I think you oghta watch the 26th of September 1997 edition of Top of the Pops!
Saucy samba
26-9-97: Presenter: Jo Whiley
(3) CHUMBAWAMBA – Tubthumping
Still high in the top ten after already peaking at number 2.
(2) DARIO G – Sunchyme
Making their studio debut with the first of three top ten hits, this was the biggest but it could get no higher.
(14) ROBBIE WILLIAMS – South Of The Border
Performing the third single from his number one album, Life Thru A Lens, but this britpoppy tune got no higher.
(9) TINA MOORE – Never Gonna Let You Go
Her only top ten hit and it peaked at number 7.
(8) BELLINI – Samba De Janeiro
Here with their only hit and it got no higher.
(13) SLY & ROBBIE feat. SIMPLY RED – Night Nurse
A second showing and the song was now at its peak.
Performing the fourth and final single from their number one album, Blur, but it got no higher.
(NEW) JANET JACKSON feat. Q-TIP – Got ‘Til It’s Gone (video)
Will peak at number 6.
(NEW) OASIS – Stand By Me (video)
Will peak at number 2.
(1) ELTON JOHN – Candle In The Wind (video) (and credits)
Second of five weeks at number one.
Dario G - sampling dream Academy's Life In A Northern Town which reached No.15 in 1985. Take your pick, but I preferred the original.
ReplyDeleteBellini - oh yes, named after the cocktail containing prosecco and peach nectar, this turned out to be a dance floor favourite for at least another two decades after 1997 if not more. The lead singer reminded me of the lead singer on Black Box for Ride On Time which got to no.1 in 1989. Love the two sexy dancers behind her in the red hotpants. Between the three of them it was definitely prosecco and peach!
First single for four years since 1993, and a new entry at No.29 this week for Genesis with Congo was the only other highlight of this week's chart. Genesis still going in 1997, this was to be their first of three singles in 1997-1998 before calling it a day, after around 20 years on and off in the singles chart, between Phil Collins breaks for solo success.
TOTP2 for 27-9-97 please Rob
ReplyDeleteTOTP2 27-9-1997 https://we.tl/t-ySRFwgmRbR
ReplyDeleteThanks Rob!!!
DeleteCheers!
DeleteTop man
Delete1-4-76: Presenter: Tony Blackburn
ReplyDelete(21) SAILOR – Girls Girls Girls
(25) DIANA ROSS – Theme From ‘Mahogany’ (Do You Know Where You’re Going To) (video)
(NEW) TARNEY & SPENCER – I’m Your Man Rock ‘N’ Roll
(14) ABBA – Fernando (video)
(NEW) LAURIE ANDREW – I’ll Never Love Anyone Anymore
(18) HANK MIZELL – Jungle Rock (danced to by Pan’s People)
(4) JOHN MILES – Music ®
(NEW) FOX – S-S-S-Single Bed
(22) THE BEATLES – Hey Jude (video)
(1) BROTHERHOOD OF MAN – Save Your Kisses For Me ®
(12) THE DRIFTERS – Hello Happiness (and credits)
The first edition shown of the repeats all the way back in 2011 I think! But they do still have some earlier 1976 editions they could repeat but never have.
DeleteReckon they might appear next year for 50th anniversary
DeleteThe John Miles classic at No.4 was just pure pop heaven. Pity there was no video made for it, as the only footage of the time is TOTP and Top Pop, the Dutch equivalent to TOTP during the 70s.
DeleteI think 8th Jan '76 is the only one in the BBC archives between Jan and April of that year that could get a showing being complete and presented by Noel Edmonds. That would be a treat to see featuring among other things Barbara Dickson and Osibisa.
DeleteHi all, I hope everyone's enjoying the fantastic weather at the moment. Right back to the start then. I recall seeing this on a big screen at work which was either silent or very low volume and was a very bemusing watch. Good to see on BBC4 again and to be reminded of how much like Crackerjack it seemed then. Tony Blackburn in an old woman's jacket that he chose to keep on opens proceedings oddly low in the frame. Big lights and big grins. Oh I remember this theme....
DeleteSailor; Not Glass of Champagne which is a classic and to me has hardly dated at all, this song definitely has. Very chintzy and cheesy (or fishy) though the tune is hard to dislike. The set very blue (sea?) and the lead singer dressed appropriately. Formerly with folk rockers Eclection, quite the change of direction.
Diana Ross; Lovely, forlorn melody and lyrics which was used for an advert back in the '80s but I've long forgotten what it was. A fittingly elegant, rather austere travelogue style film to accompany this.
Tarney and Spencer; A very rudimentary Bo Diddley chunkaround for a guy who certainly did better things near the end of the decade. I can't see the name Alan Tarney without hearing a Reed like synthesiser attached to it so it's strange to see him as a good ole rocker. He also looks like a test cricketer. Spencer didn't seem to have showed up until well into the song when he may as well have been in Elstree. Mid '70s White Stripes?
Abba; Tony said that Abba have had continual success since 'Waterloo'. Not quite. Between 'Waterloo' and 'SOS' they couldn't get anywhere near the high end of the charts. Anyway the video that's still charming but I wasn't bothered about seeing it yet again.
Laurie Andrew; Enjoyed that. Nice chorus. Is that too early to be classed as Yacht Rock?
Hank Mizell; ".. we can't find him". Is that a joke on him being lost in a jungle or that 'Jungle Rock' was an obscurity from the late '50s. It's a rock'n' roll cash in from '58 so it's the same concept as 'Jingle Bell Rock' though the vocal sounds odd for its time. Very silly dance routine and in silence on a screen at work would've doubtless elicited a collective 'hmmm' among non pop fanatic employees. Ruth looked very attractively into it, in the khaki wear parading the bazooka it had to be said.
John Miles; I've always found 'Music' a bit of a chore to get through. Too many individual 'moments ' pasted together to make something that to me doesn't really go anywhere special . Or maybe it's that the string bit soundtracked too many humourless TV things when I was a child. Funny how from this period, the person who performs the thing that's the most of its time, is styled the most ahead of their time (see Peter Shelley).
Fox; Highlight of he show for me. Noosha as is often mentioned, ran a cafe in the centre of Oxford for some time and this is a saucy thing with some very witty lyrics that seemed lost on the audience but they shuffled along happily enough to it. Lots of raised eyebrow delivery fron the band.
The Beatles; This was curious. Clearly the video clip of 'Hey Jude' but in black and white and not in colour. I've only ever seen it colour before. Was that sourced direct from the 'Frost On Sunday' broadcast. And no Tony it wasn't a clip from 1966. And no Tony it wasn't a clip from 1966.
Brotherhood Of Man; The politest link possibly in all the repeats so far and it's denim flare dullness but for the fact that I always love watching Sandra Stevens and it does bring back some very early Radio 2 memories.
The Drifters; 'Hello Happiness' and hello is just about all we got.
Hi Angelo, BBC4 also showed a TOTP edition from October 1973 with Kenny Everett as host, and on the same night as the April 1976 repeat, so can you put up this one as well for comments?
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Delete(8) DAVID CASSIDY – The Puppy Song (and charts)
(29) ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA – Showdown
(12) ELTON JOHN – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (video)
(24) MICHAEL WARD – Let There Be Peace On Earth (Let It Begin With Me)
(9) STATUS QUO – Caroline ®
(20) THE DETROIT SPINNERS – Ghetto Child (danced to by Pan’s People)
(NEW) ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK – Love Is All
(2) SLADE – My Friend Stan ®
(NEW) LIMMIE & THE FAMILY COOKIN’ – Dreamboat
(1) SIMON PARK ORCHESTRA – Eye Level (Theme From The T.V. Series ‘Van Der Valk’)
(4) IKE & TINA TURNER – Nutbush City Limits (crowd dancing) (and credits)
Love the intro of this show.
DeleteELO - same people on the cellos as were on the video of their debut hit 10538 Overture a year earlier in 1972.
Elton John - didn't know this video existed for Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, but liked it.
Status Quo - Caroline - this could quite easily have combined with ELO for Roll Over Beethoven released in the same year, with a similar sound between the two songs.
Englebert Humperdinck - Good Lord, to thing he was already 37 on this 1973 TOTP show, Dinck will be turning 89 next month!
It was a pity that BBC4 cut Michael Ward again. I was hoping to see the full show (not as broadcast of course) as I had seen his name listed but sadly not. It was a shame that they didn't take the opportunity to show 22nd June 1973 with Ken, discovered some time ago and black and white but as broadcast and only missing the first 30 or so seconds of the title sequence. Good to see any pre '76 though and it was him on comic full throttle. "The 2nd in their long run of 2 hits".
DeleteDid anyone see the 'Original songs at the BBC' last week? One rare Totp clip: Shocking Blue 'Venus', 29/01/70.