The Move—vocalist Carl Wayne, guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Roy Wood, bassist Trevor Buton and drummer Bev Bevan—performed a ten song set on Colour Me Pop, one of the BBC’s earliest color shows, on January 4, 1969. Due to the BBC’s penchant reusing videotapes most of the Colour Me Pop programs, including a set by the Kinks and a Strawbs outing that featured David Bowie doing mime, have been lost to history, although a small handful survive, including outings from Moody Blues and The Small Faces performing selections from their Ogdens Nutgone Flake concept album. Thankfully this stellar set from The Move also escaped the BBC’s degaussing magnet.

1. I Can Hear The Grass Grow
2. Beautiful Daughter
3. The Christian Life
4. Flowers In The Rain
5. The Last Thing On My Mind
6. Wild Tiger Woman
7. Goin’ Back
8. Fire Brigade
9. Something
10. Blackberry Way

(“Blackberry Way,” which is Wood’s sardonic answer to “Penny Lane” was one of The Move’s best numbers, great to see it included here)

Although they were inarguably one of the top British bands of the era—they scored nine top ten singles—The Move only ever played a small handful of American gigs including an October 1969 opening set for The Stooges in Detroit, a show in LA and and two shows at the Fillmore West in San Francisco.