Meldrew moment: I don't f***** believe it!

[Uncle Fiesta]

No idea who voiced Ollie Beak, but Fred Barker was voiced by the actor Ivan Owen, who went on to create, and voice, Basil Brush.

[JimN]

Jim can I possibly correct on the Scottish Television clip of Jet miming to Man With The Golden Arm.
It is a show called Studio Downbeat introduced by somebody called Raymond Boyd and was part of a fifth anniversary celebration of the station in August
1962. It was broadcast from the then studio Theatre Royal in Hope Street Glasgow.
Mike

Many thanks for that, Mike. I was quoting a different source (which I cannot now remember) for the name of the programme.

JN

[JimN]

No idea who voiced Ollie Beak, but Fred Barker was voiced by the actor Ivan Owen, who went on to create, and voice, Basil Brush.

Ollie's voice (and Liverpudlian accent) was provided by Wally Whyton, definitely.

Despite being a Londoner, Wally had a sideline in scouse lore well before the Beatles (witness The Vipers' Liverpool Blues from 1958).

http://www.IMDB.com is rarely incorrect.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0926707/

JN

[MMStingray54]

What an interesting thread......and gents you are showing your age!! And I think those interviewed were quite gentle really.

The Beatles were my first proper intro to pop music - my Dad hated them (along with Hendrix - who he thought was lewd and obscene) and the Stones - his disapproval actually encouraged me to like them (he liked the Shadows which led me to view them with great suspicion, until later life!!).

The 5 o clock club was something I watched in a friend's house occassionally - as my mother wouldn't watch ITV for some strange reason - so I had to put up with Leslie Crowther, Peter Glaze and the Crackerjack pencil and cabbage winning contestants when watching at home (on a Friday).

My best mate at Grammar School attended Thank Your Lucky Stars at the ATV studios in Aston, Birmingham on many occassions including the one when the Beatles were on - his dad owned a tele shop and repaired the teles of several ATV presenters at the time so they got tickets somehow! As my 'generation' was about 10 yrs of age when the Beatles stopped performing he was the only person I knew who'd actually seen them live - did you see them live Jim?

[GoldenStreet]

In 1963, the predecessor to "Magpie" was "Tuesday Rendezvous" (neé Lucky Dip"), which later changed name to "Five O Clock Club". It's probably best remembered for the regular appearances of Bert Weedon and Muriel Young, but I have an idea that Ollie Beak (voiced by Wally Whyton?) might have been in it as early as 1962.

I'm not so sure that George remembers a Beatles national TV appearance from 1962, though. They certainly appeared several times (two, maybe three) in late 1962 on Granada TV's local magazine programme "People And Places" (fronted by Gay Byrne and Bill Grundy), but that was not shown on Scottish TV, or anywhere else outside the Lancashire/Yorkshire (and adjacent counties) region. Neither was it recorded for syndication.

I definitely recall seeing the Beatles being introduced by Muriel Young on Tuesday Rendezvous, and this entry on the Internet Movie Database for the programme would seem to confirm that it was in 1962, following the release of Love Me Do.

Bill

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[keithmantle]

I remember Muriel Young interviewing them on a boat (Mersey Ferry ?) when LMD was released

[George Geddes]

Raymond Boyd, Mile - there's a name from the past...

A highlight of school holidays was being able to see the One O'Clock Gang because my guitar teacher, Ron Moore, played in the Tommy Maxwell Quartet... (Yes folks, I did have music lessons, though my bandmates may find that hard to believe!!)

George

[davec]

There's a list of TV appearances here:

http://www.tvtalkin.com/fab4tv/1962.htm

I can remember seeing the third one on the list --- People and Places, 17th Oct 1962

DaveC

[Uncle Fiesta]

As far as I can ascertain, the 16th January appearance on People And Places must have been my first Beatles experience, as my parents and I had just moved 'oop North' and would have been in the Granada TV area.

I wonder when I first saw the Shadows? First TV appearance I can remember was sometime over Christmas 1962 when they performed, with Cliff, several songs from Summer Holiday. Come to think of it, it must have been after Christmas, as my older brother used his present, a Grundig tape recorder, to capture the programme for posterity (recording unfortunately lost many years ago).
However, I must have seen the Shads many times before then, as my parents and I had returned from Singapore in July 1961. (I believe my brother may have mentioned the Shadows when he came out for the summer holidays in 1960, but if he had I'd have had no idea what he was talking about!)