COLOUR ME POP - BBC2 1968-1969

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