1st edition of Granada's Wheeltappers & Shunters Social Club from April 13th 1974, complete with preview. Stars Colin Crompton & Bernard Manning No copyright infringement intended.
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@alienxna65117 ай бұрын
Great stuff! Took me back as a kid watching this on a Fri night with all the Family on our black & white TV with hot cocoa & digestives! Wonderful days. Although life was tough at times in the '70's (remember tepid baths by candlelight in '73 during the power-cuts!), it was simpler and people were more of a community than the crap we have to endure today. Having seen and lived various decades I would go back to this time in a heart-beat. Thank you for posting.
@HarvestHome200011 ай бұрын
Colin Crompton, seconds before a death-defying knife throwing act: "There's still some pies left!" Brilliant!
@user-mi5nj8gj5p3 ай бұрын
I know two of the Cossack Brotherhood dance troupe the singer is Roman Kalyta and one of the dancers is Roman Pich originally from Oldham and Huddersfield. I used to rehearse with them in London calling themselves The Black sea Cossacks during the 1980s my brother a accordion player and my self a mandolin player. As with show business it only takes one bad apple through greed of one manager to spoil the whole lot . Roman Kalyta later on founded Mazeppa Cossacks while he was still performing from one agent and litigation followed so Kalyta had to pay compensation to leave contract. His new group lasted over 20 years but a bent solicitor who was a dancer was prosecuted for fraud and stealing money from clients shame about it .
@justinneill50032 жыл бұрын
I never knew Bernard Manning could sing. Pretty good too. Who would’ve thought it?
@davidbowie2046 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, he had an album out.
@ColonelBummleigh7 ай бұрын
Aye he could hit the notes richt enough.A very talented man.
@nicholasmartin2973 ай бұрын
I think he played the piano too?
@Umbrey_Dunctum3 ай бұрын
He had a voice that could take pastry of your pork pie!
@martinkelly6709Ай бұрын
Yeah he was a dance band singer in the 1950s with the Oscar Rabin Big Band.
@mufcfan962 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this when I was 11yrs old.I’ve not laughed so much in ages, Colin Crompton’s a gem!!..
@michaelroberts73742 жыл бұрын
Colin Crompton is amazing sadly missed
@thebohemian.2 жыл бұрын
A shame we can’t have programmes like this today. We don’t have the celebrities or talent anymore.
@boomtish4520 Жыл бұрын
You’re kidding. Surely.
@DDandrums11 ай бұрын
What nonsense.
@suchevski Жыл бұрын
Yes we used to watch this of a friday night when I was 7 years old. Enjoyed it very much then and still now. Quality.
@andrewmcintyre84912 жыл бұрын
Bernard Manning was so well-behaved on these. I discovered this series at the same time as discovering Bernard Manning comedy.
@anthonywilliams67642 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful band, and such great arrangements they played. First class club combo whoever they were. ten out of ten.
@twerpantine7 ай бұрын
agreed
@Tokiofritz2 жыл бұрын
Amazing to think that working-class culture once had its own prime time Saturday night show.
@Sam_Green____41142 жыл бұрын
You do realise it's a comedy don't you ??
@Tokiofritz2 жыл бұрын
@@Sam_Green____4114 Yes, comedy and music celebrating working-class culture. Not sure what you're point is.
@Sam_Green____41142 жыл бұрын
@@Tokiofritz Not sure what your point is either fool !
@Tokiofritz2 жыл бұрын
@@Sam_Green____4114 You're awful angry, Sam. Have a wee lie down.
@Sam_Green____41142 жыл бұрын
@@Tokiofritz Your original comment is just an amazing example of snobbery and sneering!! l bet you voted Remain didn't you !?
@connect4glyn2 жыл бұрын
When comedy was funny , we greatly miss programs like this
@keithnaylor198111 ай бұрын
Wonderful stuff from the days when television was entertaining! If you’ve ever tried the Cossack dancing you’ll know it takes amazing strength, agility and stamina to dance like that. They were sensational!
@stevegordon56892 жыл бұрын
Most of those blokes in the audience probably fought in the 1 st and 2nd world wars!
@marvinmuonekejazz2 жыл бұрын
Bernard Manning had a decent voice! I'm quite surprised!
@johnking51742 ай бұрын
People could never believe this wasn't filmed in a real club - viewers wrote in asking where the show was filmed and were shocked when the reply was Granada Television Studios in Manchester. I think Studio 12 was the one they used. Amazing, as it looks so much like an outside broadcast from a real club.
@adeh5032 жыл бұрын
Bernard knocking out a tune at the start there 👍
@andymcevoy20802 ай бұрын
Absolute classic remember this as a child
@MrGoneTroppo2 жыл бұрын
Decent set of pipes old Bernard!
@rockall66 Жыл бұрын
Freddie Garrity was brilliant! What a great voice he had.
@DRAINPIPE573 жыл бұрын
Great stuff for a Saturday Night
@davidgibbs72323 жыл бұрын
Loved this show first time round. Fun entertaining TV the likes of which sadly we do not see now. Happier times than the hell we are living in now. Thank you for this. 😊😊
@DCDPM3 жыл бұрын
Really? Happier times, the 1970s. Apart from the music my dad told me it was absolutely shite. Take your rose tinted union jack glasses off.
@Havanacuba19853 жыл бұрын
@@DCDPM they were happier times ,you wouldn’t know unless you lived them , we had a lovely life in the 70s until thatcher got voted in in 79
@meganoikz3 жыл бұрын
@@DCDPM Comedians who told jokes instead of offering their political views (and didn't need a team to check if any of it was offensive), proper musicians who played instruments and sang, light entertainment acts with talent. Just look at weekend television these days, there are no light entertainment "stars" anymore. I wasn't even alive back then but I can see how far we've fallen.
@pocketjohnson18202 жыл бұрын
I was a kid growing up in the 70s I wouldn't say that it was any better or any worse just different. to us kids the power cuts were quite fun but I doubt my parents saw it that way. my grandfather drove up to Birmingham got bulk candles from an ecclesiastical suppliers we used the last of them in the late 1980s🤣 the biggest thing that affected us was the IRA violence living in London it was bad😕
@davidgibbs72322 жыл бұрын
@@pocketjohnson1820 fair comment but I was happier then than now. We have always had problems but these days just seem evil.
@brendangeraghty886511 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for sharing this, it's so bad that it's fantastic! My ribs are sore from laughing, my God.
@purplemoonproductions92693 жыл бұрын
wonderful funny acts not like the shite we have now days
@marktlog3 жыл бұрын
The guy from Freddy and the Dreamers, it's just nuts
@donaldpaterson58272 жыл бұрын
He’s really good I thought.
@Umbrey_Dunctum3 ай бұрын
He was on an early trial of Care in The Community, which was under the academic auspices of Cambridge University but the funding was effectively through the private sector being a bequest endowed through some shady charitable institute. I think Jon Pilger did a program about it .
@mikehudson88842 жыл бұрын
Excellent post Julie, I loved this show as a kid in the 70s x
@purplemoonproductions92693 жыл бұрын
I have to say a lot of these acts went onto great stardom xxx
@markfahey39212 жыл бұрын
@@lomate1963 Some were on their way down and trading on a name.
@DRAINPIPE573 жыл бұрын
I'll better watch these quickly as they might get taken off here as mine did
@TheBrummie602 жыл бұрын
The inimitable Colin "Give order!" Crompton: Frank Skinner's dad, perhaps?! 😊
@adriannorris1486 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant….Freddie after the dreamers had ended…..fascinating. A genuine variety show.
@johngibson6758 Жыл бұрын
Memories of my childhood amazing it was Sunday dinner and bullseye vibe , aunty down the club on a Sunday 🤗
@marktlog3 жыл бұрын
I gasped at the knife throwing.
@azillliasmith2734 Жыл бұрын
Bloody hell the cossacks were superb! Wonder if they were from the Ukraine or Barnsley ....
@darryllp93993 ай бұрын
Thanks for uploading. Classic stuff 😀
@colinbrigham82532 жыл бұрын
Thank you variety at its best 😊
@trevordance51813 жыл бұрын
I bet the nearest that the Kosack Brotherhood got to the Ukraine was Uttoxeter!
@sharky85772 жыл бұрын
Think they were from Burnley
@briandoyle61882 жыл бұрын
Sound like scoucers to me when singing 👍..
@alantaylor9292 жыл бұрын
Breakdancing was invented in Manchester in 1974!
@NecatiArabaci22562 жыл бұрын
That was proper entertainment this show. I used to watch it as a kid. Unfortunately we won’t have this sort of entertainment Thank you 🙏🏻 for this video ma’am
@TheAdArchive Жыл бұрын
Thank god this crap is no longer on TV
@jayrox403 жыл бұрын
Thank you. x
@oldschoolmotocross53852 жыл бұрын
The drunk dad from rita sue & bob too
@jubileebaby9787 Жыл бұрын
Willie Ross
@davidstooke2608 Жыл бұрын
Didn't realise what a good singer Bernard was!
@djpaul1463 жыл бұрын
Bingo £3 jackpot awesome
@streetlegalone2 ай бұрын
Impressive Cossack dancing!
@Katmando37610 ай бұрын
Iconic series and us Southerners really thought that Lancashire was like that!
@dttruman2 жыл бұрын
Excellent knife throwing act at the 17:59 mark!
@ScottReed1 Жыл бұрын
Barbara Law... my mum!! 💌
@fattymcfatso1083 Жыл бұрын
really? what's with the bloke giving her the "wicked" gleam ? 😀
@OldSonyMan9 ай бұрын
I'm surprised that no one's mentioned "Phoenix Nights" yet ! P.S. I only am watching this because I wasn't allowed to 'back in the day' and I had assumed that it was because of the 'Strippers' in the show. (I hope it was worth the wait !)
@DCDPM3 жыл бұрын
Why are people saying that these shows represented happiness and better times. My father told me it was the shits except for the music. Being piss poor and unemployed should not be looked back on fondly and nor should it be seen as aspirational.
@fruitcake4t3 жыл бұрын
well there was always Barbara Law and her nicely toned & tanned body
@purplemoonproductions92692 жыл бұрын
No they were bad times but as we always do in this country we see the happier side and so on as we did in war i.come.from a Welsh mining town and by due things were hard for my family but come weekend a sing song even without beer was a good time I agree yes that rose cloured glasses as we.look.back but it made.us stronger I feel anyway
@liquidmonkey20002 жыл бұрын
Having lived through the 70s as a child I have some fond memories and of course we didn’t know any different. However, I look back on the casual racism and sexism of the times with a degree of incredulity - did we really find these things funny? Then again there was some good stuff back then like punk, Play for Today, and cheap rail fares. Would I want to go back - hell no, and I suspect most of those yearning for a return to these times are forgetting quite how grim much of life was back then.
@NOTODIVERSITY123 Жыл бұрын
♥️1970s...
@juleshammond5652 Жыл бұрын
The past is another country. They do things differently there.
@Sam_Green____41142 жыл бұрын
He appeared at the La Scala Milan my arse ! The La Scala Skegness more like !!
@briandoyle61882 жыл бұрын
The Italian (Pontefract) mate with the tray + specs is in Rita, Sue and Bob too... GRT film it's Rita's dad he has a fight with Bob GRT British cinema...
@sharonjones8736 ай бұрын
Peter Kay nicked this for Phoenix Nights for sure!
@johnnyboy-f6v11 ай бұрын
My family were blue collar working class but this show was considered vulgar in my house.
@jubileebaby9787 Жыл бұрын
This was actually filmed in a studio at Granada TV In Manchester
@fattymcfatso1083 Жыл бұрын
lots of beer for a studio!
@jubileebaby9787 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, same as the other Granada studio which housed the Rovers Return Inn.
@fattymcfatso1083 Жыл бұрын
@@jubileebaby9787 nice
@paulcrisp98614 ай бұрын
Also used for Mrs merton where bernard manning appeared so I believe, a lifetime of famous faces no longer with us sadly. Those were the days 🙏❤️🇬🇧❤️🙏 Mar twenty four
@Gandim45 Жыл бұрын
Freddie makes me smile
@paulwestwell71602 жыл бұрын
The Ukrainian Cossack brotherhood all the way from Ramsbottom Lancashire.
@safercyclinguk11 ай бұрын
That was incredible to watch
@eddiebruv Жыл бұрын
The days when men with long hair weren’t pretending to be women! 😁
@tony-yp6qk2 жыл бұрын
Is that Willie Ross who was in Rita Bob and Sue
@anthonymclean97432 жыл бұрын
It is mate.
@jonathanmchugh2582 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful days when we could just go out and enjoy ourselves!!
@sephjnr2 жыл бұрын
Chicken in a basket for the same price that would only get you a pot of BBQ sauce now.
@daveramm432 жыл бұрын
Was that Bernard Manning singing at the beginning?
@NOTODIVERSITY123 Жыл бұрын
great song I wish I knew what it's called ...
@davidbowie2046 Жыл бұрын
@@NOTODIVERSITY123 It's called Night and Day by Cole Porter.
@peterfenton27502 жыл бұрын
Had a good singing voice did "our bernard"
@ColonelBummleigh7 ай бұрын
23:00 Freddy on fire!
@tonyj304211 ай бұрын
3 QUID bingo jackpot, you could buy a house near the club now
@dixieboy56892 жыл бұрын
Ukranian dancers ?? Nice culture. Thoughts and prayers. March 2022.
@jimoreton2 жыл бұрын
The Ukrainian Kossak Brotherhood. I wonder if they are still going?
@williamforsyth-ye4rc9 ай бұрын
The two dancers may well have been Cossacks, but the farthest east the singer ever got was Bridlington!
@Sam_Green____41142 жыл бұрын
Straight from the Ukraine with a Yorkshire accent !!! How's that done ?
@safercyclinguk11 ай бұрын
On the buses would have been on earlier. This is a studio and not a real club of course.
@Umbrey_Dunctum3 ай бұрын
This is so Ethel Cain coded.I'd loved to have seen Nicole Dollenhanger do her Ena Sharples impression and Grimes...? I'd like to think of doing a damn good comedy skit with Colin Crompton (Lord of the green ringular dingle clqnger): Grimes would be standing at the front of the stage crying , with her head down , pointing at Colin saying 'that man's whole act is worse than the man who sexually assaulted me in the song Oblivion. And his jokes are worse than the bitter, mebbe he should clean his pipes out! Colin would then take a sup from his foaming pint and roll his clanger on on his prominence, and declaim " Order!Order! There has been an announcement from the Committee, that Wheeltappers will agree to provide funding to support the release of Book2.
@nelchid2 жыл бұрын
Hey, old Bernard could sing a bit couldn't he?
@NOTODIVERSITY123 Жыл бұрын
Great voice ..I enjoyed his tune👍
@loftlegacy2 жыл бұрын
Eurovision winners 2023
@alantaylor9292 жыл бұрын
Lamberto Rossinni? More like Lambert & Butler :)
@nicksvinylbutty5488 Жыл бұрын
Didn't Lamberto Rossini play in midfield for Inter Milan ??? This is grand old light entertainment 👍👍👍
@apocalyptomillstone6001 Жыл бұрын
I only put this on hoping to see Noel Gallagher and his high flying birds.
@marshmallow0417 Жыл бұрын
23:00 freddie
@bradleymilton9372 Жыл бұрын
COMMITTEE
@Keltibarian2 жыл бұрын
All I can say is entertainment in the 70s looked horrific if this was the standard.
@ianbentley7276 Жыл бұрын
you wouldn't say that if u were around then
@fattymcfatso1083 Жыл бұрын
yeah because drake is so much better
@paulbowler62622 жыл бұрын
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@alecmiddleton18422 жыл бұрын
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@TeriWilde2 жыл бұрын
. .
@NOTODIVERSITY123 Жыл бұрын
Ukrainian b boy breakdance moves 1974..
@linmanfu9132 жыл бұрын
The quality of these acts varies enormously. Colin Crampton(?) is genius. The knife-thrower was impressive. The 'Cossack Brotherhood' were OK. Lambert & Ross were just awful. And Bernard Manning might be able to sing, but watching him paw the women is 🤮
@fattymcfatso10832 жыл бұрын
Barbara Law can belt out a song.
@boundsgreenboy2 жыл бұрын
Some seriously cringe worthy stuff here.
@fattymcfatso1083 Жыл бұрын
i luv it
@duckman5642 Жыл бұрын
@@fattymcfatso1083 me 2👌
@fattymcfatso1083 Жыл бұрын
@@duckman5642 hey - nice!
@ricko3k2 жыл бұрын
Love Colin Crompton but Bernard Manning.. no thanks.
@NOTODIVERSITY123 Жыл бұрын
Bernard manning Mr Manchester 🇬🇧. the English working class hero
@TheWacoKid19633 ай бұрын
Peter Lambert & Willie Ross, after the duo split, Willie took up acting, his most famous role was the drunk dad in the film, Rita, Sue & Bob Too