- and one of his lesser ones, I'd say,
although the up-to-the-minute 1976 TV Awards parody format has a surface appeal
for television historians (The New Avengers, Mastermind, I Claudius, The Bionic
Man, etc.). Hill's many American fans may have needed footnotes to fully
appreciate the significance of his versions of Dickie Davies, Magnus Magnusson,
Pam Ayres and the Cadbury's Smash Martians.
Was this the only variety show ever that started with the song?
Even speaking as somewhat of a connoisseur of this type of thing, I have never come across guest artistes Reflections before. (Discogs have no details of their having released any records, despite their TV exposure.) They are a 2M 2F MOR group along the lines of a hipper Brotherhood of Man. Their spirited interpretation/ Teddington arrangement of 'Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher And Higher' (an ambitious song to attempt to cover!) is marred by some of the worst CSO that I've ever seen, with the girls' sparkling silver jackets disappearing into the backdrop like a Light Entertainment version of Doctor Who's Vardans.
Was this the only variety show ever that started with the song?
Even speaking as somewhat of a connoisseur of this type of thing, I have never come across guest artistes Reflections before. (Discogs have no details of their having released any records, despite their TV exposure.) They are a 2M 2F MOR group along the lines of a hipper Brotherhood of Man. Their spirited interpretation/ Teddington arrangement of 'Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher And Higher' (an ambitious song to attempt to cover!) is marred by some of the worst CSO that I've ever seen, with the girls' sparkling silver jackets disappearing into the backdrop like a Light Entertainment version of Doctor Who's Vardans.
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