This edition of Top of the Pops from the 9th of February 1995 is not being shown on BBC4 due to it featuring R Kelly. So a huge thanks to Anonymous for making it available here at WeTransfer.
Cowboys of the pops
9-2-95: Presenter: Gary Olsen
(11) DEUCE – Call It Love
(19) JADE – Every Day Of The Week
(12) R. KELLY – Bump ‘N’ Grind (video) (and charts)
(17) JIMMY NAIL – Cowboy Dreams
(2) N-TRANCE – Set You Free
(21) SUEDE – New Generation
(15) STING & PATO BANTON – This Cowboy Song
(NEW) THE GO GO’S – The Whole World Lost It’s Head
(1) CELINE DION – Think Twice (via satellite)
(TOTP2) ALICE COOPER – School’s Out (clip of TOTP 28-12-72) (and credits)
16th of February is next.
Not sure about this choice of presenter, and never heard of him before, even now now 28 years later. Gary who?
ReplyDeleteDeuce - fantastic sexy start to the show, and just love the small sexy blonde fronting the group with those those legs. More minidresses please! I think this group represented the UK in the Eurovision song contest that year with a different song.
R-Kelly - so I see that cos his song was the chart rundown clip, TOTP decided to skip the whole show, otherwise if they just clipped out his performance, then there would be no chart rundown apart from the Top 10, so there is some rhyme and reason here. Bump 'N' Grind was No.1 in America for four week in April 1994, so we were almost a year behind America on this his debut single there.
Jimmy Nail - Sting - Pato Banton
Good Lord, a merry go round of three performers on two separate singles slots on the show, with first Sting taking second fiddle to Jimmy Nail on Nail's single, and then taking lead on his own single with Nail and Pato Banton supporting. Why not add a sprinkle of Belinda Carlisle who happened to be in the house with the Go Go's?
Top 10 rundown - Ini Kamoze for the fourth week at No.4, and having already been the chart rundown video for two of the weeks at this position, he was still ever so popular with the record buying public, although I think 7" vinyl had stopped being produced by 1995 in favour of the new CD single.
At the time Gary Olsen would've been starring in the sitcom 'Two point Four Children" on BBC1. Having looked at the blog for the 29th September 1977 show, repeated next Friday, there's an interesting connection. Featured is a guy called Peter Blake who played Kirk St.Moritz in 'Dear John' which also starred Belinda Lang who played Gary Olsen's wife in 'Two Point Four Children '.
DeleteTechnically Gary Olsen was in the 'CivvyStreet' EastEnders spin-off in 1988, by portraying Albert Fowler, Lou's husband before 2Point4 Children was his biggest acting success.
DeleteTOTP2 11th Feb 95 https://we.tl/t-0jprYaMVg3
ReplyDeletePick of this show is a new section called the Classic Act which features 10CC's TOTP studio performance of I'm Not In Love from 1975, and also in the chart prediction section for next week's main TOTP chart, Aswad's new single and swimming pool video called You're No Good, which I thought was actually very good, but the single peaked at No.35 the following week, and too low for a main TOTP showing.
DeleteThree singles inside the Top 40 this week at peak position but not represented by TOTP at all during their chart run:
ReplyDeleteNo.22 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - We've Got Tonight
Re-issue of his 1978 original release, this tune has lived on through the years as an all time classic, and famously covered by Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton in 1983 as a duet, and possibly by countless others, it was great that Seger was still out there in 1995 bringing the single back to the charts, and considering the change in music climate in 1995, it was a fine achievement to make No.22 despite not getting a TOTP berth.
No.32 Adam Ant - Wonderful
Last single I believe in his 80s and 90s defining era, but not high enough to get a play on TOTP.
No.37 Cyndi Lauper - I'm Gonna Be Strong
Follow up to Hey Now which got to No.4 a few months earlier in 1994, this one was somewhat overlooked by the record buying public, and was also not high enough in the chart to get a play.
Peaking outside the Top 40 at No.57 this week was the last ever single from Bryan Ferry as a solo artist with Mamouna, as another 70s and 80s legend bids farewell to the charts in 1995.
Would anybody be able to repost this episode, as I missed the link due to being on holiday. Many thanks!
ReplyDeleteIt's Cowboy time tonight and we even have the town criminal front and centre. Gary Olsen in full shouting mood.
ReplyDeleteFirst up some tartan skirts and a couple of Star Trek extras (aka DEUCE) with the first of 2 highly choreographed routines in a row. The second from Jade is impressive as they've had to learn their days of the week as well.
Much better chart rundown this week, actually readable.
Yippee-I-Eh it's JIMMY NAIL and Sting with the first of 2 fine Cowboy tunes tonight. Not sure why he's having a dream about Cowboys. Too many late night BBC2 films probably.
Number 2 now for N-TRANCE. Real staying power this one. Shame about the Man Utd top, I quite liked it up until now.
An under-rated SUEDE tune followed by more Yee-Ha! Sting, Jimmy and Pato Banton, who must be delighted someone else has bothered to turn up. Not that he contributes much to this number. Solid tune.
THE GO GO’S. Never heard of them in the 80s. Didn't like them in the 90s. Opinion hasn't really changed, this is not a great tune. Belinda looking rather fine with short hair though.
CELINE DION makes her own version of the Home and Away credits in Miami. This is the performance of "Think Twice" I remember from the time.
Decent show. Terrible presenter.