Girl I want to make you sweat, sweat till you can't take no more of the 13th of May 1993 edition of Top of the Pops!
Hot hit
13-5-93: Presenter: Mark Franklin
(23) ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK – Stand Above Me
Getting tonight's show underway and the song went up two more places.
(11) SHABBA RANKS & MAXI PRIEST – Housecall (video) (and charts)
Peaked at number 8.
(20) DINA CARROLL – Express
In the studio and the song peaked at number 12.
(21) ROBERT PLANT – 29 Palms
A second studio performance but the song got no higher.
(NEW) TINA TURNER – I Don’t Wanna Fight (via satellite)
Written for her by Lulu and it peaked at number 7.
(29) THE WATERBOYS – The Return Of Pan (video) (Breakers)
Peaked at number 24.
(27) JUNGLE BOOK – The Jungle Book Groove (video) (Breakers)
Peaked at number 14.
(24) BON JOVI – In These Arms (video) (Breakers)
Peaked at number 9.
(5) INNER CIRCLE – Sweat (A La La La La Long)
In the studio with their only top ten hit and it peaked at number 3.
(1) GEORGE MICHAEL & QUEEN – Killer/Papa Was A Rolling Stone (video)
Third and final week at number one.
21st of May is next.
Shabba Ranks & Maxi Priest - after the Top 3 achievement and success of Shabba's first single Mr Loverman, I'm surprised he needed Maxi Priest on this second single Housecall, which I think may have blighted the single's success for Shabba, as Priest's last Top 40 hit was in 1990, and I think this collaboration benefitted Priest more than Shabba, as Priest was on the wane at this point.
ReplyDeleteDina Carroll - surprised to see her outside of a slow broody melody, and she was certainly not known for dance music. I didn't really like the mixing of clips from the video with her studio performance.
George Michael & Queen - wow, this was just the highlight of the whole Five Live EP, and interesting to see a video made for this single, considering the other songs on the EP were video'd using the live footage from the Freddie Mercury tribute concert a year earlier in April 1992. By this time in George Michael's career, there was no chance of him performing in the TOTP studio, and I think the last time he performed in the studio was in the mid-80s.
OMD - aww look at OMD still having hits in 93. It's a bit weak though.
ReplyDeleteDory - agreed on Maxi/Shabba. Kind of weird that Maxi was the one to do the 'Shabba' bits too. The song is fine but unmemorable.
Dina C - Decent though the chorus is much stronger than the verses
Robert Plant - zzzzz
Tina - I don't mind this track, it would be better if it were in the charts though
Waterboys - no memory if this at all, it's very weird.
Jungle Book - was it back in cinemas in 93? Or on TV? new to VHS? I'm assuming one of these, all of which would have still been A BIG DEAL back then.
Bon Jovi - more of this next week, it's solid mid-range Jovi
Inner Circle - more like it from a duff episode
Queen/George - probably the worst song off that whole EP, though I can't say I've heard it since well, probably the first time this episode was shown. A curio really.
A really strong show tonight kicking off with OMD. Stand Above Me is a great pop tune and one of my favourites tunes of theirs. Liberator is the second "solo" album from Andy and it's just as strong as "Sugar Tax".
ReplyDeleteThere is a really good RnB tune somewhere within "Housecall". Mostly from Maxi Priest. Shabba is just crap here isn't he.
We've had dance, smooch and now RnB from Dina. "Express" not her greatest moment but she gives it her all and I enjoyed it. Robert Plants palms are growing on me. Better second time around.
Really like this Tina Tuner song. "I Don’t Wanna Fight" a really well written tune and a strong performance as well. A well deserved top ten hit.
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Breakers:
THE WATERBOYS – Sound interesting
JUNGLE BOOK GROOVE – Back in the day when the Disney films came out on video every 7 years and then got deleted again. Tune is advertising though mainly.
BON JOVI – Good solid Jovi tune.
Inner Circe working up a Sweat but they've got their proportions all wrong. A giant of a man on guitar and a midget on drums. Still fresh and exciting 29 years later.
Whoever suggested the "Killer/Papa Was A Rolling Stone" mash up was a genius. Best of the bunch from the Five-Live EP and would this be the only time we would have preferred a live video? I do like the video though, thought it was very clever.
A snatch of Sonia and we're done....... now Marks's beard?????
The best part of the George Michael video was the saxophone section - new for 1993 - as the bridge between Killer and Papa Was A Rolling Stone, as there needed to be some sort of smooth transition between the two pieces, and boy did it come up trumps! Totally love this mash up as you call it.
DeleteFour songs that missed out on a TOTP play, and at peak positions this week:
ReplyDeleteNo.14 Depeche Mode - Walking In my Shoes
Second single in a row in this comeback year, with TOTP having no time for them. I wonder if something happened behind the scenes, as there was certainly a video for this that they could have shown, and last time Mode were in the TOTP studio was probably as long ago as George Michael was. Suffice to say that the single went down badly from No.14 to No.41 the following week!
No.31 Van Morrison & Lee Hooker - Gloria
Morrison played out this very single with guests Shane McGowan and Brian Kennedy at the 1994 Brit Awards as the finale act/legend of music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRkRfrH48-A
It's certainly one of the best songs of all time if anyone doesn't know it, and sadly a peak of No.31 was not high enough to get on the show, as the Breakers this week went no lower than No.29.
No.32 Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
Last ever Top 40 single for Moore, and this was apparently a re-recording of his original debut single of the same name in 1979 when he got No.8 with it at around the time that Bright Eyes was at No.1 for Simon & Garfunkel.
No.47 Pat & Mick - Hot Hot Hot
Good Lord, what were these two doing back in the charts in 1993? They burst on the scene in 1988 with a reworking of Let's All Chant, and then released one single per year until 1991, went missing in 1992, and this very last effort in 1993 also missed out on a Top 40 placing. I figure they had seen Inner Circle's top 5 success with Girl I'm Gonna Make You Sweat, and felt they needed to rework the famous Arrow single Hot Hot Hot for one last hurrah before bowing out for good.
Dory, Depeche Mode got a breakers slot for their single previously, though it was an admittedly brief snippet.
Delete1992 Pat and Mick did "Shake your Groove Thang". All as part of Capital FMs "Help A Capital Child" campaign each year. They stuck them all on an album in 1993 so we can assume everyone bought that instead lol
ReplyDeleteI saw that there was no Top 75 placing for them at all in 1992 for the singles chart, but they did have one single in each of the four years between 1988 and 1991, hence my comment re 1992 being a missing year for them.
Delete"Shake Your Groove Thang" peaked at 80, at which point their label said ta-rah. Final single "Hot Hot Hot" was on the Pat & Mick record label!
DeleteEarly doors – why that palm tree? Is Robert Palmer on tonight?
ReplyDeleteOMD with, sadly, an in one ear et cetera tune. Three stringed instruments on stage but I can only hear synth.
Woo woo! Bumfluff alert! Next week Dorky develops a goatee?
Sound off for Shabba Wan… erm… why were Rage Against The Machine shown in the non-mugshots as a new entry when they’d already been a breaker?
Fresh out of the car park trailer, it’s the fortnightly appearance of… oo, disco diva Dina. Legs! Giving Madge and Watney Houston a bit of a run for their money too.
Ah. That’s why the palm tree. 29 Palms? 40 winks.
Bumfluff says Tina’s song is called “I Don’t Wanna Go Fighting”. Sheesh. Those famous legs are covered, but her tonsils give another fine outing.
Breakers: Flat as a Pan-cake, my fave film ever ruined by a shit remix, and decent midtable Jovi.
Notes to Inner Circle – I’m a bloke, I’ve got blue eyes, and I’m sweating enough already, thank you.
Didn’t like the originals of that number one segue and hated this melee even more.
Ah. Now. A snatch of Sonia, having DROPPED seven places this week, though she’ll hit a new chart high in a fortnight’s time.
With this week being the last week at No1 for the Five Live EP may I just chip into the 1993 comments and say what a fabulous EP and worthy No1 this was. George Michael's rendition of 'Somebody to Love' is just awesome. Few singers could pull this one off but he did. Nice to see John Deacon in action for Queen here too, long gone from the music business these days.
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