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Saw this last night on BBC4 some clips with Bruce welch And Marty Wilde etc
available on bbc i player
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Situation/

regards
Jay

.......................and Brian drumming-away in the background during the 2I's sequence!

Yes, there is some good footage, including that 2 i's feature, filmed for the Look At Life series and Cliff's mimed Living Doll sequence complete with 34346... and shadows!


Bill

Off topic I know but I've never seen Tommy Steele interviewed about his association with Lionel Bart. They wrote several of Tommy's hits together and Bart was one of the Steelmen, and it seems odd that he's never talked about it (to my knowledge). Sadly Mike "Jeff Randall Pratt died in the 70s - he was the third member of the writing partnership/member of the Steelmen.

The Lionel Bart / Tommy Steele era is covered very well in Pete Frame's book The Restless Generation. I've mentioned this book before because of it's extensive coverage of the early Shadows but like my other recent recommendation, Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah, it is a big book with plenty of room for detail. Mike Pratt is there too, though the book's time frame (sorry) stops just too early for his wonderful appearance as Geronimo, a jazz-drumming cuban beatnik artist in the film The Party's Over!

Ray

A scene from The Party's Over, including Mike Pratt...



The John Barry composed song, Time Waits For No Man, from the film (sung by Annie Ross), features lyrics by Mike Pratt (despite the contradictory credit on the video).



Bill

Sorry for going off topic again but, to all you chord experts, what is that very last chord that John Barry uses for Time Waits For No Man'? It's a very 'John Barry' chord - he used it extensively three years later, with very similar instrumentation, for The Ipcress File.
Ray

A touch of Vic Flick's chord at the conclusion of the James Bond Theme...

Bill

Unfortunately Jay,

for continental users no bbc clip available!

shadowkarl