OK, let's start at the beginning with a radio show called Savile's Travels. This began in 1968, and was still on in August 1970 as a one hour show on a Sunday
The same radio show is still on in June 1975 but Jimmy has been making television shows in this time. Regional television shows that is one of them being Savile's Yorkshire travels. Now guys and gals, imagine my delight when I realised that I already had a copy of a BBC4 show called lens Regional Television Life through a local lens' broadcast in July and November 2011, safely tucked away in case someone tries to wipe and or censor it. Better still, it's on you tube so you can all have a watch.
Later on in the show we see the title 'Savile's Yorkshire Travels' and footage of that show including Jimmy's late 60's early 70's campervan and the theme song by Ted Heath, the bandleader not the Prime Minister that is
Jimmy even manages a visit to his 'beloved Scarborough'
Scroll to about 6 minutes on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pigtCFMJOIM
But let's go back to the radio Speakeasy recorded in London which often featured this lady and her group The Settlers
The above is from an article written in 2010.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/the.next.chapter.in.the.extraordinary.life.of.cindy.kent/26446.htm
This is what Cindy had to say about Savile in more recent times.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/cindy.kent.reflects.on.jimmy.savile.scandal/30896.htm
Things certainly were 'different then' Cindy, whose group just so happened to sing the theme song of a children's TV show I warmly remember watching before my tea after school.
Follyfoot remember that folks ?
Grow grow the Lightning tree !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkJYSDdVnsE
When I first started my blog I mentioned my own personal memories of Jimmy Savile. Listening to his Sunday afternoon double top ten show wherein he awarded you points if you correctly named the singer and the song. He was a crafty bugger though and used to steal your hard earned points back. Here's a reminder of happier times guys and gals. There are more to come
http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/sounds/saville_xmas05_1.mp3
And plenty more here
http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio1/jimmy_savile_page.htm
Wow. Fantastic...
ReplyDeleteFreddie Trueman could be as late as 1980
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F8dS2kMNSeU/Vc3SLCNfJAI/AAAAAAAAICU/AtP3Pdul1OQ/s1600/image002.jpg
Cyril Smith in there too.... ;-D
"the judge didnlt know what the word "snogging meant" and it was explained to him by a 9 yr-old girl... :-D
ReplyDeleteAt 7mins into that first vid...
Astounding that the "moral majority" from the Media were on the backs of the people in "The Family". The folks say it was all okay, and "the public" were generally okay apart from one or two nasty letters, but their real problem was the "smear campaign" from the press.
ReplyDeleteThen, around 8 mins there is a complete prig from the local media, who talks about the fact the "family" had sex before marriage and the boy was illegitimate, and Jimmy breaks in with the most amazingly clever put-down, and it's so clever you can see in the prig's face that he knows he's being put down but the way Jimmy does it is so clever he cannot think how to respond....
"It's a terrible thing is honesty, terrible thing; in fact it's so rare these days is honesty, that it's a gimmick. Know what I mean? It really is."
Absolutely stunning.