It's coming home, it's the 19th of June 1998 edition of Top of the Pops!
Three lads at the top
19-6-98: Presenter: Jayne Middlemiss
(3) FIVE – Got The Feeling
Getting the show underway but got no higher.
(22) PULP – A Little Soul
In the studio but got no higher.
(8) DES’REE – Life
Performing her first of two top ten hits, this one her biggest but it got no higher.
(20) SILVER SUN – Too Much, Too Little, Too Late
This 70's cover was their third of four top 40 hits but it got no higher.
(21) IAN BROWN – Can’t See Me
Here with the third and final single from his top 4 album, Unfinished Monkey Business, but it got no higher.
(5) DARIO G – Carnaval De Paris
In the studio with their second of three top ten hits and it was at its peak.
(2) FAT LES – Vindaloo
The whole gang is in the studio tonight with their first of two top ten hits, this one was the biggest but it could get no higher.
(1) BADDIEL, SKINNER & THE LIGHTNING SEEDS – Three Lions ’98 (and credits)
Here tonight with the first of three weeks at number one with this updated version of the football song.
Silver Sun - cover of the 1978 original by Jonny Mathis and Deniece Williams, albeit in a indie style for 1998. I would recommend a view of the original video, where although the couple are seemingly apart in different places while talking on the phone about their break-up, they are actually across the same room as a surprise to the viewer at the end:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8iYfbEIuH4&list=RDX8iYfbEIuH4&start_radio=1
Dario G - really liked this collection of unusual characters and surprise instruments, noting bagpipes, trumpets, banjo and clarinet, and which I though would be the highlight of the show until I saw the Fat Les performance, but at least it could be one for Strictly Come Dancing if it was around at the time.
Fat Les - wow, what a street and then studio party. Good Lord, how this did not get to No.1 I don't know, and it could have been a song that could easily be No.1 forever if that was possible. It took me back to the 1981-85 TOTP studio atmosphere with the party, balloons and happy feelings, and all that came with it, but this one was better than any of those 80's party songs with its sheer power of voice, and I don't think we will ever see anything like this.
If anyone saw the Jonny Mathis On The BBC tonight on BBC2, they showed this same duet with Deniece Williams from their 1978 TOTP studio performance on a Tony Blackburn presented TOTP.
DeleteMy favourite 1998 episode for a long time. Very football heavy - was it just me, or did fat les nick a little bit of carnival?
ReplyDeleteDon’t remember the pulp single - and I have the album! Pleasant, but not their best.
Surprised to see silver sun on - one of my favourite ‘unknown’ bands. Their weakest single.