As a school kid I would sit through the test card transmission waiting for that last track to be played. It took me 45 years and this channel to discover I was listening to BART by Ruby . Infinite thanks!
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for waiting and we do apologise for the break in programming. We aim to return you to "Paint Drying, Live from TV Centre as soon as we can". In the meantime, here is some music.
And only us in Israel had a quiet or long beep with the test card (the Philips card) 😅 I really like this music and I do agree with the comments here - more fun than any TV show ☺️
Another excellent tape was the one that replaced this one, another Mozart Edition tape called One of A Crowd. It's a pity that that one was only played early mornings.
Positron would be a perfect tune for Tony Curtis and Roger Moore to walk into a nightclub in the South of France surrounded by 20 years younger dolly birds.
One of the best ever Ceefax tapes, all from the Mozart Edition Production Music Library! A classic tape - first section pop/big band, second soul (yes, even track 12)!, and the third 19 minutes of "The Franco Chiari Jazz Quartet", sublime...
BBC Tapes From The Mozart Edition Production Music Library Villa Vista, Victorian Drawing Room, Dixieland Parade 3, Well All Right, Flying High, Positron. Any more?
Yea, back in the mid-1980s I sometimes used to sit and watch the test card just to listen to these. Better than some of the nonsense that is called 'programming' in 2016.
I should have some news after the Test Card Circle's Convention in April. Thanks for the other track title for "Strange Feeling". Some links were made with Irving Wilson, as Tulsa was done as a commissioned job by his publishing company Wilson Editions. A Mr. Zelenay pops up with a number of writing credits on the cue sheet...
I remember this tape being played a lot during my childhood especially tracks from the Firebirds and also from Walter's Big Band. Pearson's Big Band plays homage to Mr Gollasch and Walter.
Yes, The Firebirds tracks were originally used on the Well All Right tape, back in 1979, sadly short-lived, withdrawn after just six months, so really good to hear them again on this tape, which lasted a bit longer, and on here, of course!!
Ahhh a simpler time when we only had 3 channels just think kids 3 only 3 tv channeks and 2 of them closed down in the affternoon so for about 3 hrs you only had 1
@@Fcutdlady The test card as a better option to the news or Jeremy....................... If I have to explain the joke then it never worked in the first place. I must try harder lol.
It was reissued on a compilation album a couple of years ago called 'Watch With Teacher', first track on CD1. It deleted now but copies appear on Ebay from time to time.
Loool I always thought it was the girls knee sticking out, (even though it's green) I only saw recently it's the clowns body. Thanks for making me laugh.
of course, the green was a last minute addition by George Hersee who designed test card F as he realised there wasn't any in the picture. The 'O' in the centre of the board should be right in the centre of the screen!
Its called Boveda by Walter & His Band - all the tracks on this tape come from the Mozart Edition music library - this track is on MESLP 071 and it is still available at the editionuk.co.uk website on vinyl!
Hi Chris Tsangari - I hope you see this... the track you refer to is called "Divny Pocit" by Miroslav Hanak. Prepare for a shock - you will either love or hate to know it was originally a vocal track performed by Helena Blehárová - but I've not yet managed to find the instrumental version that you (and I) enjoy so much. I can't post a link here, but if you check on amazon UK for "Divný pocit" you will hear it. Very strange feeling indeed after hearing the other version so many times!
Yes this tape ran from 1985 to 1987, in the era when you were more likely to hear it played over Ceefax pages, with maybe 7 mins or so of Test Card at the start of the transmission.
I do enjoying this Positron full complete tape tunes and songs, POSITRON BBC1 12-07-85 to 09-11-87 Complete Tape which had 24 tracks in total also viewers in Wales had used this tape over on BBC2 Wales with Testcard G PM5544 Positron from February 1988 to October 1992 have you got Dixieland Parade 2 BBC1 Test Card (Complete)December 1975 to February 1978 and Soul Coaxing BBC1Test Card (Complete)November 1974 to February 1977 to be upload please Best Wishes Michael.thank you.
+Michael D'Ambrogio I used to enjoy hearing Sunflower and Hi Livin on BBC2 Scotland accompanied by the Phillips PM5544. There were even a Sunday morning airing of Hi Livin on BBC1 Scotland accompanied by the PM5544. I would have loved Positron, Villa Vista and Melancholic Rock to all have been on BBC2 Scotland accompanied by the PM5544 as well.
Message to Victoria and Chris - if you haven't already thought about it, there's lots more info available to Test Card Circle members....check out the website! The track Chris talks about is probably Strange Feeling - on the BBC cue sheet credited to the Opus Orchestra, we still haven't found the real artist (or LP) but I know that the Tulsa tape was perhaps sourced from 3 or 4 Opus records LP's from Czechoslovakia...
Hello magicgezzer MG hope I do enjoy this trade test music of Positron. Any upload any more trade test music of 1970s and 1980s such as: Soul Coaxing BBC2 Test Card complete recreation, Serenade for Conniff BBC1 Test Card complete The Green of the Summer BBC1 Test Card Complete La Retour De Borsalino BBC2 Test Card Complete all enclosed complete cue sheets of the listings of the tracks songs please many thanks Michael.
ceefaxfreak09 - there's a great track by Pavol Zelenay on a TH-cam video called "Jana Kocianová - Ruže pre mamu".. the orchestral arrangement would be a perfect trade test track.. and it's quite possible that, like Strange Feeling/Divny Pocit, some of those Opus favourites are instrumental arrangements of Czech/Slovak pop songs - after all, lots of Opus material was based around Western songs - so no surprise if that's the case! I'd personally love to find Tulsa (aka Tekla)
I really hope you're right. I've never had success in finding a catalogue of all the many Opus LPs.. but occasionally there are fascinating findings which appear. For example, on ebay at the moment "hala" "opus" brings up an album of Gershwin tracks by Josef Hala. Well.. there are Jiri, Jan and Jirka Hala too (all sons of big band legend Vlastimil Hala), so even finding the right "J.Hala" from a cue sheet can be difficult! Maybe someone has a full set somewhere!
good to know - thanks! we only get classical or mainstream pop on radio in the UK these days. Which equals rubbish (why do you think top of the pops on BBC died?).
HelloMG:-please can you send and post me BBC2 Test Card Soul Coaxing (Complete) for me to enjoyed as soon as can,cheers MG and best wishes from Michael.
Duck Duck Go now allows you to block App Trackers, so if you've got an android device and you block App Blockers on the TH-cam app, you won't see the irritating ads pop up and peppering videos like this. Positron and Kung Flute are no places for ads. So far so good, I've seen none pop up yet.
Hi Simon, it took me years to find out what it's called. It's called 'Bart' by a 70's group called 'Ruby'. The track features on there self titled album from 1977, there quite an obscure pop group these days and i must admit I only really bought the album from the website www.discogs.com about 5 years ago just for the track 'Bart'. The LP i have it on which is an RCA Records Argentine pressing sounds fantastic on vinyl though a decent Amp and much better then the sound quality of it that was used by BBC back then 'Bart' brings back some very fond memories for me as when i was about 5 to 6 years old at infants school between 1978-1979 Ruby's 'Bart' would often play on the BBC's schools program service on BBC 2 in the morning and often 'Bart' would be shown over the schools countdown clock with the disapearing white circles or over a 'Follows Shortly' endboard that was always used by the BBC back in the 1970s and 80s. Happy memories. I only found out that it was 'Bart' by 'Ruby' on youtube thanks to the good and kind people on youtube some years ago, i still think it's bloody wonderful and always will. According to the LP 'Bart' was written by 'Randy Oda' of the group. I hoped i have helped out there!.
Edited shorter versions of BART were used on the various schools intervals, with the "dots" countdown, and a faded down version on the BBC1 "Pretty Girls" tape (which ran for just over two years from early 1988 to 1980) but this is the full, uncut version on here. Well done for adding it onto the end of the Positron tape!!
Mid 1985 to 1987, on BBC1. After November 1986 however, it could only be heard in the early mornings, as BBC1 had started transmitting wall to wall programmes during the day.
Seeing as she's the one actively writing on the board, and appears to be drawing an X (as evidenced by the position of her hand in the top right quadrant of the spot), she is likely X. It is unknown who would be winning this early in the game. Unfortunately, we will likely never know the outcome.
I mostly use these Test Cards as an incentive to switch off my television set and go and do something less boring instead: th-cam.com/video/MaQdSDeveiQ/w-d-xo.html
As a school kid I would sit through the test card transmission waiting for that last track to be played. It took me 45 years and this channel to discover I was listening to BART by Ruby . Infinite thanks!
Who here would actually watch the testcard just for the music like I did?
me!😀 I mean, I'm doing it right now
I found this video because I miss the test cards and old white noise
I was looking for very specific tunes so yes, that gave it away! Enjoyed it so much!
Quite a lot of us did, actually !!😊
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for waiting and we do apologise for the break in programming. We aim to return you to "Paint Drying, Live from TV Centre as soon as we can". In the meantime, here is some music.
I cancelled my tv licence six years ago. The test card of old is better viewing than just about anything on television today.
BBC should really bring it back to BBC1 and BBC2 during daytime hours to replace the truly dreadful programmes that they show today.
110% agree
Luv the music it provides, jazzy buzzy or sort of lounge airport background stuff its ace! ❤❤❤
Reminds me of coming home from school mum used turn it up doing tea!!! Lovely memories of test card
This is more enjoyable than modern daytime television :)
And only us in Israel had a quiet or long beep with the test card (the Philips card) 😅 I really like this music and I do agree with the comments here - more fun than any TV show ☺️
So relaxing and nostalgic.It just takes me back
Another excellent tape was the one that replaced this one, another Mozart Edition tape called One of A Crowd. It's a pity that that one was only played early mornings.
All this groovy music and then right at the end it gets topped off by Ruby’s Bart. Timeless!
The last track was THE test card tune for me!!!
Was It actually part of the Positron tape?
@@dvidclapperton No, it wasn't, but it's certainly a more than welcome addition here!!
10,000 views!!! Thankyou to everyone for tuning into this grand BBC trade test tape :-).
Now... 41,000 :O :O :O :O
Congratulations, +MagicGeezer !
MagicGeezer 50,000 views are richly deserved!
I think 25,000 were from me :-)
Closing in on 100,000 now.
Happy days in the workshop fixing TVs.
Gosh, I don't remember it sounding this good! I thought it was just a sort of bleep.
That was closedown lol
I remember Test Card F very well. It was also used on channels here in Australia along with in New Zealand.
The last track is so good, I have been looking for this for years. Made my day! Sounds a bit like a funky version of the Ozrics!
I love Ozrics so much!! Nice track, on my side it strongly remind me some japanese fusion groups like Casiopea or T-Square
@@kaerustation I don't know who they are but I will check them out with your recommendation!!
It's called BART by the band Ruby.
Did you check out the Ozrick Tentacles?
I grew up listening to this stuff! And the girl is actually left-handed!
GREAT, takes me right back to the 1970s and our first colour television. I used to sit and watch this as a kid, happy days.
Bring it back. All this has been much missed while the BBC have been putting dreadful programmes in its place.
@@dvidclapperton Absolutely agree. The test card would be more entertaining.
Magic,much more fun than most modern programming
Yes it was far better than it is today.
I think I may have just discovered my favourite TH-cam channel. Some truly awesome stuff here. Many thanks for so many gems.
One of my favourite programmes!
Well done the BBC! Another winner!
I think the BBC is a load of crap!
Positron would be a perfect tune for Tony Curtis and Roger Moore to walk into a nightclub in the South of France surrounded by 20 years younger dolly birds.
Thanks for posting these classic childhood test cards & music 🎶
This is Heaven!
You must be crazy!
One of the best ever Ceefax tapes, all from the Mozart Edition Production Music Library!
A classic tape - first section pop/big band, second soul (yes, even track 12)!, and the third 19 minutes of "The Franco Chiari Jazz Quartet", sublime...
BBC Tapes From The Mozart Edition Production Music Library
Villa Vista, Victorian Drawing Room, Dixieland Parade 3, Well All Right, Flying High, Positron. Any more?
One of the best tapes, I think (especially for the tunes at the start).
Yea, back in the mid-1980s I sometimes used to sit and watch the test card just to listen to these. Better than some of the nonsense that is called 'programming' in 2016.
No programmes are better than dreadful programmes.
That Guy Gollasch is brilliant! Funky fever at the Co-op!
Eric Winnert i totally agree!
Absolutely! Funky as hell, and criminal that this chap is virtually unheard of. He isn't even on Wikipedia!
I should have some news after the Test Card Circle's Convention in April. Thanks for the other track title for "Strange Feeling". Some links were made with Irving Wilson, as Tulsa was done as a commissioned job by his publishing company Wilson Editions. A Mr. Zelenay pops up with a number of writing credits on the cue sheet...
I remember this tape being played a lot during my childhood especially tracks from the Firebirds and also from Walter's Big Band. Pearson's Big Band plays homage to Mr Gollasch and Walter.
Yes, The Firebirds tracks were originally used on the Well All Right tape, back in 1979, sadly short-lived, withdrawn after just six months, so really good to hear them again on this tape, which lasted a bit longer, and on here, of course!!
The test card used to have Gaudete by Steeleye Span - I used to *watch the test card* just in case this song came up...
Yes, that was on one of the Xmas tapes that lasted well into the 1990's!
They should bring this back
Yes. Can't bear all those awful daytime programmes on BBC1 and BBC2 they show these days.
Ahhh a simpler time when we only had 3 channels just think kids 3 only 3 tv channeks and 2 of them closed down in the affternoon so for about 3 hrs you only had 1
***** how right you are
Until the ITV technicians' strike of 1979 when all three closed down 😆
There was still alot more on tv back then.
That music is just so test-patternish!
Thank you!!
A great alternative to Sky News and the Jeremy Kyle show.
You're right but Sky news? This is the BBC. Do you mean BBC news 24?
@@Fcutdlady The test card as a better option to the news or Jeremy....................... If I have to explain the joke then it never worked in the first place. I must try harder lol.
@@irishmusico or the person you're telling the joke to happens to be stupid
@@andknuckles101 Naaaaa. Must try harder lol
Better than Homes Under The Hammer, Bargain Hunt and Escape To The Country.
It was reissued on a compilation album a couple of years ago called 'Watch With Teacher', first track on CD1. It deleted now but copies appear on Ebay from time to time.
The girl is Carol Hersee (Hope that's the correct spelling !). The engineers wanted flesh tones for CTV colour balance adjustment.
Actually it's Carole.
@@christopherwilliams2093 Thanks, my mistake !
She was the daughter of the engineers I think. Nothing like nepotism. She has probably had more air time than most actors and actresses.
the 1st 3 guy golasch tracks are great actually
Weird, I always thought that was a green skull below the clowns head, but its the clowns legs,only realised very recently.
Loool I always thought it was the girls knee sticking out, (even though it's green) I only saw recently it's the clowns body. Thanks for making me laugh.
+mrbelcherful Ditto - I thought I was the only one. It looks like a green skull turned towards the girl, with the yellow buttons as shiny reflections.
+Ashley Pomeroy lol, yeah two heads with like you say, a reflection on the green skull
of course, the green was a last minute addition by George Hersee who designed test card F as he realised there wasn't any in the picture. The 'O' in the centre of the board should be right in the centre of the screen!
haha, yeah, me too, for many, many years!
Better than today's 24 hour TV
what's the track that begins at 33:18? I've been looking for it since 1987 when I taped a part of it on a shoebox recorder!!
Its called Boveda by Walter & His Band - all the tracks on this tape come from the Mozart Edition music library - this track is on MESLP 071 and it is still available at the editionuk.co.uk website on vinyl!
*claps* All of that grooviness and then all of that is completed by RUBY'S BART.
Brilliant, I adore Positron. Lovely work bro, Many thanks, Dragon :-)
The link track also Bart by Tom Fogerty
"Now on BBC1, the test card with some music.
Also BBC2 Test Card G PM5544 Belle Canon and later linked the Bart by Ruby at the end test card G.cheers mg and all the best wishes Michael.
Bart - Ruby pure legend!
Yes, I think the addition of BART onto the end of this upload rounds it off really well.
If they used these now the background music would be Stormzy
Always wondered about the huge difference to the Danish PM5544 Philips testcard without a photo or anything like that!
I wondered how possible it was to incorporate the picture on Test Card F onto the Philips PM5544.
The Girl, The Doll, The Music!!
Hi Chris Tsangari - I hope you see this... the track you refer to is called "Divny Pocit" by Miroslav Hanak.
Prepare for a shock - you will either love or hate to know it was originally a vocal track performed by Helena Blehárová - but I've not yet managed to find the instrumental version that you (and I) enjoy so much.
I can't post a link here, but if you check on amazon UK for "Divný pocit" you will hear it. Very strange feeling indeed after hearing the other version so many times!
Was this the same music they used on ceefax? I only remember beeps over the test card. Only ceefax had the music but it sounds like ceefax style! lol
I remember turning volume off to not wake up anyone while watching the precious testcard.
Yes this tape ran from 1985 to 1987, in the era when you were more likely to hear it played over Ceefax pages, with maybe 7 mins or so of Test Card at the start of the transmission.
I do enjoying this Positron full complete tape tunes and songs,
POSITRON BBC1 12-07-85 to 09-11-87 Complete Tape which had 24 tracks in total also viewers in Wales had used this tape over on BBC2 Wales with Testcard G PM5544 Positron from February 1988 to October 1992 have you got Dixieland Parade 2 BBC1 Test Card (Complete)December 1975 to February 1978 and Soul Coaxing BBC1Test Card (Complete)November 1974 to February 1977 to be upload please Best Wishes Michael.thank you.
+Michael D'Ambrogio
I used to enjoy hearing Sunflower and Hi Livin on BBC2 Scotland accompanied by the Phillips PM5544.
There were even a Sunday morning airing of Hi Livin on BBC1 Scotland accompanied by the PM5544.
I would have loved Positron, Villa Vista and Melancholic Rock to all have been on BBC2 Scotland accompanied by the PM5544 as well.
it could use some vhs tape overlay so it looked more authentic, but where can i find this kind of music?.
love the first track! Muzak... no way!!!
Message to Victoria and Chris - if you haven't already thought about it, there's lots more info available to Test Card Circle members....check out the website!
The track Chris talks about is probably Strange Feeling - on the BBC cue sheet credited to the Opus Orchestra, we still haven't found the real artist (or LP) but I know that the Tulsa tape was perhaps sourced from 3 or 4 Opus records LP's from Czechoslovakia...
24:20
what happened to cwilliams channel with all his hundreds of test card uploads? anyone remember?
thanks for telling me, very sad, i wish to find his other channel, hope i can find it.
Best TV show ever!
30:20
37:38 Smooth Jazz Vibes! 🎵👍
Lounge music!
Hello magicgezzer MG hope I do enjoy this trade test music of Positron. Any upload any more trade test music of 1970s and 1980s such as: Soul Coaxing BBC2 Test Card complete recreation, Serenade for Conniff BBC1 Test Card complete The Green of the Summer BBC1 Test Card Complete La Retour De Borsalino BBC2 Test Card Complete all enclosed complete cue sheets of the listings of the tracks songs please many thanks Michael.
ceefaxfreak09 - there's a great track by Pavol Zelenay on a TH-cam video called "Jana Kocianová - Ruže pre mamu".. the orchestral arrangement would be a perfect trade test track.. and it's quite possible that, like Strange Feeling/Divny Pocit, some of those Opus favourites are instrumental arrangements of Czech/Slovak pop songs - after all, lots of Opus material was based around Western songs - so no surprise if that's the case! I'd personally love to find Tulsa (aka Tekla)
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
I remember it !
I really hope you're right. I've never had success in finding a catalogue of all the many Opus LPs.. but occasionally there are fascinating findings which appear. For example, on ebay at the moment "hala" "opus" brings up an album of Gershwin tracks by Josef Hala. Well.. there are Jiri, Jan and Jirka Hala too (all sons of big band legend Vlastimil Hala), so even finding the right "J.Hala" from a cue sheet can be difficult! Maybe someone has a full set somewhere!
It's "Bart" by Tom Fogerty :)
doo di doo doo doo doo doo doo di doo doo doo doo.... it's like the same guy on bass.
The good old days when the BBC was still decent.
it's slowly morphed from being one of the most culturally significant and revolutionary companies in the world into just another heartless corporation
33:16 What a track😃
OMG TELEVISION HELL that was ahhhhhhhhhh
For this kind of music today listen to Swiss Radio Jazz
good to know - thanks! we only get classical or mainstream pop on radio in the UK these days. Which equals rubbish (why do you think top of the pops on BBC died?).
ooey Lastb Watching some daytime TV makes me long for the test card/ceefax and music.
Take your pick
HelloMG:-please can you send and post me BBC2 Test Card Soul Coaxing (Complete) for me to enjoyed as soon as can,cheers MG and best wishes from Michael.
plus a cue sheets with this.
Can play the music for tv dog barking
6:35 - some excellent big band stuff!
I am glad this was not on Irish tv it so creeping
nah
oh no the test card is on, theres nothing on telly..awwww.
peterpeterxxo except great music!
Sounds like a Fire sale on COD Zombies
This is a mock, Where are the colours at the top ?
Cropped
Rkdiculous all these commercials that are peppering this video.
Duck Duck Go now allows you to block App Trackers, so if you've got an android device and you block App Blockers on the TH-cam app, you won't see the irritating ads pop up and peppering videos like this. Positron and Kung Flute are no places for ads.
So far so good, I've seen none pop up yet.
It's that last tune on the tape really does it for me. Would love to know what it's actually called...
Hi Simon, it took me years to find out what it's called. It's called 'Bart' by a 70's group called 'Ruby'. The track features on there self titled album from 1977, there quite an obscure pop group these days and i must admit I only really bought the album from the website www.discogs.com about 5 years ago just for the track 'Bart'. The LP i have it on which is an RCA Records Argentine pressing sounds fantastic on vinyl though a decent Amp and much better then the sound quality of it that was used by BBC back then
'Bart' brings back some very fond memories for me as when i was about 5 to 6 years old at infants school between 1978-1979 Ruby's 'Bart' would often play on the BBC's schools program service on BBC 2 in the morning and often 'Bart' would be shown over the schools countdown clock with the disapearing white circles or over a 'Follows Shortly' endboard that was always used by the BBC back in the 1970s and 80s. Happy memories. I only found out that it was 'Bart' by 'Ruby' on youtube thanks to the good and kind people on youtube some years ago, i still think it's bloody wonderful and always will.
According to the LP 'Bart' was written by 'Randy Oda' of the group.
I hoped i have helped out there!.
Edited shorter versions of BART were used on the various schools intervals, with the "dots" countdown, and a faded down version on the BBC1 "Pretty Girls" tape (which ran for just over two years from early 1988 to 1980) but this is the full, uncut version on here. Well done for adding it onto the end of the Positron tape!!
When did this broadcaast date ?
Mid 1985 to 1987, on BBC1. After November 1986 however, it could only be heard in the early mornings, as BBC1 had started transmitting wall to wall programmes during the day.
@@ianmcclavin Thanks a lot !
Nightmare fuel
So is she winning? Or is the clown beating her?
Seeing as she's the one actively writing on the board, and appears to be drawing an X (as evidenced by the position of her hand in the top right quadrant of the spot), she is likely X. It is unknown who would be winning this early in the game. Unfortunately, we will likely never know the outcome.
the doll won.
@MichaelsShortFilms. Possibly the picture was taken as her hand was traversing towards a more central position on the grid parameter to place an 0?
On Christmas Day one year (1979), the test card appeared with two extra crosses in the centre row and a line through them!!
I mostly use these Test Cards as an incentive to switch off my television set and go and do something less boring instead: th-cam.com/video/MaQdSDeveiQ/w-d-xo.html
17:36 😊
21:31
Mixologists mix this
There’s nothing of this calibre much nowadays!
modern life is shit
Without music and moment like this no longer on TV...I agree...
"C" 🐰
Dreadful music, who commissioned this stuff wanted stuffing, as hardly representative of the nations like or dislike of music, certainly not mine.
42:30
11:25
13:00