They were involved in a film project connected to the music of The Beatles. Some of the interpretations of the songs were OK while others were less good. I can't remember what it was called (and it may actually have been in the early 80s).

The only film I can Think of is the obvious one Saturday Night Fever. The younger brother was Andy, he had a huge US no.1 with Shadow Dancing.

The Beatles movie was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and it got royally panned.

The Beatles movie was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and it got royally panned.

 

Yes, the film was the multi-guest Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was made just after the much more successful Saturday Night Fever film. The Sgt. Pepper film featured The Bee Gees performing Beatles songs, although not all songs were from the Pepper album, some were from The Abbey Road album.

 

In spite of the Bee Gees appearance, and the appearance of many other guests in the film, including Alice Cooper, Peter Frampton, George Burns, Billy Preston, the film was indeed panned, and although it did not exactly bomb at the American box office, it did not exactly fare very well either.

 

Never seen the film myself, not sure if it has ever been shown on British television.

 

The Saturday Night Fever film did very well indeed, by way of contrast. That film also featured The Bee Gees, although this time they were just heard, not seen, and they were singing their own songs.

 

At one stage the soundtrack album to SNF was the biggest selling album of all-time, before Michael Jackson's Thriller album achieved mega sales.

 

So thanks to Grebo and Suedehead, and to Fiesta for his Andy Gibb insights.

 

Quite a few interesting things on BBC Four tonight, including a film on Lemmy (the singer from Motorhead, I assume), and various programmes on seventies music.

 

In terms of historical musical presentation, BBC Four would seem to be the station to watch these days.

Edited March 8, 201312 yr by blackcat

You know, when you are only a teenager, 16 years old in my case in 1978, and you are discovering things like good rock music - a lot of that about then - and also discovering girls, with your hormones playing funny tricks, then what better vision is there than to set eyes on sexy Debbie performing Denise on top of the pops! Not that I thought that it was a great record, there were better sounds ahead for Blondie, but I really did have a crush on her, and I ended up loving Blondie's later work. Maybe even the last really great "pop" group to come out of the States.

 

And other good things on the programme this week. Free with Alright Now - a reissue I assume - good punk from Generation X, and from The Jam, with Bruce Foxton taking the lead vocal, unusually.

 

Good soul song from Eruption, and the usual sexy dance routine from Legs & Co.

 

 

We had Hot Chocolate with their own quality brand of rocky soul, and Elkie with a very good MOR song, Liliac Wine.

 

Never a big fan of Tina Charles, but her sound was inoffensive, if not memorable.

 

Besides, the very original and very talented Kate Bush more than made up for the few bits of cheese on tonight's episode. As has been said, there was no one anywhere that sounded like Kate Bush before she came along. A complete one-off!

 

Brian and Michael would not have been everyone's cup of tea, of course, but I had never heard of that particular painter until they had a hit with their eulogy to Lowry, so the record served its purpose in that respect.

 

I personally was very happy with tonight's edition.

 

Two football records on the show this week, one for the Scottish national team, and one for Nottingham Forest. So trivia for this week - as many hit football records over the years in the British charts as one can think of.

 

And also, what was the most successful football record ever made?

 

All the best,

 

BC B-)

Edited March 14, 201312 yr by blackcat

The most successful football song would be Three Lions by Badiel & Skinner and The Lightning Seeds. Before that it may have been Back Home by the 1970 England World Cup Squad.

 

Other hits have included World In Motion (Engandneworder), Blue Is The Colour (Chelsea), Leeds Leeds Leeds and Leeds United (no prizes for guessing), Nice One Cyril (Tottenham), This Time We'll Get It Right (England), Tom Hark (We Want Falmer) (my team, Brighton. Sorry :( ), Ossie's Dream (Tottenham again) and Come On You Reds (Man Utd). There was a time when both Cup Finalists would release a song. Predictably enough most of them were terrible although some were a good deal worse than that.

Yes, right in all aspects, as usual, Suedehead. Three Lions has been an awful lot more successful than the national football team it implies support too!

 

 

And I suppose it is my favourite football song. As a follow up trivia question, there have been at least two charity records ( maybe one or two more I can't think of myself off the top of my head) that have been very successful in terms of raising money for victims of football disasters. Could you name those records, and at least some of the artists involved in those projects.

 

One of them should be no trouble, as I highlighted it on the Haven forum last Christmas myself!

 

Always wondered why there was no really well known football song from the 1966 World cup, staged in England and won by England. Considering the amount of pop talent that was about in this country at that time, I find it astounding that no commercial pop song was recorded for England's winning home tournament.

 

Maybe it was just simply that football and successful pop songs had not yet been associated with each other at that time.

 

Finally, Suedehead, I get the impression, from one of your previous posts, that you are a bit of a Blondie man. If so, good on you!

 

I loved Debbie at that time, even if she was a bit old for me! :heart:

Charity footbal records The Crowd with You'll Never Walk Alone in 1985 and Holly Johnson, Christians, Paul McCartney & Co with Ferry Cross The Mersey in 1989. The former was in aid of the Bradford Stadium Fire and the latter for Hillsborough. I think they both included Gerry Marsden. Off hand dunno who else was involved in the Crowd assemble.

 

Blondie are a great group, their first few singles were before they teamed up with producer Mike Chapman. Parallell Lines I soppose would be their career highlight.

 

Nottingham Forset on this weeks TOTP (which incl. paperlace) who won the League that year, but a little football trivia question, dunno if anyone is good at football, but does anyone know who won the FA cup in 1978?

Edited March 15, 201312 yr by fiesta

Nottingham Forset on this weeks TOTP (which incl. paperlace) who won the League that year, but a little football trivia question, dunno if anyone is good at football, but does anyone know who won the FA cup in 1978?

Ipswich Town beat Arsenal 1-0 in the final game. (FA Cup : Season 1977-78) :)

The Scottish national team didn't feature with Andy Cameron though did they? But they did have hits in 1974 with Easy Easy and 1982 with the wonderfully weird I Have a Dream. They twice hit the top 20 with Englishman Rod Stewart but because both songs are rubbish, I won't mention them.

I support the Blondie comments, they were a great pop group, and the lads at my College particularly enjoyed Debbie n kate on TOTP:)

 

I think the phrase "football song in the charts" should always be preceeded by the word "awful", with about 3 execptions.

 

Blue Is The Colour, World In Motion, 3 Lions, maybe Back Home, Jerusalem..

 

a harder question would be to name another football (non-charity) song that isn't awful! At least Nice One Cyril was mildly amusing I suppose

 

:)

 

 

Oh, while we're at it...can anyone name the only person to appear on Top of the Pops twice in the same episode on different records?

Ipswich Town beat Arsenal 1-0 in the final game. (FA Cup : Season 1977-78) :)

 

Correct :)

Oh, while we're at it...can anyone name the only person to appear on Top of the Pops twice in the same episode on different records?

Tony Burrows?

Oh, while we're at it...can anyone name the only person to appear on Top of the Pops twice in the same episode on different records?

 

What a great trivia question, Ritchie. And no, I don't know the answer, off the top of my head.

 

If it isn't Tony Burrows, as Fiesta suggests, I would go for someone like Robert Smith, who was a member of The Cure, but also of Siouxsie and her Banshees.

 

If not, then next guess would be someone like Michael Jackson, who would have had hits under his own name and also under the Jackson banner.

 

But I am only guessing.

 

Going back to football songs, there have been some truly atrocious attempts at singing by professional players, of course, including questionable efforts from Kevin Keegan, Waddle And Hoddle, and various Liverpool players on the anfield rap.

Edited March 15, 201312 yr by blackcat

Yes, it's Tony Burrows as far as two different acts goes, though others must have been in the background/producer/vocals or charity choirs like Band Aid I reckon even if its just xmas totp...

There must have been an episode which featured the original Band Aid and Wham!

 

And, yes, I was a big Blondie fan back in the 70s/80s and still enjoy their music now.

 

BTW, we should add He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother to the list of football charity songs.

Oh, while we're at it...can anyone name the only person to appear on Top of the Pops twice in the same episode on different records?

 

I assume it might be Robert Smith, who appearing on both Siouxie & The Banshees and The Cure on the same edition.

I assume it might be Robert Smith, who appearing on both Siouxie & The Banshees and The Cure on the same edition.

 

Yes, that was my way of thinking was well, Brett, Richie has not yet confirmed the answer.

 

Tony Burrows must be the favoured number one answer though. As well as being the number one voice of Edison Lighthouse, he was in about a million different groups in the early 1970's!

Sorry, been offline since Friday. Now, with all the football talk, that should have been a clue...

 

The answer:

 

Steve Archibald in May 1982 with Spurs and Scotland. Club and country duty there.

 

From Wikipedia: Archibald appeared twice in the same episode of Top of the Pops in 1982, firstly singing "We Have a Dream" with the Scotland World Cup squad starring B. A. Robertson and then alongside his Tottenham Hotspur team mates and Chas & Dave singing "Tottenham, Tottenham".