It will be a while until the repeats of Top of The Pops are shown again following the Jimmy Saville investigation.

I think John Lennon is the only act to achieve more than one posthumous number one. I cant think of any others. Buddy Holly did have one with It Doesnt Matter Anymore. Which was a bit of insensitive title for someone who had just died!

 

I watched the one from 1973 aswell, however I wasnt keen on Kenny Everett as a presenter.

 

 

Yes, I thought that you were spot on when you said that John Lennon was the only artist with more than one posthumous number one, Fiesta.

 

Then, thinking about it, I remembered the reason why I asked the question in the first place - ELVIS!

 

Recall all those old records from Elvis Presley (and at least one remixed record from him) during the noughties that topped the UK charts?

 

Might not have had much to do with his death, but surely those releases make him the all-time number one posthumous UK record holder.

All depends on whether you consider those new number ones or not. Despite what the official chart says, I will never consider any of those re-issues to be separate number 1s.

It will be a while until the repeats of Top of The Pops are shown again following the Jimmy Saville investigation.

 

Is this true, Kenukcsfant? It was not on last night, because of The Sky At Night, but I would be very sad if it was off the screens for a long time for the reasons you mentioned. :(

 

Can't they just show old editions without Jimmy Savile in them?

 

Be hard to bear if it is off the screens for months.

It's still listed for next Thursday on the BBC website.

Late entry by me for this week's edition, mainly because I missed it on Thursday and have only just seen it on the tv.

 

Were some highlights, not a particularly great show this week though. Good play out music, courtesy of Stevie Wonder, a better than average novelty record from Baccara, and an uptempo number from Leo Sayer were some of the more surprise offerings.

 

An unusual novelty record from Mari Wilson about a randy telephone repair man, if I read the song correctly! Elvis still at number one, of course, and a rocky start to the show by The Jets.

 

Some good punk offerings this week by The Boomtown Rats and The Stranglers, the latter always were one of my favourite punk bands. They seemed so much more musical than other punk outfits.

 

So, trivia question for this week........as many Stranglers hits in the Uk as possible off the top of one's head.

 

All the best.

 

BC

I'll start this off with the first single I owned (bought at a jumble sale in early 1982!):

 

Peaches/Go Buddy Go

 

Golden Brown, Duchess, (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)

No More Heroes, European Female, Nice n Sleazy, Walk On By, Always The Sun

something better change, 5 minutes, nice in nice, strange little girl, who wants the world, bear cage, straighten out and a load of tuneful 80's hits ive forgotten...!

Cover version of All Day and All of the Night too. Was Waltz in Black a single in the end?

Some good replies here, don't think Waltz In Black was a single, Richie, great track to listen too, though.

 

I also remember a song called "Big In America", but not sure whether it was a hit or not.

 

A fine band, and still going, although Hugh Cornwall left quite some time ago.

 

Should have been bigger, in my view.

Two iconic rock classics helped give this week's show substance, in my view. Ram Jam's Black Betty a great rocking track, as was Golden Earrings Radar Love. I think Golden Earring were Dutch, if I remember correctly.

 

Neither Ram Jam or Golden Earring did much else in the UK charts, as far as I can remember.

 

Quite a varied programme this week, reasonable middle of the road songs from David Essex, and David Soul, good offering from the late lamented Donna Summer, class reggie, as usual, from Bob Marley, fine dancing from the lovely girls of legs & co.

While I drool over them, the lady in my household, who was watching the programme with me this week, was drooling over Mr. Essex!

 

Something to do with the way he looked at the camera, apparently.

 

Lots of promo clips in this week's episode, maybe a sign of the times, with the pop video age just around the corner.

 

Trivia question? As many David Essex hits as you can name off the cuff over the years in the British charts.

 

All the best.

 

BC B-)

 

 

Ys, Golden Earring were Dutch. Radar Love was originally a hit in 1973 and was the only song of theirs to trouble the chart compilers.

 

Other David Essex songs - Hold Me Close, Rock On, Gonna Make You A Star, Oh What A Circus (from Evita - I went to his last performance of this in the original West End Cast :o ), Brave New World (from War of the Worlds) and Silver Dream Machine.

The guy from Golden Earring was later responsible for all the Stars On 45 medley hits in the early 80's..

 

David Essex was on BBC Breakfast this morning

Edited October 26, 201212 yr by fiesta

Thank you for your contributions, suedehead and feista, David also had a big hit with a song called Tahiti in 1983.

 

He was also a big star of the films That'll Be The Day and Stardust, winning aclaim for good acting performances in those films.

 

And he did a stint of acting in Eastenders.

 

His main hits in the seventies came when glam rock was all the rage, but I can't recall David Essex ever needing to dress up in outrageous costumes. And he continued to have hits through the punk rock era, and into the early eighties.

 

Perhaps a slightly more relevant figure in British pop that some people would give him credit for.

Well, nobody's gonna say A Winter's Tale so I will. I'm a bit of a sucker for the oboe in it.

well, i always preferred his more interesting minor hits, so I'll mention the fab epic City Lights, Imperial Wizard, America, Lamplight, and th less good If I Could, Cool Out Tonight...

I like most of the songs on the BBC 4 repeats which are going to extend into 1978 next year. :) A very varied year for music including Blondie's debut, the movie Grease, Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip, more Jam and much more just around the corner.

 

S-S-S Single Bed is a cracking tune by the short-lived but very memorable group Fox.

 

Silver Star by the Four Seasons is catchy. A double helping of both the group themselves performing it in the studio and Pan's People dancing to it.

Edited October 31, 201212 yr by Season One

B-) Thanks again for all your contributions, and welcome to Season One to this thread.

 

Varied programme this week, reasonable soul offerings from The Emotions and Denise Williams, punk from The Stranglers, some prog rock from Yes, a slightly better than average tribute record from Danny Mirror (I think he was Dutch as well, was he not?)

 

Baccara with a future number one, straightforward cover version of Needles And Pins by Smokie, a new but rather bland number one from David Soul.

 

Trivia for this week - there were two sixties cover versions on this week's show, one of which was Needles And Pins, the other a version of Black is Black, which kick started the show.

 

Name the two sixties artists who did the original versions. I reckon Needles And Pins should be easy, not so sure if the average modern day pop fan could name the original artist who did Black Is Black so easily without reference to the search engine, though.

 

All the best,

 

BC B-)

Edited November 1, 201212 yr by blackcat