BBC Northern Radio Orchestra - NRO - Band Beat 1976 Introduced by Roy Castle
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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Musical Director; Neil Richardson
Trumpets; Ernie Watson, Dave Browning, Bill Pettigrew
Trombones; Derek Southcott, Alan Pepperell, Bram Fisher
Horns; Dave Hills, Stephen Roberts, Pete Davies
Reeds; Johnny Roadhouse, Roger Fleetwood
Flutes; Steve Shaw, Sue Wooley
Clarinet; Les Lovelady
Oboe; Helen McQueen
Harp; Charlotte Seale
Lead guitar; Ray Barlow
Rhythm guitar; Ian Early
Bass guitar; Bob Duffy
Piano; Brian Fitzgerald
Drums; Bob Turner
Percussion; Vernon Leigh, Bill Nixon
Great band, great chart!
That was a great upload and brings back some memories. I was very fond of the NRO and wrote to Neil Richardson in the same year as this. I was only 19 and I travelled from Portsmouth to sit in with a recording session and subsequently went to several recording sessions at Maida Vale when Neil left and became an occasional conductor of the Radio orchestra. He was one of the nicest people you could meet and always replied to my letters. I went to a session less than a week before I got married and I invited him to my wedding and he actually came! I was absolutely thrilled. I lost touch with him but then regained contact when he lived in Spain around 2008,I think and he sent me some of the recordings of his singers with the Metropole orchestra. It was the arrangements that really got me. many of them were superb and it was the often played 'caravan' that prompted me to wrote to Neil. That was arranged by Dick Walter and is still one of my favourite arrangements. I've still got recordings of the NRO, MRO and radio orchestra. Memories of a bygone era.
Roger Fleetwood was my dad ( Soprano Solo ) Love to see the rest of this.
I would too. I learned to sound balance with the NRO at the Playhouse.
Great band
Alan Pepperell on bass trombone?
Thank you Mike for finding this nugget and Steve Roberts for giving me the nod. Great memories of my first contract after leaving music college. So many names and faces which are enduring and take me back 45 years! Myself, Steve and Pete had a ball during our recording sessions at The Playhouse Theatre, Hulme, Manchester, and after ! ( From memory I think Band Beat was recorded at the main BBC studios in Oxford Road, Manchester). So thrilled to see the NRO.
I was a kid at the school across the rd , used to wag it and listen to you guys record ..remember Johnny Roadhouse of course , Jimmy Lonie, Ernie Watson was kind to us and bought us tea and toast ...norrie paramour , n richardson , alan fawkes , martin kershaw.....I later was a pro sax player for yrs
and Brian Fitzgerald on Piano
and Charlotte Seale on Harp
Other players: Sue Wooley - Flute, Helen McQueen - Oboe, Steve Shaw - Flute, Les Lovelady - Clarinet, Ernie Watson , Bill Pettigrew - Trumpets, Dave Hills, Stephen Roberts, Pete Davies - Horns, Bram Fisher - Trombone, Ray Barlow - Lead guitar, Ian Early - Rhythm guitar, Bob Duffy - Bass guitar, Bob Turner - Drums, Vernon Leigh, Bill Nixon - Percussion
Thank you for the great info Stephen! I'll add those names! Dave Browning was my trumpet teacher :-)
@@mikethomas7038 I saw Dave at Bernard Hermann's funeral a few years ago - he hadn't changed a bit. Great player and wonderful classy sound. I've put a link to this on FB. Thanks for posting it - it's a real blast from the past and I remember the sessions well!
@@stephenroberts3099 that must have been not long before Dave died Stephen, around 3 years ago. I visited Dave’s wife Iris not long after who gave me this video along with a load of others which I’ve posted here. Miss Dave so much.
@@mikethomas7038 I'm so sorry to hear that Mike. I am so glad I saw him and I actually told him then that he was one of the brass players I learnt more from than anyone else in my youth. It's not often you get to say the things you feel in such a way and I was glad I did. Time flies and we must make the most of it! I think it was Ernie on lead in that show who later stepped down and Bill took over. Dave used to do all the cool solos and great Flugelhorn stuff. Dave loved his cars and Johnny Rodehouse got him a number plate DB5, which he had on his BM 5 series. Later he got a Porsche. When I saw him last I asked him about the plate and he said he had sold it - must have got a good price. I think Johnny sold it to Dave for about £15. When my wife and I got married (in 1975) Johnny moved all our worldly goods in a Rolls Royce pickup with teak and brass running boards and red livery. Happy days!
Seems impossible that there used to be programmes with live big bands on tv at one time.
we've gone backwards since the bean counters took over.
Do you have any more footage of the northern radio orchestra please? :) or do you know of ways to get hold of more footage?
Sorry I don't Jack!