Lonnie Donegan - The Trouble with the Fifties.

[480720]

Anybody else spotted guitar giant BRUCE WELCH of THE SHADOWS at 01.39....??????

[TheTongapuss]

Stops dead on 3.28 and I cannot get it to play any more, is this just my computer?? Have tried pushing it along but it reverts to 3.28, doing my head in!! Bert mentioned below, who remembers Ollie Beak!!

[jjby100]

Pigdowndog, Bert is a legendary guitarist

[ajay999999]

Thank god the Beatles got rid of all this.

[patrickdoherty1000]

If you watch clips of Lonnie on , say, the 6.5 Special (etc) then you'll see what he means..the first thing that struck me on seeing these clips again for the first time in 50+ years was just how much the audience was ENJOYING themselves...having FUN! ..Yes, we had the Notting Dale/Bramley Road riots/Teddy Boys etc and poverty...maybe we just more innocent then?

[countorlock100]

The "Battles of New Orleans" is the original "God Save the Queen". Genious

[splodgen]

I grew up on the music of Lonnie Donegan and Bert Weedon. But for Lonnie to say the kids just had fun, well was he forgetting the Teddy boys whose fun was to go around and terrorize people with cut throat razors? And the fifties were also a time of much hardship for working class families.

[Khultan]

@splodgen  I believe no single person can be the spokesperson for a time, genre, event.

[ManMrBass]

Pure, no nonscience music!

[AbuAvital]

When was this recorded?

[Rickenbackerglory]

@AbuAvital This was broadcast in 1992

[basher999]

Lonnie says he replaced "bloody" with "ruddy", but he actually used "blooming". No matter, lovely fellow, lovely music. Brings back a great time in my youth

[Mooney174]

Aptitude whilst dropping an impressive amount of names might like to know that Hank Marvin would be very surprised to know that Bert Weedon wrote Apache

[Tewinwood]

@Mooney174 So would Jerry Lorden who wrote it.

[jimmygb64]

@Mooney174 Jerry Lordan wrote Apache ................smart ass

[gawagney]

Excellent. Thank you.

[Razor61289]

Great Performance!

[redfenderguy]

im sorry but what a bore bertwedon is

[tommyrockon]

Lonnie ... best front man in the business... R.I.P. mate

[alanthedrum]

Just look at their faces. They would have paid for the privelege of performing. These are people who are really enjoying themselves.

[Pigdowndog]

Lets be honest. Bert Weedon was rubbish. Joe brown was a way better guitarist.

Lonnie though is/was a legend.

[bernieholland775]

I love this - I love it all, I remember all this stuff - just play that video again and see how much these guys were enjoying themselves - these days we live in a brutal, narcissistic society where everyone's on the make and trying to out do everyone else - this is a reminder of much kinder times when people did things for the love of doing it - ok, they were makin good money but they didn't treat their audience with contempt - and Lonnie Donegan - I mean, what a fantastic artist and performer !

[tongapuss]

@bernieholland775 Couldn't have put it better myself. Absolutely right.

[bernieholland775]

@tongapuss

thank you !

[Rikkyhardo]

I grew up with these guys ... then came the Stones and Beatles when I was a teenager. What brilliant times ......

[ducky63]

As a guitar player myself I was floored one day when my girlfriend told me Bert Weedon is her Uncle. Three years ago we went to visit him at his home. It was amazing to meet and talk with him. Before dinner we slipped away to his music room and played some guitar together. He was playing a parker fly, how cool is that! He said at the age of 87 it was a nice and light guitar for him to manage. Legend.

[daleburrell56]

all these legends, so great to see them again, does anyone know if bert weedon is still playing guitar

[ELVISCHEVY3]

lonnie you were right fab