7.00 Bionic Woman 8.00 Leave It To Charlie 8.30 TV Eye 9 Best Sellers: From Here To Eternity 10 News 10.30 Best Sellers
And on BBC1: 6.20 Nationwide 6.55 Tomorrow's World 7.20 Top of the Pops 7.55 Blankety Blank 8.30 Porridge 9 News 9.30 The Silent Witness
(thanks to @tv30yearsago)
12-4-79: Presenter: Peter Powell
(10) THE THREE DEGREES – The Runner (and charts)
(75) LIGHT OF THE WORLD – Swingin’
(14) KATE BUSH – Wow ®
(27) SHOWADDYWADDY – Remember Then ®
(11) THE SEX PISTOLS – Silly Thing (danced to by Legs & Co)
(26) NEIL DIAMOND – Forever In Blue Jeans (video)
(3) RACEY – Some Girls ®
(24) SUPERTRAMP – The Logical Song (video)
(20) SHAM 69 – Questions And Answers
(22) KANDIDATE – I Don’t Wanna Lose You
(6) SISTER SLEDGE – He’s The Greatest Dancer (video)
(1) ART GARFUNKEL – Bright Eyes (video)
(25) WINGS – Goodnight Tonight (and credits)
(10) THE THREE DEGREES – The Runner (and charts)
(75) LIGHT OF THE WORLD – Swingin’
(14) KATE BUSH – Wow ®
(27) SHOWADDYWADDY – Remember Then ®
(11) THE SEX PISTOLS – Silly Thing (danced to by Legs & Co)
(26) NEIL DIAMOND – Forever In Blue Jeans (video)
(3) RACEY – Some Girls ®
(24) SUPERTRAMP – The Logical Song (video)
(20) SHAM 69 – Questions And Answers
(22) KANDIDATE – I Don’t Wanna Lose You
(6) SISTER SLEDGE – He’s The Greatest Dancer (video)
(1) ART GARFUNKEL – Bright Eyes (video)
(25) WINGS – Goodnight Tonight (and credits)
The 3 Degrees ~ play over the credits this week with their disco song The Runner at its number 10 peak in the charts.
Light of the World ~ they took their name from a Kool and the Gang album, but didn't achieve the same chart success, this swingin' number peaking at 45.
Kate Bush ~ an award winner 'last night' according to Peter (the Nationwide/Brits?) here she is with Wow at its highest position in the charts. A timely showing on BBC4 given her recent big announcement.
Showaddywaddy ~ were a casualty of the 7.30 editor's scissors. But we've seen this one before.
The Sex Pistols ~ ok, it's Legs & Co dancing punk again to the Pistols. Multicoloured, like last time, and with the added ability to leap into mid air and hang there for several seconds, before reappearing in a different part of the stage! On the other side of this record was Who Killed Bambi? which features the vocals of Ed Tudorpole.
Neil Diamond ~ a live clip of Neil performing Forever in Blue Jeans in front of a large and appreciative audience. He does have a great voice, though I don't think this clip shows the song at its best.
Racey ~ another chance to see the band perform their biggest hit, Some Girls, with two thirds of Legs & Co.
Supertramp ~ a timeless classic here, and also their biggest hit both in the UK, where it got to number 7, and the USA where it made it to number 6. The Logical Song was also the winner of the 1979 Ivor Novello Award for best song musically and lyrically.
Sham 69 ~ a new performance, having abandoned the karate gear of last time for more normal attire ~ indeed the fashions at this time are beginning to take on an early 1980's look already. Singer Jimmy Pursey seeming to have some difficulty staying upright during this one.
Kandidate ~ sounding more like Lionel Ritchie than Lionel Ritchie himself did at the time!
Sister Sledge ~ a second showing of the video for this Chic produced disco hit, again like several on the show tonight, at its peak in the charts.
Art Garfunkel ~ holy bunnyrabbits, so what's the story here? We do get the Watership Down clip after all, but only about 10 seconds of it! Still, that's better than cutting it from the show completely I suppose. Does it mean the BBC don't have to pay full price for it? What would Bigwig say!
Wings ~ play us out this week with their appropriately entitled final top ten hit, which somewhat unusually was not included on their forthcoming album, Back to the Egg.
The next show, the 19th April, is a DLT hosted one so sadly will be skipped, so next week will be the 26th April hosted by David Jensen.
