield Halls in Croydon)
30.11.68 - Giles Giles &
Fripp
07.12.68 - Timebox
14.12.68 - Love Sculpture
21.12.68 -
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band *
Canyons of Your Mind, I'm the Urban
Spaceman, Mr Apollo.
04.01.69 - The Move *
I Can Hear The Grass Grow, Beautiful Daughter, Christian Life, Flowers
in the Rain
The Last Thing On My
Mind, Wild Tiger Woman, Goin' Back, Fire Brigade, Something
Blackberry Way.
11.01.69 - Sons & Lovers
16.01.69 -
The Pop Tops
25.01.69 - The Toast
01.02.69 - Chicken Shack
06.02.69 - Bobby Manna & The Art Movement
15.02.69 - Barbara Ruskin,
The Equals
22.02.69 - Marmalade
01.03.69 - Ten Years After
A Sad Song, No Title, I'm Going
Home.
08.03.69 - World Of Oz
15.03.69 - Caravan
22.03.69 - Harmony Grass
12.04.69 - Free
19.04.69 - Jimmy
Campbell, Sweet Thursday
26.04.69 - Elastic Band
10.05.69 - Family
The Weavers Answer, Observations from a
Hill, How Hi the Li, Processions, A Song For Me.
17.05.69
- Cats Eyes
31.05.69 - Group Therapy
07.06.69 - Lions of Judea
14.06.69 - The Strawbs, David Bowie
with David Bowie and Tony Visconti miming
to “Poor Jimmy Wilson”
05.07.69 - Trapeze *
Magic Carpet Ride, Meet on the Ledge,
Can't See a Thing.
(All recorded at a live show in Wolverhampton introduced by Emperor
Rosko)
12.07.69 - Copperfield
26.07.69 - Orange
Bicycle
02.08.69 - Love Affair, Philip Goodhand -Tait
09.08.69 -
Gene Pitney, Mike Cotton Sound
30.08.69 - The Fortunes
Not
Broadcast - The Chamber Brothers
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From ‘Yellow Shark’ blog post
Surviving material from the show:
Currently only the editions featuring
The Small Faces, The Moody Blues, The Move
and Trapeze are held in the BBC archive,
as well as the episode featuring The Chambers
Brothers that was never broadcast.
In addition, three songs
from the Bonzo Dog Band edition survive
(one in unbroadcastable quality), plus film inserts from the
Clodagh Rodgers/Honeybus edition, and the
trailer for the Salena Jones show.
Other material that is known to exist outside the BBC is as follows:
A
black and white copy of The Nice edition
is known to be at large on the collectors circuit.
An additional film
insert from the Bonzo Dog Band edition of
Vivian Stanshall's band introductions set to 'Rhinocratic Oaths and '11
Mustachioed Daughters' was found by Kaleidoscope in 2016.
There also
exists a b/w French TV-shot promo film for The
Hollies "Listen to Me" that was filmed during their Colour Me Pop
recording.
Off-monitor screenshots from the
Giles Giles and Fripp, Timebox and Toast editions survive in
private hands (though in 2009 Timebox drummer John Halsey cast doubt on
the Timebox screenshots, stating they were from another show).
The
soundtracks to the Giles Giles and Fripp,
Hollies, Caravan, Fleetwood Mac, Barry Noble, Ten Years After, Family,
Bonzo Dog Band, Kinks and David Ackles editions are also known to
survive.
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