Friday 4 September 2015

231 Super Sonic


First  watched  :  Autumn  1975

This  was  the  only  ITV  pop  programme  I  made  a  point  of  watching. It  wasn't  one  of  Muriel  Gray's  productions  at  Granada  but  an  LWT   effort  presented  from  his  console  desk  by  producer  Mike  Mansfield , noted  for  his  snowy-white  hair  and  camp  voice. He  would  cue  the  acts  from  the  gantry  rather  than  presenting  to  camera  in  keeping  with  the  show's  "peep  behind  the  curtain"   approach  of  showing  backstage  operations.  It  had  a  certain  ramshackle  charm.

The  acts  were  lip-synching   and  often  placed  in  highly  incongruous  settings  for  their  music . Ronnie  Lane  did  his  ruralist  fantasy  song  The  Poacher  with  a  machine  blowing  detergent  bubbles  at  him. Most  performed  their  current  chart  hits  as  you'd  expect  but  some  of  the  older  acts  performed  hits  from  the  past  such  as  Jethro  Tull  and  Arthur  Brown.  

The  show  lasted  a  couple  of  years.  

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