I can feel your eyes all over the 6th of June 1996 edition of Top of the Pops!
Sing and bare it
6-6-96: Presenter: Nicky Campbell
(5) LOUISE – Naked
Getting the last ever Thursday edition underway with the title track form her top 7 album, but it got no higher.
(7) ROBERT MILES – Fable
Here with his second of three top ten hits but it got no higher.
(13) TINA TURNER – On Silent Wings (via satellite)
At its peak.
(17) DARREN DAY – Summer Holiday
Performing his only top 40 hit, but this Cliff cover got no higher.
(15) SPACE – Female Of The Species
Making their studio debut with their first of eight top 40 hits, and this one went up one more place.
(NEW) SIMPLY RED – We’re In This Together (video)
The official song of Euro 96, and it will peak at number 11.
(12) DODGY – In A Room
Here with their biggest hit so far, but it go no higher.
(NEW) SHAKESPEAR’S SISTER – I Can Drive
Just Siobhan singing now after Marcella had left, and it became the band's seventh and final top 40 hit when it peaked at number 30.
(1) FUGEES – Killing Me Softly
In the studio for their first of five weeks at number one.
(ALBUM TRACK) PAUL WELLER – The Changingman (video) (and credits)
From his number one album, Stanley Road.
So we come to the very final TOTP show to go out on a Thursday, with the tradition going all the way back to 1964 when the show first debuted.
ReplyDeleteRobert Miles - he couldn't wait to get his next single out after Children which was still hanging in the Top 30 at No.29 this week, so two Top 30 singles in the same chart this week for Miles!
Darren Day - looked and sounded like Cliff Richard, so it was just as well that he had a couple of members of The Shadows on stage with him at No.17 this week.
Simply Red - this week's Video Exclusive, and not how you would imagine a football song to sound, but it came off very well, song and video!
Peaking this week just outside the Top 40 was Bob Marley at No.42 with What Goes Around Comes Around, and at No.53 a re-entry from Katrina & The Waves with her big 80's single Walking On Sunshine, so good to see a couple of old-timers back in a 1996 chart, albeit outside the Top 40.
Best song:
ReplyDeleteLouise - Naked ( oh I wish she was)
Joint Worst Songs:
Darren Day (Annoying tool)
Fugees. Never liked them the first time (one time) and still don't like them (two times)
I was in holiday last week so just catching up. This was such a bad episode to end Thursdays on.
ReplyDeleteLouise was fine, not my favourite song but so ridiculously FHM-era 90s that it wins nostalgia points.
Continuing the it's fine I guess tradition are Miles and Turner.
Then possibly the worst thing TOTP 90s has wrought and we've been though Upside Down, Bad Boys Inc, Robson and Jerome, number ones that drag on half a year AND the agonising vocals of Ronan Keating and Gary Barlow. I didn't even remember how bad this Darren Day Cliff cover was, I think my brain blocked it out due to the trauma.
A very welcome pick up for the episode from Space before plunging into the depths again with the dreariest Simply Red song there is. How, er inspirational for the sports.
Dodgy one of the other bright spots. Is there any other band where the drummer is the most famous member? (Excluding Karen Carpenter cos she was also the singer) Key message here for budding breakout pop stars: wear a hat.
SS missing that Marcella magic. It's fine but a bit generic sounding. Siobhan looks like Alanis tonight.
I had forgotten Three Lions was only number one for five minutes, such has its reach been the last almost thirty (!) years. Fugees are great here though.