Colour Me Pop

Colour Me Pop was a British music TV programme broadcast on BBC 2 from 1968-9. It was a spin-off from the BBC 2 arts magazine show Late Night Line-Up. Designed to celebrate the new introduction of colour to British television, it was directed by Steve Turner, and showcased half-hour sets by pop and rock groups of the period. The programme was a pioneering precursor to the better remembered BBC music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test (1971-87), however, unlike it's successor, most of the editions of Colour Me Pop are lost.

Complete list of performances

14.06.68 Manfred Mann
21.06.68 The Small Faces
28.06.68 Eclection
12.07.68 Salena Jones With The Brian Lemon Trio
19.07.68 Fleetwood Mac
26.07.68 The Kinks
09.08.68 The Peddlers
16.08.68 The Tremeloes
23.08.68 Barry Noble
30.08.68 Spooky Tooth
07.09.68 The Hollies
14.09.68 The Moody Blues
21.09.68 Unit Four Plus Two
05.10.68 O’Haras Playboys
12.10.68 Honeybus, Clodagh Rodgers
23.10.68 Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
02.11.68 Eclection, Jethro Tull
09.11.68 Foggy Dew-O, Lew Prinz And The Bedrocks
16.11.68 The Nice
23.11.68 The Alan Price Set, Jim Driscoll, The Brian Auger Trinity
30.11.68 Giles, Giles and Fripp
07.12.68 Timebox
14.12.68 Love Sculpture
21.12.68 Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
04.01.69 The Move
11.01.69 Sons And Lovers
16.01.69 The Pop Tops
25.01.69 The Toast
01.02.69 Chicken Shack
06.02.69 Bobby Manna And The Art Movement 4
15.02.69 The Equals, Barbara Ruskin
22.02.69 The Marmalade
01.03.69 Ten Years After
08.03.69 World of Oz
15.03.69 Caravan
22.03.69 Harmony Grass
12.04.69 Free
19.04.69 Jimmy Campbell, Sweet Thursday
26.04.69 Elastic Band
10.05.69 Family
17.05.69 Cats Eyes
31.05.69 Group Therapy
07.06.69 Lions Of Judea
14,06.69 Strawbs (who also invited David Bowie along to perform mime to one track Poor Jimmy Wilson, with his producer Tony Visconti
21.06.69
28.06.69
05.07.69 Trapeze
12,07.69 Copperfield
26.07.69 Orange Bicycle
02.08.69 The Love Affair Philip Goodhand-Tait
09.08.69 Gene Pitney, Mike Cotton Sound
30.08.69 The Fortunes
08.09.69 Chambers Brothers

Surviving material from the show

Currently only the editions featuring The Small Faces, The Moody Blues, The Move, The Mothers of Invention and Trapeze are held in the BBC archive. The BBC used footage from some of these performances in a series that was broadcasted in the early 1990s called 'Sounds of the sixties'. Additionally, a black and white copy of the Nice edition is known to exist on the collectors circuit. Three songs from the Bonzo Dog Band editions survive, plus film inserts from the Clodagh Rodgers/Honeybus edition. The soundtracks to the Giles Giles and Fripp, Family and Bonzo Dog Band editions and off-monitor screenshots from the Timebox and Toast editions survive in private hands. Also existing is an edition with The Chambers Brothers that was never broadcast. An audio of The Kinks' performance is also in circulation.

References

External links

• Colour Me Pop at IMDB
• Colour Me Pop: The Small Faces/The Move DVD: Critic's Review
• The Toast on their appearance on the show (With the sole surviving off-screen photo)
• Article with transcript of The Bonzo Dog Band appearance