I've just watched Friday's episode. Apart from the breakers section,there were no videos. We saw six studio performances. I think it might be a while since that happened. Bridge To Your Heart by Wax is a great pop song. That would have been Graham Gouldman's first appearance on TOTP since Dreadlock Holiday was no.1 for 10cc in 1978.

I've just watched Friday's episode. Apart from the breakers section,there were no videos. We saw six studio performances. I think it might be a while since that happened. Bridge To Your Heart by Wax is a great pop song. That would have been Graham Gouldman's first appearance on TOTP since Dreadlock Holiday was no.1 for 10cc in 1978.

 

Yes a great single, so was Right Between The Eyes though not a big hit sadly that one. :(

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Edited April 28, 20196 yr by Mark.

Thanks for posting Mark, I was just about to watch the 10/9 episode when I saw this. We really do miss some quality episodes of Totp when Mike Smith presents - i mean when was the last time Squeeze appeared? 1982?

 

Here's the episode preview

 

Totp 3/9/87 Presented by Mike Smith

 

Squeeze Hour Glass

Levert Casanova

The Housemartins Me & The Farmer

Cliff Richard Some People

The Cult Wildflower (Video)

Johnny Hates Jazz I Don't Wanna Be a Hero

***Rick Astley Never Gonna Give You Up ***No 1

Fat Boys with the Beech Boys Whipe Out (Video)

 

Big jump to to the 15/10/87 on totp this weekend!

Top of the Pops 15/10/1987 Presented by Gary Davies & Peter Powell

 

UB40 Maybe Tomorrow

Five Star Strong As Steel (Video)

The Alarm Rain in the Summertime

Terence Trent Derby Dance Little Sister

Los Lobas Come on, lets go (Video)

Banarama Love in the First Degree (Video)

Fleetwood Mac Little Lies (Video)

Was (Not Was) Walk the Dinosaur (Video)

The FatBack Band I Found Lovin

****No1 The Bee Gees You Win Again No1****

Billy Idol Mony Mony (Video)

 

Top of the Pops 22/10/1987 Presented by Gary Davies & Simon Bates

 

Was(Not Was) Walk the Dinosaur

Los Lobas Come On, Lets Go (From TOTP USA)

Pet Shop Boys Rent

Kiss Crazy Crazy Nights (From TOTP USA)

Erasure The Circus

The Cure Just Like Heaven (Video)

Ray Parker Jnr I Don't Think That Man Should Sleep Alone (Video)

George Michael Faith (Video)

***Bee Gees You Win Again *** No1 3 Weeks

Bananarama Love In The First Degree (Video)

 

 

 

Shocked we have nearly finished 1987. I haven't really been following the re-runs though, need to catch up now. We will see how completely different things are in early 1988 to what they were in 1987 as house really starts to become a big trend in the chart.

 

'You Win Again' is brilliant kickstarting their later era revival. I also really like 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' in 1993.

 

'Rent' is one of the Pet Shop Boys best I think, the production is great and quite atmospheric.

 

Faith is OK but a bit cheesy and too teenage pop for my liking, George Michael would get a lot better in the 90s imo.

 

Love In The First Degree swiftly following Never Gonna Give You Up - well that's definitely the Stock Aitken Waterman era in full flow now!

 

I don't like the new graphics we see in 1987 on top of the pops with the song titles without capital letters. It just looks like the BBC were trying to be too trendy with the graphic presentation!

Edited May 7, 20196 yr by TheSnake

Think we lose the main stage of the set soon as we move to the late 80s/early 90s set!

The new bee gee sound and beats was due to maurice gibb who based it on depeche modes more industrial synth period. It worked beautifully...

I've been watching the four missing episodes over the last week on youtube. Mick Jagger made his first appearance since 1970,taking over the studio and using all the stages in the same way that Adam Ant did a few years earlier with Goody Two Shoes. 'Let's Work' was only number 41 that week so TOTP broke their own rules but they were obviously eager to have him on the show. We also had some other veteran male singers. Gary Numan performing his remix of Cars,Steve Winwood singing his remix of Valerie (later sampled by Eric Prydz on Call On Me) and Cliff Richard with what I think is his best song 'Some People'.

 

Other highlights were Karel Fialka performing the wonderful Hey Matthew (without Matthew) and what I think is ABC's final TOTP appearance with The Night You Murdered Love. We also had the launch of TOTP America so we will now see American acts in the LA studio rather than on video if they are not in the UK. This started with LL Cool J's I Need Lurve,memorably rhyming huddle with puddle.

Some people is prob the final great cliff single. Katel fialka also fab, i also charted his 1980 track the eyes have it. Abc can do wrong for me. Just caught them yet again with a ful orchestra and still a brilliant back catalogue which they did, including recent lexicon of love 2 tracks and night you murdered love. They sound so much more full bodied, powerful and romantic with the south ban sinfonia. Highly recommend!

The Karel Fialka track production does sound a bit Ace of Base-esque. Very good track anyway, I like the 'drop' in it!

The new bee gee sound and beats was due to maurice gibb who based it on depeche modes more industrial synth period. It worked beautifully...

 

It's turning into my fav BGs track as I've overplayed the others I think!

Very surprised that 1988 is very near already, guess that's what the missed Mike Smith editions do. Speaking of which, we should be getting more episodes than ever after his exit in early '88 after presenting just 4 episodes from January to March, so to wrap that year up we should be getting back to back episodes in one night more often! Definitely looking forward to house becoming a bigger thing in the charts, on the last one of 87 we'll be seeing House Arrest by Krush, one of the first proper British-made house hits, good song.

 

The Story of 1988 and 1988 Big Hits look likely to be shown in early June, as the December episodes will be shown next week and the week after. Will be weird seeing Fairytale of New York and other Christmas songs in summer, but the actual Christmas show will sadly be skipped due to Smithy. I have the episode downloaded already, not watching until the editions leading up to it are done and over with.

 

One of the best episodes on recently has been 27/08/87, a very strong line-up indeed (PSB's, Then Jericho, Black, T'Pau, Prince + Sheena Easton- all great songs), the one before that was decent as well (Wax, Sherrick, Spagna, good stuff), surprisingly no videos besides a couple of breakers! Disappointed that we missed 01/10/87 due to Smith though, another pretty strong episode with only Shaky being the weak track in there.

Is the Xmas episode on you tube?

Not yet, but should be soon. There are a few performances from the show on there already though (PSBs, T'Pau, Bee Gees).

I hope it's on in time as it's always a shame to miss it!

I suspect that 1988 will be coming next month.