AWESOME.

Got the 45 record

Juke box jury...
0.33 Vic Flick on guitar who went on to play the main cords of the James Bond theme

Those were the day when pop music encompassed talented instrumental music, these days it always has to have someone wailing into a microphone
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Did somebody forget to turn on the brass sections mic?

Whos playing the plucked notes? The guitarist at the back?

whos playing the plucking bit?

This performance by The John Barry Seven featured on 'Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium' on 17 April 1960.

Triffic - unforgettable melody (words were very forgettable)

Good grief!! Thank fuck the Beatles happened a few years later!!

The episode of Sunday Night at THe London Palladium from which this comes is being shown by Talking Pictures TV in the UK on Sunday 9th February, in case that's of interest. It's sad that only the drummer and bass guitarist will be able to watch themselves, as four of those on the show have since died and another is living in the US.

Missing here is Olde Skool/Fart Big Band Brucie's 'acid' intro, paraphrased, "Here's the 'new noize' that the music industry is looking for. No! Really, they call it a 'noize' " The pizzicato 'string-beat' was not John Barry's baby, but born on Tuesday October 21 1958 by Buddy Holly with Decca/Coral/Brunswick producer-director Dick Jacobs improvising Paul Anka's pre-session late gift to Holly, "It Doesn't Matter Anymore". Completed by Paul just back from one of the first Rock/Pop tours of Japan. The cloning of that huge posthumous Holly UK #1 hit from Spring 1959, produced the Les Van Dyke-penned "What Do You Want" a September 1959 UK #1 and many more Holly-like hits for Adam Faith, produced and backed by Holly/Jacobs- copyist John Barry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Vandyke

Vic Flick invents the fuzzbox by accident...

Chopped here is Big Band Brucie's 'acid' intro, paraphrased, "Here's the 'new noize' that the music industry is looking for. No! Really, they call it a 'noize' " The pizzicato 'string-beat' was not York-born John Barry's baby, but birthed on Tuesday October 21 1958 by Texan Buddy Holly with New York Decca/Coral/Brunswick arranger/producer/director Dick Jacobs improvising teen-prodigy writer/singer/picker Paul Anka's pre-session late gift song to Holly, "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" completed by Paul just back from one of the first Rock/Pop tours of Japan. The cloning of that huge posthumous Holly #1 UK hit from Spring 1959, inspired the London-born Les Van Dyke-penned "What Do You Want?" a September 1959 UK #1 and many more Holly-like hits for Adam Faith, arranged, co-produced and backed at EMI's Abbey Road studios by Holly/Jacobs-copyist John Barry. Who then penned and cut his own March 1960 'string-beat' UK instrumental hit featuring Yorkshire ace picker Vic Flick, "Hit And Miss". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Vandyke

9lol)I am reading Vic Flicks autobiography at the moment.Hank and Vic,both guitar players ,had differing careers.Vic could read music and did many sessions with and without the JB7.Hank,although a very fluid player backed the great Cliff Richard for years so his style was more "pop" orientated.Hank himself,said he would liked to have been a better player but his full time job was in the Shadows and "it was that that paid the rent"Hank does now play in his own "Gypsy jazz" group ,playing the music of Stephane Grapelli and Django Rheinhardt....I KNOW IT IS MY USER NAME,I HAVE NOTICED!.(lol).....BTW the guitar that Vic Flick used to record the James Bond theme was/is a Clifford Essex Paragon blond "F" hole, archtop acoustic electric.It is in the RocknRoll hall of fame in America somewhere.Here he is playing a nice Gibson 175 , archtop guitar.I don`t know if Vic borrowed it for a few gigs or he owned it.

If that is Vic Flick playing the guitar, then he's the guy who played on the original James Bond Theme. May he live forever.

Nostalgique de la bonne musique, dommage.

I hear violins plucking, but can't hear a thing from the brass trio.

Those plucking strings ..

Fans of The John Barry Seven might like to know about the new book I've co-written about the band's history. This performance (minus the bari-sax player) is described in the book along with many others: http://johnbarry.org.uk/johnbarryseven/

I admired Barry's later film music but why is he not actually playing the trumpet here (but pretending to)??

we have come a long way since then, musically

Love the arch top guitars!

Vic Flick the British Duane Eddy.

The piano player i think married Judith Durham of the Seekers, she left the group a year before they married. her career bombed after that. Had a few shows and some hits but by 72 or 73 she and her husband was touring jazz clubs in ozz and England. Still steady work but not like the seekers days. After she left the seekers the group dissolved, then when her husband was ill she got back with the seekers. he died a year later in 94. I am not saying she dumped him, no but it appears she was preparing for life after his death, though at the time she said she though he would like Steven hawkings, he had the same illness. So she went touring etc with the seekers to earn some money. .

bert weedons version is the best

This is a version of "Mbube"...written by South African singer Soloman Linda and recorded by him in 1939. It's also known as " Wimoweh"" or The Lion Sleeps Tonight". This was my favourite John Barry 7 recording when I was living in England in 1960. In the US it was recorded in the late 50's/early 60's by a number of singers including the Kingston Trio, the Weavers and The Tokens.

mr Sweeney will not be speaking