Ooh baby, I feel like the 21st of August 1998 edition of Top of the Pops!
Hair & Co
21-8-98: Presenter: Jamie Theakston
(6) SIMPLY RED – The Air That I Breathe
Getting tonight's show underway with the third single from their number one album, Blue, but this Hollies cover got no higher.
(7) SWEETBOX – Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
With their only hit and it will go up two more places.
(4) CLEOPATRA – I Want You Back
Performing their third of four top ten hits but this Jackson 5 cover got no higher.
(3) SAVAGE GARDEN – To The Moon And Back
Here with their second of four top ten hits, this was their biggest and it was at its peak.
(28) BABYBIRD – If You’ll Be Mine
With their sixth of eight top 40 hits but it got no higher.
(5) SASH! feat. TINA COUSINS – Mysterious Times
Had already peaked at number 2.
(2) STARDUST – Music Sounds Better With You (montage of TOTP clips with dancer)
Their only top ten hit but it could get no higher.
(1) BOYZONE – No Matter What (and credits)
Second of three weeks at number one.
What, Sash again for a third time in the TOTP studio, and having gone down to No.5 this week? Good Lord, must be Tina Cousins with enduring appeal.
ReplyDeleteInteresting how the show put together their own clip for Stardust at No.2 with no video available and no artists to perform it. Great pic and blog title Angelo!
A couple of interesting new entries outside the Top 50 this week at peak position:
No.52 The Rolling Stones - Out Of Control
No.64 Black Lace - Agadoo
While The Rolling Stones was an every-decade group for new material since the 1960s, Black Lace was an early 80s group for party tunes, and Agadoo was originally in the charts in 1983 and appeared on TOTP that year.
Extraordinary that 'Music Sounds Better With You' had no video for it considering it was so obviously a potential huge hit. I thought the Totp effort was impressive. The background audiences were artfully put together. I recognised the blonde woman and the suited short haired man from a surviving tape of bits and pieces from the Christmas Day 1969 edition. Rehearsal clip I think.
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