I'd do anything for you because you're the 11th of October 1996 edition of Top of the Pops!
Hello, Gorgeous
11-10-96: Presenter: Bear Van Beers
(9) MANIC STREET PREACHERS – Kevin Carter
Getting tonight's show underway but the song got no higher.
(11) HEALY & AMOS – Stamp!
Their first of two top 40 hits, this one was the biggest but it go no higher.
(6) THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH – Rotterdam
Performing the first single from their number one album, Blue is the Colour, and it went up one more place.
(12) DAMAGE – Love II Love (video) (and charts)
At its peak.
(NEW) CAST – Flying
Here with what will become their biggest hit when it peaks at number 4.
(FLASHBACK) MADONNA – True Blue (video)
Number one in 1986.
(3) BABYBIRD – You’re Gorgeous
Making his studio debut with his only top ten hit, and it got no higher.
(5) DONNA LEWIS – I Love You Always Forever
Back in the studio again but the song had now reached its peak.
(NEW) SPICE GIRLS – Say You’ll Be There
Performing what will become their second of nine number one hits.
(1) THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS – Setting Sun (video)
Featuring vocals by Noel Gallagher, this was the first of two number ones for the band.
(TOTP2) T-REX – 20th Century Boy (video) (and credits)
Number 3 in 1973.
So good to have presenter beertje van beers back, which makes watching the show a whole lot more interesting.
ReplyDeleteJeremy Healy & Amos - really like the rhythm on this one, and yeah I remember Jeremy as one of the pair on Haysi Fantayzee with Kate Garner back in 1982 with John Wayne is Big Leggy, and this solo effort in 1996 was a long time in the making, so welcome back!
The Beautiful South - same male line up since 1989, but having changed female lead already around three times by now in 1996, the fortunes of the band were firmly on the choice of female lead, as without them in an all-male lineup on occasions, they hardly troubled the Top 30 except for their 1989 debut single Song For Whoever which got to No.2. See the difference now in 1996 with a new female co-lead - they have a new entry at No.6. Good Lord!
The Chemical Brothers - not your usual type of single at No.1, and more like what you would get as a chart rundown video if the group were lucky enough to get that, but a no.1 and video with no chart rundown running through it, this was a bit hard to watch.
TOTP2 - 12-10-1996 https://we.tl/t-AwPAQdoOkW
ReplyDeleteThanks Rob!!!
DeleteAny chance of a reupload Rob as i missed this one and the next one
DeleteA few interesting new entries this week from pop legends, peaking outside the Top 40:
ReplyDeleteNo.53 Joe Cocker - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
I imagine this is a cover of The Animals original No.3 single from 1965, which also turned out to be Cocker's last ever single, as the curtain comes down an a career going back to 1968 when it all started for him with his most famous single.
No.63 Power Station - She Can Rock It
We saw this recently on a TOTP show as a new release, when Robert palmer was back in the TOTP studio with this group that last appeared in 1985, but this got no higher than No.63 for all his efforts.
No.79 Kim Wilde - Shame
Her last Top 75 single came a few months earlier with This I Swear getting only to No.46, so it seems she was still trying by October, but going south in direction, with the last two song titles resembling something out of Eastenders.