Ah yes indeed the wonderful times when there was not much on BBC1 or BBC2 in the daytime, here of course from July 1984. This was when Ceefax was shown particularly between May 1983 and October 1986 or so on both channels. At the time here too, Daytime on Two of course would not have been on, so instead Ceefax-with music-was broadcast often all day, from 9.00am right through until 5.10pm, 5.25pm or even as late as 5.40pm at times; not only that but it was listed by then in the Radio Times as Pages from Ceefax, as it had been since January 1984 also. Thank you so much too!!
I remember being really taken in by the music of that time. Large gaps in programmes which seem like an alien concept now, however got me through some depressing moments then.
I am inclined to agree with you. These closedown times where you never knew what to expect were always something to look forward to and it’s a pure nostalgic trip down memory Lane seeing these broadcasts once again.
Wonderful footage! Very many thanks for posting these from the glorious summer of 1984 - it’s also good to remember Ceefax being shown on a Sunday morning too. “Ellipse” is the Ceefax tape being played here, on both occasions on BBC1, by this time only a few weeks into its service.
...Trevor Lyttleton Orchestra...All tracks now released commercially, can be found here on You Tube as well. Ellipse split over 3 "Music Of The Air" albums...
For the first clip, on 7/9/84, Ellipse is caught from the tail end of Slow Rock Cafe, plays through the entirety of Fedora, and into the start of Mariposa. For the second clip, on 7/15/84, Ellipse is played again, with this clip starting near the end of Fedora, and continuing on past Mariposa, and going through the next 9 songs, onto the closing track, Saga. The clip ends with silence - though I presume a tape change must have been in order, given that they had about half an hour on BBC One before the final program of "Encounters with Islam". As to what tape got a partial playing... I don't know!
Never realised Strachan was subject of a tug of war between United and Cologne. This is a goldmine.
Ah yes indeed the wonderful times when there was not much on BBC1 or BBC2 in the daytime, here of course from July 1984. This was when Ceefax was shown particularly between May 1983 and October 1986 or so on both channels. At the time here too, Daytime on Two of course would not have been on, so instead Ceefax-with music-was broadcast often all day, from 9.00am right through until 5.10pm, 5.25pm or even as late as 5.40pm at times;
not only that but it was listed by then in the Radio Times as Pages from Ceefax, as it had been since January 1984 also. Thank you so much too!!
And BBC1 would show it too at times, although of course they would have more programmes on at the time than BBC2 mostly did too.
And of course too by then Ceefax had really replaced either Test Cards F or G as the downtime in-vision when nothing else was on either.
Very nice as before and the music too great really.
I remember being really taken in by the music of that time. Large gaps in programmes which seem like an alien concept now, however got me through some depressing moments then.
I am inclined to agree with you. These closedown times where you never knew what to expect were always something to look forward to and it’s a pure nostalgic trip down memory Lane seeing these broadcasts once again.
@@ceefaxbbctv8788 You are so right there too really-of course for sure at that!
Wonderful footage!
Very many thanks for posting these from the glorious summer of 1984 - it’s also good to remember Ceefax being shown on a Sunday morning too. “Ellipse” is the Ceefax tape being played here, on both occasions on BBC1, by this time only a few weeks into its service.
Ceefax was shown on BBC1 most Sunday mornings in the absence of any educational programmes I seem to recall.
I remember tracks from the music tape Ellipse being played over pages from the BBC teletext information service Ceefax back in the 1980s.
Frank Chacksfield?
...Trevor Lyttleton Orchestra...All tracks now released commercially, can be found here on You Tube as well. Ellipse split over 3 "Music Of The Air" albums...
@@johnflannery3009
Trevor Lyttleton orchestra and Frank Chacksfield Orchestra tracks sound very similar.
loved this trip down memory lane.
For the first clip, on 7/9/84, Ellipse is caught from the tail end of Slow Rock Cafe, plays through the entirety of Fedora, and into the start of Mariposa. For the second clip, on 7/15/84, Ellipse is played again, with this clip starting near the end of Fedora, and continuing on past Mariposa, and going through the next 9 songs, onto the closing track, Saga. The clip ends with silence - though I presume a tape change must have been in order, given that they had about half an hour on BBC One before the final program of "Encounters with Islam". As to what tape got a partial playing... I don't know!
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