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The LIDO in Paris started it. Actually. But they are STILL HALLOWED as they do not have "jumped up busy body Jobworths" going around ruining everything. "Dull and Dreary. THAT is the Name of the Game "Impressionists". NO FUN. Right? Go to Paris where it is ALWAYS Joivre de Vivre and Beaujolie Nouveax....or you are going too much "Rive Gauche". They would never be invited would they?
WOW!!! this took me back to Nanna and Pops lounge room watching The Minstrels as a child on the old black and white TV. I remember loving the music and the dancing so much. Prolly why to this day i love it all still. Such incredible entertainment. and Ohhh my those costumes
All TV and ALL Society and ALL restaurants and ALL theatre and ALL magazines ad media and ALL SHOPPING was FOR THE F AMILY. Until the "petro duller thugs came in". Instead of little sweet "toy shops" sweet shops and mum and pa shops 11 generations sea wiped, with "TOYS R US" The BIG MAC important "USA" Model. DE Graded. Nothing "British" about it. "Haribo". instead of Victory Vees and Fisherman's Friends. They HATED that Advert those "upstarts" as they hate their "Grandfather". They do not like old fisherman type wise elder grey bards in rocking chairs on the porch strumming and giving their kids "tales of olde". Or Wetheralls Originals. "Just llike my grandfather used to give me". They hate the sound of their "grandfathers" name (John LEY IS) as they wrecked his business, p....ddd his money up the wall in a flash and recklessly did what he said he would do. "Get it Spend it". They hate "family" as FAMILY HAS ORDER. Lets just say they would NOT LIKE HATTY JACQUES. YET HATTIE WOULD SORT OUT THE NHS. "Carrie on MATRON". Oh yes....they do not know what a WOMEN is now do they.....mmm. Until they meet a Hattie Jacques... Michael Bubion "I just havent met you yet".....You will know a hattie when you see one....."Attitude"
Fell out of fashion. It was the same with musical variety in the United States. You got banter, chatter, song, and comedy. And there was always a troupe of beautiful ladies that were part of the cast: the Ding A Ling Sisters and The Gold Diggers come to mind!:) Musical variety had a very short timespan. All of it was over by 1972. Sonny and Cher eked it out for 2 more years. Then Cher had her own musical variety show. That was gone by the end of 1975.
@@MargYork Fell out of "FASHION"? No it did not? For WHOM? It was EASY to go out in those days, people would drive, park up, eat a go and all performances WERE NOT STOPPED. Remember THIS. The GAINSAYERS big mouths shout about it "read all about it read all about it" but they are NOT "WE THE PEOPLE". Most of the people in these performances would have BEEN QUITE HAPPY TO BLOOM AND BLOSSOM. "Fashion".DEAF AS A POST UN RIGHTEOUS LEFTIES you mean? The One Per Centers?
Good Managers or Sponsors of those who BE LIEVE in something; they get things DONE. Even if they get up to their neck in it and lose their shirt (or six) they allways WIN. Its a GOLD WIN. Long Haul Flights.....
Clearly the permanently offended will get their knickers in a knot, but this is high quality variety entertainment with talented singers and dancers. Much better than the ‘reality’ dross that we’re served up today.
I was 8 when this was shown on BBC1 on Saturday evenings. My parents always watched it after Dr Who. We didn't watch from a 'racist' view, we simply saw it as entertaining, no other agenda. Great songs and performances. Better times all round!
Sitting on the sofa with my grandparents and my mum and dad thoroughly enjoying this. Never gave race a thought and never associated it with anything sinister ….. but times have changed
Family was destroyed. THAT was the Common Purpose of all the Barons. Rightly NAMED. They always have a chip on their shoulder and are so weak and lilly livered they are happy to sink the whole ship to be "RIGHT". But they never are right. The sort of "HEAD" that makes every one elses lives add up to this. "Never being able to do anyting RIGHT" as it is not possible with these "NARCS".
I can't believe Peter Kaye was performing with a cigarette! I remember all the family gathering around the TV to watch this every week. From a time when entertainment on TV was entertaining and there was true talent among the performers, unlike todays Saturday night offerings. And race never entered into it. My aunt was dating my uncle who was from Trinidad, they married in 1971. He used to love watching this too, he never saw it as racist either. I think people get offended on behalf of others when there's no offence to be taken in the first place. I'll phone him tomorrow and let him know this is on here. Thanks for sharing it, it brought back lots of happy memories.
Love the show always Great Music Entertaining the Family…still have a few Records play them some times …yeh we know what’s wrong with the show today … still love the music .🌟😊👍🙏
Yes. FIRST WORD THAT COMES TO MIND "Family". as it leads to the next "link" when someone says next to you "why isnt that allowed now" OH HIM!! "Jobworth".
Takes me back to my childhood in the early 60s. My dad loved them. Also listening to the top 40 on radio with Alan Freeman. Then at 7pm my dad would listen to Sing Something Simple. The days when we never knew of the word racist or racism. To us the black and white minsterals were based on the singer Al Jolson. Nothing else.
Remember watching this in the early 1960's on a Black and White TV set, and also went to see them on tour at Bristol Hippodrome. I used to love this show on a Saturday night. Obviously it would be toxic now but back then a white face blacked up was all very innocent, no racial slur at all. Long time ago before people started getting offended.
@@michaelyazemboski2798 I've had a few people asking for a Christmas episode, I think since currently there's not one available I'll pick one of the ones I'd held back for December and schedule it for next Saturday for a "watch along" premiere. It'll be the 1967 Christmas Day edition.
What an amazing recording. Are the British performers all affecting American accents? …and is the tall gent with eyeglasses at the end Mr. George Mitchell, leader of the Mitchell Minstrels? Must learn more!
Yes that is George Mitchell he used to always appear at the end, depended on what the theme was regarding the accents, and of course a lot of themes came from old Americana - These shows are now a shame and total embarrassment to the BBC so this is a unique place to view them as they would never be on mainstream media anymore. Even at the time the younger generation thought they were weird but the older generations loved them.
To the best of my knowledge, most of the singers were indeed British. George Mitchell is indeed the tall guy with the glasses. The bass is Andy Cole, the Jolson-ish comic baritone is Dai Francis, the tenor John Boulter, and the female lead is Margaret Savage. Tony Mercer was the original bass, who appears on most of the LPs.
The episodes have been around for a long time as I previously got an episode back in 2020,They've just passed around private groups online until I was presented the opportunity to acquire them.
Why should we be ashamed of things that happened in the USA, this is Britain and there were no slaves in Britain, in fact, it was the first country to outlaw the practice. Anyone of color who wanted to be a minstrel would still have to black up and wear white lips as nobody anywhere looks like that in real life as this is pure British pantomime. An enjoyable escapism for a generation that had faced war and hardship which loved the characters and certainly was not thinking of mockery or race.
This is from 1970? This is so weird.. Never heard of this show before... Is this an American show? You would figure people would set themselves aflame to protest this.... I mean.... Wierd.
@@seventiesmemories5116 It was a UK show, It ran from 1957/1958 to 1978. Though on stage it carried on until the early 1990's. There were protests against this show at the time and the earliest I've seen examples of was from 1961.
@@renzo6490 now it is …very weird…but back then we all watched this with our parents…although it truly was black and white as we didn’t have colour tv!!!
Memories of more innocent times certainly no offence was meant it never entered our heads back then and my neighbours were Jamaican and they enjoyed it too ..we are so easily offended nowadays
This content is hosted here as close to it's original form as possible to act as educational research content so the program can be judged in full with it's content in context. If you would like to learn more about the racial stereotypes this show was based on consider visiting the web page for "The Jim Crow Museum"' for a in depth exploration of the culture of the time and how it affected people's lives. jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/index.htm
Back when a time when British television truly was the best in the world and when this was truly a free country
Great songs, beautiful girls.
Superb entertainment.
Thank you for these memories.
👍
The LIDO in Paris started it. Actually. But they are STILL HALLOWED as they do not have "jumped up busy body Jobworths" going around ruining everything.
"Dull and Dreary. THAT is the Name of the Game "Impressionists". NO FUN. Right? Go to Paris where it is ALWAYS Joivre de Vivre and Beaujolie Nouveax....or you are going too much "Rive Gauche". They would never be invited would they?
WOW!!! this took me back to Nanna and Pops lounge room watching The Minstrels as a child on the old black and white TV. I remember loving the music and the dancing so much. Prolly why to this day i love it all still. Such incredible entertainment. and Ohhh my those costumes
Wonderful, I used to watch this with Mum and Dad. Minstrels were hugely popular throughout the 20th Century and before
Exactly. It is like the name "Michael Aspel"....makes "one smile".
All TV and ALL Society and ALL restaurants and ALL theatre and ALL magazines ad media and ALL SHOPPING was FOR THE F AMILY.
Until the "petro duller thugs came in". Instead of little sweet "toy shops" sweet shops and mum and pa shops 11 generations sea wiped, with "TOYS R US" The BIG MAC important "USA" Model. DE Graded. Nothing "British" about it. "Haribo". instead of Victory Vees and Fisherman's Friends. They HATED that Advert those "upstarts" as they hate their "Grandfather". They do not like old fisherman type wise elder grey bards in rocking chairs on the porch strumming and giving their kids "tales of olde". Or Wetheralls Originals. "Just llike my grandfather used to give me".
They hate the sound of their "grandfathers" name (John LEY IS) as they wrecked his business, p....ddd his money up the wall in a flash and recklessly did what he said he would do. "Get it Spend it".
They hate "family" as FAMILY HAS ORDER. Lets just say they would NOT LIKE HATTY JACQUES. YET HATTIE WOULD SORT OUT THE NHS. "Carrie on MATRON". Oh yes....they do not know what a WOMEN is now do they.....mmm. Until they meet a Hattie Jacques...
Michael Bubion "I just havent met you yet".....You will know a hattie when you see one....."Attitude"
Happy memories of childhood. My mother loved John Boulter's voice.
What a beautiful show! Thanks for sharing. It's a shame they don't make shows like this on TV anymore.
Fell out of fashion.
It was the same with musical variety in the United States.
You got banter, chatter, song, and comedy.
And there was always a troupe of beautiful ladies that were part of the cast: the Ding A Ling Sisters and The Gold Diggers come to mind!:)
Musical variety had a very short timespan. All of it was over by 1972. Sonny and Cher eked it out for 2 more years. Then Cher had her own musical variety show. That was gone by the end of 1975.
@@MargYork Fell out of "FASHION"? No it did not? For WHOM? It was EASY to go out in those days, people would drive, park up, eat a go and all performances WERE NOT STOPPED. Remember THIS. The GAINSAYERS big mouths shout about it "read all about it read all about it" but they are NOT "WE THE PEOPLE". Most of the people in these performances would have BEEN QUITE HAPPY TO BLOOM AND BLOSSOM. "Fashion".DEAF AS A POST UN RIGHTEOUS LEFTIES you mean? The One Per Centers?
Good Managers or Sponsors of those who BE LIEVE in something; they get things DONE. Even if they get up to their neck in it and lose their shirt (or six) they allways WIN. Its a GOLD WIN. Long Haul Flights.....
Clearly the permanently offended will get their knickers in a knot, but this is high quality variety entertainment with talented singers and dancers. Much better than the ‘reality’ dross that we’re served up today.
I was 8 when this was shown on BBC1 on Saturday evenings. My parents always watched it after Dr Who. We didn't watch from a 'racist' view, we simply saw it as entertaining, no other agenda. Great songs and performances. Better times all round!
I know I am not suppose to, but I am finding this absolutely beautiful
Sitting on the sofa with my grandparents and my mum and dad thoroughly enjoying this. Never gave race a thought and never associated it with anything sinister ….. but times have changed
Family was destroyed. THAT was the Common Purpose of all the Barons. Rightly NAMED. They always have a chip on their shoulder and are so weak and lilly livered they are happy to sink the whole ship to be "RIGHT". But they never are right. The sort of "HEAD" that makes every one elses lives add up to this. "Never being able to do anyting RIGHT" as it is not possible with these "NARCS".
I can't believe Peter Kaye was performing with a cigarette!
I remember all the family gathering around the TV to watch this every week. From a time when entertainment on TV was entertaining and there was true talent among the performers, unlike todays Saturday night offerings. And race never entered into it. My aunt was dating my uncle who was from Trinidad, they married in 1971. He used to love watching this too, he never saw it as racist either. I think people get offended on behalf of others when there's no offence to be taken in the first place. I'll phone him tomorrow and let him know this is on here. Thanks for sharing it, it brought back lots of happy memories.
Dai Francis , Ted Darling Anna Dawson and John Boulter. I remembered watching this as a kid.
Margaret Savage was my favourite. 😊
Love the show always Great Music Entertaining the Family…still have a few Records play them some times …yeh we know what’s wrong with the show today … still love the music .🌟😊👍🙏
Top of the Bill. Top of the Town. FULL HOUSE every day and every night all over the Good old Britain (before the "no fun strangers came". Just great.
Good old family entertainment.
Bring it BACK
👍
Yes. FIRST WORD THAT COMES TO MIND "Family". as it leads to the next "link" when someone says next to you "why isnt that allowed now" OH HIM!! "Jobworth".
Those good old bad old days and the best decades ever the 60s and 70s
Takes me back to my childhood in the early 60s. My dad loved them. Also listening to the top 40 on radio with Alan Freeman. Then at 7pm my dad would listen to Sing Something Simple. The days when we never knew of the word racist or racism. To us the black and white minsterals were based on the singer Al Jolson. Nothing else.
I watched this with Mum & Dad when i was a little kid. Our tv was black & white 😂
The presenter does a great Frankie Howerd. Love the reference to decimal too, which would have been very topical in 1970!😂
Loved this show.
Thanks for sharing
Remember watching this in the early 1960's on a Black and White TV set, and also went to see them on tour at Bristol Hippodrome. I used to love this show on a Saturday night. Obviously it would be toxic now but back then a white face blacked up was all very innocent, no racial slur at all. Long time ago before people started getting offended.
Saturday 18:56 - Looking forward to yet another serving of sheer delight!
The past is another country…
Good innocent entertainment for all the family, they should bring it back,it could replace Strictly on Saturday night.
It is like the LIDO. Once seen never forgotten. "Beat That".
Happy memories of an innocent childhood. I never thought about race. I understand the furore but ,
I agree John, and I doubt that many coloured people of that time were offended either.
It was British pantomime escapism something the rest of the world does not understand.
Great memories used to watch these with my parents back in 70s. Have you got any christmas shows of the minstreals please
I was going to ask the same thing
@@michaelyazemboski2798 I've had a few people asking for a Christmas episode, I think since currently there's not one available I'll pick one of the ones I'd held back for December and schedule it for next Saturday for a "watch along" premiere. It'll be the 1967 Christmas Day edition.
@@Aeonterbor > It's a date! < 📺
What an amazing recording.
Are the British performers all affecting American accents?
…and is the tall gent with eyeglasses at the end Mr. George Mitchell, leader of the Mitchell Minstrels?
Must learn more!
Yes that is George Mitchell he used to always appear at the end, depended on what the theme was regarding the accents, and of course a lot of themes came from old Americana - These shows are now a shame and total embarrassment to the BBC so this is a unique place to view them as they would never be on mainstream media anymore. Even at the time the younger generation thought they were weird but the older generations loved them.
To the best of my knowledge, most of the singers were indeed British. George Mitchell is indeed the tall guy with the glasses. The bass is Andy Cole, the Jolson-ish comic baritone is Dai Francis, the tenor John Boulter, and the female lead is Margaret Savage. Tony Mercer was the original bass, who appears on most of the LPs.
No racial stereotypes here
Innocence with a capital l
Where do they get those episodes from so they can upload them
The episodes have been around for a long time as I previously got an episode back in 2020,They've just passed around private groups online until I was presented the opportunity to acquire them.
My little mawammy.
OK DEN MAN.
I just never understood why the men wore that make up...
funny. Terry lene sheep lol. better than nylon...
Luckily this was taken off the air before they made The Thick Paddies Variety Show. What was the mentality of the people who thought this was ok?
The English (Winston Churchill included) used to think also that it was ok to invent concentration camps and put the Boers in.
It was so wrong so bad.
Appalling
Why should we be ashamed of things that happened in the USA, this is Britain and there were no slaves in Britain, in fact, it was the first country to outlaw the practice. Anyone of color who wanted to be a minstrel would still have to black up and wear white lips as nobody anywhere looks like that in real life as this is pure British pantomime. An enjoyable escapism for a generation that had faced war and hardship which loved the characters and certainly was not thinking of mockery or race.
This is from 1970? This is so weird.. Never heard of this show before... Is this an American show? You would figure people would set themselves aflame to protest this.... I mean.... Wierd.
Oh.. It's British.. And it ran till 1978. Bollocks, I say, simply Bollocks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_and_White_Minstrel_Show?wprov=sfla1
@@seventiesmemories5116 It was a UK show, It ran from 1957/1958 to 1978. Though on stage it carried on until the early 1990's. There were protests against this show at the time and the earliest I've seen examples of was from 1961.
Weird
@@renzo6490 now it is …very weird…but back then we all watched this with our parents…although it truly was black and white as we didn’t have colour tv!!!
Memories of more innocent times certainly no offence was meant it never entered our heads back then and my neighbours were Jamaican and they enjoyed it too ..we are so easily offended nowadays
Sorry I watched this with my parents..its shocking to see now..cant bear it ..make up to parody stereotypical cartoon black faces..horrible
It’s only a problem if you let it be. Just relax and enjoy the singing and dancing.