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Talking Pictures TV

PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2022 10:36 pm
by Teflon
Just watched a fascinating little programme on Talking Pictures TV - a short 10 minute film made in '61 about the recording industry and how records were made. It featured Norrie Paramore recording Helen Shapiro at Abby Road. Well worth a watch if it's repeated, the feature was called "Look at Life".

Cliff

Re: Talking Pictures TV

PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 2:40 am
by Iain Purdon

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 11:18 pm
by JimN
Malcolm Addey is seen in the control room, as well as Norrie Paramor and Helen Shapiro in the studio. That guitar amp was interesting ...

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 1:35 am
by Teflon
Iain Purdon wrote:Here it is

https://youtu.be/pWSqOvqdO-M


That's the one :)

Re: Talking Pictures TV

PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 4:11 pm
by GoldenStreet
JimN wrote:Malcolm Addey is seen in the control room, as well as Norrie Paramor and Helen Shapiro in the studio. That guitar amp was interesting ...

The Radio Luxembourg DJ seen briefly near the end is Ray Orchard.

Bill

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 1:03 pm
by RayL
Walking back To happiness Oh, how I disliked that record! yeah, oh yeah yeah. When it came on the radio, it was time to turn dowm the volume!

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:01 pm
by Tony Szpala
Excellent piece of nostalgia. I did not realise all that work went into making a vinyl record.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 11:14 pm
by Moderne
Nice shots (5:03 - 5:14) of a Jaguar XK 140/150 (?) and a Wolseley 6/90(80 LPC). Were either of these Norrie's? I've just bought a Riley 2.6 - very similar to the Wolseley. What a lovely car!

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 5:48 pm
by RayL
if we're looking at timimgs on that video, 1.57 has a shot of the studio. The guitar player (with the blue jumper and his back to the camera and facing Norrie) is 'Mr Flying fingers' Judd Proctor. He can be seen again at 5.03 walking out of 'EMI' (as Abbey Road wa known then) carrying his guitar case. Perhaps the rhythm guitarist seen at the back is Eric Ford?. Among the violin players is the 'session fixer', mischeviously dubbed 'Dave Moggie' by Rick Wakeman in his book Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star (read the 'Milkman' story, P.99)

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:14 pm
by djangomarvin
The Footage Detectives looks a very interesting programme on TPTV. The Frightened City film was mentioned, and the question of who actually played on the soundtrack. The Boys was another film from the same period where the Shads recorded the theme, but apparently weren’t on the actual soundtrack. So who did play on these two soundtracks ?