BBC2 Tapes S,T,U
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- čas přidán 19. 04. 2022
- Final part three of three uploads of the BBC2 TT tapes mid to late 1960s. Again, uploaded as fair use and research as to my knowledge there is no other source of information on this exceptionally niche area of British broadcasting.
Remember these pieces being played when we got BBC2 for the first time back in the autumn of 1969. Thanks for sharing !
Great upload Paul, I seem to remember a lot of these tracks, I must have been a very sickly child!.
Hey! Nice to hear from you after all this time. Hope you're keeping well.
Another great video Paul. I can remember the third track very well. I think it made ‘the transition’ to testcard F too.
It certainly did; all three tapes survived until the 72 min tapes were ushered in on May 29th 1972. In fact some were played alongside the 72 minute tapes for a few days...
Happy days 405 lines 625 less complicated No PR This for posting remember 50s 60s nice times
1:32:59 also appears on Seeburg 1000 BA-116-B from RR-67 (7-1-1976).
Sounds like THE SHADOWS!
I believe Track 2 is Zorba the Greek, and Track 3 is Trinidad Baby. Love them.
Tk 3 is Trinidad Baby but despite the soundalike tk 2 is not Zorba but Eutaxi. It follows the Zorba pattern closely and may be have been designed that way.
@@paulsawtell3991: Thanks, that's interesting, and solves a riddle. We were on a boat in Cyprus (Paphos) in 2017, and Zorba was playing. I was sure Trinidad Baby would be next, and told my friend. She also thought Eutaxi was the same piece. A later Test Card piece, Concerto Grosso, had a similar tune to Trinidad..., which confused me a little. But many musicians got ideas from Test Card music. I'm sure Robert Fripp from King Crimson heard Waltz in Ragtime between gigs, and one tune reappeared in a Rainbow number. And La Belle Epoque's Black Is Black hit has its origins in a TCm piece too.
Concerto Grosso was never used by the BBC on a trade test tape.@@AlexAlexon3897
@@paulsawtell3991: Really? It's on one of the CDs.
@@AlexAlexon3897 No, it was the opening track on a tape I complied myself from the Coded Music LPs.
Testcard E lasts into 1967 the BBC2 COLOUR Testcard F Introduced on 1st July 1967 and lasts into early May 1984. Full colour television on the 28th October 1967 the day I was born 28th October 1967
Sorry but test card E only lasted a few days in April 1964 when it was replaced by the version of C shown in the video.
@@paulsawtell3991 I remember the BBC2 modified version of Testcard C being shown here from Winter Hill on occasions on BBC1 due to engineering work being carried out on the BBC National Distribution Network between October 1969 When BBC1 Colour Trade Tests started till 1972 when the Electronic Test Card G ( Modified PM5544 ) was used during the opt outs.
Is this test card very similar to testcard F or what?
Or what
THIS IS REAL MUSIC/LOVELY MUSIC,NOT LIKE THE BLAND POP THAT IS PUMPED INTO YOU TODAY IN SUPERMARKETS AND OTHER OUTLETS
Can't disagree with any of that. But it's so sad because that level of blandness becomes the yardstick of those poor souls who are fed nothing but that kind of thing called pop.
@@paulsawtell3991 I was in mcdonalds today and the music can only be described as warbling into the microphone,if only they would play something like THE HIGH LIFE