SIX FIVE SPECIAL "Chris Barber & Ottilie Patterson"

[@jasonpfinch]

UK trad jazz was fantastic and drove the whole UK blues movement.

[@brymorian]

Jason finch, and minty sunshine, best clarinetist. Kenny Ball, all great. Yobbos today don't know what music is

[@anthonygerace332]

Pete Townshend and John Entwistle were in a trad jazz band together when they were young teenagers. Later they met those other two guys and started playing a noise style of music.

[@davidlyons4198]

Best blues singer of her time. RIP

[@bobbeck5866]

Monty Sunshine at his best, after all, he is, was and always will be the finest clarinettist this planet will ever see.

[@sallysmith7778]

You’re right. Monty Sunhine's Petite Fleur accompanied my husband to his funeral last year.

[@charleswhinney3008]

Chris and Ottilie !!!! What memories of the 50's and 60's. six five special was a must to watch.

[@geoffreyhughes195]

Trad jazz rocked England back in the sixties.Great video!

[@ineundgerd]

no -- in the fifties !!!

[@danielmccolgan8057]

Great to actually see Ottilie singing. Brilliant.

[@2101cooperman]

Some of the best days of my youth when Bands such as Chris Barber, Acker Bilk other great jazz bands visited my hometown of Luton’s TUC Concert Hall!!

[@leslierutherford2390]

Absolutely great, and wonderful to see Ottilie and the band in their prime.

[@mike04535]

Six Five Special. Essential early Saturday evening viewing. Music catered for all generations.

[@MsBrianh]

top man! ... and great vocal Ottilie

[@lizdoyle7158]

💚EXCELLENT💛 FABOULOUS💖 AWESOME 💙🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟

[@johnnymac8680]

I watched this show in the late 50's mainly because 'Tales of Wells Fargo' followed it and as a 7 year-old I was a great western fan.

[@alanwann9318]

So did we John.

[@smilingalltheway13]

Chris Barber was a great sympathetic very active jazztrombonist - influencing so many european jazzmusicians to become tradional jazz interpreters. thanks Chris. keep swinging "upstairs in the heaven"

[@robertmorley3609]

and a lousy husband!

[@c.j.vanderweyde349]

Back in time... fantastic

[@andycapp8843]

Goodness gracious me…..suits, collars with ties, all clean cut, ladies that could dance in their full skirts and petticoats. That era was pure fun, life was on the move with jobs for those that wanted work. We had money in our pockets and we spent it on having a good time, much to the absolute dismay of our parents.

[@margarettaylor6355]

Used to dance like this to Barber and Lyttelton and Bilk and Donnegan at 100 Oxford St when I was a student in the 50s ...

[@joluttringer4450]

Never see and heard ! A million thanks for this gift. It's (for me) the first time I see Monty Sunshine with Chris Barber. I discover Chris, Pat and band january 1961 with, on clarinet, Ian Wheeler.Best wishes from France. Happy New Year 2016.

[@johnnymac8680]

This is my kind of music. The Six Five Special was a late 1950's show.

[@berryj.greene7090]

Brilliant! Thanks

[@johnjensen4984]

Ottilie Patterson 👍

[@mgkelley1]

A great singer - I saw her perform many times. Thanks for posting

[@dieternorbertfreyberg8458]

das war unsere Musik damals ;herrlich!!!!!

[@alasdairwreid]

Six Five Special . . . well decades later I still remember it (from the very North of Scotland . . . .) as I have to watch once TV had arrived!!!

[@tubemagpie]

The music takes em back to simpler times... or so it seems. I note the really simple micing of the instruments too...

[@vincentreynolds2127]

Ottalie=Class.

[@boazliostro790]

GLORIOUS OLD TUNES FROM HEAVEN !

[@rickwilmot9127]

R.I.P Chris!

[@WilHenDavis]

Thanks for posting this! Brings back great memories from when I lived back in Blighty!

[@bertry1]

All time high. That's It !

[@MrFlatroofer]

Brilliant.

[@Doubledig]

Chris Barber RIP.

[@stephenvincent4989]

Such a great foot tapping sound and Ms O P can certainly swing it.

[@JohnMilne-e6x]

Abit of majical nostalgia, modern music can't hold a torch to this

[@ManipledMutineer]

A great track and performance, thank you for sharing it

[@RockinAtheist]

I well remember this great band at the Barnet Jazz Club. Lonnie Donegan was the banjo player. Them were the days!

[@derekambler]

Brilliant time every Tuesday evening in the Union Hall , Union Steet, Barnet. Heaven every week; what a wonderful time was had by all who saw such great times in the 1950's.

[@amberhumphreys807]

I remember from Wood Green Jazz club Fishmongers arms !

[@GordonHudson]

Pat Halcox. What a great trumpet player.

[@TheBiggeeman]

Ottilie Patterson was the greatest British Blues singer of her time. She was respected by many of the blues artistes that the Barber Band brought over to the UK, but Chris Barber treated her abominably. That's why she eventualy gave up singing altogether and retired to a quiet country life until she sadly died.

[@anthonygerace332]

Chris Barber -- yet another talented man who was a lousy human being.

[@annevandijk645]

Up until today I thought there had to be TWO Otillies: the jazz singer I was not interested in, and the Irish pub singer who did 'Captain Fischer'. What a nice surprise. Not crazy about jazz, but I do like the blues.

[@samellicott383]

Those were the days!

[@upyklt]

The second tune is High Society, some say it's a mark for clarinet players to achieve and none played it better than Monty Sunshine. RIP Monty!

[@MrEclecticity]

Pete, (Lay?) Is that Graham Burbage on drums? If so, can you explain the name Bobby Kee?? on the front of the bass drum?

[@upyklt]

Sorry not the one you're looking for, but Ron Bowden played drums on the EP they recorded with those tunes, late '55 and early '56 and I think that's him.Graham Burbage came along around '57 .As to the name on the drums, I can only guess that they left the drums onstage from other bands......

[@fastfriendtigerlily]

The name is a bit difficult to read, but is almost certainly BOBBY KEVIN -- a very well known drummer at the time with Ken Mackintosh and other bands. As Pete L says, he probably had an earlier set on this show and shared his kit. www.discogs.com/artist/2815210-Bobby-Kevin

[@anthonygerace332]

Great performance. I like the guy who just slaps his leg throughout the song. I guess he normally plays a percussion instrument, but for this song he just plays the leg!

[@anthonygerace332]

I also like the young woman announcer. She has plenty of pep!

[@neilmetcalfe8406]

Clapping on

[@johnadkins5855]

Clappin' on the beat . NoNo !

[@simongleaden2864]

That's what white people do, apparently.

[@colinetheridge4916]

Ottilie said to Chris in 1959, "Marry me Chris and take me away from all this touring" He did but he didn't. they were married and it lasted until 1983 when they divorced as the touring never stopped.

[@mikeos1]

He treated her abominably. Forced her to have an (illegal) abortion because he was already married.

[@althejazz]

Boy oh boy, that band could always swing. It's a pity that we don't have any programmes on radio or TV that play a mix of musical syles any more. All we get is wall to wall 'pop' from almost every radio station.

[@honoredutrey]

To most people today ,the word "music" means "pop" and nothing else,unfortunately.

[@stewartfenton7660]

What's the difference, play records or listen to KZbin. Let them do what they want on radio, I never listen to it myself.

[@jamespasifull]

I just realised that's the same tune as the theme song from the Casey Jones TV series! 😲

[@stewartfenton7660]

Casey Jones, steamin' an' a'rollin', Casey Jones, you never have to guess, When you hear the tootn' of the whistle, It's Casey at the throttle of the Cannonball Express! Same tune.

[@davidbeavan9521]

Great days Chislehurst caves Saturday night 84 now

[@williamhall1927]

Used to meey my pals at the Blavk Horse Jazz Club. Now meet them at yhe Doctors.

[@annamarczak5864]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@althejazz]

Rhythm section is, as far as I can recall Dick Smith on bass, Eddie Smith on banjo (no relation) and Graham Burbage on drums.

[@old39timer]

+Alan Bond Eddie Smith on Banjo

[@MrEclecticity]

Can you explain the name Bobby Kee?? on the front of the bass drum?

[@althejazz]

Probably his drum kit borrowed by Graham

[@honoredutrey]

Definitely NOT Graham Burbidge on drums. Difficult to tell but it looks and sounds like Ron Bowden. Dick Smith on bass,Eddie Smith on bajo.

[@honoredutrey]

There was a drummer around at that time called Bobby Kevin who played with Ken Mackintosh.Maybe he's "depping" for regular drummer Ron Bowden.

[@neilmetcalfe8406]

Clapping on 1 and 3

[@mikec7108]

Brilliant to hear this again ! Question.... who is the woman doing the intro. ? I have Muriel Gray in my mind, but......

[@corporalhenshaw]

Josephine Douglas

[@mikec7108]

Thank you so much. You are quite right.@@corporalhenshaw

[@jeffreyedwards609]

thank god for rock n roll.

[@gammeltfossil]

Rock n' roll was a mistake

[@honoredutrey]

Rock and Roll was the beginning of the end of quality and variety in popular music.

[@stewartfenton7660]

Give it a rest you guys.

[@akhan5871]

thjanx--real ragtime - takes me to the fifties--i had an enormoud philco international radio--there was no fm yetbut at night i could get stuff from all over the world--had a 120 foot loop antenna across 3 light poles in the trailer park. most of the time i could get the wolfman, rfe, bbc, wonderful because us radio out side a few cities was the pits--pop was nearly as bad as it is now. - arthur

[@ManipledMutineer]

A great comment, Arthur, I salute your commitment to great music!

[@joluttringer4450]

On this video, I discover the Dick Smith's right hand technics (not the same as, later, Vic Pitt). I to assume the drummer is not Graham Burbidge (?) Can you indicate the name of the frummer on this video ? Best wishes to England from France. jO

[@andystoker6961]

Who is the star playing right thigh from 0:19 ?

[@DDCCO61]

Who was the guy playing his right leg?

[@johnpro2847]

0:01 Who was the lady doing the intro...

[@johnpro2847]

@@TheEtruscanhorse Thank You appreciate the reply.

[@johnpro2847]

note to self: Josephine Douglas

[@JimTancock]

Was that Ron Bowden on the drums?

[@honoredutrey]

Difficult to see clearly,There was a drummer called Bobby Kevin,Whether it's Ron using his drums,or Bobby Kevin himself, sifficult to tell.

[@Grahamgusbull]

Never missed an edition.... but what year WAS this please...anybody?

[@ayrshireman1314]

Probably about 1958/59.

[@Gangstagran]

Wow! Isn't she good!

[@tubemagpie]

O yes...

[@edwardhayes6113]

Acker bilk played with Chris after Monty left

[@alansmith7060]

How is this our kid.

[@barbaracross1301]

Alan Smith /

[@onthegoldenline]

Squares ALWAYS clap on the wrong beat.

[@erika7674]

Ha ha! They haven't got a clue, have they, poor dears ...

[@cgreen2984]

​@@erika7674Bless their hearts 💟

[@ramtin7602]

how is the second tune called?

[@RichardBrown7k]

'High Society' a jazz classic written by Porter Steel in 1901, Monty Sunshine is playing the famous Alphonse Picou solo.which, although he did not record it until 1940 was considered to be the ultimate test for a jazz clarinetist from the twenties to the present day.

[@neilpiper9889]

I am transported back to when I was 16, the Grosvenor Rooms in Norwich Norfolk England. My favourite band and Ottilie was my favourite singer. Thank you so much for this.

[@brianmasters1125]

Was the thigh-slapper part of the band?

[@johnpro2847]

is that what he is doing ....

[@SuperMikado282]

I think not🤣

[@v8pilot]

She was Mrs Barber.

[@donthompson8772]

We had Chris in Chelsea at Nine. I used a one microphone balance. Great stuff ! Don Thompson Sound Engineer.

[@tonytrout3784]

Sang acoustically, without a mike!

[@johnpro2847]

Sounds like Casey Jones.

[@stewartfenton7660]

Steamin and a rollin

[@bjrnchristensen7157]

Vores gade Otto og vivi

[@lorraineleaver9072]

Vz bzzzb❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@colinball9032]

Rock Music????

[@corporalhenshaw]

Oh yes! You've never heard of Chris Barber, have you. His championing of American blues artists influenced a whole generation of musicians such as Clapton and the Stones.

[@Eddie-is-King]

SCARY eh!! . . . 'Now we're gonna put the tempo up . . ' !!! I don't think so BUT that's how it used to be - I was there!!! Now we know for sure how BAD English music of the 1950's was!!! THANK GOD FOR AMERICAN ROCK'n'ROLL!!!!

[@corporalhenshaw]

Thank heavens for Chris Barber, who promoted American artists and was instrumental in establishing 60s blues and rock.

[@mhicmacglashan3145]

Swinging hairstyles in the audience.

[@mhicmacglashan3145]

But, seriously, some very classy jivers !!

[@neilmetcalfe8406]

Clapping on

[@cgreen2984]

Clapping off