The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: vintage clip from 1988

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The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's first TV appearance, recorded over twenty years ago, in 1988. The show was the BBC's Pebble Mill at One, and the clip includes the tunes 'Red Cross' and 'Presto Tango', and also an interview with George Hinchliffe.
The current line-up of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is: George Hinchliffe, Kitty Lux, David Suich, Richie Wiliams, Hester Goodman, Will Grove-White, Peter Brooke Turner and Jonty Bankes.
The very first line-up (in 1985) included Richie Williams (in his first stretch with the Ukes), along with Bob Loveday (of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra), David Bowie (bass), Marshall Stapleton, Paul Griffiths, Andy Astle (co-founder), Jo Brindley (co-founder), Kitty Lux (co-founder and director) and George Hinchliffe (co-founder and director).
On this BBC clip from 1988, the line-up is: George Hinchliffe, Kitty Lux, David Suich, Andy Astle, James Marsh, Liane Kordan, Marshall Stapleton, Nony Ardill, Mary Fitton, Caroline Fitton and Simon Edwards.
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@brianrimmer884 4 года назад

I am 72 years old . Love music ( to listen to ) I have never been able to play an instrument. Through a over 60,s health and keep moving ,type programme . I saw an introduction to UKULELE. So with encouragement from my wife I thought I would give it a go. Then on YOU TUBE I found these guys. I could go on and on .....but this has been a great opening . I can't read music but I can get great joy from my UKE

@AngelicusImmortus 3 года назад

Keep watching them. There are a number of ukulele orchestras about in various countries but these guys are the originals and the best (though there are fewer members these days)

@clivebaines52 Год назад

Fantastic lovely to see Kitty God Bless 🙏 and George ❤❤

@ethelmurmur 12 лет назад

I just love listening to them.....they're great!

@audreypaulus3571 2 года назад

So nice to see this old clip! And I see familiar faces too! 😄

@IamNotANumber 10 лет назад

Awww! They all look so young! x

@strobie42 6 лет назад

Good to see Dave rocking out at the back there :-)

@malava77 14 лет назад

that is why we love em: they've got so much style!!!

@karlcatt 14 лет назад

It's a guitarron, a Mexican fretless, shortneck three-course bass guitarwith a high 'action' (string height), invariably played by the shortest member of the mariachi band. Fairground Attraction used one a lot as well.

@jannetie 12 лет назад

Ponytail guy has a pony tail, just shorter - and with much shorter and darker hair. Second row left. I'd recognize his profile anywhere; Iove his face!

@malava77 14 лет назад

omg!!! dave, kitty and george in young!

@UkuleleOrchestra 14 лет назад

@UTBESUX Dave Bowie (not that one) is an ace bass player from Leeds. You can see him playing double bass with them on the other BBC clip from 1990. He is re-joining the Ukulele Orchestra in Nov at London's Cecil Sharp House when the Ukes are playing some settings of Cecil Sharp's folk music. As a footnote, the other David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust etc) recently praised the Ukulele Orchestra for their "wonderfully clever" arrangements, so he may well be a ukulele player after all.

@Sarge084 3 года назад

Good lord, look at George's hair, it's all there!

@miekevandijk9320 10 лет назад

Hier zijn ze nog jong , fantastisch en dat gaat maar jaren door . Hoe krijgen ze het voor elkaar , zeer speciaal !!

@kitschutte5730 2 года назад

Where did these folks all go. I recognize a few.

@derPetunientopf 3 года назад

Wow, Presto Tango is really good.

@Sloppur 12 лет назад

The response after the question at 3:58 "Perhaps not.." Gotta love it. :D

@timandrajane 14 лет назад

Fantastic to see this part of the group's history. Thanks for posting it. The few familiar faces look so different ... so young! ;o)

@ianchapple4642 3 года назад

They are fabulous

@acousticsong-guitarco964 Год назад

And what a progress they made they are so much better later on.

@erwindharreldaita4509 11 лет назад

Classical Orchestra Guitar Song, Best and Excellence!

@nicholasroberts6954 4 года назад

The BBC's "Pebble Mill at One" lunchtime programme, from Birmingham - great programme, why did they "Do-it-in ?". They were always doing innovative things . . . seem to recall they got the RAF to land a Harrier in the car park there on one occasion.

@hotdrumman 4 года назад

maybe landing a harrier in the carpark might infringe H&S nowadays lol was a great programme I watched as a kid if I was sick

@lizardonuke 14 лет назад

@wetmonday Yes, of course, Dave is still there - now with long hair. I am not aware of a live performance, but the ukulele playing for the title song of the latest Madness Album "The Liberty of Norton Folgate" was contributed by some members of the UOGB.

@1987Hilario 13 лет назад

Holy Jalapena! That's a guitarron! Well, I know this much, I just picked up a walking bass line for mine... lol Quite inventive, it sounds great.

@robertbaloun7575 4 года назад

awesome

@scorpion111151 11 лет назад

At the time, "Minder" would have been on the telly; this was a quote from Arthur Daley, aka George Cole.

@charangosurf 9 лет назад

George deserves a knighthood without doubt!!!

@chocolatecauldrons 14 лет назад

I can't believe you've been around this long and I only discovered you three years ago!

@narrowfield6846 Год назад

really sweet. Saw the UOOGB a couple of weeks ago. How hairstyle changes.

@narlacat68 6 лет назад

wow u all look so diffrent to now. I love you. from Oz

@granskare 9 лет назад

wow! check all that hair on those guys! A great rendition :)

@drive5050 12 лет назад

This is AMAZING Wonderful job.

@dantheman12345555555 11 лет назад

Thank you so much for the time you put into looking this up, I have been searching for that for months seeing only few people playing it, but no information on the actual instrument, I think it would be easier to build your own than to find one so theres a project needing to be done, thank you again for the info.

@JosephJamesScott 11 лет назад

When did they start singing and adding more showmanship and comedy to their act I wonder? These early clips are great, love seeing familiar members when they were young(er) but it feels like less then half an act. The music is great but the UOGB really brings so much more to the table these days.

@ianchapple4642 3 года назад

Love it it's great

@HaileISela 14 лет назад

this was splendid, though it's a bit sad that the microphone didn't really do it justice... I would give a lot for one of those LPs...

@parthagarwal5596 4 года назад

1:17 that smile is hilarious

@56Habiba 10 лет назад

@ Envergure- Do you mean the large round-backed guitar-looking instrument? It's a guitarron, played in Mariachi bands.

@lockbert99 9 месяцев назад

Wow, bigger "orchestra" back then. Recognize Kitty Lux, George Hinchcliffe and Dave Suich. Not sure if Richie Williams is there. Like the newer stuff where they also sing.

@ukuleletheatre 11 лет назад

Hey this was back in the early days of the uke orchestra of GB and is very good I must say, and I wonder whats in store for 4 lads from brum AKA ukulele theatre

@digitalramyun 12 лет назад

Is that Simon Edwards, as in Fairground Attraction's bassist? The bass player here is playing a guitarrón (Mexican acoustic bass guitar), which Simon used to play in FA (and on David Gray's album "White Ladder"), so I guess it's him.

@ianclarke3627 3 года назад

So much better now

@digitalramyun 11 лет назад

It's a "guitarrón" - a Mexican acoustic bass guitar. I'm amazed anyone can play one at all; they're about 20-30cm deep, and the strings are like ropes! (I'm pretty sure the player is Simon Edwards - he of Fairground Attraction; sessions with Billy Bragg, David Gray, etc.?)

@tunhale 3 года назад

Indeed it is Simon Edwards in this clip. Simon played with the Uke orchestra until Fairground Attraction started gigging and they "poached" him from the orchestra.

@lizardonuke 14 лет назад

@meteort7 Nooo, definitely no Will and no Jonty. Both don't appear on any Ukes album before "A Fist Ful of Ukuleles". Will was far younger than the guy next to Dave back in 1988... And as we all know, Jonty is the new boy in the band...

@stewkulele 14 лет назад

It worries me that I'm not as old as this video...

@ijujukulele2 14 лет назад

@Mac260 Hi ! No Jonty, and No Richie (see the comment of Lizardonauke) on this video. But the left handed blond ukulele player is cute !

@kaeksman 13 лет назад

The Bass Uke for the win !!! XDDD

@MOliveira1001 8 лет назад

I have a crush on Dave Suich in this video.

@westonstarling8775 8 лет назад

He's my fav in the orchestra

@MOliveira1001 8 лет назад

Such a crazy and fun guy!

@guntugakgun1924 7 лет назад

O zamanar da muhteşem çalıyormuşsun reis!

@evaj5129 8 лет назад

SUPER :-)

@cathwn 11 лет назад

Ponytail is there if you look carefully: a bit shorter though.

@rblpax6779 3 года назад

👏👏👏

@2chipped 4 года назад

Wow so young lol!

@pinushah4100 7 лет назад

Great

@juliojl1 11 лет назад

It looks like a "contrabajo" typically used in mariachi.

@brianmooreshead 13 лет назад

@roymondo51 Ah, I've not heard of that, but it would certainly make sense. I wonder if the presenter knew that.

@dantheman12345555555 11 лет назад

oh cool things man!

@karlcatt 14 лет назад

Oops, not three-course. It has six separately tuned strings, but tuned differently than a guitar (or a bass guitar for that matter)

@PeryNewsWebTV2005 7 лет назад

muito bom

@roymondo51 13 лет назад

@brianmooreshead: that was an Eric Morecambe quip if my memory serves me well

@gerhardlesch3615 8 лет назад

What happened to the instrument played by the man with the black hat? I somewhat miss that sound in the later recordings.

@sutilmenteartistico5283 8 лет назад

That, my friend, is a Mexican guitarrón. I did not know that the other sides touched. Wow.

@MultiGeraghty 8 лет назад

Is the lovely Leslie in there somewhere under a different guise? Or was it before her time?

@AnnaUKSheepstar 14 лет назад

@Dabaka93 - I think it might be a Mexican guitarron :)

@Bengiskahn 13 лет назад

@ste0666 He played a ukelele banjo...!!

@mmickm8 3 года назад

How many of you are still playing?

@oroit-idazki 4 года назад

Ze polita! Gizon hau azko gustatzen zait! Maiteminduta nago.

@digitalramyun 11 лет назад

No problem - glad to help (I just hope I was right ;-) )!

@brianmooreshead 13 лет назад

@HjerteknustMusiker I guess it doesn't make any difference really. It sounds like something Del Boy Would say from Only Fools and Horses.

@brianmooreshead 13 лет назад

Did she say that the World is Your Lobster?

@magwakeener 4 года назад

Hahahahaha! My comment, exactly!

@HjerteknustMusiker 13 лет назад

@brianmooreshead Does is it really make less sense than 'oyster'? ;)

@leiflyer740 5 лет назад

1988? oh i old

@rumidom 14 лет назад

wow, i wasn't even born yet

@ilovelij 10 лет назад

the world is your lobster? :P

@ilovelij 10 лет назад

Oh, is it a pun on the expression 'the world is your oyster'? or are they just variations?

@simeonberesford6179 8 лет назад

+Delphine Joyce a deliberate Malapropism very popular at the time.

@thehungryboar 5 лет назад

Is this really what passed for show hosting at the time? This band played well - and she constantly belittles them. To be honest, he's not the easiest to interview here, but still... professionalism obviously is not important here.

@magwakeener 4 года назад

"....The world is your lobster". Hahahaha!!!! Shellfish discrimination.

@Dabaka93 14 лет назад

What's this big instrument in the second row?

@guntugakgun1924 7 лет назад

Kanın volkan gibiymiş o zamanlar koca reis!

@tixximmi1 4 года назад

Just need Kiki and Iz.

@keithling417 9 лет назад

Most of them appear to be using picks!

@larsisaksson127 9 лет назад

@TheBoHoBoy 8 лет назад

Bass player looks a bit different lol

@windsoord 14 лет назад

OMG Look at the haircuts :D

@tomewart4287 9 лет назад

Where's Hester?

@elynch1959 14 лет назад

Is that a young Hester with a lovely pudding bowl haircut?

@hestergoodman6873 Год назад

No! This was a year or two before I joined, but it's the band I saw in 1987, and started rehearsing with in 1989. The 1990 Pebble Mill clip shows me with very BIG hair!

@drmkkk 11 лет назад

it worries me that I am

@TheMichael408 13 лет назад

@john9ten hes not holding it right though

@davestraight2922 10 лет назад

fek - judi spiers im ooooold - cool clip tho

@kjamison5951 5 лет назад

I liked Josephine Buchan…

@Envergure 13 лет назад

What the heck is that bass instrument?

@apache16789 4 года назад

Absolutely brilliant. But watching adults playing, what appears to be tiny children's musical instruments, is producing cognitive dissonance in me. Are the children at home screaming their eyes out because Mum and Dad have nicked their toys? Great to see them still going after 31 years -- although I'm not sure I recognize any of them.