The 1960s Part Two: 1965 to 1969


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Film Year Stars Soundtrack Production Co. Director Songs By
Ballad in Blue

(US:Blues For Lovers)

(UK/Eire)

B/W

1965 Ray Charles, The Raelets *45s-HMV

LP- HMV (UK)

Songs: Hit the Road Jack*; Let the Good Times Roll ;Lucky Old Sun; Unchain My Heart*; Hallelujah, I Just Love Her So; Leave Me Alone; Now I Can See; Talkin' About You; Light Out of Darkness; What'd I Say?*

Some songs on Ray Charles compilation CD (Rhino)

Alsa Films/ Warner Pathe

Filmed at Ardmore Studios, Dublin

Paul Henreid Ray Charles and various
Catch Us if You Can

B/W

(US: Having a Wild Weekend)

1965 Dave Clark Five LP- Epic (USA)

Dave Clark Five: Catch Us if You Can; Having a Wild Weekend; I Can't Stand it; Move On; Ol Sol; On the Move; Sweet Memories;When

Bruton/Anglo Amalgamated John Boorman Dave Clark
Cuckoo Patrol

B/W

1965 Freddie and the Dreamers   Grand National Duncan Wood Kenny Graham
Dateline Diamonds

B/W

Plot involves a "pirate radio" station

Released on DVD (UK)

1965 Appearances by The Small Faces, Chantelles, Kiki Dee, Mark Richardson, Kenny Everett (DJ) Small Faces:It's too late; Come on children;I've got mine;Whatcha gonna do about it? Viscount/ Rank Jeremy Summers Johnny Douglas
Every Day's a Holiday (US:Seaside Swingers) 1965 Mike Sarne, John Leyton, Freddie and the Dreamers The MoJos, The Leroys, Grazina Frame, Gillian Lynne Dancers LP Mercury SR-61031

Songs include:Every Day's a Holiday/Freddie and the Dreamers :Don't Do That to Me; What's Cooking?/ John Leyton:All I Want is You*; Crazy Horse Saloon/ Grazina Frame and John Leyton: A Boy Needs a Girl/Grazina Frame: Second Time Shy/Mike Sarne: Indubitably Me***

*On CD Best of John Leyton: See For Miles SEE CD 201

***On Mike Sarne compilation CD

Fitzroy/ Maycroft/ Grand National James Hill Tony Osborne and various
Gonks Go Beat 1965 Lulu and the Lovers, Nashville Teens, Troles, Graham Bond Organization, The Long and the Short, Ray Lewis and theTrekkers, Vanqueros, Elaine and Derek, Alan David. Lulu sings:Choc Ice;The Only One /The Long and the Short perform : Take This Train Titan/Anglo Amalgamated Robert Hartford- Davis  
Help!

DVD:

1965

The Beatles

 

Songs:Another Girl; Help!; I Need You; The Night Before; Ticket to Ride; You're Going to Lose that Girl; You've got to hide your love away

CD:

Walter Shenson/Suba Films/United Artists Richard Lester John Lennon Paul McCartney
I've Gotta Horse

External Link

Released on VHS by DD Video UK

 

 

1965 Billy Fury Amanda Barrie, Michael Medwin, The Bachelors,The Gamblers, Jon Pertwee, Sheila O'Neil

Peter Gilmore

LP: Decca LK 4677

LP Cover and Track Listing

The Song "Stand by Me" is on the CD: "Billy Fury 40th Anniversary Anthology" (DERAM 2cd set)

Windmill/ Larry Parnes Kenneth Hume

David Heneker John Taylor(m/l)

Mike Leander

The Intelligence Men

(US:Spylarks)

 

1965 Eric Morecambe Ernie Wise William Franklyn   Rank Robert Asher

Choreography by Eleanor Fazan

Philip Green
Pop Gear

(US: Go Go Mania)

1965 Matt Monro, Animals, Rockin' Berries, Billie Davis, Nashville Teens, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, Foremost, Sounds Incorporated, Spencer Davis Group, Beatles, Susan Maughan, Honeycombs, Herman's Hermits, Four Pennies, Peter and Gordon, Tommy Quickly and the Remo Four.

Features:

Beatles: She Loves You; Twist and Shout/
Sounds Incorporated: William Tell, Rinky Dink/The Animals:The house of the rising sun; Don't let me be misunderstood/Four Pennies:Juliette;Black Girl/Foremost:A Little Loving/Nashville Teens:Tobacco Road;Google Eye/Peter and Gordon:A World without love/Tommy Quickley and the Remo Four:Humpty Dumpty/Rockin Berries:What in the world/He's in town

Associated British Frederick Goode Various
Reflections on Love (Short : 14mins) Available on: Wonderwall (1969) DVD 1965 Jenny Boyd       Kula Shaker
Secrets of a Windmill Girl 1965 April Wilding Valerie Mitchell, Dana Gillespie, Anton Ray Group ???

Searchlight/

Compton

Arnold Louis Miller Malcolm Lockyer
A Study in Terror 1965 Georgia Brown LP :

Georgia Brown performs:' Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay'*, and 'In These Hard Times'

* another version of this can be found on the Georgia Brown LP 'A Little of What You Fancy' on Vocalion CD

 

Sir Nigel/ Compton- Tekli James Hill Score:

John Scott

Three Hats For Lisa 1965 Joe Brown, Sid James, Sophie Hardy, Una Stubbs, David Toguri 45/LP Pye

"My Favourie Occupation" on CD: Joe Brown- A Picture of You Sequel SELCD 544

Seven Hills/Anglo Amalgamated Sidney Hayers

Choreography by Gillian Lynne

Leslie Bricusse and Robin Beaumont
Up Jumped a Swagman 1965 Frank Ifield LP (UK) Columbia

Frank Ifield sings: Look Don't Touch;I Remember You*; I've Got a Hole in my Pocket; I'll Never Feel This Way Again;Cry Wolf; Wild River; Make it Soon; Waltzing Matilda; Lovin'On My Mind; Lovers

*On CD: Frank Ifield-The Essential Collection EMI CD MFP 6384

See Frank Ifield 3 x CD set on EMI

Ivy/ABPC Christopher Miles Norrie Paramor
Finders Keepers 1966 Cliff Richard, The Shadows LP: Columbia

Musical Numbers include: Finders keepers/Time drags by/ Washerwoman/La la la song /Oh senorita /This day/ Paella/Fiesta/My Way

Released on CD by EMI

Interstate/ United Artists

Sidney Hayers

Choreography: Malcolm Clare, Hugh Lambert

Norrie Paramor, The Shadows
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Filmed in UK/Spain

DVD:

 

Stage

1966 Zero Mostel Phil Silvers Michael Crawford, Michael Hordern LP United Artists 5144

CD:

Quadrangle/ United Artists Richard Lester Stephen Sondheim (m/l)

 

Sondheim Review

The Ghost Goes Gear

DVD:

1966 Spencer Davis Group, Stevie Winwood, Acker Bilk, Lorne Gibson Trio, The M6, St. Louis Union, Dave Berry, The Three Bells   Associated British Pathe Hugh Gladwish  
Go With Matt Monro

(Short)

Released on R2 DVD 'Matt at the Movies'

1966 Matt Monro, Roy Castle, Marian Montgomery

A musical hosted by Matt Monro which starts in London's West End, moves on to Rome before returning home. Numbers include "Such a lot of living," "Three coins in a fountain", "Come stay", "Bridge of Sighs", "Walk away", "Teach me tonight", and "Get happy".

Associated British Pathe Bertram Tyler  
Marat Sade

DVD:


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Stage (Royal Shakespeare Company, London)

1966 Glenda Jackson, Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Royal Shakespeare Company

CD Available: Premier 1022 (USA) 'Marat/Sade & US

Songs:Homage To Marat;The Corday Waltz; Song And Mime Of Corday's Arrival In Paris ;The People's Reaction;Those Fat Monkeys; Poor Old Marat;One Day It Will Come To Pass
;Poor Marat In Your Bathtub Seat ;Copulation Round; Fifteen Glorious Years; Final
e

Michael Birkett/ United Artists

Filmed at Pinewood

Peter Brook Songs: Peter Weiss (Text: translated by Adrian Mitchell) /Richard Peaslee (Music)
The Pretty Things

B/W

(Short)

1966 The Pretty Things   West Associates/ Amanda Anthony West  
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

VHS:

Stage (London 1961 and NY)

STW Page

1966 Tony Tanner Millicent Martin

 

LP Warner BS-1643 Warner Bros. Philip Saville Anthony Newley Leslie Bricusse (m/l)

Al Ham

 

That Riviera Touch 1966 Eric Morecambe Ernie Wise Features: That Riviera Touch (Ron Goodwin)/ Now that you're here (Goodwin-Green-Hill) On 45 HMV POP 1518 Rank   Ron Goodwin
The Bee Gees

(Short)

1967 The Bee Gees   Associated London    
Half a Sixpence

DVD:

Stage (London 1963/NY)

 

1967 Tommy Steele Julia Foster (voice:Marti Webb), Cyril Ritchard, Grover Dale (from B'way cast)

LP RCA LSO-1146

CD: London cast available (with Tommy Steele) on Must Close Saturday Records CD

www.must-close-saturday-records.co.uk

Ameran/ Paramount George Sidney David Heneker (m/l)

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

DVD (USA)

1967 Barry Evans, Spencer Davis Group, Stevie Winwood and Traffic Spencer Davis Group: Every Little Thing; Just Like Me; Picture of Her; Possession; Taking Out Time; Virgin's Dream; Waltz for Caroline /Andy Ellison: It's Been a Long Time/Traffic: Am I What I Was, or Was I What I Am?; Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush; Utterly Simple

CD:

Giant/United Artists

Filmed on location in Stevenage Herts.

Clive Donner Various including Stevie Winwood and Traffic
Just Like a Woman 1967 Wendy Craig, Francis Matthews, John Wood, Dennis Price Two songs performed by Mark Murphy Dormar/ Monarch

Produced at Isleworth Studios

Robert Fuest Score and Songs by Ken Napper and Kevin Sutton
Magical Mystery Tour

(Made for TV)

DVD:

 

1967

The Beatles

 

Songs:Magical Mystery Tour; The Fool On The Hill; Flying; Blue Jay Way; Your Mother Should Know; I Am The Walrus; Hello Goodbye; Strawberry Fields Forever; Penny Lane ; Baby You're A Rich Man; All You Need Is Love

CD:

Apple Films   Lennon and McCartney
Privilege 1967 Paul Jones

Jean Shrimpton

Paul Jones:Free Me; I've been a bad bad boy; Privilege

LP: HMV

Worldfilm/ Memorial/ Universal Peter Watkins Mike Leander, Mark London

Red and Blue

(short)

1967 Vanessa Redgrave, Gary Raymond, William Sylvester, Michael York   Woodfall Tony Richardson

Julian More (screenplay+translator of lyrics?)

Songs by Cyrus Bassiak

 

Smashing Time

DVD:

1967 Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave

Page on film

Song lyrics

LP:Stateside (UK) ABC-SOC-6 (USA)

Songs: Smashing Time - Rita Tushingham & Lynn Redgrave
Carnaby Street - RT/LR:Waiting For My Friend - RT
New Clothes - RT: It's Always Your Fault - RT/LR: While I'm Still Young - LR: Day Out - RT/LR:
Trouble -RT: The Morning After - RT/LR : Baby Don't Go -LR :Swinging Thru London - RT/LR

Partisan/ Paramount Desmond Davis John Addison, George Melly, Skip Bifferty
Tell Me Lies

(USA: US)

B/W

Stage (London 1966-RSC production titled 'US')

1967 Glenda Jackson, Michael Williams Tracks:Icarus; Zapping The Cong ; Road Number One; Make And Break ; Barry Bondhus ; God Is Flame ; Escalation; The Leeches;When Dreams Collide; Rose Of Saigon ; Tell Me Lies ;Any Complaints?

LP Gre-Gar 5000 (Title of album=US)

CD: Premier 1022(USA release) Marat/ Sade & US

Ronorus Peter Brook Richard Peaslee(m), Adrian Mitchell (words)
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London 1967 Pink Floyd, Twice as Much,Vashti LP:Instant (UK)

Pink Floyd: Interstellar OverDrive;Twice as Much : Night Time Girl; Vashti: Winter is Blue

Lorrimer Films Peter Whitehead  
To Sir with Love

DVD:

 

1967 Lulu

The Mindbenders

LP: Fontana TL-5546

*45s: Decca

Lulu sings: To Sir with Love*; Off and Running;Stealing My Love From Me; It's Getting Harder all the Time

The Mindbenders perform: Off and Running*;Stealing My Love From Me; It's Getting Harder all the Time

Columbia James Clavell Marc London/ Wine/ Raleigh/ Albertine
Les Bicyclettes De Belsize

(Short)

1968 Judy Huxtable, Anthony May   Delmore/ Illustra Douglas Hickox Les Reed (m/l)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (70mm)

DVD:

 

1968 Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes CD:

Warfield /DFI/United Artists Ken Hughes Richard M and Robert B Sherman
Cream:Last Concert

(Short)

1968 Cream   Stigwood/Fair Enterprises Tony Palmer  
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

 

1968 Peter Noone Herman's Hermits Stanley Holloway

Nat Jackley

LP: MGM SE-4548 ST

*On CD: Very Best of Herman's Hermits EMI CD MFP 6383

Herman's Hermits perform: Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter*; Daisy Chain; Holiday Inn; Lemon and Lime;There's a Kind of Hush*; The World is for You; It's Nice to be Out in the Morning; She's Done It Again; All Over the World; Round the Corner; The Most Beautiful Thing in My Life/Stanley Holloway Performs: The World is for the Young; Round the Corner/Nat Jackley Performs: My Old Man's a Dustman;God Save the Queen

MGM British

Filmed at Shepperton Studios

Saul Swimmer Trevor Peacock, Graham Gouldman, Geoff Stephens, Kenny Young

Ron Goodwin (Score)

Oliver

(70mm)

DVD:

 

 

Stage London (1960), NY

 

1968 Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Harry Secombe, Shani Wallis

 

CD:

Romulus/ Columbia Carol Reed Lionel Bart

 

Popdown 1968 Diane Keen, Zoot Money, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger Trinity, Brenton Wood, Treasure Chest, Don Partridge, Tony Hicks, Kevin and Gary, Dandelion's Chariot, Blossom Toes, Hetty Schneider Quartet, Luis Bonfa Brian Auger Trinity: Wheels on fire Premar/New Realm Fred Marshall  
Salt and Pepper 1968 Sammy Davis Jr. LP: United Artists UAS-5187

Sammy Davis Jr. performs songs: 'I Like the Way You Dance'+ (Staging by Lionel Blair) and 'Salt and Pepper'*

Chrislaw/ Tracemark/ United Artists

Made at Shepperton and on location at Royal Holloway College, Egham

Richard Donner John Dankworth (score)

Sammy Davis Jr./George Rhodes+

Leslie Bricusse* (m/l)

The Best House in London 1969   Tessie O'Shea sings: The Birds of London Town      
Can Hieronymous Merkin.....find True Happiness?

 

 

1969 Anthony Newley

Joan Collins, Bruce Forsyth, Stubby Kaye, George Jessel, Milton Berle, Ron Rubin

 

Anthony Newley Appreciation Society

LP (USA) Kapp KRS-5509

Songs: Overture/ If All the World's a Stage/ Piccadilly Lily /Oh, What a Son of a Bitch I Am /Sweet Love Child/ Astrological Ballet/ Chalk & Cheese/ I'm All I Need /On the Boards /Lullaby/ Piccadilly Lily (reprise) /Once Upon a Time /When You Gotta Go /I'm All I Need (reprise)/ Finale

Regional Film/Taralex/ Universal Anthony Newley Anthony Newley (m), Herbert Kretzmer (l)
Goodbye Mr. Chips

(70mm)

Review Page

VHS:

Stage (Chichester UK)

1969

 

Peter O Toole

Petula Clark

Films of Petula Clark

 

 

LP: MGM-SIE-19 STX

Tracks: Overture/Fill The World With Love - Boys/Where Did My Childhood Go? - Peter O'Toole/ London Is London - Petula Clark & Chorus/And The Sky Smiled - Petula Clark/Apollo - Petula Clark /When I Am Older - Boys/ Walk Through The World - Petula Clark/ Entr'acte and What Shall I Do With Today? - Petula Clark/What A Lot Of Flowers and Reprise - Peter O'Toole/ Schooldays - Petula Clark & Boys/When I Was Younger - Peter O'Toole/You And I - Petula Clark/Fill The World With Love Reprise - Peter O'Toole & Boys/You And I (Orchestral Reprise)

Released on CD set by Film Score Monthly (USA)

 

APJAC/ MGM Herbert Ross Leslie Bricusse (m/l)

MD: John Williams

Oh What a Lovely War

Stage (London: Theatre Royal, Stratford, 1963)

1969 Maggie Smith, John Pierre Cassel

LP Paramount 5008

London OCR now available on CD from: www.must-close-saturday-records.co.uk

Accord/ Paramount Richard Attenborough Jerome Kern, Arthur Wimperis, Ivor Novello and others
Wonderwall: The Movie

DVD (UK and USA) :

1969 Jane Birkin, Iain Quarrier, Jack MacGowran, Beatrix Lehmann

CD: Music by George Harrison

Compton/Alan Clore/ Cinecenta Joe Massot George Harrison

Yellow Submarine

DVD:

NEW EDITION DVD ISSUED 1999 COMPLETELY RE-MASTERED COLOR: NOW IN DOLBY 5:1 SURROUND SOUND

1969

The Beatles (Voices)

 

CD:

Apple/King Features/ United Artists George Duning John Lennon Paul McCartney

 

The list below includes MUSICAL MOVIES MADE IN THE USA, BUT WITH A BRITISH CONNECTION (the Film may be set in England/Scotland/Wales/Ireland -OR- It features British performers -OR- The technical crew is British (Director of photography etc). If the studio used for a film's production is in the UK, it is generally classed as a "British" movie. *British stars in US produced movies are shown in BLUE

The Sound of Music

Made in USA/Austria (70mm)

External Link DVD:NEW THX Sound (Sept 2000) Special Edition 2 x DVD set with many extras:

Stage

1965 Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer CD:

20th Century Fox/ Argyle Robert Wise Richard Rodgers(m), Oscar Hammerstein II (l)
Camelot

Made in USA (70mm)

 

DVD:

Stage (NY/

London 1964)

1967 Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero (voice:Gene Merlino) CD:

Warner Bros. Joshua Logan Alan Jay Lerner,(l) Frederick Loewe(m)
Doctor Dolittle

Made in USA (70mm)

DVD:

 

Stage (1998)

1967 Rex Harrison Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough, Samantha Eggar

 

LP Philips 314534500

CD:UK only

20th Century Fox/ APJAC Richard Fleischer Leslie Bricusse (m/l)
The Happiest Millionaire (Made in USA)

DVD:

1967 Tommy Steele

LP: Buena Vista 5001

CD:

Walt Disney Norman Tokar Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman
Thoroughly Modern Millie

(Made in USA)

DVD:

1967 Julie Andrews, James Fox, Beatrice Lillie

 

CD:

Universal George Roy Hill James Van Heusen(m), Sammy Cahn(l), various
Finian's Rainbow

Made in USA

(70mm)

VHS/DVD :

Stage (NY: 1947)

1968 Fred Astaire Petula Clark Tommy Steele Don Francks, Brenda Arnau

 

Films of Petula Clark

LP Warner BS-2550. S/T not currently available.This recommended CD is of the 1960 NY revival:

Warner/ Seven Arts Francis Ford Coppola Burton Lane(m), E. Y. Harburg(l)
Star!

Made in USA

(70mm)

DVD

1968 Julie Andrews Bruce Forsyth, Daniel Massey

The Gertrude Lawrence Story

CD 20th Cent Fox 07822-11009-2 :

20th Century Fox/ Robert Wise/ Saul Chaplin Robert Wise James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, Kurt Weill , Cole Porter, Noel Coward and others
Hello Dolly

Made in USA

(70mm)

DVD:

 

Stage

1969 Barbra Streisand, Michael Crawford

 

CD:

20th Century Fox/ Chenault Gene Kelly Jerry Herman(m/l)