Friday, 6 December 2024

I'd Like to Teach Top of the Pops

 This edition of  Top of the Pops from 20th of December 1996 will not be shown on BBC4 because the presenter impersonates Jimmy Savile during the show. So thank you once again to Anonymous for making it available here at WeTransfer.


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20-12-96:   Presenter:  Shaun Ryder

(27) NO WAY SIS – I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing
Getting the final regular show of 1996 underway but it got no higher.

(9) FAITHLESS – Salva Mea
At its peak.

(8) THE SMURFS – Your Christmas Wish  (video)  (and charts)
At its peak.

(5) MARK MORRISON – Horny
Got no higher.

(6) CELINE DION – All By Myself  (video)
At its peak.

(3) ROBERT MILES feat. MARIA NAYLER – One And One  
Also at its peak.

(2) TONI BRAXTON – Un-Break My Heart  (via satellite)
Had already peaked at number 2, and was now back up to number 2 again.

(20) LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY – Loving Every Minute
Got no higher.

(1) DUNBLANE – Knocking On Heaven’s Door
First and only week at number one.

(TOTP2) THE LA’S – There She Goes  (clip of TOTP 8-11-90)  (and credits)
Number 13 in 1990.


25th of December is next.

6 comments:

  1. TOTP2 21-12-1996 https://we.tl/t-C6dQDl6hS5

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    1. Not sure why Jimmy Durante was in the Video Stir section with his black & white 'video' compilation, as he was in the same generation as Laurel & Hardy, and the only film I watched with Durante in it was the Laurel & Hardy 1934 film called Hollywood Party, in which Durante played himself and the character Schnarzan as a parody of Tarzan.

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    2. Any chance you can upload the 1994 Christmas edition of totp2 please on here?

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    3. Can somebody repost this please, does not seem to have been available for 3 days! Thanks so much

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  2. Chart rundown - Salt 'n' Pepa missed out on a showing this week on TOTP with a new entry and peak position at No. 23 with Champagne. They can consider themselves unlucky not to get shown, especially as this was their first single in two years since November 1994, so hardly a welcome back.

    Also on the chart rundown with peak positions this week were The Shamen at No.35 with Move Any Mountain '96, and outside the Top 40 at peak was Roy Chubby Brown at No.51 with his Christmas single called Rockin' Good Christmas.

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