I'll add in 'Pump It Up' and 'I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea' from his early career and 'The Other Side of Summer' which I really liked around 1991 I think.

and i'll add Radio Radio, New Amsterdam, Good Year For The Roses & Every Day I Write The Book & his mcartney co-writes circa 1989 Veronica/Flowers In The Dirt period...

A couple of covers - Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and She. Tokyo Storm Warning got to #46 (I think) in 1986 and Blue Chair maybe made the Top 75.

 

Didn't A Good Year for the Roses hit the Top 10?

The missing DLT episode which was skipped and otherwise would have been shown yesterday has thankfully been uploaded to vimeo.com (the uploader couldn't upload the episode to youtube or dailymotion as there was a rights issue with at least one of the songs).

 

From 23/03/78, the episode in its entirety, recorded from UK Gold in the mid 90s when UK Gold used to broadcast old episodes of TOTP

 

http://vimeo.com/62537656

 

It's notable as being the only episode of TOTP that broadcast the "white dress TOTP performance" of 'Wuthering Heights' by Kate Bush. The performance is hard to find and is seemingly only available on youtube as a TOTP2 clip from around 2001 but of course that clip is ruined by the TOTP graphics. 'Wuthering Heights' starts at 25:24.

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Notable in that edition of TOTP are:

 

Two records at number 28 - joint chart positions were becoming rare by this point and this was the first for well over a year

 

Legs & Co dancing to 'Rumour Has It' by Donna Summer - the performance has to be seen to be believed! Hilda Ogden anyone?!

Edited March 29, 201312 yr by Robbie

it's a real shame that the Blondie, Eruption, Real Thing & Kate Bush clips weren't shown....

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Notable in that edition of TOTP are:

 

Two records at number 28 - joint chart positions were becoming rare by this point and this was the first for well over a year

 

Legs & Co dancing to 'Rumour Has It' by Donna Summer - the performance has to be seen to be believed! Hilda Ogden anyone?!

 

Thanks for your info., robbie, I notice that there is a good top of the pops thread on the ukmix forum, in fact, more informative than this one (he says through gritted teeth :angry: )

 

Can you do me a favour, and ask posters like CZB and graham76man to get their collective as*es over here, please! ;)

 

Could do with some more background on this thread, although everyone seems to enjoy contributing to it.

 

It is a shame that these DLT shows are not being shown as, under British law, he has not actually been found guilty of anything as yet! Petty red tape at the beeb, in my view.

If DLT hadn't habitually had young women draped over him then perhaps they would still show the programmes. After all, he has appeared in other programmes in recent months.

An imprvement this week although it wasn't all good.

 

Genesis showing signs of a loss of innovation. It was to get a lot worse before Phil Collins launched his solo career.

 

Boomtown Rats get the proper programme off to a good start.

 

Manhattan Transfer cut which led to a clumsy edit to standard Hot Chocolate fare. They will be in the repeat late tonight.

 

Andrew Gold with his other song, you know, the one that isn’t Lonely Boy.

 

Jools Holland in his old job with Squeeze not really pretending to convince us that he was actually playing that keyboard.

 

Wings following up Mull Of Kintyre with a harmless little ditty.

 

Showaddywaddy and Stylistics cut.

 

Sheila B Devotion with a disco pap version of Singing In The Rain which manages to be far worse than the Mint Royale version.

 

Andy Gibb – I’m just not a fan of the Gibb brothers. I’ll leave it at that.

 

Co-Co with a Eurovision song which I had vanquished from my memory. The band included Cheryl Baker who had another go at Eurovision two years later.

 

And that brings us to Brian & Michael at number one. Oh joy. Watching at home, Jimmy Savile was getting very excited. The St Winifred’s School Choir featured on the actual record but the recording was after their bedtime so some older girls performed in their stead.

 

Blondie playing out to end on a high note.

Thank you everyone for the Elvis Costello answers, all correct, of course, don't think that some people realise what a great songwriter he has been over the years. And yes, I remember his dad in that advert!

 

And thanks again to suedehead for his analyses, I wish you had done these before, suedehead, they are much more forthright and witty than my analyses! :D

 

I did like a few things about this week's show, bit more of a mixture, certainly better than last week's aired edition. These shows are showing their age in one obvious, and sad way - quite a few artists appear in these shows who are no longer with us (Andy Gibb, Andrew Gold, Linda McCartney, Gerry Rafferty, Bob Marley, and various other examples in the last few weeks).

 

Suedehead has already analysed all the songs, so straight onto the trivia.

 

Paul McCartney has been a hero of mine in many ways, certainly when he was writing all those classics with John for The Beatles. And he was the only Beatle who's post Beatles record sales really got anywhere near the sales achieved by The Beatles (although they are some way behind now, after the release of Beatles 1 in 2000 and various other big selling Beatles projects before that in the nineties).

 

So as many of his post Beatles UK hits as possible, whether with Wings, as a solo act, or in collaboration with other acts.

 

Also, what is his middle name, and please full-name his brother and give his brother's stage name - his brother had some success way back as well.

 

All the best.

 

BC B-)

Paul McCartney's middle name is Paul. He is James Paul McCartney. His brother is Mike McGear of The Scaffold.

 

Apart from the two songs of his which have featured on recent TOTP shows he has had hits with Let 'Em In, Bad on te Run (one of his best), Live And Let Die, Ebony and Ivory (awful dreck with Stevie Wonder), Maybe I'm Amazed, London Town, Wonderful Christmastime and Pipes Of Peace. There are many more which others can name - but I have to finish with We All Stand Together :D

well, for an alternative chart view my april 1978 charts are online to embarrass me - yes I liked Sheila B Devotion for a few weeks. I think Madonna nicked the dance routine for Holiday...:) Still like the Genesis record, it's pleasant enough. Andrew Gold had a couple of other songs: Thank You For being A friend aka Golden Girls theme, Bridge To Your Heart (Wax).

 

Apart from Brain n Mick oop north eh by eck Lowrie eh, I liked all the rest at the time and still do..

 

Macca is my greatest living hero, so of course I could name them all. I'll stick to the great ones not mentioned though: Another Day, Uncle Albert (USA No 1)/Admiral halsey, Helen Wheels, Jet, Listen To What The Man Says, Waterfalls & oodles of other middlingly good tracks. He also wrote Leave It for his brother which is a great forgotten minor pop hit.

 

cheers!

john

Follow You Follow Me is OK as a pop song but it isn't a patch on songs like Supper's Ready, The Musical Box or Firth of Fifth. Lots of bands could have come up with FYFM but many earlier Genesis songs could only have come from Genesis.

Follow You Follow Me is OK as a pop song but it isn't a patch on songs like Supper's Ready, The Musical Box or Firth of Fifth. Lots of bands could have come up with FYFM but many earlier Genesis songs could only have come from Genesis.

 

I was a big fan of I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)...:) Gabriel vs Collins I suppose, but I like both solo in different ways, and they threw out the odd gem post-Gabriel like Mama (great) and Turn It On Again. Heard Gabriel's Sledgehammer the other day, awesome track and those lyrics are naughtier than I recalled...:)

I'm a massive fan of Peter Gabriel. It's clear that he was behind most of Genesis's most creative songs. Even I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) manages to be creative will also being vaguely commercial. Post-Gabriel Genesis weren't all bad by any means. I agree that Mama is a good song and One For The Vine is one of my favourite Genesis songs. Mama comes from the album Genesis. The first side of that (back in the vinyl days) was very good. The second side was not. The real decline set in after that but Knowing Me Knowing You was an early sign of what was to come.

Follow You Follow Me is OK as a pop song but it isn't a patch on songs like Supper's Ready, The Musical Box or Firth of Fifth. Lots of bands could have come up with FYFM but many earlier Genesis songs could only have come from Genesis.

 

So if you're saying they're better then why didn't they release them and see if they'd become hits!

Edited April 8, 201312 yr by Common Sense

So if you're saying they're better then why didn't they release them and see if they'd become hits!

Supper's Ready is over 25 minutes long so not really single material. Besides, I said FYFM was OK a a pop song. The other songs I mentioned are not pop songs and also not really hit single material.

Thank you for the Paul McCartney input, one or two still to be mentioned. You are correct, as usual, Suedehead, Paul is actually Macca's middle name, his first name is James.

 

Glad he went by the name Paul, though, John and James does not have the same ring, somehow, as John and Paul.

 

My favourite song of his post - Beatles wise was "C'Moon", which was originally a b-side.

 

For bonus points, what track did McCartney have a big hit with in 1983 with Michael Jackson, and what was so extraordinary about the promotion and ultimate chart position of that track in the UK at the time?

 

As for the Genesis debate, I was never a big fan, I am afraid. To be honest I tended to lump them in with the prog rock lot, wrongly, of course.

 

Nevertheless, I do appreciate the talent that is Peter Gabriel, although not so keen on Phil Collins musically (liked his acting in Buster, though!).

 

Games Without Frontiers by Gabriel is.....................sublime, simple as that. B-)

Thank you for the Paul McCartney input, one or two still to be mentioned. You are correct, as usual, Suedehead, Paul is actually Macca's middle name, his first name is James.

 

Glad he went by the name Paul, though, John and James does not have the same ring, somehow, as John and Paul.

 

My favourite song of his post - Beatles wise was "C'Moon", which was originally a b-side.

 

For bonus points, what track did McCartney have a big hit with in 1983 with Michael Jackson, and what was so extraordinary about the promotion and ultimate chart position of that track in the UK at the time?

 

As for the Genesis debate, I was never a big fan, I am afraid. To be honest I tended to lump them in with the prog rock lot, wrongly, of course.

 

Nevertheless, I do appreciate the talent that is Peter Gabriel, although not so keen on Phil Collins musically (liked his acting in Buster, though!).

 

Games Without Frontiers by Gabriel is.....................sublime, simple as that. B-)

 

Say Say Say, it was dropping down the chart till the video premiered? (peaked at 2 I think) Sign of things to come....

 

To be honest, also, while I like Genesis, I never loved them. Blame it on sourgrapes from me for forgetting the title of Invisible Touch on the Radio One Roadshow Mike Reid's Pop Quiz (I won a sweatshirt & mug) in 1986. I much prefer all of the solo stuff: that's Gabriel (eg that gorgeous haunting Kate Bush duet Dont Give Up), Collins (eg that haunting gorgeous In The Air Tonight) or Mike & The Mechanics (eg that gorgeous haunting Silent Running) :)

The first side (old fashioned vinyl again) of Rutherford's first solo album Smallcreep's Day is pretty good. In The Air Tonight is a good song. Some of Collins' solo stuff, though, is pretty awful.

 

Peter Gabriel is one of the few people I would describe as a musical genius. He was clearly the most creative member of Genesis and started to use and prromote influences from around the world long before Paul Simon's Graceland.