Some of the videos are American. American picture quality always looked inferior to UK-sourced material at the time.

Ah right the NTSC vs PAL thing, I didn't think of that. But I'm not sure that it's the whole story as the videos tend to have more black blobs and scratches and stuff than the rest of the show, which can't be just the differing systems at the time. Probably the US companies sent a copy over to the uk rather than an original, and then TOTP effectively made a copy of the copy when they made the show, so flaws crept in.

As danchartfan says, there is some difference between the picture quality of the British clips and the American clips. David Soul's clip looks about 100 years old!

 

Just watched this week's repeat on iplayer, slightly better stuff, I have always liked Harold Melvin And The Bluenotes classic Don't Leave Me This Way, and liked it even more seeing Legs & Co dancing to it! :D

 

Thin Lizzy always good, Boz Scaggs had a good song out at the time, and believe it or not, I vaguely remember buying the Rubettes record at the time! Would never buy a record like that now. But that's life, tastes change.

 

Bit surprised to see Glitter on this edition, no editing out this time. I wonder if Gary Glitter fans had protested to the BBC about his editing out of other editions? A possibility.

 

Later I also saw the "How The Brits Rocked America" documentary, and I have always been puzzled as to why none of the big British glam rock acts - like Gary Glitter, Slade, T-Rex, The Sweet - never made it big in America. Afterall, their immediate British predecessors from the sixties had been huge in the States.

 

Trivia question this week - off the top of your head, can anyone recall Gary Glitter's only UK million selling single?

 

I bet suedehead knows the answer, as usual! ;)

 

 

I think it's I LoveYou Love Me Love but I'm not 100% certain.

I think it's I LoveYou Love Me Love but I'm not 100% certain.

 

You are right, his biggest Uk hit in terms of unit sales.

 

There will be very few future UK sales of Glitter records, I would suggest.........................

You are right, his biggest Uk hit in terms of unit sales.

 

There will be very few future UK sales of Glitter records, I would suggest.........................

Most of them sound really dated so I doubt they'd sell very many without his misdemeanours. After all, I doubt Alvin Stardust sells much these days.

What was that? I was too busy off downloading 'My Coo-Ca-Choo'.

blackcat I just checked my DVD copy of this years eps so far and GG definitely appears unedited in the ep Noel Edmonds hosts. Noel tells us that a huge cheer was heard when 'this next chap walked on stage', how the reaction would be different now. Anyway it seems they are showing different version at different times, the last show was either 30, 35 or 40 mins depending on which repeat you watched, me I recorded all three and am gonna try and spot the differences (and hide behind a cushion from GG'S widescreen close up at least 3 more times.. yikes!).

An interesting aside is that in the same ep Noel completely blows a scripted gag after a performance by Legs and co dancing round lampposts. He said 'That really raised the standards... the lamp standards' , I think he meant the punchline to be 'the standard lamps' which still wasn't funny really. And he breaks into giggles a few seconds later, presumably as it dawns on him. I'd go as far as saying Noel was sort of anti-funny throughout, did 70s Brits laugh at his humour?

Richie I wondered why I wanted to download a copy too, then I realised it was just my jealous mind! :lol:

You are right, his biggest Uk hit in terms of unit sales.

 

There will be very few future UK sales of Glitter records, I would suggest.........................

 

 

His albums sell out very fast as soon as Amazon get them in. I bought two last year. There's still demand for hits collections. Seems only Amazon stock them though, fortunately.

I think it's I LoveYou Love Me Love but I'm not 100% certain.

 

Yes that's it.

Boo, tonight is a 'The Sky At Night' night.

Boo, tonight is a 'The Sky At Night' night.

Someone on Haven said that the one which would have been on tonight is one of the episodes which is missing. There's a sound recording but that's all. A pity as it is the one week at the top for Don't Cry For Me Argentina :( Next week it's Leo Sayer.

Regarding Mr Glitter, he sold the UK rights to his music a few years back, so he doesn't get royalties for his music being sold/broadcast here, although he still gets money from broadcasts/sales in the rest of the world.

Someone on Haven said that the one which would have been on tonight is one of the episodes which is missing. There's a sound recording but that's all. A pity as it is the one week at the top for Don't Cry For Me Argentina :( Next week it's Leo Sayer.

 

Well, either way my brother will be glad to see the back of David Soul.

Well, either way my brother will be glad to see the back of David Soul.

He'll be back later in the year :(

He'll be back later in the year :(

 

 

I actually prefer Silver Lady.

No one is innocent, as the Sex Pistols said. Lots of talk about Gary Glitter and David Soul on this topic recently. We all know about Glitter's misdemeanors, of course, but let's not forget that David Soul is an ex-alcoholic, and his actions, amongst other things, included assaulting his wife at the time when she was seven months pregnant. In short, Soul was a woman beater.

 

Maybe that makes the lyrics of Don't Give Up On Us slightly more pertinent to the singer who sang them.............. :unsure:

Only just got around to watching this week's edition, bit soft and slushy in places, and lots of early to mid seventies glam acts still hanging about! Suzy Quatro, Les Gray, The Rubettes all represented in this week's edition.

Thelma Houston looked way too cheerful given the subject matter of her song! Lots of Bohemian Rhapsody type effects for Mr. Big's single, even some for Leo Sayer's. I think that The Rubettes record was just as good a country sound as any record that came out of Nashville at the time. Must have been their last big hit, as well.

 

Trivia question for this week relates to the showing of Mud's lead singer Les Gray's version of A Groovy Kind Of Love. About 11 years before the 1977 edition, that same song had been a hit for one of the lesser known sixties beat acts.

 

And about 11 years after the 1977 edition, A Groovy Kind of Love became a hit again, for one of the better known eighties acts! Can you name both the sixties act that hit the charts with the song, and the eighties act that did the same?

 

So I want the names of both acts, please, that had hits with A Groovy Kind Of Love, both around 11 years before and around 11 years after Les Gray's 1977 version of the song. No looking it up, now! :o

I know the later one but can't remember the earlier one atm

I know the later one but can't remember the earlier one atm

 

Yes, one of my better trivia questions, I think, this one, trying to work out the earlier version is a bit of a mindbending problem I think. ;)