tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post5154017121686449448..comments2024-02-23T08:40:24.961+00:00Comments on Yes It's Number One: The disappeared: 4/8/77Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-84020878867056083972012-09-12T18:41:42.047+01:002012-09-12T18:41:42.047+01:00There must be countless clips of easy listening, c...There must be countless clips of easy listening, cabaret and some pop artists appearing on 1960s and 1970s BBC and ITV Light Entertainment shows in the archives. Some of these saw the light of day on Granada+ a few years ago eg Sez Les, Benny Hill and Wheeltappers and Shunters. <br /><br />A few years ago I found a load of old video tapes in a skip outside a shop, no one was around so I took a look and to my amazement hey were nearly all recordings of 1980s pop shows, mainly TOTP, a show called Video Express with James Last and The Montreaux Pop Festival. There were about 65 editions of TOTP in total, I was in heaven! Having seen lots of the TOTP2 shows it was great to finally see again some complete shows with their original BBC announcer intros. I hope BBC4 continues with the repeats up into the 1980s.Bamaboogiewoogienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-80961769134631978482012-09-11T15:52:37.184+01:002012-09-11T15:52:37.184+01:00Not just albums, Wilberforce. Bob Lyons' 7tt77...Not just albums, Wilberforce. Bob Lyons' 7tt77 website (which aims to compile a list of every record company which released at least one single in the UK in the 70's) is choc-full of custom recording concerns releasing cabaret pop singles, some with (gulp) pictures of the acts on the labels. Not for the faint hearted!Arthur Nibblenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-29620277571363017992012-09-11T13:07:06.563+01:002012-09-11T13:07:06.563+01:00having read alexis petridis' "cabaret pop...having read alexis petridis' "cabaret pop" article, i came across this edition of "the wheeltappers and shunters social club" on youtube (watch out for "vera duckworth" as a barmaid!), and by coincidence it features "top recording artists" design doing a pretty damn funky take on the doobies' "listen to the music" (despite the total lack of audience apprecation)...<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3JvawZmQVg<br /><br />what mr petridis failed to mention was that a lot of these acts used to press up a limited run of self-financed albums that were then sold at gigs - some of the funkier and groovier recordings (and there were some among the dross) have now been collected together on compilations called "working man's soul" - available at internet outlets such as discogs and amazon if anyone's interested...wilberforcehttp://www.gavinunderhill.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-15790520708247629952012-09-09T12:29:01.852+01:002012-09-09T12:29:01.852+01:00Just as a follow up, how complete are the BBC arch...Just as a follow up, how complete are the BBC archives regarding the Old Grey Whistle Test? I think if there is a complete series from early enough, it should be shown as a companion run to TOTP...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-89879566151069863692012-09-09T11:34:20.788+01:002012-09-09T11:34:20.788+01:00Thanks Simon for this. I love those pop cultural o...Thanks Simon for this. I love those pop cultural opinion pieces. If he accepted the offer I would imagine Petridis would write something suitably arch and ironic, though I don't accept his criticism of Mrs Mills; she was our own Winifred Atwell! Now Mrs Mills in the Cleo Lain,Cilla section of TOTP, that would have been something to beholdTyrone Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974017788512976015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-42660754334984960172012-09-08T23:46:39.867+01:002012-09-08T23:46:39.867+01:00Here it is. I remember Petridis tweeting the highl...<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/07/cabaret-pop-easy-listening-1970s-alexis-petridis" rel="nofollow">Here it is</a>. I remember Petridis tweeting the highlights of his research viewing for about a solid fortnight, steadily more aghast.<br /><br />(Thought to self: wonder if I can somehow get Petridis to write the end of year piece for 1977...)Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05834265575179460764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-41119736362887381672012-09-08T23:01:40.046+01:002012-09-08T23:01:40.046+01:00With regards to Angelo Gravity's comment about...With regards to Angelo Gravity's comment about the Blackpool variety show (as well as the various comments about Dana etc on The Pops), there is an interesting article by Alex Petridis called 'The bizarre world of 1970s cabaret pop' (Thurs 7 Oct 2010). You can find it on 'Guardian.co.uk. Sorry but my technophobia precludes my putting it here as an add-on!Tyrone Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974017788512976015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-15597453737623073042012-09-08T22:24:15.119+01:002012-09-08T22:24:15.119+01:00I remember the TOTP treatment of the reissued I FE...I remember the TOTP treatment of the reissued I FEEL LOVE in 1982: dancing audience members against a backdrop of various images of Donna Summer. Sounds familiar?!Tyrone Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974017788512976015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-24079329238745605982012-09-08T22:21:38.059+01:002012-09-08T22:21:38.059+01:00As the Patrick Cowley remix of 'I Feel Love...As the Patrick Cowley remix of 'I Feel Love' was the first 7" I ever bought and I was obsessed with the song (the original must have passed me by) I have a memory that it was danced to on the show - by Zoo at that stage presumably.<br /><br />Incidentally, despite playing both sides of the 7" to death, and being aware of the (actually not great) 'standard' 12" version, I only recently heard the 15 minute version. It is utterly amazing.Noaxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-63460598671885823732012-09-08T21:13:31.948+01:002012-09-08T21:13:31.948+01:00Someone on the Popscene site confirmed the BBC hav...Someone on the Popscene site confirmed the BBC have located a copy of the 'lost' October 1982 edition, so all 80s episodes should now be in the archive :)eightiespopkidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14536522279758968719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-57304795196423867902012-09-08T20:22:58.042+01:002012-09-08T20:22:58.042+01:00Oh what a pity re using the actual record for the ...Oh what a pity re using the actual record for the Rah Band this week.<br /><br />With the amazing 15 minute Patrick Cowley remix of "I Feel Love" almost making the Top 20 in 1982 I should imagine it was on TOTP I wonder how they showed it then.I was no longer watching the programme by then so I haven't a clue.<br /><br />I remember reading somewhere on the web that there was a final wiped edition (or one that wasn't in the archives) from about October 1982 although I haven't heard this mentioned in the last couple of years so I should imagine it's surfaced. However I should imagine that was largely academic anyway as from 1979 onwards video recorders started to get a mass ownership and someone somewhere would have obviously recorded the once possibly thought missing edition.80sblokeinthe70shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10644457731847221633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-65763116880031695512012-09-08T14:46:49.609+01:002012-09-08T14:46:49.609+01:00I always thought it was odd that The Jam released ...I always thought it was odd that The Jam released three singles in a row all containing the word 'world' in the title - All Around The World, The Modern World, News Of The World.Grahamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-79987350377327030092012-09-08T12:02:12.636+01:002012-09-08T12:02:12.636+01:00That clip of Donna Summer they always show nowaday...That clip of Donna Summer they always show nowadays for I Feel Love at least has the novelty of her interpretive dancing.THXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-2616044224011113012012-09-08T09:54:01.094+01:002012-09-08T09:54:01.094+01:00Correction to the above: just 1 week in 1979 where...Correction to the above: just 1 week in 1979 where there was no show, not 2.eightiespopkidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14536522279758968719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-42618952448906838092012-09-08T07:18:13.707+01:002012-09-08T07:18:13.707+01:00In response to The Man's comments regarding fu...In response to The Man's comments regarding future wiped episodes, there are none after 8/9/77, however there are occasions where editions were never made/broadcast due to either strikes or sporting events. I believe there are 3 missing weeks in 1978, 2 in 1979, 9 weeks in a row in 1980 and 1 in 1984, with the rest of the 80s years being complete. I'm not sure about the 90s onwards although I think I recall some years where there was no edition in the first week of the new year.eightiespopkidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14536522279758968719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-6829588076112967982012-09-07T20:39:51.147+01:002012-09-07T20:39:51.147+01:00Surely The Rah band would be used for the rundown ...Surely The Rah band would be used for the rundown so at last we would have heard the real thing.<br /><br />Whenever they show I Feel Love on TV now (eg Queens Of Disco) they always use that live clip which sounds nothing like as good as the record, was that ever used on TOTP at the time?<br /><br />Re these wiped shows (or should that be Magnetotroped shows lol) I suppose we should be thankful that at least they're not all in one block. It would have been annoying to have missed the whole of one month.Bamaboogiewoogienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-51992942446549316292012-09-07T20:37:37.345+01:002012-09-07T20:37:37.345+01:00Going back to Dave Greenfield, I didn't realis...Going back to Dave Greenfield, I didn't realise he was older than Rick Wakeman, I just imagined that had he been in a rival prog rock band he'd have given Rick a good rivalry. I don't know much of The Doors, but Dave's keyboards style sounds similar to theirs in parts from memory.Arthur Nibble (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-34370432694105505942012-09-07T19:24:27.222+01:002012-09-07T19:24:27.222+01:00IMO not much of tragedy this was one was wiped asi...IMO not much of tragedy this was one was wiped aside from Billy Paul as we get to see Deniece Williams, The Floaters and Candi Staton other weeks the Rah Band would be that awful destruction of the tune and Donna Summer would just be the audience.<br /><br />The rest pretty unmemorable - Smokie, Dooleys, Television which I've never knowingly heard but I can imagine I'd dislike.80sblokeinthe70shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10644457731847221633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-48251169767385327082012-09-07T19:14:00.290+01:002012-09-07T19:14:00.290+01:00re comment above from Arthur - you said that if Da...re comment above from Arthur - you said that if Dave Greenfield "had been 10 years older he could have given Rick Wakeman a run for his money" - the thing is he's older than Rick Wakeman!80sblokeinthe70shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10644457731847221633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-54965672451777579572012-09-07T18:52:12.596+01:002012-09-07T18:52:12.596+01:00I thought there was still some missing editions go...I thought there was still some missing editions going into the 1980s.<br /><br />Of all the one's to wipe they wipe the one with Television on it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-11309925920401236292012-09-07T11:22:24.027+01:002012-09-07T11:22:24.027+01:00i remember in the annual polls in the likes of NME...i remember in the annual polls in the likes of NME and sounds in the seventies, due to the relative dearth of rock keyboard players it seemed like rick wakeman used to win that category practically every year, even if he hadn't actually done anything of note (i suppose it was a bit like filling in an election poll slip - people feel compelled to tick for someone, even though they don't particularly like anyone)... anyway, only with the emergence of dave greenfield did rick finally have a bit of stiff comepetition...wilberforcehttp://www.gavinunderhill.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-81339958647149371642012-09-07T09:06:11.947+01:002012-09-07T09:06:11.947+01:00Talking of the Dooleys - I saw them live at Blackp...Talking of the Dooleys - I saw them live at Blackpool sometime around 1979 - on the same end of the pier bill as The 3 Degrees, Peters and Lee and the Black Abbots - man that was a show!Angelohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16090709386124664912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-26937728184892685712012-09-06T23:41:12.064+01:002012-09-06T23:41:12.064+01:00Sorry, me again.
A couple of notes relating to Si...Sorry, me again.<br /><br />A couple of notes relating to Simon's links in the wiped show. Not sure what pastimes he partook (I can guess, probably wrongly), but Tom Verlaine looks rather gaunt in that Marquee Moon photo and his hands are as veiny as a pensioner's, and Dave Greenfield gets a huge amount of airtime in that Stranglers video...and he's still rocking the green boiler suit look! Still, fantastic keyboard player - had Dave been born ten years younger he could have given Rick Wakeman a fair old duel in the prog rock stakes if he desired.Arthur Nibble (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-64184523134438502702012-09-06T22:58:07.886+01:002012-09-06T22:58:07.886+01:00Abba is mentioned a lot in relation to Brotherhood...Abba is mentioned a lot in relation to Brotherhood of Man and their copyists , but surely it was the New Seekers, pre-dating the Swedish foursome, who set the template as well as Picketywitch etc? And remember an early incarnation of 'The Man' had had some success in 1970. For good or ill the others followed: The Middle of the Road, ABBA, the revitalised 'The Man', The Dooleys etc. Ultimately they were to lay the ground for...Bucks Fizz!Tyrone Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974017788512976015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190903519028956778.post-27138013324323158322012-09-06T22:40:37.066+01:002012-09-06T22:40:37.066+01:00On The Move! Bob Hoskins with hair (well, a little...On The Move! Bob Hoskins with hair (well, a little more!), the other bloke with the blond hair, the removal van and that Dooleys theme tune!: "On the move, on the move, we're on the move again..." or something like that! Paternalistic telly at its best!Tyrone Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974017788512976015noreply@blogger.com