Going For A Song - October 1971 - Part 2

[@Mayerling52]

I loved Going for a Song! Thank you very much for posting sweet memories♥

[@shelleyharris2850]

It is a lovely chair indeed. Thanks for sharing. Blessings. Beautiful🌍😎😇✌🙏💛👆💪🙌🌍

[@indieshack4476]

I'd forgotten just how good onscreen Arthur Negus was - very knowledgeable but also knew how to play to the camera - his presentation holds up almost 50 years later, very few do.

[@Martyn2473]

Brought back some good memories. Thanks for posting.

[@virtualgaz]

thanks for posting.

[@sunnymarky]

I wish there was video of arthur negus talking about a piece of wood furniture,his the language he used was wonderful

[@IanWelland]

I remember this programme, but rather around 1974/75, aged 8. I always liked the theme music - Respighi's Prelude to 'The Birds.' It was composed in 1927. The version used on the programme was played by The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Istvan Kertsez (recorded in 1968) and can be found on the Decca compilation 'The Essential Respighi' released by Decca in 1995 (Decca 443 759-2). It was customary for the BBC in particular to use classical music for theme tunes in the 1950s, 1960s and up to the mid-1970s.

[@gainsbourg66]

I love Arthur's: "Nothing to add at all". The days befor flannel!

[@marcokite]

not interested in dolls!

[@sakeena12]

Thanks for up load i really do enjoy arthur negus i cant seem to find any films video or recordings of arthur negus my teacher lent me a excellent video documentary about furniture and visits stately homes i think recorded by the BBC

[@themanmaschine]

Bet that was recorded on a Philips N1500!

[@plopperator]

A little known fact is that Arthur Negus was half hedgehog.

[@abdul7591]

Is it possible to find his TV series "The Story of English Furniture," which Arthur Negus co-hosted with Hugh Scully back in 1980's?

[@hughcalder6156]

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[@Mollypopithelen]

'The thumb on the wrong side of the hand may simply be an idiosyncrasy of the design' 😏🙄

[@abdul7591]

@sakeena12 You're probably thinking of "The Story of English Furniture" and it was co-hosted by Arthur Negus with Hugh Scully.

[@shelleyharris2850]

Nail

[@marcokite]

it on the head

[@shelleyharris2850]

10

[@marcokite]

17

[@shelleyharris2850]

Feathers

[@shelleyharris2850]

Blue

[@marcokite]

greeny blue twirls, oxide of metals

[@shelleyharris2850]

Bentley

[@marcokite]

he sold shapes to people

[@ghughesarch]

Lovely stuff, but looking back it's also amazing how awkward, dull, beige and, above all, posh, prime-time BBC1 television was only 40 years ago.

[@MrIvorfan]

What do you mean buy "posh"?

[@ghughesarch]

Almost everyone either was, or at least tried very hard to pretend they were, upper middle class public school educated types (admittedly, Humphrey Lyttleton genuinely was from an aristocratic family)

[@MrIvorfan]

@@ghughesarch It just goes to show how different people see different things in different people. As you say, “Lovely stuff” for those interested in antiques. The star of the show for me was always dear old Arthur Negus. He communicated a love of beauty and beautiful craftsmanship which is conspicuous by its absence from modern television offerings. (The clip of him with the chair in the video is a good example.) The modern offerings are obsessed with prices. Dear old Arthur never once tried to be what he was not. The other participants in no way seemed artificial to me either. One thing, more than ever, I appreciate is their clarity of speech. For 25 years I have been completely deaf in one ear. I have given up listening to news on the radio - because it is too exhausting trying to make sense of the gabble that passes for standard English now. It may not be for you, but “Going for a Song” English is most definitely for me.

[@marcokite]

@@MrIvorfan - listen to the accents dear

[@marcokite]

@@MrIvorfan - agreed

[@shelleyharris2850]

Tremer

[@marcokite]

.....never a murmer

[@shelleyharris2850]

Wood

[@marcokite]

dead straight, but don't think you've got one of these in your homes