I'd have edited that w*n**r out too.

Indeed ritchie, I agree.

 

Liked it this week, liked the way Marc Bolan looked, preferred that to his normal look, in fact! Pity about what happened less than a year later, I reckon that he still had a good few years left of good music in him.

 

I, like common sense, like Mississippi, surprised that they never had another really big hit. Dutch, weren' they? They could have been the Dutch Abba, if the standard of songs had continued to be as good as Mississippi.

 

Some good soul on tonight, with The Detroit Spinners and Manhattan, and Smokie's record was probably my favourite record of theirs. So all things considered, quite pleased with this week's show from '76.

 

It is hard for me to be objective about some of these things............Paul Nicholas and that Disco Duck song may not be the coolest music in the world, but they still bring a smile to my face when I hear them, the memories just come flooding back.

 

Anyway, reasonably pleased with this week's fare.

Oops, I forgot to watch. I'll have to catch up on iPlayer. At least that means I can fast forward through Disco Duck.

Jonathan King had a letter from the BBC Director Channel following complaints about his song being cut from TOTP BBC4 repeat.

 

Source: http://www.kingofhits.co.uk/index.php?opti...=5&id=75562

 

Dear Jonathan

 

Thank you for your email. Please accept my apologies for the delay in

replying.

 

I am sorry to hear that you were unhappy that your performance was

edited out of an episode of Top of the Pops recently repeated on BBC

Four. The BBC's complaints process begins with a response from the

relevant programme makers and I therefore asked my colleagues in BBC

Four to address this matter. Their response is as follows:

 

"We are sorry that Mr King's appearance was edited out of this

particular programme. We accept that this should not have happened and

we would like to apologise for any upset this caused.

 

We can assure Mr King that there is no policy in place requiring any of

his appearances, or those of any one else, to be removed from repeats we

show on the channel. We can also assure Mr King that his performance

will not be edited out of any future repeat of this particular episode

of Top of the Pops."

 

I hope this response is helpful, but please come back to me if there are

any further points you wish to raise and I will ensure that these are

dealt with in accordance with our complaints process. I want to join

BBC Four in apologising for this incorrect decision.

 

Best wishes

 

Mark Thompson

Director General

BBC

 

Sounds like a load of crap to me. For sure they'll have cut him out on purpose, as they would Gary Glitter.

Indeed ritchie, I agree.

 

 

 

I, like common sense, like Mississippi, surprised that they never had another really big hit. Dutch, weren' they? They could have been the Dutch Abba, if the standard of songs had continued to be as good as Mississippi.

 

The follow-up Smile reached No.24 in early 1977 and is a good song. They have others too. I have one of their Best Of albums called Good For Gold and it's excellent. Check one out.

Edited October 20, 201113 yr by Common Sense

Oops, I forgot to watch. I'll have to catch up on iPlayer. At least that means I can fast forward through Disco Duck.

 

Disco Duck is poor, but nowherer near as bad as Chris "Rod Stewart wannabe" Norman and Smokie. Actually I didn't think it was a great show yesterday. As a Europop fan, I find Pussycat quite dull. The real Dutch ABBA was a group called Champagne that had some great singles like Rock N Roll Star and the fantastically-titled Oh Me Oh My Goodbye, check them out on Youtube.

 

My favourite song last night was DEFINITELY the Detroit Spinners :wub:

Amazing how opinions vary!

 

Thanks common sense, will check out some more pussycat stuff.

 

It is also amazing how the memory can play tricks over the years. I could have sworn that Mississippi was a hit in the summer of 1976. Correct me if I am wrong, but these programmes are more from the autumn now, are they not?

 

Same with Dancing Queen, as well.

 

Can't quite remember - did the Sex Pistols play on top of the pops? Must have been invited to do so, at some stage.

 

For some reason, just can't recall too many punk or heavy metal bands on totp over the years.............................

Mississippi does sound like a summer song doesn't it?

Mississippi does sound like a summer song doesn't it?

 

Yes it does.! It was actually the 3rd best-seller of 1976 with Dancing Queen the 4th, which surprises me as it was No.1 for 4 weeks and Abba were top for 6 weeks!

Edited October 23, 201113 yr by Common Sense

Simon May this week in the days before he became more famous for writing the Eastenders theme. He also did a version of the Crossroads theme and I've a feeling Summer Of My Life was used in the programme.

Caught up with the programme on bbc iplayer this week. Liked Simon May's song a lot, and Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry ----with Ruby Flippar added, of course ------ was great to listen too again.

 

As I say, hard to be objective about some of these old tunes. When you were around at the time as a teenager, and you were enjoying your last few years at school ----- as I was at the time --------- then records from the year of 1976 are just great memories, whether those records are banal or sublime.

 

I do hope that they keep showing these repeats. I look forward to these repeats even more than I used to look forward to current editions of top of the pops a few years ago!

 

 

Very appropriate that I should enter another post on here at this time.

 

RIP Jimmy Savile.

 

Very important part of 1960's and 1970's BBC tv and radio presentation of pop music. Bless you Jimmy, and thanks for the memories.

Edited October 30, 201113 yr by blackcat

Very appropriate that I should enter another post on here at this time.

 

RIP Jimmy Saville.

 

Very important part of 1960's and 1970's BBC tv and radio presentation of pop music. Bless you Jimmy, and thanks for the memories.

Absolutely! And here is a recording of a BBC World Service edition of "The Vintage Chart Show", that Jimmy presented there from March 1987 - November 1989. Of course previous too this, his "Old Record Club" on Radio One, attracted over 12million listeners each week, between January 85 & September 1987. Jimmy, the very first person in Britain to run a Retro chart type show. Which he first introduced on Radio One in October 1973.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?3vm272o679u3b4o

Very appropriate that I should enter another post on here at this time.

 

RIP Jimmy Saville.

 

Very important part of 1960's and 1970's BBC tv and radio presentation of pop music. Bless you Jimmy, and thanks for the memories.

 

 

At least you could have spelled his surname correctly!

At least you could have spelled his surname correctly!

 

Yes, quite right too, apologies for the mistake. Should have been one l, not two.

 

His full name was Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile.

 

RIP. And thanks for the contribution as regarding his World Service shows, Dave.

 

 

For some reason, just can't recall too many punk or heavy metal bands on totp over the years.............................

 

I think quite a few punk acts did go on. The Clash famously never would but I've seen a fair few (good and bad) on TOTP2 over the years. That said, did TOTP2 also show clips from the Old Grey Whistle Test?

 

Metal - your guess is as good as mine. Seem to recall seeing Iron Maiden do Run To The Hills on some clip show but that's a good few years off from '76.

Bands with exotic/colourful names were the order of the day for me in this week's edition. Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, The Average White Band, and The Climax Blues Band.

 

All good fare. As for the records inbetween.................................. :w00t:

 

Pussycat were about to get knocked off by Chicago, were they not? Pity, great song.

 

Nice to see the new dance group, which was really the old dance group of Ruby Flippar minus the men and plus a few more women! They would be named Legs And Co in the end, of course.

 

Love these old editions of totps. Long may they continue.

Edited November 3, 201113 yr by blackcat

Still two more weeks of Pussycat although that includes next week when The Sky At Night is on instead. Then Chicago for three weeks.

 

Then it's...

 

Good one suedehead!

 

Did not realises that Pussycat were number one for so long.

 

"Showwaddy Waddy" - as I pronounce them - ushered in a retro era of their own, in a way. It was after they came along that we started seeing acts like Shaking Stevens emerge, with tremendous success in the UK market.

Punk seemed to make little difference to the chart topping records of the time.

I keep meaning to send an e-mail to the BBC to encourage them to continue showing these programmes. They're a great way to relive music history, effectively "in real time". I just wish they didn't keep skipping a programme each month for Sky At Night.