We were spared Gali Atari - another Israeli act, who were on my tv listings to appear on the show.

 

 

It's actually Milk And Honey Featuring Gali Atari, not a seperate group! Gali Atari was the female singer, actually an Israeli actress.

Edited April 4, 201411 yr by Common Sense

Dire Straits up from 1,722 to 354 on Amazon downloads as a direct result of last nights show!

Ooh, that Generation X song was awful wasn't it?

I've always thought that I Will Survive is over-rated but as well as being a huge karaoke song, it's been covered by a lot of country artists too. Billie Jo Spears had a minor hit with it in some countries. Anyway I prefer Gloria's covers of Never Can Say Goodbye and Reach Out I'll Be There.

yes that gen x song was awful, and yes i also much prefer gloria's earlier hits.... B-)

It'll be interesting to see if they feature the No.1 song tonight, Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel. A clip from Watership Down was shown in 1979 but that would be too expensive to repeat like the Grease ones were last year. Would seem odd to skip the new No.1, unless they show some footage of Art or rabbits. We'll see in less than 5 hours now!

Tonight 12-4-79: Presenter: Peter Powell

 

(10) THE THREE DEGREES – The Runner (and charts)

(75) LIGHT OF THE WORLD – Swingin’

(14) KATE BUSH – Wow ®

(27) SHOWADDYWADDY – Remember Then ®

(11) THE SEX PISTOLS – Silly Thing (danced to by Legs & Co)

(26) NEIL DIAMOND – Forever In Blue Jeans (video)

(3) RACEY – Some Girls ®

(24) SUPERTRAMP – The Logical Song (video)

(20) SHAM 69 – Questions And Answers

(22) KANDIDATE – I Don’t Wanna Lose You

(6) SISTER SLEDGE – He’s The Greatest Dancer (video)

(1) ART GARFUNKEL – Bright Eyes (video)

(25) WINGS – Goodnight Tonight (and credits)

 

TOTP from popscene.

It'll be interesting to see if they feature the No.1 song tonight, Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel. A clip from Watership Down was shown in 1979 but that would be too expensive to repeat like the Grease ones were last year. Would seem odd to skip the new No.1, unless they show some footage of Art or rabbits. We'll see in less than 5 hours now!

 

 

Looks like they did show a video with Rabbits in.

 

 

 

Three Degrees over the chart run. Hmm, that means it could go either way from here. Plenty of scope for something worse or something better.

 

Or it could just go to something of similar quality and it has with Light Of The World whoever they were.

 

Now this must be the best of the night - it’s Kate Bush. Wow! It can only go downhill from here.

 

And on the Legs & Co doing the Sex Pistols again. At least the quality hasn’t dropped anywhere near as much as it could have done.

 

Next up it’s a spangly-clad Neil Diamond. If he’d rather be forever in blue jeans then why is he wearing those trousers? It’s not as if he’s short of a bob or two.

 

The quality is definitely falling now. It’s Racey.

 

I was never a fan of Supertramp but lots of people were at the time. Still not a fan. I suppose Spock must have been a fan of the Logical Song. Not that I liked Star Trek either.

 

On to a Sham 69 song I don’t remember. It made the top twenty but obviously made no impression on me.

 

Oh dear, Kandidate are back. Is this really going on for ten minutes or does it just feel that way?

 

Sister Sledge keep up the rotten quality of this part of the programme.

 

Art Garfunkel at number one with the rabbits. And the BBC have coughed up the fee to show clips from the film. Not much of it though. His first hit for 3 1/2 years after I Only Have Eyes For You which also made number one.

 

Finally Wings to play us out but, again, only a little bit. They barely took off.

Light Of The World, part of a forthcoming jazzfunk Brit fusion scene and so ahead of it's time, sort of setting it up for 1981. I vaguely recall this one.

 

Kate. Goddess. No more needs saying.

 

Silly Thing. Not really the Sex Pistols, just the less memorable 2 from the Sex Pistols. They didn't manage it a second time....

 

Neil, sadly, was becoming a karaoke version of his former talented self by 1979. Money talks, but it don't sing and dance. Indeed... B-)

 

Oddly, I WAS a huge fan of Supertramp at the time (and Star Trek, which now explains why the Logical Song got to my number 1!). Apart from their early stuff, though, not so fussed these days.

 

Sham 69: was very much into loathing them around about the time this single came out, Jimmy Pursey was so up his own that he disappeared up it within 12 months. Hooray! Sorry Sham fans!

 

Kandidate seemed a bit limp at the time, albeit pleasant. Even limper in retrospect, though the video is funny.

 

Sister Sledge, well, he's the greatest dancer, and thats enough for me. I was happy to have them back, cos Mama Never Told Me in 1975 and here they were all growed up.

 

I also let Art have another popchartfreak chart-topper in 1979. In retrospect, I prefer Mike Batt's other work, say All Around My hat, Minnuetto Allegretto or Wombling Merry Christmas. Wombles vs rabbits? Wombles!

 

Wings. quirky and delightful B-)

Some of the songs Mike Batt wrote for the Wombles were great. Minuetto Alegretto is one of them.

 

One question. Why don't Garfunkels restaurants serve rabbit stew?

Looks like they did show a video with Rabbits in.

 

 

About a minute of it! :rolleyes:

Ha, I loved Minuetto Alegretto when I was a kid. Also loved Watership Down (still do) so will need to tune in to the BBC4 repeat or catch it on iPlayer!

We’ve skipped a week in real time and in 1979 time so expect some repeats from the last show.

 

Neil Diamond still in his blue jeans - or not - over the chart.

 

Generation X are first to appear. This was their third - and last - top 40 hit. Their peak period didn’t last long did it?

 

Supertramp up next. I’m a few minutes behind on catch-up but I suspect there will be a better song to skip later so I’ll endure this.

 

And it didn’t take long to get a chance to catch up. It’s Eruption with their ultra-repetitive One Way Ticket.

 

Now this is more like it - Siouxsie and The Banshees. Yeah!

 

Least welcome repeat - bloomin’ Racey again. Now I’ve caught up and they’re still on.

 

Oh gawd, it gets worse. Amii Stewart’s dire version of Knock On Wood.

 

Boney M - another band past their best by now.

 

And so on to The Monks. Oh dear.

 

Legs & Co to accompany the Bee Gees. Oh dear again.

 

And Art Garfunkel is still at number one. And once again the BBC have only shelled out for about a minute of the film.

 

Showaddywaddy over the closing credits. Yes, they were still vaguely relevant.

Supertramp are a great band but Logical Song is over played on radio and has got boring.

 

as maybe the Monks would put it, TOTP nice show, shame about the music this week :lol:

Havent yet seen it as i'm on holiday, but The Monks' was a terrible record - sadly considering it's Hudson-Ford, of Part Of The Union, Picking Up The Pieces, Burn baby Burn fab hits...

 

Supertramp probably done no favours by that also awful Scooter thing that forever ruined it.

 

I bet the missing episode had all the great tracks...doh!

Here's the missing one!

19-4-79: Presenter: Dave Lee Travis

 

(NEW) GORDON GILTRAP – Fear Of The Dark

(5) MILK & HONEY – Hallelujah

(13) M – Pop Muzik

(NEW) DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – I’m Coming Home Again

(19) WINGS – Goodnight Tonight (video)

(4) THE JACKSONS – Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) (danced to by Legs & Co)

(27) GONZALEZ – I Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet

(NEW) CHILD – Only You

(10) THE THREE DEGREES – The Runner

(1) ART GARFUNKEL – Bright Eyes (video)

 

Here's the missing one!

19-4-79: Presenter: Dave Lee Travis

 

(NEW) GORDON GILTRAP – Fear Of The Dark

(5) MILK & HONEY – Hallelujah

(13) M – Pop Muzik

(NEW) DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – I’m Coming Home Again

(19) WINGS – Goodnight Tonight (video)

(4) THE JACKSONS – Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) (danced to by Legs & Co)

(27) GONZALEZ – I Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet

(NEW) CHILD – Only You

(10) THE THREE DEGREES – The Runner

(1) ART GARFUNKEL – Bright Eyes (video)

 

Thanks Graham! That's annoying, Dusty was on it! As for Child, phew! Close call there nearly had to sit through it B-)

So here we go with another half-hour of fantastic music. Or maybe another TOTP instead. Bee Gees over the chart so not a great start. still, apparently Sparks are on tonight so it can’t possibly be all bad.

 

Then a change of pace with The Damned. Captain Sensible dressed sensibly as ever. We’ve got three more years to wait for Happy Talk. This was their debut hit so I’m not quite sure why Mike Read said it was great to have them back. It was probably the EU’s fault.

 

Elkie Brooks with a Gallagher and Lyle composition. The Runaway was a number 50 smash hit.

 

The Shadows with another of their covers. The Deer Hunter theme this time. Their first hit - number one the day I was born - was far better than this soporific rubbish. Where are Sparks?

 

Oh gawd, it’s Eruption again. Someone get them a one way ticket please. Somewhere nice like Afghanistan will do.

 

Roxy Music next. A decent enough song as long as you ignore the fact that Bryan Ferry is a Tory who named his son after a lift.

 

Another airing for Amii Stewart next. We need Sparks NOW :angry: Actually, they should really have followed Eruption for a neat link.

 

Gary Moore from Thin Lizzy with his solo hit. (even though Phil Lynott provides the vocals) You can really believe he’s in Paris can’t you.

 

The moment we’ve all been waiting for - it’s Sparks!!!! YEAH!!! :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: They later rerecorded the song with additional vocals from Jimmy Somerville on their Plagiarism album produced by Giorgio Moroder.

 

Art Garfunkel still number one so it’s another brief rabbit clip.

 

And it’s David Bowie to finish (except for viewers in Scotland).

 

 

I rather enjoyed The Damned's performance great fun, and David Vanian's look was seemingly a major influence on the IT Crowd's Richmond aka Noel Fielding, who also frequently wears Captain sensible-ish jumpers. Fab in all cases! :dance:

 

I saw Elkie Brooks live at Knebworth in 1980. She did none of the hits, sticking instead with Rawwwknrollll Blues. I was disappointed, surprisingly.

 

I echo the sentiment re: Hank & co. Gimme Apache or Wonderful Land anyday.

 

Eruption were Precious. Precious Wilson. I thought it jolly good dance romping.

 

Roxy Music. Heroes. The decline began here, pleasant enough as a one-off single, mind-numbing as a 35-year career blueprint. Bryan Ferry needs to be sent down one of the Newcastle area mines in penance. if there were any left, of course....

 

Sparks. Heroes. Unlike Ferry, the Mael Brothers remain heroes, constant, classy and 40 years worth of great music. I loved them from the moment I heard the opening tinkling of This Town... for the first time.

 

Bowie: looking forward to the video, now there's a classic! The record sounds as fresh as the day it was first aired. Yay!

Edited May 1, 201411 yr by popchartfreak