Yes, Julie Covington is the next number one but there are two more weeks of David Soul to endure first. I hope there's at least one performance of the definitive version of Don't Cry For Me Argentina to come before then.

 

There were two occasions where they played two songs in a row with no introduction. Presumably one of them was where they cut Gary Glitter.

The Slade song wasn't a hit.

 

Maybe that tells a story, then! Times were changing.

 

 

Yeah, it was interesting that they were playing non-Top 40 tunes back then in the expectation that they would be a hit. Wasn't one of Slade's best tunes though, has to be said!

Trivia question this week - Leo Sayer wrote songs for which rough voiced sixties vocalist during the early seventies?

 

Tougher trivia question than my last one, I reckon. B-)

 

Adam Faith?

Adam Faith?

 

No, although the rocker in question has worked with Adam Faith in a film setting.

 

Don't want to say too much more about it, otherwise I might be giving it all away.

 

:cool:

Edited January 28, 201213 yr by blackcat

ah! Roger Daltrey,... Ofcourse. Great song aswell.

Edited January 29, 201213 yr by fiesta

ah! Roger Daltrey,... Ofcourse. Great song aswell.

 

Well done fiesta, I know where you were coming from with Adam Faith - used to manage Leo Sayer at one stage, I believe.

 

Adam Faith and Roger Daltrey later appeared in the McVicar film together.

 

And in my view, two rock stars who could act very well.

 

 

Annoying that the original and definitive version of Don't Cry For Me Argentina was cut from the early version. It was in the repeat but that is generally not available on iPlayer :angry:

Think last night's was the most boring yet - nearly every song was an easy-listening ballad apart from the Quo and Rose Royce (played over the credits).

 

Did like Barry Biggs though - never heard of him before.

The Andy Fairweatherlow single didnt even make the charts! Just goes to show totp didnt always help propel singles to the top of the charts even in its hey day.

 

Interesting to note, the first act on yesterday - The Brothers shot into the charts after winning tv talent show Opportunity Knocks.

Yes, just watched it on the iplayer, poorish fare this week. Very mellow music from The New Seekers, to Mr. Big - who sound to my ears like Smokie mark two! - and I am getting a bit bored of David Soul myself. Starsky And Hutch was more interesting than this!

 

The best record was probably the one they played out with, as Ritchie mentioned, Rolls Royce - all 50 or so seconds of it! Even Legs & Co could not muster much excitement in their routine to one of the Eagles slower sounding numbers.

 

Let's hope for better as TOTP progresses throughout the year.

 

Easy trivia question this week, Andy Fairweatherlow did indeed have a flop with his record in early 1977, as Fiesta has pointed out, but he did have more success - and made far better music in my view - with which 1960's outfit? Again, no cheating by looking it up on Wiki now!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andy Fairweather-Low was a member of Amen Corner (Bend Me Shape Me, (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice etc). His main solo hit was Wide Eyed And Legless so it was rather unfortunate that he was done for drink-driving shortly afterwards.

 

The bad news on the David Soul front is that his second number one - Silver Lady - was even more boring :zzz: . Look out for a mention of the song in tomorrow's chart commentary (unless something unexpected happens) :D

Well done suedehead, the orginal Welsh rockers, were Amen Corner.

 

Soul also had a number two hit in between Don't Give Up On Us and Silver Lady, with a track called Going In with My Eyes Wide Open. Basically a reworking of Don't Give up On Us is how it sounded to me.

 

Last time I heard David Soul was living in London, and supporting Arsenal! He must be a pleased man today then. :o

I can't say I remember Going In with My Eyes Wide Open at all. That is probably a good thing.

Well done suedehead, the orginal Welsh rockers, were Amen Corner.

 

Andy was also in a band with Blue Weaver in the early 70s and had a hit with Natural Sinner as Fairweather.

Getting quite excited though, as we're only a few weeks away from my birth chart - 19th March 1977.

I know I'm a couple of weeks late with this but I notice that in one recent totp77 repeat they showed a Gary Glitter performance (at least they did on the middle of the night repeat of the repeat that I recorded, if not on the 7:30pm version). Are they even legally allowed to do this? I thought he wasn't allowed to earn any royalties in the UK and that every TOTP repeat still incurred royalties for the featured acts and artists (though probly no repeat fees for the presenters and dancer I should imagine).

I don't think it's illegal for him to earn royalties - I think he just generally doesn't as most broadcasters don't want to play him.

 

Funnily enough, I noticed last Christmas that his part has been removed from the Jive Bunny 'Let's Party' video.

I think I read somewhere that GG is now earning a lot of royalties from southeast asian countries who had only discovered him in recent years and that the western media were trying to put pressure on those countries media to stop promoting him, and there was some question about whether it infringed his human rights to prevent him from earning money. Funnily enough he's featured first on tonight's repeat which I've just started watching on my pvr and it's quite weird seeing him in super close up as he lookes creepy even back then.

Just remembered something else I meant to ask if anyone can answer. The totp 76/7 repeats are of very good sound and particularly picture quality considering their age, except when they were playing a video into the original show, at which point the picture quality seems to suffer quite a bit. Is this some sort of 'photocopying effect' similar to photcopies of letters seeming less sharp than the original (because the tape of the show is effectively copying one video to another at that point in the show), or did TOTP not bother to get the quality of played-in videos right even at the time. Or is there some other reason, technical or otherwise. I only really ask because sometimes some of the the videos are occasionally still played on music channels today and appear in better shape there than the totp 77 recordings of the same vids.