When the sun doesn't shine and it's cloudy and grey remember it's the 20th of March 1998 edition of Top of the Pops!
The sound of the underground overground
20-3-98: Presenter: Jo Whiley
(2) SPICE GIRLS – Stop (via satellite)
At its peak.
(13) THE WOMBLES – Remember You’re A Womble
A number 3 hit from 1974 but this time around, promoting their greatest hits album, number 13 was its peak.
(17) JAMES – Destiny Calling
Here tonight but got no higher.
(10) ALEXIA – Uh La La La
Performing her only top ten hit and it got no higher.
(14) KYLIE MINOGUE – Breathe
In the studio but this one got no higher.
(20) BRYAN ADAMS – I’m Ready
Also in the studio and also got no higher.
(4) TEXAS – Insane
Here with the fifth and final single from their massive number one album, White on Blonde, and like the other four it was a top ten hit, but it rose no further.
(1) RUN D.M.C. versus JASON NEVINS – It’s Like That (video) (and credits)
First of six weeks at number one.
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Cheers Rob,
DeleteWas a 28/03/1998 edition broadcast?
Or was it a crufts/snooker/test card week?
Yes, 28/03/1998 is the last of the season.
DeleteThanks Rob!!!
DeleteThe Wombles - I don't remember them coming back in 1998, but this was brilliant. My earliest memories of them was in 1974 when I was 6, and they were a regular fixture on BBC1 children's programmes along with the test card every night when the TV channels closed down at midnight every day.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why the Wombles returned with the same song in 1998 apart from there fact that they were promoting their greatest hits album, and was it the same 1974 personnel in those outfits, but just 24 years older in 1998, and was there some sort of renaissance in The Wombles in the 90s generation?
Kylie Minogue - don't recall this one, but the video is very smooth.
Also noticed a new entry and peak position of No.18 for Iron Maiden with The Angel & The Gambler. By 1998, most song titles and storylines were of feelings and love, and not about people and places, but this type of song title was very common place in the 70s and 80s before the lack of imagination set in, and you had to have a song title about how you feel about yourself or someone else.
The Wombles were celebrating their 30th anniversary in 1998 so possibly that. There had also been a new animated series shown in 1997 and 98 on ITV which may have started a revival
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