Every time I hear a new born baby cry, I believe it's the 16th of November 1995 edition of Top of the Pops!
The name's Turner...
16-11-95: Presenter: Louise
(7) HAPPY CLAPPERS – I Believe
Had already peaked at number 21 earlier this year, this re-issue did better at number 7. But did people mistakenly think they were buying Robson & Jerome?
(16) SEAN MAGUIRE – You To Me Are Everything
Performing his fifth and eight top 40 hits, but this Real Thing cover got no higher.
(2) COOLIO feat. LV – Gangsta’s Paradise (video) (and charts)
Former number one, going back up the charts again.
(12) ENYA – Anywhere Is
In the studio tonight with what became her third and final top ten hit when it peaked at number 7.
(5) MADONNA – You’ll See
Another chance to see this performance again, but it got no higher.
(18) THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH – Pretenders To The Throne
Here tonight but the song was at its peak. But where was Jacqui?
(NEW) MICHAEL JACKSON – Earth Song (video)
On his way to another number one.
(10) TINA TURNER – Goldeneye
Here with the latest James Bond song, but it got no higher.
(1) ROBSON & JEROME – I Believe (and credits)
Second of four weeks at number one.
Happy Clappers - alright for this genre. I believe she believes. Background dancing was a bit pedestrian
ReplyDeleteSean McGuire - soap star murders a classic. Nothing new there then…
Coolio - whilst not a rap/ hip hop fan, this has always been a favourite of mine. Very good reworking of the the original, to the extent that when I hear the Stevie song it seems wrong…
Enya - pleasant ditty. Her Rhyming Dictionary must have been falling apart by the end of the song…
Madonna - following David Bowie from last week, Mads makes a live appearance. Quite like this one, although I prefer her uptempo songs.
Beautiful South - don’t remember this but liked it a lot. Between lady singers…
Michael Jackson - a good week so far. Not a fan of Michael, but I like this one.
Tina Turner - subdued ‘pans people’ interpretation by the bond boys. Liked the raised eyebrow. One of the finer Bond themes (although there are very few naff ones)
Robson and Jerome - crash! The programme plummets from best episode for ages to ‘eject’
Nah, I enjoyed the background dancers on The Happy Clappers. Four hotpants, two yellow, two purple with the best of the four girls is one on the far right with the yellow one, but I agree that the Sean Maguire track was a pointless cover of The Real Thing's original.
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ReplyDeleteThanks Rob!!!
DeleteWas interesting to see Blondie's first time appearing in the TOTP studio in Feb 1978 with Denis, wearing a red shirt and no bottoms. You could say that she made a lasting impact!
DeleteI also enjoyed the Recorded For Recall section with clips from a 1975 TOTP episode that was not wiped, with Hot Chocolate, Rod Stewart and Jasper Carrot as three of the chosen performances.
Thanks Robb
DeleteCoolio - rare showing of a single previously at No.1 when at a lower position after, although to its credit, it had gone back up from No.3 to No.2, and so technically a riser, but also the first showing of the video on TOTP if you don't count TOTP2 which showed some of the video before it was a new entry at No.1.
ReplyDeleteEnya - I was filled with much anticipation at the start of the song when seeing the two huge drums and loud red costumes of the two girl drummers in front of Enya, but having watched the whole performance, the two drummers only feathered their drums like nail files, not banged them which is what drums are there for. Good Lord, all that effort for what?
The Beautiful South - first single for a year since One Last Love Song got to No.14 in 1994, and in answer to Angelo and Charlie Cook, I don't think there were any more female vocals at this point, as we were back to their original line up with just Paul and Dave on lead vocals, as was on their 1989 debut single Song For Whoever. So six years on and it looks like we were back full circle in terms of line up.
Jacqui joined the Beautiful South in 93 and had been on their last couple of hits. You can hear her backing vocals on the chorus to this one so her absence here is a bit odd.
DeleteAnother dance hit to start the show and I was never a big fan of I Believe. Fair play for the decent live vocal though.
ReplyDeleteSean Maguire has big hands doesn't he. Not even gonna bother mentioning this travesty of a tune.
Great Coolio video which is a rather iconic 90s video.No idea what the film was like.
Love this Enya tune. Flowers on piano was part of the Orinoco performance as well I think. Really enjoyed that. Tune of the night for me.
Very happy to see this Madonna tune again.
A rather nice but lesser known Beautiful South tune. Not sure where Jacqui is either.
Here comes that MJ video. Will probably be sick of this by the end of April but it's a great video and I like the song as well although I fear I may be in the minority. Memories of the Brits of course and that Jarvis moment.
Goldeneye was my first Bond at Leicester Square, which became a tradition amongst my friends during the Brosnan years. This tune is like the greatest hits of bond themes and is absolutely fabulous. Written by Bono who had stated his Bond with Hold Me, Kiss Me.
Didn't even mind the Number One tonight as it was very short!
The chart rundown this week had no less than 8 new entries in the Top 20 alone, and while a few of them were played on TOTP, I noticed that Whitney Houston's with her first single in nearly two years with a new entry at No.11 called Exhale (Shoop Shoop) missed out and was at peak, so no play for her at all on this chart run.
ReplyDeleteAlso noticed Sunscreem at peak at No.40 with their first Top 40 single in nearly three years which also missed out, with both groups being a victim of the short 30-minute length of the TOTP show which could not fit everyone in.
Four new entries this week outside the Top 40 and at peak positions worthy of a mention:
ReplyDeleteNo.41 Vanessa Mae - Classical Gas
Third single in her debut year of 1995, and first not to make the Top 40, and it wasn't to get much better, as most of the rest of her stuff to come fell to a similar fate.
No.44 Squeeze - Electric Trains
We're still not there yet 30 years later, as we have electric cars and electric buses up-and-running, but trains I think are still running on fuel. Anyway, back to the music and Squeeze were coming up to the final straight, as two more singles in 1996 would be their last hurrah, and thankfully both made Top 40 comfortably, unlike many other legendary groups who called it a day when they were consistently not able to make the Top 40 any more.
No.64 Toto - I Will Remember
Wow, this one is brilliant, even though not one of their well known hits, but it came 12 years after their last Top 40 single in the UK in 1983, and by 1995 the new-look group had just moved to CBS and with new member Simon Phillips, with this new single coming of the new 1995 album called Tambu.
No.83 Cerrone - Mercy
Best known for their 1978 Top 10 single called Supernature which was an anthem on Kenny Everett's Video Show on Thames TV in the late 70's, this was Ceronne's first Top 75 single in the UK since 1979 when Je Suis Music managed a paltry No.39 peak position, in a time when TOTP's chart rundown did not stretch below No.30, so we would never see these song titles on TV.
A bit behind so a lot of episodes to watch this weekend!
ReplyDeleteOpening was solid if unremarkable 90s dance, then Sean Maguire with a very insipid cover. Weird to have Coolio here after falling from the top. Maybe someone was hoping it'd go back there and dethrone that thing.
Nice to see Enya in the studio. This track has some good moments like the difference in chorus and verse style, but it is a bit repetitive in terms of melody and the rhymes a little naff (though not Des'ree Life naff).
Nice to see the Madonna track again even though it's a replay. Always enjoyed the Beautiful South.
MJ - I actually don't hate this song itself - the overblown rock opera thing has its appeal - but the lyrics are really rote and the whole Messiah thing where the Brits made up an award just for him was only redeemed by Jarvis.
Tina Turner - great performance and somewhere the future Big Brother producers were getting branding ideas...