Friday 10 May 2024

Single Girl of the Pops

 Single girl, I just wanna be the 18th of January 1996 edition of Top of the Pops!


Singing girls


18-1-96:   Presenter:  Alan Davies

(12) THE BUCKETHEADS – Got Myself Together
Getting the show underway with their second and final hit and it got no higher.

(25) SUNSCREEM – White Skies
Here with their sixth of eight top 40 hits but it got no higher.

(9) COOLIO – Too Hot  (video)  (and charts)
At its peak.

(21) LUSH – Single Girl
Performing their second of four top 40 hits but this one got no higher.

(23) NIGHTCRAWLERS feat. JOHN REID – Let’s Push It
With their fifth of seven top 40 hits but it got no higher.

(7) CHER – One By One
Here in the studio tonight but the song was at its peak.

(8) CAST – Sandstorm
With their first of seven top ten hits but it got no higher.

(NEW) SOLO – Heaven
Became their only top 40 hit when it peaked at number 35.

(1) GEORGE MICHAEL – Jesus To A Child  (video)
The first single from his massive number one album, Older, it was his fifth if seven solo number ones, staying at the top for one week.

(TOTP2) TAKE THAT – It Only Takes A Minute  (clip of TOTP 4-6-92)  (and credits)
A number 7 hit from 1992.


13 comments:

  1. Alan Davies looking rather young. Never found his stand up funny but he's very good playing the idiot on QI.

    Disco Dance opener from the bucket heads Rather fab amd funky this. Forgotten all about the second hit.

    Sunscreem. My completely forgotten about 90s band that I am loving on these repeats. Another solid tune from them.

    Coolio. More funky but less catchy. Very Will Smith. Still enjoyed that though. A daft video.

    I do remeber this from Lush. Good but no masterpiece. Mrs and Minor Morgie taking the mick all evening singing “Single girl,single girl” all round the house.

    Nightcrawlers. Again! Seriously had this lot down as one hit wonders but they keep coming back.
    Easily my favourite since their first hit.

    This is a quality pop tune. Cher just going pure 90s pop. Love it. Proper Westlife key change in there as well.

    Anoraks out it's caaaaaaast. Proper Scouse britpop. Great radio tune. Their hits do all sound the same though.

    Tonights who the hell is this lot? Solo? Me neither. I can see the US lapping this up. All 4 One with talent. Only one instrument but it's a big one.

    Classy Number One this week. Can't last.
    Different Corner and Careless Whisper get all the respect at GM super ballads but this should be up there as well. Brilliant.

    Good show.

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    1. Agreed about the Nightcrawlers, great track and easily their best so far. John Reid always manages to get the sexiest dancers on his stage. How does he do it every time?

      Sunscreem were by now past their prime, as their 1992-1993 period was a lot more successful for them in terms of chart positions, but the 1994-1997 second phase proved to be a struggle to get a decent chart placing, and this seemed to be a rere invite to the TOTP studio since 1993.

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  2. TOTP2 20-01-1996 https://we.tl/t-VL9YTqC8zV

    please thank Ben Cook & Robert Thompson from the Popscene facebook group

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    1. Thanks Rob, Ben and Robert!!!

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    2. Cheers Rob,
      Mrs Lurker would thank you as well, but she is busy glugging Rose in the garden.

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    3. Thanks for uploading Rob, but there is no sound. Can you reupload with sound or on another platform please?

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    4. Nothing wrong with the sound Dory.
      Try re-downloading or try playing with VLC

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    5. Did not produce sound when re-downloading, and does not transfer onto VLC. Can anyone else upload it please with sound?

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    6. Dory, try this https://we.tl/t-Kgbaeeo7Kx

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    7. And if gia file doesn't work, try this one.

      The original file has a weird mp3 audio codec for mp4: mp4a-6B.
      It can throw up no audio errors, with certain players.

      So i demuxed the file.
      Re-encoded the audio to AAC and muxed in to a MKV container.

      https://we.tl/t-QIlW8V5J6P

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    8. Thanks Lurker, your one worked with sound.

      Onto the TOTP2 show then, and the Video Stir section was hardly a stir, as The Sparks were merely imagining that they owned the BBC, as nobody could buy it. I mean, really........The video felt and sounded like a Pet Shop Boys production, and reminded me of PSB's Go West video three years earlier in 1993.

      Also in the Tomorrow's Hits section, Goldbug was confirmed as a cross between Pearl & Dean and Led Zeppelin, with the title Whole Lotta love a Zepellin classic, but interspersed in it was the classic cinema trailers section sound of Pearl & Dean, so a interesting new sound for 1996.

      Was at my local Vue cinema last week, and came for the start of the trailers, but it seems no-one uses the Pearl & Dean sound any more for preparing us for movies coming soon to the cinema. Just enjoy the Goldbug video then.

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  3. Chart rundown this week had Sting with Pato Banton as a new entry at No.36 with no TOTP play, and then fell out of the Top 40 the following week and so missed out. So too for The Human League with a new entry at No.40 with Stay With Me Tonight, was also at peak and got no TOTP feature.

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  4. Not super keen on AD as presenter. He gets less annoying with age though, I mind him much less now.

    Bucketheads were fine.

    I love this Sunscreem track and forgot it made TOTP so a real pleasure to see it. December is a long time to wait for you though.

    Coolio - makes a change from yet another Gangsta's Paradise play. It's fine but another song that's hardly for January.

    Lush - love them

    Nightcrawlers - Alright, not as catchy as the last one but less annoyingly overplayed.

    Cher - I have a real soft spot for this track gor some reason.

    Cast - solid mid tier Britpop

    Solo - Who?

    GM tops off quite a varied episode. Few bangers but lots of songs you don't hear much now, which is always fun.

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