★ 10 / 10
Fabulous musical trip to 1964. Get on your
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Fabulous musical trip to 1964. Get on your best sixties clothes, Beatle boots, mini-skirts. A all British display of 1964 rock bands and vocalists at the time…
Fabulous musical trip to 1964. Get on your best sixties clothes, Beatle boots, mini-skirts. A all British display of 1964 rock bands and vocalists at the time performing in studio.
SEE a clip here for an idea of the quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxDh2sYQRpo
Leads off with The Beatles in concert. Of course, several of the bands and solo singers never made it to the U.S. so their spots here are pure nostalgia only. One notable exception is Matt Monroe who was internationally famous already. He passed away, sadly, in 1965.
In color and with great quality and hosted by a blonde character (Jimmy Savile)
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SEE this trip back to the best decade ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUXpLlpNc5w
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Artists and songs in order:
"She Loves You"
The Beatles
"Little Children"
Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
"Make Him Mine"
Susan Maughan
"Juliet"
The Four Pennies
"The House of the Rising Sun"
The Animals
"A Little Loving"
The Fourmost
"He's in Town"
The Rockin' Berries
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"Have I the Right"
The Honeycombs
"Rinky Dink"
Sounds Incorporated
"A World Without Love"
Peter and Gordon
"Walk Away"
Matt Monro
"I'm Into Something Good"
Herman's Hermits
"Humpty Dumpty"
Tommy Quickly and the Remo Four
"Whatcha Gonna Do"
Billie Davis
"My Babe"
The Spencer Davis Group
(featuring Steve Winwood)
"Tobacco Road"
The Nashville Teens
"What In The World's Come Over You"
The Rockin' Berries
"For Mama"
Matt Monro
"Black Girl"
The Four Pennies
"William Tell"
Sounds Incorporated
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"Google Eye"
The Nashville Teens
"Eyes"
The Honeycombs
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
The Animals
"Pop Gear"
Matt Monro
"Twist And Shout"
The Beatles
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Directed by
Frederic Goode
Written by
Roger Dunton
Starring
Jimmy Savile (host)
Cinematography
Geoffrey Unsworth
Studio
Associated British-Pathé
Distributed by
Warner-Pathé Distributors
Release date(s)
1965
Running time
70 min
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★ 6 / 10
Shagedelic and Psychotronic
jetan
This is a difficult film to rate. Most viewers will find it an annoying bore, but devotees of the bands who appeared over the first year of the British…
This is a difficult film to rate. Most viewers will find it an annoying bore, but devotees of the bands who appeared over the first year of the British Invasion will be mesmerized. The movie is a series of lip-synched "performances" by the also-rans that flourished in the wake of The Beatles during 1964, including The Honeycombs, The Spencer Davis Group, The Animals, Tommy Quickly, Peter And Gordon, Herman's Hermits, Nashville Teens and several others. The standout is probably The Animals featuring a young and deadly looking Eric Burdon. The film is decorated with tons of 1960's set design and art direction and a team of pretty dancers in gold-lame hip-huggers shaking same in Hullabaloo style choreography.
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★ 7 / 10
POP-A-GO-GO!
rettaman
What a great relief it was to see this rare "rocumentary" again this year....I first saw it on cable TV during the July 4th holiday in the US. Since then, I…
What a great relief it was to see this rare "rocumentary" again this year....I first saw it on cable TV during the July 4th holiday in the US. Since then, I had been searching the WWW for more information for this rare film, with not much success, except from the exhaustive database by IMDB. (Luckily, it came back onto cable TV on October 14.)
I really like this film because of the music and the fashion during the 1960's. True, the Beatles, the Animals, Peter & Gordon, and Herman's Hermits were very popular during the 1960's here in the US and many of their songs have become a permanent part of our musical memories.
However, it was wonderful to see and hear some of the less popular British bands of the 1960's, such as Sounds Incorporated and the Honeycombs as well as the Rocking Berries and the Four Pennies. Each of them had their own "60's" flavor. (But, not all of those featured were bands as there were a few British solo singers on Pop Gear. They were a treat to listen to also.)
Personally, I liked the female drummer of the Honeycombs, whose name was Honey, as I found out on the WWW. I also liked the first dance routine with the female dancers and their colorful tops and gold hiphuggers. The second dance routine was interesting with the men wearing coats and ties and the women wearing short dresses.
(Today, you can't see many dancers wearing that kind of garb. But, there were a few all male bands on Pop Gear who didn't coats and ties.) The music during those dance routines is very symbolic of how unique the 1960's really was. (I can't find much of that "uniqueness" during the year 2000.)
Overall, I would definitely recommend this film to anyone who is interested in British pop, the 1960's, or is in a band. Kudos to this rare unique "rocumentary" even if the bands were staged, except for the live footage of the Beatles at the beginning and the end of Pop Gear.
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Well filmed document of early '60s British rock and pop marred by the presence of predator Jimmy Savile.