Give us today our 26th of November 1999 edition of Top of the Pops!
Happy Cliff-ennium
26-11-99: Presenter: Gail Porter
(3) ROBBIE WILLIAMS – It’s Only Us
Getting the show underway with the other side of last week's number one.
(NEW) WHITNEY HOUSTON – I Learned From The Best
Performing the fifth and final single from her top 4 album, My Love Is Your Love, and it will peak at number 19.
(5) R. KELLY – If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time (via satellite)
Peaked at number 2. And edited out of course.
(10) GLAMMA KID – Why
Here with his second and final top ten hit but this Carly Simon sample got no higher.
(14) BLUR – No Distance Left To Run
In the studio with the third and final single from their number one album, 13, but it got no higher.
(2) CLIFF RICHARD – The Millennium Prayer
Performing what will become Cliff's fourteenth and final number one hit, spanning five decades.
(12) TEXAS – When We Are Together
Here tonight with the third and final single from their number one album, The Hush, but it got no higher.
(1) WAMDUE PROJECT – King Of My Castle (and credits)
Here with their only number one and it topped the chart for one week.
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Thanks Rob!!!
DeleteThanks Rob!
DeleteCheers Rob
DeleteHi. Is there an uncut version of this episode out there? As always appreciate any uploads that some one kind can provide of this. :)
ReplyDeleteFound this in my archive,enjoy!
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Ahh thankyou again Darrelljp! I understand why they need to edit these episodes but it plays havic with my ocd! Your a superstar :)
Deleteblur – No Distance Left To Run, This is their last single of the 90s, next single is Music Is My Radar (October 2000).
ReplyDeleteWhat would you rather do?
ReplyDeleteEat a 4 day old kebab from a rat infested and cockroach infested takeaway
OR
Have to listen to CLIFF RICHARD – The Millennium Prayer?
Give me the kebab every time!!
Lol, have to disagree with you on this one Lurker, give me Cliff Richard instead of the kebab, or give me a freshly-cooked kebab from a clean takeaway and I may think about it!
DeleteI don't mind the Millennium Prayer. I'm not religious myself but I admire Cliff for sticking to his principals to release this for the millennium. But at the same time I can see why its not everyone's cup of tea.
DeleteCliff Richard - great to see Cliff back in the TOTP studio performing, as I can't remember his last visit, as his last single in summer 99 called The Miracle did not get a play, and peaked at No.23. Still, this future No.1 The Millennium Prayer would turn out to be his last single for two years until December 2001 on his next comeback single, also having another go at a Christmas No.1 with Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
ReplyDeleteWamdue Project - wow, love the vocals on the American lead singer Gaelle Adisson, and born to Haitian parents according to Wiki, with debut album not coming until 2004, so this collaboration with Chris Brann of Wamdue Project would have been the first we have seen of her.
Some interesting new entries at peak further down the charts from 80s legends coming back at the end of the 90s:
No.35 - Village People - YMCA
Second remix of the classic original from 1978, with the first remix doing much better and getting to No.12 in Dec 1993.
No.43 Culture Club - Cold Shoulder / Starman
Second comeback single in 1999, but this one couldn't even make the Top 40, and that was pretty much it from these 80s old timers.
No.66 Belinda Carlisle - All God's Children
First single in nearly three years, and also last ever single, as the curtain comes down on another 80s legend here at the end of 1999.
Cliffs last TOTP performance in the studio before this one was in 1996.
DeleteHe reached number 10 with 'Can't keep this feeling in' 23rd Oct 1996
I'm not down on Cliff, I love wired for sound and we don't talk anymore.
But mistletoe & wine, millennium prayer, saviours day, are just vomit inducing.
It was 1998, not 1996
DeleteYou are absolutely correct it was 1998, not 1996.
DeleteI should really put my glasses on...