I was 17 and the 70's were amazing. The group who were first on were ok but I didn't think the singer was very strong. Contrary to what Micky Most said, the instrumental side was quite polished. I'm saying this as a musician. Micky Most didn't know what he was talking about.
I used to watch this as a teenager and remembered the theme tune and graphics before watching it again here. For some reason, I haven’t got any enthusiasm for today’s equivalent programmes!
Magic times eh. people born later could never understand what it was like to have all the hopes, great music, beauty, clothes and lifestyles of those days. We could all walk out of one job and straight into another and there was no constant feed of bad news stressing us out.
@@karlbarlow "No constant feed of bad news stressing us out"??? The 1970s has just called in and asked to have a brief word with you about strikes, weak governments and waiting the best part of 50 years before you get a phone installed in your own house.
I seem to remember Mickie Most being feared and hated, but he produced so much good music...what a real talent he was. Simon Cowell plays the same part, but Most had talent.
I remember this show and how it catapulted many to stardom. Like many others I wish I could go back to that time. How times have changed and not for the better. Oh, happy days, where is my first, true love now?
Guitar teacher I used to go to won new faces. He had the trophy in the window. Mike Johnson clasical Guitar. He used to busk outside the albert Hall while proms were on as well.
'I like my Maori's a little darker.' 'They are warm, smiley, happy people. I can't understand why they killed Captain Cook.' The 1970s were frigging awesome.
Jeez, I was 24 when we performed on that show. Popular music has changed so much, but you're right though. There's loads of great music still being made if you look for it on Spotify and whatever. Don't just rely on the radio.
3 months after this 11 year old me and my parents migrated to Melbourne, Australia. Still remember the chemistry set I got for my Christmas present that year from Hamleys.
Stand up comedy is so hard to do well and hit the mark. Thats why Manning, Miller, Carson, Goodwin et.al. are rightly revered as kings of a very difficult trade.
I was 18 the year this was broadcast, a time when there was still a modicum of innocence and naivety in our society and ‘acts’ had to do their apprenticeships in pubs and clubs..the unfiltered nature of those times gave us a far wider variety of sounds and styles than is remotely possible today were we are basically force fed what the industry wants us to ingest, Happy days warts an all’ 😎
They're amateurs/semi pros from clubland & takes guts on TV first time, so respect on that, you don't get TV entertainment no more apart from sarcasm social media-land & pop music has all dried up to over produced mush. This is fun & truthful.
Great to see this, takes me back to the great old days. Yes it is dated but the format is the same but the bands, artists far better than a great deal of the dross we have to put up with today.
That's the 70s, we had flares, wide lapels jackets, wide collars, kipper ties & big shoe (men) heels. It was awful & I cringe, the music & football was ace tho unlike now.
Can't understand why Mickie said the music was amatuerish , when it was obvious the first act were miming to a backing track . Where were the brass and stings ??
@@darenwilliams5858 Hi Darren, we were all offered the services of the Johnny Patrick Big Band, who were set up in the studio next door. We had to provide a tape of our song 6 weeks beforehand to give their arranger time to work out the parts. All the orchestra had a live feed from our studio on headphones, but we could only monitor them through a crappy pair of speakers in front of us. Jack Parnell said our timing was a little bit shaky. The truth was that we were speeding up throughout our song and the band's conductor was hastily chopping out sections of his arrangement cos they couldn't keep up. It would have been better if our drummer could have had a pair of headphones to hear them better.
@@karlbarlow H i Karl, Imforgetting that this was the 70s and the tech isn't what it was today . I was actually defending you when you're musicianship was brought into question because with no . headphones in in ear monitors , i couldn't see how you'd be playing to a backing track ( which i have to admit , i do in the live band i play in ) . I didn't realize that you had a live band playing along side you , in the next room . Taking all that into account , i do think that the comments were a little unfair and the timing issues would not have been picked up by the avarage man in the audience . On the whole , i think you all did a really good job
@@darenwilliams5858 Thanks for saying that Daren. At the time I thought Mickie Most was harsh, but over the years, I've come to agree with him. I think the big mistake that we made, was to slip the floor manager a tenner in order to bring our amps closer to us so that we could hear them better - not thinking that we'd have been better off if we hadn't. It is a shame though as the band actually lost work thanks to that appearance and we split up at the end of that month.
Good to see that you survived it all Isabella. I hope that watching the show here brought back some good memories. If you want to, you could let me have your email address, and I can send you a WeTransfer download link to the mp4 file for you to keep. My email is karly.b2022@gmail.com
Trying to remember if Arthur Askey was a judge on New Faces, Opportunity Knocks, or The Sky's the Limit. He was the Cheryl Cole of the '70s, always finding something nice to say about an act. "They'll do well in t' clubs," he'd conclude. Seeing this was really interesting - thank you.
@@karlbarlow: That's right, he was a real gentleman. I almost feel guilty that Deep Purple and Rainbow are my fave bands, as Ritchie Blackmore used to play tricks on Arthur Askey at 1960s variety shows. Mind you, he probably took them well.
@@BanalayerPete1972 Ha ha ha I hope so.. I used to see Deep Purple for free when they played at Mothers in Birmingham. I used to collect glasses there in 1969. Brilliant, but I still suffer from tinnitus, thanks to those nights.
@@BanalayerPete1972The memory is having to be refreshed. I remember they played Child in Time, so I had the year wrong. It would have been February 1970, which would make the line up mark 2.
Very enjoyable episode. I watched New Faces regularly. No nastiness from the panel, nor excessive egos on show. Much prefer this to the similar shows on TV now. I'm still searching for the '73 episode when Ken Worthington 'TV's Mr Clarinet Man' came last and got blasted by the panel lol.
Jack Parnell comes across as clueless in his analyses. Calling Flamenco guitar 29:13 ‘not real guitar playing’ and then taking about 49:29 ‘instruments not being quite right’. Mickie Most on the other hand was brilliant and insightful in most of his criticism. Great upload
Thanks, I agree with your opinion of Jack Parnell. He just rode on the back of his old man, Val Parnell. Had his own orchestra at one time, but I guess in name only. I can't imagine he arranged any of the music for it. He had been a talented pit drummer though.
@@karlbarlow: He seemed way out of touch with instrumental techniques, which is really ODD for a bandleader. I like his orchestral work, but he wasn't up on pop/rock - or flamenco - at all.
Good to see a demonstration of how the entertainment industry , clubs , tv , the circuits used to work if nothing else as many performers had to work very hard to even get an appearance on TV . Unlike the contrived nonsense that the public see now.
Suzi Quatro's producer as well, indeed a legend! I feel lucky to have Mickie Most, Suzi Quatro, and Alan Price's autographs. Rock on New Faces = i remember it well! (i was 8 in 1976)
Takes me back. Derek Hobson a consummate professional and Mickie Most, loved the theme tune. Love to know what the panel were paid! Thanks for posting.
@@stevelyons3347 Derek Hobson had been presenting the regional daily news programme, "ATV Today" for several years and was well-known to Midlands' viewers. He was very professional and humorous and popular. Chris Tarrant was also on the team to give readers an idea of how ATV was probably the best, most professional yet informal ITV region. Midlanders were extremely lucky 😉
My hair was on end watching this I had forgotten this program I was 11 years old when it was aired haaar yes the 70's when everything seemed less complicated than today.
I've tried (with some difficulty) to look past the green velvet jacket, medallions, strange Hawaiian harmonising, dodgy Irish joke and 'Toured all over South Africa'. What I do know about New Faces (and what made it unique) is that all the acts who appeared on it had already paid their dues as professionals in front of the paying public. I remember a former contestant telling me you couldn't get a look-in unless you had an Equity or MU card and this means that it wasn't an amateur talent show, it was a place where professional acts tried to launch themselves to the next level. So anyone who thinks Mickey Most is being a bit harsh should know that he was probably (then) the most consistently successful record producer and hitmaker in history offering advice to people serious about entertainment as a career. Set against this, Jack Parnell (like Joe Loss) was a bandleader still making big bucks long after the big band era had gone. So I was intrigued to see him say that playing with a capo 'wasn't real guitar playing' and Most trying his best to sound polite in disagreeing with him.
Thanks for that comment, what you say is true. We were all in either Equity or the MU. It is odd that Jack Parnell had shown his ignorance there, considering he was a bandleader.
@@johno4521This show opened the door for shows like that. Though this wasn't the first, Hughie Green had Opportunity Knocks and there was even the Carrol Levis Show before that.
All the acts on here were destined to never go further than clubland. And they probably knew that deep down, but at least they got onto the telly, which was a big thing back then.
@@Lee_MCMLXXI Oh right, I didn't know you could do that. I thought they were a really good band. It's a pity the judges were against bands that week. I hope you're all doing well.
@@karlbarlow Thanks for your wishes. Unfortunately my uncle passed away in 2011, at age 58. They were competent enough, but maybe a bit too 'safe', nothing strikingly different about them, and lacked the, (to use a familiar phrase) X-factor.
It was a bit soul destroying to take that kind of criticism so publicly back then, but it was what all of us who didn't have the money for promotion had to endure to get some TV exposure.
@@karlbarlow Even back then it was all about ratings. Half of those judges should have been up in bed in a retirement home not insulting contestants to the back teeth. That Benny Hill sketch where he ripped the piss out of them was spot on.
Ha ha ha ha, that was the fashion of the day. They were called Kipper Ties. If you asked for one in a Birmingham boutique, the shop assistant would usually smile and ask "Do you want milk and sugar in that?"
The Ad break saved that comedian! - judge "I'm sure he's going to be very big" nope, he wasn't, the sex jokes were embarrassing & I'm a former soldier in the 70s. Sack the panel!
Does anyone remember that other old duffer called Clifford Davies and Tony Hatch (who was nicknamed 'The Hatchet Man'), who made Simon Cowell look like a marshmallow?
I do. I remember Tony Hatch was a songwriter along with his wife Jackie Trent. I think his comments were just nasty. Nina Muskov (I think I got that right) modelled herself on him in the later series. Nothing like being a bad-ass to make you famous. Nobody had heard of her before that series.
I was 15 when this was aired I loved it you can't beat the old programmes what they put on now is a load of rubbish we just don't watch tv anymore because of how bad it is bring back the old programmes back
I was in the audience on one New Faces show during September 1977. Among the panelists was Shaw "Keep em Peeled" Taylor. There was and I use the word with caution a comedian who was so bad he at one point in his act pleaded with the audience to laugh at one of his lousy gags. He knew he was lousy and cut his spot short by singing Isnt She Lovely. No one of note won that particular show. Clive James was a notorious panel member in the early days of New Faces and was pretty vile to the performers.
I was a teenager in the 70s and watched this show every week. Oh, the 70s - flared and bell-bottom jeans/trousers, huge neckties, platform shoes, big hair and of course there was the opening of discotheques - unforgettable!😀😁🤣😎😋🙄😛!!
I was 17 at the time having just left school and started my apprenticeship as a joiner. Loved the 70’s and would do them all over again.
God I was 19 when this was aired ! God I miss the 70s it’s almost an ache 😭
I feel your pain!
Same here, best time of my life
Concur👍
I was 9, but I used to watch it.
I was 5!!! But yes, I share your thoughts, I too miss the 70s. I also miss the 80's. But yeah, very much miss those times.
Yes I agree 👍 the howling and shouting from the adiance
Comes from American TV.
Which has influenced this country's talent shows.
At least this New Faces was a bit more friendly & encouraging & advising as before the early series was slagging acts off & just plain nasty.
The seventies were a glorious era, what I would give to go back to those wonderful days and growing up as a young child .
9 years old , two weeks from Christmas .
Take me back 😢
I was 17 and the 70's were amazing. The group who were first on were ok but I didn't think the singer was very strong. Contrary to what Micky Most said, the instrumental side was quite polished. I'm saying this as a musician. Micky Most didn't know what he was talking about.
I used to watch this as a teenager and remembered the theme tune and graphics before watching it again here. For some reason, I haven’t got any enthusiasm for today’s equivalent programmes!
Carl Wayne from The Move
Oh for the chance to use a time machine and pay a visit back to the good old days of the 1970s! So lucky to have been a teenager then!
Magic times eh. people born later could never understand what it was like to have all the hopes, great music, beauty, clothes and lifestyles of those days. We could all walk out of one job and straight into another and there was no constant feed of bad news stressing us out.
@@karlbarlow "No constant feed of bad news stressing us out"??? The 1970s has just called in and asked to have a brief word with you about strikes, weak governments and waiting the best part of 50 years before you get a phone installed in your own house.
@@Crazy1Clive I take it you were there then...
I was 13 in 1976. Music far better in those days, as was films and television programmes. Great memories were had.
Absolutely! Those were the days. Teenagers won't experience the freedoms we had.
Derek Hobson gets the prize for the biggest tie! I really miss the 70s!
So refreshing to watch a programme of this style,without the OTT wolf howling from the audience and no ego from the panelists.
Thank America for that import.
They hire the wolf howlers who stand way at the back, we have to thank America for that.
I seem to remember Mickie Most being feared and hated, but he produced so much good music...what a real talent he was.
Simon Cowell plays the same part, but Most had talent.
micky most the Simon Cowell of the 1970's
@@kevzee Not to mention Mickey Most!
Whos simon cowel nrvrt her of him
You could tell when anyone was any good, Micky Most would put his headphones on
Can’t believe Derek Hobson was only 27 here.
This show takes me back . I was a soldier on the green goddesses in London during fireman’s strike watched it when not working.
Scab
I remember this show and how it catapulted many to stardom.
Like many others I wish I could go back to that time. How times have changed and not for the better. Oh, happy days, where is my first, true love now?
😂😂 I know.. @@titchmoynihan2171
@titchmoynihan2171 a soldier signs up, takes orders from his superiors,that what an army is all about.
Does anyone think they should have 70s tv channel replaying all these old shows? I miss the 70s!!!!
The woke won't allow it.
Those were the days x
Guitar teacher I used to go to won new faces.
He had the trophy in the window.
Mike Johnson clasical Guitar.
He used to busk outside the albert Hall while proms were on as well.
I was 15...I'd go back in heartbeat 💓
'I like my Maori's a little darker.'
'They are warm, smiley, happy people. I can't understand why they killed Captain Cook.'
The 1970s were frigging awesome.
OK, Adolf
Shows how bad his history was. The Maori never killed Captain Cook. It was the Hawaiians. A rather embarssaing show of ingnorance there.
The 70s was a great decade for music,tv and going round town clubbing. Glad I was there 😊
Same here Antonino!!!
Those were the days when tv was worth watching xx
I agree
Totally agree with you there I was 6 when this was shown
It most certainly was. Now tv is just so, stupid, rediculous and talentless.
To be fair there was a lot of rubbish as well in the 70s but today's terrestrial TV is pants.
Absolutely! Tv was far better then than it is now!
I was 10 years old in 1976 and my dad was in the USAF, and we lived on Woodbridge AFB and we would watch this . I loved living in England in the 70s
I so wish we had these days and our childhood back.
I was 13 in 1976. Music was far better in those days as was films and television programmes. Great memories were had.
Jeez, I was 24 when we performed on that show. Popular music has changed so much, but you're right though. There's loads of great music still being made if you look for it on Spotify and whatever. Don't just rely on the radio.
Agree. Especially films. Great black and white pics.
Seem to remember Tony Hatch being Mr Nasty on this too! Thanks for the upload.
Great to see the old ATV screen again
I remember watching this show as a kid.
Me too. In black and white tv. There was only three Chanel’s back then.
Wow….I was 12 at the time…not seen this is so many years….fantastic to see again…cheers
Spot on I was 12 also. Great Memories.
3 months after this 11 year old me and my parents migrated to Melbourne, Australia. Still remember the chemistry set I got for my Christmas present that year from Hamleys.
Yeah i got a chemistry set as my main pressie then one year a digital radio alarm clock , those were the days eh.
Stand up comedy is so hard to do well and hit the mark. Thats why Manning, Miller, Carson, Goodwin et.al. are rightly revered as kings of a very difficult trade.
I was 18 the year this was broadcast, a time when there was still a modicum of innocence and naivety in our society and ‘acts’ had to do their apprenticeships in pubs and clubs..the unfiltered nature of those times gave us a far wider variety of sounds and styles than is remotely possible today were we are basically force fed what the industry wants us to ingest, Happy days warts an all’ 😎
I was 13 when I watched this. Feels like yesterday! The good old days 😀
This is gold, thanks for the upload
You're a Star was sung by Carl Wayne
when you sat with your family watching good shows , in 2022 no chance
The UK was a much more socially democratic and more equal society then. After that, for better or worse, Thatcher dismantled most of it.
Wow, this brings back some memories.
I was 8 years old and remember this loved the 70s ❤
I used to hate Mickey Most as a kid. As an adult I agree with him 100 percent. Most of those acts sucked.
They're amateurs/semi pros from clubland & takes guts on TV first time, so respect on that, you don't get TV entertainment no more apart from sarcasm social media-land & pop music has all dried up to over produced mush. This is fun & truthful.
Loved this show as a 15 year old, great Saturday night entertainment….loved Marti Cain, Lenny Henry, Sweet Sensation some of the best from this show 😊
Shame Lenny has turned into another victim and up himself. He really thinks he has been hard done by.
Showaddywaddy?
Great to see this, takes me back to the great old days. Yes it is dated but the format is the same but the bands, artists far better than a great deal of the dross we have to put up with today.
I enjoyed this, thanks for putting this up, happy memories
If Derek Hobson's tie was any wider he wouldn't need a shirt on
😂😂 so funny Kelvin.
That's the 70s, we had flares, wide lapels jackets, wide collars, kipper ties & big shoe (men) heels. It was awful & I cringe, the music & football was ace tho unlike now.
@@seltaeb9691 I agree but I'd go back to them times in a heart beat 😂😂
Mickie Most always gave a considered, spot on assessment not being moved by other's opinions.
I have to agree, he was after all quite gentle with us (Destiny).
Can't understand why Mickie said the music was amatuerish , when it was obvious the first act were miming to a backing track . Where were the brass and stings ??
@@darenwilliams5858 Hi Darren, we were all offered the services of the Johnny Patrick Big Band, who were set up in the studio next door. We had to provide a tape of our song 6 weeks beforehand to give their arranger time to work out the parts. All the orchestra had a live feed from our studio on headphones, but we could only monitor them through a crappy pair of speakers in front of us. Jack Parnell said our timing was a little bit shaky. The truth was that we were speeding up throughout our song and the band's conductor was hastily chopping out sections of his arrangement cos they couldn't keep up. It would have been better if our drummer could have had a pair of headphones to hear them better.
@@karlbarlow H i Karl, Imforgetting that this was the 70s and the tech isn't what it was today . I was actually defending you when you're musicianship was brought into question because with no . headphones in in ear monitors , i couldn't see how you'd be playing to a backing track ( which i have to admit , i do in the live band i play in ) . I didn't realize that you had a live band playing along side you , in the next room . Taking all that into account , i do think that the comments were a little unfair and the timing issues would not have been picked up by the avarage man in the audience . On the whole , i think you all did a really good job
@@darenwilliams5858 Thanks for saying that Daren. At the time I thought Mickie Most was harsh, but over the years, I've come to agree with him. I think the big mistake that we made, was to slip the floor manager a tenner in order to bring our amps closer to us so that we could hear them better - not thinking that we'd have been better off if we hadn't. It is a shame though as the band actually lost work thanks to that appearance and we split up at the end of that month.
I would’ve been 8 when this was aired. Don’t think I ever watched a whole episode ever (until now) but loved the intro.
John's comments about Pepper were so '70's..thank heavens we've moved on!
Clumsy more than sinister though. And she was a very pretty girl tbf.
I love the old TV idents
I was Peppa George ! 19 years old
Good to see that you survived it all Isabella. I hope that watching the show here brought back some good memories. If you want to, you could let me have your email address, and I can send you a WeTransfer download link to the mp4 file for you to keep. My email is karly.b2022@gmail.com
I thought you were great!
Very well delivered song. Did you have a career in music?
You were flipping brilliant! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
This show was an original, inspiring the many that followed.
Simple straight forward entertainment
This is the most 70s thing I have ever seen
Gotta love those ties and their knots!
Punk was waiting in the wings.and most of the groups were dead in the water
LOL, that's a myth. Most of the acts from before punk are still going strong today.
@@Sundae_Timesbut the style...take the first group. The way they are dressed, the moustaches, all looked dated within a year.
@@MikePhillips-pl6ov Wait - fashions changed?! OMG, who saw that coming? 😱
Where`s the constant standing ovations and Sob stories?
I was only saying this morning, thank god i grew up in the 70`s
even with the hardships.
Wonderful upload!! Thank you!!! When tv was worth watching and no one took offence to having a laugh!!!
You're welcome Blue Lady, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I just wish I could get a hold of a few more episodes.
@@karlbarlow thanks again 😀
Trying to remember if Arthur Askey was a judge on New Faces, Opportunity Knocks, or The Sky's the Limit. He was the Cheryl Cole of the '70s, always finding something nice to say about an act. "They'll do well in t' clubs," he'd conclude. Seeing this was really interesting - thank you.
You're right, I remember seeing him as a judge on New Faces. Yes he was very kindly and proper old school.
@@karlbarlow: That's right, he was a real gentleman. I almost feel guilty that Deep Purple and Rainbow are my fave bands, as Ritchie Blackmore used to play tricks on Arthur Askey at 1960s variety shows. Mind you, he probably took them well.
@@BanalayerPete1972 Ha ha ha I hope so.. I used to see Deep Purple for free when they played at Mothers in Birmingham. I used to collect glasses there in 1969. Brilliant, but I still suffer from tinnitus, thanks to those nights.
@@karlbarlow: Wow, fantastic! Did you see Mk.1 and Mk.2?
@@BanalayerPete1972The memory is having to be refreshed. I remember they played Child in Time, so I had the year wrong. It would have been February 1970, which would make the line up mark 2.
Even the 70s' Simon Cowell was better. Mickie Most was direct but never arrogant.This show had a panel who really knew what they were saying!
That compare's tie has star quality all of its own!
I was 8 years old and I’m 56 now 😳
Very enjoyable episode. I watched New Faces regularly. No nastiness from the panel, nor excessive egos on show. Much prefer this to the similar shows on TV now.
I'm still searching for the '73 episode when Ken Worthington 'TV's Mr Clarinet Man' came last and got blasted by the panel lol.
Jack Parnell comes across as clueless in his analyses. Calling Flamenco guitar 29:13 ‘not real guitar playing’ and then taking about 49:29 ‘instruments not being quite right’. Mickie Most on the other hand was brilliant and insightful in most of his criticism.
Great upload
Thanks, I agree with your opinion of Jack Parnell. He just rode on the back of his old man, Val Parnell. Had his own orchestra at one time, but I guess in name only. I can't imagine he arranged any of the music for it. He had been a talented pit drummer though.
@@karlbarlow: He seemed way out of touch with instrumental techniques, which is really ODD for a bandleader. I like his orchestral work, but he wasn't up on pop/rock - or flamenco - at all.
Good to see a demonstration of how the entertainment industry , clubs , tv , the circuits used to work if nothing else as many performers had to work very hard to even get an appearance on TV . Unlike the contrived nonsense that the public see now.
I was five days old when this was on I remember it well
How i crave for these days gone by before everyone got offended by literally every fkn thing!
When life was so much better
I be 12. Remember watching New Faces preferred Opportunity knocks. When TV was TV. I miss 1979 early 80's
Micky Most the Animal's producer, total legend !
Suzi Quatro's producer as well, indeed a legend! I feel lucky to have Mickie Most, Suzi Quatro, and Alan Price's autographs. Rock on New Faces = i remember it well! (i was 8 in 1976)
What a great 1970's Saturday night show this was
Thanks for uploading this Karl!!! I remember seeing the opening titles and tried to remember what the programme was! A gem of an upload!
You're very welcome Derek, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Brings back memories eh.
@@karlbarlow It certainly does!! I was 5 then! 3 months away from turning 6 lol!! Miss the 70s and 80's!
Takes me back. Derek Hobson a consummate professional and Mickie Most, loved the theme tune. Love to know what the panel were paid! Thanks for posting.
Micky most was a LEGEND
Hobson was so, so up himself.
@@stevelyons3347 you're so wrong !!
@@stevelyons3347 Derek Hobson had been presenting the regional daily news programme, "ATV Today" for several years and was well-known to Midlands' viewers. He was very professional and humorous and popular. Chris Tarrant was also on the team to give readers an idea of how ATV was probably the best, most professional yet informal ITV region. Midlanders were extremely lucky 😉
@@Candolad .Sorry son, but Hobson was an arrogant, self important, egoist.
Great memories 👍
Life was a little simpler and fun ...
My hair was on end watching this I had forgotten this program I was 11 years old when it was aired haaar yes the 70's when everything seemed less complicated than today.
That comedian grabbed my butt !!!!!! As he’s made no money I won’t bring charges !!
ha ha ha ha ha
I've tried (with some difficulty) to look past the green velvet jacket, medallions, strange Hawaiian harmonising, dodgy Irish joke and 'Toured all over South Africa'. What I do know about New Faces (and what made it unique) is that all the acts who appeared on it had already paid their dues as professionals in front of the paying public. I remember a former contestant telling me you couldn't get a look-in unless you had an Equity or MU card and this means that it wasn't an amateur talent show, it was a place where professional acts tried to launch themselves to the next level. So anyone who thinks Mickey Most is being a bit harsh should know that he was probably (then) the most consistently successful record producer and hitmaker in history offering advice to people serious about entertainment as a career.
Set against this, Jack Parnell (like Joe Loss) was a bandleader still making big bucks long after the big band era had gone. So I was intrigued to see him say that playing with a capo 'wasn't real guitar playing' and Most trying his best to sound polite in disagreeing with him.
Thanks for that comment, what you say is true. We were all in either Equity or the MU. It is odd that Jack Parnell had shown his ignorance there, considering he was a bandleader.
Most suggesting the capo was to help with finger stretching was also a bit odd.
Parnell was head of music for ATV when this program was made. Among other things he did all the music for the Muppet Show at ATV.
Sounds like 'Britain's Got Talent now...
@@johno4521This show opened the door for shows like that. Though this wasn't the first, Hughie Green had Opportunity Knocks and there was even the Carrol Levis Show before that.
You could tow a bulldozer with that tie lol x x x love it x
ha ha ha ha ha yup. I'd be very surprised if that fashion ever came back..
I wore kipper ties at work in the 2000's!
Omg.didnt expect the kiwi aspect...great video mate
Fantastic memories of this show. That is a class panel.
All the acts on here were destined to never go further than clubland. And they probably knew that deep down, but at least they got onto the telly, which was a big thing back then.
That's all we were trying to do, yes. Get on telly for a bit of exposure and fill the diary.
Would this be on tv today, no chance! what a shame indeed
Who needs TV anyway. It’s full of trash, lies and leftist ideology.
That intro! Last time I heard that I had a spangle in my mouth ❤️
I agree with you because I am a qualified lesbian
@@ijustdidahugeshit
I was actually waiting for the smutty replies, it’s all good lol
@@durhamfox5271 ha ha ha ha
I've never heard it called a " spangle" 🤣
@@merlin5476 I am relieved to hear from you
I went for a wee during that comedian. (Act 3). It hasn’t stood the test of time, shall we say.
That tie is overtaking his body.
"I like my Maoris darker skin" Sorry govner, we wear face paint in future to be good Maori ! 🤭
I think it would be brilliant and it would remind us how they (the winners)went on to superstars.
4:12 - That's me uncle David! (far left guitarist). Thanks for better upload Karl, much better version.
Hi Lee, do you mean David Williams in the last band Destiny?
@@Lee_MCMLXXI Oh right, I didn't know you could do that. I thought they were a really good band. It's a pity the judges were against bands that week. I hope you're all doing well.
@@karlbarlow Thanks for your wishes. Unfortunately my uncle passed away in 2011, at age 58.
They were competent enough, but maybe a bit too 'safe', nothing strikingly different about them, and lacked the, (to use a familiar phrase) X-factor.
@@Lee_MCMLXXI Oh I'm sorry to hear that Lee. Only 58, he was taken far too soon.
God if you thought Cowell was cutting on the early X Factors he was nothing compared to the savagery that the contestants took on New Faces.
It was a bit soul destroying to take that kind of criticism so publicly back then, but it was what all of us who didn't have the money for promotion had to endure to get some TV exposure.
@@karlbarlow Even back then it was all about ratings. Half of those judges should have been up in bed in a retirement home not insulting contestants to the back teeth. That Benny Hill sketch where he ripped the piss out of them was spot on.
I'll never forget the way Tony Hatch tore into a young Impressionist, he really humiliated him.
I was just 7 years old when this was on
I was 13 that year remember this great show in colour
I was 6 and i can remember it like yesterday 😢
Can't believe how any of them even got though the auditions.
Great to see this smashing show again, but I think the guitarist should have won. He was Phenomenal.
Buts its not real guitar playing...apparently.
@@davidtaylor4975 Lol, I thought it was a bit harsh saying that. Poor bloke. I wonder how it all turned out for him/them.
God, the guys in the last act look like auditions for The Yorkshire Ripper.
Agreed, was about to post same comment
The host, Derek Hobson's tie is amazing
I've not seen that intro for nearly 50 years!
Derek's tie...wow!
Hobson's tie could double as a bib.
Ha ha ha ha, that was the fashion of the day. They were called Kipper Ties. If you asked for one in a Birmingham boutique, the shop assistant would usually smile and ask "Do you want milk and sugar in that?"
He could also hang glide with those lapels
@@karlbarlowNoddy Holder also told this joke!
The Ad break saved that comedian! - judge "I'm sure he's going to be very big" nope, he wasn't, the sex jokes were embarrassing & I'm a former soldier in the 70s. Sack the panel!
Ha ha ha ha, I like it .
Absolutely right. He was utter shyte!
I agree. I enjoyed his ghost joke only.
Wish I was 11 again ! 😊
The guy singing Skyhigh looks like Alex Trabek.
I was 9, when that was shown. Great days!
Does anyone remember that other old duffer called Clifford Davies and Tony Hatch (who was nicknamed 'The Hatchet Man'), who made Simon Cowell look like a marshmallow?
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I do. I remember Tony Hatch was a songwriter along with his wife Jackie Trent. I think his comments were just nasty. Nina Muskov (I think I got that right) modelled herself on him in the later series. Nothing like being a bad-ass to make you famous. Nobody had heard of her before that series.
@@karlbarlow ... Nina Myskow
What happened to Tony Hatch here, is this before or after his time, I forget?
@@Tidybitz Hi, Tony and Mickey Most, used to alternate on the shows. We were lucky he wasn't on that week.
Jesus. Thank god for Punk!
I was 15 when this was aired I loved it you can't beat the old programmes what they put on now is a load of rubbish we just don't watch tv anymore because of how bad it is bring back the old programmes back
Yes I have to agree, we have lots and lots of channels all putting out the same mundane crap.
36.40 Hawaiians killed Captain Cook, not faraway Maori, you wally !
I was in the audience on one New Faces show during September 1977. Among the panelists was Shaw "Keep em Peeled" Taylor. There was and I use the word with caution a comedian who was so bad he at one point in his act pleaded with the audience to laugh at one of his lousy gags. He knew he was lousy and cut his spot short by singing Isnt She Lovely. No one of note won that particular show.
Clive James was a notorious panel member in the early days of New Faces and was pretty vile to the performers.
Oh dear , that poor "comedian".
I was a teenager in the 70s and watched this show every week. Oh, the 70s - flared and bell-bottom jeans/trousers, huge neckties, platform shoes, big hair and of course there was the opening of discotheques - unforgettable!😀😁🤣😎😋🙄😛!!