This edition of Top of the Pops from the 7th of December 1995 will not be shown on BBC4 due to being hosted by Gary Glitter. The show (minus the number one) can be seen here on Youtube.
A little dress-pect
7-12-95: Presenter: Gary Glitter
(NEW) MOLELLA feat. THE OUTHERE BROTHERS – If You Wanna Party
Will peak at number 9.
(17) WET WET WET – She’s All On My Mind
Got no higher.
(6) MARIAH CAREY & BOYZ II MEN – One Sweet Day (via satellite) (and charts)
At its peak.
(20) ERASURE – Fingers And Thumbs (Cold Summer’s Day)
Got no higher.
(7) PULP – Disco 2000 (via satellite)
The third single from the number one album, Different Class, was at its peak.
(14) ETERNAL – I Am Blessed
Went up seven more places.
(NEW) THE LEVELLERS – Just The One
Will peak at number 12.
(1) MICHAEL JACKSON – Earth Song (video)
First of six weeks at number one.
(ALBUM TRACK) GARY GLITTER – Hello! Hello! I’m Back Again (and credits)
Had peaked at number 2 in 1973, this time around it made it to number 50.
14th of December is next.
Award winning TOTP with quite a few new performances (skipped through GG as usual).
ReplyDeleteOuthere Brothers had seen last night (timey wimey) and it was no better this time around.
Wet Wet Wet track I thought was poor. Something of nothing really.
Mariah and Boyz II Men is the kind of track that the US laps up and was of course a number one over there. Wasn't expecting much from this and it didn't disappoint.
Things then improve greatly with Erasure. I had forgotten all about this tune and I enjoyed it. Thought it was the best tune they have done for a while.
Pulp should be tune of the night but not tonight (that one is to come for me). Disco 2000 the third in a row of dynamite singles and great to see the performance here.
Eternal I thought was rubbish. They will do much better than this mulch.
Highlight of the show was The Levellers. Never got the credit the deserved. This is an awesome tune and released some great singles. Huge fan of this one.
I like Earth Song. There, I have said it.
Yes indeed, all the Boys II Men singles in the America went to No.1, and there is something about their songs that is very uplifting, so it doesn't surprise me at all. In fact it was the first of 16 weeks at No.1 in America, and for the whole of December, January, February until late March, when it finally succumbed to Celine Dion towards the end of March 1996 who took over from them at No.1, but it pretty much the winter No.1 that season.
DeleteTOTP2 09-12-1995 (courtesy of Ben Cook & Robert Thompson from the Popscene facebook group - thank them not me!) https://we.tl/t-4O4KL9Vq6H
ReplyDeleteCheers Rob
DeleteIn The First Time section of this TOTP2 edition, there was Janet Jackson's first appearance in the TOTP studio in March 1987 with Let's Wait A While which was her highest chart position to date at No.3, and on this performance in the TOTP studio she was still only 20 years old.
DeleteIn Recorded For Recall from August 1977, and the month in which Elvis died, there was the video by Space called Magic Fly, an instrumental, and I didn't know that this was a French group of session musicians who kept their identity secret, but it still managed to reach No.2.
Then in a new section called Brits Abroad, there was the new black-and-white video by Bonnie Tyler with a Jim Steinman single originally written for Air Supply in the early 80s, but now with a 90s refresh by Bonnie Tyler, and this a whole ten years after she sang Steinman's song Holding Out For A Hero, so the Steinman link had clearly still endured, well into the 90s at this point.
Thanks Rob, Ben & Robert!!!
ReplyDeleteThis Gary Glitter presented show was not as good as the one he presented in 1994, the show with Zig & Zag, especially the way he presented them. In fact the 1994 TOTP show had a lot more energy from Glitter in terms of presenting duties.
ReplyDeleteChart rundown - we don't normally have the chart rundown on the Live By Satellite performance, but in a way it is a sort of video when the group are not performing in the TOTP studio, so the Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men performance somehow warranted the chart rundown along with it.
In fact there were two Live By Satellite singles on this show, with Pulp from France, following on from Mariah & Boyz II Men from America, but I would just give it to Mariah & Boyz II Men as the better of the two Live By Satellites this week.
Chart rundown - three new entries this week in the Top 40 and at peak position with no play on TOTP, so we will not see them:
ReplyDeleteNo.22 Cliff Richard & Olivia Newton John - Had To Be
First duet together since their October 1980 Top 20 hit called Suddenly whose video was shown on TOTP, and now 15 years later and older, this new video had a different and more sombre tone, and certainly no snog at the end like in the Suddenly video, but the video for Had To Be is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTyUlEPsW_g
No.30 Ali & Kibibi Campbell - Something Stupid
Not sure who Kibibi is, but Ali is from UB40 who were also in the charts recently with their single.
No.36 Morrissey - The Boy Racer
One of many Morrissey singles that have peaked in the lower regions of the Top 40 and not high enough to get a play on TOTP.
Such a shame not to get Disco 2000 on the repeats.
ReplyDeleteGary Glitter is not only a trash person he was a trash presenter.
Erasure and Eternal were fine but far from their best and the rest isn't much to write home about.
Was giving the Levellers the exclusive an apology for missing out the great Hope Street earlier in the year? Enjoy this one too.
Mariah and Boyz II Men feels like it came out months ago, am I mixing it up with another song?