Just came here to check ceefax for some share prices. It seems my Lehman Brothers and Ratner’s shares are going great guns. I can go to bed relaxed now. Thanks for posting.
Tuesday 10th April 1984-a date I remember very well, as it was the day I left school forever-yippee! It is nice to watch Ceefax like this too, particularly of course as it has now sadly ended for good! Thank you for the posting-well done!
Sadly we have lost some of the middle tracks from one of the uploads as the user of the upload has turned it into a private video. Why did he/she feel the need to suddenly turn it into a private video?
This of course was at a time when Test Card F was only briefly being shown, as by then the BBC had decided really to show Pages from Ceefax instead of it, which made more sense really as at least you had something to view such as the news rather than a static image so too?! Thank you.
Because the BBC had switched from Test Card F in April 1983 to Pages from Ceefax in the May that year so too. By this time in 1984 though they were still showing the optical version of it with BBC2 COLOUR underneath it so too, and continued to do so until the October that year. BBC1 also showed it at times too. However, in May 1984 the BBC, IBA and BREMA introduced a digital version of Test Card F which really replaced the old analogue optical one that had been shown before. They also sometimes showed Test Card G-which was a modified version of the Phillips PM5544. Although the BBC was really showing Ceefax for the most part by then anyway too. Thank you!
Dahtime max Temperature forecast for 10th April 1984 was 9C to 13C. Back then nobody batted an eyelid when April daytime temperatures didn't reach or scraped double figures, suddenly nowadays on same date it's talked like it's absolutely freezing.
last one "The Big sea dream" is track from album conducted by Stipica Kalogjera and played by Studio´s orchestra of Opus / another name of DRO Bratislava in this compilation)
Yep mate, Divny Pocit aka Strange Feeling or "A Curious Sense" is on Opus LP 9113 0267, track A4, from this tape The Caress (track 11 on the BBC tc tape, LP track B5) and Capricetto (track 14, LP track B6). More BRNO Orchestra material appeared on a 1986 BBC Ceefax tape, Good Days as well...
Tracks being played here by "The Opus Orchestra" are: 1) Tulsa, 2) Gavotta, 3) Zorba, 4) Freewheeling, 5) Where Are You, Where Am I, 6) Sea Dream. 7 1 hour tapes in use at the time on BBC 2 at this time, Tulsa being one of the oldest, guess this was the final week of the school holidays before Daytime On Two returned, so Ceefax running through to 5.10 p.m.!!!. Thought there would be more pages in the sequence, often more were added during the early afternoon...
Thank you for this of course. Test Card F with tone until 9.00am, then Ceefax pages running right until 5.10pm as you say!! With no Daytime on Two on at the time, this is what BBC2 would indeed show. Well done too!!
Daytime on Two probably returned after the Easter holidays the following week - Ceefax all day during the school holidays to 5.10, 5.35 or later were common from mid 1983 through to late 1986 on BBC 2.
@@dvidclapperton Yes they did of course so then too. However, I think that was in the 1960s or 70s really with the test card until that time or so too. By the 1980s, when Ceefax was more shown, I don't think it was as late as 7.30pm on BBC2 then but am not too sure there though. By the 1990s onwards of course really, programs were shown anyway I guess indeed so then too. Thank you!
TOCR79 - sorry for misrepresenting SK and thanks for clarifying!. The CZ/SK distinction is complex for an outsider when Czechoslovakian era recordings from Brno Pops & Gustav Brom sit alongside DRO Bratislava and SK composers. I know Slova performed by Marcela Laiferová + Vel'ky sen mora by Modus (maybe Lehotsky singing?).Track 5 is Svetlo v Tvari as will have remembered! (I heard as a song performed by Jana Kocianova). But no ideas for Pavol's track 1, or the true/original identity of trk2+3
Very good stuff all, a couple of Test Card Circle experts have just re-constructed the tape, track 1 is Samba Bamba, indeed by Gustab Brom, they have it on an RTVS tape - so not, unless anyone can help, available commercially. Gavotta and Prelude to Zorba are on Opus LP 9116 0725 "Svet Muzikalov", BRNO Studio Orch, conducted by Jiri Hudec. Track 4, Free Wheeling (Slova) by Karel Vlach and his Orchestra, a Czech Radio recording (flute played by Jiri Stivin"
Although these recordings were technically by session musician groups than a particular band (hence "Opus" Orchestra - from the name of the record label), there's a clue in the video "GUSTAV BROM Dingo (funky jazz big band))" - at 3:00 you'll hear the similar phrase to Track 1 ending (Tekla aka Tulsa by Pavol Zelenay). Later in this tape, Pet (mazlíček) is by saxophonist Josef Audes - a great member of Brom's orchestra! Do contact me if for more details about other tracks, which were CZ songs
I'll have to check what the title of that track was - apparently it was omitted from the BBC 1 Ceefax AM version of the tape (to knock that down to 57 mins), and the Music Reporting sheet I had didn't give a title. Must check on that. Just a chance it and the Good Days material may appear on CD via a library label, if it happens will post a message here. I'm hoping that it does!
Here's are below some of the cuesheets of Tusla: 1 Tusla,2 Gavotta, 3 Zobra, 4 Freewheeling, 5 Where Are You, Where Am I. 6 Sea Dream as used of Tusla BBC2 13.08.81 to 14.05.84.
I remember this tape called Tusla BBC2 August 1981 to May 1984 was the predecessor tape the follow next tape called Sport were composed by Surrey-based Nicky North, first appeared in May 1984. as a replacement tape Barry White I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More.
Yeah I had always noticed the similarity in a few tracks - the flutes in Good Days instantly reminscent of this version of Slová/Free Wheeling. On that tape the violin track near the end with its great middle section was certainly a treat - and sounded fairly different from the others (in the way that Mozart Ed. tape Positron had a few surprise exceptions from the usual style!)
these are not CZ songs...are SK songs, the 4th song is " Slová" (The Words, slovak writers I.Horvath), then (just now,I can not remember the name of the song) by Pavol Zelenay with Dance Radio Orchestra Bratislava( Vieroslav Matušík Orchestra), and last one "halfsong" is "The big sea dream" ("Velky sen mora") by Jan Lehotsky
1984 - Four channels that offer a lot of quality entertainment. Even the Ceefax offered music of taste. 2015 - Over one hundred channels and I struggle to find anything entertaining. Trash, trash, trash. This is where I suggest (perhaps incorrectly) that the internet will increasingly take over if not replace the medium of television in the near future.
Yes as far as I know it was May 1984 when the digital Test Card F came into service; it then ran until 1999 when the BBC then brought in Test Cards J or W instead though.
They were not on at the time. Of course Daytime on Two had started in September 1983 on BBC2, replacing BBC1's For Schools, Colleges that had ended in the June before it; so by April 1984 they were on there; however, at this time it was the Easter holidays until the following week, as someone else here has already said Ceefax was shown all day long really. Rather like a marathon, I think this must have been the longest time that Ceefax was shown all in one go; I know from the Test Card Circle magazine that it said it was indeed so too; of course by a few years later on programmes had taken hold moreso, meaning that the showings of Ceefax were indeed much less too-alas really!!
Sarah Brummitt There actually is a ceefax style interactive holiday channel available on a manhattan Freeview box. The BBC could have adopted it to replace Ceefax when BBC1 or BBC2 are off air. But they'd rather show a lot of documentaries, rubbish reality TV and loads of repeats to fill the schedules than provide a teletext service with music, hence they failed to adopt this new ceefax replacement text service.
The interactive holiday channel on Freeview is called 365 Travel and it's alike the old style teletext. The BBC could do the same and provide a modern day version of Ceefax.
Thank you for this of course as before. The test card briefly with tone and then Ceefax of course with music. 10 out of 10 for sure too-well done!
Just came here to check ceefax for some share prices. It seems my Lehman Brothers and Ratner’s shares are going great guns. I can go to bed relaxed now. Thanks for posting.
Reading about the miners' strike on here sent a chill down my spine. The strike was only a month old that time, and it was to run until March '85.
Tuesday 10th April 1984-a date I remember very well, as it was the day I left school forever-yippee!
It is nice to watch Ceefax like this too, particularly of course as it has now sadly ended for good!
Thank you for the posting-well done!
Thank you so much too-my sentiments entirely of course-well done!!
Indeed of course too!!
And the same now then too really of course!
That song at the end of this video is called Slam - Alien Radio
Thanks. Just looked on here for it. Great track. Never heard it before. Very Orbital-sounding
Love the Samba Bamba tape, was such a refreshing change to the other music being played at the time!!
Loved that evil sounding synth music at the end. Oh and the Ceefax memories too
Sadly we have lost some of the middle tracks from one of the uploads as the user of the upload has turned it into a private video.
Why did he/she feel the need to suddenly turn it into a private video?
One of my abiding memories was always the quick moving number at the top centre
This of course was at a time when Test Card F was only briefly being shown, as by then the BBC had decided really to show Pages from Ceefax instead of it, which made more sense really as at least you had something to view such as the news rather than a static image so too?! Thank you.
Because the BBC had switched from Test Card F in April 1983 to Pages from Ceefax in the May that year so too. By this time in 1984 though they were still showing the optical version of it with BBC2 COLOUR underneath it so too, and continued to do so until the October that year. BBC1 also showed it at times too. However, in May 1984 the BBC, IBA and BREMA introduced a digital version of Test Card F which really replaced the old analogue optical one that had been shown before. They also sometimes showed Test Card G-which was a modified version of the Phillips PM5544. Although the BBC was really showing Ceefax for the most part by then anyway too. Thank you!
Test Card F was not shown on ITV, Channel 4 or S4C though, as they instead showed their own IBA ETP1 card rather than the BBC's one though then too.
Dahtime max Temperature forecast for 10th April 1984 was 9C to 13C. Back then nobody batted an eyelid when April daytime temperatures didn't reach or scraped double figures, suddenly nowadays on same date it's talked like it's absolutely freezing.
last one "The Big sea dream" is track from album conducted by Stipica Kalogjera and played by Studio´s orchestra of Opus / another name of DRO Bratislava in this compilation)
Yep mate, Divny Pocit aka Strange Feeling or "A Curious Sense" is on Opus LP 9113 0267, track A4, from this tape The Caress (track 11 on the BBC tc tape, LP track B5) and Capricetto (track 14, LP track B6).
More BRNO Orchestra material appeared on a 1986 BBC Ceefax tape, Good Days as well...
Same on my copy of the cue sheet (TLN20 704B611) - it's the track after Fantasy (which itself was faded out prematurely on that Ceefax AM version).
Tracks being played here by "The Opus Orchestra" are: 1) Tulsa, 2) Gavotta, 3) Zorba, 4) Freewheeling, 5) Where Are You, Where Am I, 6) Sea Dream.
7 1 hour tapes in use at the time on BBC 2 at this time, Tulsa being one of the oldest, guess this was the final week of the school holidays before Daytime On Two returned, so Ceefax running through to 5.10 p.m.!!!. Thought there would be more pages in the sequence, often more were added during the early afternoon...
Tracks 7 to 9 from Samba Bamba are on link below.
m.ruclips.net/video/ptMsT2zmtCc/видео.html
Thank you for this of course. Test Card F with tone until 9.00am, then Ceefax pages running right until 5.10pm as you say!! With no Daytime on Two on at the time, this is what BBC2 would indeed show. Well done too!!
And Ceefax with music of course too!!
Yes Ceefax with music really there too all the way, with no announcers then until 5.10pm of course I guess too?! Wonderful really somehow?!
Daytime on Two probably returned after the Easter holidays the following week - Ceefax all day during the school holidays to 5.10, 5.35 or later were common from mid 1983 through to late 1986 on BBC 2.
ceefaxfreak09 @
Going further back, trade test transmissions or Pages from Ceefax often went on until 7.30pm on BBC2.
Yes, of course that is so right-and how I miss those days too-thank you of course!!
Yes they were indeed too-you are so right of course!!
@@dvidclapperton Yes they did of course so then too. However, I think that was in the 1960s or 70s really with the test card until that time or so too. By the 1980s, when Ceefax was more shown, I don't think it was as late as 7.30pm on BBC2 then but am not too sure there though. By the 1990s onwards of course really, programs were shown anyway I guess indeed so then too. Thank you!
TOCR79 - sorry for misrepresenting SK and thanks for clarifying!. The CZ/SK distinction is complex for an outsider when Czechoslovakian era recordings from Brno Pops & Gustav Brom sit alongside DRO Bratislava and SK composers.
I know Slova performed by Marcela Laiferová + Vel'ky sen mora by Modus (maybe Lehotsky singing?).Track 5 is Svetlo v Tvari as will have remembered! (I heard as a song performed by Jana Kocianova). But no ideas for Pavol's track 1, or the true/original identity of trk2+3
Very good stuff all, a couple of Test Card Circle experts have just re-constructed the tape, track 1 is Samba Bamba, indeed by Gustab Brom, they have it on an RTVS tape - so not, unless anyone can help, available commercially.
Gavotta and Prelude to Zorba are on Opus LP 9116 0725 "Svet Muzikalov", BRNO Studio Orch, conducted by Jiri Hudec.
Track 4, Free Wheeling (Slova) by Karel Vlach and his Orchestra, a Czech Radio recording (flute played by Jiri Stivin"
Although these recordings were technically by session musician groups than a particular band (hence "Opus" Orchestra - from the name of the record label),
there's a clue in the video "GUSTAV BROM Dingo (funky jazz big band))" - at 3:00 you'll hear the similar phrase to Track 1 ending (Tekla aka Tulsa by Pavol Zelenay).
Later in this tape, Pet (mazlíček) is by saxophonist Josef Audes - a great member of Brom's orchestra!
Do contact me if for more details about other tracks, which were CZ songs
I'll have to check what the title of that track was - apparently it was omitted from the BBC 1 Ceefax AM version of the tape (to knock that down to 57 mins), and the Music Reporting sheet I had didn't give a title. Must check on that. Just a chance it and the Good Days material may appear on CD via a library label, if it happens will post a message here. I'm hoping that it does!
Here's are below some of the cuesheets of Tusla: 1 Tusla,2 Gavotta, 3 Zobra, 4 Freewheeling, 5 Where Are You, Where Am I. 6 Sea Dream as used of Tusla BBC2 13.08.81 to 14.05.84.
I remember this tape called Tusla BBC2 August 1981 to May 1984 was the predecessor tape the follow next tape called Sport were composed by Surrey-based Nicky North, first appeared in May 1984. as a replacement tape Barry White I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More.
The tape is actually now known as Samba Bamba.
The second track could have had electric guitar accompaniment with the glockenspiel if you think carefully.
after school flashback here, Think of a Number & Tuckers Luck on telly..wayheyyy.
Yeah I had always noticed the similarity in a few tracks - the flutes in Good Days instantly reminscent of this version of Slová/Free Wheeling.
On that tape the violin track near the end with its great middle section was certainly a treat - and sounded fairly different from the others (in the way that Mozart Ed. tape Positron had a few surprise exceptions from the usual style!)
Was Slova/Free Wheeling produced composed by Faye Gibbs?
The second track of this the high pitched instrument sounds allke to the second track of Flying Over San Jose and the final track of Tropicana.
I would rather wake up to this than the rubbish on morning tv today !!
Hear hear-you are so right, I would do so too-if only!!
Why do you watch it if it's rubbish? It's not the 1980s anymore, you have near infinite choice.
@@@Jayfive276
But the choice today is rubbish including on the now all programmes BBC1 and BBC2.
@@brucedanton of course!!
@@brucedanton Yes of course indeed too-and why not at that really I feel?
Do any of the CeeFax-es on RUclips have film reviews?
these are not CZ songs...are SK songs, the 4th song is " Slová" (The Words, slovak writers I.Horvath), then (just now,I can not remember the name of the song) by Pavol Zelenay with Dance Radio Orchestra Bratislava( Vieroslav Matušík Orchestra), and last one "halfsong" is "The big sea dream" ("Velky sen mora") by Jan Lehotsky
Samba Bamba - BBC2 - 1981-1984
1984 - Four channels that offer a lot of quality entertainment. Even the Ceefax offered music of taste.
2015 - Over one hundred channels and I struggle to find anything entertaining. Trash, trash, trash.
This is where I suggest (perhaps incorrectly) that the internet will increasingly take over if not replace the medium of television in the near future.
Very very true. TV is rubbish these days. Even the BBC.
You are so right indeed-thank you though!!
@@roddale8412 It is indeed of course sadly though too!!
@@roddale8412 I always looked forward to Ceefax then that is for sure too of course!
And BBC2 testcard F (optical version) would be coming to the end of its usage before the digital version replaces it.
Yes, it was in October 1984 as far as I know that it ended too.
Yes as far as I know it was May 1984 when the digital Test Card F came into service; it then ran until 1999 when the BBC then brought in Test Cards J or W instead though.
Jesus christ I'm awake for fucks sake
This has just turned up - I had no idea the singers on this track were Linha Singers:
RUclips... v=4phfk9ooO-E
anyone notice the BBC 2 listings? - Ceefax from 09.00 through to 17.10
wait- what abot schools programmes, where were they in the listings?
Indeed so too I wonder?!
They were not on at the time. Of course Daytime on Two had started in September 1983 on BBC2, replacing BBC1's For Schools, Colleges that had ended in the June before it; so by April 1984 they were on there; however, at this time it was the Easter holidays until the following week, as someone else here has already said Ceefax was shown all day long really. Rather like a marathon, I think this must have been the longest time that Ceefax was shown all in one go; I know from the Test Card Circle magazine that it said it was indeed so too; of course by a few years later on programmes had taken hold moreso, meaning that the showings of Ceefax were indeed much less too-alas really!!
Miss old fashioned teletext. You can't get it on digital TV these days.
Sarah Brummitt
There actually is a ceefax style interactive holiday channel available on a manhattan Freeview box.
The BBC could have adopted it to replace Ceefax when BBC1 or BBC2 are off air. But they'd rather show a lot of documentaries, rubbish reality TV and loads of repeats to fill the schedules than provide a teletext service with music, hence they failed to adopt this new ceefax replacement text service.
The interactive holiday channel on Freeview is called 365 Travel and it's alike the old style teletext. The BBC could do the same and provide a modern day version of Ceefax.
@@dvidclapperton You are so right too of course-for sure!!
6:00 is great!
Gavotta. Soprano saxophone.
and for probably the best pop original of any of these, go to amazon co uk and search B006Y18PZ6
You might get a Strange Feeling! ;)
Also WkEtd9nK81Q 3:24 :D