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The Talking Pictures channel (Freeview and Sky) showed the 1963/1964 UK movie "Nothing But The Best" this afternoon. It might be repeated over the next few days (that's the way that the channel works).

The film features some great actoing talen including Alan Bates, Harry Andrews, Denholm Elliott, Millicent Martin, Nigel Stock and James Villiers (and even Willy Rushton), but for me, it was particularly notable for an appearance by The Eagles, as the band playing at an upper class hunt ball.

Not the California group, of course, but the same Bristol-based band who did the music for "Some People" and also had a semi-hit with their own 1963 vocal version of The Floral Dance.

I remember seeing this film on TV in around 1976 and was blown away by how a trip of Fiesta Red Fenders looked. At the time, it had been years since I'd had a chance to see such a sight.

Catch it if you can...

There was also this:



The B-side of their 1964 single The Lost City (nothing to do with the Shadows track of the same title).

A really rocking version of D'Yer Ken John Peel?.

Yes the Eagles were from my home town of Bristol and took their name from the Eagle House Youth Club in Knowle West, where they met and formed the band in 1958.

During the 80s I was friendly with a guitar builder called Terry Clarke and it wasn't until after he died that I realised he'd been the Eagles' lead guitarist! I in fact know someone who owns one of his guitars and I'm currently trying to persuade him to sell it. It would be nice to have something Terry built, as a way of remembering the band, and my friend.

The Eagles I recall backed Del Shannon on his first UK tour!