tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post3228510643799804997..comments2024-02-23T08:40:24.961+00:00Comments on Yes It's Number One: TOTP 24/11/77 (tx 13/12/12): all the fun of the pharoahUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-19085607956839563412012-12-18T13:52:22.943+00:002012-12-18T13:52:22.943+00:00if anyone's looking for more synthy/spacey dis...if anyone's looking for more synthy/spacey disco then check this out:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjqeZ2yFPzQwilberforcehttp://www.gavinunderhill.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-1031354969321489302012-12-17T18:34:59.005+00:002012-12-17T18:34:59.005+00:00I wonder if the Leo Sayer song was such a flop bec...I wonder if the Leo Sayer song was such a flop because it was the final single from a massive album that everyone who wanted the single already had. As unlike Brotherhood of Man he was a big big star who actually sold loads of albums back then.<br /><br />Glad someone mentioned the long version of 'Put Your Love In Me' as it makes an amazing tune even better.<br />And as someone said it is strange it has been forgotten by things like oldies radio. Maybe it's too subtly classy for them.<br />As I said above i was one of the people who didn't know it myself until I read about it on a blog a couple of years ago.<br />The weird thing is that despite its relative obscurity to the general music lover on all the blogs I've seem it mentioned on everybody can't stop raving about what an amazing single it is.80sBlokeInThe70snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-81528644134421257962012-12-17T15:14:10.809+00:002012-12-17T15:14:10.809+00:00Just removed the blog's first ever spam post. ...Just removed the blog's first ever spam post. Makes you feel strangely proud.<br /><br />That is a good sign, but I'm slightly hesitant until the details actually update as this far in advance with only a skeleton schedule to work off (well, it's four weeks away) they might have stuck a template from 2012 in there.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05834265575179460764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-45131319802623419662012-12-17T08:04:45.863+00:002012-12-17T08:04:45.863+00:00Please be right Digiguide. Please be right Digigui...Please be right Digiguide. Please be right Digiguide. Please be right etc...<br /><br />---------------------------------<br />MUSIC: Top of the Pops<br />On: BBC 4 (116) <br />Date: Thursday 17th January 2013 (starting in 31 days)<br />Time: 19:30 to 20:00 (30 minutes long)<br /><br />The week's best-selling UK singles, live performances and pre-chart exclusives from the world's most famous pop music show.<br />(Repeat, Subtitles, 4 Star)<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=8627<br /><br />Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.<br />---------------------------------<br /><br />Ok, so no mention of 1978 in the details, but hopefully a good sign...FishyFishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02259465543772816314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-32440405475151652762012-12-16T19:46:50.661+00:002012-12-16T19:46:50.661+00:00Have to be honest Bama.. I don't remember that...Have to be honest Bama.. I don't remember that Chocolate vid, although it was undoubtedly shown on Swap Shop a couple of times. Have to say about Errol's performance on Pops, it had to be one of his campest appearances ever, what with all that leather.Steve Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02214371275300282613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-27193152377669578192012-12-16T19:34:48.916+00:002012-12-16T19:34:48.916+00:00@Steve Morgan - "Kate Bush... with dustbin li...@Steve Morgan - "Kate Bush... with dustbin lids" - I didn't know she had any children back then.<br /><br />I remembered the Hot Chocolate track very well. The single was nearly 6 minutes long. The official video which is very similar to the TOTP performance can be seen here:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQM7PAHUcsUBamaboogiewoogienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-22259051085232273382012-12-16T18:40:16.514+00:002012-12-16T18:40:16.514+00:00Oh God! just read my last post back, forgive my ty...Oh God! just read my last post back, forgive my typos, I've had one or two Stella's while trying to play a few singles from '72, I think I'm Hi Hi Hi.Steve Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02214371275300282613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-19716347235967931572012-12-16T18:37:04.323+00:002012-12-16T18:37:04.323+00:00Noax isn't the only one who hates bagpipes, my...Noax isn't the only one who hates bagpipes, my wife has joked that not only will I be buried ( I want cremation) but that she will get bagpipes played at my funeral. I never bougth The Royal Scots Draggons Guards version of Amazing Grace, but oddly enough bougth Mull Of Kintyre, Yes!! I was one of those who kept it at number one for so long ;)<br />One line, yes, just one line of a song epitomises that part of the seventies for me, "carry me back to the days I knew then" believe me it really does.<br />Good show this week people, take it from one who was there and knows these songs like the back of my hand, and liek Wilberforce don't regret buying a single record record back then, my only regret is in getting rid of some of them once I got them on chart topping K-Tel albums, what a plonker I was. Got them all back now though.<br />Anyway onto the show, and talking of K-Tel albums, the Carvells track turned up on Disco Stars along with the oft mentioned here, Noosha Fox's Georgina Bailey and Meco's Star Wars Theme, I Will, From Here To Eternity, Needles And Pins, Daddy Cool, Dancin' Party, the excellent Run Back from Carl Douglas and a great Four Tops cover of For Your Love, all from this period of '77. <br />Anyway, that Carvell's track, just what you need in the middle of a cold, dreary winter a taste of summer surfin', move on please.<br />Have to disagree with Noax about Bonnie though, she's from my neck of the woods, well quite close, I bought that single back then and still think it's a great one now, her performance though? To be fare she's only just had that throat done.<br />I said I knew the seventies singles like the back of my hand, but had totally forgotten the Leo Sayer track until he started singing, then he had me wholeheartedly singing along, it's not bad but I can see why it this When I Need You clone wasn't a hit.<br />His next hit was much better, but that had the added publicity of a series of shows on BBC2 late in '78, one of which had Kate Bush as guest performing Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake with dustbin lids.<br />Loved the Legs dance this week, that camel had a wonderful expression on its face, especially as he leered over the girls at one point, the Johnathan Richman track's good too.<br />Everyone's saying they don't recall the Chocolate track, I recall it perfectly well, although it was one I never bought it turned up on my aforemetioned Disco Stars album, not one of the Chocolate's best, but it was a top ten hit nevertheless.<br />With How Deep Is Your Love Saturday Night Fever has well and truly arrived. The film was released on 16th December 1977 in the US and soon took the disco scene by storm, as we'll see in 1978. How Deep Is Your Love is a truly sublime track, one of the Gibbs best.<br />The Santa Esmeralda track passed me by, I know there's a humoungus 12 inch version I was well inot those, but I just never really like that one.<br />ABBA's Name of the Game is getting a bit wearing now, we never get to see the full video though which is a shame, thankfully, like one or two others from this show, it's commercially available.<br />We fade with The Jackson's Goin' Places,a superior piece of disco, this one should have been a bigger hit, they've had worse.<br />There may be some mixed views about this particular show, but I loved it, for me it epitomised this part of '77, as the year drew to a close the show seemed to have it's finger on the pulse with a fair mix of New Wave and Disco, all the hallmarks of waht the coming year was all about.Steve Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02214371275300282613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-82040614277142637492012-12-16T11:41:39.405+00:002012-12-16T11:41:39.405+00:00as i had absolutely no recollection of that hot ch...as i had absolutely no recollection of that hot chocolate record (to be frank, most of their mediocrity went straight in one ear and out the other at the time) i assumed it failed to trouble the chart compilers - must remember to check out my copy of the guinness book of hit singles before i make such bold comments in future! still, my gaffe at leasts proves that some are actually reading my comments...<br /><br />i checked out leroy gomez on the internet and discovered he was actually an american of cape verde descent (as were the tavares - in fact he was an early member of their group). so why did everyone think it was spanish? presumably because of the name... i don't regret buying many of the records i acquired back then, but this single was definitely one of them - although it was obviously more discofied than this appalling totp version, it still wasn't very good in my opinion (like much of my collection back in those days, i probably picked it up unheard from the chart-flop bargain bins on the recommendation of "blues & soul" magazine)...wilberforcehttp://www.gavinunderhill.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-59526027408465754272012-12-16T11:27:16.926+00:002012-12-16T11:27:16.926+00:00Hi Simon
it was posted on OFTD yesterday that TOT...Hi Simon<br /><br />it was posted on OFTD yesterday that TOTP is scheduled for 17th, I think the member has a 30 day viewer on DigiguideAndee Beehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17269721667518011252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-14452564370779145912012-12-15T23:24:44.208+00:002012-12-15T23:24:44.208+00:00I knew that Santa Esmeralda weren't Spanish wh...I knew that Santa Esmeralda weren't Spanish when Kid said it. It has been said by others that they were French; well in fact the two producers who put the group together and arranged the songs were French. Leroy Gomez himself comes from Massachusetts, and the dancers could have come from anywhere.<br /><br />The TOTP Orchestra managed to erase a lot of the magic from this performance. DLMBM matched the peak reached by the Animals' version on the US Billboard Charts, and was also a big hit across Europe. Maybe it was the TOTP Orchestra's fault for its failure here? The song is best listened to in its side-long glory (my CD copy is 16:15).<br /><br />Leroy actually had a big falling out with Santa Esmeralda's producers, and was replaced for the group's other albums. Their next big song was another Animals cover, in the same style - "The House of the Rising Sun".<br /><br />I have both of Leroy's solo LPs he released in 1978 and 1979; his second album opens with a track "Little Girl"; the lyrics go "Goodbye, So long, bye bye, now I'm moving on. Bye bye, so long, Esmeralda - little girl!"Darrennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-24880810865082645972012-12-15T22:33:39.567+00:002012-12-15T22:33:39.567+00:00A bit late this week, I bet you thought I'd be...A bit late this week, I bet you thought I'd been blown away in a gayle (satire)<br /><br />The Carvells - Just what we want in the middle of winter, a summery Beach Boys type song!<br />If this had been done as a parody in a comedy show it wouldn't have been as funny as this.<br />"I've just eaten a whole packet of Toffos!"<br /><br />Wings - I HATE bagpipes. When Tony Blackburn was doing the Pick of the Pops 60 years of the chart thing and playing the biggest sellers of the year, he played The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards 'Amazing Grace' right after the news. I think it took me approximately one second to switch over.<br /><br />Bonnie Tyler - And here's where she gets annoying. I only really like Lost In France.<br /><br />Leo Sayer - Oh dear. Why does he only turn up for the slow ones?<br />As others have already pointed out, this isn't terribly good.<br /><br />Jonathan Richman - What can you possibly add to this piece of televisual genius?<br />Presumably when they drew straws for the camel they must have said 'Lulu, Sue - the hump. Lulu, Sue - the hump hump'.<br />Erm, sorry.<br /><br />Hot Chocolate - Strangely hypnotic. Possibly because Errol was dressed like a disco dracula. Mrs Noax liked this very much, and it is odd that this one has been totally forgotten.<br /><br />Bee Gees - Yes, we've all seen this before, but not in this picture quality. As the music video channels have all played their copies to death, this looks much better! (the opposite is true for Abba, strangely)<br /><br />Santa Esmeralda - Disco! Crazy! Sexy! Baby! Hot! Yes, it's Fast Show territory again.<br /><br />Outro with The Jacksons - If that isn't a special effects camera test at the end, I don't know what is.<br />Noaxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-64173205486751006052012-12-15T18:38:37.713+00:002012-12-15T18:38:37.713+00:00Andee: is that definite? Last update I saw was up ...Andee: is that definite? Last update I saw was up to w/e 11th and there's, obviously, a Sky At Night on the 10th.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05834265575179460764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-81051134815163876222012-12-15T18:38:10.457+00:002012-12-15T18:38:10.457+00:00Ah, I wasn't really referring to the comments,...Ah, I wasn't really referring to the comments, that I'd expected, but the sheer number of message boards that seemed never to have noticed the blog before but were posting because I'd put restricted material online. DigitalSpy provided the most hits but they got a late week run for their money from the forum of - yes indeed - David Icke's official site. Let's see what happens after Monday when 1/12 is showcased.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05834265575179460764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-48647284689391915862012-12-15T16:38:23.785+00:002012-12-15T16:38:23.785+00:00Simon I think the reason there were so many commen...Simon I think the reason there were so many comments for the last show was because we were able to see it and like being given the keys to the sweet shop we overdosed. Plus you kept your observations to a minimum giving us room to get carried away. And to be fair a lot of the comments were about starman Patrick Moore.<br /><br />I loved your comment about The Carvells' keyboardist being the only band member who could skateboard. <br /><br />And Arthur your observation that Pauline must have snake-charmed the crowd during Santa Esmeralda made me chuckle, they did appear to be transfixed. <br /><br />Which reminds me - a Yuletide joke: <br />Q: What happened when Quasimodo's girlfriend dressed up as Father Christmas?<br />A: Santa Esmeralda.<br /><br />I'll get my coat.Bamaboogiewoogienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-62750079987242729092012-12-15T14:20:18.622+00:002012-12-15T14:20:18.622+00:00Hate to go against the general feeing of everyone ...Hate to go against the general feeing of everyone else, but I quite liked the Carvells track. Better than many contemporary 'cash-ins' - yes, Mr Mirror, I'm looking at you!<br /><br />Slightly creepy feeling picturing Leo 'feeling her heartbeat inside'...<br /><br />LOVED the Camel<br />charlie cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09051342047720711857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-54307711727850029642012-12-15T10:04:48.898+00:002012-12-15T10:04:48.898+00:00And it looks like according to Digiguide - that TO...And it looks like according to Digiguide - that TOTP 78 starts 17th Jan, no details yet.....Andee Beehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17269721667518011252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-10985541605746377342012-12-15T01:09:53.984+00:002012-12-15T01:09:53.984+00:00Sorry, (don't let me be) misunderstood 80sBlok...Sorry, (don't let me be) misunderstood 80sBlokeInThe70s' query - Leo Sayer's effort spent one week in the breakers peaking at 55 (i.e. somewhere in the 70's once you've taken into account the 41-50 deletions and other shenanigans).Name withheld to avoid forum monopolynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-19881313355899089082012-12-15T00:43:27.785+00:002012-12-15T00:43:27.785+00:00Simon, don't be so down about the success of t...<br />Simon, don't be so down about the success of the thread for the last show's blog and what might have been in the past. You forget that last week's was the first Disappeared edition we've actually been able to watch, with big thanks to Neil. Of course, once us piranha-like forumites saw the opportunity to interact on a contraband edition, we did. And don't go doubting your valuable place in our lives either. A different tangent, but I'll miss fellow blog "Steve Does Top Of The Pops" which finishes on or by New Year's Eve. I really don't think you realise your place in the scheme of things. It's like you're an egg in a Pyrex bowl, us forumites are grains of flour and seasoning, and you bind us together and make something tasty.<br /><br />80sBlokeInThe70s, don't switch off your set before the end of an edition. You never know what gem lurks under the end credits. As I've bored people with twice already, BoM's "Highwayman" made an unofficial number 60 which probably meant it really made number 80 or so, though it was exhausted of TV oxygen when they performed "Angelo" instead of their latest single (i.e. the last flop) on the Royal Variety performance.Arthur gets toughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-2986164400662833762012-12-14T21:08:56.044+00:002012-12-14T21:08:56.044+00:00Completely forgotten things like The Carvells are ...Completely forgotten things like The Carvells are what make these re-runs such an enjoyable experience for me.I think the guitarists are obviously taking the piss.<br /><br />It's probably hard to for younger viewers to realise just how all-pervasive skateboarding was for a short period back then in 1977.<br /><br />Wings - oh no we've got 10 weeks including this performance of this dirge. What a bloody thought...that's me turning off before the number 1 for the next 2 months!<br /><br />Darts - like these the more I see them and I usually really dislike anything rock n roll.Wish the camerawork was as good as the performance. <br /><br />Like Brotherhood of Man and Highwayman another complete flop from big stars straight after big hits. Suppose it may have made the bubblers (51-75) though.<br /><br />Hot Chocolate - they've made some very nice singles (Emma, Back Seat of my Cadillac, Going through The Motions etc) over the years but if I had to pick the all time best I think this is it. And I didn't know it until a couple of years ago when I heard people raving about it on other blogs. <br /><br />Bee Gees - obviously a classic - pity the BBC didn't see fit to actually show it all <br /><br />Santa Esmeralda - I think it was the very long version that was big in the clubs.Another classic instance of a complete TOTP orchestral destruction of a good tune. Almost plumbing the depths of the Rah Band and Lee Garrett 'You're My Everything' <br /><br />Abba - like the Bee Gees a genuine<br />classic in any era.<br /><br />Nice presentation from the Kid too but no 'Good Love'<br />80sBlokeInThe70snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-24852447857541923412012-12-14T18:40:07.320+00:002012-12-14T18:40:07.320+00:00Although Kid was keen to point out Santa Esmeralda...Although Kid was keen to point out Santa Esmeralda's Spanish-ness, I did a bit of reading online (you'll never guess where) and they weren't Spanish at all! They were French! I suppose accordions didn't go with disco.THXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-16331947803468175422012-12-14T18:34:38.176+00:002012-12-14T18:34:38.176+00:00wilberforce - Hot Chocolate's 'Put Your Lo...wilberforce - Hot Chocolate's 'Put Your Love In Me' was hardly a flop, as it reached No.10 in the UK. It has largely been forgotten, though.Julie Joanne Bevanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13480391445628307945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-31094780144207168572012-12-14T17:16:50.495+00:002012-12-14T17:16:50.495+00:00i work with a man called B tyler - i like to tell ...i work with a man called B tyler - i like to tell him i saw his mum on top of the pops everytime she's on there - oh how we laugh.the erotic adventures of sweet daddy parsnipnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-21162042655781727412012-12-14T15:57:35.552+00:002012-12-14T15:57:35.552+00:00I hate to break this to you, Wilberforce, but that...I hate to break this to you, Wilberforce, but that Hot Chocolate single made the top 10.<br /><br />Gaynor Hopkins? Didn't know that was Bonnie Tyler's real name, and I'd have preferred it as her stage name, though it's probably a bit too close to Mary Hopkin for comfort.<br /><br />Was that a skateboard under the name "Carvells" on the bass drum skin? Did they go on to record "Skate, Rattle and Roll" with Skate Bush?Arthur Nibblenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-57727955910341808212012-12-14T15:32:58.241+00:002012-12-14T15:32:58.241+00:00Kid's sadly dropped his 1930s James Herriot lo...Kid's sadly dropped his 1930s James Herriot look for a style somewhere akin to Noel Coward. All he needs is a cigarette holder.<br /><br />The Carvells song has nicked its tune from The Ohio Express' bubble gum anthem Yummy Yummy Yummy which wouldn't be a bad thing if this wasn't a naff cash-in song about skateboarding. I hate the way the keyboard player turns to look directly into the camera when it pans round him, I hate their massive white flares and I'm glad we were spared most of the guitarist's OTT solo where he took it upon himself to stand legs akimbo in front of the drum kit. Not that anyone was taking much notice of him.<br /><br />Looking carefully at the skateboard Kid is holding at the end it actually has The Carvells logo (designed to look like like a skateboard) printed on it so the record company must have blown any royalties the band made on promotional skateboards. I bet they're worth as much as two pounds today on eBay.<br /><br />Not the entyre Mull Of Kintyre video but we will have plenty of opportunities to see it in the coming weeks.<br /><br />Gaynor Hopkins in full throat throttle. I quite liked this at the time but never bought it. The audience seem strangely unmoved by the guy dressed like a giant turd who poses madly during his guitar solo.<br /><br />The sound and vision mixer have clearly been on the juice because not only do they forget to fade Gaynor's mic but when Kid does his uber dramatic intro The Darts they forget to cut to VT straight away making him look like a plonker. The lead singer of The Darts still reminds me of Don Mclean from Crackerjack ('Crackerjack!') and I bet he and Peter Glaze did a cracking version of this in one of their musical finales.<br /><br />There Isn't Anything little Leo tells us, perhaps the most confusing song title until Meatloaf's I would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do that). Is Leo referring to the thunder In his heart - he thought it was thunder but it turned out to be nothing. Competing with The Ladybirds' off-key backing vocals Leo Sayer says he's going to "fly like an eagle and carry you so far away". I don't see Leo as an eagle, more like a sparrow.<br /><br />The panto season comes to TOTP early with Eygptian Reggae. I had hoped for a Wilson, Kepple and Betty style sand dance but this works almost as well as is certainly better than seeing Mr Richman and his band perform the song. Do you think Sue and Lulu and got the hump?<br /><br />The start of Put Your Love In Me does sound like Oxygene Part 6 but turns into a beautiful spaced-out, love song. We get to see glimpses of the TOTP Orchestra's violinists sporting their ubiquitous mustard coloured roll neck sweaters which slightly ruins the effect. Doesn't the keyboard player have long fingers, puts me in mind of ET.<br /><br />The video for How Deep Is You Love always looks like a rehearsal to me, like they filmed it as a try-out in their everyday clothes with the lights and cameras in shot but never had time film the real thing. <br /><br />Santa Esmerelda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood. Okay, you're Mr Understood (boom, boom). This was a big hit in Europe and I never realised this got an outing on TOTP. The break from this was sampled in that 14 minute Megamixtrip of I Feel Love that was played in the gay clubs circa 1981. You can hear it here (Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood kicks in a 3:06):<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I85JS1lqlJw<br /><br />ABBA's 111th week at the top and then The Jacksons. I love the girls' half-hearted response to Kid's suggestion that they're all going places. Kid: "RIGHT?!!! The girls: "er right, yeah"Bamaboogiewoogienoreply@blogger.com