I really can't stay, ah but it's the 17th of December 1999 edition of Top of the Pops!
Welsh hit wonders
17-12-99: Presenter: Jamie Theakston
(17) TOM JONES & CERYS MATTHEWS – Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Getting the last regular show of the 90's underway but the song got no higher.
(13) B*WITCHED & LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO – I Shall Be There
With their penultimate hit and it was at its peak.
(8) LEN – Steal My Sunshine
Here tonight with their only top ten hit and it was at its peak.
(7) PROGRESS presents THE BOY WUNDA – Everybody
Performing his only hit and it got no higher.
(3) VENGABOYS – Kiss (When The Sun Don’t Shine)
In the studio tonight but the song got no higher.
(2) ARTFUL DODGER feat. CRAIG DAVID – Re-Rewind The Crowd Say Bo Selecta
A second studio performance but the song could get no higher.
(1) CLIFF RICHARD – The Millennium Prayer (and credits)
Third and final week, not quite making the Xmas number one this year.
9-6-77: Presenter: Tony Blackburn
ReplyDelete(NEW) OSIBISA – The Warrior
(13) ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA – Telephone Line (video)
(NEW) BERNI FLINT – Southern Comfort
(27) FRANKIE MILLER’S FULL HOUSE – Be Good To Yourself ®
(NEW) THE WURZELS – Farmer Bill’s Cowman
(21) GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS – Baby Don’t Change Your Mind (video)
(NEW) NEIL INNES – Silver Jubilee
(23) THE STRANGLERS – Go Buddy Go ®
(NEW) DEMIS ROUSSOS – Kyrila
(30) HONKY – Join The Party ®
(6) THE JACKSONS – Show You The Way To Go (danced to by Legs & Co)
(NEW) BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS – Exodus
(1) ROD STEWART – The First Cut Is The Deepest (TV special 24-10-76)
(25) EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER – Fanfare For The Common Man (and credits)
ELO - Interesting edit just before the end of the song, which looks like it was at original airing, not at this weekend's BBC4 repeat.
DeleteEmerson Lake & Palmer - the start of the tune sounded more for a show opener than a show closer!
Two new entries at peak position further down the chart and out of the TOTP range:
ReplyDeleteNo.28 The Beastie boys - Alive
Last single for five years, as their next single would not be until 2004. The video had a sort of Teletubbies look about it in terms of the coloured outfits on the boys.
No.55 Lou Bega - I Got A Girl
The only follow-up single to Mambo No.5, which could only manage a No.55 position, and was never heard of again, so this you can say was a true one-hit wonder with their summer 1999 No.1.
TOTP2's and TOTP New Chart
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19-12-1999 TOTP New Chart has a parody of Millennium Prayer on it.
25-12-1999 is a Christmas Singalong on BBC Choice
31-12-1999 is TOTP2 Reviews the 90s.
Cheers Rob. Its like Xmas with all these extra treats you are giving us!
DeleteHow many episodes of TOTP New Chart were made? I can't see anything about it online except on wiki, it states:
TOTP The New Chart (5 December 1999 – 26 March 2000)
Anyone know why is was canned?
Thanks Rob!!!
ReplyDeleteDid anyone see Mylene Klass as a backing vocalist on the Cliff song? A year or so before Popstars.
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