Feels Like I'm In Love is very catchy and one of my favourite songs of all time.

Mungo Jerry's Long Legged Woman Dressed In Black rocks and is very different to In The Summertime

Edited June 30, 20159 yr by fiesta

The names of the legs and co girls made me fall off my chair laughing - never get away wih it nowadays lol. Great no1 again!!

TOTP moves into mid-August 1980. Earlier in the evening, BBC1 had shown a programme live from the Democratic convention where, as the incumbent President, Jimmy Carter was confirmed as the party’s candidate for November’s election. That election didn’t go terribly well for him.

 

This week’s special guest - Roger Daltrey. This week’s show was only half an hour, so there should be no cuts.

 

Ultravox get things underway once the waffle about upcoming acts is over. Their first performance with their new singer, one Midge Ure. The change went rather well for a while.

 

Classic early 80s Bowie next with its famous video.

 

Legs & Co do their thang to ELO. Oh dear, there’s a spinning globe which must have cost about £2.50. Daltrey’s intro was also pretty excruciating.

 

It took a long time for this Mike Berry song to be a hit. It would have been no great loss if we were still waiting.

 

This week, we get the full 30 to 11 countdown in one go.

 

Grace Jones with a terrible cover of a Pretenders song. I can only think of one decent cover of a Pretenders song. Naturally, that was by Suede.

 

Village People trying to repeat the success of Go West and YMCA. Somehow, this actually out-peaked Go West.

 

Sue Wilkinson fills this week’s unremembered song slot. Who? Oh, it sounds vaguely familiar now. Still, I’m sure I will have forgotten it again before long. I hope so anyway.

 

Then we get the top ten, giving us another clip of the Bowie video. Most of the rest of it is awful.

 

That takes us into the number one from Abba for a second week.

 

It all ends with Diana Ross, or DRoss as she is sometimes known.

sadly I yam out t country at t mo, so havent seen this. I do remember it though, what can I say I have a great memory :P Actually, I had my first (very expensive) videotapes (£20 a shot) at this time, so shall we say I got to record the bits I liked and still have a 3rd generation quality-dropping VHS copy of a Betamax copy of the original shortlived but very good Philips video2000 copy.

 

Ultravox's new singer, at least as far as I was concerned when I saw them recently, still doing a decent job B-)

 

I do believe i'm the only ELO fan on buzzjack! You're all wrong. :P

 

The Mike Berry song was sweet and old-fashioned. It could have been worse - he could have done the Are You Being Served theme tune!

 

Grace Jones is never terrible, Chrissie gave it her blessing*, and it's pure class, stylish and original. :cheer:

 

Village People did so well cos it was from a terrible movie which a lot of young impressionable bachelors enjoyed for fond memories of a showtune shower scene. I certainly can't think of any other reason why it sold....

 

This week's "cough splutter soul legend cough" © popchartfreak moment: Diana Ross. Admittedly she turned her hand quite expertly to DRoss in her latter days, but her Chic period ain't one of 'em. (See also previous "cough splutter soul legend cough" Top Of The Pops comments for Chic and Nile Rodgers) :P

 

* (Chrissie Island Records liner notes: "Like all the other London punks, I wanted to do reggae, and I wrote "Private Life". When I first heard Grace's version I thought 'Now that's how it's supposed to sound!' In fact it was one of the highpoints of my career - what with Sly and Robbie being the masters, and Grace Jones with her scorching delivery. Someone told me it was Chris Blackwell's idea - thanks Chris" B-) )

I do believe i'm the only ELO fan on buzzjack! You're all wrong. :P

Not at all. At their best, ELO were very good. 10538 Overture was a great track and A New world Record and Out Of The Blue were very good albums.

 

My comment on this ELO song was referring to the Legs & Co nonsense, not the song.

Was this the one where Daltrey made a gay comment about Village People, "watch your backs"? If so it was cut.

Edited July 3, 20159 yr by Common Sense

Was this the one where Daltrey made a gay comment about Village People, "watch your backs"? If so it was cut.

It was. Somebody suggested that Daltrey used his Glastonbury fee to pay the BBC to cut that bit.

Yes, there is a clip going around Twitter at the moment of Daltrey's full homophobic introduction. Can't believe he then followed it up by saying "there are some great birds on the show this week, here's one" or something like that before introducing Sue Wilkinson.

 

Also not sure why he kept going on and on about TOTP not showing The Clash when it was well known that they said they would never appear on TOTP and also the fact they had nothing out (Bankrobber wasn't far away though).

 

Can't agree with you about Grace Jones though, Suedehead. Her cover of Private Life has always been great - probably the highlight of this week's show.

Have to agree with PopCF about La Ross. Although it really could have been anyone singing the song.

 

Basically everything Rodgers/Edwards did during this period was incredible. And yes I do include Sister Sledge in that. Genius pop music. End of.

 

Always a joy to see that Bowie video. So iconic.

 

And the Grace Jones track was brilliant. Absolutely blinding cover.

 

So three cracking songs along with a couple of more than passable tracks (Ultravox, ELO) and ABBA so this has been the best edition for a while.

 

 

 

 

TOTP moves into mid-August 1980. Earlier in the evening, BBC1 had shown a programme live from the Democratic convention where, as the incumbent President, Jimmy Carter was confirmed as the party’s candidate for November’s election. That election didn’t go terribly well for him.

 

This week’s special guest - Roger Daltrey. This week’s show was only half an hour, so there should be no cuts.

 

Ultravox get things underway once the waffle about upcoming acts is over. Their first performance with their new singer, one Midge Ure. The change went rather well for a while.

 

Classic early 80s Bowie next with its famous video.

 

Legs & Co do their thang to ELO. Oh dear, there’s a spinning globe which must have cost about £2.50. Daltrey’s intro was also pretty excruciating.

 

It took a long time for this Mike Berry song to be a hit. It would have been no great loss if we were still waiting.

 

This week, we get the full 30 to 11 countdown in one go.

 

Grace Jones with a terrible cover of a Pretenders song. I can only think of one decent cover of a Pretenders song. Naturally, that was by Suede.

 

Village People trying to repeat the success of Go West and YMCA. Somehow, this actually out-peaked Go West.

 

Sue Wilkinson fills this week’s unremembered song slot. Who? Oh, it sounds vaguely familiar now. Still, I’m sure I will have forgotten it again before long. I hope so anyway.

 

Then we get the top ten, giving us another clip of the Bowie video. Most of the rest of it is awful.

 

That takes us into the number one from Abba for a second week.

 

It all ends with Diana Ross, or DRoss as she is sometimes known.

 

 

Was that the one where Ted Kennedy gave a fantastic concession speech?

OK, here we go and it’s McFadden and Whitehead over the chart. Let’s hope this is the low point.

 

It’s improving already with The Skids. Not great but better than McFadden & Whitehead.

 

Time for another nostalgia-fest from August 1980. According to the BBC Genome site, Beatrix Potter appeared in a programme on books later in the evening. That’s quite impressive as she had been dead for nearly 37 years by then. Cliff Richard joins Steve Wright as this week’s co-presenter. It’s back to a 40-minute programme, so there will be cuts.

 

Talking of which, the Nick Straker Band got things under way with their only top forty hit, but that has fallen victim to the editor’s knife.

 

We have Esther Rantzen to blame for Sheena Easton. This one was released earlier in the year and flopped but it got re-released after 9 To 5 was a hit. Sadly, Modern Girl followed it into the top ten.

 

On to The Jam with their intro stolen from The Beatles’ Taxman.

 

Shakey has been cut. Never mind. The only other performance of Marie Marie is in a Yewtreed show, so we won’t be seeing it in the early showing. No great loss.

 

When he wasn’t making sexist or homophobic remarks on last week’s show, Roger Daltrey was busy calling for The Clash to be on the show. However, the band always refused to appear. Even telling them that the alternative was for Legs & Co to do a routine to their song didn’t do the trick. So, here they are, with their interpretation of Bank Robber. What could possibly go wrong? Naturally, we get a sexist comment from Steve Wright. And, yes, the ideas meeting came up with “Let’s have lots of bars” for the routine.

 

Billy Joel next with a decent enough song, leading into a rundown form 30 to 21, complete with a dreadful Jamaican accent for Bob Marley.

 

Now it’s time for Hazel O’Connor with the wonderful Eighth Day, complete with pogoing in the audience.. Back in 2003, I went on the anti-Iraq war march in Dublin. Hazel O’Connor was also on the march and performed this song at the subsequent rally. I even had a brief chat with her afterwards.

 

A decent run of songs continued with The Piranhas, but they too have fallen victim to the axe.

 

Then it all goes horribly wrong with Kelly Marie and a forgotten Cliff song.

 

The top ten rundown ends with a brilliant new number one from David Bowie.

 

Finally, it’s ELO over the end credits. We are spared another airing for that cheap globe from last time.

Just noticed TOTP started doing in 1980 what was introduced 18 years later on the BBC Radio 1 countdown with Mark Goodier, a Top 10 countdown with snippets of music, but on TOTP in video form.

 

BTW Mark Introduced that feature in August 1998.

Just noticed TOTP started doing in 1980 what was introduced 18 years later on the BBC Radio 1 countdown with Mark Goodier, a Top 10 countdown with snippets of music, but on TOTP in video form.

 

BTW Mark Introduced that feature in August 1998.

 

Yes, I used to record them faithfully each week as a nice little chart souvenir on video - it was far too expensive to keep the whole episode on £20 tapes (2 hours) so could only record my very faves (Abba, Bowie this last week or 2) and the top 10 bits.

Great No1, in fact two classics in a row!

Our weekly time travel takes us to the end of August 1980. The daytime schedule was largely devoted to the first day of the centenary Ashes Test with the first two sessions on BBC1 before coverage switched to BBC2. It’s another 40-minute programme, so there will be cuts. BA Robertson is this week’s guest host. Bang Bang.

 

We start with the one and only hit from Canadians The Barracudas. I say hit, it was at its peak of number 37 this week. The bar for worst miming of the week has been set very low.

 

Gary Numan next with his fifth successive top ten hit.

 

The Selecter’s four hits peaked at successively lower positions. This is the third of them. I can’t say I remember it.

 

Now we get Mike Berry with the song that bored many people to tears a couple weeks ago. Yawn again. That sounds like it could be the name of a tribute act.

 

Another forgotten song, this time from The Skids. Oh good grief, there are some children chanting.

 

On to Elton John with one of his lesser-known hits. I wonder what was said about the dress code on his invitation.

 

Sue Wilkinson was next, but she hasn’t made the cut.

 

Ian Dury and the Blockheads also get axed with a title that would raise rather more eyebrows now than was the case in 1980.

 

A repeat performance from Village People has, thankfully, been dropped as well.

 

The logical way to follow Village People (in TOTP-land anyway) is, of course, Judas Priest. Possibly the most soporific song ever recorded by a supposed metal band.

 

The top ten rundown serves as an introduction to David Bowie, still at number one and the highlight of this week’s show by a very long way.

 

Finally, The Beat over the end credits.

 

The Proms start tomorrow, but TOTP continues so, next week we reach September.

 

I haven’t mentioned the quality of the presenters. I’m not sure mere words can describe how bad they were.

The Mike Berry song dates from the early 20th century, I'm sure those old enough to recall it enjoyed it - I thought it was sweet and old-fashioned at the time.

 

I liked the first half up to Elton John, and it was all downhill after that apart from Bowie/Beat.... :(

 

B A Robertson was just annoying!

 

Not many big hits this week and Elton John was going through a spell of not many big hits. He wasn't working with Bernie Taupin from Part Time Love in 1978 to Blue Eyes in 1982 all were written by or with other songwriters. Sartorial Eloquence was written with Tom Robinson. The only ones I like from this era of his is Part Time Love and Blue Eyes.

Edited July 17, 20159 yr by fiesta

Glad I caught up with this weeks TOTP, rather than watched it during transmission.

I cut short MOST of the songs. Only Gary Numan and Bowie, especially Bowie's, I liked.