The Frightened City

[Clarry]

Is that the same Cannons who recorded I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded on Decca and the magnificent Bush Fire on Columbia? Well, I never knew that. I used to play the See for Miles Instrumentals compilation which included that (latter) song over and over again when it came out around 1985!

I think I have that album. My favourite on it was Topaz by The Staccatos

[GoldenStreet]

The group who appeared in the film were The Cannons, whose sax player later joined Jet and Tony's band...

George

Yes, Chris Hughes is the man. There are some entertaining reminiscences by him (amongst many others) relating to his time on the film set, included on http://www.epicure.demon.co.uk/randrandme.html#, by scrolling down to the panel entitled The Beat Goes On...

Bill

[JimN]

The Frightened City was recently shown on TV and I have it recorded. If anyone is interested, I'll do an audio dub of the guitar music (some of which accompanies a female vocalist at a "club") and put up a link.

That would be great, Jim. Many thanks in advance.

OK...

Here are a couple of screen grabs from the opening credits and I'll put the audio links in another response.:

[JimN]

Audio files ("enjoy"):

https://instaud.io/NmO

https://instaud.io/NmP

https://instaud.io/NmR

https://instaud.io/NmS

[UlrichS]

Hi Jim,
Many thanks!

[JimN]

The film starts with a dramatic gangland murder (with a car) in a side-street (no music).

Then (as the theme music starts) it moves into a speedy drive though the West End, starting at Piccadilly Circus and along Shaftesbury Avenue, past the Trocadero, Wardour St, Frith St, Gerrard Place, etc then turning left at Cambridge Circus into Charing Cross Road. A car pulls across the path of the film car somewhere opposite Denmark Street and the car-horns sound.

What a pleasure to see London as it used to be - and as I remember it from visits as a child and in my teenage years.

[Moderne]

Fantastic! This is the sort of film that used to be shown at 11.10pm on BBC2 on Friday or Saturday night when I was a teenager...

[Billyboygretsch]

Hi Jim
Can you remember what channel it was on - see you on catch up. I can remember seeing the film years ago - I too love those scenes of the areas I used to frequent in my youth

[JimN]

It was apparently on Channel 4.

The channel is mentioned in the voice-over on the last audio clip. I can't remember how long ago it was. I've had it on a PVR for some time and recently transferred it to a DVD-R/HDD machine and thence onto DVD-R. The audio copying and screen grabs were done on the PC.

[cockroach]

Norrie Paramour from the film score. There is some use of a tremolo at the end but doesn't sound like Hanks style. I suppose it was a session man of the day - Vic Flick, Big Jim, Little Jim ?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sMxG2ypy7lA

Listening to the audio postings..thanks JimN BTW!....my money's on Vic Flick...sounds like a Strat to me and Vic certainly had his white Strat around that time...also I don't think Big Jim had started major sessions at that time- e.g. film process work with orchestra requiring sight reading, and certainly not Page- who only really started sessions in 1963 IIRC...