Rainbow 1972 - The Band Perform "Shapes"

[zeadiss]

Do you think people thought the drummer looked creepy back then?

[ladyfantasy71]

WOW, sexy acoustic playing long hairs playing acid folk on mainstream kids Tv ! Take me back to 1972 right now pleeeeeeeease !!!

[borgduck]

"I'd be a square.", LOL!!!!!!!

[anonUK]

"Right lads, as you may have noticed over the last few years, the whole hippie thing has died on its arse. You've got two choices: either modernise and get some gigs, or do a toddlers' show and sing about shapes. It's up to you."

[LilyV687]

This is epic. Why don't they make children's songs like this now?!

[bolivianex]

Songs like a  moody blues song but better.

[TheHarecat]

West coast psychedelic Acid nightmare. Is that Manson on the drums? Shapes, man? They're so important, man, yeah?

[TheHarecat]

@TheHarecat Yeah man. This is important stuff.

[SuperTruth77]

Great performance overall, though the 'circle' guy is a bit too camp & eager for my taste...

[borgduck]

This is disturbing, I've heard this song somewhere else recently...

[DeluxeReissue]

So is that Hugh Fraser on guitar?

[anthonythirteen]

@DeluxeReissue No Tim Portnow, who played the lead guitar on the title track. I'm fairly sure it's Chris Ashley on Tambourine & Ted Richards on drums. Hugh Fraser appears in another Telltale song fishing in a hat.

[schweitzer006325]

@anthonythirteen Any idea which songs or episodes Hugh Fraser appeared in? IMDB is proving to be quite unhelpful in this respect, alas!

[orangeloveant]

Some 2 Sound Like Zippy and Bungle

[Superbokka]

The bloke with the Tambourine looks like the bloke who played Dr Joe who used to be in BBC1 lunchtime show Doctors.

[anthonythirteen]

@Superbokka You mean Stephen from 'Mooncat'?

[Pulsar205]

I don't remember the first two guys but the talented drummer just about. And the t-shirt logos.

[markypearson01]

Reminds me of an oompa loompa type song!!

[singlentendre]

And you know the best bit?

Hugh Frazer, who wrote the songs and played guitar, later turned up as Captain Hastings in Poirot!

[stormmine]

Who are the three members of Telltale in this clip? I'm sure than one one the with the tamborine sand the famous theme, so is he Portnow?

[anthonythirteen]

@singlentendre No, Bass and Flute!

[barttheanorak]

This totally knocks Rod, Jane and Freddy into a cocked hat - it's such a shame there's not more Telltale footage available...

[SarahKW71]

I agree! DId they release any records back then?

[anthonythirteen]

@SarahKW71 Yep. Got a 1973 Rainbow album with this, the theme tune & 12 other original tracks.

[step7jones]

I like them better too. i discovered this show by accident, researching Hugh Fraser, and it seems a little sad that they got relegated to Pre-RJF history.

[multitalentman]

This sounds like a geometry teacher on acid

[Pulsar205]

@multitalentman Quite a fun song though. Watching these music videos of children's tv has given me a new appreciation of music; reawakening something innocent I lost from the wrong kind of genres.

Music alters brainwaves. These sort of songs somehow make me feel more upbeat.

Anyone else?

[poopiepoos]

It is these chaps who also composed/sung the theme to Rainbow.

[harryshand]

Yes, they're known as Telltale. You can download the full length rainbow theme on the web somewhere.

[weekendoff]

fantastic drumming!!!!

[PCJoejoe]

ive seen this on dvd - it is the first rainbow episode, no geoffrey or george and zippy was demented and bungle was downright scary.... this scares the shit out of me these guys look peodophilic! not to mention camp as tits!

[harryshand]

No they don't, they're cool as F##k

[TomthatiscalledTom]

Agreed, in those days they didn't make kids TV with the assumption that the audience were trainee chavs with 5 second attention spans

[harryshand]

What a great song. That drummer is excellent. Much better then Rod Jane and Matthew/Rod/Freddy.

[barneycairn]

And if you look closely at the 1 min 55 sec mark, the guitarist deliberately tries to start a fight with the singer....!!! a few seconds later the singer attempts a kind of 'kung-fu/bicycle kick' but misses by quite a wide margin......

[barneycairn]

And another thing about the drummer....talk about dedication....he's grown a gorgeous moustache EXACTLY the same shape as a rainbow......!?!?!!

[barneycairn]

Actually, now I think about it. Its not only the band members that ooze sex....its the actual song....the kind of song you'd play in the background whilst making love to a beautiful woman....mmmmm..

[IThinkYouLookLarvely]

Tried it, it works even better than Pink Floyd's Great Gig In The Sky or Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing.

[IThinkYouLookLarvely]

Bungle himself swears by this song. He always used it in his well publicised affairs with Lulu, Barbara Windsor and Esther Rantzen.

[IThinkYouLookLarvely]

You can read all about it in his new autobiography, The Original Bungle: The Circle of My Life

[anthonythirteen]

@barneycairn Yes, just the perfect rhythm... Come on, you've never been with a woman!!!!

[barneycairn]

The drummer makes me wanna do a "sex wee".....

[RickVanHire]

So does the bass player, and the guitarist, and the keyboard player, and the...err....I think that's it.

[jimmysavile]

That's so weird. I've heard of that band. They do a great version of this. "It's bright and it's shiny and gives a good ring"

[RickVanHire]

I hear that 'Lincoln's Premier Party Band' - Savile occasionally perform this song. Is that a young David David on drums??