I'm your little glowing friend, I'm the 22nd of March 1990 edition of Top of the Pops!
Thunderbirds in their souls
22-3-90: Presenter: Gary Davies
(21) BIG FUN – Handful Of Promises
A bright start to the show but the song got no higher.
(3) ERASURE – Blue Savannah (video)
At its peak.
(28) ORBITAL – Chime
Making their studio debut with their first of fourteen top 40 hits and this one peaked at number 17.
(14) 49ers – Don’t You Love Me (video)
Went up two more places.
(34) QUEEN LATIFAH & DE LA SOUL – Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children (video)(Breakers)
Peaked at number 14.
(33) HEART – All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You (video)(Breakers)
Became their third and final top ten hit whent it peaked at number 8.
(36) JAM TRONIK – Another Day In Paradise (video)(Breakers)
Their only hit and it peaked at number 19.
(12) SNAP – The Power
Making their studio debut with the song that will be number one next week.
(7) DAVID A. STEWART feat. CANDY DULFER – Lily Was Here (video)
Went up one more place.
(17) THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – Birdhouse In Your Soul
America's biggest indie band were like a pair of string puppets on a sugar rush and this very catchy song became their only top ten hit when it peaked at number 6.
(1) BEATS INTERNATIONAL feat. LINDY LAYTON – Dub Be Good To Me (video)
Fourth and final week at number one.
(32) JIMMY SOMERVILLE – Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough) (video) (and credits)
Peaked at number 26.
29th of March is next.
Gazza is back to provide his customary safe pair of hands, with Big Fun yet again taking the opening slot on the show. They have broken out the pastel jackets this time, but it’s the normal energetic dance drill and ultra-formulaic SAW tune to go with it. Not exactly terrible, but not great either. Orbital make a rather inauspicious debut, clearly not knowing what to do with themselves and earning a ban from the show for their non-performance. I didn't think much of the record either, a forgettable plinky-plonky affair.
ReplyDeleteWe'll be seeing more of the breakers, so on to Snap and another performance where the female "singer" isn't the singer at all. Unlike Orbital, however, this turn feels quite slick and atmospheric, and I like the use of a politician's podium for the rap part. This is all about the hook in the chorus, of course, but it is a very good hook and you can see why they got to number 1. As Angelo notes, Birdhouse in Your Soul is incredibly catchy but, unlike Love Shack, manages to stay the right side of annoying. The duo do try a bit too hard in this performance to be quirky, but it's still a great song.
Ian Hislop to finish, ditching the disco covers to return for the first time in a long while to original material. This self-penned number was intended to promote AIDS awareness, and isn't a bad effort, though it's no Smalltown Boy. A check of Wikipedia reveals that ACT UP means AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power - I don't recall the slogan being used at the time.
Good detective work on that slogan, John!
DeleteThere's the beauty of Wikipedia - I thought it must be some kind of acronym, and you can look it up straight away!
DeleteThey Might Be Giants had flown in from America to be in the TOTP studio. it can't be too long before American groups stop flying in for the show, as the glut of American music making it to the British charts was quite evident by now, with the exceptions being The B52s and Heart (on The Breakers), but it was clearly on the decline by the turn of the decade.
DeleteI would rather have had The B52s flying in to perform in the TOTP studio this week. Wow what a thought, but too good to be true. I mean they never flew in for their previous hit Rock Lobster in 1979.
It was probably still around the time that a TOTP studio appearance was something you aspired to.
DeleteAs I've said before, big American stars appeared on TOTP right up until the end.
DeleteSorry I'm early! Not going out or on any pub PC calls this weekend, so I thought I'd get my tuppence in now.
ReplyDeleteIs it me, or did I see we recently acquired another new recruit on the forum, with the wonderful moniker of Frayed Bentos?
It’s Orbital’s mate, Mister Vodka and Orange, hosting the show and being way more truthful about the musical content than Mayo was last time out.
Big Fun with the same bloody dance routine again! At least they’re not dressed like zoo animals this time, but another shovel load of anonymous SAW here.
One of Erasure’s top tunes next, best listened to without watching that sodding blue hand everywhere.
Early mugshots: Brilliant work by Gaz to get in all the song title and artists for the number 34 slot. He does something similar later on in the ‘mugs’.
Gaz’s bar mates next, Quiet Brother and Off His Acid Head Will You Shut Up Brother, complete with their unknown mate Random Dancer in Puff Sleeve Jacket. This sounded like the backing to an early plug-in telly game like Pong. Naughty lads not playing along with the performance rules, and yet still more animated than Primal Scream or David Gedge. See you again in six years (roughly three BBC4 light years, then).
Depeche Mode’s epic gets half a video slot and we suffer the 49ers for a second week? Sacrilege.
I couldn’t hear Queen La-Feet-Ah, as Gaz called her first, anywhere in that slower paced De La Soul effort.
Heart with a fine piece of aluminium – light metal. The dark haired sister in the band’s obviously still conscious about her size.
Christ, an ambient cover of a Phil Collins wretch of a song? How ironic this slop got a re-run on Children In Need night.
Snap, with Crackle and Pop given their cards. President Turbo raps first then joins in the dancing. Last time I recall a lead vocalist joining in the routine in that fashion on the show was Archie Bell for “Soul City Walking”.
Wilby, thanks for the reasoning behind David A. Stewart’s given name, which makes sense, and I did know at the time Candy Dulfer was a seasoned and much sought after sax player, as you could hear.
Ah. Now this is more like it! Devo if they were poppy. Guitarist John is actually re-enacting the dance moves from They Might Be Giants’ video and probably trying too hard, but this is the best song ever about a lightbulb. Quirky, catchy, eccentric and, like the light from a bulb, brilliant.
Late mugshots: Why a new photo of Guru Josh, just as he’s starting to go down?
We finish with another pence-busting video for Jimmy’s latest high energy offering. Read my lips, 30 seconds was enough for me.
You did see the name of this newbie right Arthur. I used to be a lurker on Chris Retro's site, but never did get the chance to comment before he stopped doing it. I'm enjoying this blog a lot with it's wry observation, humour and often Encyclopaedic knowledge and I suspect I'll be spending more time here in the future :-)
DeleteI'll have one can of Fray (I mean Frayed) Bentos.
DeleteArthur, the Phil Collins cover by Jam Tronik at No.36 on the Breakers I thought was quite good, and better sounding than Collins' own original, and made better for the pretty lead singer on Jam Tronik, as we got a first glimpse on the top 40 rundown earlier in the show with the mug shots, and I thought oh hello, and then she was on The Breakers a few minutes later!
DeleteI did prefer Jam Tronik's version but still find the song's sentiment cloying, especially from a multi-millionaire.
Deletehi anonymous do you have these archive 1984 shows, 16/02 23/02 08/03 15/03 12/04 19/04 and 26/04 thanks for any
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Deletecheers as usual, do you also have 19/01 26/01 17/05 19/07 08/11 22/11 29/11 and 20/12, thanks
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Deletecheers for these, sorry for not responding with 84, blogger kept throwing up commenting error
DeleteBig Fun with "If We Could Only Sing" Part 3 (or is it Part 4?). This isn't that bad a song, or at least it catches you off guard with the chorus, but as usual their vocals are terrible, and they look like contestants on Going For Gold.
ReplyDeleteAh, we get the middle eight of Blue Savannah at last! Thankyou for that.
Loved Orbital, Middle of Nowhere is probably my favourite album of theirs, and in their nascent form they had hit the ground running with their knack for Kraftwerk-esque keyboard riffs that got in your brain married to dance beats. The performance really needs their headlights, though, they look really awkward.
More from the Breakers next Friday, but here's Snap who seemed like they'd be one hit wonders but actually hung around for a while. At the time I thought this would have been better without the vocal sample in the chorus, but now I see the whole package was most of the appeal. We'll hear more of this...
Candy and Dave with the theme from a film you'll never see, Wikipedia says it starred a politician's daughter in her only lead, and she got naked in it, presumably in a minor scandal. Or maybe not, if she was Dutch.
Another winner with They Might Be Giants, named after a strange Sherlock Holmes-alike detective movie without a solution from the 1970s, and their output has been just as offbeat ever since. Not one hit wonders, they also scored with the theme from sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. But this is infernally catchy, with weirdo lyrics that are hard to forget ("After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts!"). I never quite got into them, but always liked hearing what they would come up with next.
Beats Int's last week at the top, but not Norman's last week at the top, then Jimmy Somerville gets all right-on with us in a song that seems to echo Babs and Donna's Enough is Enough - stick with the cliches, guys! Not bad as protest songs go, dancier than Eve of Destruction, for instance, and the cause was noble.
I did find this Orbital debut to be quite strange, as they seemed to be two loners with no character, and I can imagine them spending their working day in a basement full of electronic sounds.
DeleteThe tall TOTP studio dancer thrown onto the stage with them looked quite strange too, and I was surprised that TOTP didn't give her another girl dancer for company as they usually do in twos, as she looked quite out of place on her own with the two Orbital musicians.
I've forgotten - was it mentioned in "The Story of 1990" that the lads named themselves Orbital after the M25?
DeleteI don't think it was, Arthur - they were named after the region most raves were staged, you would drive around the M25 until you found a field of people dancing and away you went.
DeleteI forgot to mention, Big Fun there about to release one of those albums whose name isn't a song title itself but a lyric from a song, in this case "A Pocketful Of Dreams" being a line from "A Handful Of Promises". If you loved this track (ahem), just wait for their next and final big hit which is a collaboration, and maybe not quite as potent as Queen Latifah and De La Soul. Big Fun's follow-up to that would be their last chart hit, peaking at 62. Still, at least they lasted longer than Colin and Brian... er, Yell!
ReplyDeleteNot that bloody awful "Friend" song with Sonia???
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DeleteAs they'd say on "Bullseye" ... in one!
DeleteAnyone see the music special of Pointless tonight? Some stars we've seen on TOTP already on it... Barbara Dickson, Cathy Dennis, Steve Hogarth of Marillion, and Heather Small who will be coming up soonish.
ReplyDeleteBut the Jackpot round was the year 1984, one category being artists who have had Top 5 hits in that year. I got two pointless answers, Nik Kershaw and Jim Diamond, but the winners got Eurythmics (nobody out of a 100 people have heard of them!) and their other music choice, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, only had three people out of a 100 who had heard of them! OK, I'm old, but come on.
In response, I couldn't name or pick out in an identity parade anyone in the current chart. It meant so much more to me back then.
DeleteYeah, but people of any age don't really follow the charts these days, they may take a passing interest in the Number 1 but the interest has fallen away considerably.
DeleteKylie made (small) headlines for having a No.1 album in 5 decades, a record-breaking feat, and Megan Thee Stallion troubled some with her No.1 hit peddling filth to pop kids, but that's about all you can hope for when suggestions on YouTube or Spotify motivate what is listened to overall, not the charts.
I watched it. Good to see 'H' on the show. Amazing that people out of the know still associate Fish with Marillion, but 'H' has been the singer since 1989 (we saw 'Hooks in you' recently and I hope we might get a clip of the excellent 'Easter' soon).
DeleteI picked out Howard Jones as a pointless answer btw.
Likewise, I haven't a scoobies about today's charts.
Big Fun - first full listen. It’s... Ok. As someone else mentioned, it is very reminiscent of something else, but can’t put my finger on it...
ReplyDeleteOrbital - dull ‘programmed in the bedroom’ effort, made even duller by a lack lustre performance...
49ers - didn’t really move me, bit repetitive...
Breakers
Queen Latifah - bog standard rap track, done better by de la soul
Heart - cracking track, great video, great punchline. hope we get to see more (ooer matron)
Jam Tronok - ah, a cover... rather drained the pathos from the original, especially with the ridiculous ‘oh yeah’...
Snap - funny how a few of these dance tracks have longevity - this is one of them, and of the best.
David a Stewart - still very listenable to. Is this from a film? - I am sure someone has mentioned this but can’t find it (amongst the pile of prog requests)
Suggestion - could there be a separate thread for all these requests?
They Might Be Giants - loved this one. Great tune/tunes, and animated performance.
Jimmy Somerville - and we finish with a bobby track which I hadn’t realised had such a serious subject...
Yes, Stewart and Dulfer's track was the title tune from a film of the same name, Lily Was Here. On the BBFC website it says the film never had a cinema release in the UK, but was out on VHS over a year after the record had been in the charts. Certificate 18! Other than that it's sunk without (much) trace.
DeleteI had a view of the Heart video in full, and it is one of the last of the great videos from what was left of the 80s decade that spilled over into the 90s, in that there is a storyline of a girl looking for a night of love with a stranger, so she finds one, picks him up in her car, drive off to a motel, gets pregnant from that evening, leaves a note for him not to look for her again, and then bumps into him with her baby and tells him she's in love with another man.
DeleteThanks for the info. As an aside I watched story of 1983 and laughed out loud at the exchange “under pressure - and that was your first number one” “I think you’ll find that was Bohemian Rhapsody”
Deletei remember thinking "the power" was just noise at the time. but compared with what was to come, i now regard it as almost tuneful!
DeleteRIP Des O'Connor. Big No1 in 1968 with the wonderful 'I Pretend', written by the same Reed/Mason team that gave us Englebert's 'The Last Waltz'. Married to Jodie Wilson, who appeared on the 'Matador' album which also featured Tom Jones with 'A Boy from Nowhere'. We saw that on these repeats fairly recently.
ReplyDeleteYes, RIP Des, a very nice man who I'll always picture rolling about on his chat show sofa with mirth. Dick a Dum Dum is a great tune with a stupid title.
DeleteIn fact, we saw Des recently with Roger Whitaker doing The Skye Boat Song, didn't we?
DeleteRIP Des O'Connor, A great all round entertainer.
DeleteI always remember when Des was on TOTP 27/11/1986 with Roger Whittaker (The Skye Boat Song).
Ah, yes, the occasion where Roger Whitaker had to be helped into the studio via wheelchair as he'd run over a foot with his lawnmower, hence his sitting down foir the song, and something went wrong with the sound or lighting so Des did an impromptu half-hour comedy gig while it was being fixed, which is why the audience were so kind to Des and Roger during the song!
DeleteWhat a nice chap Des seemed. Totally self effacing as often seen on morecambe and wise of course.
DeleteRip.
I think I was in my 30s before I worked out that Des O'Connor wasn't Tom O'Connors' son!
DeleteAt least their adopted daughter Sinead was still around in 1990.
Hi again Anonymous!
ReplyDeleteDo you have these TOTP episodes:
-30.05.91;
-13.06.91;
-27.06.91;
-25.07.91;
-21.11.91;
-23.01.92;
-19.03.92;
-09.04.92?
Cheers!
Ana
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DeleteMany thanks Anonymous for these 90s TOTP shows!!!!
anonymous do you happen to have these 1991 shows as well, 03/01 28/02 21/03 04/04 25/04 02/05 04/07 and 11/07 thanx a bunch if so
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Deletecheers, a few more archive 90s shows id like to request and thats me done for now, they are 04/01 28/06 09/08 30/08 and 18/10 from 1990, thanx very much for all these recent shows
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DeleteHi Anonymous! Massive Thank You for your links.
ReplyDeleteHave you got the following Archive Copies please:
16th July 1992
3rd September 1992
17th September 1992
25th April 1996
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DeleteIn the words of D:Ream - things can only get better after this start from Big Fun. Handful of Promises must surely be the worst 3 minute pop song SAW ever produced... name a worse one...I'll wait...
ReplyDeleteThankfully Erasure are up next, shame they are on tour but we get more of the BLUE video. Quality tune.
A decent dance tune up next from Orbital with a car crash of a TV performance. They should have put them in the middle of the studio at the end of the show to do the playout with everyone dancing around them, would have worked a treat.
More next from the 49ers. Can't complain as I liked this at the time.
Breakers:
De La Soul and Queen Latifah - Don't remember this one. Not as much fun as their previous singles. Pass
Heart. Like this great big soppy radio ballad.
Jam Tronik - preparing for much grief here but I LIKE this. There, I've said it out loud. Video filmed in your local Rumbelows.
SNAP! get the highest new entry and what a belting tune this is. Love the idea of Turbo B preaching from his lecturn. More miming controversy of course (as seen in the documentary) but at least they have the decency to hide the model at the back of the set.
Lovely Lily next followed by the chart rundown. E-Zee Posse obviously without a video.
Tune of the night next and what an awesomely fun song this is. An absolutely bonkers classic re-recorded for the studio. These were the special kids in high school weren't they.
Beats and Lindy make 4 well deserved weeks. There is a great re-working of this from Professor Green featuring Lily Allen doing the Lindy Layton bit. Very sexy video as well.
This Jimmy Sommerville tune I had totally forgotten. Was singing along by the end. Enjoyed it.
Gosh these shows are becoming hard work to watch, although one or two good moments on this.
ReplyDeleteBig Fun – Handful of Promises – Just nothing special.
Erasure – Blue Savannah – Great record that is well worth a second slot.
Orbital – Chime – FF
49ers – Don’t you love me – FF
Breakers – Two out of three were really good. No guesses as to the one that wasn’t!
Snap – The Power – I know this has been used in countless adverts and jingles etc. but I just don’t get it. Makes no impression on me whatsoever. Singalong? No way.
David A Stewart and Candy Dulfer – Lily was here – Great to hear this sultry instrumental again. Well deserves it’s inclusion on the ‘Now Forgotten 90s’ 5 CD set. Also on there are a three others from this current chart which really should remain forgotten – Lonnie Gordon, Inspiral Carpets and Candy Flip.
They might be Giants – Birdhouse in your soul – I recall being extremely irritated every time I heard this and had consigned it to the back of my memory where I wish it had remained locked away!
Beats International & Lindy Layton – Dub be good to me – Head and shoulders above the rest again. Fed up with seeing it cut short so watched it through on YT and had forgotten it features some brass near the end and finishes with “Jam hot”.
Jimmy Somerville – Read my lips – Feared the worst, but actually not a bad play out.
Snap denied Jive Bunny and The B52s a well deserved No.1 record, and will go down in history as another what if, so both of those bands will have felt they would have been No.1 if not for Snap. It even took the ITV Chart show by surprise, as they had Jive Bunny at No.1 after Beats International had their time on the top spot.
DeleteI mean you don't usually get a No.12 position going to No.1 the following week such as what panned out with Snap, but I personally would have preferred Jive Bunny or The B52s at No.1 first.
Hi Anonymous! Nice to see I'm not the only one at last after oldies! This week I'm after originals from 1978. They are 2/02, 23/02, 30/03, 20/04,16/11 and 25/12. Cheers!
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DeleteI'm with you Brie, I love the 70s episodes of TOTP more than any other decade.
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DeleteThanks, mate. Great stuff!
DeleteYes, you can't beat 'em , mate! The problem is I'm old enough to remember them all first time around!
ReplyDeleteI first remember from the summer of 1978 when the Grease songs arrived as my reason to watch the shows, as I was only 10, and would hardly have been interested earlier in the decade at that age, although I barely remember the Osmonds, Bay City Rollers, The Wombles from as early as 1974 for being on children shows which I was interested in.
DeleteTOTP was not on the radar until Grease in 1978, oh and also Father Abraham & The Smurfs being stuck at No.2 for six weeks during the Grease phenomenon at the time.
I remember 'Young Girl' by Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett being No1 (sigh!). A few week's later it was Des with 'I Pretend'... So 1968 was probably when I intermittently started watching the show.
DeleteMy first memory is of Noddy Holder and his mirrored top hat doing Coz I Luv you at Number One with Slade in late '71!
DeleteI was only just born at the time of Union Gap's No.1, and about 3 months old!
DeleteMassive Thank You Anonymous!
ReplyDeleteHave you got the following Archive Copies please:
8th August 1991
30th July 1992
19th November 1992
17th December 1992
10th August 1995
12th October 1995
2nd November 1995
11th April 1996
9th May 1996
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DeleteGlenn you are welcome to request some eps.
DeleteThanks Anon.Do you have originals of 10.09.70,13.10.77,22.04.76,01.01.76,08.01.76,29.04.76,13.12.79,06.09.79,06.12.79?
DeleteHere you go Glenn, think 10/9/70 is a wiped one?
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DeleteThank you.The 1970 show is on a TOTP site as existing.There are nice clear screen shots of it.Just i'd ask you about it.
DeleteThose episodes were fantastic. Thank You Anonymous!
ReplyDeleteHave you got the following Archive Copies please:
25th April 1991
9th May 1991
30th April 1992
7th May 1992
14th January 1993
4th February 1993
9th September 1993
29th February 1996
14th March 1996
21st March 1996
anonymous already posted 25th april 1991 show up above if that helps
DeleteThank You A S K for pointing out to me about the 25th april 1991, Many Thanks.
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DeleteIf you wait a year or so you will probably see them on bbc4. Assuming it goes on that long of course.
Deletecant ever be too sure, there was talk of it closing at the end of this year, dont know if thatll amount to anything though
DeleteBBC Four is not closing anytime soon & some of it's original programming is going to be repeated to a wider audience on BBC2. It was hinted at some time ago, but this link is well worth a read, with an extract here:
Delete"Under the BBC annual plan (2020/21) published this week, BBC Two will become the home of the BBC’s specialist programming with a renewed focus on science, history and the arts. “BBC Two will be enriched by taking the best of BBC Four’s originations, giving these programmes a bigger shop window,” says the plan. Crucially, the BBC insists that BBC Four is not closing or moving online only in the UK."
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/bbc-four-saved#:~:text=The%20BBC%20has%20headed%20off,%E2%80%9D%2C%20says%20a%20BBC%20spokesperson.
Longer term-who knows? But for now :-)
Maybe Top Of The Pops could go on BritBox, with every episode that was available on BBCFour and more!
DeleteIt's a great channel for nostalgia!
So, one of the luckiest ever number ones could be re-recorded, thanks to the Scottish national football squad mauling it after winning last week. "Yes Sir I Can Boogie" by Baccara made its first appearance on TOTP with the song a non-mover at the then lowest chart position possible of 50, and that week on the chart all ten singles above it were either new entries or climbers. I thought I remembered it being a non-mover and checked the original site we were tuned into at the time (called "Yes It's Number One") and found that the transmission of this song happened the week after the Jimmy Savile scandal broke and, in October 2012, someone anonymous commented "For the record I reckon this TOTP run is on borrowed time..."
ReplyDeleteAnonymous first of all mega thanks for all your recent uploads!
ReplyDeleteI have a question for you:
Do you remember an ITV music chart show, from the 80s (1987/1988) called "The Roxy", described as "The ITV Top of the Pops", with many great studio performances?
Do you have archive shows of "The Roxy"?
I know that this a TOTP blog, but I confess that I miss that show a lot...
I think that it also deserves to be rebroadcast, like TOTP...
Cheers!
There is a google drive with lots of episodes on
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From memory, Tyne Tees TV's Pre-"Tube" attempt to subterfuge TOTP (it was definitely ITV so I might be mixing it up with TTTV's "Razzmatazz"), it didn't last long, a year tops, and it received the odd shot across the bows without a programme mention during "The Pops".
DeleteMany thanks Anon SH for the Google drive link!
DeleteCheers,
Ana
Hi guys, Can we please slow the requests down as i'm struggling to keep up with endless lists each day. I Still have my own things to do as well. I do have The Roxy, but in my opinion it's not the place to be discussing it, hope you all understand.
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DeleteJust to say A Big Thank You Anonymous for your time and patience.
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DeleteI think people should only ask for TOTP shows up to where BBC4 has reached, i.e., March 1990, as I don't understand why people are asking for shows in 1991 to 1996 when BBC4 hasn't reached them yet.
I can understand how Anonymous is feeling, not seeing the light through the trees with all these requests, and it's a bit like a swamp full of quicksand at the moment for him/her.
apologies, was going to wait until next weeks post to request more either way but am sorry if i didnt help matters here either
DeleteI've been the main one asking for these shows on here for ages now but I kept my requests to one batch a week. Also I waited until the comments on the actual show that has been on have mostly been posted as its only fair to wait.
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ReplyDeleteIs this the first time on the blog an archive / completist request's been asked to be held back or delayed? :-D
Before you shoot me down in flames, I've never complained about the completists' requests, though I admit I prefer posts relating to the show we've just watched. To each their own.
In another hobby I collect programmes and badges from every football ground I've visited if they exist, so I also have the hunter-gatherer instinct in my own way!
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DeleteTop Of The Pops was my number one TV show for watching the latest chart sounds,Razzmatazz and The Roxy was OK as well as Cheggers Plays Pop. The TUBE had some great performances!
ReplyDeleteYes Sam, The Tube was a great show.
DeleteThere's a "The Tube" 2 DVD anthology with the best of series 1, featuring O.M.D., Imagination, Culture Club...
I wish they release more volumes...
Yes Ana, It's a shame they didn't release more of The Tube series on DVD.
DeleteThe Best Of Series 1 came out in 2006 from Network, who have released fantaic quality DVD's and Blu-ray's.
Many thanks Anonymous for all your fantastic links!!!
ReplyDeleteNowadays TV is not as good as 70's and 80's TV shows, so your uploads are like a breath of fresh air...
Cheers,
Ana
Hi Anonymous!
ReplyDeleteDo you have these two episodes in HD please, they've been on BBCFour in 2015.
9th October 1980
10th April 1980
Not in hd no sorry.
DeleteThank You Anonymous for replying so quick!
DeleteHi Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteJust wondering if you had 25/12/84 and 25/12/85?
Many thanks!
Actually do you have both 1984 Xmas editions?
DeleteThanks in advance!
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DeleteAbsolute legend!!! Thank you so much Anonymous ;) 👏👏
DeleteHi Anonymous,Do you have 2nd July 1992 please.
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DeleteAnonymous! Thank You.
DeleteAnonymous! I've noticed a link for Christmas editions of TOTP, Do you have 25/12/1982 please.
ReplyDeleteAnd 05/08/1982
These are the only two episodes I need.
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DeleteAnonymous! Thank You.
DeleteHi Anonymous! Thank you so much for the Xmas episodes - do you also have 25/12/86 and 25/12/89? - cheers!
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DeleteWow! Thank you so much! Amazing quality as usual. Cheers Anonymous ;)
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