You try your best to show me the 14th of March 1996 edition of Top of the Pops!
Banger
14-3-96: Presenters: MN8
(6) MARK MORRISON – Return Of The Mack
Getting tonight's show underway with his first of five top ten hits and this song will eventually get to number one.
(12) GABRIELLE – Give Me A Little More Time
A second studio performance and the song will peak at number 5.
(4) THE BEATLES – Real Love (video) (and charts)
A 'new' song from the number one album, Anthology 2, but it got no higher.
(9) TECHNOHEAD – I Wanna Be A Hippy
A third studio performance for a song that had already peaked at number 6.
(16) PETER ANDRE – Only One
Making his studio debut with his first of fifteen top 40 hits, but this one got no higher.
(2) ROBERT MILES – Children
A second studio performance but the track could get no higher.
(17) GARY NUMAN – Cars (Premier Mix)
In the studio tonight with his number one from 1979, but this remix got no higher.
(NEW) BIS – Kandy Pop
Will become their first of two top 40 hits when it peaks at number 25.
(1) TAKE THAT – How Deep Is Your Love
Second of three weeks at number one.
(TOTP2) ALTERED IMAGES – Happy Birthday (clip of TOTP 1-10-81) (and credits)
Number 2 in 1981.
I did like the bit when one of the MN8 presenters did a squeaky echo at the end of the BIS tune Kandy Pop, which reminded me of Lenny Henry in his prime doing his seagull impersonation.
ReplyDeleteGary Numan - great to see him back 17 years after the original of Cars, and bringing this out as a new premier mix. It was like he was hardly away between the two versions, and quite fittingly its chart position this week was at No.17.
Chart rundown - new entry at No.33 for Mark Knopfler in his first solo single since the end of Dire Straits in 1993 at their final single, but too low at No.33 to get onto the show. Also noticed that further down the chart a new entry at No.77 was Vangelis with Ask The Mountains. The oldies are still out there in 1996, and still trying!
TOTP2 16-3-1996
ReplyDeleteQuite a good TOTP2 this one. In the First Time section, the No.1 from April 1970 for the England World Cup Squad called Back Home must have been one of the first videos in colour, and I was surprised that this clip still survives, as I thought all the TOTP shows from 1970 were wiped, but clearly not, and there is no video in full on Utube or iTunes, so it seems only this TOTP clip exists for the video. Good Lord, I would have loved to see it in its entirety, so if anyone has access to it, please upload!
Also we get to see the Garbage video in full as one of Tomorrow's Hits, as when it charted the following week, TOTP had them in the studio, so no video shown.
Managed to catch these Friday evening but been a manic weekend so just a quick update from me.
ReplyDeleteReturn of the Mack hugely catchy, all over the radio, very 90s. What to say about Mr Morrison:
He was convicted of affray for his part in a brawl resulting in one fatality and sentenced to community service. Morrison later was incarcerated in Wormwood Scrubs for a year for paying a lookalike to perform his court-appointed community service instead, while Morrison himself went on tour. Lovely man.
Gabrielle superb as always.
Do like this Beatles tune and video. Vocal on this is Lennon I believe hence the archive sounding nature of the track. Good tune though.
Technohead can xxxx off, then on to the start of Mr Andre's career. I know he's a bit of a show off but he does it with a knowing wink and I've always quite liked him. Seems like a decent guy. Song is very average.
Post-Dunblane Robert Miles, where for some reason we can't mention the word "children" which seems absurd and overly cautious from 30 years on.
Agree with Dory that it was great to have Gary Numan back in the studio. Proper pop star!
Why bis got a break on TOTP I have no idea. School disco band and nothing more.
MN8 seemed to be having fun.