Oh Boy! (4th April 1959)
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- 'OH BOY!' SHOW # 30 (Compered by Tony Hall)
ABC CATALOGUE SHOW NUMBER 5. (OF 13)
RESIDENT WEEKLY BAND & PERFORMERS:
Lord Rockingham's XI,
Red Price,
The Dallas Boys,
Neville Taylor & The Cutters,
Cherry Wainer,
The Vernons Girls.
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL GUESTS:
Brenda Lee
Chris Andrews
Dickie Pride
Dean Webb
Don Lang
Lorie Mann
Mike Preston
Tony Sheridan
This is one of only two shows found in a search of the old ABC archives.
The other surviving show is the final edition from 30th May 1959 (No.38), clips of which have been widely used on commercial television.
The original 16mm telerecordings of both shows are retained in the archives of Canal Image Plus who now own the copyright to ABC material.
During the sixties it is believed ABC retained 13 titles of “Oh Boy!” on it shelves (given catalogue numbers 1- 13, these originals were then copied for export to America.)
In the intervening years, eleven of the original 13 have disappeared, (leaving just shows 5 and 13) much to the chagrin of John Heron, head of British sales at Canal Image, who would dearly love to see the missing shows returned. “They are one of the most popular titles requested from our catalogue,” said John, “ Television researchers making documentaries are having to re-use the same old clips time and time again due to the scarcity of material available.”
In this surviving edition, Lord Rockingham's XI perform a lively rendition of “Long John”, Neville Taylor and his Cutters perform the Coaster's hit, “Charlie Brown” and Tony Sheridan and his Wreckers perform the infectiously catchy “I Like Love”. During this song, a camera located behind the artists on stage pans the theatre and captures the animated audience in ebullient mood packed into the balcony.
Another highlight is Dickie Pride’s full performance of Little Richard's “Slippin n’ Slidin, which was also performed on the surviving final show of 30th May 1959. However this latter rendition contained only one verse of the song as Jack attempted to cram in abridged highlights of all the best songs in the series in this final show.
Without doubt, THE highlight of the show was the dynamic appearance of "Little Miss Dynamite" - Brenda Lee… her one and only appearance in the entire series.
Compare Tony Hall announces 14 year old Brenda as a young American singer making here debut television appearance in Britain. As the trademark “Oh Boy!” circular spotlight hits the mike at centre stage, the pint-size singer breezes on to perform her new single “Humming The Blues Over You” with a voice so strong, lucid and distinct there is little to tell it apart from the original recording.
To close the show Brenda lets rip with a superb rendition of “Wont You Come Home Bill Bailey.” The stage lights hit Lord Rockingham's band during the instrumental breaks and Brenda excels in some brilliantly executed vocals as the closing credits roll.
The famous final signature tune (as featured at the close of the Oh Boy! LP) is played at the end as Lord Rockingham’s brass section joins Brenda at the front of the stage to play out.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:14 Dean Webb 'It's Late'
0:59 Two Vernons Girls 'Tall Paul'
1:30 Neville Taylor & The Cutters 'Good Rockin' Tonight'
2:00 Tony Hall host
2:26 Lord Rockingham's XI 'Long John'
4:00 Nevile Taylor & The Cutters 'Charlie Brown'
5:30 Cherry Wainer 'Wait For It Baby'
7:20 Tony Sheridan 'I Like It'
9:06 Vernons Girls 'Don't Look Now'
11:00 Don Lang 'Red Planet Rock'
13:16 Dickie Pride 'Slippin' And Slidin'
14:39 Lorie Mann 'This Is Our First Anniversary'
16:38 Chris Andrews 'Move It!'
18:17 Mike Preston 'Dirty Old Town'
19:57 Tony Hall host
20:33 Brenda Lee 'Humming The Blues'
22:38 Brenda Lee 'Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey' - เพลง
Moral for TV companies: Never junk old programmes, you never know when they'll be valuable again.
So glad I stumbled across this. The energy, the positivity, the youthful enthusiasm - so very different from where we are right now. Wish I could go back sixty years or so!
dont we all
I think I know what you mean...!
@@metrocammell1 I was there, was GREAT........
Don't you just love Cherry Wainer.
No
@@stewartfenton7660 9-1 a decent score.
@@vickeeble0 oh you're so horrible to me.
Yes , Cherry is cool.
This footage is incredible-great to see some of the early brit Rock and rollers thanks for posting this.
A great time to live, so much better than now.
I am so pleased to have this as Tony Sheridan who lived close to where i do and was my friend Paul's half-brother appears after Cherry Winer for whom he was lead guitar on her record The Happy Organ. 1960 Tony went to settle in Hamburg where he met The Beatles and after Bert Kaempfert asked him to find a band to back him on Polydor recording 1961 he asked the Beatles and they backed him on the first records that they ever recorded.
Thanks very much for putting this together. Musical history that’ll never be repeated that’s now archived for the future. Great job.
It isn't put together but it's a whole episode
The Jamaican guys singing Charlie Brown always killed me
Of all the stars that came out of Britain’s early Rock n Roll movement, Dickie Pride was probably the most talented and natural singer of them all. It’s a shame his addictive personality and personality issues stopped him from being the superstar he was destined to be. Instead he very sadly became the inaugural member of the 27 club. RIP dickie. ‘The Sheik of Shake’
I totall agree with you, except for the fact he was the inaugural member of the club, because that title belong to guitar master Robert Johnson
Little Brenda Lee!!! What a performance.
I once interviewed Cherry Wainer - she was living in Las Vegas. This show was my lifeline at the age of 12. I also have the album - which Cliff kindly autographed for me. He told me that the guitar she is shown playing on the back of the album cover was bought be his dad on the never never - it got stolen from the Oh Boy! dressing room but his Dad had to keep on paying for it! Sweet story
you interviewed cherry ? that is amazing , i've seen her in an interview towards the end , in las vegas , razor sharp , absolutely love her , do you have audio or video , or was it a written assignment ?
i really want to know where her b3 is
@@marknorris3769 it was for a film I was making about 20 years ago in Vegas. Not sure i used it in the end and god knows what happened to it. Sorry!
you are richard denton producer ?
@@marknorris3769 yes
Amazing Times....And A lot of work reliving the Glory......THANKS A TON, Classic Music of Yesteryear and Every One Of Those who helped retrieve and process these rare recordings ....I love slipping back into my wonderful growing-up .
The best thing on the show is Lord Rockingham's 5 what a great band
I always reme4mber it as Lord Rockingham's " Eleven" See my earlier comment re Oh Boy Those wonderful innocent days of our teens
@@gordonAfranks my mistake, your right
As a teenager how well I remember Oh Boy at 6 o clock on Saturday on ITV and before that 6 5 Special on BBC. Until then the only teenage records we heard were on Radio Luxembourg. It introduced us to Cliff Richards and the Drifters with their first British home grown R&R "Movie It "that saw the birth of the British R&R record industry and years later the Beatles
Lord Rockingham's 11 and Cherry Wainer. What memories from when I was 12....meanwhile 65 years later.....
Shame so few episodes remain . Always a great show
Glenn Johnson WOW!I remember watching this very edition all those years ago.I was six going on seven.WONDERFUL!!
Brilliant, ... Keep these shows coming! Thanks for sharing
Tony Sheridan and Dickie Pride were great performers who never made it. Tony recorded with the Beatles on the single "My Bonny" and just missed out on a chance to be lead guitarist for the Shadows. Dickie Pride developed severe drink, drugs and mental problems and died of an overdose just 27 years old.
The Drifters in those days
This is gold dust!! Wish i was a teen in the 50's!!
Chris Andrews went on to write hits for Sandie Shaw, Adam Faith (and himself).
Just amazing to bad all the other episodes were lost :(
Too bad 😂 not to bad
Jack Good produced "Oh Boy" which was the fastest moving show on TV. As Saturday competition the BBC had "Billy Cotton´s Band Show", then "6-5 Special" then (the deathly ) "Juke Box Jury". In the series Tony Palmer´s History of Pop Music "All You need is Love", Jack Good called the comeptition "......as dull as ditchwater".
Lord Rockingham,s Eleven scored a chart hit with "Hoots Mon".
The programme was not bettered until "Ready, Steady, Go", came on the air. The staging , lighting and non-stop presentation were so original at the time.(and would be so today).
I am so glad to see and remember it.
Don't forget ITV's answer to Juke Box Jury, Thank Your Lucky Stars- with Brian Matthew and the girl who'll give the new waxing foive out of foive.
But nothing equaled the atmosphere of Oh Boy! until Ready, Steady, Go. It hit the wave of Beatles and beat groups as Oh Boy! had surfed on rock and roll.
@@esmeephillips5888 Brenda Lee appears in this episode. But she was just one of the Americans who appeared weekly promoting their singles on UK shores. "Oh Boy" was the launch vehicle for Cliff Richard and the Shadows(then Drifters) and Marty Wilde who made weekly appearances.
What can be seen on "You Tube" are some reincarnations of the show from the 1980s. Though good they lack the freshness and originality of the 1959-60 versions.
Brilliant performances.
That live version of long John's equal to any American rock and roll at the time
While not being rock'n'roll
for 4'9" brenda lee had balls as big as basketballs , she owned rockabilly
She owned half of it Wanda Jackson owned the other half and we are so blessed to have witnessed it all
Oh boy - first grade - that was my best time (I was 14 years old then)!!!!!!!!!!!!
GREAT STUFF ----- JUST FANTASTIC
Rockingham's Long John is for me, the greatest instrumental ever! It's just the coolest piece of music put to an old see shanty. I know my statement is a bold one but can't you just feel how awesome it is!
Mainly established jazz musicians...which is why some are wearing sum glasses to hide!
At the time, we thought the content was forgettable drivel but that the Production and Presentation was brilliantly innovative. Compulsive viewing each Saturday evening. (What.. . . . no Dallas Boys?)
The production was fantastic
All down to Jack Good, later he produced “Shindig” on American TV.
NB Folks! ABC was THE British Commercial Television Company. This ABC must NOT be confused with the one in USA nor ABC in Australia! May i add with monster modesty, that i was one of the ABC Television in-vision announcers/presenters for over three years in the Midlands in Birmingham and the North of England in Manchester.
Thank you Keith Martin by adding the interesting facts!
Your fame still abounds dear chap. Thanks for the opportunity to replay these incredible memories.
Used to watch every Saturday!
I was born 1948 so do remember this programme how lucky was i?
No lip syncing back then all music was live, the resident band had a big hit with Hoots mon there's a moose loose about this house. As for the Vernon's girls in those very skimpy shorts, no teenage boy could ever forget them, As for shaken Dickie Pride such a lot of talent and died so young.
Saw the Oh Boy show live at the Hammersmith Commodore Cinema back in the day lol
Red Price on tenor sax. Made a single of the theme from Danger Man.
I always thought his name was Red Prince thank you for setting me straight now I can correctly find more about him. Him and Boots Randolph where the reason I took up saxophone
@@williamnorris9291 Other saxes were Rex Morris tenor, Benny Green@ Cyril Reuben baritones.
Lord Rockinghams Eleven were Class and what a great name for a Band ❤
i remember watching this i was only 10 at the time also 6 5 special on the other side bbc .It was the forerunner of many rock shows of the sixtys Ready steady go thank your lucky stars etc Brenda Lee sounds great in this her first hit came a year later Sweet nothin,s
The singing girl with the short hair and glasses was cute as anything.😍😍
So good I'm crying.
Lord Rockingham and the gorgeous South African organist Cherry Weiner
vernon sisters set the joint on fire!!!!
Dickie Pride (r/n Richard Kneller) is covering a Little Richard hit. He was one of Larry Parnes's lads, like Georgie Fame, Billy Fury, Vince Eager etc. He could whip teenage girls into a frenzy, and Jack Good booked him for Wham!, the successor to Oh Boy! But Pride's records never sold, and he had a lot of baggage: car theft, heroin. Died in 1968 from an accidental overdose.
Wow, Jack Goode did this show, then did Shindig in 1964, you can see the similarities in the setup
Was thinking it myself very much the same
Brenda Lee shes cool. She must have made Country music very popular amongst young people in the 1950s
Jack Goode,my dad'sbest friend at school.
If I would have ever continually sent love letters or flowers or gifts or basically stalked any rock and roll performer in history, it would have been Cherry Wainer...
Now I can see where the Beatles got there inspiration.
So the story goes, ABC[ UK-NO relation to ABC in the USA] sent a full season of "Oh Boy" to American networks in hopes of gaining a schedule slot on TV here.
For whatever reason, likely to preserve the positions of certain US show packagers or more precisely ONE Teen music packager............ the shows were shelved and "lost".
FIVE YEARS LATER, ABC TV in the US developed a new music show using a completely NEW approach in production values and presentation.
That show was " Shindig" which aired c.Sept.1964 to c.1966. Produced by JACK GOOD.
Good basically transplanted his entire "Oh Boy" format and look, and had an instant hit.
The two episodes of Oh Boy that have circulated are the precursor to "Shindig" FIVE YEARS EARLIER!
The basic look of Oh Boy was dictated by the old 405 line UK TV resolution standards which favored high contrast lighting schemes, less so in more conventional lighting.
By 1964, the US 525 line analog monochrome picture had been long perfected with the final generation of monochrome equipment able to deliver extremely sharp pictures in almost any lighting levels giving "Shindig" a very unusual look compared just about any other American TV production.
If it hadn't been for Good's team in 1958-59 figuring out how to work within the techinical limits of UK TV, "Shindig" may well have been just another TV show.
As it was , Shindig was produced at ABC's legendary Television Center in Hollywood using many of ABC's ''A'' List technical people.
Other shows produced on that same stage included American Bandstand, Lawrence Welk, all of the Ernie Kovacs 1961-62 ABC output ,and many more programs.
But only Shindig looked the way it did thanks to "Oh Boy''
16 Episodes were sent to the USA for viewing on TV, but were never returned, a complete 16mm show from 1958 was recently discovered.
PJ Riverdale wow come up for air!
wow how do you know all that
@@tonydavis6482 is it on yt ?
@@marknorris3769Iindeed.........
Dickie Pride Rest in Peace legend
He certainly was
16:45 Chris Ravel and The Ravers keyboard player singing 'Move It' is Chris Andrews who had a hit during the mid 60s with 'Yesterday Man' age 16
stingray4real.... Yes, and Chris also wrote the bulk of Sandie Shaw's hits in the '60s. A real talented chap!
He was a talented and prolific songwriter--he wrote some fabulous songs for Adam Faith,also some of Sandie Shaws biggest hits as well as having a number of hits of his own in the 66--69 era,my favorite being Pretty Belinda a wonderful song.
Wonderful!
Cherry Wainer's Organ sounds like it's being played through a Hammond Tone Cabinet as opposed to a Leslie here.
5:30 Cherry Wainer playing Wait for it, baby!
I believe that's Chris Ravel playing the piano and singing Move it..later to be called Chris Andrews (yesterday man)
despite the speed Yes i see it and a surprise to me actually billed as Chris Andrews.You learn something everyday.thanks
brilliant Brenda Lee far away
Good footage.
I'm in love with cherry wainer.
I saw her first
Is that Liquorice Locking later of Shadows fame playing with Tony Sheridan?Double bass.
If its isnt Licorice then he has a twin brother seperated at birth!! Looks like him to me. Just wondering if that is Brian Bennett on drums?
@@simonlilley Yup, Brial L on bass and Brian B on drums :-)
Thanks for your replies,just seen them.Tony Sheriden was quite a handy guitar player himself..Oh Boy was such a great show for us kids.There was no let up ,apart from adverts, for 30 minutes.It socked you right in the face.The memory of it sustained you for the week,getting you through those endless ,but necessary ,dreary days in school,then Saturday came by again... and ....Oh Boy ,! ! ! !
I remember that radio Luxembourg late night cool for cats
I was curious as to why one of the Vernons was sporting an eye-patch. According to a recent website article on the Vernons Girls, apparently the singer had an eye infection but they let her perform with the eyepatch rather than her missing a week. The Vernons were extremely popular and I think every member had a following so they probably didn't want to give the impression she'd left the group!
Apart from Cliff Richard these were all amusing curiosities who couldn't hope to make a dent in the charts , and lucky to end their days on the cabaret circuit till 1963 .
Mike Preston went on to have a pretty solid career in Australia - apart from several albums, he hosted a national "Tonight" show, and a game show, had a lead role in our most popular drama series of the time, lead and guest roles in various others, and several movie roles, including "Mad Max 2".
I love things from the 1950s
This look likes the precursor to "Shindig"
This is THE show Shindig was based on. Both created by Jack Good.
😅i remember it all now 84 those were the days
Same format as "Shindig!" followed in the USA five years later - performers running up right into the next act, without any announcers in between. The producer (?) was the same, that's why.
Out rocked shindig. And they had some non whites in the cast. Girls are hotter too.
It would be great if somebody could time stamp each act and then pin that post to the top this really could use it I don't know who's playing here for the most part
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:14 Dean Webb 'It's Late'
0:59 Two Vernons Girls 'Tall Paul'
1:30 Neville Taylor & The Cutters 'Good Rockin' Tonight'
2:00 Tony Hall host
2:26 Lord Rockingham's XI 'Long John'
4:00 Nevile Taylor & The Cutters 'Charlie Brown'
5:30 Cherry Wainer 'Wait For It Baby'
7:20 Tony Sheridan 'I Like It'
9:06 Vernons Girls 'Don't Look Now'
11:00 Don Lang 'Red Planet Rock'
13:16 Dickie Pride 'Slippin' And Slidin'
14:39 Lorie Mann 'This Is Our First Anniversary'
16:38 Chris Andrews 'Move It!'
18:17 Mike Preston 'Dirty Old Town'
19:57 Tony Hall host
20:33 Brenda Lee 'Humming The Blues'
22:38 Brenda Lee 'Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey'
Anybody else here from the history of rock music in 500 song podcast by Andrew Hickey?
amazing
This is on the day I was born!! 🤪🍰🎂
Who was the girl with the patch on her 'eye ? I know one of the Vernon girls married Joe brown
I was 10 then music at its best ever
Who was the Vernon girl with the eyepatch and why did she have it ?
My mum danced on a show called OH Boy in 1954/5 in Glasgow , were any of these filmed in Glasgow ?
Hackney Empire..
If BL was 14 here, it sure says a lot about rock and roll. CW is sporting a magnificent designer outfit, and that's just the Hammond ....................
Why did that Vernon girl have a patch over her eye?Do tell us as I am intrigued !
When music was on tv
Here because of Agetha Christie …. ( sum mini tv series set in 1958-1961 )
Used Lord Rockingham’s XL music in it . ( Lord Rockingham meets the monster )
I’ll bet the real Lord Rockingham was furious )
He wasn't. Jack Good got permission to use his name.
One of sax players - was Benny Green
Benny was a jazz sideman on reeds before switching to writing about the Songbook. He wore shades bc he did not want his highbrow pals at Ronnie Scott's to catch him moonlighting in a pop band.
so when is the newly discovered show going to be shown?
That fellow singing dirty old town still going strong yet
Recorded at Hackney Empire.
good times
Was this shot at Didsbury or Teddington?
neither, was shot at the live show in the Hackney Empire theatre in London, where ALL the Oh Boy shows came from.
I have Hoots Mon by Lord Rockingham on a vinyl in my collection of vinyls, its on my USB stick now in the care .
Shindig before it was Shindig.
Check out a full episode of beat! Beat! Beat! filmed in 1966 I think, That features 3 songs from Cherry Wainer, well 4 if you count the standard intro of her song Money. th-cam.com/video/zXtI5ECeRVs/w-d-xo.html
4 avril 1959 vidéo,5 décembre 1959-16 avril 1960 pas de vidéo des shows Gene Vincent Eddie Cochran
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Does anyone know the name of the guitarist/singer at 7:25 singing I Like Love, I Like Lovin You? Can't believe the guy never became big.
The "guy's" name is Tony Sheridan. The man who taught the Beatles about stage presence and how to entertain your audience at a place called the Top Ten Club in Hamburg, Germany and the man who introduced the Beatles to the World on their first recording with him (My Bonnie) as The Beat Brothers.
Tony is also the lead guitarist in the group accompanying the singer singing "Move It" at 17:11.
Many thanks 64JBran ... I've heard the name Tony Sheridan but never knew who he was. He had a Buddy Holly appearance (hair, glasses & stance) which I'm sure was no accident. A vocal sound (almost switching Buddy's hiccup for the slight laugh) & the sound of his dirt cheap guitar was amazing … natural overdriven distortion (an age before effects pedals). His playing abilities were outstanding (for the era. Again thanks for the reply.
I think Sheridan died a couple of years ago I'm Germany or Scandinavia. He seemed to have spent much of his life abroad.He always seemed to receive plaudits from all who viewed his guitar playing.He recreated Ernie Shears's lead guitar playing on the Move it number.Sheridan's guitar is a Hofner Futurama.The ywere a copy of a Stratocaster.You still see a few Futuramas around,left over from the early 60'S( THOSE FAR OFF DAYS !)
21. Mai 1940 in Norwich (UK) - 16. Februar 2013 in Hamburg (Deutschland)
Thanks Alfred.Tony never seemed to cash in on his Beatle connection,which is something everyone else did(cash in I mean).I certainly would have done !!!!
What's the eyepatch all about?
I see where when Cherry Wainer went off on her own, she took the drummer with her.
Was Charlie Brown sung by the coasters?
BRENDA LEE IN FROM AMERICA ❗👍😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
British Rock n Roll back then was so tame compared the America Rock n Roll
Cherry Wainer was cute as a button.
Is that Neville Taylor (Hal Munro) singing Charlie Brown ?
Indeed it is!
@@classicmusicofyesteryear6709 I was fortunate to know and to be a carer for Neville in his later years..... he was always a true gentleman.
Thank you for the upload.
Interesting version of Move It - predating Cliff Richard
To think that i was paid to watch and listen, of course, through programmes like 'Oh! Boy' !!
I'm late to this party and haven't read all the comments, but does he actually sing the words "...it's all f*****d up!" at 7.49 minutes.
Live tv so must have passed unnoticed at time. But loose cannon, kiss of death to career to f-bomb on 1950s tv!