BBC2 Closedown with the King's Singers
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- I'm sure lots of people like the King's Singers a lot. Definitely. They never seemed to be off the TV in the 70s. Here they are in 1978 'singing' the BBC Radio frequency changes at closedown on BBC2 for some inexplicable reason.
Many thanks for this Rory, I can finally complete my collection of SVG Radio slides with the Radio 3 slide. I can almost taste the Lucozade as I seem to recall the King's Singers in constant rotation with Kenny Ball and His Jazz Men and Acker Bilk on Pebble Mill at One when I was off school in the 70s. Although sometimes, admittedly, there was Cleo Laine singing about Scooby Doo.
Maybe I'm sick minded, but I could imagine the fabled four minute nuclear attack warning being delivered like this. It would not take away the horrific aftermath, but maybe the sounds of the sirens would pale into insignificance as most of the population met their doom in such a calming and melodious manner.
Joanne Gray are those your kitties in the pic?
Sounds like Kenny Everitt
It needed an "amen" at the end. :-)
Strictly speaking it should have a full Gloria with Amen, if it is meant to be an Anglican chant.
I used to play the organ for a choir occasionally and they used this chant every time.
Top upload - 'Some Enchanted Wavelengths' is the title - someone thought it to be entertaining enough to release as a single!
I knew it! I knew it was the King's Singers singing this! I know of no other acapella group that sounds as tight and clean as KS!
their sound is very distinctive
Be it classical or contemporary.
The Kings Singers did this really well. I wonder how a choir would have done this.
Done in the style of Sir George Martin's Master Singers, who charted with their interpretations of "The Weather Forecast" and "The Highway Code".
And indeed, using the same initial chant as the Highway Code.
And I have in my collection the 7’’ of master sings Highway Code. Never thought that would come up in comment on UA-cam.
I remember this so well. Can you imagine anything like this today? The BBC is degraded beyond belief.
Reception of BBC National Radio Services improved after these changes : Radio 1 on MW 275/285 metres (1089 / 1053 kHz) came thru better than 247 metres (1215 kHz), Radio 2 on 433/330 metres (693 / 909 kHz) had a nice warmer sound than the mains hum prone LW 1500 metres (200 kHz), and Radio 3 merely inherited the night time fade that marred Radio 1 on 247 metres (1215 kHz).
I remember LW 200 kHz used to be very very whistley in the 1970s due to pick up from local CRT colour TV line timebases. it seemed appropriate that Radio 4 came to use LW it as the whisting had been more of a nusiance for music than speech. All the whistle has dissappeared from LW now.
Wonderfully brilliant.
3:09 that was a long reminder...
And after this video ended, BBC 2 went off the air for the evening - on the dot of midnight.
Thank you for posting this... tv was so inventive and cheap back then.
THE BBC WORLD SERVICE ON BBC RADIO 4
Confused my dad - he once borrowed my mother’s radio one Saturday to take to work one Saturday after changeover - he wanted to listen to the football and got a play instead - he thought Radio 4 was Radio 2!
He also borrowed my tranny on one occasion (transistor radio) and could not find the button that would switch it from medium to long wave - it only had medium wave - he asked me “What - number?” (I think he meant wavelength) - wasn’t sure precisely, but I found it!
Wednesday 22nd November, with an announcer's voice that gained new meaning re. this era this year (though it should really have been the BBC Four of 2004 doing a *proper*, representative 1970s season).
When all living links to 1978 are gone, this will be an extraordinary found object. The historians of a century from now will desperately try to find some way of connecting this to the Winter of Discontent ...
BBC Radio has announced some important changes.
Funny enough that Radio 2 changed to 88 - 91FM only 12 years after to make space for Radio 5, and even then Radio 5 got replaced by Radio 5 Live not even 4 years after it first aired in 1990!
As far as FM (VHF) was concerned, Radio 2 had already been on 88-91 FM since the 1960s, even when it was called "The Light Programme". But, when Radio 1 started in the mid 1960s Radio 2 used to occassionaly give up its FM frequencies for Radio 1 during parts of the day (such as John Peel and also the Sunday night chart show). This was before Radio 1 was given it's own FM frequency group in the early 1990s. Once this happened, Radio 2 effectively had it's own FM frequencies back full time.
_(W. H. Havergal, as in "The Highway Code", here in C major)_
1. BBC radio announces im- | portant | changes, || from the twenty-third of November | nineteen | seven- • ty- | eight.
2. A new international frequency agreement comes | into • ef- | fect, || and many of the frequencies used for the BBC will be | changèd | at that | time.
3. Radio One, Radio Two, and | Radi- • o | Three || will be found up- | on the | medi- • um | wave,
4. Whereas | Radi- • o | Four || will be lo- | cated | on the | long wave.
5. _(second half)_ The princi- | pal new | frequencies || and | wavelengths • will | be as | follows:
6. For sets marked in frequencies, Radio One will be on one-oh-five-three and one-oh- | eight-nine | kilohertz. || Which is to say, where wavelengths are concerned, two hundred and eighty-five and | two hundred • and | seventy- • five | metres.
7. Radio Two, (brackets, in kilohertz, close brackets), will be on six-nine-three and | nine-oh- | nine, || which is, in wavelengths, four-three- | three and | three-three- | oh.
_(after H. Purcell, but somewhat altered, though correct me if I'm wrong, here in F minor)_
8. Radio Three, as you | might ex- | pect, || will be | differ- • ent | from the | others,
9. in that there is | no • choice of | frequency || and | no al- | terna- • tive | wavelength.
10. _(second half)_ The frequency is | twelve-fif- | teen, || and, as the wavelength will be two-four-seven metres, it will be renamed | "Wonder- • ful | Radi- • o | Three".
_(Anonymous, after M. Luther, here in B-flat major)_
11. Moving now from the medium un- | to the | long wave, || we shall be principal-ly con- | cernèd • with | Radi- • o | Four.
12. This can be discover'd on | two • hundred | kilohertz, || or | fifteen | hundred | metres.
13. Listeners to | Radi- • o | Scotland, || Radio Wales, Radio Cymru, | and to | Radi- • o | Ulster,
14. most BBC local radio, and all | VH- • F | services || are advisèd that | there will | be no | change.
15. _(second half)_ As a | last re- | minder, || the aforementioned changes in wavelengths and frequencies in some cases and lack of changes in wavelengths and frequencies in others as outlined above will come to pass in nineteen seventy-eight _(big breath)_ on the | twenty- | third of • No- | vember.
Minor correction - verse 4 should begin "Whereas", not "Where there's"
Besides that, thanks for the transcription.
@@MakerfieldConsort Thanks! That makes much more sense.
Sounds like the laws of cricket song.
Still confusing...perhaps more so. Cheerfully quaint, though!
Is this the King's Singers from King's College Chapel in Cambridge...?
Your so close, no.
Your announcer is David Allan
Lyrics?
I could fall asleep to this crap
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