Rewind the 60s
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Watched Lulu & Jimmy Tarbuck reviewing stories from the 1960s this morning on BBC1. As someone who was around in my teens and early 20s at that time I quite enjoyed the programme.
However, I didn't much like the studio decor which almost made me put my sunglasses on. With Lulu wearing white clothes and with a completely white background, at times you could only make out her head.
However, I didn't much like the studio decor which almost made me put my sunglasses on. With Lulu wearing white clothes and with a completely white background, at times you could only make out her head.
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l didn't see it, so l don't know how good it was, but in case you didn't know there are four more episodes to go, all this week at 9:15am on BBC1. There's no sign of a repeat of episode 1 though.
I enjoyed it, brought back memories. As I said, not too sure about the studio decor.
I'd say that was an advantage.
Lulu - Yuch! Scotland's disgrace when she started using the Yankee drawl. Now she's the Botox queen.
You certainly live up to your name.
Botox? No, no, no, it's all down to her own range of skin cream and good genes. She said.
Somebody also ought to update William Roache on James Hanratty.
A highlight today were the twins employed by Fred Pontin to run the first holiday camp abroad. Surely, the 'twins' in Hi-de-Hi were based on these charming chaps.
I love recent, social history, and although this was more my parents' time (me being a mere child of the 70's, and all), it is a superb collection of clips and recollections from an era of immense change.
Still think Lulu is a rude, botoxed old trout, but you can't have everything, eh?
Though how great to see a clip of the Undertakers on yesterday's programme, even if it was more likely to have been filmed in 1963/64, than 60/61.
Huh, she looks so different to how she did, I think she's had a head transplant.
Indeed.
Joe Meek (undead) would have probably forced his way into the studio and delivered summary and blasting justice to whatever spotty oik with a 2:1 in media studies who dared to find that appalingly ghastly muzak version of such a great pop record and they'd have played muzak no more.
This is what hacks me off about these types of shows - poor, bloody research. Is it so difficult to recognise what the original hit of the time sounded like and to play a thirty seconds or so clip of it? Lulu isn't going to pick up on it, is she? She's just going to look and hear blankly throughout the whole event. She wouldn't know her Telstars from her Belle Stars if they collectively fell on top of her.
It's just another case of weak TV produced on behalf of the BBC by God knows who. If you cannot do better than this rubbish, BBC, give us thirty minutes of Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan, or alternatively a double-ender of Captain Pugwash and Mary, Mungo and Midge, or if that's not possible, just close down until Homes Under the Hammer begins.