Some people just think that I'm sitting on the 9th of October 1998 edition of Top of the Pops!
Brandy on the pops
9-10-98: Presenter: Kate Thornton
(8) ACE OF BASE – Cruel Summer
Getting the show underway with their fifth and final top ten hit but this Bananarama cover got no higher.
(NEW) BILLIE – Girlfriend (via satellite)
Will soon become her second of three number one hits.
(13) BRYAN ADAMS – On A Day Like Today
Here with the first single and title track from his number eleven album, but it got no higher.
(2) BRANDY feat. MASE – Top Of The World
In the studio with her second of five top ten hits but it could get no higher.
(12) 4 THE CAUSE – Stand By Me
Performing their only hit and this Ben E King cover was at its peak.
(10) UB40 – Come Back Darling
In the studio tonight with their seventeenth and final top ten hit, but it got no higher.
(1) B*WITCHED – Rollercoaster (and credits)
Second and final week at number one.
Two TOTP2 3rd and 10th of October
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Cheers Rob, Saturday night viewing sorted again
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DeleteThanks again Rob
DeleteHi Angelo, can you put up the November 1977 show, shown on the same night by BBC4, for comments on here, as there are some real belters on it.
ReplyDeleteAce of Base - not as good as the Bananarama original, but eleven years later in 2009, Rico Bernasconi vs Ace of Base produced a more disco dance floor version which ended up being better than the previous two versions by Bananarama in 1983, and Ace of Base in 1998, and complete with sexy video:
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4 The Cause - outrageously bold modern-day cover version of Ben E. King's original 1987 No.1 which itself was a re-release then.
UB40 - now regularly coming into the TOTP studio since 1997 to perform, after a 10-year gap since 1987 with Rat In Mi Kitchen, the group realised that chart success was becoming more dependent on TOTP performances than on video, as TOTP had reduced the number of videos on the show gradually through the 90s in favour of performers coming in to sing in the TOTP studio.
A couple of other new entries at peak positions further down the chart this week:
No.33 Gloria Estefan - Oye
Shortened song title from the original Oye Mi Canto that she released in 1989 which reached No.16 way back then, but not sure if this was the same song.
No.45 Roger Taylor - Pressure On
First solo single since 1994 for the Queen drummer, and not managing to break into the Top 40 on this occasion, as the solo singles were beginning to dry up at this stage.
10-11-77: Presenter: Noel Edmonds
ReplyDelete(30) THE JACKSONS – Goin’ Places (and charts)
(5) TOM ROBINSON BAND – 2-4-6-8 Motorway
(29) RUBY WINTERS – I Will (video)
(11) ROXY MUSIC – Virginia Plain (clip of TOTP 24-8-72)
(22) BONEY M – Belfast ®
(33) ELVIS COSTELLO – Watching The Detectives
(12) THE BEE GEES – How Deep Is Your Love (danced to by Legs & Co)
(39) KENNY EVERETT & MIKE VICKERS – Captain Kremmen (Retribution) (video)
(18) SANTANA – She’s Not There (video)
(26) TINA CHARLES – Love Bug – Sweets For My Sweet (Medley)
(21) DARTS – Daddy Cool/The Girl Can’t Help It
(1) ABBA – The Name Of The Game (video)
(3) ROD STEWART – You’re In My Heart (and credits)
Good show this one, albeit we keep getting Noel Edmonds shows aired, and no DLT ones which had some really good music on them.
DeleteBoney M - love this song, and couldn't help but notice that the lead vocals on this was was what normally was the side vocals singer, and not the usual lead, so was a little surprised to see her sing this one the first time a saw it several years later, as I had not got into pop music until 1978.
Kenny Everett - this 'video' seemed to be a send-up of The carpenters video of Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, with the common background of deep space. This was also before The Kenny Everett video show which began in 1978 to include a weekly Captain Kremen slot, so this 'video' on TOTP may have been the first time that TV viewers saw Captain Kremen before it came to be cartooned on the Kenny Everett Video Show on ITV a couple of months later for the first series.
Darts - love the men's blazers on this studio performance, and the lead girl's outfit too!
Any chance anybody can reupload the original edit of 7/8/98.
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