Another gem that has come through for me is Night Rider by ELO . I'm glad Paul Nicholas has finally gone away for the time being.We're going to have weeks and weeks of Elton & Kiki though through the summer.

We're going to have weeks and weeks of Elton & Kiki though through the summer.

Oh joy :nocheer:

Watching old Top of the Pops is always worth a laugh!

They are worth watching currently if only for the beautiful Cherry Gillespie (Pan's People, Ruby Flipper).

As for last night's show, there weren't many gems amongst all the dross i.e J.J Barrie - No Charge (how the hell did that get to No.1?????????)

 

I bought No Charge. Good song with a good message for kids.

Oh joy :nocheer:

 

Followed by Dancing Queen then Mississippi, which is my fave song from 1976.

I bought No Charge. Good song with a good message for kids.

 

I thought it was sentimental tripe at the time and I still think that.

 

Followed by Dancing Queen then Mississippi, which is my fave song from 1976.

 

Neither of those songs are great but they are many times better than No Charge and Combine Harvester.

No Charge is not a patch on the real great moral record for kiddies, number one at Christmas in 1969 - "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris! ;)

 

Some good top of the pops stuff on tonight - Saturday - very late tonight, begins after midnight, I think, on BBC Four. For nostalgia junkies only, of course.

Roxy Music, with Let's Stick together, was the pick of last Thursday's show, I reckon. Not that they were in the studio to do it, though!

 

Of other records, well, I have never heard of the Surprise Girls, so their version of one of Macca's best tunes, Got To Get You Into My Life, was...........well, a surprise! Never heard of them before, never heard of them since!

 

I like the Real thing, got memories from hearing their tunes always.

 

As for number one, well, I suppose that there have been worse number ones than the Wurzels!!! :o

 

 

That version of Got To Get You Into My Life was atrocious. Thankfully it wasn't a hit. The Surprise Sisters had a minor hit earlier in 1976 before disappearing into well deserved obscurity.

That version of Got To Get You Into My Life was atrocious. Thankfully it wasn't a hit. The Surprise Sisters had a minor hit earlier in 1976 before disappearing into well deserved obscurity.

 

Is there a reason why the first songs played on TOTP 1976 (Glitter Band, Surprise Sisters) weren't " in the pops"? Were they songs that we intended to be hits but never were, or something else entirely?

Started off quite well this week, I thought, with Mark Bolan proving to be a good contrast to the later sickening smiling faces of the Brotherhood Of Man!!! :angry:

 

Gallagher and Lyle and Peter Frampton proved good tunesmiths, I even liked Liverpool Expresse's offering.

 

There's always good music about, in any era. Depending on your taste, of course.

 

On the negative side...................I take it The Wurzels did eventually slip from number one........................the sooner the better!!!!

Is there a reason why the first songs played on TOTP 1976 (Glitter Band, Surprise Sisters) weren't " in the pops"? Were they songs that we intended to be hits but never were, or something else entirely?

They were various R1 DJs Records Of The Week.

Very MOR this week, was TOTP 1976, again, roxy music and that magical appearance by Jerry Hall was the highlight of the show for me.

 

I liked Art Garfunkel's rendition of the Stevie Wonder/Yvonne Wright composition I Believe. Art has a great singing voice.

 

Played out with the Beach Boys Good Vibrations, a great song, of course, but it says something when a programme has to highlight a song from nearly 10 years before the programme was made to add a bit of class to its closing sequences.

 

As I keep saying, you can see why punk came along when it did..................... :angry: :angry:

Very MOR this week, was TOTP 1976, again, roxy music and that magical appearance by Jerry Hall was the highlight of the show for me.

 

I liked Art Garfunkel's rendition of the Stevie Wonder/Yvonne Wright composition I Believe. Art has a great singing voice.

 

Played out with the Beach Boys Good Vibrations, a great song, of course, but it says something when a programme has to highlight a song from nearly 10 years before the programme was made to add a bit of class to its closing sequences.

 

As I keep saying, you can see why punk came along when it did..................... :angry: :angry:

Good Vibrations returned to the chart in 1976. A great summer song for a great summer.

 

I hope they do a catch up at some point as we are now three weeks behind.

Some reasonable stuff on the latest edition, I thought. Some good soul sounds from Dorothy Moore and Candi Staton, an off the wall offering from the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, some interesting sexual innuendo's from 5000 volts, and even a track from Tubular Bells. Tony Blackburn seemed even more happy than normal!

 

Of course, we are going to have that Kiki Dee and Elton John record bombarding our senses for the next 10 editions or so. :o

 

Can't be helped....................

I thought this week's was pretty poor apart from SAHB. I didn't dislike the rest as much as I did at the time but it was still decidedly mediocre.

LOL! Mediocre aren't the word for this week's edition, in my view. P*ss poor would be a more apt description!

 

Obviously there was the odd gem - Back In The USSR is one of my favourite tracks off the Beatles White album, although I believe it was released as a single in 1976 to promote one of their Rock and Roll compilation albums.

 

Good ballads by Liverpool Express and Doctor Hook, if one is into that kind of thing.

 

As for the rest.........................maybe it is tackful not to say too much!

 

Let's just say that I preferred JJ Barrie at number one!!! :o

Jonathan King was edited out!

Jonathan King was edited out!

 

Really, commom sense? Did not know that.