♫ Six O'Clock Rock ♥ Johnny O'Keefe ♫ 1959 Part 1 of 4
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- This episode of Six O'Clock Rock aired on 1 August 1959 & is the only surviving episode from that year which I'm aware of....
Six O'Clock Rock was an Australian Rock and Roll television show which showed on ABC Television from 28 February 1959 to 1962 and was broadcast at 6PM on Saturday evenings featuring local artists.
Many entertainers got their first big exposure on 6 O'Clock Rock and these included Lonnie Lee, Barry Stanton and Warren Williams.
The show originally contained a mixture of Rock and Roll and Jazz, but O'Keefe wanted the show to be all Rock and Roll, so the Jazz content dwindled for a time.
O'Keefe left the show in 1961 to move to ATN-7 to compère the more elaborately produced Johnny O'Keefe Show. 6 O'Clock Rock closed in 1962 after having moved to a 'softer' format with O'Keefe's departure, suffering from greater competition from O'Keefe's new show on 7 and Bandstand on 9....for further reading visit the following website:
en.wikipedia.or...
Every era has their music. But to me this was the pinnacle of culture. You had everything. You had the raw young uninhibited craziness, the sweet soulful R&B, and the classy jazz.
It was must watch TV. Everything stopped at 6 o'clock in our house
I met johnny on many occasions, the greatest showman ever, my mate and I were invited back to his hotel for a singalong at 11.00 am the morning after the show at a Sprinvale hotel, but unfortunately we didn,t follow up..Kind Regards Howard Lawrence...
I sometimes wonder if Australian Executives snuck into America and watched and observed American Bandstand. In the 1960's Pierre Lalonde from Quebec saw American Bandstand in New York City, he loved it. He convinced French Quebec to do a similar Show and when he had his own Local Talk Show he introduced a 14 Year Old named Celine Dion and we all know what happened to her.
This guy is great. Primitive, raw, rocking. They were all like this not megastars back then
My dad is the dance in the opening credits of this show. He was a regular dancer on this show, and Brian Hendersen's Bandstand. He is still a great rocker and drives a 61 Dodge Pheonix
@@glenneh57 I was visiting Barry Butler on the weekend.
It's Barry Butler
@@glenneh57 did you know Barry Butler?
The guy dancing in the opening scene is my mate Baz!
fantastic vewing of the time
Wow Judi so wonderfull to have memories like you have
This is GREAT!!!!! I'm from the USA, and while I admit that first singer is a little bit out of this depth, this is really fun material to watch, and some of the music is more than entertaining!
Come and see Johnny bee sing joke show on the Sunshine coast
Long live rock roll
I was in the audience at six o'clock rock many many years ago
sure u were
💖💖❤️🌻
A great talent.
Now I've heard this from the horses mouth, Johnny Powers from the USA said that Johnny Okeefe got in trouble for miming to his records as it turned out Okeefe couldn't sing those songs live like Powers could, so around 1964 just as the Beatles were hitting the big time like everywhere a little known diminutive rockabilly singer called Johnny Powers was doing just as well as the mop-tops from Liverpool in Oz!! I backed Johnny Powers in 1998 and he was still an electric performer!! I get goosebumps thinking about it!! 💥💥🎸💥💥🤯
jok never mimed any of his songs. covered a lot of songs but never mimed anybody elses songs .dont no where you got that from. i am 70 and met JOK 1973 on stage. he was full against miming songs on tv . US tv did it all the time they must have felt stupid on Dick Clare show.
@@michaelgeorge8671 your probably right, once I made this comment I googled this subject and found Johnny powers story to be different from what he stated, however there must be grains of truth to both sides of the this, was there another artist who mimed to the Powers records? Then that would've followed by Powers performing in Australia? You tell me, are you in Australia?? Additional; Johnny Scat Brown was attributed to these recordings "indeed I do" and "mama rock" but were in fact Powers maybe the confusion arose from connecting record labels?
JOK,could not sing live? Not a great Jok fan, but believe me,put a mike in his hand,you you would be witnessing a great live act.At his best a unstoppable force.
That was my mum dancing with your dad 😊
Hi. So is your mum the silhouette dance at the very beginning? With Barry Butler?
Thank you for posting this :-)
Thanks Sallie
This is my favovorite song
Thanks so much for your contribution, sallie6. Just loved most of the footage, especially the aussie content, and contrary to another's comment , Jimmy Griffiths. I reckon his version of Tallahasee Lassie is better than Freddie Cannon's. He didn't rasp like Freddie did in his recording. And what an artistic talent, Johnny O' Keefe was,having a superb musical sense, despite not being gifted with a great voice. Both his rockers and ballads have an electrifying vibrancy. He was immeasurably better than any other Aussie popster.
And don't even get me started on today's crap music..........
Colin you must be tone deaf as he is horribly flat.
Fantastic Sallie !!!! Love it !!! :-)
Hi Sallie....that's correct, The ABC bosses, just like the producers of "Oh Boy!", did not think this `for the good of the youngsters", most were destroyed around the end of 1959, except for this show, and a few from early 1960, a some footage from early shows survive in the hands of private collectors
This British rocker really enjoyed this great show, thanks. However you're incorrect re the reason for "destroying" the shows. Here in the UK the "Oh Boy" episodes were not "destroyed", but recycled. The videotape used to film each episode was very expensive, a reel cost as much as a small car !, and as the music was "just" here today - gone tomorrow "pop music", then the tapes were wiped and re-used for other shows. Videotape wasn't considered an archive media, for this purpose a tape would be telerecorded onto film, and the videotape re-used. I'm told that ABC routinely wiped almost all their shows in the 60s and 70s, not just pop music, purely on cost grounds and nothing more sinister. I guess their costs to buy tape was far higher than say Britain's due to the shipping distances, in fact in the late 70s ABC even scoured their stockrooms for old tape and most of this was wiped for re-use.
@@RockinRedRover And then there was Blue Hills, on the wireless. I remember my grandmother, my mother, and my wife all listening. Mostly erased.
Straight out of Leichhardt Police Boy's Club.... Go Johnny Go!
+Axiom Emissary n I was out of the Newtown Police Citizens Boys Club and the Marackville Air League at the same time, wonderful years
AWESOME!
Genuinamente maravilhoso, lembro do meu `club do rock` que funcionou ate 1985, isso na Vila Elizabeth - Porto Alegre-RS., ou seja, ate seus integrantes se dispersarem, seja pelo casamento ou mesmo pelas atividades profissionais, entre inumeros motivos, cada um seguiu a sua estrada, o seu caminho, ainda encontramos alguns remanescentes que nao renunciaram o ainda o `muito vivo rock `n roll`, nos juntamos, tocamos e muito mais, como nos tempos de antigamente, etc., maneco -Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil.
@ Sallie: Love this tunes too... bring more to UL... Here in Germany none know this tunes from your home
The picture appears to be a kinescope (remember kinescopes from a source that ran at 25fps would be filmed at that length so they wouldn't have the same sort of trouble American sources had in doing kinescopes with that sort of lagging involved. I wonder if the sound source came from something else than the film itself. It's pretty clear, possibly a magnetic source.
Most of the 16mm telerecordings that the ABC did have a magnetic soundtrack instead of an optical soundtrack and therefore often sound better.
Hi 7.2
I can smell the Brylcream from here, we were not allowed to wear jeans if we made the audience. WOW, 59 years ago. Look for me, tall lad with cardigan, kind of shy.
USA Singer Jimmy Clanton was the original singer of Tallyhally Lassie and i hate it this guy does it justice.
The writers : Crewe and Slay wrote "Tallahassee Lassie" and "Okefenokee" - for Swan's label rising star Freddy Cannon.
Is this Paul Kelly's Daddy? DANG, there's a real likeness, PLUS the voice........
Fortunately not.
11:20 Bebop on a teen show, that's odd.
It's pretty criminal isn't it that this is the only known surviving episode of Six O'Clock Rock. I suspect it survived because louis prima was in it!
Tv wasn’t around then ???
Television started in Australia in 1956, ready for the Olympic Games in Melbourne.
The Nine Network was first, followed shortly after by the ABC, channel 2.
That first singer could have really done with some auto tuning
why is the video green?
What ever happened to Jimmy Griffiths?
MrBossninja17 Roc,k and roll music
Go Johnny go- the girls look square how can they work up a sweat in cardigan????
ditzy blondi It's August--Winter in the southern hemisphere.
Mark James. Johnny O'Keefe was Australias KING of Rock n Roll .he fought the government to get Australian artists played on Australian raido stations. he covered records from the USA as most raido stations would not play Rock .he wrote his own songs as well and promoted other artists. if it was not for Johnny O'Keefe Australia would not have had a recording industry. and i have never heard of Johnny Powers. JOK did record in the USA on Atlantic Records in Australia it was LEEDON and Festival Records who printed most records this was an Australian company. JOK died 2 years after ELVIS same reason. hope this fills in some gaps .you can Google JOK . YOURS MICK GEORGE.
I had an American release 45 of JOK on the Boomerang Label. It was on coloured vinyl and had the large center. It was stolen from my record collection and I have a good idea I know who pinched it.
Really good version by the Sapphires. Better than JOKs as a whole package
Probably didn't go too far, as he kinda sucked big time!