Pop Go the Sixties - Season 2

Pop Go the Sixties - Season 2

Season 2

Network
Episodes12
DatesJul 22, 2008 - Aug 26, 2008
Previous Season

Episodes

Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity
Season 2Episode 15 min

Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity

Pop moments from the BBC's sixties archive. Recorded in 1968 for Top of the Pops, Julie Driscoll sings to the smoking hot accompaniment of keyboard wizard Brian Auger's Trinity on their hit version of Bob Dylan's This Wheel's On Fire.

Jul 22, 2008
Herman's Hermits
Season 2Episode 25 min

Herman's Hermits

Britain's inoffensive pop conquerors of America, who anticipated the sound that the Monkees would later call their own, perform Something Is Happening on theWednesday Show in 1968. Peter Noone leads the band on the song that made number six in the Swiss charts.

Jul 23, 2008
Dusty Springfield
Season 2Episode 35 min

Dusty Springfield

From her own series recorded in 1967, Dusty Springfield performs the Bobby Hebb classic, Sunny, which had been a hit in the UK for Cher and Georgie Fame.

Jul 29, 2008
Procol Harum
Season 2Episode 45 min

Procol Harum

A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harum was one of the Sixties' most popular and most played songs. It's performed here by the group who first recorded it, on Top of the Pops in 1967.

Jul 30, 2008
Sandie Shaw
Season 2Episode 55 min

Sandie Shaw

From a rehearsal for a Top of the Pops performance, Sandie gives an accidentally aloof ice-queen rendering of Long Live Love so the cameras can practice their positions. An otherworldly performance of her number 1 hit from 1965.

Aug 2, 2008
Peter and Gordon
Season 2Episode 65 min

Peter and Gordon

From a 1964 edition of Crackerjack, pop folk duo Peter Asher and Gordon Waller sing A World Without Love written by Paul McCartney - who was going out with Peter's sister at the time.

Aug 5, 2008
Julie Felix
Season 2Episode 75 min

Julie Felix

A 1966 performance from the singing star of The Frost Report. Going to the Zoo calls for audience participation and the audience wind themselves up into a near-monochrome frenzy as they sway slightly in their seats and softly join in.

Aug 6, 2008
Status Quo
Season 2Episode 85 min

Status Quo

A youthful Status Quo, complete with ruffled shirts and sideburns, sing their first hit single, Pictures of Matchstick Men, on a 1968 episode of Top of the Pops.

Aug 12, 2008
Cilla Black
Season 2Episode 95 min

Cilla Black

Back to 1968 and a song taken from Cilla Black's very own show, Cilla and her dancers perform a cover version of the Stevie Wonder classic Uptight.

Aug 13, 2008
Bruce Forsyth
Season 2Episode 105 min

Bruce Forsyth

In a real Brucie bonus from 1968, we see Bruce tickle the ivories in his own inimitable way on the Harry Seacombe show. He performs the 1965 pop instrumental A Walk In The Black Forest.

Aug 19, 2008
The Rolling Stones
Season 2Episode 115 min

The Rolling Stones

Performing the opening track to their album Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones are pure sixties psychedelia singing Gimme Shelter on Pop Goes the Sixties from 1969.

Aug 20, 2008
The Pretty Things
Season 2Episode 125 min

The Pretty Things

Taking their name from a Bo Didley song, The Pretty Things groove out during a performance of Midnight To Six Man from their album Get The Picture? on A Whole Scene Going in 1966.

Aug 26, 2008

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