The Sixties Archive

James Taylor: Live in Concert (1971)

2011-03-12T06:22:00.000-08:00

A classic concert from 1971 by American singer-songwriter James Taylor.
Re-broadcast on BBC4 in May 2010

Exact date and venue unknown but recorded in front of an appreciative audience, probably in a BBC studio in London.

1. With a Little Help From My Friends
2. Fire and Rain
3. Rainy Day Man
4. Steamroller
5. Greensleeves
6. Back on the Highway
7. Carolina in my Mind
8. Long Ago and Far Away
9. Sweet Baby James
10. Riding on a Railroad
11. You Can Close Your Eyes

Personnel:
James Taylor : Guitar, Vocals, piano

Satellite rebroadcast through Sky box> Sony HDD/DVD recorder -> DVD-RW -> DVD Author 3.12 -> DVD files

G-spot analysis on VTS_01_1.VOB shows

Video: PAL 720 x 576 @ 25fps, 4545kbps
Aspect Ratio : 4:3
Codec: MPEG2

Audio codec: AC3
48.0 kHz @ 256kbps

Duration: 39 minutes approx

Joni Mitchell: Live in Concert, Shepherd's Bush, West London, England (1970)

2010-12-08T16:16:00.001-08:00

Joni Mitchell

BBC In Concert: Joni Mitchell Sings Joni Mitchell
orig. broadcast October 9, 1970
recorded: September 3, 1970
BBC Television Centre
Shepherd's Bush
West London, England

PAL DVD, reconstruction of complete BBC 1970 b/cast in original order (48' 44'' edit here)
from the best known sources (incl. edited 2007 digital broadcast)

Video: 720x576, VBR (mixed VBR/CBR, 8500kbps max), interlaced, TFF
Audio: LPCM (48kHz, 16 bit, 1536kbps, 2 channel mono)

Still menu with audio.
Chapters (only songs linked from menu, the intros accessible from remote):

01 Chelsea Morning*
02 Hunter**
03 intro to 'The Gallery'**
04 The Gallery**
05 Cactus Tree*
06 My Old Man*
07 For Free*
08 intro to 'Woodstock'**
09 Woodstock***
10 introduction of dulcimer*
11 All I Want**
12 intro to 'California'*
13 California*
14 intro to 'Big Yellow Taxi'*
15 Big Yellow Taxi*
16 Both Sides Now*

Lineage (video):

*Original BBC4 DVB-S (30 min edit), January 11, 2007 =>SkyStar2/DVBViewer > VideoRedo > DVDLab > PLG torrent (thanks to joefish) =>TDA3 (cutting into 4 parts)> DGIndex (demuxing video) > Womble MVW (joining with other sources)

**archive videotape (unknown generation, time code close to top)>standalone DVD recorder>TDA2>Dime torrent #161251 (thanks to randall) > DGIndex>AviSynth (restoration of original frames with RePAL, FFT3D filter, hiding timecode and top/bottom lines)>CCE2.70 (CBR 8000kbps, progressive)

***analog BBC broadcast (retrospective compilation by Jools Holland) >VHS > DVD > Dime torrent #101561 ("Joni Mitchell + Co", thanks to Kotdd) => TDA > DGIndex > AviSynth (LeakKernelBob >VDub's DeLogo + FFT3D filter >Weave TFF) > CCE2.70(CBR 8500kbps, interlaced TFF)

Lineage (audio):

*DVB sourced DVD (details above)>DGIndex (demuxing of original stream - MP2, 256 kbps) > MAD (32-bit MPEG Audio Decoder > wav 48kHz 16 bit) > SoundForge8 (48kHz 64 bit > level adjustment > 64 to 16 bit, joining with other sources)

**/***archive videotape>(lossless transfer confirmed) trade CDR>EAC>FLAC frontend> Dime torrent #106758 (thanks again to randall!) => FLAC frontend (decompression, 44.1kHz 16bit) > SoundForge8 (44.1 kHz 64 bit > 44.1 to 48 kHz resampling> 64 to 16 bit> left channel duplicating)

Authoring:
Womble MVW for cut/join video streams + sync detection, SoundForge for seamlessly joining audio.
TDA3 for authoring from the resuting video and audio streams.

Notes:
on archive source (3 songs + intros) timecode is now perfectly hidden with BBC logo (no more jumping digits). On Woodstock** UK ARENA logo filtered out (no cropping, of course).
Audio for the above pieces taken from lossless CDR source also coming from video tape (15625 kHz TV line frequency trace on spectrogram, also it can't be from a broadcast - no cut-off until 22.05kHz, half of the audio CD sampling frequency 44.1). It is mono (as all sources are, judging by waveform in SoundForge) and inferior in quality to MP2 stream of the BBC DVB, for this reason it was not used for the rest of material. There was also some static, mainly in right channel, so audio from left channel was used for replacement.
I didn't use any material from the older BBC4 broadcast torrented as 'trade DVD source', it proved to be modified: opening it in VDubMod shows it was deinterlaced (=re-encoded). And the picture is not as sharp as in the DVB source used here.
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I tried different ways of editing material and making a DVD from those sources (cutting off time code with centering the rest, making different options for playback with and without duplicating DVB material, etc). All that worked but did not satisfy me, this version is the one I like.

Neil Young: Live in Concert (1971)

2010-12-08T16:05:00.000-08:00

Neil Young - "BBC In Concert"
23rd February 1971

Rebroadcast 31st October 2008 by BBC FOUR
BBC FOUR is a digital only broadcaster.

**Direct transport stream capture and authoring - No Re-encoding**

Video : PAL, 720 x 576, MPEG-2, 25fps, 3802kB/s, Aspect Ratio : 4:3
Audio : MPEG-1 Audio Layer II, 256kbps 48Khz

DVB-T > Nebula DigiTV > VideoReDo > PVAStrumento demux > TMPGEncDVDAuthor3

DVD format, BBC FOUR logo, full menu and chapter selection by track.

Tracks

01 Out On The Weekend
02 Old Man
03 Journey Through The Past
04 Heart Of Gold
05 Don't Let It Bring You Down
06 A Man Needs A Maid
07 Love In Mind
08 Dance, Dance, Dance

Total Time: 28:57

Phil Ochs: Live on the Midnight Special (1974)

2010-12-08T15:59:00.000-08:00

April 19, 1974

1. Power and the Glory
2. Changes

The Kinks: Live in Paris (1965)

2010-12-08T15:53:00.000-08:00

The Kinks
Venue: Le palais de la Mutualité, Paris France
Date: April 24, 1965
Duration: 21.20
Pro Shot
NTSC

Ray Davies: Vocals, Guitar and Harmonica
Dave Davies: Lead Guitar and Vocals
Pete Quaife: bass guitar
Mick Avory: drums

Setlist
1. Bye Bye Johnny
2. Louie Louie
3. You Really Got Me
4. Got Love if You Want It
5. Long Tall Shorty
6. All Day and All of the Night
7. You Really Got Me
8. Hide and Seek

Simon & Garfunkel: Live at the The Kraft Music Hall (1968)

2010-12-08T15:35:00.000-08:00

Simon & Garfunkel
U.S. TV - NBC
"The Kraft Music Hall"
broadcast January 3, 1968

NTSC DVD video

No released material here. In fact, there is apparently no released Simon & Garfunkel on video from the sixties at all and no live in studio Simon and Garfunkel as audio releases either.

Lineage:
16 mm. black & white Film > U-Matic video tape > VHS > Final Cut Pro (with Pro Tools audio improvements) > DVD Studio Pro > VIDEO_TS file set.

There was quite a bit of dust on the film when transferred and it shows some during playback. However, it is still very good to excellent black and white video. It's got monophonic TV audio - not spectacular sounding but quite listenable. I have never seen this material circulated before now.

Setlist:
1. A Poem On The Underground Wall
2. talk
3. For Emily Whenever I May Find Her
4. Overs
5. talk
6. Anji [instrumental - Paul accompanied by his brother Ed on 2nd acoustic guitar]
7. Patterns
8. The Sound of Silence
9. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) [with Simon, Garfunkel and Nancy Wilson on vocals, plus show host Victor Borge on piano]

Total time: 19:28

VHS tape Transfer [June, 2007]: Sony WV-DR7 > Sony DVMC-DA2 Media Converter (DV Hardware Codec Converter) > Final Cut Pro (capture, chaptering & filter to remove head switch jitter on bottom of screen) > Compressor > DVD Studio Pro (menu & DVD authoring) > DVD file set. md5 file created with xACT.

Audio post-capture processing in Pro Tools: Normalization, DC-offset removal and some minor clicks and level changes repaired. No noise reduction or equalization. Audio placed back into Final Cut Pro before Compressor down-sampling.

Video: NTSC 720x480 VBR 7.7 Mbps peak, 6.2 Mbps average data rate, 2-pass.

Audio: Dolby Digital 2/0 (L,R), 48 kHz sample rate, 448 kbps data rate. Monophonic TV audio.

Other notes:
Kraft Music Hall was a longtime running series that went through many changes over the years with different hosts and formats starting on radio in 1933. Bing Crosby was the regular host from 1936 to 1946. Kraft moved to television in 1947 but switched to weekly dramatic productions as "Kraft Television Theatre". The "music-hall" format first appeared on TV in the 1958-59 season with regular hosts that included Milton Berle and Perry Como. The show went from regular hosts to a variety of different hosts from week to week beginning in the fall of 1967 and it remained in production until 1971.

for more info about this specific TV episode, try the following link:

http://www.tv.com/kraft-music-hall/three-for-tonight-aka-trio-tonight/episode/148631/summary.html

and for those that want to know more about The Kraft Music Hall Shows in general, get the reference book:

The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present
by TIM BROOKS

Paperback: 1001 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN-10: 0345295889
ISBN-13: 978-0345295880

Alan Price, Georgie Fame, and Thelma Houston: Live in 1969

2010-12-08T15:26:00.001-08:00

01. Great Balls Of Fire
02. Am I Wasting My Time
03. Still Searching For Love
04. Jumping Jack Flash
05. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
06. Seventh Son
07. You Can't Do That
08. Here, There And Everywhere
09. Good Day Sunshine
10. Walk On By
11. Bring It On Home