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Chorlton Railway Station 1963
Posted by bungalowjoe on 17 September 2011 - 6:24pm.
Hello all,
I wonder has anyone else come across this amazing gig on a railway platform in 1963 featuring Sister Rosetta Thorpe and Muddy Waters.
It was recorded by Granada TV but not sure when it was last shown - I think we need a campaign to get it shown again. I will post the youtube links below
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n2PdsnJCuko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jeDF1g2cGDI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rzRm4K7NZm0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=efgi6iE77ac
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Sorry, could not get the videos to show in the blog
It's priceless stuff, Bungalow...
...and hats off to Granada for being just about the only UK TV station to bother keeping stuff from the 60s! (Though, even there, we mourn the loss of being able to see Jethro Tull aka The John Evan Smash appearing in a 1967 regional TV talent show.)
The Rosetta footage was featured to great effect in her splendid recent BBC4 doc, and I'm sure a lot of the other material has been mined for blues docs - but it's certainly been many years since it's been repeated in full on UK TV...
This was on BBC 4 about six
This was on BBC 4 about six to nine months ago on a Friday night, at least some of it if not the whole show.
I think I saw that
last time I was in the UK.
Was this the one where they stuck the performers on train stations, because the audience (or the producers) expected their blues singers to be wandering black hobos who lived in boxcars? Despite the fact that Muddy Waters was usually to be found in a nice suit playing a Telecaster?
I stand corrected, Brian!
...I must have missed that - I can vaguely recall seeing it 25+ years ago, I think, on some Granada themed evening...
At the risk of sounding like
At the risk of sounding like the Colonel off the Fast Show it was a Friday night and " I was very very drunk at the time" so further details are a bit lost in the haze of a drunken hour so to speak - sorry.
Much of it is on Dvd
The Sister Rosetta and Muddy Waters bits anyway, along with a slew of other Brit performances from blues giants.
American folk blues festival - the British tours.
Dr Beeching would be most unhappy to learn
that Chorlton station is open for passengers again, albeit with trams rather than stream trains. The new station buildings are rather spartan and perhaps a photo display of the Granada show would liven things up...
If you didn't have Dr Beeching
We could of had gigs like,
Sly and the Family stone at Chorlton Train station.
Snoop dogg at Newton Heath
Al Green at Longsight
Tupac at Measurements