I believe the decision to withdraw all the TOTP issues featuring DLT and JS from TV is absolutely stupid. Should we abandon all the documentaries featuring Hitler and Stalin then? It's a history. We should condemn them, but we can't just pretend that such men have never existed.

I believe the decision to withdraw all the TOTP issues featuring DLT and JS from TV is absolutely stupid. Should we abandon all the documentaries featuring Hitler and Stalin then? It's a history. We should condemn them, but we can't just pretend that such men have never existed.

Yep quite ridiculous really. Considering JS's allegations will never be proved or not proved. Reading through the Gary Glitter stuff, is also open to question, too. News Of The World set ups & various other stuff go against the so called "dangerous" p**** & the unbelievable tale of another, who can not even remember that she was 16 in 1974 & not 14, as she claimed. Plus I don't even have any inclings that any of the people arrested, will ever be charged. And poor RH. Well!

 

Then again, even more so on the non screening of DLT. Jim Davidson's Big Break was still shown (in a double bill) on Challenge T last night. And as BBC4 is not a channell pulling in millions of viewers, I really can not see as to why they can not show DLT, or (even) the Jimmy Savile ones, in a (forgive the pun) a Graveyard slot, after midnight. Though I doubt anyting with JS in, will ever be show again, although his picture appears all over the net (somewhere) everyday.

Edited January 6, 201312 yr by davetaylor

I believe the decision to withdraw all the TOTP issues featuring DLT and JS from TV is absolutely stupid. Should we abandon all the documentaries featuring Hitler and Stalin then? It's a history. We should condemn them, but we can't just pretend that such men have never existed.

 

Yes, I agree, re-writing history is annoying. Given that the media is more than happy to show footage of mass murderers (including children) old and recent, and movies comedies and dramas featuring them it comes over a bit like caving in to segments of the hypocritical British press, or else rather odd standards of judgement due to recent poor management decisions. I look forward to a bumper bonanaza of DLT TOTP shows should he be found innocent in a court of law or the charges dropped. I notice there's no call to drop Michael Jackson from editions - who was taken to court, arrested by police, but not actually found guilty as such, so precedent set hopefully on future transmissions....

 

 

Was it really worth the wait?! Pretty poor programme, very MOR with Brotherhood Of Man, David Soul, Mull still at number one.

Bit of light relief with Mr. Wogan, liked the Babies record, although contrary to what Peter Powell said, they were definately NOT big in 1978!

 

Did not like The Hotrods disc, again, not a patch on Do Anything You Wanna Do.

 

Two reggae songs in the show, that must have been a first. Bob Marley was class, as usualy, but I never did like Althea and Donna's hit. Travesty that that ended up topping the charts when so many other good reggie records were only minor hits.

 

Only Women Bleed by Julie Covington was nice, the other highlight being Native New Yorker by Odyssey. Odyssey only had a few hits, but all of them seemed to be really good platters in my view. What's more, I saw them live once back in the mid 1990's. Great band.

 

So trivia question - as many UK hit singels for Odyssey as one can roll off the tongue.

 

All the best,

 

BC B-)

Was it really worth the wait?! Pretty poor programme, very MOR with Brotherhood Of Man, David Soul, Mull still at number one.

Bit of light relief with Mr. Wogan, liked the Babies record, although contrary to what Peter Powell said, they were definately NOT big in 1978!

 

Did not like The Hotrods disc, again, not a patch on Do Anything You Wanna Do.

 

Two reggae songs in the show, that must have been a first. Bob Marley was class, as usualy, but I never did like Althea and Donna's hit. Travesty that that ended up topping the charts when so many other good reggie records were only minor hits.

 

Only Women Bleed by Julie Covington was nice, the other highlight being Native New Yorker by Odyssey. Odyssey only had a few hits, but all of them seemed to be really good platters in my view. What's more, I saw them live once back in the mid 1990's. Great band.

 

So trivia question - as many UK hit singels for Odyssey as one can roll off the tongue.

 

All the best,

 

BC B-)

 

I was mad on that Babies single at the time, topped my charts, though as usual the TOTP orchestra did their best to ruin it:( The lead singer had a big hit in 1984, anyone recall it?:)

Julie Covington's cover of Alice Cooper also topped my charts, and Odyssey at 2.

 

Odyssey: Use It Up Wear It Out, Inside Out, If Youre looking for a way out, Going Back to my roots, think they had one called hang around or similar title but I forget their minor hits...

Yes, I was a big fan of the Babys (sic) record at the time, It was good to hear it again. The singer was John Waite who had a top ten hit with Missing You.

 

It's always good to hear Julie Covington. She had a fantastic voice. Her version of Don't Cry For Me Argentina will always be the definitive version.

Not a very good programme last night at all. Too many new releases. Hope next week's is better. I remember The Baby's song and it still sounds great. How was that not a top 10 hit? :(

Edited January 18, 201312 yr by Common Sense

That record by Tonight was rather awesome. It's great to come across these tracks that probably haven't been played on TV/radio in years.

There are lots of good acts making there chart debut in the next couple of months like Blondie, Kate Bush and Billy Joel to name a few, so Things will improve.

 

The Baby's lead singer John Waite had a hit in 1984 with the excellent Missing You.

Enjoyed this week's TOTP - a couple of clips from that episode were on John Peel's Rock Bottom show years ago during the TV Hell night on BBC2. Terry Wogan's bizarre Floral Dance and Peter Powell's cheesy introduction to it.

This weeks top of the pops 1978 was for 26th January that year, while the previous one from last week was for the 5th January. So let me guess - the missing two editions were Savile/DLT related! Daft!

 

Good job Stuart Hall never presented an edition. :cry:

 

Lots of records still about from the last edition, including Terry Wogan, (mildly amusing), Althea and Donna (crass in my view), Mull Of Kintyre (never a head banger) and Bob Marley (good song).

 

Good songs on this week's show in my view from Donna Summer, The Rich Kids, great novelty record from Yellow Dog, good soul from Bill Withers.

 

Baccara's follow up to their number one form the previous year was not as strong, Gordon Giltrap and Gallagher and Lyle with reasonable MOR efforts.

 

Thanks for the Odyssey answers, trivia for this week centres on The Rich Kids. Three members of that band were more famous, eventually or sequentially, for other bands/projects.

 

Please name those members, all three of them, and the other bands/projects they were central too.

 

That should keep even knowledeable pop fans churning for a little while!

 

All the best,

 

BC B-)

They only missed one programme. There was no TOTP the other week due to a strike. However, the missing one was DLT so they are continuing to leave those unshown. I think there is a bit of a gap without Savile programmes for the part of the year that he was doing Jim'll Fix It.

 

The Rich Kids were formed by Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols) and Midge Ure (previously in Slik, later in Ultravox). Rusty Egan was also a member and he and Midge Ure went on to form Visage. Ure worked on a project with Bpb Geldof as well and had a solo hit with a version of No Regrets (nowhere near as good as the Walker Brothers version) and a number one with If I Was.

Thanks Suedehead, correct in every respect.

 

Midge Ure was considered as a potential recruit by Malcolm Mclaren to the Sex Pistols at one stage.

 

Midge is probably always going to be best known nowadays as the man who helped Geldof write Do They Know Its Christmas.

 

So one edition not made because of a strike? That sounds very nineteen seventies!

Yellow Dog was Kenny Young's band, he also formed Foxx (Only You Can , S S Ingle Bed etc) and he wrote Under The Boardwalk for the Drifters.

 

I Watched 70's Gold A compilation of performances from Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC4 last night. Lots of good and some rare bands on their performing. David Bowie, Elton John, Argent, Patti Smith, Vinegar Joe etc

Yes, Fiesta, I liked The Old Grey Whistle Test as well, probably much nearer my taste in music nowadays to what top of the pops showed at the time.

 

Enjoyed a great many records in this week's trip back to 1978. The Adverts with a good punk track, in fact, I enjoyed it much more than Gary Gilmore's Eyes.

 

Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley had a sizeable hit with If I Had Words, one of my late father's all-time favourite tracks. Great MOR stuff.

 

On the other hand, poor MOR stuff from Brotherhood Of Man and Smokie, in my opinion, redressed a bit by ABBA's catchy and commercial Take A Chance On Me closing out the programme.

 

Never liked Althea and Donna's ditty, but, again, redressed somewhat by an excellent soul classic from Rolls Royce, Wishing On A Star.

 

And good soul from Heatwave with Groove Line, which was quite well presented on the programme, if you know what I mean, lads and lesbians! ;)

 

Even liked Rod Stewart's Hot Legs, with sounded to me like a return to his Faces days.

 

 

Sweet were in the charts with Love Is Like Oxygen, the late great Brian Connolly on lead vocal, so trivia for this week - as many Sweet hits as possible off the top of one's head.

 

All the best,

 

BC B-)

Edited February 1, 201312 yr by blackcat

Yes, Fiesta, I liked The Old Grey Whistle Test as well, probably much nearer my taste in music nowadays to what top of the pops showed at the time.

 

Enjoyed a great many records in this week's trip back to 1977. The Adverts with a good punk track, in fact, I enjoyed it much more than Gary Gilmore's Eyes.

 

Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley had a sizeable hit with If I Had Words, one of my late father' all-time favourite tracks. Great MOR stuff.

 

On the other hand, poor MOR stuff from Brotherhood Of Man and Smokie, in my opinion, redressed a bit by ABBA's catchy and commercial Take A Chance On Me closing out the programme.

 

Never liked Althea and Donna's ditty, but, again, redressed somewhat by an excellent soul classic from Rolls Royce, Wishing On A Star.

 

And good soul from Heatwave with Groove Line, which was quite well presented on the programme, if you know what I mean, lads and lesbians! ;)

 

Even liked Rod Stewart's Hot Legs, with sounded to me like a return to his Faces days.

Sweet were in the charts with Love Is Like Oxygen, the late great Brian Connolly on lead vocal, so trivia for this week - as many Sweet hits as possible off the top of one's head.

 

All the best,

 

BC B-)

 

Oh I loved sweet, saw Brian just before he passed away in a bad state, in concert.

 

so, easy peasy I'm afarid:

 

Funny funny, co co, alexnader graham bell, poppa joe, little willy, wig wam bam, blockbuster, hellraiser, ballroom blitz, teenage rampage, six-teens, turn it down, fox on the run, action, the lies in your eyes, love is like oxygen, its its the sweet mix.

 

I may have missed a couple...

Looks like I've been beaten to it this week :lol:

Looks like I've been beaten to it this week :lol:

 

In that case, I will ask another question, suedehead - which songwriting duo wrote - and I think produced - many of the band's 1970's hits in the UK?

I Know the answer to that one, but I'll see if anyone can get it. Love Is Like Oxygen was one of their own composition, by the late seventies they were doing all their own stuff. Which is when they seemed to enjoy more success across the pond.

Oops, I hadn't spotted the new question :o I assume the duo you mean are Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn (Chinnichap). They also wrote and produced a number of Smokie / Smokey singles.