Absolutely brilliant! A total snapshot of a period in time, and a far more innocent one at that. Where the seventies was trying so hard to head in to the eighties and creating a weird world all of its own. I used to watch Get it together - I could never fully find it in my heart to forgive Roy North for deserting Basil Brush - but everyone is trying so hard and seemingly enjoying themselves. I view this and can only smile with them and not at them - the lack of self consciousness is thoroughly refreshing.
Agree. Everyone on modern TV shows is so made up and ‘professional’ and ‘cool’, it makes me sad for a time when a bit of talent and a LOT of enthusiasm was the driving force. Things may be slicker today but overall they are colder and less genuine. And yes, I used to sneer at this at the time! 😎
This was your everyday show. Try and find any new music with the style and originality of The Pretenders or The Police anywhere in the vast wasteland of current music.
I'm nearly 60 & I saw this pop up in my feed so clicked on it, somehow I starting singing the title song from memory before it started, funny how things from you're childhood can remain locked in!
@@michaeldignan4607 Once I saw it I kind of remembered seeing it but not that well, oddly enough the guy I remembered him from the Sooty & sweep show lol
The Pretenders' guitars have no leads plugged in and the drums aren't miked up, so I'd say live vocal with a specially recorded backing track. Not sure the vocal is live anyway. But a specially recorded version anyway which is great to hear. The guys in the Pretenders don't look too pleased though. They must have felt like they were tricked into appearing on something like Play Away but not as good as Play Away. The show is so uneven, but that's part of the joy of the 70s!
This might be television at its cheapest but thanks to Get It Together we have early LIVE performances of both The Pretenders and U2. So many of these type of shows were wiped and lost forever, so we should be very thankful.
Great to see that original lineup. Amazing how Chryssie was able to turn the Honeyman-Scott and Farndon's tragic deaths into such a beautiful song with Back on the Chain Gang.
With TH-cam around for years I feel I’ve been mislead. I always thought England was just plain cool, but after watching this and a lot of Top of The Pops episodes, they just sent over all the awesome stuff .
@@colingreen5252 Yes that’s true but both of those bands were marketed at teenagers (nothing wrong with that) but someone like The Pretenders, who weren’t exactly punk but had a bit of a ‘cool’ vibe about them going on a kids show just wouldn’t happen today. There again, most mainstream artists are completely safe and woolly so I don’t it would even be an issue. And not that there are kids shows like this anyway 😎
@sMansGuitars Thanks. So interesting. One thing that foxes me, is that the unevenness of acts would be jarring on these shows but would work just fine on TOTP! Maybe just because the latter is justified by being a trek through the charts.
Back in their salad days; w/ so much more in store. They probably despised having to do a kids show; but that's the way it roles when you're trying to break through....
Somewhere, sometime, somebody thought that was a good idea and enough other people were also convinced it was that they actually got it to fekkin happen! Smh....
It was amateurish at the time, with a presentation style more suited to a under ten's school show - Ironically Lift Off which preceeded it was more professional.
@@plasteckfly yup having watched a few EPS I remember it better. However it was cheaply done at Manchester. Maybe not a TOTP rival but I think the part music part gameshow for kids just shows how bad it really was. Cancelled after about 5 years I think but in fairness the videos they showed were mostly the decent artists, police, sparks, buggles etc as opposed to the supposed good artists who were mostly terrible except ELO. Anyway I was 9 when it ended in about 81, by then music was changing quickly and maybe it was beyond the presenters/singers to do live?
@60s Man 60s Guitars ITV often didn't know how to schedule a tv series. The classic example was the one and only run of Prisoner Cell Block H. The obvious nature of the show meant a late night slot but it was constantly moved about and often replaced without warning. It was also shown by different regions at different points in the story and in some areas the last couple of series were never shown. Two of its biggest stars came to England to protest in some of the regions. It worked but not everywhere. When channel 5 started up the show was given prime viewing and even a fan club was started. C5 didn't chop and change.
Gotta say, the boys in the Pretenders didn’t look all that thrilled about playing this “pop” song on TV… Doesn’t exactly square with their punk credentials…
It really was this cringy in the day, Roy North looked and sounded like my maths teacher,Mr Tunnicliffe. There were some good acts on amongst the shit, so you had to watch it.
As much as I enjoy watching the old shows, this baffles me. Who thought it was a great idea to have top pop stars on a show and in between them , have amateur hour with Roy and his naff chums. Awful.
Secret Affair .. fantastic band but possibly the worst rendition of there 2nd single Let your heart dance ive heard ever. I suppose it doesnt really matter now lol.
Absolutely brilliant! A total snapshot of a period in time, and a far more innocent one at that. Where the seventies was trying so hard to head in to the eighties and creating a weird world all of its own. I used to watch Get it together - I could never fully find it in my heart to forgive Roy North for deserting Basil Brush - but everyone is trying so hard and seemingly enjoying themselves. I view this and can only smile with them and not at them - the lack of self consciousness is thoroughly refreshing.
Agree. Everyone on modern TV shows is so made up and ‘professional’ and ‘cool’, it makes me sad for a time when a bit of talent and a LOT of enthusiasm was the driving force. Things may be slicker today but overall they are colder and less genuine.
And yes, I used to sneer at this at the time! 😎
The Pretenders were so good. Chrissie is a living legend.
This was your everyday show. Try and find any new music with the style and originality of The Pretenders or The Police anywhere in the vast wasteland of current music.
I'm nearly 60 & I saw this pop up in my feed so clicked on it, somehow I starting singing the title song from memory before it started, funny how things from you're childhood can remain locked in!
I was the same! I sang the theme tune but I have absolutely zero recollection of the programme
@@michaeldignan4607 same here but enjoying these shows
Precisely! But I seem to remember thinking it was pretty naff.
Walking on the Moon is one of my fave songs!
@@michaeldignan4607 Once I saw it I kind of remembered seeing it but not that well, oddly enough the guy I remembered him from the Sooty & sweep show lol
This looks 100% live. No gimmicks. All talent. Love Chrissie Hynde
vocals may have been live but I am pretty sure that's a record back track. Still very cool though.
@@DeadSoulAdrian Yup. There are cymbal strikes when the drummer isn't striking a cymbal.
It's not. But perhaps her vocal is live.
The Pretenders' guitars have no leads plugged in and the drums aren't miked up, so I'd say live vocal with a specially recorded backing track. Not sure the vocal is live anyway. But a specially recorded version anyway which is great to hear. The guys in the Pretenders don't look too pleased though. They must have felt like they were tricked into appearing on something like Play Away but not as good as Play Away. The show is so uneven, but that's part of the joy of the 70s!
@@colingreen5252 They felt like ... pretenders? LOL!
If you didn’t have epilepsy before The TSDs performance, you do now
I love long lost shows like these. Quite the eccentric music/variety show.
eccentric alright!
This might be television at its cheapest but thanks to Get It Together we have early LIVE performances of both The Pretenders and U2. So many of these type of shows were wiped and lost forever, so we should be very thankful.
Left England in 1978. Looks like I got out just in time. Jesus.
Dont worry about it
what the hell did I just watch. The pretenders followed by Rupert the friggen bear?
I'll take the woman singing the cheesy song 🎵
If you thought that was trippy wait till you get to Roy singing "Swords of a thousand men" in a future episode...
That was an excellent performance; even if I laughed my arse off for all the wrong reasons....
Chrissie Hynde, former Jim Kerr's wife.
This is ENGLAND!
Thanks to whoever is uploading these. Fantastic to see the original (and best) line-up of The Pretenders playing live. RIP Pete Farnon and Jim Scott.
Great to see that original lineup. Amazing how Chryssie was able to turn the Honeyman-Scott and Farndon's tragic deaths into such a beautiful song with Back on the Chain Gang.
I love the two kid friends requesting Secret Affair! And the classic line up of the Pretenders live! AND Rupert the Bear.
Their appearance on Get It Together must have propelled The Pretenders to #1 in the New Year. She's singing live which is impressive.
With TH-cam around for years I feel I’ve been mislead. I always thought England was just plain cool, but after watching this and a lot of Top of The Pops episodes, they just sent over all the awesome stuff .
Holy Shite! Season 5 ?!! How did this make it past S01? Acid really would've helped... then and now!
The canned applause lol.
Rupert was so good I had to back and play again !!!
What a hottie great voice very unrated ouldnt have had the 80s without her...
December 11 1979! My actual birthday! A musical variety show on a Tuesday!
The Pretenders - on Get It Together - that's kind of mind blowing!
It’s a great performance but totally out of place
@@stuartcook2464 Agreed - think a lot of these bands had to do strange shows in the 70s. Remember ABBA on the Tommy Cooper show.
Bringing back memories long since forgotten
Wow. Never saw this before. Thanks for posting.
What a line up brilliance
I feel I deserve a medal for sitting through this.
was it Roy North or Sting's fake Jamaican schtick that sent you to the edge?
Nice tab collar shirt on Chrissie , very Kinks 😎❤️
I remember asking my mum “what’s New Skank?”
I thought she was singing 'News Cake' 🤣🤣
@@hobbayne Moose cack
Brilliant thanks for posting this
the best ever- Chrisie!
Beautiful Chriss and her group
This is like watching Being John Malkovich except it is now Being Roy North
Love it!
I did not know the Pretenders recorded Rupert the Bear...smokin!!
Why does he remind me of a 70s Northern History Teacher.
Granada tv of the sixties ( with that clock) now with The Pretenders....
Jimmy Scott out of it on kids tv 😍
Yeah, no kidding. Good lord.
This is like a fever dream I had once…
Imagine a band who were high in the charts performing their hit live on a kids to show today. No, didn’t think so.
Remember when T-Rex and the Rollers both had their own series in the ITV kids slot!
@@colingreen5252 Yes that’s true but both of those bands were marketed at teenagers (nothing wrong with that) but someone like The Pretenders, who weren’t exactly punk but had a bit of a ‘cool’ vibe about them going on a kids show just wouldn’t happen today.
There again, most mainstream artists are completely safe and woolly so I don’t it would even be an issue. And not that there are kids shows like this anyway 😎
@sMansGuitars Thanks. So interesting. One thing that foxes me, is that the unevenness of acts would be jarring on these shows but would work just fine on TOTP! Maybe just because the latter is justified by being a trek through the charts.
chrissie hynde - talent in abundance
Back in their salad days; w/ so much more in store. They probably despised having to do a kids show; but that's the way it roles when you're trying to break through....
The guy in the red shirt couldn’t be more bored
Secret affair fantastic
Those were the days .. Glory Boys
The band are enjoying there self's at the end of the show.
The most seductive female voice …. IMO folks 😄
Millenials can have their Amy Winehouse- glad we X-ers still have our Chrissy Hynde
This is like the top of the Pops on speed.
Chrissie Hynde is so so skinny here. What a unique voice and sound.
Chrissie was certainly singing live. Albeit to a pre recorded track, same as they did on whistle test. Secret Affair were playing and singing live
I never did drugs, must be like that with waking intermissions of good music on the telly.
19:45 - The Police
Somewhere, sometime, somebody thought that was a good idea and enough other people were also convinced it was that they actually got it to fekkin happen! Smh....
Born in 61, Idon't remember this at all.
❤Chrissie ❤
Chrissie is fire!
Never heard of this show, but I'm not English. Best song imo was Stumblin' in. Can't stand The Police!
was a kids show. always on at 5 o clock
Love The Police
Anyone remember "Nosin' Around" on the Young Ones? This must have been the inspiration for that.. Very odd.
Planet "Late 70s" GB competition for BBC. Trippy as f...
Haha! None of the guitars amped - total lip sync? Still a hoot - only the Brits could come up with a show like this!
6:45 Damn settle down bowl cut!
It was amateurish at the time, with a presentation style more suited to a under ten's school show - Ironically Lift Off which preceeded it was more professional.
Ayesha Brough was cool, too.
What is that video pause say yes shit by you tube ??
13:55 Stumblin' In
The couple who are MCing this, are they some sort of British Donny and Marie Osmond? I hope the Pretenders were payed well for this.
Well paid ? The show was clearly made on an absolutely shoestring. I doubt the producers paid anyone well for appearing.
Was this a local broadcast, dont remember getting it in London
What became of the lovely Linda?
Yup I think this was meant to combat TOTP. I remember it well. A classic example of kids 70s TV.
Not really - this was a “home from school” show targeted at children.
@@plasteckfly yup having watched a few EPS I remember it better. However it was cheaply done at Manchester. Maybe not a TOTP rival but I think the part music part gameshow for kids just shows how bad it really was. Cancelled after about 5 years I think but in fairness the videos they showed were mostly the decent artists, police, sparks, buggles etc as opposed to the supposed good artists who were mostly terrible except ELO. Anyway I was 9 when it ended in about 81, by then music was changing quickly and maybe it was beyond the presenters/singers to do live?
@@plasteckfly bring back Knightmare! With today's tech it would be fantastic.
@@plasteckfly you will also find .... Famous five, the girl who played George sadly committed suicide in 2000. Also.....Runaround yeehaw!
@60s Man 60s Guitars ITV often didn't know how to schedule a tv series. The classic example was the one and only run of Prisoner Cell Block H. The obvious nature of the show meant a late night slot but it was constantly moved about and often replaced without warning. It was also shown by different regions at different points in the story and in some areas the last couple of series were never shown. Two of its biggest stars came to England to protest in some of the regions. It worked but not everywhere. When channel 5 started up the show was given prime viewing and even a fan club was started. C5 didn't chop and change.
Gotta say, the boys in the Pretenders didn’t look all that thrilled about playing this “pop” song on TV… Doesn’t exactly square with their punk credentials…
Im SO confused by this
The Police promo is just sad. It's good to see them, but the lack of video creativity is sad.
23:51
Odd mix between a kids show and a Top 40 Pop show.
She's singing to me
What? This is the strangest thing I've seen in years.
Was this a kid’s show? For children?
was chrissie singing to a track?
nellie the elephant >rupert the bear
Thank god I don't remember this show , very forgetful....
mmmmmmm chrissie
It really was this cringy in the day, Roy North looked and sounded like my maths teacher,Mr Tunnicliffe. There were some good acts on amongst the shit, so you had to watch it.
Rupert the drug bear, maybe.
I like Roy, but listen to Bobby Darin’s splish splash . Much better obviously.
Time capsule! More like a drug capsule.
Was Rupert not a dude.This was Bad back in the Day and has not improved with age.
How did junk like this attract the likes of The Pretenders and The Police??
You do what you gotta do when you're just starting out....
It's publicity. In other words, oxygen.
The Police weren't there.
It was their video for 'Walking On The Moon'....
As much as I enjoy watching the old shows, this baffles me. Who thought it was a great idea to have top pop stars on a show and in between them , have amateur hour with Roy and his naff chums. Awful.
........ 😳🤯😱😱😱😱
What a weird show.
Rock 'n' Roll is good for the soul, yes. But that dance routine was not! I came here for The Pretenders, anyway.
Very lazy, they didn’t do a good job with the Chroma Key in this edition, not up to their usual high standard.
Cycles Goff, Thank God it Wasn't Saville.
Secret Affair .. fantastic band but possibly the worst rendition of there 2nd single Let your heart dance ive heard ever. I suppose it doesnt really matter now lol.
Horrendous