Ludwig wrote:Many thanks for the link & info, Louis - a great clip!
My pleasure. The show was mimed to playbacks of various Decca recordings of the Heath band, so I dug out the stereo record and synced it to the video. The original sound on the telerecording is not particularly good optical film sound.
Interesting photo of Ronnie with his small tom & ride cymbal swapped over - presumably for ease of playing:
I suspect that it's more that Ronnie turned up and somebody clueless had already set his kit up for the pic.
I'll look out for the Les Dawson clip.
You'll need to buy the DVD. It's a very new release. It's worth every penny, though. On one of the other shows, a 16-year-old Gary Husband does Drummin' Man with the Syd Lawrence band.
Brian Bennett also worked with Les, in the Seventies, with a single released which was popular in some of the Northern Soul clubs.
Spread It Around? I have the single on the Ocean label in front of me now. Arr/cond by BB, written by Ray Cameron, who co-wrote all the great Kenny Everett shows with Barry Cryer.