Cilla Black with backing musicians

[Rick50]

Did anyone else hear Cilla talking to Chris Tarrant on BBC radio 2 today - a clip was played of Cilla singing "Norwegian Wood", an excellent version especially the backing band, complete with vocals. It is a shame that they were not named. I think it's on youtube...

[ecca]

Well, there's a surprise.
What a brilliant version.

[Tone]

Very good indeed but such a shame Bruce forgot his guitar......and Farrar was spelled incorrectly

Cheers.

Tony

[JimN]

The audio of that performance was digitally re-mastered and all ready to be released on an Italian Fremus double-CD in 1995. But then EU law changed and the recording moved back into copyright, even in Italy (and it will stay i copyright until at least 2023).

The amazing thing is the sheer quality of the (John Farrar?) arrangement, especially considering that it was all done for a one-off performance on TV.

JN

[manofmystery]

That clip is due for release as a bonus disc on the Cilla Black box set due in april. There is a bonus DVD of material from her tv shows. It's about £18.99 for the set which includes all her George Martin recordings

Regards

Paul

[Uncleboko]

I wonder if it will include demos of her learning Step Inside Love with Paul McCartney?

[kipper]

never heard it before brilliant stuff i aways like cillia dont now why she stopped singing so early in her life. backing singers wernt bad as well peter

[RayL]

There is a bonus DVD of material from her tv shows. Paul

Now which TV shows I wonder? I remember working on at least one series in about 1972 which were made at the Television Theatre on Shepherds Bush Green. To add 'excitement' they were done live (really live) on the Saturday night with Cilla arriving by car through the early evening traffic. Perhaps that's where that clip came from - it would be about the right time.

Also around that time was a Cliff Richard series which often had Hank as a guest - have any of those surfaced? I remember there was a very attractive girl on that series who for at least one sketch had to appear in swimwear. After that, the show's scriptwriter was begged by the crew to think of some way that she could appear like that again!

Ray

[Moderne]

There is a bonus DVD of material from her tv shows. Paul

Now which TV shows I wonder? I remember working on at least one series in about 1972 which were made at the Television Theatre on Shepherds Bush Green. To add 'excitement' they were done live (really live) on the Saturday night with Cilla arriving by car through the early evening traffic. Perhaps that's where that clip came from - it would be about the right time.

Also around that time was a Cliff Richard series which often had Hank as a guest - have any of those surfaced? I remember there was a very attractive girl on that series who for at least one sketch had to appear in swimwear. After that, the show's scriptwriter was begged by the crew to think of some way that she could appear like that again!

Ray

The Norwegian Wood clip is from a Cilla in Scandinavia TV special (Cliff also recorded an "...in Scandinavia" show featuring quite a funny sketch with Hank as an Olympic athlete asking directions to the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki). MW&F had just sung Lady of the Morning and Hank then joined Cilla for some banter. Cilla said, "That was lovely," to which Hank replied, "You're right!". I believe there are only a handful of Cliff's TV shows featuring Hank still in existence: one from January 1970 on which The Shadows guested, an August Bank Holiday special on which Hank plays Sacha, the slightly surreal Jacques Tati-esque 1971 August Bank Holiday show entitled "Getaway with Cliff" (which also featured MW&F), the Cliff in Scandinavia special (on which Hank plays Something) and the 1974 It's Cliff Richard series (which featured Hank as well as Marvin and Farrar but only in the first episode). There are also two short segments from a March 1970 episode of It's Cliff Richard which I posted a YouTube link to a couple of days ago.

All very interesting if your love of Hank and the Shadows doesn't begin and end with 'that sound'!! Paul Rumbol is the guy who I found all this out from.

Will the DVD of Cilla's TV show material include The Shads playing Jungle Jam and Dance On! (with Cilla singing the lyrics) in 1973, I wonder.

Cheers,
Moderne

[manofmystery]

No, that is the only clip by Marvin, Welch and Farrar. Amazon give a list of all the videos