HELEN SHAPIRO - AT ABBEY ROAD

HELEN IS WAVING GOODBYE TO HER SCHOOLFRIENDS, TO GO OFF AND RECORD "WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS" AT ABBEY ROAD.

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Music

Tags:

• HELEN
• SHAPIRO
• ABBEY
• ROAD
• CLAPTON
• 1960s

[gallafey]

why the bloody hell only half a video of the song couldn't botherd be uploading the hole promo video I want to see full video please

[PIGGIE58]

Half a Video is Better than None at all. Old Footage of Helen is Very Hard To Find. I got This Short Piece from the "Rock n' Roll Years" Programme on BBC2 in the 1980s. The Whole Song was not Shown, Just this Bit. The Original of this Film was From the "Look at Life" , a Series of 10 Minute Films Made for Cinemas in the 1960s. The Original was in Colour, and has Never been Made Available for the Public on DVD or Video. It's Not a Question of Being too Lazy to Upload The Whole Film.

[LaVerne37]

This is the film clip I remember and haven't seen in years. Thanks, Piggie. Is there a version that shows the entire session and do you think that this was the actual recording session for "Walkin...," or was it just re-created for the cameras? The background ladies just don't seem to go with their sound...if you know what I am trying to say. Anyway, this also will go in my favorites. Thanks soooo much Piggie!!! Helen RULES!!!!

[PIGGIE58]

The Abbey Road clip came from a short 10 minute film called "A look at life" which was shown at British cinema's in the 1960s. I dont have the full film, but I am keeping my eye out for it. Yes the recording was done again for the camera, a few day's after the real recording. I think the girl backing singers were for show. the real singers were the "Mike Sammes singers. Which had girls and boys in the group.

[antihotmail]

This was done at Abbey Road Studio two. I am certain that Norman "Hurricane" Smith is behind the REDD 37 tube console. The guy looking out the window may be Sir George Martin. Notice that no sound screens where used between the artist and the musicians.

This was a live recording more then likely

done to Mono because Abbey Road didn't do

Stereo recording until around 1964 on as we

know the Beatles Recordings.

[PIGGIE58]

Abbey Road did do Stereo Recordings before 1964. Because Helen's "Tops with me" L.P. was done in Stereo in 1962.

[antihotmail]

Amazing film shots of Abbey Road Studio number

two. Nice seeing a close up of the four track ( Vacuum tube) console that was used by the Beatles. Notice that these where live recordings done on session tapes or two tracks which then where mixed done to a mono master tape. I like how Miss Shapiro just sings along like it was no big deal

[regolio]

queen for a day, i don't think so. how about queen for a lifetime. more helen uploads please

[andrewearwaker]

@tim60s321 A private colour copy on vhs was made available to Fan Club members circa 1991...

[huglo]

this is clip was used for the 1983 Abbey Road Video Show. A spectacular multimedia Beatle Show

[TheDustpile]

@PIGGIE58 The first proper stereo recording at Abbey Road was of an orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1934.

However, EMI didn't realease its stereo catalogue until around 1958, following behind Decca. Ironically, despite Abbey Road's pioneering stereo experiments, the top men were slow to note its commercial potential.

[tim60s321]

dear piggie58 ..... is there any chance of tracking down the original colour film and putting it up on youtube? ... that would be so great and if i can help please get in touch

[baseballeddie1177]

If this girl could bottle maturity at a young age and sell it she would have more money than Bill Gates.

[franklindavid]

I loved her husky voice!  Takes me back in time.

[tim60s321]

thanks for this love helen singing this song  always have! a total classic

and its so amazing to see the studio setup... the 6 violinists the 3 backing "girls" the 2 drummers etc great

[TheMantico1959]

It's actually Malcolm Addey operating the console, and it's John Schroeder looking out of the window into the studio. If you would like to hear "first hand" some of the history of these and other recording sessions at EMI then Google "Malcolm Addey Oral Studio History" then sit back and enjoy.

[hostingturan]

@antihotmail They were doing stereo recordings at EMI in the 1950s, two mics and straight to tape. The Beatles weren't the first to make stereo recordings there. Alan Blumlein a very talented inventor actually invented stereo recording and demonstrated it at Abbey Road in the 1930s. A crossed pair of mics for recording stereo is often called a Blumlein pair.

[lottosbaby]

I never knew she was english