So glad I stumbled across this. The energy, the positivity, the youthful enthusiasm - so very different from where we are right now. Wish I could go back sixty years or so!
Of all the stars that came out of Britain’s early Rock n Roll movement, Dickie Pride was probably the most talented and natural singer of them all. It’s a shame his addictive personality and personality issues stopped him from being the superstar he was destined to be. Instead he very sadly became the inaugural member of the 27 club. RIP dickie. ‘The Sheik of Shake’
I am so pleased to have this as Tony Sheridan who lived close to where i do and was my friend Paul's half-brother appears after Cherry Winer for whom he was lead guitar on her record The Happy Organ. 1960 Tony went to settle in Hamburg where he met The Beatles and after Bert Kaempfert asked him to find a band to back him on Polydor recording 1961 he asked the Beatles and they backed him on the first records that they ever recorded.
Amazing Times....And A lot of work reliving the Glory......THANKS A TON, Classic Music of Yesteryear and Every One Of Those who helped retrieve and process these rare recordings ....I love slipping back into my wonderful growing-up .
As a teenager how well I remember Oh Boy at 6 o clock on Saturday on ITV and before that 6 5 Special on BBC. Until then the only teenage records we heard were on Radio Luxembourg. It introduced us to Cliff Richards and the Drifters with their first British home grown R&R "Movie It "that saw the birth of the British R&R record industry and years later the Beatles
Tony Sheridan and Dickie Pride were great performers who never made it. Tony recorded with the Beatles on the single "My Bonny" and just missed out on a chance to be lead guitarist for the Shadows. Dickie Pride developed severe drink, drugs and mental problems and died of an overdose just 27 years old.
I once interviewed Cherry Wainer - she was living in Las Vegas. This show was my lifeline at the age of 12. I also have the album - which Cliff kindly autographed for me. He told me that the guitar she is shown playing on the back of the album cover was bought be his dad on the never never - it got stolen from the Oh Boy! dressing room but his Dad had to keep on paying for it! Sweet story
you interviewed cherry ? that is amazing , i've seen her in an interview towards the end , in las vegas , razor sharp , absolutely love her , do you have audio or video , or was it a written assignment ?
Jack Good produced "Oh Boy" which was the fastest moving show on TV. As Saturday competition the BBC had "Billy Cotton´s Band Show", then "6-5 Special" then (the deathly ) "Juke Box Jury". In the series Tony Palmer´s History of Pop Music "All You need is Love", Jack Good called the comeptition "......as dull as ditchwater". Lord Rockingham,s Eleven scored a chart hit with "Hoots Mon". The programme was not bettered until "Ready, Steady, Go", came on the air. The staging , lighting and non-stop presentation were so original at the time.(and would be so today). I am so glad to see and remember it.
Don't forget ITV's answer to Juke Box Jury, Thank Your Lucky Stars- with Brian Matthew and the girl who'll give the new waxing foive out of foive. But nothing equaled the atmosphere of Oh Boy! until Ready, Steady, Go. It hit the wave of Beatles and beat groups as Oh Boy! had surfed on rock and roll.
@@esmeephillips5888 Brenda Lee appears in this episode. But she was just one of the Americans who appeared weekly promoting their singles on UK shores. "Oh Boy" was the launch vehicle for Cliff Richard and the Shadows(then Drifters) and Marty Wilde who made weekly appearances. What can be seen on "You Tube" are some reincarnations of the show from the 1980s. Though good they lack the freshness and originality of the 1959-60 versions.
NB Folks! ABC was THE British Commercial Television Company. This ABC must NOT be confused with the one in USA nor ABC in Australia! May i add with monster modesty, that i was one of the ABC Television in-vision announcers/presenters for over three years in the Midlands in Birmingham and the North of England in Manchester.
Rockingham's Long John is for me, the greatest instrumental ever! It's just the coolest piece of music put to an old see shanty. I know my statement is a bold one but can't you just feel how awesome it is!
I always thought his name was Red Prince thank you for setting me straight now I can correctly find more about him. Him and Boots Randolph where the reason I took up saxophone
No lip syncing back then all music was live, the resident band had a big hit with Hoots mon there's a moose loose about this house. As for the Vernon's girls in those very skimpy shorts, no teenage boy could ever forget them, As for shaken Dickie Pride such a lot of talent and died so young.
So the story goes, ABC[ UK-NO relation to ABC in the USA] sent a full season of "Oh Boy" to American networks in hopes of gaining a schedule slot on TV here. For whatever reason, likely to preserve the positions of certain US show packagers or more precisely ONE Teen music packager............ the shows were shelved and "lost". FIVE YEARS LATER, ABC TV in the US developed a new music show using a completely NEW approach in production values and presentation. That show was " Shindig" which aired c.Sept.1964 to c.1966. Produced by JACK GOOD. Good basically transplanted his entire "Oh Boy" format and look, and had an instant hit. The two episodes of Oh Boy that have circulated are the precursor to "Shindig" FIVE YEARS EARLIER! The basic look of Oh Boy was dictated by the old 405 line UK TV resolution standards which favored high contrast lighting schemes, less so in more conventional lighting. By 1964, the US 525 line analog monochrome picture had been long perfected with the final generation of monochrome equipment able to deliver extremely sharp pictures in almost any lighting levels giving "Shindig" a very unusual look compared just about any other American TV production. If it hadn't been for Good's team in 1958-59 figuring out how to work within the techinical limits of UK TV, "Shindig" may well have been just another TV show. As it was , Shindig was produced at ABC's legendary Television Center in Hollywood using many of ABC's ''A'' List technical people. Other shows produced on that same stage included American Bandstand, Lawrence Welk, all of the Ernie Kovacs 1961-62 ABC output ,and many more programs. But only Shindig looked the way it did thanks to "Oh Boy''
i remember watching this i was only 10 at the time also 6 5 special on the other side bbc .It was the forerunner of many rock shows of the sixtys Ready steady go thank your lucky stars etc Brenda Lee sounds great in this her first hit came a year later Sweet nothin,s
At the time, we thought the content was forgettable drivel but that the Production and Presentation was brilliantly innovative. Compulsive viewing each Saturday evening. (What.. . . . no Dallas Boys?)
It would be great if somebody could time stamp each act and then pin that post to the top this really could use it I don't know who's playing here for the most part
Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:14 Dean Webb 'It's Late' 0:59 Two Vernons Girls 'Tall Paul' 1:30 Neville Taylor & The Cutters 'Good Rockin' Tonight' 2:00 Tony Hall host 2:26 Lord Rockingham's XI 'Long John' 4:00 Nevile Taylor & The Cutters 'Charlie Brown' 5:30 Cherry Wainer 'Wait For It Baby' 7:20 Tony Sheridan 'I Like It' 9:06 Vernons Girls 'Don't Look Now' 11:00 Don Lang 'Red Planet Rock' 13:16 Dickie Pride 'Slippin' And Slidin' 14:39 Lorie Mann 'This Is Our First Anniversary' 16:38 Chris Andrews 'Move It!' 18:17 Mike Preston 'Dirty Old Town' 19:57 Tony Hall host 20:33 Brenda Lee 'Humming The Blues' 22:38 Brenda Lee 'Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey'
Thanks for your replies,just seen them.Tony Sheriden was quite a handy guitar player himself..Oh Boy was such a great show for us kids.There was no let up ,apart from adverts, for 30 minutes.It socked you right in the face.The memory of it sustained you for the week,getting you through those endless ,but necessary ,dreary days in school,then Saturday came by again... and ....Oh Boy ,! ! ! !
Dickie Pride (r/n Richard Kneller) is covering a Little Richard hit. He was one of Larry Parnes's lads, like Georgie Fame, Billy Fury, Vince Eager etc. He could whip teenage girls into a frenzy, and Jack Good booked him for Wham!, the successor to Oh Boy! But Pride's records never sold, and he had a lot of baggage: car theft, heroin. Died in 1968 from an accidental overdose.
If I would have ever continually sent love letters or flowers or gifts or basically stalked any rock and roll performer in history, it would have been Cherry Wainer...
He was a talented and prolific songwriter--he wrote some fabulous songs for Adam Faith,also some of Sandie Shaws biggest hits as well as having a number of hits of his own in the 66--69 era,my favorite being Pretty Belinda a wonderful song.
Same format as "Shindig!" followed in the USA five years later - performers running up right into the next act, without any announcers in between. The producer (?) was the same, that's why.
Check out a full episode of beat! Beat! Beat! filmed in 1966 I think, That features 3 songs from Cherry Wainer, well 4 if you count the standard intro of her song Money. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zXtI5ECeRVs.html
Apart from Cliff Richard these were all amusing curiosities who couldn't hope to make a dent in the charts , and lucky to end their days on the cabaret circuit till 1963 .
Mike Preston went on to have a pretty solid career in Australia - apart from several albums, he hosted a national "Tonight" show, and a game show, had a lead role in our most popular drama series of the time, lead and guest roles in various others, and several movie roles, including "Mad Max 2".
Here because of Agetha Christie …. ( sum mini tv series set in 1958-1961 ) Used Lord Rockingham’s XL music in it . ( Lord Rockingham meets the monster ) I’ll bet the real Lord Rockingham was furious )
The "guy's" name is Tony Sheridan. The man who taught the Beatles about stage presence and how to entertain your audience at a place called the Top Ten Club in Hamburg, Germany and the man who introduced the Beatles to the World on their first recording with him (My Bonnie) as The Beat Brothers. Tony is also the lead guitarist in the group accompanying the singer singing "Move It" at 17:11.
Many thanks 64JBran ... I've heard the name Tony Sheridan but never knew who he was. He had a Buddy Holly appearance (hair, glasses & stance) which I'm sure was no accident. A vocal sound (almost switching Buddy's hiccup for the slight laugh) & the sound of his dirt cheap guitar was amazing … natural overdriven distortion (an age before effects pedals). His playing abilities were outstanding (for the era. Again thanks for the reply.
I think Sheridan died a couple of years ago I'm Germany or Scandinavia. He seemed to have spent much of his life abroad.He always seemed to receive plaudits from all who viewed his guitar playing.He recreated Ernie Shears's lead guitar playing on the Move it number.Sheridan's guitar is a Hofner Futurama.The ywere a copy of a Stratocaster.You still see a few Futuramas around,left over from the early 60'S( THOSE FAR OFF DAYS !)
Thanks Alfred.Tony never seemed to cash in on his Beatle connection,which is something everyone else did(cash in I mean).I certainly would have done !!!!
I was curious as to why one of the Vernons was sporting an eye-patch. According to a recent website article on the Vernons Girls, apparently the singer had an eye infection but they let her perform with the eyepatch rather than her missing a week. The Vernons were extremely popular and I think every member had a following so they probably didn't want to give the impression she'd left the group!
If BL was 14 here, it sure says a lot about rock and roll. CW is sporting a magnificent designer outfit, and that's just the Hammond ....................
@@classicmusicofyesteryear6709 I was fortunate to know and to be a carer for Neville in his later years..... he was always a true gentleman. Thank you for the upload.
Benny was a jazz sideman on reeds before switching to writing about the Songbook. He wore shades bc he did not want his highbrow pals at Ronnie Scott's to catch him moonlighting in a pop band.
Tony Sheridan there, who the Beatles backed early in Thier careers and also made a couple of singles with. He was a great Singer/ guitarist, but a loose cannon and notoriously argumentative and unreliable, hence his lack of commercial success, he lacked the discipline and professionalism
