Blackpool Tower Songs Of Prasie

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5 жыл бұрын

BBC Songs Of Praise from Blackpool Tower Ballroom with Phil Kelsall and the Tower Wurlitzer organ in some shots. 15/11/1992. Found on an old broken VHS video tape Not the best quality after repair sadly but interesting to see the Tower Ballroom and Wurlitzer Organ put to another use. This went out on Sunday evening the 15th November 1992. An age before we had KZfaq or the Internet or could even send a text on a mobile phone! When families still all sat around the one TV in the house to watch such programmes . Real Sunday night fair for so many years happy days.

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@stephensouthworth1489 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the upload of this. I was on stage playing trombone in the college big band so quite a thing to see this again after all these years! I have less hair these days but still have that same trombone. Love that our conductor John Askew managed to get ahead of Phil Kelsall in the credits…he would have enjoyed that! A hell of a lot of work went into producing this.

@BramleyProductions 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, lovely to know you were there playing the trombone. It was super this was done in the Tower Ballroom. And well let's be honest your conductor was leading a band! After all, quite right he should have come before Phil Kelsall but it's amazing how people do get miffed by who gets on these TV credits and where they come in the credits. But a super show great band! Thanks for your super comment. Kev.

@postwar46 2 жыл бұрын

Have been to Blackpool Tower Ballroom three times in my life, from overseas, to see a few people saunter around the dance floor to the strains of the Wurlitzer. This video, by comparison shows a capacity gathering raising songs of praise to the roof with full gladness and power. When I look at all those faces, I understand who puts the "Great" in Britain, my country of birth. Thank you so much for posting this.

@BramleyProductions 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind comment always so lovely to read kind appreciative comments like this on my small channel Thank you. Kev.

@Musician-Lee 4 ай бұрын

Wow, made my day discovering this. A wonderful piece of Songs of Praise history.

@BramleyProductions 3 ай бұрын

Thansk, for the most kind commnet. Kev.

@adrianmlridgewayarcmlramll1965 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely smashing, Phill was fabulous on the organ and so nice to hear the Wurlitzer in classical hymn mode as well!!! BRAVO to all who made this possible, must have been a lot of work for sure!!!! Thanks for sharing!! 😀😀😃😃

@BramleyProductions 3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your kind comments. I so agree. Yet another side the Tower Ballroom completely and the Wurlitzer. Thanks, Kev.

@johnjones1165 8 ай бұрын

Nice to see this again. Good to see God is working in Blackpool. Phil is a legendary organist....the modern 'Mr. Blackpool '

@cruisetjj 3 жыл бұрын

Thankyou so much for this. My father had taped this, and we still have the tape but have no way to play or retrieve it. God bless you!

@davidmaggs3092 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video . Loved listening to it

@Organdude 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for posting this. I had taped it when broadcast but lost the tape years ago!!

@BramleyProductions 5 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your kind comment. Kev.

@enidhilton5950 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful as always

@BramleyProductions 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your kind comment. Kev.

@ABCDEF-yf4yu 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing how I do like to be beside the seaside can be a hymn.

@gh5363 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, always fun to see what goes with what. It's the words that make it a hymn, not necessarily the music.

@quentinbellamy 5 жыл бұрын

Smashing. Thanks Kevin

@mainaccount131 3 жыл бұрын

Inspiring

@BramleyProductions 3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks, Kev.

@royandjacqueline1294 2 жыл бұрын

Alan Titmarsh💞 reminds me so much of Jimmy Tarbuck💞 in the 1960s Sunday Night at the London Palladium 🥰🇯🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🕊️🔥✝️

@user-sh5kd6ql4n 15 күн бұрын

Were would u get the music pdf for that first hymn it’s amazing words ?

@BramleyProductions 5 күн бұрын

Sorry for the late reply but to be honest I would not have a clue where you might obtain that from I have asked a few people who also drew a blank on this, so sorry. All the best Kev.

@gordoncrook1155 5 жыл бұрын

Well I got Songs Of Praise from the Tower Ballroom complete from the Sunday night broadcast Gordon Exmouth

@BramleyProductions 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Gordon. Yes, I thought this was an interesting programme I'm not a religious man but back then and many years prior I use to watch BBC Song Of Praise and very much grew up with it in the 1960s and 70s. Who remembers such presenters on Songs Of Praise as Geoffrey Wheeler, Clif Michelmore, Michael Barratt, Sir Harry Secombe, Just a name a few from the past. The first-ever BBC Songs Of Praise went out in October 1961.

@BramleyProductions 5 жыл бұрын

PS. I also forgot to say that Cinema organist Dudley Savage also presented editions of Songs of Praise when the programme was hosted in Plymouth or Devon. Kev.

@Angus2020 3 жыл бұрын

@@BramleyProductions I never realised that Harry Seacombe presented SoP. I remember when I was a kid, he had a program on the 'other side' called Highway which was on around the same time on a Sunday evening

@BramleyProductions 3 жыл бұрын

@@Angus2020 Hi, I reached checked the listing of SOP presenters, and it seems Harry Secombe presented a few celebrity versions of SOP in the late 1990s. I assume after his Highway ITV Network Sunday evening Regligoius show had ended. He may well have done some earlier sows as well in the late 1960s. Two other names that have done SOP presenting are Clif Richard who did a few SOP in the late 1960s and 70s also Bobby Ball of Cannon & Ball fame did a show in the 1990s! Highway was one of my dear old Nan's favourite TV programmes with as you say Harry Secombe presenting that for the ITV network in the day when there had to be a certain amount of religious content broadcast on Sunday TV. Those days are long gone happy memories thanks Kev.

@royandjacqueline1294 2 жыл бұрын

@@Angus2020 Thanks to you I now know what it's called... ...Highway💞 I couldn't remember the title. I just knew that it was Harry Secombe on ITV. They had on our New Testament Church of GOD from all over Great Britain and Dorothy Allen sang two hymns full of HOLY GHOST and Fire🔥 I recognized a lot of worshippers. Absolutely wonderful 🥰🇯🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🕊️🔥✝️