Colour
Me Pop was a late night show broadcast after 10:30 on BBC2 in 1968 and 1969 (on
Fridays until the end of August 1968 then on Saturdays). Initially it was a effectively
an adjunct to contemporary discussion programme Late Night Line Up which featured
a slot for folk, pop and rock acts on a weekly basis, and provided a monthly
best of the bunch summary.
Most
weeks a singles act would perform a 25 minute set broadcast without a break. Occasionally
there would be more than one act and occasionally outside broadcasts would be
aired. The most notable of these were the three broadcasts put out in November
1968 featuring the recordings taken from Olympop! - A Benefit for the British
Olympic Appeal Fund held at Fairfield Halls in Croydon on September 29, the
same year. The first showcased Eclection with the wonderful voice of soon to
depart Kerrilee Male, Spooky Tooth and Jethro Tull. Two weeks later we saw a performance from The Nice and
a week later The Alan Price Set and Julie Driscoll Brian Auger & The
Trinity.
Unfortunately,
many of the original recordings have now been lost.
Performance
History
| 14 June 1968 | Manfred Mann |
| 21 June 1968 | The Small Faces (performance includes: "Song of a Baker", "Happiness Stan", "Rollin' Over", "The Hungry Intruder", "The Journey", "Mad John" & "Happydaystoytown") |
| 28 June 1968 | Eclection |
| 12 July 1968 | Salena Jones with The Brian Lemon Trio |
| 19 July 1968 | Fleetwood Mac |
| 26 July 1968 | The Kinks (performance includes: "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", "Well Respected Man", "Death of a Clown", "Sunny Afternoon", "Two Sisters", "Sitting by the Riverside", "Lincoln County", "Picture Book" & "Days") |
| 09 August 1968 | The Peddlers |
| 16 August 1968 | The Tremeloes |
| 23 August 1968 | Barry Noble |
| 30 August 1968 | Spooky Tooth |
| 07 September 1968 | The Hollies |
| 14 September 1968 | The Moody Blues (performance includes:"Ride My See Saw", "Dr Livingstone I Presume", "House of Four Doors", "Voices in the Sky", "The Best Way to Travel", "Visions of Paradise", "The Actor", "Om") |
| 21 September 1968 | Unit 4 + 2 |
| 28 September 1968 | David Ackles |
| 05 October 1968 | O'Haras Playboys |
| 12 October 1968 | Honeybus; Clodagh Rodgers |
| 02 November 1968 | Eclection; Spooky Tooth; Jethro Tull (all performances were recorded on 29-Sep-68 at Olympop! - A Benefit for the British Olympic Appeal Fund held at Fairfield Halls in Croydon) |
| 09 November 1968 | Foggy Dew-O; Lew Prinz And The Bedrocks |
| 16 November 1968 | The Nice (performance includes:"America", "Ars Longa Vita Brevis" & "Rondo" and recorded on 29-Sep-68 at Olympop! - A Benefit for the British Olympic Appeal Fund held at Fairfield Halls in Croydon) |
| 23 November 1968 | The Alan Price Set; Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity (all performances were recorded on 29-Sep-68 at Olympop! - A Benefit for the British Olympic Appeal Fund held at Fairfield Halls in Croydon) |
| 30 November 1968 | Giles, Giles and Fripp |
| 07 December 1968 | Timebox |
| 14 December 1968 | Love Sculpture |
| 21 December 1968 | Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (performance includes "Canyons of Your Mind", "I'm the Urban Spaceman", "Mr Apollo") |
| 04 January 1969 | The Move (performance includes:" I Can Hear the Grass Grow", "Beautiful Daughter", "Goin Back", "Wild Tiger Woman", "Christian Life", "Blackberry Way", "Something", "Fire Brigade" & "Flowers in the Rain") |
| 11 January 1969 | Sons And Lovers |
| 16 January 1969 | The Pop Tops |
| 25 January 1969 | The Toast |
| 01 February 1969 | Chicken Shack |
| 06 February 1969 | Bobby Hanna; The Art Movement |
| 15 February 1969 | The Equals; Barbara Ruskin |
| 22 February 1969 | The Marmalade |
| 01 March 1969 | Ten Years After (performance includes:"A Sad Song", "No Title" & "I'm Going Home" Audio exists) |
| 08 March 1969 | World of Oz |
| 15 March 1969 | Caravan |
| 22 March 1969 | Harmony Grass |
| 12 April 1969 | Free |
| 19 April 1969 | Jimmy Campbell; Sweet Thursday |
| 26 April 1969 | Elastic Band |
| 10 May 1969 | Family (performance includes: "The Weavers Answer", "Observations From a Hill", "How Hi the Li", "Processions" and "A Song For Me") |
| 17 May 1969 | Cats Eyes |
| 31 May 1969 | Group Therapy |
| 07 June 1969 | Lions Of Judea |
| 14 June 1969 | Strawbs (with David Bowie and Tony Visconti miming to “Poor Jimmy Wilson”) |
| 05 July 1969 | Trapeze (performance includes"Magic Carpet Ride", "Meet on the Ledge" & "Can't See a Thing" all recorded at a live show in Wolverhampton introduced by Emperor Rosko), Samson |
| 12 July 1969 | Copperfield |
| 26 July 1969 | Orange Bicycle |
| 02 August 1969 | The Love Affair; Philip Goodhand-Tait |
| 09 August 1969 | Gene Pitney with the Mike Cotton Sound |
| 30 August 1969 | The Fortunes |
| Not Broadcast | Chambers Brothers |