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Imagine my surprise last night when I discovered that someone had uploaded the film Some People in its entirety onto Youtube!

Made in 1962, this film features the music of Bristol instrumental group the Eagles, although they are never seen. They were formed at Eagle House Youth Club in Knowle West, hence the name.

The film was shot entirely on location in Bristol and as I used to live there I recognise some of the places, although they do make one or two geographical errors - for example if you go from the Water Tower to the Portway you end up going out of the city, not coming in.

You may spot one or two actors who later became quite well-known, including one of the Doctor's companions!



(And some nice footage of the Bristol 188 too.)

The film has been shown a few times on daytime TV here in Oz in recent times...

I liked the group's matching pair of sunburst Dallas Tuxedo 2 pickup guitars and the white Rosetti/Egmond Bass 7 all plugged into the home made amp IRC....

Very authentic for the period!

Bristol was a very busy manufacturing place years ago- producing cars, aircraft, buses, lorries and even cigarettes, as well as its rail and marine history...

Around this time 1961/62 there used to be a semi religious program on television at about 6 to 7pm featuring Valerie Mountain backed by a small group ,and I think one of them played an Antoria guitar they could have been The Eagles ,anyone remember this program?.

Valerie Mountain and the Eagles featured in a semi religious stage production which was shown on TV. It was called "A Man Dies" and featured another Bristol singer -Ricky Forde. I have the soundtrack LP. I believe it was performed at the Royal Albert Hall. Ricky Forde later joined a Stoke band called the Tennesseans and they issued a single on Parlophone - "You are My Love" Ricky Forde returned to Bristol and played the clubs as a Roy Orbison tribute - possibly the best sound a like I ever heard!
The Eagles backed Del Shannon on one of his early UK tours and if memory serves me correctly they had matching red Fenders! Del didn't play guitar in his act but borrowed one of the Eagles red Strats and performed "Brazil" as an instrumental!

On the cover of the Eagles' Smash Hits album, it looks as though they are playing VOX Fender lookalikes.

Could well have been but from upstairs in the theatre, 50 odd years ago they looked like Fenders lol!

The Eagles had Vox and Fender guitars at different times. They used Fiesta Red Strats and Precision in the hunt ball scene in the film "Nothing But The Best", for instance. If I recall correctly, Vox guitars (various models) were used on Eagles LP covers.

The later versions of some of the more expensive Vox models (the so-called American Range, sold for £80 and upward) were strikingly similar to Fender models. To some extent, this had been the case ever since the days of the double-cut Stroller, Clubman, etc, which like a lot of instruments in the post-Apache early sixties, were generally styled after Fenders. But the American Series - the Soundcaster, [latest versions of] the Consort and the Symphonic Bass as well as the later New Escort were unlike anything seen before - more like direct copies of the Stratocaster, Jazzmaster, Precision and Telecaster.

Here's a contemporary picture (c. 1965) of the Walker Brothers with two Vox guitars (Soundcaster and Symphonic Bass).

Derek Mowbray wrote:Around this time 1961/62 there used to be a semi religious program on television at about 6 to 7pm featuring Valerie Mountain backed by a small group ,and I think one of them played an Antoria guitar they could have been The Eagles ,anyone remember this program?.

You may be thinking of ABC TV's "Sunday Break", which was produced (only on Sundays!) in order to cater for the ITA's requirement for a certain amount of religious and educational broadcasting by the ITV companies. It was usually introduced by Barry Westwood and featured discussions, debates, "worthy" song by folk-groups, trad-jazz, etc. It felt a bit like Rag Week at the local students' Union.

http://www.janetcattiermusicandwritings.org.uk/The_Sunday_Break__TV_program.html