That clue was a bit of a giveaway :lol: The first version was by The Mindbenders and the later version was by Phil Collins and featured on the soundtrack of Buster.

Correct, suedehead, Wayne Fontana And The Mindbenders had the first hit, Phil Collins had the big number one with it.

 

Not sure if Les Gray's version was a hit.

 

 

If memory serves me correctly, the mindbenders later evolved into 10 c.c. Don't quote me on that though, I might be wrong!!

Correct, suedehead, Wayne Fontana And The Mindbenders had the first hit, Phil Collins had the big number one with it.

 

Not sure if Les Gray's version was a hit.

If memory serves me correctly, the mindbenders later evolved into 10 c.c. Don't quote me on that though, I might be wrong!!

Yes, Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman (half of 10CC or 5CC) were Mindbenders.

 

Just checked and the Les Gray version got to number 32.

Thanks for your last entry, suedehead, and fo the chart info. on Les Gray.

 

I rarely ever look at wikipaedia myself when setting these trivia questions, by the way, most I make up from my own knowledge of pop music, limited as it is!

 

I have just seen this week's edition on the iplayer, the best record is the one they played out with, in my view, David Bowie's Sound And Vision, although they did not exactly play a lot of it! Other highlights included Boogie Nights by Heatwave, Earth Wind And Fire - with a particularly hormone stimulating sequence from Legs & Co, I thought! - and another Evita track from Barbara Dickson. Messrs Rice and Webber certainly looked young in those days!

 

You don't often hear that ELO Rockario song these days either. All in all, not a bad edition.

 

Trivia question for this week, then. Boogie Nights by Heatwave was written by a particular member of the band, and that same heatwave member later wrote songs for a huge 1980's megastar. Can you name that member, and can you also name the megastar who later had hits with some of that Heatwave members compositions?

 

All the best until next week, then. B-)

 

 

I think I'm going to have to let someone else answer this week's questions :P

I'm guessing it was the keyboardist?

It was Heatwave's keyboardist, well done Richie. Now I just need his name, and the name of the megastar he later wrote some songs for.

 

 

Additional clue - the megastar concerned really was a big, big star, especially in the eighties and nineties. In fact, in terms of record sales in the eighties, in particular, maybe you could not get much bigger..................

Presumably it was Rod Temperton, he wrote for a number of high profile stars, so I can't pin down the particular one you are looking for

 

Presumably it was Rod Temperton, he wrote for a number of high profile stars, so I can't pin down the particular one you are looking for

 

I cheated and googled him. Wow! But I can hear elements in 'Boogie Nights' that do indeed lend themselves to the later mega-hit.

Presumably it was Rod Temperton, he wrote for a number of high profile stars, so I can't pin down the particular one you are looking for

I think you'll find he wrote the song "Thriller" along with other songs with Jacko.

Yes, well done all, including those who cheated! :lol:

 

Rod Temperton was Heatwave's main keyboard player, and later wrote a number of songs for different artists, the ones he wrote for Michael Jackson being perhaps the most successful. These did indeed include the song "Thriller", from the most successful album of all-time, which has sold around 10 billion million copies Worldwide or something!!!!!! :o

 

What I don't know is how the two came to work together. Presumably Michael heard Heatwave, liked their songs, and took it from there.

 

 

A highly successful collaboration. Full credit to Rod Temperton, perhaps the unsung, hero of the creation that was the Thriller project...............

Rod Temperton in 2012 is going back into the studio - he's the producer on Mica Paris's new record.

Yes, well done all, including those who cheated! :lol:

 

Rod Temperton was Heatwave's main keyboard player, and later wrote a number of songs for different artists, the ones he wrote for Michael Jackson being perhaps the most successful. These did indeed include the song "Thriller", from the most successful album of all-time, which has sold around 10 billion million copies Worldwide or something!!!!!! :o

 

What I don't know is how the two came to work together. Presumably Michael heard Heatwave, liked their songs, and took it from there.

A highly successful collaboration. Full credit to Rod Temperton, perhaps the unsung, hero of the creation that was the Thriller project...............

I think Rod Temperton was writing some songs for Quincy Jones and one of them was a certain song called "Thriller".

 

He must have made so much money from that song, I can remember reading in early 1984 that he'd earned £1 million in royalties in 1983 alone.

 

Thank you for your input regarding Rod Temperton, Robbie.

 

Disappointed with this week's programme, far too middle of the road and too many smiling faces for me! Barely a highlight to be picked out. ELO perhaps were the nearest act to my kind of taste in music, which is hard but tuneful rock.

 

Does not seem to be as much interest in these top of the pops repeats as there used to be in any case - or is everyone waiting for punk to come along?! B-)

 

Hard to think of a decent trivia question this week as well. Well, since the last one was tricky, let's go for an easier one.

 

ELO were from Birmingham, of course, can anyone, off the top of their heads, name at least four other successful chart acts from arguably England's second city? Remember, Brum acts only, please.

 

Roll on the next edition, let's hope for better stuff next time around.

It wasn't a very good edition at all. One of the problems with the early part of 1977 was that there were far too much MOR acts who had big hits. It's when disco and punk / new wave really catches on in the second part of the year that the charts begin to liven up.

 

I meant to ask this before, are you the same blackcat who used to post at ukmix? If so I've still got a PM I sent to you on 1 December 2006 giving you a link to a 1950s music website. Again if you are the same poster did you ever visit the site? The link is no longer active so I'd love to know what happened to the website.

Edited March 18, 201213 yr by Robbie

Bands from Birmingham: one of them was The Move which links to ELO as does Wizzard.

I was going to mention The Move but I was beaten to it :P Duran Duran were from Birmingham as were UB40.

Other than thursdays at 7, when else is this TOTPs repeated and is it on the iplayer?

Other than thursdays at 7, when else is this TOTPs repeated and is it on the iplayer?

It's repeated around midnight on Thursday and again on Saturday night (the time varies). The repeats are the full version of the programme. They are all available on iPlayer. However, if you use the Virgin Media version, you can only get the shorter version shown on Thursday evening (7.30, not 7.00). For the full version you need to go to the BBC website.