Test Card Treasures

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  • čas přidán 21. 06. 2020
  • Another helping of musical miniatures from BBC Test Cards from the late 1970s and on into the ’80s. Bon appetit!
    0:00:02 - Melancholic Rock · Polish Radio & Television Orchestra Of Popular Music, Katowice
    0:03:32 - Anxiety · Polish Radio & Television Orchestra Of Popular Music, Katowice
    0:06:25 - Super Racing · Jeff Hasky And His Orchestra
    0:08:44 - Now Or Never · Polish Radio & Television Orchestra Of Popular Music, Katowice
    0:11:52 - Conversation Piece · Syd Dale And His Orchestra
    0:14:34 - Today Is The Day · Polish Radio & Television Orchestra Of Popular Music, Katowice
    0:16:58 - Pretty Girls · Henry Mancini And His Orchestra
    0:19:28 - Pages · Lado’s Latin Combination
    0:22:08 - Dedication · Lado’s Latin Combination
    0:24:14 - Jeff’s Special · Jeff Hasky And His Orchestra
    0:26:15 - Footprints On The Beach · Horst Gmeinwieser And His Super Trombones
    0:28:48 - The Lights Of Hong Kong · Budapest Radio Orchestra
    0:32:19 - Mexican Mood · The Ulrich Sommerlatte Orchestra
    0:35:01 - Cherry Drops · The Firebirds
    0:37:39 - Rendezvous In Rio · Budapest Radio Orchestra
    0:41:36 - Just In · King Zérand Orchestra And Chorus
    0:44:00 - Alma Corazon · Angel "Pocho" Gatti And His Orchestra
    0:46:49 - Maraschino · Lado’s Latin Combination
    0:49:15 - To Break A Record · Helmuth Herold With The Frank Gönther Orchestra
    0:52:00 - Lovers’ Promenade · Siegfried Merath With His Orchestra
    0:55:53 - Flirt In Lilliput · Siegfried Merath With His Orchestra
    0:59:00 - Nonchalance · Siegfried Merath With His Orchestra
    1:01:41 - You Belong To Me · The Opus Orchestra
    1:04:09 - The Old Fisherman · George Hermann And His Orchestra
    1:06:56 - Costa Canaria · Micheal Coster And His Orchestra
    1:09:46 - Side In · Will Arens Orchestra With Walter Schmidt-Binge
    1:12:20 - A Passing Glance · Ben Cooper And His Orchestra
    1:15:56 - Positron · Guy Gollasch And His Band
    78 minutes
    The music was used in the following BBC TV Trade Test tapes:
    Super Racing (broadcast on BBC2 1974-1975) ~ track 3
    Melancholic Rock (BBC1 1978-1979) ~ 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
    Theme From “Z” (BBC2 1978) ~ 5
    Pretty Girls (BBC1 1978-1980) ~ 7
    The Trolley Song (BBC1/BBC2 1978-1985) ~ 8, 9
    Jeff’s Special (BBC1 1979-1981) ~ 10, 11, 12, 14, 15
    Well, Alright (BBC1 1979) ~ 13
    In The Latest Fashion (BBC1 1979-1982) ~ 16
    To Break A Record (BBC2/BBC1 1979-1982) ~ 17, 19
    The Green Leaves Of Summer (BBC1 1980-1981) ~ 18
    Happy Polka (BBC1 1981-1985) ~ 20, 21, 22
    Water Mountain (BBC1/BBC2 1982-1985) ~ 23
    Sunny Isle (BBC1 1983-1984) - 24
    Dixie Omelette (BBC2 1983-1985) ~ 25, 26
    Positron (BBC1 1985-1987) ~ 27, 28
    [ 4/5 ]
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Komentáře • 45

  • @ashfaq1999
    @ashfaq1999 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Thanks for posting these childhood classics. 😊

  • @johnrhodez6829
    @johnrhodez6829 Před 2 měsíci +1

    The Girl the Doll, the Music!!

  • @richardevans560
    @richardevans560 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Just brilliant stuff to put your housecoat on and clean the house to.

  • @annakatarinatimewillshowle9741

    ❤ Good morning !Thank you for gived your best in your easy music to like listen. Now brain works and its nice to start a day. ❤

  • @tonybalm1513
    @tonybalm1513 Před 3 lety +2

    Fantastic!!!! Far more entertaining than anything on the television today!!!!!!

  • @geoffjoffy
    @geoffjoffy Před 3 lety +3

    Excellent. Best 'programme' on TV. Thanks!!

  • @davidcox3974
    @davidcox3974 Před 3 lety +2

    We Love BBC 2 Television on the Test Card

  • @SadAnorak
    @SadAnorak Před 3 lety +1

    Spent uncountable hours watching the test card. My favourite track was 'Days of the Old School Yard' Cat Stephens which was regularly played during my youth.

  • @davidcox9483
    @davidcox9483 Před 3 lety +4

    I Love BBC 2 Television Test Card

  • @lucaviggiani2189
    @lucaviggiani2189 Před 3 lety +1

    Nonchalance reminds me of the music airlines used to play over the loudspeakers just after landing. My father worked for a holiday company in the 60s and 70s and we used to fly Britannia Airways a lot. Immediately after landing they always used to play piano style music similar to nonchalance just after we landed. This brought that memory back to me very vividly.

    • @ricadus
      @ricadus  Před 3 lety

      It does have a rather "glad to be alive" feel about it!

  • @robloveday4265
    @robloveday4265 Před 3 lety +1

    'Nonchalance' is lovely - nice bit of 5/4 time, like a more laid-back Dave Brubeck!

  • @Hoppyhouse48
    @Hoppyhouse48 Před 3 lety

    Best set ever thank everyone I'm so blessed xxx

  • @Hoppyhouse48
    @Hoppyhouse48 Před 3 lety

    Thank you xxx

  • @dangaAgadanga
    @dangaAgadanga Před 2 lety +1

    Proper best-of tape 🙂

  • @amandawhiteley6737
    @amandawhiteley6737 Před 2 lety

    Fantastic toons, from phoebe,s partner, long may they live on, oh it's all coming back!!!

  • @dvidclapperton
    @dvidclapperton Před 3 lety +2

    There was a test card tape called Super Racing in the 1970's

  • @stuartbritton7408
    @stuartbritton7408 Před 4 lety

    Splendid

  • @davidcox3974
    @davidcox3974 Před 3 lety

    We Love BBC TV on the Test Card

  • @davidcox9483
    @davidcox9483 Před 3 lety +1

    The Girl on the Test Card is Carol Hersee

  • @Tirana44
    @Tirana44 Před 3 lety +2

    Lots of memories here! I share the same birthday as Carole Hersee. Did I see once that her father at the BBC designed the card itself?

    • @andyhowlett2231
      @andyhowlett2231 Před rokem

      Yes, George Hersee was a BBC engineer who designed Test Card F. The central circle needed a realistic flesh tone to test the colour rendition of the system, so he got a photographer to make a high quality slide of his daughter with the clown doll.

  • @Hoppyhouse48
    @Hoppyhouse48 Před 3 lety +1

    Enjoy 😆🐸✊🚀🇬🇧

  • @amandawhiteley6737
    @amandawhiteley6737 Před 2 lety

    The lights of Hong Kong, ace toon!

  • @365networker2
    @365networker2 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I really like “You Belong To Me” - do you have any other recordings by the Opus Orchestra? I suspect this track will have come from the Disc Imports library. I’d also be interested in anything by the Brno Radio Orchestra or Orchestron Symphony.

    • @ricadus
      @ricadus  Před 4 měsíci

      I don't have any others. There was a Rondor Music Ltd LP series from the early 1980s. These were not intended for retail sale but to be liscensed for use as background music in public spaces such as hotels, department stores and shopping malls, or for use as ‘on hold’ music in telephone call systems. Discographic info is hard to find but the first LP was of instrumental arrangements of songs by The Carpenters, which has been listed on Ebay and elsewhere.

    • @365networker2
      @365networker2 Před 4 měsíci

      @@ricadus Thanks - I had come across that LP - I didn't know there were others. Hopefully the others will turn up at some point.

    • @stuartbritton4811
      @stuartbritton4811 Před měsícem +1

      Me too..real early morning slumber music.

  • @dvidclapperton
    @dvidclapperton Před 2 lety +1

    Now or Never:-
    Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba........

  • @guildlightmusicguildlightm3171

    Ilove siegfried merath music❗

    • @ricadus
      @ricadus  Před 3 lety +1

      For years I mistakenly thought they were by the John Fox Orchestra, until I found them on a Germany-issued CD.

    • @guildlightmusicguildlightm3171
      @guildlightmusicguildlightm3171 Před 3 lety

      @@ricadus Ilike music in a german 60s and 70s time best.

  • @colinglass1342
    @colinglass1342 Před rokem +1

    It's much better then radio two playlist Terry wogan Jimmy younger Ed stewpot Ken bruce never ever listened to radio one never will do either .

  • @Crazy1Clive
    @Crazy1Clive Před 10 měsíci

    Honestly, most of this library music was so sublime and so funky that it was frankly too good for the BBC test card.

    • @richardevans560
      @richardevans560 Před 8 měsíci

      Nonsense, NOTHING was too good for the test card.

    • @Crazy1Clive
      @Crazy1Clive Před 8 měsíci

      @@richardevans560 I guess what I meant by that was that it deserved a higher billing than being stuck away on the testcard.

  • @IridescentAudio
    @IridescentAudio Před 2 lety

    "To Break a Record" holy shit this is fire.

  • @markcolpstein1153
    @markcolpstein1153 Před 2 lety +1

    i do like melencolick rock from mark colpstein

  • @Hoppyhouse48
    @Hoppyhouse48 Před 3 lety

    I almost made it 1716 😆🤩👋✨👌🍻👍🏻

  • @cliveevans9795
    @cliveevans9795 Před 3 lety

    Who's the girl in the test card

  • @Hoppyhouse48
    @Hoppyhouse48 Před 3 lety

    Xxxxx😘😘😘💙