Don't you want days like the 14th of June 1996 edition of Top of the Pops!
Jamming
14-6-96: Presenter: Mark Owen
(3) PETER ANDRE feat. BUBBLER RANX – Mysterious Girl
Getting the first Friday show underway and the song went up one more place.
(5) LIVIN’ JOY – Don’t Stop Movin’
Here tonight with their second of three top ten hits, but it got no higher.
(7) ADAM CLAYTON & LARRY MULLEN – Mission: Impossible (video) (and charts)
Got no higher.
(4) OCEAN COLOUR SCENE – The Day We Caught The Train
With their second of six top ten hits but it got no higher.
(8) CELINE DION – Because You Loved Me (via satellite)
Went up three more places.
(6) PIANOMAN – Blurred
His only top 40 hit and it got no higher.
(1) FUGEES – Killing Me Softly (and credits)
Second of five weeks at number one.
(ALBUM TRACK) PAUL WELLER – The Changingman
In the studio tonight to perform two tracks from his number one album, Stanley Road. This first song had peaked at number 7 the previous year.
(ALBUM TRACK) PAUL WELLER – Peacock Suit
Will be his next single and will peak at number 5.
21st of June is next.
Peter Andre - I must admit I was focusing more on the three bikini girls on the stage rather than Andre, as each had a different colour bikini, and one for each hot day of the week, as I like all of them!
ReplyDeleteChart rundown - I couldn't help but focus on the chart rundown during the Mission Impossible video, and seeing Rod Stewart as a new entry at No.16 with the Scot Euro Squad with a song called Purple Heather. Good Lord, another football song, as if this June chart was not already loaded with them!
Also new entries this week for Squeeze at No.27 with Heaven Knows, and welcome back to Culture Beat at No.29 with Crying In The Rain, and none of these new entries managed to get an invite onto the show.
Paul Weller - this first of the two playout singles called Changing Man had a background riff eerily similar to ELO's 10538 Overture which charted in 1972 as ELO's first single.
1-9-77: Presenter: Tony Blackburn
ReplyDelete(26) MERI WILSON – Telephone Man (and charts)
(NEW) HUDSON-FORD – Are You Dancing?
(29) YVONNE ELLIMAN – I Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind (video)
(NEW) ELVIS COSTELLO – Red Shoes
(10) DAVID SOUL – Silver Lady (danced to by Legs & Co)
(13) STEVE GIBBONS BAND – Tulane ®
(30) THE JACKSONS – Dreamer (video)
(25) ELKIE BROOKS – Sunshine After The Rain ®
(NEW) JOE DOLAN – I Need You
(23) THE DOOLEYS – Think I’m Gonna Fall In Love With You ®
(NEW) NAZARETH – Love Hurts
(6) CANDI STATON – Nights On Broadway (video)
(21) MINK DE VILLE – Spanish Stroll (video)
(NEW) DAVID ESSEX – Cool Out Tonight
(9) CARLY SIMON – Nobody Does It Better (danced to by Legs & Co) ®
(1) ELVIS PRESLEY – Way Down (danced to by Legs & Co)
(5) SPACE – Magic Fly (and credits)
Good Lord, this show was all about Legs & Co. I mean the outfits on them in the first of three appearances on the same show was just amazing on the single by David Soul.
DeleteSilver Lady calls for silver outfits on the girls, but this was just a league above any of their other outfits over the 5 years of the Legs on TOTP. If ever there was a cut-out-and-keep possible from the TV screen, this would be it.
The second routine for Legs on the show which was Carly Simon's Nobody Does It Better was also a near perfect performance, and the outfits in their own way just as nice. Not sure why we only got a side view of the girls on the Elvis No.1, and even then only two of the girls, so where were the others?
Best Song:
ReplyDeleteOcean Colour Scene.
Worst Songs:
Still the Fugees (two times)
Paul Weller. Overrated Big Head and just gets on my nerves
Hello Fridays (and the sad slow death spiral of the show, though a certain girl group are coming to give it a bit more oomph very soon)
ReplyDeleteThis was actually a decent episode. Not many new things, which is a shame, but most of these songs are solid 'Best of 96' compilation fodder and still get played today. If last week's dirgefest had been the first Friday episode it would have been terrible.
Two very strong openers. I don't like Andre and hated this so much then but clearly it's a great summer bop and 96 me was an indie snob. OCS are one of the most classic mid-late 90s groups there are, especially as they're about to become TFI-ed (if that hasn't already started?).
Had Tom Cruise been doing Mission Impossible films for nearly 39 years now?! For some reason I thought it was an early 00s thing. Time is an illusion.
I love that we got to see a bit of Celine Dion's personality tonight, I love her kooky energy, I just don't always love her music. This one is probably my favourite of her ballads though.
Pianoman reminding us that if it was a song i. the 90s it was getting a dance remix or cover and there was nothing you could do about it
I always preferred Ready or Not of the Fugees big songs but this cover has grown on me over the years and I enjoy it now.
Stanley Road was a decent enough album that got its timing bang on with Britpop and its 60s/70s revivalist elements. Doesn't mean we need two songs from it though.
30 not 39!!!
DeletePeacock Suit wasn’t from Stanley Road. It featured on the following year’s Heavy Soul.
DeleteSorry, the anonymous is me! New phone, forgot to sign in. Very annoyed we got a random week of 96 in between weeks of not getting it. The inconsistency and erratic scheduling is about on brand for late era Pops though I guess
ReplyDeleteAccording to the TOTP96 thread on Digital Spy, both the July 5 and 12 episodes are due to be skipped by the BBC, with a problem with strobing being one of the reasons.
ReplyDeleteCould you elaborate? Do you mean there is too much strobing in the final version of the show?
DeleteToo much strobing in one of the acts but the BBC is giving much information so it looks like those episodes will be downloads
ReplyDeleteBest bit - the Mod Father
ReplyDeleteWorst bit - probably the Fugees
And was the live link up with Celine in Quebec really live? If so, she was doing an afternoon gig, given the time difference between London and Quebec
ChrisB