Black Sabbath were also from Brum.

 

 

It wasn't a very good edition at all. One of the problems with the early part of 1977 was that there were far too much MOR acts who had big hits. It's when disco and punk / new wave really catches on in the second part of the year that the charts begin to liven up.

 

I meant to ask this before, are you the same blackcat who used to post at ukmix? If so I've still got a PM I sent to you on 1 December 2006 giving you a link to a 1950s music website. Again if you are the same poster did you ever visit the site? The link is no longer active so I'd love to know what happened to the website.

 

Yes, I am the same blackcat, and I do still post at ukmix, under a different username or two. Don't post under the blackcat username anymore, for various unsavoury reasons which I won't go into on here! :w00t:

 

I would certainly have used the link you mentioned, but alas not recently, so I have no idea what would have happened to the website you mentioned.

 

The number one record from last Thursday's edition, by Manhattan Transfer, would not have been out of place as an early 1950's number one! :D The edition really was that bad!

 

As for Brum acts, well done all so far, UB40, The Move, Wizzard, Duran Duran, Black Sabbath all rightly mentioned. There are one or two more I can think of off the top of my head, though.........................

Edited March 18, 201213 yr by blackcat

No more entries on this, so I will give a clue or two.

 

Black Sabbath have been mentioned as a brum act. Well, there was another Birmingham based act, formed in the mid sixties, who, like Sabbath, also had a colour mentioned in their name.........................

 

Also, in the early eighties, a very talented young lady from that part of the World had hits in the UK. Bit of a mystery that one, though................. :rolleyes:

I'll go for Toyah Wilcox as the second one then :P

I should have got the other one as well. How could I forget the Moody Blues?

Well done again suedehead, that's six acts mentioned now from Birmingham.

 

Might be more, the only other one I can think of is Jaspar Carrott! LOL!

 

Strangely, can't think of any punk act from Birmingham, which is somewhat surprising.

 

Still, a lot of talent from Birmingham over the years.

 

 

Just realised something - there is one very important Birmingham group, again from the sixties, missing from the above list.

 

You will have to keep on running to find the name of this group. B-)

Next week's show features my birth chart! Must tape that one even if it will be a bit rubbish.

 

As for Brummie bands - does Stourbridge count? If so then you've got The Wonder Stuff, Pop Will Eat Itself, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and, I'm pretty sure I'm right in saying this, Babylon Zoo :D

 

Oh....and The Twang were also-rans from about five years ago.

Edited March 18, 201213 yr by richie

Well done again suedehead, that's six acts mentioned now from Birmingham.

 

Might be more, the only other one I can think of is Jaspar Carrott! LOL!

 

Strangely, can't think of any punk act from Birmingham, which is somewhat surprising.

 

Still, a lot of talent from Birmingham over the years.

 

Well Jasper Carrott did have a hit single even if people didn't buy it for the song played on radio :lol:

 

Just realised something - there is one very important Birmingham group, again from the sixties, missing from the above list.

 

You will have to keep on running to find the name of this group. B-)

 

I don't recall ever reading that the Spencer Davis Group came from Birmingham (while I did know about the others even if it took my brain a while to get there) but I assume that's who you mean.

It's repeated around midnight on Thursday and again on Saturday night (the time varies). The repeats are the full version of the programme. They are all available on iPlayer. However, if you use the Virgin Media version, you can only get the shorter version shown on Thursday evening (7.30, not 7.00). For the full version you need to go to the BBC website.

 

Think i will watch on the iplayer, cheers for the info!

Well Jasper Carrott did have a hit single even if people didn't buy it for the song played on radio :lol:

I don't recall ever reading that the Spencer Davis Group came from Birmingham (while I did know about the others even if it took my brain a while to get there) but I assume that's who you mean.

 

Yes, although for this one, I did look at Wikipaedia! Spencer Davis himself is a Welshman, but the band were formed in Birmingham. Stevie Winwood, the best known member of the band, went on to success with Traffic, and as a solo artist. And Winwood was born in Birmingham, according to Wiki.

 

That must be all the main artists from Birmingham mentioned now, certainly the main chart artists. Have enjoyed this trivia question, might set another one like this at some point.

 

So the next time, say, a Welsh artist is on....................... :D

Just remembered another metal band - Judas Priest were also from Brum.

 

And on a completely different note so were Fuzzbox!

Thanks for your input, Grebo, Judas Priest, in particular, were a glaring omission from the Brum list.

 

I found this week's edition more interesting. Always considered RED LIGHT as Billy Ocean's best record, much more interesting than his other stuff. A rare chance to hear an Elvis Presley record on Top Of The Pops. No one knew at that stage that he only had about 5 months left to live, sadly.

 

And a very rare performance on Top Of The Pops 1977 from Barclay James Harvest! With a very hippy sounding number, that could have belonged to 10 years previously.

 

Trivia question for this week concerns the return of ABBA, with one of their more complex offerings, Knowing Me Knowing You. The song eventually got to number one in the UK, and I can, off the top of my head, think of the other eight UK number one records they had, all of which would, of course, have appeared on Top Of The Pops over the years.

 

So that's the question - apart from Knowing Me Knowing You, what were Abba's eight number ones here in Britain.

 

All the best until next week. B-)

Waterloo, Dancing Queen, Mama Mia, Fernando definitely made it. For the other four I'll go for SOS, Money Money Money, Gimme Gimme Gimme (there's a theme developing here :lol: ) and Chicquatita.

Super Trouper was definitely one of them.

Waterloo, Dancing Queen, The Name of the Game, Mama Mia, Money Money Money, Take A Chance On Me, The Winner Takes It All would be my choices.

Super Trouper was definitely one of them.

Waterloo, Dancing Queen, The Name of the Game, Mama Mia, Money Money Money, Take A Chance On Me, The Winner Takes It All would be my choices.

 

Great attempt, Grebo, as was suedehead's earlier.

 

Unfortunately, neither of you are quite there yet!

 

Suedehead, I would advise you to look to the early eighties as well as the seventies, they definately had number ones at the beginning of the the 1980's, and grebo, you are almost there, just need to take one out of the list that involves finance, and put another one in that involves Spanish sounding things!!! B-)

Yeah I realised after that I should have had Fernando in there instead of Money...

Yes, Grebo, correct. That is how I remember it anyway, if anybody has a different list, then please post here! But I remember it as Waterloo first, then Mama Mia, Fernando, Dancing Queen, Knowing Me Knowing You, The Name Of The Game, Take A Chance On Me, The Winner Takes It All, and Super Trouper.

 

Money Money Money never got to number one, and surprisingly, nor did some of the late seventies records you mentioned Suedehead, such as SOS, for example.

 

Arguably The Name Of The Game was their "luckiest" number one, only topped the charts for one week.

 

My favourite ABBA song? Summer Night City, a great track. Check it out on youtube if you have not heard it. Great song.

Edited March 24, 201213 yr by blackcat

Yes, blackcat your list is correct. I've now allowed myself to look it up :P

Arguably The Name Of The Game was their "luckiest" number one, only topped the charts for one week.

Was just checking chart runs on polyhex and none of their #1 runs was shorter than 2 weeks.

Name of the Game was actually #1 for 4 weeks!