The Real Cliff Richard

[Uncleboko]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcYd_pE7d4c

See from about 6 mins 20 secs, as the camera pans around the counter in the 2 Is Coffee Bar - there is a good shot of a very young hairy Screaming Lord Sutch talking to Tom Littlewood, who was not a nice man at all!

[JimN]

I think it is that documentary which features a few seconds extracted from the 1966 ABC TV compilation which in turn featured a few seconds of Cliff & The Drifters playing Mean Streak on 1959 "Oh Boy!".

JN

[Jay Bass]

Hi thanks For Posting
great to see and hear Tony meehan & Bruce welch talking openly about Cliff.

Regards
jay

[bob golding]

I agree Jay. In fact its the first time I've seen Tony Meehan talking about anything

[Detailed Infinity]

Stephen. Uncle Boko was a kids entertainer at Butlins in 1957 when I was there as a child.

[Uncleboko]

Yes I know, in fact I got the name from an advert that used to appear in the Hendon & Finchley Times in the 60s. I wonder if it was the same guy?

[JimN]

The name was definitely ringing a bell with me, and I was raised 220 miles from Hendon and never went anywhere near a Butlins camp.

A Google search on the term "Boko" reveals that it seems to be a Moslem given name (cf: Abdul, Hassan, Ali, etc). But I didn't find what the farthest reaches of my mind were suggesting.

Then I remembered that the words "big" and "fat" seemed linked with "Boko" and a search on "Big Fat Boko" found... well... Big Fat Boko (a wizard in a comic strip, as I had partly-remembered). He was a character in The Topper, which, along with stablemate The Beezer, was a rival to DC Thomson's Dandy and Beano in the 1950s.

http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/ken-hunters-comic-big-fat-boko.html

JN

[Iain Purdon]

there is a good shot of a very young hairy Screaming Lord Sutch talking to Tom Littlewood, who was not a nice man at all

Nice or not, Tom Littlewood was a driving force behind the 2i's, without which we might none of us be here sharing this stuff. There's more about him and the early days via this link

http://musicstorytellers.wordpress.com/

Iain

[abstamaria]

Thank you for posting the link, Stephen. I enjoyed it, especially the period sequences. The J200 stars prominently.

Andy