The Shadows on BBC TV

[drakula63]

Thanks to Ivo Koers for this list of the Shadows UK TV appearances. He emailed to me but I thought it would be of interest to others, so I have cut and pasted it here. Thanks again Ivo, very interesting indeed...

All tracks have been performed live, unless otherwise stated. “Pre-recorded” means that the recording heard is a special version of a track made for the specific show.

Name of TV show: 3rd ATV “Cliff” TV show
Location: ATV TV Studios, Elstree, London and/or Birmingham, England
Date: Recorded January 1961, broadcasted March 2nd, 1961
Tracks: “F.B.I.”

Name of TV show: 5th ATV “Cliff” TV show
Location: ATV TV Studios, Elstree, London and/or Birmingham, England
Date: Recorded January 1961, broadcasted March 16th, 1961
Tracks: “Apache” (Cliff Richard on lead guitar instead of Hank Marvin)

Name of TV show: “Crackerjack” (6th series)
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: April 27th, 1961
Tracks: “The Frightened City” and “F.B.I.”

Name of TV show: unknown show for Queen Elizabeth
Location: England
Date: Early 1962
Tracks: “F.B.I.” (audio of a live performance of “Apache”)

Name of TV show: unknown show for ATV
Location: ATV TV Studios, Elstree, London and/or Birmingham, England
Date: August 23rd, 1962
Tracks: “Never On Sunday”

Name of TV show: “The Royal Variety Performance”
Location: London Palladium Theatre, London, England
Date: October 29th, 1962
Tracks: “Wonderful Land”

Name of TV show: “Christmas Fayre”
Location: ATV TV Studios, Elstree, London and/or Birmingham, England
Date: December 25th, 1962
Tracks: “Dance On” and “Wonderful Land”

Name of TV show: “The Billy Cotton Band Show”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: February 24th, 1963
Tracks: “Foot Tapper” and “The Breeze And I”

Name of TV show: unknown show
Location: London Palladium Theatre, London, England
Date: September 22nd, 1963
Tracks: “Guitar Tango”, “All My Sorrows”, “Granada”, “Dance On”, “Bo Diddley” and “Shindig”

Name of TV show: “New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert”
Location: Wembley Arena, London, England
Date: April 26th, 1964
Tracks: “Dance On”

Name of TV show: “Cliff And The Shadows”
Location: ATV TV Studios, Elstree, London and/or Birmingham, England
Date: June 30th, 1964
Tracks: “Fandango” (mimed to original studio recording) and “The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: “The Royal Variety Performance”
Location: London Palladium Theatre, London, England
Date: November 8th, 1964
Tracks: “The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt”, “Tonight” and “Five Hundred Miles”

Name of TV show: unknown show for ATV
Location: London Palladium Theatre, London, England
Date: May, 1965
Tracks: “Brazil”, “Wonderful Land”, “Genie With The Light Brown Lamp”, “The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt” and “Mary Anne”

Name of TV show: 1st ATV “Cliff And The Shadows” TV show
Location: ATV TV Studios, Elstree, London and/or Birmingham, England
Date: September 15th, 1965
Tracks: “My Grandfather's Clock” (mimed to original studio recording), “Little Princess”(mimed to original studio recording) and “Wonderful Land”

Name of TV show: 2nd ATV “Cliff And The Shadows” TV show
Location: ATV TV Studios, Elstree, London and/or Birmingham, England
Date: September 22nd, 1965
Tracks: “Five Hundred Miles”, “Big 'B'” (pre-recorded and mimed) and “You've Got To Have Heart” (pre-recorded and mimed)

Name of TV show: 2nd ATV “Cliff And The Shadows” TV show
Location: ATV TV Studios, Elstree, London and/or Birmingham, England
Date: September 29th, 1965
Tracks: “The Girl From Ipanema” (mimed to the original undubbed studio recording), “Guitar Tango” (mimed to original studio recording) and “Kinda Cool” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: “Sunday Night At The London Palladium”
Location: London Palladium Theatre, London, England
Date: November 21st, 1965
Tracks: “The War Lord”

Name of TV show: “Cliff Richard's Christmas Cheer”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: December 25th, 1965
Tracks: “Wonderful Land” (pre-recorded and mimed)

Name of TV show: unknown show
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1965
Tracks: “Don't Make My Baby Blue” (mimed to original studio recording)


Name of TV show: “Show Of The Week”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: April 5th, 1966
Tracks: “Somewhere”, “Little 'B'”, “Never On Sunday”, “The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt” and “Atlantis”

Name of TV show: “Sunday Night At The London Palladium”
Location: London Palladium Theatre, London, England
Date: October 9th, 1966
Tracks: “A Little Bitty Tear” and “Somewhere”

Name of TV show: “Royal Gala”
Location: The London Studios, London, England
Date: November 29th, 1966
Tracks: “The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt”

Name of TV show: “Wish Upon A Wishbone”
Location: The London Studios, London, England
Date: December 25th, 1966
Tracks: “A World Of Our Own” (featuring Patricia Bredin)

Name of TV show: “Val Doonican Show”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: November 25th, 1967
Tracks: “Lara's Theme” (pre-recorded and mimed) and “Putting On The Style” (pre-recorded and mimed)

Name of TV show: “Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp” for Rediffusion
Location: The London Studios, London, England
Date: December 25th, 1967
Tracks: “Me Oh My” (pre-recorded and mimed)

Name of TV show: “After Ten Follows...Ten!”
Location: The London Studios, London, England
Date: June 11th, 1968
Tracks: “Cool Water”

Name of TV show: “Cliff At The Movies”
Location: The London Studios, London, England
Date: September 21st, 1968
Tracks: “Chicago” (pre-recorded and mimed)

Name of TV show: “Pop Go The Sixties”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: Recorded late 1969, broadcasted December 31st, 1969
Tracks: “Apache” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: 5th 1970 “It's Cliff Richard” TV show
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: Recorded January 29th, 1970, broadcasted January 31st, 1970
Tracks: “Wonderful Land” (pre-recorded and mimed) and “Foot Tapper” (pre-recorded and mimed)

Name of TV show: “Cilla Black Show”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: March 2nd, 1974
Tracks: “Summer Holiday” (pre-recorded and mimed), “Jungle Jam” (pre-recorded and mimed) and “Dance On” (featuring Cilla Black) (pre-recorded and mimed)

Name of TV show: “Lulu Show”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: Early 1975
Tracks: “No No Nina” (mimed to original studio recording), “This House Runs On Sunshine” (mimed to original studio recording), “Don't Throw It All Away” (mimed to original studio recording), “Cool Clear Air” (mimed to original studio recording), “Stand Up Like A Man” (mimed to original studio recording), “Let Me Be The One” (mimed to original studio recording), “No No Nina” (mimed to original studio recording), “This House Runs On Sunshine” (mimed to original studio recording), “Don't Throw It All Away” (mimed to original studio recording), “Cool Clear Air” (mimed to original studio recording), “Stand Up Like A Man” (mimed to original studio recording) and “Let Me Be The One” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: promo video for an unknown TV show
Location: England
Date: 1975
Tracks: “Let Me Be The One” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: promo video for an unknown TV show
Location: England
Date: 1976
Tracks: “It'll Be Me Babe” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: promo video for an unknown TV show
Location: England
Date: 1978
Tracks: “Love Deluxe” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: “Top Of The Pops”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: February, 1979
Tracks: “Don't Cry For Me Argentina” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: promo video for an unknown TV show
Location: England
Date: 1979
Tracks: “Theme From The Deer Hunter (Cavatina)” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: unknown TV show
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1980
Tracks: “Riders In The Sky” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: “Top Of The Pops”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: February, 1980
Tracks: “Riders In The Sky” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: promo video for an unknown TV show
Location: England
Date: 1980
Tracks: “Equinoxe (Part V)” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: unknown TV show
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1980
Tracks: “Riders In The Sky” (mimed to original studio recording) and “Mozart Forte” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: “Pebble Mill”
Location: Pebble Mill Studios, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
Date: 1981
Tracks: “Riders In The Sky” (original studio recording with live drums) and “The Third Man” (original studio recording with live drums)

Name of TV show: “Razzmataz”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1981
Tracks: “Telstar” (mimed to an alternative take of the original studio recording)

Name of TV show: “Swap Shop”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1981
Tracks: “Telstar” (mimed to an edit of the original studio recording)

Name of TV show: “Swap Shop”
Location: Guernsey island, England
Date: 1981
Tracks: “This Ole House” (original studio recording with live drums and vocals from the audience)

Name of TV show: “Swap Shop”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1981
Tracks: “Imagine/Woman” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: “The Royal Variety Performance”
Location: London Palladium Theatre, London, England
Date: November 23rd, 1981
Tracks: “Apache”

Name of TV show: “6.55 Special”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1982
Tracks: “No Dancing!” (mimed to original studio recording), “The Theme From 'Missing'” (mimed to original studio recording), “You Rescue Me” (mimed to original studio recording) and “Oh! Boy” (mimed to original live studio recording)


Name of TV show: “Des O'Connor Tonight” (6th series)
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: November or December, 1982
Tracks: “Riders Of The Range” and “The Young Ones” (featuring Des O'Connor)

Name of TV show: “Freddy Star Show”
Location: Window Theatre, Great Yarmouth, England
Date: 1983
Tracks: “Riders In The Sky” (mimed to original studio recording), “The Young Ones” (featuring Freddy Star) and “Time Is Tight” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: “Paul Daniels Show”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1983
Tracks: “Shadoogie” (mimed to original 1983 studio recording)

Name of TV show: “Little & Large”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1983
Tracks: “Shadoogie” and “Willie And The Hand Jive” (featuring Eddy Large)

Name of TV show: unknown show
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1983
Tracks: “Thing-Me-Jig” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: unknown show
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: December 31st, 1983
Tracks: “Thing-Me-Jig” (mimed to original studio recording) and “Memory” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: unknown show
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1984
Tracks: “On A Night Like This” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: “Terry Wogan Show”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1986
Tracks: “Moonlight Shadow” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: “Pebble Mill”
Location: Pebble Mill Studios, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
Date: 1986
Tracks: “Dancing In The Dark” (mimed to original studio recording) and “Moonlight Shadow” (mimed to original studio recording)


Name of TV show: “Pebble Mill”
Location: Pebble Mill Studios, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
Date: 1987
Tracks: “Pulaski” (mimed to original studio recording) and “Walking In The Air” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: unknown show
Location: London Palladium Theatre, London, England
Date: October, 1987
Tracks: “Pulaski” (pre-recorded and mimed) and “Apache/F.B.I.” (pre-recorded and mimed)

Name of TV show: “Good Morning Britain”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1989
Tracks: “F.B.I.” (snippet of “Crackerjack” performance), “F.B.I.” (snippet of live performance at the NEC Birmingham, England in July, 1984) and interview with Hank and Bruce

Name of TV show: unknown TV show for Central TV
Location: England
Date: 1989
Tracks: “When The Going Gets Tough” (mimed to an edit of the original studio recording)

Name of TV show: promo video for an unknown TV show
Location: England
Date: 1989
Tracks: “Shadowmix featuring Apache/Wonderful Land/The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt/
Kon-Tiki/F.B.I./Man Of Mystery/Apache” (mimed to original studio recording)

Name of TV show: “Jim'll Fix It”
Location: BBC Television Centre, London, England
Date: 1990 or 1991
Tracks: “Apache” (snippet with young guitar player)

Name of TV show: unknown TV show for GMTV
Location: England
Date: 2004
Tracks: “Wonderful Land” (mimed to original 1989 studio recording)

Name of TV show: unknown TV show for GMTV
Location: England
Date: 2004
Tracks: “Foot Tapper” (mimed to original 1989 studio recording)

[AlanMcKillop]

There are reasonabley good quality video/dvd of most of these clips and just for completeness, not all of the shows mentioned are from the BBC.
It's a nice list thougth.

[drakula63]

A few comments:

I have a feeling that 1962 appearance where they play FBI was filmed at a youth club being visited by Princess Margaret. I suspect that this was shot for the BBC news. A real shame if it was mute footage and the soundtrack of them playing Apache was overlaid. I have a feeling they performed The Young Ones with Cliff as well.

In 1979 they appeared on Lena Martell's Music Show for BBC1 performing Cavatina - this may be the one listed as 'unknown'.

I think that 'Thing-Me-Jig' from 1983 was on the Val Doonican Show.

I had no idea that they played 'Pulaski' on Pebble Mill. This I'd like to see. A shame it wasn't a hit.

Sadly, I suspect that most of the shows from the 1960s no longer exist - either never recorded in the first place or wiped (along with so many episodes of Doctor Who). A shame that Top of the Pops didn't start until 1964, as this inconveniently just misses the Shadows 'Golden Years' - when they WOULD have been on the show almost every week!!!!

P.S. The December 31st show from 1983 is a hoot - partly because various members of the band look to be rather 'refreshed' to say the least. Well it was New Years Eve...

[drakula63]

Is THIS the clip of them from Pebble Mill...?????


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0duCBbQ5GzM

[AlanMcKillop]

I'm pretty sure that the Youth Club opening with Princess Margaret in attendance, was a Pathe news clip. The original with FBI still exists, but the clip with the Apache overdub is more commonly used by broadcasters.

Was the Pulaski clip with Sally James hosting PM? if so, it also exists in good quality.

I'm sure Bruce tried to do something a number of years back with these clips which were held in the TV archives but the cost was prohibitive in trying to compile a simple dvd, so nothing happened, pity.

[Moderne]

"After Ten Fellas...Ten"!!!

Just had a quick look at the list...they were on the Marti Caine Show around autumn 1980 - I've a feeling they played Mozart Forte on that occasion (with embarrassing in and out knee movments!!) I'm sure lots of the other "unknown shows" can be identified by regular viewers of the boards!

[George Geddes]

From memory (ha!) they also played Argentina on the Lena Martell show (which was, I recall, filmed in Glasgow...)

George

[JimN]

[b]

Name of TV show: unknown show for ATV
Location: ATV TV Studios, Elstree, London and/or Birmingham, England
Date: August 23rd, 1962
Tracks: “Never On Sunday”

This fondly-remembered ATV show was billed simply as "The Shadows", was broadcast on the ITV network on a Friday at 10:00pm, still exists in audio form and contained the following (live performances are underscored):

Nivram (studio version over intro credits)
Wonderful Land (live in TV studio - no guitar echo)
Daybreak (live in TV studio) - Frank Ifield
She Taught Me To Yodel (live in TV studio) - Frank Ifield
Perfidia (live in TV studio - no guitar echo)
Kinda Cool (studio version - played over commercial break captions)
Bo Diddley (v) (live in TV studio - no guitar echo)
I Remember You (live in TV studio) - Frank Ifield
Never On Sunday (live in TV studio - on bouzoukis)
It'll be Me mimed - Cliff Richard and Shadows
Guitar Tango (live in TV studio - on electric guitars)

Wonderful Land and Guitar Tango featured the Jack Parnell Orchestra (ATV's house band), as did the Frank Ifield songs.

[George Geddes]

An earlier appearance on Jim'll Fix It was in response to a request to get Cliff and the Shadows back together again: they cheated by having The Shadows sing Run, Billy Run with Cliff on backing vocals...

George

[drakula63]

Some very interesting stuff coming in.

I would LOVE to see that Jim'll Fix It with the Shads singing 'Run Billy Run' - although the song is not too good!!! Never heard of that one before! I remember watching the Lena Martell show at my Grandma and Grandpa's house in Cambridge!!!

I am assuming that, sadly, the Maroc 7 performance that Rob Bradford alludes to in his notes for The Complete Singles box set no longer exists? If so, what a terrible shame. Does anyone have a date for this performance or the previously mentioned Jim'll Fix It one...?????