After "The Rolf Harris Show", starring disgraced celebrity and n0nce, Rolf Harris. Contains an ESC 1968 ident and a partial BBC Midlands ident and BBC 2 program announcement.
This track is actually called L'animal by Vladimir cosma, 1977, There are three versions. This version, the 12' disco version with lion roars and porny moaning lady vocals at the beginning lol, and a underscored slow orchestrated balled reprise version. All are up on yt for your aural delectations and delights it isnt titled under elegant strings its L'animal for all you disctastic night animals out there!! xoxo
I used to come home late Friday or Saturday nights drunk in the 1990s put the telly on and this bbc test card and tone used to send me to sleep lol strange or what... i do miss these close downs
Thank you so much for this of course-it is so wonderful too. 10 out of 10 of course really for the old BBC1 clocks then, but of course for the music too, which is spot on there. A shame it does not go on for longer though too. Well done!
The tape called Finally Swing Time which was ran from 3 July 1977 to 17 February 1979 which was replaced both tapes in hand short spell Frog Went To Courting and Dixieland Parade 2 was ran in December 1975 until June 1977.
Does anyone know where I can find the full songs? I'm aware the names for them are "Les Rues de Paris" and "Marie Helene" from the tape "Fury" but I can't seem to find it when I search for it.
I remember the party political broadcasts being aired simultaneously on all 3 channels, back then. And that they would always remind you of the fact by stating as much, meaning you weren't able to turn over to watch something else. As a youngster, at the time, I remember switching between channels anyway to try and see if they were properly synchronised or not. They generally were, although, on the set we had at the time, there was a split second of static when switching channels and unless you caught it just right, it wasn't always clear if it was or not. I remember the scheduling pretty well for Saturday nights, back then. Prior to the Generation Game, they'd have Basil Brush and/or Doctor Who, as well as the early evenings news. All of which followed an afternoon of Grandstand. After Kojak, they'd have Match of the Day followed by Parkinson. Although, I'd have been tucked up in bed by then.
Fun fact: I have only just realized that is the green body of the clown and NOT a green skull facing the girl! ☠️🤔 Damn... my childhood must have been even darker than I remembered!! 😱😂🤣
The votes were decided by national juries at the time, not by telephone voting. The UK should have won the 1968 contest, they were the runaway pre-contest favourites, but were robbed by a dreadful song from Spain.
The TCF shown here was also done semi-electronically, the colorbar stripe at the top and the "BBC 1" ID caption were generated electronically, while the rest of the card came from a slide.
A bit difficult for me to evaluate that observation, because I was only four and Play School age. Too young to understand or remember that period first time round!
Desr old Reggie Bosanquet. He used to say that reading the news was so easy, you could do it while pissed......and proved it on many occasions. I remember he had an appeal to "ladies of a certain age" who used to kiss the tv screen when he smiled that lop-sided grin and bade us all "Goodnight". But for all that, he was a top journalist, top broadcaster and just reported the facts without loads of speculation and his own "spin" on things. Think on, Tom Bradby, Emily Maitlis et al....
The BBC go on about the licence fee in 2019 but it was an absolute disgrace back then how they could just go back to a testcard in the middle of the day. Where did all the licence fee money go back then because it wasn't funding a 16 hour a day BBC 1.
More hours of programmes means the butter has to be spread more thinly as a glance at today's pitiful schedules will clearly illustrate. Personally I would much rather have the test card and music than just about any of the progs broadcast in recent decades.
@@paulsawtell3991 Quality over quantity any day of the week! The quality of programmes nowadays has been watered down so much, due to the sheer satiation of air-time requirements, that it's comparable to one jam-laden knife having to be spread over an entire sliced loaf of bread.
And to think that BBC wanted Channel 4 - only to be told that they couldn’t fill the two channels they already had! Even BBC 2 literally closed down in the daytime - they would come on around 10 in time for Service Information at 10:30, then the test card until Play School at 11, then they would show the test card until 11:30, and not come back on again until 4 pm, when they put on the test card until 7:30 - the exceptions being if they were showing something like cricket or racing or Wimbledon tennis - during the term time of The Open University, that would come on at five!
