13 years old on holiday with Mom and Dad, Burnham on sea, played bingo in the arcade on the pier, won a record token(remember them?), went straight to the record store. this was the first vinyl record I ever owned. Still have it to this day.
Mr. Bloe - Groovin' With Mr. Bloe (1970) ahahahaah............. indeed... proper totp's pan's people hot gossip brian rodgers connection dance troupe number... no doubt you still dance to this in yer front room when yer sisters have gone out?
yeah, funny i look at erstwhile footage and think the same thing. in the blink of an eye we're over 50 years on. crazy. and big question,...where are they now , would love to know their journey.
Great tune, makes me think of Midnight Cowboy, but also the ska and reggae around at the time. Instrumentals have to be really good melodically to be a hit, they don’t have words to provide a ‘hook’ for the listener, I don’t think you get too many instrumentals charting these days!!
I was 10 years old, our neighbours Hippy son play that song very loud all day long, with open windows...Never knew who it was or what title. I only had that song on tape reel to reel. Shazam couldnt find it. The googeling Piano song with Harmonica and finally after 50 years I found that brilliant track !!!
Funny you should say this, but it has taken me years to find this song. Must have spent 100 hours searching for it on the internet over the past 20 years
@@JohnSmith-su3ze Yeah, very same here LOL. You had the song in your mind for years, but never knew who the band was when you had it only on audio tape those days (IF at all) with no song titles on it :D - Since its only an instrumental it was much much harder to search, so I Google Harmonica and Piano, hahahah and found it - I found the track on a very old reel to reel and was like,,,woooow thats actually the song I heard when I was 10 :D
Schön das dieses Video reingestellt wurde. Was ich so schade finde das man den Harp Spieler nicht sieht. Stattdessen sieht man nur die zu dieser Zeit Typischen Hupfdolen. Danke für das reinstellen👍✌️
This is the only surviving footage of zack lawrence (mr bloe) performing this track - it's from the roger whittaker show. the appearance on top was sadly wiped
Really good video - if a little out of sync. The producer went a bit crazy with the camerawork near the end but that was all the rage back then. They thought it was very clever and effective! 😂
I know his real name the name of his parents, and where he is from originally.(England ,obviously!) I was at his house back in 1974,played on his grand piano.I believe his wife back then,whom I did speak to,was Scandinavian-either Swedish or Danish.
The original version is by a group called 'Wind' slightly different mix. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PMAaQYDGjYU.htmlsi=l42SrviBmQzE1vNZ
Whoever pushed the camera buttons at the end...i end up staring....after my dad had strokes he couldnt hsndle flashing lights or too fast changing shots but if its too fast..whats the point..
There is some mild debate around that - some say it's Ian Duck playing harmonica as he was part of Elton John's band at the time, who morphed into Hookfoot, which included drummer Roger Pope and guitarist Caleb Quaye, both of whom are also on this.
@@bobgreen623 Ian Duck made a Top Of The Pops appearance playing it, but the recording as released was Harry Pitch. The problem was that Mr Bloe wasn’t really a band but was a group of session guys put together by Zack Lawrence, so TV appearances tended to use whoever was available. In the case of this video, just Zack Lawrence and a bunch of dancers! As well as Duck, the TOTP appearance used the band that would become Hookfoot. Zack Lawrence had been working with them, and Elton John (in fact, before recording the single he tried doing a piano version, minus harmonica, using Elton but it didn’t work out). I guess that’s why he used them on TOTP. Harry Pitch was mainly a chromatic harmonica player and not so accustomed to diatonic harmonicas. The story goes that he had to learn to play a different style for the recording. He was a very highly respected session musician, as well as being a band leader in his own right. His work can be heard on many movie soundtracks, including Bridge Over The River Kwai, and played on a number of British pop hits of the age. Legend has it that he gave John Lennon some advice on harmonica technique prior to the recording of Love Me Do. But to many Brits, the most well known tune he played on was the theme tune to sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine.
This is one of those o e hit wonders created by jamming session musicians who are not a band as so they remain single hit artists Did "Mr Bloe" ever exist? The video doesn't prove anything
