This first edition of Top of the Pops 1992 will not be shown on BBC4 due to one of the hosts being Adrian Rose. So a Happy New Year thanks goes to Anonymous for making it available here at We Transfer.
Hair-py New Year
2-1-92: Presenters: Steve Anderson & Adrian Rose
(5) RIGHT SAID FRED feat. JOCELYN BROWN – Don’t Talk Just Kiss
Getting the new year underway and the song went up two more places.
(36) THE POGUES & KIRSTY MacCOLL – A Fairytale Of New York
The first of countless re-entries, this one getting no higher.
(9) SHAFT – Roobarb And Custard
Their only top ten hit and it went up two more places.
(8) HAMMER – Addams Groove (video)
Peaked at number 4.
(NEW) CLIFF RICHARD – This New Year
Peaked at number 30.
(40) DANNII MINOGUE – I Don’t Wanna Take This Pain (video) (Breakers)
Got no higher.
(20) WET WET WET – Goodnight Girl
Will be number one in three weeks time.
(1) QUEEN – Bohemian Rhapsody (video)
Third of five weeks at number one.
9th of January is next.
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ReplyDeleteHappy New Year everyone. It's 2nd January 2022 here in rainy Reading
ReplyDeleteIt's time to leap (year) into 1992 and introduce the world to Bill Clinton, enjoy the Barcelona Olympics and watch Denmark win the Euro's. But before all that we have a hangover from Xmas 1991 to shake off:
I'm watching the YouTube version minus Fairytale of New York which is a new perfomance and thankfully avaiable separately so I will watch that first! Just the two of them this time and a chance to experience in full stereo Shane's complete inability to sing or even string a sentence together. Kirsty fabulous as always and tries to make a performance of it even if Shane is completely disinterested. It's still a great Christmas tune (even in the cheap and haggard version, proving that lyric has not been cancelled all that recently).
Adrian and Steve tonight and my does Adrian have a squeeky voice. RSF kick off 1991 with a bit of Jocelyn thrown in. A fun song and a fun performace.
Nice to see The KLF at Number Two and 4 WEEKS at Number 7 for Kym Sims, that must be some kind of record.
Nowt nice to say about the Roobarb record so onto Hammer. This is a great movie theme. I remember the film was hugely popular at the time although I've personally never seen it. The video is rather fun with the cast all involved. I rather like this one.
Cliff just won't let go of the seasonal period will he. Is that a shiny black and gold tracksuit? Has he raided Saville's wardrobe? No recollection of this at all. Don't think it's been played since has it? Checked the charts and I see it made a towering Number 30!
Only one Breaker and it's a chilled out Dannii at Number 40. She'll crash out the charts next week so enjoy whilst it lasts.
Here comes a future Number One from Marti and The Wets. Very middle of the road and all the Mums will be out to buy this one including mine.
Second bite of the fame cherry for this lot and boy do they make the most of it. Song isn't bad actually (although never a favourite) and it's a strong vocal from Marti. Probably deserved it's success.
Bored of Bohemian Rhapsody already and we get the full six minute video AGAIN! Can we please have the other side now TOTP?
Back next week then when 1992 kicks in properly. 18 Top 40 New Entries next week, not sure how many of them we will actually get to see...
It's interesting how a previous 1987 Christmas record like The Pogues & Kirsty McColl now gets a New Year fresh studio performance in 1992 having gone up only two places from No.38 on the Christmas 1991 chart.
DeleteI think this is the first record where MC Hammer has dropped the MC from his title, and from now on it will be Hammer, but I don't think there is much more to come from him anyway.
Only one Breaker this week? I don't think that has ever happened before, and I couldn't think of a better one to have than Dannii Minogue, so I guess it's OK.
The fact that TOTP aired the full 6-minute video of the No.1 at the expense of having another tune on the show, was quite impressive, particularly as when it was No.1 first time round in 1975/76 it was not shown in full but cut short on many occasions before the end - well at least on the unwiped shows.
This was the second MC-less single by Hammer, following a right old flop, "2 Legit 2 Quit" which peaked at 60.
DeleteNot sure what the record is in the UK for consecutive weeks outside of the top 3, but the record in the USA must surely go to "Allentown" by Billy Joel, which spent six consecutive weeks at number 17!
DeleteA couple of records peaking outside the Top 40 this week from previous chart regulars, and missing out on a Top 40 placing:
ReplyDeleteNo.42 Malcolm McLaren & Alison Limerick - Magic's Back
This was the Theme From The Ghosts Of Oxford Street, and just watched the video for the first time, and McLaren unveils himself as the man behind the mask, and I like the nighttime shot of Selfridges at the end of the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnGww67WwlU
No.58 The Farm - Love See No Colour
First record for The Farm not to break the top 40 since their first hit Groovy Train in 1990. It was later re-released as a remix a year later in January 1993 and got to No.35 which turned out to be their last ever hit, but here's the original peaking this week on the first January chart of 1992:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEUSkA3OQU8
I will comment on this edition at some point but I wanted to mention that this is if course the centenary year of the BBC and it looks, from their website that they are really going to town and stopping off at the coast with regard to what they will be showing. Hopefully some fantastic music things. I'm assuming they will show the clip of Adelaide Hall from 1947, the earliest BBC telerecording. Here's a Totp in its early days wishlist. If they showed one of these things I'd be so happy:
ReplyDeleteThe Shadows, Don't Make My Baby Blue, 19/08/65
The Easybeats, Friday On My Mind, 24/11/66 (discovered in November!)
The Turtles, She'd Rather Be With Me, 27th July 1967
Fleetwood Mac, Oh Well, 13/11/69
T Rex, Hot Love, 25/03/71 (Marc in silver top)
Elton John, Rocket Man, 11/05/72
I'd also love to see the whole of the 12/07/79 edition as well as I only caught part of it and it was a classic.
All in all a fantastic TV year coming up!
here is 12/07/79 for you.
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Oh thank you very much! That's very kind of you anonymous. Will watch it tomorrow. It was from the period when 'Sky at Night', Proms and certain presenters made it really hard to follow it in the schedules so I only realised it was on some way through and never recorded it. That's the one I really wanted to have so thanks!
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ReplyDeleteThese shows have popped up on Youtube from 1974 and 1976. I don't recall seeing them before, so apologies if anyone already has them and my memory is playing tricks. Nice performances from Queen and the Glitter Band on the 74 show (sorry about the host).....and I am sure I would have remembered seeing Splinter before.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkYS3SegaZ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9jHpnlZg-A&t=233s
Widely avalible and not rare as sad you tubers claim, nor original uploaders.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Anonymous, and Happy New Year to all who sail on here.
ReplyDeleteBack in the saddle after what feels like yonks, and we start the year with Steve Anderson displaying some weird message down his tie and... oh, Adrian Ponce. Great.
The first song title reminds me of 1970’s adverts forn Buitoni ravioli – “don’t talk, eat”. How to be economical when writing lyrics – just change the first two lines of each verse and repeat the rest. Daft but catchy.
Next up, one of those festive cash-in songs I’d gladly never hear again, slurred by professional Irishman MacGowan (born near Tunbridge Wells, went to an English public school).
Custard pie in the mush for shafting “Roobarb”. The ‘chanteuse’ was flat as the proverbial pancake but arousing legwear.
I’ll take a chisel to that Hammer horror (see what I did there?).
At least Cliff’s drab single isn’t a Christmas cash-in. Follow-up “Easter Eggs Are In The Shops Next Week” fared less well.
A solo breaker, surely a first, but definitely not the first time that rhythm / groove’s been sampled. Ho-hum stuff from Dannii.
Wet Wet Wet let their drummer have the night off. The best I can say about this is that Marti was very polite, repeatedly thanking the audience, before it started.
Finish with an FF of the 17 minutes given to the chart topper.
To say the next show will be a complete contrast (and better in my view) would be an understatement.
Hope everyone is ready for three more January 1992 shows going up on here tomorrow night, so fasten your seatbelts and take a deep breath, as it looks like we're going to get through 1992 in a jiffy if there are a lot more Adrian Rose presented shows to come. Good Lord!
DeleteYes surprising that Cliff never did an Easter single (Tries to think of a title); 'Creme Light' perhaps?
DeleteActually I was with mum dad and sis yesterday evening having an end of Christmas dinner then we entertained ourselves while taking down the decorations by watching some 1978 Top of the Pops that I brought home. Only meant to watch 1 from October, ended watching 3! My Mum who hates the recent repeats was happily singing along to 'Darlin' by Frankie Miller.
DeleteThe ITV Chart show following this edition of TOTP had an interesting Top Ten chart, and not sure about their new graphics in response to TOTP's own reboot and new graphics a couple of months earlier in October, so it seems everyone was at it:
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No.7 There was no video for Shaft's Roobarb And Custard.
No.4 Kym Sims, well she actually peaked at No.5 for two weeks in the official TOTP chart to follow 4 weeks at No.7 as Morgie mentioned further up on here.
No.2 Hammer as high up as No.2? Steady on now, as having had his video shown this week at No.8 on TOTP, Hammer only managed No.4 at peak on the official TOTP chart shortly after.
Seen the first three songs before, and probably never need to hear them again, but I did watch Hammer and his contribution to the "every 90s Hollywood movie ends with a rap over the credits" craze. If I was into guilty pleasures, this would be one, it's infernally catchy and daft, a million miles away from Charles Addams, but I do like it. Lots of knives thrown around in this video. It's a really funny film, too (unlike the recent blanded out cartoons).
ReplyDeleteSir Clifford with the reason most artists don't release New Year's singles. Was there a tune here at all? He had 1958 on his shell suit and 1992 behind him, was that an indication of how long his career had been? He's still plugging away now!
Just a snatch of Dannii Minogue rapping, nobody needs to hear that. Then The Wets with a dullsville, ultra-tasteful, should be on Good Morning with Anne and Nick ballad. And Queen's anticlimax to end on. It can only get better! But thanks for the upload.
1992 then and it's smiley Steve and curtains boy to start it off. I'll say straight off that for me the best of '92 is among the very best of the '90s though you have to wade through acres of crud to get to it. However I am really looking forward to seeing these editions.
ReplyDeleteSteve I really liked from his 1st show. and he's a friendly, reliable (and phenomenally expensively dressed) presenter. Adrian I dislike before his shows began and I'm not very impressed by his 2nd appearance. But he's going nowhere for some time so we'd better get used to it. Show pretty bad but not as bad as the previous two first shows of the year.
It looked like they'd got the set up right in the previous month but here they've gone straight back to the large murky studio of the initial revamp. With Right Said Fred and Jocelyn Brown up first it should be straight into the party but the camera lumbers towards them painfully slowly then sweeps around them losing all sense of fun. Bad start that. I still quite like the single though.
Top 10 still a barely visible slide show. Steve does a cheery link into 'Fairytale' which I also haven't seen as I also watched this on YouTube but I've seen enough Christmas things over the last month.
Shaft then and no sweeping strings and wah wah guitar but a pretty childish bit of techno. The chap in the armchair delivers a sort of "are you sitting ****in' comfortably you nutters!!!!" role. Intriguingly he's wearing a top with the legend , 'more Rob Curling' written on it. Now I remember someone with that name being on Newsroom Southeast around that time. Is it referring to him? Very interesting!
More of MC Hammer and his lots of blokes shouting words slightly jarring with the music routine. I guess it suits this sort of theme and the video is pretty funny, the bit where the singing heads come out of graves being rather like an especially scary Muppet Show skit.
Cliff Richard with his New Year song. And he's got 1992 behind him in large numerals! And in the colours of the EU flag! The audience clearly aren't hip to his pop star of the moment credentials and spend the performance either staring blankly at him or shoving their friends out of the way.
'Breaker' section; Actually good. 1 clip on for a good length of time. Dannii Minogue looking ever more seductive. Visuals Enigma-ish.
What a great link! Steve introduces Wet Wet Wet perched on the side of the stage then just sits there as they start their song! Very funny. I wonder if noticing that the presenter wasn't shifting was the reason for Marti coming in slightly late. Great performance though and it's a single I've always loved. For me it just has a beautiful midnight stillness to it and the album it's from was the one album of my sister's I would regularly borrow. Very deserving of its soon to be No.1 position.
Queen remaining at no.1 for now then and the full video again. Fair enough.
A couple of good things this edition and one extended breaker is fine with me. Stage set up way too big and remote. Hopefully not for much longer.
Steve Wright in the Afternoon on Radio 1 were obsessed with making Rob Curling jokes around this time (for some reason). SW sidekick Richard Easter pretended to be Richard Briers on the Shaft single, so presumably, hence the T-shirt.
DeleteRob may be best remembered nationally for daytime quiz show Turnabout, which had a small pool of water as part of the set.
Happy new year everyone! (And four episodes to watch this week? Blimey!)
ReplyDeleteHave to say this one wasn't a huge loss. Adrian Rose is a terrible presenter (maybe why he doesn't want his episodes shown).
RSF - good fun
Pogues/Kirsty - already solving the 'should we sing faggot' dilemma nearly three decades before the internet gets on the case. Was a version with this changed lyric ever recorded/released? (Though I've never been able to get one option I saw on Twitter out of my head: 'you scumbag you maggot, you've taped over Taggart').
Shaft - fun and daft, like RSF
"Hammer" - daft but not so fun. Angelina Houston looks like she wants to die of cringe in the video.
Cliff - too late for Christmas and too early for a song that hasn't charted. Be off with you sir.
Dannii - not one of her most memorable but it was OK.
Wet Wet Wet - Good if you like that kind of thing (I don't especially... and I'm dreading THAT 15 week run in a couple of TOTP years' time).
Queen - not much else to say here that we haven't already.
Kirsty MacColl would be back in the TOTP studio a couple of weeks later with The Wonderstuff on their new single to open the 16th January show, so not bad at all!
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