"OH BOY!" Show #38 - [3of3]

[thecubanism]

What a phoney, a little boy thinking he's Elvis, you can see it's all an act and he's faking it, trying to look sexy when in fact he's batting for the other side, flogging his button around Picadilly, I have always detested him since I first saw him and I always will.

[Khaosity1]

@thecubanism U TOSSER!

[aldeb456]

This was the final episode of this show? Why was it canceled?

[bille1131]

I was 15 years old when I used to watch this every week. It catapulted Cliff into his long career! It was so much better than the Six Five Special which was on the other side BBC at the same time!

[sportsaddict1942]

Cliff stoled this song from American rocker Fabin Forte a early Elvis look a like.

[valkour22]

man he was a direct rip off of Elvis

[D1lk]

Certainly not the BBC in 1959...

This ragged tape from British commercial television captures the export of American "popular culture" through music directed at adolescents; it shows the emerging social importance of the teen and, implicitly, the subordination of European popular music to new trans-Atlantic rhythms and tones.

The new Empire was making its values dominant in post-war Europe...

[RebelVoDKa]

Back September the 12th.

But they weren't. What happened?

[peterellis1946]

Cliff Richard was seventeen. At the time it seemed Marty Wilde was the star. I was there, I watched them all, save for the ones I missed when I was at boarding school and those have all been destroyed with time. There was nothing like it and there has not been ever since. Every one bemoaned the loss of Oh Boy.It was a terrific time.

[abelseeman]

It is incredible, considering Cliff Richards involvement with Mary Whitehouse in the Christian based Festival Of Light in the 1970's to realise that that performance of "Three Cool Cats" was the first thing that triggered her into her "clean up TV" campaign by inspiring her wrath.

[raychandler123]

what a cool paki rocker

[Archangel101576]

I'd kill to get my hands on the original recording of this Percy Green song, along with its lyrics. I've never heard it before, but it's addictive. How the singer was able to perform this song without stumbling over his words is amazing.

[elvisfan22]

3 cool cats, LOL! Try ONE cool cat (Richards) one bland (Wilde) and one nobody wishing he was somebody.

[Zipgunn1]

@elvisfan22 For my money the "nobody" was the most interesting of the bunch.

[TheSciencefiend]

This was at a time when Cliff thought he was Elvis

[redsnapper1959]

5:36 ... they mention "September 12th" as the start of the new series (after the summer break) ... it actually returned on that date under another name "Boy Meets Girl" ... with the same producer, Jack Good.

[annrlean]

I can't believe this footage still exists, it's wonderful. I remember watching on a 9" tv and don't forget these programmes were not pre-recorded they went out live. Thanks so much for posting it.

[mickandpauline]

i used to hang outside the hackney empire at the stagedoor just to get autographs had them all even cliffs .dont know what happened to them i was only 10years old

[critch1901]

Shame he didnt take his Pyjamas off

[rumjockey]

we all had to grow up,,

[jt123egypte]

A bad cover of the great Fabian!

[TheOtherJarhead]

@jt123egypte - Actually it was a damn fine cover of Fabian. And Cliff sold a lot more records, if I am not mistaken.

[nitramgnal]

Good Lord! Sir Cliff!!!! Wimbledon forty years in the future.

[ladiesloveweezy]

Gwne Vincent Apperared on a show with Little Richard & Jerry Lee Lewis The Animals Taped At Granada TV in Manchester England. but I dont have The ttitle of show. Thanks for the memories.

[englishdog1234]

i believe at 1.57 it might be don lang

[HoldenDoofDoof]

fabian rip off lol

[Hickey66]

Certianly takes you back.

[gamster68]

My apologies i never knew that as i thought they were returning from a concert never realised it was " O Boy "thanks for the info.

[myepiphone]

Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochrane toured the U.K. in 1960 as part of a package tour.Whilst here they appeared on the T.V. show Boy meets Girls and radio show Saturday club.The recordings were available on a C.D. some years ago.During a break in the tour Eddie and Gene were travelling back after a show at the Bristol Hippodrome they were in a Ford Consul hire car, and were going to London Airport to catch a plane back to the States.The car crashed and Eddie was killed.Hope this info helps.

[wizard1963uk]

and a young marc bolan carried eddies guitar to the car

[gamster68]

The third guy is Dickie Pride, Gene Vincent never appeared on O Boy it was a UK production.

[dkfelix]

Gene did appear on a show in 1960 along with Eddie Cochran - they rode the taxi together which killed Eddie.

[lmj22]

Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran never appeared on OH BOY show. And they couldn't do it in 1960, because this last episode of the show was aired on May 30th 1959.

[dkfelix]

No - I never said that they did but it was implied that Gene never took part in a TV production in the UK, which he did along with Eddie - I believe it was called "Boy Meeets Girl" but I am not quite sure.

[old65rocker]

Thats correct they were both on the Boy meets Girl Show

[old65rocker]

@lmj22 Youre right Gene and Eddie both appeared on the Boys meets Girls show hosted by Marty Wilde. Only seems like yesterday and im now 66!!! Great days fancy hearing all this for the first time in the UK.

[old65rocker]

@lmj22 They appeared on the boy meets girl show hosted by Marty Wilde. winter of 1960 between Feb and March

[old65rocker]

@dkfelix Gene and Eddie appeared on the Boys meet Girls Show just before Eddie was killed as so rightly say in 1960.

[twirlb]

I recognise 2 of the 3 cool cats Cliff and Marty - is the third Gene Vincent?

[mockerlancs]

Once a geek always a geek...

[thevidiotkid]

In as much as the hosts announce that the show would return in September 1959,did it?

It is odd that Jack Good would later only do two seasons of "Shindig" which to me is simply Oh Boy",version 2.0. Both series still look fresh all these years later although with the visual limitations of 405 line transmission one can better understand the sparse look and lighting

of "Oh Boy".

Nonetheless,both series remain today groundbreaking in both their pacing and visuals.

Jack Good = total genius.

[amcdermaid]

Cliff was fantastic then.Remember he was just turned 18 when this was made.Best Rock N` Roll show ever on the box.Still sounds great. Repton

[MikeHudson65]

I love the Three Cool Cats

[MikeHudson65]

I remember the Oh Boy Shows they were great

[elvischevy]

great, rock n roll, more please,

[chinzq]

I wonder where all of those old tv shows from cliff are, hope they ever turn up.

[ivorbigunzz]

Sadly, because we were so far behind the US in VCR recording, i doubt it.

[sallie6]

wow - how young was Cliff Richard??

[lmj22]

he was 18 :)

[weecumbrae]

Wonderful , takes mr back !!!!!!

[dkfelix]

Mr. who?