[78-L] Beiderbecke TV series on BBC

[Julian Vein]

JOHN WRIGHT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As usual I'm a week behind with 78L digests.
> 
> The Beiderbecke Affair etc did NOT feature ANY music played by Bix.
> 
> The music was only ever clips played by a present-day British band.
> 
> Bix rarely mentioned in the scripts. Non-jazz fans learned nothing about
> him.
> 
> 
> John
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The introductory and concluding music was a twee version "Singing The 
Blues" arranged by Ray Russell. A pretty dismal series. I thought it was 
a waste of time because they came out about the same time as the Sunbeam 
Complete Bix LP series, which made the hunt for Bix's records seem 
rather redundant.


      Julian Vein