Happiness is the 5th of December 1997 edition of Top of the Pops!
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5-12-97: Presenter: Jayne Middlemiss
(33) M-PEOPLE – Fantasy Island
Getting the show underway but this one got no higher.
(14) KYLIE MINOGUE – Did It Again
In the studio but this britpoppy song got no higher.
(7) THE VERVE – Lucky Man (from Later With Jools Holland)
Their third and final top ten hit was at its peak.
(16) TODD TERRY – It’s Over Love
With his fourth of five top 40 hits but it got no higher.
(30) PAUL WELLER – Mermaids
Here tonight but this fourth single from his number 2 album, Heavy Soul, got no higher.
(11) GALA – Let A Boy Cry
Performing her second of three top 40 hits but it got no higher.
(2) BOYZONE – Baby Can I Hold You
With their third of three consecutive number 2s this year.
(1) VARIOUS ARTISTS – Perfect Day (video) (and credits)
Second and final week at number one.
I actually liked the Kylie Minogue track "Did It Again" very different to her pop style. Does anyone have TOTP2 9th Nov 1996, please.
ReplyDeleteYep, just seen the video for Did It Again, as I didn't know this song. Check out the light purple two-piece outfit in the video which is more watchable than the TOTP studio performance:
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The Prodigy still on the top 20 chart this week were fast running out of singles, as this was their first single in a year since Breath was at No.1 in late 1996, and there would not be new single for a further five years till 2002 when Baby's Got A Temper made it to No.5, so we will not be seeing them on the chart for quite a while.
ReplyDeleteA new entry No.21 this week and at peak position just outside the TOTP Top 20 rundown was Usura with Open Your Mind '97. I thought the original in 1993 which made it to No.7 could not be more advanced, but this new re-mix for 1997 was just as good, and was also worthy of a Top 10 placing.
Sarah Brightman was still releasing more new singles in 1997 following her No.2 single earlier in the year, and this time in December 1997 with the London Symphony Orchestra featuring Cura, with a new entry this week at No.54 and at peak position with a single called Just Show Me How To Love you.
TOTP2 6.12.97
ReplyDeleteThank for the upload Anonymous on the last show's thread.
This was one the best TOTP2 shows so far since Steve Wright took over as presenter, and opening with a rare Bob Marley appearance in the TOTP studio from 1977 doing Exodus. As I only got into pop music as a 10-year old in 1978, I only remember Marley on the show with videos, and never in the TOTP studio, so that 1977 appearance must have been his only or his last studio performance.
The One Hit Wonder this week was Driver 67 with Car 67 from early 1979 which was a funny story about a cab driver being given a pickup address by his cab office which was his ex-girlfriend's new address, having left their lovenest at his home only day earlier. Love it!
Then we saw a 20-year-old Jonathan King's debut single in the TOTP studio in 1965 with Everyone's Gone To The Moon. King is now 80 and cancelled when it comes to repeats on the BBC, so this TOTP2 edition in 1997 was around four years before he was convicted of various offences.
Billy Paul, like Bob Marley, I also didn't know appeared in the TOTP studio, but this 1977 studio performance was a cover of Wings's Let 'Em In which was quite surprising. I always only associated Billy Paul chartwise for his song Me & Mrs Jones from 1973.
Finally, closing the show was Roy Orbison with his song Cryin' from a TV studio performance in 1961, and pre-TOTP days, but very captivating and engaging, so it was no wonder that Jeff Lynne in a Travelling Wilburys interview without Orbison there, said that Orbison was the greatest singer he ever met with the greatest voice, and was the one that invited Orbison to join The Travelling Wilburys in 1988. I always thought that the song Cryin' was Don McLean's song as he got to no.1 with it in 1980, but it was actually a cover of Orbison's 1961 original
It was a good one from Kylie. Still releasing great material these days.
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Thanks Rob!!!
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