Lift Off With Ayshea & TOTP 1972

Flicking through my old notebooks for 1972, I was a big fan of pop, charts & popTV, Ive come across these notes for some TV shows I saw - long since lost I think.

Ayshea Brough hosted an ITV kids TV popshow which I loved, it often had future hits, Ayshea was fab (she used to be on Gerry Anderson's UFO) and her peak moment came in 1973 when she joined Roy Wood & Wizzard for a brilliant performance of See My Baby Jive (also now lost I think)...

Anyway "Lift Off"

Son Of My father - Chicory Tip (rating 9/10 - it had been ahit already I think)

Oh What A Beautiful Morning - Gordon McRae (from Oklahoma)

Crying Laughing Loving Lying - Labi Siffre (4/10 - but soon to be 10/10)

Come Into The Warm - Driftwood (6/10 - this was a tv advert song, ovaltine or something like it)

What's Your Name - Chicory Tip (10/10) - follow-up hit, I loved Chicory Tip records well after the hits had dried up, what's not to like, Giorgio Moroder of "I Feel Love" brilliance was using synths in pop, albeit novelty bugglegum pop

Without You - Ayshea Brough (she did a song each week but liking her it didnt affect my rating it 1/10) Nilsson's hit almost certainly

Shoobie Do Wa - Peter Noone (9/10) Herman minus Hermits, unfair flop, he had a string of good flop singles during 1971/1972, all deserved to be hits, but the pop biz is fickle...

A Funny Kind Of Feeling - Spode (7/10). No idea. Don't remember it, or them, but I liked it...!

"Top Of The Pops"

Leeds United - Leeds United FC (beginning) - (dear oh dear, that wouldve gotten everyone switching off..)

Metal Guru - T.Rex (must have been Number One, I dont think these are in order - I LOVED this record from the moment I heard it.)

Sister Jane - New World (Aussie group, several hits, Chinn-Chapman in folk mode, they seem to have been forgotten and all trace of them erased, but they were quite pleasantly inoffensive and had the original Living Next Door To Alice)

A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum (original note "film 1967")

Oh Babe What Would You Say - Hurricane Smith (Beatles engineer, also no existing performances, and 3 hits - I also loved this record)

Vincent - Don McLean (original notes: "film - same as American Pie")

Me & Julio Down By The School Yard - Paul Simon ("dancing" - Pans People no doubt)

Lady Eleanore - Lindisfarne ("film - from same as Meet Me On The Corner")

More Than Ever - Val Doonican

Isn't Life Strange - Moody Blues

Could It Be Forever - David Cassidy (I loved the Partridge Family, and their records, his solo records less so...)

I guess the BBC has details of this lost episode, if it's all correct as written down.

Oh how I wish I could see these again. Oh how I want to slap the dumb ass BBC execs for erasing them. If only Bing Crosby had been on it they would have kept the episode!

cheers!