I well remember watching this show of a Sunday night before I went to bed when I were a little lad. It was always tinged with sadness because Monday morning and school loomed so heavily.
That was me as well Martin---to a tee......fresh out of the bath and hair smelling of Vosene....as the last notes of the SNATLP theme faded then Dad would say--- "OK son up the wooden hill "....:) ....memories......
Sunday Night at the London Palladium was a HUGE money earner for ITV. Sunday nights was the night ITV knew would attract the advertisers, as the shops were back open the next day. Companies would pay a fortune to advertise during this show, which topped nearly 20 million viewers at its peak.
It was a grab bag of what was hot in show biz, but unlike the comparable Ed Sullivan telecast, it lacked a strong editorial hand; the emcees did not pick the acts, and the injections of culture Ed liked were absent. In response to criticism of its content, ATV started a 'posh' highbrow series called 'A Golden Hour'.
@@esmeephillips5888 It was all about money for ITV in it's first two years on air - the network was actually collapsing in debt, as the start up costs and maintaining the service drained money away every week. It took until 1958 when more regional companies had opened that money started to pour in. So creating Sunday Night at the London Palladium was a much needed box of cash for the new network.
I once saw a show there in the early 69’s with my late parents, I remember the theme and the turning ⭕️ on the stage with standing letters (name of the show), unable to recall who starred, but did stand in the stage to have a look, possibly at a later stage.
Sadly Tommy Trinder would be sacked as host in 1958. He had a very frosty relationship with his bosses at ATV especially Lew Grade, where he would make jokes at their expense, and there was only so much they could take. So he was sacked and replaced with Bruce Forsyth.
Quite right. Although Trinder was warned a couple of times to stop making anti semitic jokes but he ignored his agent & ultimately was sacked by Lew Grade. Bruce Forsyth was on the verge of packing it all in (according to Barry Cryer) when the call came for him to host the show.
Glenn Johnson Oh my gosh!Wonderful memories of a Sunday evening on TV.Great that some of these early Kinescopes have survived.Marvin Rainwater remains but sadly not of Buddy holly or Slim Whitman.Wonder if those films are laying around somewhere waiting to be found.
My parents went to a recording, they said Tommy wore a light blue shirt & white face makeup cos the lighting for early UK TV shows meant that white looked grey on your telly at home.
It says from the '60's television show' but this one must be from the 50's, because Tommy Trinder refers to President Eisenhower (although thinking about it Kennedy didn't take over until January 61), but I don't think Trinder compered the show in the 60's. It was Bruce Forsyth, Norman Vaughn, Jimmy Tarbuck . . .
You can read old scans of TV Times magazines and Tommy Trinder is said to be the original host. There’s a video of Brucie comparing in 1960 so this has to be from the latter half of the 1950s
Near as I can figure, Tommy Trinder hosted from 1955 to 1958 so this episode must be from that time period and not the 1960s. But I didn't watch it yet, so if something within the episode contradicts that.....
Sarah Vaughan takes the big auditorium as if it were an intimate cabaret audience. So unaffectedly confident, the polar opposite of self-dramatizing divas such as Garland.
It's a miracle that a show as early as this (13 April 1958) has survived. At the time, variety shows were usually not recorded (early video was expensive) and export sales or repeats were not considered. This is presumably a Kinetoscope of an original video, possibly done to encourage sales to English-speaking countries,and would be rather difficult to enhance.
Most likely recorded to show American broadcasters, as Lew Grade who owned the company that produced it ATV London was starting to make and sell a lot of entertainment shows to America, using not just American stars, but also huge British stars well known in the states at the time.
@@johnking5174Lew did not own ATV; it was a public company. He did not have a big stake in it, which made it easier for Robert Holmes a Court to stab him in the back when ACC, as it had become, was hemorrhaging cash on dud movies in the 1980s. Val Parnell and Prince Littler were the head honchos at this time. It was said that Lew did not even have his own office, but he was beginning to cut the telefilm deals in the US which made his name as a supersalesman: Robin Hood, Lone Ranger etc. As an exporter ATV was always bigger in drama than variety shows despite the bosses' background, but the Palladium Show was #1 in Britain for more than ten years.
@@esmeephillips5888 Lew Grade was in full control of ATV back then. According to his relative Michael Grade, he was "king of all he surveyed" in the mid 50s until at least the early 70s, it was around 1972 he said that power shifted away from Lew.
This is definitely on film. As I understood it, as the show went out live, they would literally point a film camera at a broadcast quality monitor. Videotape was available at the time, but would have been in its infancy and seriously expensive. There’s a video on TH-cam of a 1950s BBC Panorama where they demonstrated ‘VERA’ (an early video recorder developed by the BBC), which would be around the time this programme was made.
VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM (complete episode survives) 13-Apr-1958 ATV Sun 8:00pm presenter: Tommy Trinder starring Sarah Vaughan Dick Shawn (American comedian) Marvin Rainwater (country and western singer) singing his no.1 hit (7Mar58) "Whole Lotta Woman" Pinky and Perky (puppets) Beat The Clock - Jackpot £900 The Tiller Girls
Surely with modern computer technology all the glitches in this old recording could be cleaned up so we could view and enjoy this show just as it would have been seen live on a well adjusted tv set of the time. Obviously it would have been broadcast using the 405 line tv system of the time, but that system could provide perfectly acceptable pictures especially considering the smaller screen sizes tv's had back then.
I doubt they could do anything much with this. This is a telerecording - basically a film camera pointed at a broadcast quality TV monitor as the show was broadcast. It’s not a direct videotape recording of the show. Had the film cameras been in the theatre it might have been a different matter. The quality is what it is.
As opposed to tokenistic box ticking and doublethink where a woman is blacklisted if she says she's a woman?... nahh, as many deep prejudices as these people had, at least they weren't pompous self important virtue signallers. We worked though these prejudices and got rid of most of them, without the thought control police.
Those 12 minutes of Dick Shawn were awful. Somehow that unfunny "comedian" got to be fairly well known in the U.S. He did end his career in a humorous fashion though... Before each of his shows he would tell the stage crew that he might do all kinds of pratfalls, etc, and to just leave him alone. Well... one day he was on stage and fell on his face. After he laid there for a while he seemed to have milked the joke for way too long. Eventually someone went out there and found he had suffered a heart attack and died while the audience watched. Finally he did something funny!
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I well remember watching this show of a Sunday night before I went to bed when I were a little lad. It was always tinged with sadness because Monday morning and school loomed so heavily.
That was me as well Martin---to a tee......fresh out of the bath and hair smelling of Vosene....as the last notes of the SNATLP theme faded then Dad would say--- "OK son up the wooden hill "....:) ....memories......
I shared your sadness :(
@@northstar1950 thanks 🙂
I second that
Great thrill to watch myself and the other Tiller Girls having just celebrated my 80th birthday.
Wynne Bowley thank you so much for the great memories. Your part of history now. Take care
Marvellous Wynne- Many Thanks to you and the other girls for giving us such great entertainment! P.S.- Belated Birthday Wishes X.
Wow! You must have interesting stories!
Thank you so much. You were very much part of my Sunday evenings in the 60s.
Which one in the line up of girls were you Wynne?
The Tiller Girls stole every show. Grace, elegance, skill, and perfection. Still loved to this day. Thank you ladies. X
My goodness, Sarah Vaughan was simply on another level, utterly spellbinding ❤️
Great show ! I really miss these types of TV shows. Sarah Vaughn, what a treat !
Never missed this show once ATV started showing it, pity so many weren't recorded for posterity, more please
loved the cat on pinky and perky's toy shop..brilliant..i remember watching when i was a kid..still love it now..
Pinky and Perky were poached by the BBC and became part of its Saturday early-evening schedule.
I loved the Tiller Girls. This brings back so many wonderful memories.
For me too- with my pop n' crisps!!! X.
You can’t beat the British entertainment. Best comedians best quiz shows and chat shows.
That comedian was awful.
He wasn't,he was of his time....and was funny because he was hugely successful!@@walte153
Phowar those chorus girls lovely jubbly.
Love the Tiller girls, what amazing Girls they were.
Comedian Dick Shawn was outstanding really very good ENTERTAINMENT
How I miss these professional entertainers
"You lucky people!" I actually saw TT live on stage a few times back in the early 1970s. At that time he was working in Butlins (Bognor).
This episode is from 1958. It was shown on Talking Pictures TV the other night.
Sarah Vaughan gave an absolutely stunning performance, no-one can match her these days.
We listened to him on the wireless in those days, laughing together.
Sunday Night at the London Palladium was a HUGE money earner for ITV. Sunday nights was the night ITV knew would attract the advertisers, as the shops were back open the next day. Companies would pay a fortune to advertise during this show, which topped nearly 20 million viewers at its peak.
It was a grab bag of what was hot in show biz, but unlike the comparable Ed Sullivan telecast, it lacked a strong editorial hand; the emcees did not pick the acts, and the injections of culture Ed liked were absent. In response to criticism of its content, ATV started a 'posh' highbrow series called 'A Golden Hour'.
@@esmeephillips5888 It was all about money for ITV in it's first two years on air - the network was actually collapsing in debt, as the start up costs and maintaining the service drained money away every week. It took until 1958 when more regional companies had opened that money started to pour in. So creating Sunday Night at the London Palladium was a much needed box of cash for the new network.
Tommy Trinder "one of Britain's greatest comics", says his biography. This must have been his unfunny twin brother.
Yes, he wasn't sparkling on here was he?
He’s really awful on this show. In real life he was very unpopular apparently.
I once saw a show there in the early 69’s with my late parents, I remember the theme and the turning ⭕️ on the stage with standing letters (name of the show), unable to recall who starred, but did stand in the stage to have a look, possibly at a later stage.
Worked on these at the Palladium relaunch in the 1970s
Sadly Tommy Trinder would be sacked as host in 1958. He had a very frosty relationship with his bosses at ATV especially Lew Grade, where he would make jokes at their expense, and there was only so much they could take. So he was sacked and replaced with Bruce Forsyth.
Interesting!
Quite right. Although Trinder was warned a couple of times to stop making anti semitic jokes but he ignored his agent & ultimately was sacked by Lew Grade. Bruce Forsyth was on the verge of packing it all in (according to Barry Cryer) when the call came for him to host the show.
@@roddyteague6246 really? Forsyth on the verge of packing in show-business?!
@@martm216 Quite so. His old fella ran a garage in Edmonton so he could have been a grease monkey instead of clarting about on stage....
@@roddyteague6246 amazing! Thanks for the info!
Every week…plate spinners, mouth organ players, ventriloquists and school in the morning. Sunday was a bloody horrible day.
Glenn Johnson Oh my gosh!Wonderful memories of a Sunday evening on TV.Great that some of these early Kinescopes have survived.Marvin Rainwater remains but sadly not of Buddy holly or Slim Whitman.Wonder if those films are laying around somewhere waiting to be found.
The Tiller Girls dancing perfect.
As this was hosted by Tommy Trinder , it would've been 1950s not 60s.....Trinder hosted from 1955 to 1958.
bloody hell Sarah Vaughan my favourite singer of all time wow
To think there used to be footage of Buddy Holly on this show..
My parents went to a recording, they said Tommy wore a light blue shirt & white face makeup cos the lighting for early UK TV shows meant that white looked grey on your telly at home.
How we have this and not the beatles, I have no idea.
Would love to see the 1957 one featuring Frankie Laine
It says from the '60's television show' but this one must be from the 50's, because Tommy Trinder refers to President Eisenhower (although thinking about it Kennedy didn't take over until January 61), but I don't think Trinder compered the show in the 60's. It was Bruce Forsyth, Norman Vaughn, Jimmy Tarbuck . . .
You can read old scans of TV Times magazines and Tommy Trinder is said to be the original host. There’s a video of Brucie comparing in 1960 so this has to be from the latter half of the 1950s
@@betaman7988 agreed!
Trinder got the sack, I think.
Every comedian have their own style of hummer.
Near as I can figure, Tommy Trinder hosted from 1955 to 1958 so this episode must be from that time period and not the 1960s. But I didn't watch it yet, so if something within the episode contradicts that.....
This is on TalkingPictures channel as I write - fabulous entertainment!
Sarah Vaughan takes the big auditorium as if it were an intimate cabaret audience. So unaffectedly confident, the polar opposite of self-dramatizing divas such as Garland.
Glenn Johnson Just to add,backing Marvin Rainwater is Johnny Duncan`s Bluegrass Boys!
How on earth could the people at the back of the circle see Pinky and Perky?
Why no revolving stage at the end I wonder? It says on Wiki that the revolving stage was used from the very beginning of the show being televised??
The Rolling Stones burnished their 'rebellious' image when they refused to go on the carousel at the finale. The Beatles were more amenable.
Tommy would go down in History as a Great performer
Better times for Britain hosted and enjoyed by the last good generation.
Amazeing....they Destroy Buddy Hollys performance....yet this survives.....
It's a miracle that a show as early as this (13 April 1958) has survived. At the time, variety shows were usually not recorded (early video was expensive) and export sales or repeats were not considered. This is presumably a Kinetoscope of an original video, possibly done to encourage sales to English-speaking countries,and would be rather difficult to enhance.
Most likely recorded to show American broadcasters, as Lew Grade who owned the company that produced it ATV London was starting to make and sell a lot of entertainment shows to America, using not just American stars, but also huge British stars well known in the states at the time.
@@johnking5174Lew did not own ATV; it was a public company. He did not have a big stake in it, which made it easier for Robert Holmes a Court to stab him in the back when ACC, as it had become, was hemorrhaging cash on dud movies in the 1980s.
Val Parnell and Prince Littler were the head honchos at this time. It was said that Lew did not even have his own office, but he was beginning to cut the telefilm deals in the US which made his name as a supersalesman: Robin Hood, Lone Ranger etc. As an exporter ATV was always bigger in drama than variety shows despite the bosses' background, but the Palladium Show was #1 in Britain for more than ten years.
@@esmeephillips5888 Lew Grade was in full control of ATV back then. According to his relative Michael Grade, he was "king of all he surveyed" in the mid 50s until at least the early 70s, it was around 1972 he said that power shifted away from Lew.
This is definitely on film. As I understood it, as the show went out live, they would literally point a film camera at a broadcast quality monitor. Videotape was available at the time, but would have been in its infancy and seriously expensive. There’s a video on TH-cam of a 1950s BBC Panorama where they demonstrated ‘VERA’ (an early video recorder developed by the BBC), which would be around the time this programme was made.
What an education for music players or wannabes,of the future,learn and win
Could never stand him. And Arthur Askey made my skin crawl.
Hi, Donald, a man of taste I see; how Askey ever made a living is beyond me.
@@paulweir7122. Aye thank yew…
VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM (complete episode survives)
13-Apr-1958 ATV Sun 8:00pm
presenter: Tommy Trinder
starring Sarah Vaughan
Dick Shawn (American comedian)
Marvin Rainwater (country and western singer) singing his no.1 hit (7Mar58) "Whole Lotta Woman"
Pinky and Perky (puppets)
Beat The Clock - Jackpot £900
The Tiller Girls
Surely with modern computer technology all the glitches in this old recording could be cleaned up so we could view and enjoy this show just as it would have been seen live on a well adjusted tv set of the time. Obviously it would have been broadcast using the 405 line tv system of the time, but that system could provide perfectly acceptable pictures especially considering the smaller screen sizes tv's had back then.
I doubt they could do anything much with this. This is a telerecording - basically a film camera pointed at a broadcast quality TV monitor as the show was broadcast. It’s not a direct videotape recording of the show. Had the film cameras been in the theatre it might have been a different matter. The quality is what it is.
Trinder was a very bitter man I understand and not popular off stage.
Bloody Hell
Can anyone tell me what the act was with like a robot boy that does tricks on this show... my dad remembers seeing it but not what the act was called
Rainwater sounded like a Hank Williams copycat.
OMG I'd forgotten just how un-pc we were in those days.....the thinly veiled prejudice is excruciating 😖😥
As opposed to tokenistic box ticking and doublethink where a woman is blacklisted if she says she's a woman?... nahh, as many deep prejudices as these people had, at least they weren't pompous self important virtue signallers. We worked though these prejudices and got rid of most of them, without the thought control police.
Bit dated now.
Ugh. Britain.
Those 12 minutes of Dick Shawn were awful. Somehow that unfunny "comedian" got to be fairly well known in the U.S. He did end his career in a humorous fashion though... Before each of his shows he would tell the stage crew that he might do all kinds of pratfalls, etc, and to just leave him alone. Well... one day he was on stage and fell on his face. After he laid there for a while he seemed to have milked the joke for way too long. Eventually someone went out there and found he had suffered a heart attack and died while the audience watched. Finally he did something funny!