Strange after all these years to find you there in the 4th of August 1994 edition of Top of the Pops!
Century Quo
4-8-94: Presenter: Mark Goodier
(10) MAXX – No More (I Can’t Stand It)
Getting tonight's show underway and the song went up two more places.
(31) LEVEL 42 – Love In A Peaceful World
Performing their 20th and final top 40 hit.
(33) CE CE PENISTON – Hit By Love (video) (and charts)
Got no higher.
(22) STATUS QUO – I Didn’t Mean It
Making a landmark 100th appearance on the show and the song went up one more place.
(35) ROZALLA – This Time I Found Love
In the studio and the song went up two more places.
(25) WHITESNAKE – Is This Love (video)
Had peaked at number 9 in 1987, this time it had to settle for number 25.
(9) P.J. & DUNCAN – Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble
A second studio performance but the song was now at its peak.
(18) YOUSSOU N’DOUR feat. NENEH CHERRY – 7 Seconds (video)
Very slowly climbing the charts and it will eventually peak at number 3.
(1) WET WET WET – Love Is All Around (and credits)
Back in the studio to celebrate their tenth week at number one.
10th of August is next.
Good Lord, a stagnant Top 4 this week with no movement, but a great opening to the show with Maxx as the highest new entry, and back with the pacman instrumentals. Must be a first for TOTP to have a boxing ring on stage, with the MC doing the singing, the promoter doing the rapping, with two boxers doing the boxing and two fit girlies in shorts giving us some eye candy.
ReplyDeleteNot sure why Whitesnake was back in the 1994 charts with their 1987 Top 10 hit and video. Anyone know who the girl in the sexy white dress in the video is, the one who gets to lie on the bed with the lead singer?
Is it not Tawny Kitaen, who went on to marry David Coverdale?
DeleteWhitesnake had their greatest hits album out at the time.
DeleteIs it quite unusual for the whole top 4 to be the same? No wonder they went into the lower reaches this episode.
ReplyDeleteFinally 7 Seconds makes it. What a great tune.
Everything else is alright but nothing special. Maxx remind me of watching the Radio 1 Roadshow that year, along with another act we get in the second ep...
ReplyDeleteNumber one spoiler alert straight away. Great. At least I know when to start that casserole.
A real lottery numbers chart show here. Was almost every act in the top 20 on holiday this week?
Minn first, with Pork Pie Hat Prat again (I’d certainly smash him round that ring), saved by a decent female singer. First TOTP boxing ring staging since Pan’s People pranced to “Love Hit Me” by Maxine Nightingale?
Level 42, more like Level 21 with a souffle-like midtempo ballad during which Mark King plays chords on his bass as a laugh. Ha. Ha.
Finally (see what I did there?) CeCe’s back, at least in video form. Shame the song’s an average RnB rave mash-up.
Non-mugshots: The sole top 40 week for both anchor act Mr. V and slightly higher up Kerbdog, Lucas unlids his first of two weeks in the listings, and the first of three weeks including a re-issue for Hed Boys, not to be confused with Scottish act Headboys who got a studio slot in 1979 for ‘should’ve done better’ top 45 hit “The Shape Of Things To Come” re-run circa 2012. Yes, I remember seeing it. Been here that long.
Quo, same old green guitar, same energy, but an unremarkable song to get the pavilion clapping the century.
Yes. Mark, that’s the third f#cking time tonight you’ve told us they’ve been on the show 100 times. Get over it. Are you suffering from memory loss?
Like CeCe, Rozalla gets the nod for some 30-ish chart placing stuff nowhere near her best. Still, nice to see them, to see them nice.
Mark’s on a roll of the worst kind, reminding us what’s number one (give up, lad) before some proper HM ballad classic stuff from Whitesnake which I’ll download tonight and should have done years ago. Oo, a doubleneck!
Dec and Ant again. Not Ant and Dec in later years, as they stand on stage. Effort 10/10, embarrassment 10/10. Prefer (apple) crumble, no ‘h’, myself.
YOUSS N’Dour, Mark? On social terms with the lad? Reminds me of the old “Minder” style joke… what do you call Youssou’s wife? ‘Er N’Dours. Boom boom tish!
Bang goes my chart stat for the week as the Letraset tells us part of (actually, the first verse of) “7 Seconds” is in the Senegalese language of Wolof. Youssou didn’t sing the chorus, by the way. The song was recorded in stages and he was ill when it came round to recording the chorus so a soundalike stepped in. Great track whatever.
FF Smuggie and Ank Ank Ank. Add the W’s yourself. I don’t want to get banned.
Seal peaked at No. 20 this week with "Kiss From a Rose". It took getting featured in Batman Forever in 1995 for it to become a bigger hit getting to No. 4 in the UK & No. 1 in the US
ReplyDeleteNo More (I Can’t Stand It), but enough of The Wets it's MAXX opening the show. 2 unlimited without the talent or the tunes.
ReplyDeleteSo long then LEVEL 42. I have actually liked every single one of their performances on the show. Love In A Peaceful World is a bit slow and preachy but unoffensive.
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I'd forgotten this CE CE PENISTON number but I rather like it.
It's the big 100 for STATUS QUO. It's such a shame with all those wiped TOTP Shows that unfortunately most of the Quo's survived. I jest - I Didn’t Mean It. I love every one of the song. ;-)
ROZALLA still plugging away.– This Time I Found Love is decent enough I suppose.
I mean I like this WHITESNAKE tune but why is it back? Couldn't they knock up a new tune for their LP?
I was rather hoping Ant and Dec would perform this at the start of the Coronation yesterday but I will have to do with this instead. Future Number One of course.
Taking a lot longer than 7 seconds to reach it's peak (although not as long as Celine is about to). it's YOUSSOU N’DOUR and NENEH CHERRY. Without doubt "7 Seconds" is my tune of 1994. Absolutely stunning record and one of my all time favourites. Amazing.
That's the performance The Wets needed of that song to really land it. Think that may shift a few more copies!
I'm six months behind - is it just me or is the Quo song a complete rip of 'You Never Can Tell'?
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