On BBC 4 AT 7pm ‘What we watched Song and Dance spectaculars 60’S 70’S 80’S
Looking forward to watching this sounds fun….. chatted with the producer and he said he could of made 234 more programmes out of it … the good old days …
As a child all i wanted to be in was the Young Generation…. and I got in the last group of Y G’S in 1976!
and our first show was A New Years Evening show a Jubilee of Music with loads of top stars from he world of entertainment hosted by Dame Vera Lynn ( my life has made a full circle lol)
Here is a review of the programme tonight !
This, much to my surprise, is a mini-masterclass in how to present a compendium of archive light entertainment. In the late ‘60s and ‘70s, dance troupes such as Pan’s People and The Young Generation were toothsome fixtures on British television. They were naff, brilliant, weird, charming; vaguely hippie-ish, but thoroughly scrubbed clean of all muddy traces of the counterculture.
Their elaborate and sometimes overly-literal interpretations of contemporary pop hits were something to behold. Host Grace Dent is clearly a fan. I was expecting an irony-drenched sneer-fest. Instead, it's a fond, irreverent celebration. Dent's links are brief, she allows room for the clips to breathe. Highlights include a Lulu performance of the Theme from Shaft featuring a cameo from Les Dawson, Aretha enduring awkward comedy banter with Cliff, and The Young Generation launching the Keep Britain Tidy campaign. It’s all wonderful.
BELOW A PIC OF THE YOUNG GENERATION !
