tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post2384258423101331314..comments2024-03-28T10:45:51.725+00:00Comments on Never Forget ~ Top of the Pops 1995: Save Your Top of the PopsAngelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090709386124664912noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-76849012597446719202017-01-10T12:59:19.558+00:002017-01-10T12:59:19.558+00:00Aargh, just realised I missed out / forgot to down...Aargh, just realised I missed out / forgot to download this, and now it is gone from wetransfer. Can anyone help me out, please?teaurnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15567246659179603874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-76783283799275787382017-01-03T12:14:17.796+00:002017-01-03T12:14:17.796+00:00Another show with lots of 'new' stuff that...Another show with lots of 'new' stuff that we don't get to see (though in some cases that's not so bad!) and that Oriental girl who keeps popping up looks familiar as she looks like the girl who played Hsu Tai in The Tomorrow People (but I don't think it is her...)<br /><br />Madness - At least we got to see this piece of fun on the 'Christmas Hits' show.<br /><br />Phil Collins - Loved it at the time, less keen now but it's still one of his better hits.<br /><br />Santa Claus & His Trees - Do they think it's still 1981? Holly & The Ivys essentially did this (better) the year before. I thought it was funny that the audience members with the banners the right way round for them but the wrong way for us showing 'OH OH OH' were clearly told to turn them around!<br /><br />JK - 1 song we've seen, 2 we will in 83 and one that is drivel anyway.<br /><br />David Essex - Not a Christmas song as such, and written by Mike Batt so of course it's brilliant!<br /><br />Malcolm McLaren - Bandwagon jumping of the highest order of course, but job done as I thought it was new and exciting at the time. I still like it, actually.<br /><br />Dionne Warwick - Of the 2 Bee Gees produced hits, I prefer this one. It's a better live performance this time too.<br /><br />Cliff Richard - Surprisingly, even listening on Jan 3rd (!) I can tolerate this. Probably because you don't hear it at all compared to his other Christmas hits.<br /><br />Ultravox - Denied this great tune again!<br /><br />Donna Summer - I had a feeling that this would get a slagging, which is a shame. Partly because I think that the Patrick Cowley mix is pretty awesome actually (check out the 14 minute long version!!) but also because.....this was the first single that I ever bought. I didn't know the song from its first release so this remix brought it to my attention.Noaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790474836630218113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-89587186625429270622017-01-01T23:20:28.424+00:002017-01-01T23:20:28.424+00:00Surprised this Cliff track never got played on TOT...Surprised this Cliff track never got played on TOTP2?Westyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362616579542081021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-30086863250417608952017-01-01T23:04:13.871+00:002017-01-01T23:04:13.871+00:00even though it was greg ham in men at work who sup...even though it was greg ham in men at work who supposedly came up with the flute solo on "down under" that was later claimed to be plagiarism of an existing copyrighted tune, he never actually got any songwriting credit for it. so it's interesting that the publishing company that contested the case sued his bandmates that were credited for the composition (and their record company), rather than him personally. rather amusingly ham sort-of concurred he might have been unwittingly influenced by the tune in question whilst working on "down under" in rehearsals, due to being under the influence of recreational drugs!<br /><br />this reminds me of another case where someone played a woodwind solo on a number one hit of 1983, and years later there was copyright controversy over it. in this case it was spandau ballet's "true", whereby steve norman (who like most other ex-members of the band was then sueing gary kemp fpr a share of the songwriting royalties) claimed as it was improvised/formulated by him (rather than pre-written by kemp) and as it was what people remembered most about the recording, he should therefore get a songwriting credit. whether his claims were justified or not, the beak threw that one out of court!wilberforcehttp://www.gavinunderhill.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-45392242361190279362017-01-01T18:20:58.020+00:002017-01-01T18:20:58.020+00:00Sorry meant Janice Long show not song. She was sit...Sorry meant Janice Long show not song. She was sitting in for Steve 'big show' Wright, who I couldn't stand then and don't much care for now, particularly his habit of cutting short his last song to fit in his theme tune.Steve Hackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365973104946684183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-10770238825372347962017-01-01T18:18:25.536+00:002017-01-01T18:18:25.536+00:00I've still got another couple of years before ...I've still got another couple of years before my first radio tape recording, although it wasn't the top 40 but a load of songs from the Janice Long song including 'Into The Groove' and 'Don Qioxote' (apologies if that's spelt wrong). I do have some Bruno Brookes era Top 40 tapes somewhere in the loft though.<br /><br />Steve Hackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365973104946684183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-9160244462752818792017-01-01T18:13:38.482+00:002017-01-01T18:13:38.482+00:00I too remember Kenny's spoof, it's up ther...I too remember Kenny's spoof, it's up there with his Rod Stewart take off from the Thames TV days.Steve Hackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365973104946684183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-38542081221920283952017-01-01T18:12:21.159+00:002017-01-01T18:12:21.159+00:00I too remember Kenny's spoof, it's up ther...I too remember Kenny's spoof, it's up there with his Rod Stewart take off from the Thames TV days.Steve Hackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365973104946684183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-23073467423505010902017-01-01T17:00:45.374+00:002017-01-01T17:00:45.374+00:00I suspect it was a thank you for some charity thin...I suspect it was a thank you for some charity thing he had been doing. Jim'll would cling on as a co-host for 7 more shows during '83 and '84, but he becomes an ever more marginal figure from this point onwards.John Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-75180436862992781262017-01-01T14:16:20.197+00:002017-01-01T14:16:20.197+00:00brie, this is no different to what Angelo has post...brie, this is no different to what Angelo has posted up on WeTransfer. What I'm really looking for is the UK Gold copy (or original 1982 broadcast) with the full Renee & Renato No.1 as well as the Donna Summer playout. Someone must have it surely, if it was broadcast on UK Gold.Doryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07718769648375882927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-64417565325609549162017-01-01T10:56:35.641+00:002017-01-01T10:56:35.641+00:00The link is this https://www.dropbox.com/s/gu8u962...The link is this https://www.dropbox.com/s/gu8u962jaqyp1id/TOTP%201982-12-16%20.mp4?dl=0brienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-21865350170851376632017-01-01T00:34:31.573+00:002017-01-01T00:34:31.573+00:00Yeah, I would also like to see that dropbox link p...Yeah, I would also like to see that dropbox link pleaseDoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07718769648375882927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-51844913067195938702016-12-31T23:32:22.070+00:002016-12-31T23:32:22.070+00:00Thanks to Neil B for this show. However, one again...Thanks to Neil B for this show. However, one again my PC f#cked up and stalled with the 8 minute download with one minute left meaning I had to start again.<br /><br />The final awful countdown from Jim’ll, who started by saying David Essex was at number 13 and not 30.<br /><br />Greta staging and camerawork for Madness, clearly enjoying themselves. Was that backdrop Del Boy and Rodney’s lounge in “Only Fools and Horses”?<br /><br />Phil Collins – just horrible.<br /><br />Santa Claus and the Christmas Trees were back in ’83 with a medley which, thankfully, stalled at 39. Both medleys were re-recorded with very adult lyrics and released in “X certificate” sleeves.<br /><br />Tom Hanks’s detective mate from “Turner and Hooch” as a pilot in Pat Benatar’s vid, and was that Demi Moore as Joe Jackson’s chambermaid? The video was too smudged for me to work out. A clear mouthing of the F-word by Men At Work’s Colin Hay as he opens the camper van’s side door during their court case losing big hit, having nicked the tune from folk song “Kookaburra” for the flute passage.<br /><br />David Essex’s song was well crafted but too sad and depressing for me to listen to fully.<br /><br />I loved and bought “Buffalo Gals” not knowing it wasn’t a gimmicky one-off that would transport scratching, break dancing and widespread graffiti over here.<br /><br />Dionne Warwick’s tune was okay but still too Bee Gees like for my taste.<br /><br />Cliff Richard – see Phil Collins.<br /><br />Worth another gander at Jay aston, sex on a stick.<br /><br />Ultravox are at number 13, Jim! Not 14! You’ve just done them in the countdown! Shame we couldn’t have swapped Billy Currie for that Oliver Tobias this time.<br /><br />Renee and Renato were only much loved by people over 55. I’m 54 now, and I still hate this, Just as much as the awful “Blue Monday” style trashing of Donna Summer’s defining moment.Arthur Nibblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11547006132533866220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-32542549197668916222016-12-31T23:26:20.275+00:002016-12-31T23:26:20.275+00:00the galaxian machine i mention above was a stand-u...the galaxian machine i mention above was a stand-up one, but i do remember also playing the game on those table-top editions that were designed for use in pubs (so you could stick your pint on it whilst you played). i recently visited the media museum in bradford and was overjoyed to discover a whole room of vintage "muzzies" machines, where you paid the same money (10p or 20p) a game as you did 35 years earlier. i spent an hour in there (mostly playing the table-top version of "asteroids") and it was a fiver well-spent!wilberforcehttp://www.gavinunderhill.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-48716456971210936812016-12-31T21:31:16.429+00:002016-12-31T21:31:16.429+00:00@Dory, I well recall Kenny's spoof at the time...@Dory, I well recall Kenny's spoof at the time, it was shooting fish in a barrel but absolutely hilarious all the same. It was pointed out that the audience start laughing uproariously at the beginning and continue laughing right to the end with no lull or break!THXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-84522220526044279212016-12-31T21:16:53.195+00:002016-12-31T21:16:53.195+00:00Back in the mid-1990s the firm who supplied the fr...Back in the mid-1990s the firm who supplied the fruit machine in my parents' pub was based just around the corner from the newly-purchased Relic Towers. I fancied having one of those table video games - Galaxian or similar - and they had one, the chap who ran the business saying that they would get it working for me. He then went and broke the glass and I lost interest. Those things are seriously collectable items fetching silly money nowadays. Oh well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-46932812298067968102016-12-31T21:04:01.061+00:002016-12-31T21:04:01.061+00:00Santa Claus & The Christmas Trees?! So this wa...Santa Claus & The Christmas Trees?! So this was a real band with a real chart single?! I honestly thought it was the BBC engineers doing their annual festive frolics.<br /><br />David Essex and Cliff Richard were both mimed performances as far as I could tell but Cliff gets a windshield on his mic for some reason.<br /><br />The less said about that Malcolm McLaren thing the better. I seem to recall him appearing on the Tube demonstrating the technique of 'scratching' (surely the kind of thing that kids would do on their parents' radiogram and get a clip round the ear for it) with a stupid fake American accent.<br /><br />But definitely worth seeing for the seriously good music in the JK bit (well, 3 out of 4, the 4th was the second helping of that bloody bass line in the same show!) and for Ultravox with no arty video or special effects.<br /><br />A Summer hit in both name and time of charting seemed somewhat out of place at the end of this December show. Just a few added noises as far as I could hear, the art of truly murdering a 1970s classic had yet to be perfected...<br /><br />Many thanks to Neil and Glenn!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-74672580414673112232016-12-31T20:25:23.442+00:002016-12-31T20:25:23.442+00:00Maybe Jim'll knew it was going to be his last ...Maybe Jim'll knew it was going to be his last solo TOTP and he was trying to say "Thanks for everything and ta-ra" via his apparel?Arthur Nibblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11547006132533866220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-10047037433320291672016-12-31T19:41:02.751+00:002016-12-31T19:41:02.751+00:00galaxian! i remember playing that regularly in a d...galaxian! i remember playing that regularly in a disco of all places back around 1980. and i was so skint at the time that even when a massed brawl broke out behind me whilst i was on it i wasn't prepared to move out of the way and lose 10 pence's worth of my miserable dole handout, so i just carried on playing!wilberforcehttp://www.gavinunderhill.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-61793664769918087202016-12-31T19:35:42.202+00:002016-12-31T19:35:42.202+00:00i'm not sure if david essex's voice suits ...i'm not sure if david essex's voice suits any song!wilberforcehttp://www.gavinunderhill.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-38266679367837304352016-12-31T18:35:28.700+00:002016-12-31T18:35:28.700+00:00Have you got a dropbox link for the UK Gold versio...Have you got a dropbox link for the UK Gold version brie?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-61053280583129934822016-12-31T17:09:53.691+00:002016-12-31T17:09:53.691+00:00If it makes you feel better about Renee & Rena...If it makes you feel better about Renee & Renato, just watch this hilarious spoof of them by Kenny Everett. It had me on the floor rolling about in laughter:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72M_4GfvVLM<br />Doryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07718769648375882927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-12626583136433794712016-12-31T16:45:56.923+00:002016-12-31T16:45:56.923+00:00I thought Sir Jim'll looked very tired on this...I thought Sir Jim'll looked very tired on this edition, as if he was getting sick of the TOTP gig (which he apparently was).<br /><br />Madness, classic staging of Our House, reminiscent of Toast by the Streetband, I wonder which sitcom donated their lounge set? That tiny saxomophone dusted off and brought out once again.<br /><br />Now I remember watching this episode with my mum, and I asked her who Phil Collins' backing singers were because they looked familiar. Ah, youth. Anyway, bog standard Motown cover, which just about survives Phil-ification.<br /><br />OK, who let the pub band in? Santa Claus (with his beard at his crotch) and the Christmas Trees (who are reindeer) chugging through office party singalong seasonal favourites. Pretty bloody awful.<br /><br />I see a JK section for a change, and it's still annoyingly showing the briefest of clips of videos which cut off before you can get into them. Pat Benatar's I'm not too bothered about, it sounded terrible, and the others we'll see again or have already seen. I never thought that Stepping Out had a video, oddly!<br /><br />David Essex, gorblimey it's a Winter's Tale. Never been quite sure if his voice suits this song, maybe it needed an Art Garfunkel to do it justice. Successful, mind you.<br /><br />My other big memory of seeing this is Malcolm MacLaren's bandwagon jumping effort, and at the time it was like nothing I had ever heard, I was fascinated, it sounded so exciting. Years later I heard the Duck Rock album it comes from, which is fantastic, like listening to a New York pirate radio station. I prefer Double Dutch to this, but they're both great. Note the Rock Steady Crew glimpsed there, soon to have their own big hit.<br /><br />Dionne Warwick with a nice enough mid-tempo follow up to Heartbreaker, though the staging (LLBS again?) leaves much to be desired. Did Nick Park see the drummer's bowtie and think, yes, I'll have some of that?<br /><br />Cliff Richard's Christmas single, and so much more preferable to those number ones he would have at the end of the 80s and into the 90s. Winning little tune, light lyrics about the spirit of the season, and, erm, Cliff recreating Raymond Briggs' The Snowman (which debuted on Channel 4 this year and I can't watch because it's too traumatic).<br /><br />Ultravox, decent mime along to a decent single, did they make a special request for their inscrutable logo's inclusion?<br /><br />Renee and Renato about to commence their reign of terror at the top, and what Donna needed to end on: someone playing Galaxian through her iconic dance record. Liking the Chinese girl in the Christmas jumper.THXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-62932930916015281142016-12-31T16:44:57.554+00:002016-12-31T16:44:57.554+00:00It did indeed take a long time for us to latch ont...It did indeed take a long time for us to latch onto Pat Benatar, whose first UK single back in 1979 was a cover of the Smokie hit "If You Think You Know how to Love Me". "Shadows Of The Night" was at least her seventh UK release, which included the surprise complete flop "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", and it reached number 50 when re-issued in 1985. Pat managed two top twenty ticklers, another which just missed the 20 and seven minor hits between 42 and 67 over here, "Love Is A Battlefield" being both a top 50 nibbler and then her biggest hit (number 17) when re-released.Arthur Nibblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11547006132533866220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656821189691902130.post-19556715820356460742016-12-31T16:13:25.927+00:002016-12-31T16:13:25.927+00:00I used some video editing software and linked the ...I used some video editing software and linked the two clips together so other than losing a bit of the Renee Renato video it's more or less complete. Just want to say a huge thank you to everyone for posting the missing episodes and keeping the run complete. Please keep them coming in 1983 (if possible) and a happy new year to everyone on this blog and really enjoy reading your reviews. And as the kid would say..' Good Love to you all!' Wayne Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09841556076960172684noreply@blogger.com