THE FIRST UKULELE POP VIDEO? (Monochromatic time travel from the last century)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Our Presto Tango film/video was shot on celluloid in November 1987 as part of the promotion campaign for LP “The Ukulele Variations”.
Artist: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Track: Presto Tango, from “The Ukulele Variations”
Composer: George Hinchliffe, Kitty Lux, Andy Astle
Audio Producers: George Hinchliffe, Kitty Lux, Andy Astle
Label: Discethnique. (Later issues: CBS, Sony)
Video Producer: Lance O’Connor
Video Director: Simon Howard
Video Editor / Assistant Director: Alan SeeThee
Creative team co-ordinator: David Jones
Members of the Ukulele Orchestra at the time, who recorded the album:
George Hinchliffe, Kitty Lux, Andy Astle, Dave Suich, Jo Brindley, Hank Young, Caroline Fitton, Mary Fitton, Liane Kordan, Marshal Stapleton, James Marsh, Nony Ardill
Other contributors: Dave Bowie and Eva Perouk played bass on various tracks on the album
Actors and associates in the film: Helen O’Connor, Nigel Watson, Kate Daniels, Dan Brawn
Do let us know if you are in the video, uncredited, or worked on the production. www.ukuleleorc...
The film was shot using dollies, tracks and cranes, with choreographed shots in which the camera swooped and flew over the Orchestra. The resulting shots were not uniformly in focus end to end. The “safety” and “cut-away” shots were then used to make a video to a different plan than that originally envisaged. This was the work of Alan SeeThee.
Current digital editing techniques would be able to work with the original footage but the amount of negative and positive film editing and cross-fading which might have been required to utilise the original shots would have been prohibitively expensive in 1987, hence the re-imagining.
The negatives from the original shoot will surely be in an archive. Perhaps one day the archive could be re-examined and something like the original conception assembled (assembling the material thus being a challenge for researchers and video producers). The original “glass master” for the vinyl may still exist. It was originally pressed by Revolver (Bristol) / Cartel, The old malt house.
The original piece of music was a development of “The Saucepan Man”, by The Bronte Brothers Theatre Company (Andy Astle, John Darling, George Hinchliffe) from 1980 with lyrics by Abbie Darling (then aged 5 years old). The musical sequence became “a quodlibet”, forming the basis for “As it was in the beginning” and “Proust”, (songs by Kitty Lux and George Hinchliffe). The melody also finds an echo in parts of “Rockabye” by Clean Bandit.
If you would like to play along to Presto Tango here are the chords:
Am F G Em F Dm E7 E7 Am F G Em F Dm E7 E7
C G Am F C G F G C G Am F C G F G
The Ukulele Orchestra has worked for longer than Led Zeppelin and The Beatles combined and has performed more times than The Rolling Stones. It hasn't made quite as much money as they did though. It has however also included both women and men in all roles; management, performance, ownership, authorship.
-----------------
Book your tickets to see the Ukulele Orchestra live!
bnds.us/0ywuqa
-----------------
LINKS -
Website: www.ukuleleorc...
Merch: www.ukuleleorc...
Facebook: / ukuleleorchestraofgb
Twitter: / theukes
Instagram: / ukuleleorchestra
TikTok: / ukuleleorchestraofgb
Bandsintown: bnds.us/0ywuqa 
Видеоклипы
The original flash mob!
Where have you been hiding this footage? Its brilliant. And what a great tune. Thanks again Ukes. You always manage to put a smile on my face.
I love this. If I didn’t know about them, I would believe this was a group and movie from the late 40s or early 50s!
The venue puts me in mind of Rick's Café Americain. I was half expecting Claude Rains to walk in and put an end to the fun.
It’s truly amazing how none of you have aged a day!
coming to see you on your pluckin new tour xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Presto Tango was one of the first tunes I heard from UOGB and has always been my favourite..thanks so much for this.
That was absolutely beautiful!
👏🏻👏🏻Beautiful!! Thank you!!🙏🏻
Love you all
Dig the concept of
Yuk orchestra
Love the swing
a totally fun cool video. really made my morning.
Fabulous 💗💗💗💗
My favorite! Thank you for this beautiful video!
Ukulele's are fun😌
Wonderful, as always! Great musicians and served with a side order of humour, thank you all 👏👏👏
This seriously looks like the vintage music videos from the 50's/early 60's (25+yrs before 1987). Great work!
Beyond that, two things: (1) George with hair, how time files. (2) I saw Kitty. RIP Kitty.
As a relative newcomer, I hope I'll be able to see at least some of you live someday.
OMG, how fun!!!!
Wow !! A great listen and video guy’s, love the ukulele plucking and strumming ❤️
Remember the day well. Great to see so many of the original members of the Orchestra strumming their stuff. As I recall the film couldn't get released as several of us friends were not members of the MU or Equity. It has however stood the test of time rather well.
You all are my inspiration!!!!
Wonderful, and George with hair, glad to have seen you live over the years, had no idea you had been around this long though, long may it continue :)
Oh, how young you were then - how young we all were
Amazing video, wonderful tune - tears of joy in my eyes. 🥲
Fantastic!
Wow! Awww, Kitty. 😪
Such fun
The Ukes go Film Noir!
Much film-work for a great film, thank you for sharing.
Great stuff. Again! Very artistic. Analogue is always better.
Love this!
What great fun! I love this. I recognize George, Kitty, and Dave, and my apologies to those I didn't. And, you had a left-hander. Was everyone in the video a member? This is a real treat to those who enjoy the UOBG and have only known of you a few years.
A couple of left-handers, I think.
And to think, the ukulele flash mob hadn't yet become a "thing."
Guys I love this! Can I suggest that your agency contacts Denis Shiryaev (who has his own RUclips channel). He would do wonders with this footage. It would be like today!
Fantastic, lovely, cheeky as ever
Sounds like the good and bad eigthies^^
Ukulele Noir! ❤❤❤
Love ingenuity of making up The Ukes for the mid-century past. Great music, clever presentation. Ukes, we love you!
Well, that was really fun! You do such a bang-up job with all the songs you play, and your videos are awesome, too. :-)
How many ukuleles were not harmed in the making of this video? (Presto Tango! Kudos!)
gorgeous!
An instant favorite! Thank you!!!
👍🔥🔥🔥
Not only a great video, but a wonderful and informative explanation in the part of the page I though was purely reserved to flog an artists/influencers latest 'thing'.
where have u guys been? on youtube? i missed anything recent???
Baby YOGB players. 😍
Beautiful! But where are the dancers??
Oh yes my Sunday night fix fanbloodytastic some very very attractive girls there 😍👍👨🏻🏭
All I could think of during watching this was: what if Dire Straits was ukulele band
Which is easier for lefties?
This video shows at least one leftie playing a Ukulele with stringing reverse from how it's strung for right-handed people, but I see more videos of lefties playing the instrument with stringing as "normal" making it so that the lefties need to finger the chords upsidedown from how it's fingered by right-handed players with the lower notes on the bottom instead of the top string.
With stringing like the lefties in this video shows, it would be so that the leftie can finger the chord as an exact mirror image of how it's fingered by a "righty" instead of an inverted but not mirrored fingering.
This is more complicated than you might think! I am left handed but play a ukulele like a right handed person. However I also play the violin and hold that in right hand not the left. Perhaps someone far cleverer than me can give an explanation of this.
@@vulgivagu everyone is wired just a little bit differently. There are basically no hard and fast rules. I eat left handed. I write left handed. I play ukulele right handed. Am I confused?
Not really.
Just keep playing!
@@vulgivagu Hi, I started learning to play Uke lefthanded as a right-handed-person. Don´t know about the reason, but my teacher told me, it might be better go on right-handed. Both sides works......
JOGA BONITO...!!!
The CGI must've cost a fortune!
Pure vintage whimsy
Who was the lefty player?
Andy Astle, I would think.
@@nigelherron853 thanks.
Schweeet!