BRILLIANT. I recorded some of this in the early 1980s and thought i would not find it again. I also like the BBC1 schools and colledges music and some of the channel 4 testcard music too. Their early series of art of landscape were good too when channel 4 first started.
The Roger Roger pieces are now on Spotify. They are across 3 albums, and listed with the artist as "Parry Music" rather than by his name. As a starting point, search for the title "East Side Story" (yes, really!) - and Parry Music as artist, then view album. The albums in that series contain the different sections of the suite.
Yes, I felt the same, especially the 3rd section. I actually thought up a replacement 3rd section for the tape using tracks like Sweet Nightingale, Sylvester's Party, Walking In A Dream, The Old Red Bus and Loose Cover....sounded much better!!
This tape was played between 06/05/81 and 17/05/84. The tape had several long tracks including Suite Caraibe which lasted over 16 minutes, and Fantasie Catalan which lasted over 6 minutes, hence why the tape only had 16 tracks.
It was played on an occasion Robin Whitting opened BBC1 up for Breakfast Time and Mark Waddington was the man who returned us to Ceefax In Vision sequences at 9.00 am.
Yes, they were playing this tape regularly over Ceefax pages from 1983 onwards, until its withdrawal, alongside others such as Summer Sunny Holiday, Happy Polka, Sunflower and Hi Livin'.
Please can upload Victorian Drawing Room BBC2 Recreation 8th August 1977 to 21st February 1979 with complete the Tunes tracks listings with BBC2 Digitally Electronically Test Card
It was all there previously on TH-cam. I remember playing the whole tape a few times. But has been pulled for whatever reason or e.g. jfreduk getting banned meaning all his great test card tape uploads including Victorian Drawing Room were suddenly lost. But I think he's back on TH-cam but under a different uaername but I can't see any videos uploaded to youtube from him. I can only watch the first 10 minutes or so of the tape from cwilliams1976. uploads on TH-cam at present.
Great to hear these tracks again. Thanks for this! Whilst I can recall most of these pieces, I don't think I've ever heard the last two tracks in your compilation. Also, the version of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny is a slightly different arrangement to that played by the BBC. Compare with this: th-cam.com/video/qAMDGPu0YE4/w-d-xo.htmlm46s. I know the BBC had slightly different edits of many tracks and it's probably nigh on impossible to get hold of them now.
@The TV Room Presumably why the BBC's tapes used to end short of 1 hour, and the mocks on here end longer than 1 hour. I suppose the tracks uploaded on here are editable pre uploading to match the length of the versions played on the BBC and indeed channel 4 as well with the fading (where they faded) coming in at the precise moment the BBC versions did. A shame that the BBC and Channel 4 tapes were never commercially available in record stores. This tape must have had the longest lasting test card tracks because there are only 16 tracks on here compared with the usual 21+ tracks on most others.
The reason is simple; after a while in service the tape would have been damaged and that section of the tape would have therefore been spliced out. Usually, whoever did the edits would try to make them as musically acceptable as possible as in this case. Tape damage and consequent edits goes back a long way in the history of trade tapes. One of the worst (musically) edits was back in 1972 on a track entitled S For You on BBC1 tape no 21.
This one always was just over the hour actually.Tape durations changed almost as frequently as the weather. Back in the 50s tapes ran for 20", then 45", then 30", 25" back to 30". Then in the 70s, 60", or 72", then 65", 60" again, then some were 55", back to 65", then 68"...the back to 1 hour except for those that weren't... it was difficult to know how long the next new tape would run for.
Quite a good tape especially when contrasting the meagre offerings available at this time across the corridor on BBC2. However band three of this tape is its weak spot with some very bland tracks. The notable exception is the guitar piece no 15 as highlighted. I thought it a great shame that the far superior Jeff's Special didn't remain in service for as long as this one did.
Yes, I agree with you on that one Paul, the 3rd section (with the exception of the penultimate track) is relatively weak, especially with the ubiquitous "Ma Julie" as an opener to the final batch, this being it's third appearance in a compilation (that's if you treat the various incarnations of Dixieland Parade as one, which was STILL doing the rounds on the other side, although "Ma Julie" wasn't on the original version). As well as Jeff's Soecial, as good as Happy Polka was, it would have been nice if Summer Sunny Holiday had stuck around a bit longer too.
Loving east side story as well as west side!! Ha ha, cheers for this! ❤❤😊😊
Thanks for uploading, remember these so well from the early 80s xx 😃🎶👌🏾🎵
Track 6, the Amazing Grace/Greensleeves medley, was one of the left over tracks from the To Break A Record tape, which saw use on here instead!
"Fur Elise,"(track 2) was also the tune played on my aunt's musical clock in London, which she had in the 60's!!
BRILLIANT. I recorded some of this in the early 1980s and thought i would not find it again. I also like the BBC1 schools and colledges music and some of the channel 4 testcard music too. Their early series of art of landscape were good too when channel 4 first started.
Very nice too of course.
Music that is absolutely perfect! Dont know how they do it!
It gets quite scary from almost 23 minutes in for those with a nervous disposition.
The Roger Roger pieces are now on Spotify. They are across 3 albums, and listed with the artist as "Parry Music" rather than by his name. As a starting point, search for the title "East Side Story" (yes, really!) - and Parry Music as artist, then view album. The albums in that series contain the different sections of the suite.
Strange final track which sounds like a series of intros without really getting going like the previous two Philharmonic Strings pieces
Loved the first section of this tape but then sadly it peters out for me after that
Yes, I felt the same, especially the 3rd section. I actually thought up a replacement 3rd section for the tape using tracks like Sweet Nightingale, Sylvester's Party, Walking In A Dream, The Old Red Bus and Loose Cover....sounded much better!!
.....and I'm back in 1981.
This tape was played between 06/05/81 and 17/05/84. The tape had several long tracks including Suite Caraibe which lasted over 16 minutes, and Fantasie Catalan which lasted over 6 minutes, hence why the tape only had 16 tracks.
It was played on an occasion Robin Whitting opened BBC1 up for Breakfast Time and Mark Waddington was the man who returned us to Ceefax In Vision sequences at 9.00 am.
Were they still showing this in 1984 or had they not by then on BBC1 been showing Pages from Ceefax I wonder?
Yes, they were playing this tape regularly over Ceefax pages from 1983 onwards, until its withdrawal, alongside others such as Summer Sunny Holiday, Happy Polka, Sunflower and Hi Livin'.
@@ianmcclavin
And Sunflower and Hi Livin' were also playing on BBC2.
A quick french waltz about 51.30 was also on Dixie Omelette on BBC2.
Yes, also the 3rd section starts with "Ma Julie" (although under a different name) which also featured on Dixieland Parade and Tavern In The Town.
Please can upload Victorian Drawing Room BBC2 Recreation 8th August 1977 to 21st February 1979 with complete the Tunes tracks listings with BBC2 Digitally Electronically Test Card
It was all there previously on TH-cam. I remember playing the whole tape a few times. But has been pulled for whatever reason or e.g. jfreduk getting banned meaning all his great test card tape uploads including Victorian Drawing Room were suddenly lost. But I think he's back on TH-cam but under a different uaername but I can't see any videos uploaded to youtube from him. I can only watch the first 10 minutes or so of the tape from cwilliams1976. uploads on TH-cam at present.
Great to hear these tracks again. Thanks for this! Whilst I can recall most of these pieces, I don't think I've ever heard the last two tracks in your compilation. Also, the version of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny is a slightly different arrangement to that played by the BBC. Compare with this: th-cam.com/video/qAMDGPu0YE4/w-d-xo.htmlm46s. I know the BBC had slightly different edits of many tracks and it's probably nigh on impossible to get hold of them now.
@The TV Room
Presumably why the BBC's tapes used to end short of 1 hour, and the mocks on here end longer than 1 hour. I suppose the tracks uploaded on here are editable pre uploading to match the length of the versions played on the BBC and indeed channel 4 as well with the fading (where they faded) coming in at the precise moment the BBC versions did. A shame that the BBC and Channel 4 tapes were never commercially available in record stores.
This tape must have had the longest lasting test card tracks because there are only 16 tracks on here compared with the usual 21+ tracks on most others.
The reason is simple; after a while in service the tape would have been damaged and that section of the tape would have therefore been spliced out. Usually, whoever did the edits would try to make them as musically acceptable as possible as in this case. Tape damage and consequent edits goes back a long way in the history of trade tapes. One of the worst (musically) edits was back in 1972 on a track entitled S For You on BBC1 tape no 21.
This one always was just over the hour actually.Tape durations changed almost as frequently as the weather. Back in the 50s tapes ran for 20", then 45", then 30", 25" back to 30". Then in the 70s, 60", or 72", then 65", 60" again, then some were 55", back to 65", then 68"...the back to 1 hour except for those that weren't... it was difficult to know how long the next new tape would run for.
I remember hearing this tape being played during trade test transmission sequences and latterly Ceefax in Vision sequences during the early 1980s.
Fur Elise is actually Alan Duvoisin
The first track and the track that was repeated on Autumn In New York could have been the same artists.
Was it the same artists?
Quite a good tape especially when contrasting the meagre offerings available at this time across the corridor on BBC2. However band three of this tape is its weak spot with some very bland tracks. The notable exception is the guitar piece no 15 as highlighted. I thought it a great shame that the far superior Jeff's Special didn't remain in service for as long as this one did.
Yes, I agree with you on that one Paul, the 3rd section (with the exception of the penultimate track) is relatively weak, especially with the ubiquitous "Ma Julie" as an opener to the final batch, this being it's third appearance in a compilation (that's if you treat the various incarnations of Dixieland Parade as one, which was STILL doing the rounds on the other side, although "Ma Julie" wasn't on the original version). As well as Jeff's Soecial, as good as Happy Polka was, it would have been nice if Summer Sunny Holiday had stuck around a bit longer too.
That said, BBC2 was cooking up an exciting tape for the autumn!
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