My mother loved The Sheik of Shake. Considering that most UK acts of the time merely imitated American stars, Dickie Pride was a stand out, and it's baffling how his star never rose to the heights reached by Cliff Richard/Marty Wilde/Joe Brown/Billy Fury. The poor guy was proof positive that great talent doesn't always get the rewards it deserves.
You should get a listen to the Jazz Standards album Dickie Pride recorded. I lived in a house with dickie and a bunch of Musicians in the early 1960’s. Dickie was way ahead of the pack…singing jazz Standards and King Pleasure songs.
Thank you for uploading this. There definitely used to be a higher-quality version online here on YT but it perished. Still, grateful to see it survives in some form.
Shows like these provide a great document of life at the time and it's a pity that the tv companies never thought of how fascinating they'd be to kids of today....just think of how popular the re-runs of "Ready Steady Go!" were, ther's nothing quite like nostalgia.
I saw Marty live, at a gig with my parents. Because the old man was a snide gob@hite full of self loathing, he had to get a dig in. The venue was small and as Marty squeezed past our table, the old @hit said loudly "He's wearing a rug!!" I felt embarrassed. I'd recently bought a Marty Wilde greatest hits LP, because I'm a guitarist and a big fan of Eddie Cochran & Gene Vincent, and because of this, the old man actually bothered to ask if I wanted a ticket to the show. Marty put on a good show, and the old @hit actually admitted that Marty and his band were a lot better than he was expecting. I doubt there were any disappointed people in the audience.
Billy Fury looking gorgeous and so very young....
My mother loved The Sheik of Shake. Considering that most UK acts of the time merely imitated American stars, Dickie Pride was a stand out, and it's baffling how his star never rose to the heights reached by Cliff Richard/Marty Wilde/Joe Brown/Billy Fury. The poor guy was proof positive that great talent doesn't always get the rewards it deserves.
You should get a listen to the Jazz Standards album Dickie Pride recorded. I lived in a house with dickie and a bunch of Musicians in the early 1960’s. Dickie was way ahead of the pack…singing jazz Standards and King Pleasure songs.
for me, Dickie Pride was by far the best of these early British rock singers. I did not know that he also sang jazz. Thanks for the information.
Thank you for uploading this. There definitely used to be a higher-quality version online here on YT but it perished. Still, grateful to see it survives in some form.
Shows like these provide a great document of life at the time and it's a pity that the tv companies never thought of how fascinating they'd be to kids of today....just think of how popular the re-runs of "Ready Steady Go!" were, ther's nothing quite like nostalgia.
This programme went out live every Saturday evening This was billys first apperence
Great to see Marty Wilde, Billy Fury and Cliff
Two British greats in a duet ....Marty Wilde and Cliff Richard and they are both still doing shows 59 years on !!!!
I saw Marty live, at a gig with my parents. Because the old man was a snide gob@hite full of self loathing, he had to get a dig in. The venue was small and as Marty squeezed past our table, the old @hit said loudly "He's wearing a rug!!" I felt embarrassed.
I'd recently bought a Marty Wilde greatest hits LP, because I'm a guitarist and a big fan of Eddie Cochran & Gene Vincent, and because of this, the old man actually bothered to ask if I wanted a ticket to the show. Marty put on a good show, and the old @hit actually admitted that Marty and his band were a lot better than he was expecting. I doubt there were any disappointed people in the audience.
They got more screams then the pop stars on top of the pops later
Great show❤️
Interesting to see that the audience habit of screaming over the act predates The Beatles era!
Today's so calledmusic never match this music
This is better than Laurence weLk
How awful were the Vernons Girls..!!!.
This is awful. Even Lawrence Welk was better than this.
Lawrence Welk was not bbetter