BBC continuity & show fragments
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 2:39 pm
Since people seem to like the bits of continuity Lord Reith has been topping & tailing the BBC set, here's some more.
These are all from old reels and the clips are unedited, meaning I don't have any more of each particular clip. A lot of these had been recorded over by other things where the tape had been used and re-used many times. It's interesting but also totally frustrating when something good starts, then ends so soon before it's had time to even get started (Vol.2 has 15 seconds of Peggy Seeger & Guy Carawan from 1957!)
And if anyone has any ideas on a more accurate identification of some of the more vaguer clips, please chime in!
(People who scour other sites might recognise some of the clips as I already posted some bits on youtube and elsewhere.)
BBC Radio Fragments Vol.01
Mainly found at the end of reels, having been recorded over by something usually more mundane.
1952.01.06 The Younger Generation Sunday Half Hour (Light)
1952.01.xx Family Favourites (Light)
1952.01or02.xx Take It From Here (Home)
1952.01or02.xx Norman Brooks & His Lancers (Home)
-Old-time dance music played by Norman Brooks & His Lancers, with Lionel Kivvle(?) as master of ceremonies.
- ?
- The Jazz Treat / The Jazz Twinkle(?)
- The Merry Widow (Waltz)
1952.06.22 A Salute To Britain (Light)
- US Air Force Symphony Orchestra, from Bolling Air Force Base in Washington DC.
Col. George S. Howard - conductor. Sgt. Bill Jones - baritone soloist. And the Singing Sergeants under the direction of Lt. Robert Landers
- Oh Susanna
- Sgt. Bill Jones - Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
- Camptown Races
Those 5 from the oldest reel I've handled. Presented in chronological order, so Salute To Britain appeared on the reel first, followed by a fragment of Norman Brooks that it'd been recorded over, which in turn had been recorded over Take It From Here, etc, like a palimpsest.
1953 Sports Today - Gordon Bridge (USA)
- Small snippet of US radio from shortwave. The date may be way off.
1955 CBC Canada - Earl Fisher in Montreal
1955 CKLX Canada
- Two snippets from shortwave. Date may be off, the first may be possible to be dated from the baseball scores.
1955 Part of a play
1955 Programme about Pearl Harbour (Maybe from the "Scrapbook For..." series.)
1955.05.0x Housewives Choice, Five To Ten, Organ programme (Light Programme)
- Closing seconds of Nat Temple presenting "Housewives' Choice" / "Five To Ten" / Opening seconds of Organ Programme. Although from a reel, you can tell this originally came off a disc.
1955.05.26 The Show Goes On - Morecambe & Wise (Light)
Just a bit of a song and the end credits of an early Morecambe & Wise radio show. I wonder if the BBC have any of the complete shows? I assume not, because surely it's something we'd have heard repeated by now.
1955.06.24 Eddie Calvert (on records) - Kenneth Kendall (Home Service)
1955.07.31 Melody Hour, Down Your Way (Light Programme)
1956.01.xx Charlie Kunz programme announcement (Light Programme)
1956.06.24 The Countryside In June (Light)
1956.08.15 Blackpool Night, News (Light Programme)
1956.12.23 Concert Hour, announcement of bad reception (BBC TV)
1956.12.xx Political talk
1956.xx.xx Al Read Show (Light Programme)
- The last 8 minutes of a comedy show/
1956-1964 Epilogue - Lighten Our Darkness (Home Service)
1957 Round With The Music
Hosts Dennis Bresden(?) & Roy Bradford. I can't find any show in Genome that features those names and no show of that name is listed.
1957 Gallagher & Shean song with Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer
1957.05.xx Radio Luxembourg - Philishave ad - Ray Orchard
hxxps://mega.nz/#!TKRhjACb!E3DMZ-es-PXF ... t4VMbGpB2M
These are all from old reels and the clips are unedited, meaning I don't have any more of each particular clip. A lot of these had been recorded over by other things where the tape had been used and re-used many times. It's interesting but also totally frustrating when something good starts, then ends so soon before it's had time to even get started (Vol.2 has 15 seconds of Peggy Seeger & Guy Carawan from 1957!)
And if anyone has any ideas on a more accurate identification of some of the more vaguer clips, please chime in!
(People who scour other sites might recognise some of the clips as I already posted some bits on youtube and elsewhere.)
BBC Radio Fragments Vol.01
Mainly found at the end of reels, having been recorded over by something usually more mundane.
1952.01.06 The Younger Generation Sunday Half Hour (Light)
1952.01.xx Family Favourites (Light)
1952.01or02.xx Take It From Here (Home)
1952.01or02.xx Norman Brooks & His Lancers (Home)
-Old-time dance music played by Norman Brooks & His Lancers, with Lionel Kivvle(?) as master of ceremonies.
- ?
- The Jazz Treat / The Jazz Twinkle(?)
- The Merry Widow (Waltz)
1952.06.22 A Salute To Britain (Light)
- US Air Force Symphony Orchestra, from Bolling Air Force Base in Washington DC.
Col. George S. Howard - conductor. Sgt. Bill Jones - baritone soloist. And the Singing Sergeants under the direction of Lt. Robert Landers
- Oh Susanna
- Sgt. Bill Jones - Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
- Camptown Races
Those 5 from the oldest reel I've handled. Presented in chronological order, so Salute To Britain appeared on the reel first, followed by a fragment of Norman Brooks that it'd been recorded over, which in turn had been recorded over Take It From Here, etc, like a palimpsest.
1953 Sports Today - Gordon Bridge (USA)
- Small snippet of US radio from shortwave. The date may be way off.
1955 CBC Canada - Earl Fisher in Montreal
1955 CKLX Canada
- Two snippets from shortwave. Date may be off, the first may be possible to be dated from the baseball scores.
1955 Part of a play
1955 Programme about Pearl Harbour (Maybe from the "Scrapbook For..." series.)
1955.05.0x Housewives Choice, Five To Ten, Organ programme (Light Programme)
- Closing seconds of Nat Temple presenting "Housewives' Choice" / "Five To Ten" / Opening seconds of Organ Programme. Although from a reel, you can tell this originally came off a disc.
1955.05.26 The Show Goes On - Morecambe & Wise (Light)
Just a bit of a song and the end credits of an early Morecambe & Wise radio show. I wonder if the BBC have any of the complete shows? I assume not, because surely it's something we'd have heard repeated by now.
1955.06.24 Eddie Calvert (on records) - Kenneth Kendall (Home Service)
1955.07.31 Melody Hour, Down Your Way (Light Programme)
1956.01.xx Charlie Kunz programme announcement (Light Programme)
1956.06.24 The Countryside In June (Light)
1956.08.15 Blackpool Night, News (Light Programme)
1956.12.23 Concert Hour, announcement of bad reception (BBC TV)
1956.12.xx Political talk
1956.xx.xx Al Read Show (Light Programme)
- The last 8 minutes of a comedy show/
1956-1964 Epilogue - Lighten Our Darkness (Home Service)
1957 Round With The Music
Hosts Dennis Bresden(?) & Roy Bradford. I can't find any show in Genome that features those names and no show of that name is listed.
1957 Gallagher & Shean song with Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer
1957.05.xx Radio Luxembourg - Philishave ad - Ray Orchard
hxxps://mega.nz/#!TKRhjACb!E3DMZ-es-PXF ... t4VMbGpB2M