Top of the Pops 5/5/1988 Presented by Bruno Brooke's & Adrian John

 

Interesting they considered New Orders highest NE a RE at 10! Were the sales combined with the 1983 version?

I didn't notice that. In those days,you could only buy a single if it was in the shops. I doubt if any of the shops whose sales counted towards the chart would have had the 1983 version on their shelves so that chart position would have been the remix only.

I think it was counted - didn't it have the original version as part of the CD single? I certainly have a CD edition containing all of the versions. Checks: yes 700,000 the original 12" version, so the subsequent multi-versions took over a million combined, it says on wikipedia.

 

That edition of TOTP had 3 absolutely awful tracks, oops! Plus 4 classics.... Talk about extreme!

Top of the Pops 12/5/1988 Presented by Mike Read & Simon Mayo

 

Harry Enfield Loadsa Money £££ No4

Prince Alphabet Street (Video) No9

The Adventures Broken Land No23

Narada Divine Emotions No16

 

Breakers **Liverpool FC Anfield Rap (Video) No13 NE

Breakers **Belinda Carlisle Circle in the Sand (Video) No31 NE

Breakers **Derek B Bad Young Brother (Video) No26

Breakers **Prefab Spout The King Of Rock N Roll (Video) No28

 

Starturn on 45 Pints Pump Up The Bitter No12

Wet Wet Wet & Billy Bragg With A Little Help From My Friends No5 NE

 

***No1 Fairground Attraction Perfect No1***

Kylie Minogue Got To Be Certain (Video) No15 NE

 

 

Broken Land by The Adventures is a fantastic song. It would be their only top 40 hit. The King Of Rock'n' Roll is a good one as well and Prefab Sprout's biggest hit single. I think the next Kylie single after this one will be The Locomotion.

Interesting they considered New Orders highest NE a RE at 10! Were the sales combined with the 1983 version?

 

They were combined- it's the only way it's position on the Gallup end of decade chart can be explained. It was actually always available and a consistent seller in the intervening years- it was the 391st best seller of 1985, 425th the year after and 451st in 1987 though we're only talking around 15k a year for those positions.

Hi '80s friends,

 

Anyone of you have TOTP june 05, 11, 25 1987 in original quality to trade? I was traveling overseas last march ;/

 

EQ.

 

Top of the Pops 19/5/1988 Presented by Simon Bates & Gary Davies

 

Prefab Sprout The King of Rock n Roll No 13

Kylie Minogue Got To Be Certain (Video) No 4

Derek B Bad Young Brother No 16

 

Breakers **Heart What About Love (Video) No 19

Breakers **Ofra Haza Im nin' alu (Video) No 25

Breakers **Hothouse Flowers Don't Go (Video) No 22 NE

Breakers **Debbie Gibson Out of the Blue (Video) No 27

 

Aztec Camera Somewhere in my Heart No 17

Belinda Carlisle Circle in the Sand (Video) No 13

***No 1 Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey She's Leaving Home/Wet Wet Wet With A Little Help From My Friends No 1***

Liverpool FC The Anfield Rap (Video) No 3

 

 

 

Another enjoyable episode here - good to here Prefab Sprout live in the studio and the Aztec Camera song is fab and an absolute classic - made for radio wondefulness lol. Scritti Politi return to the top 40 again and this episode made me take notice of the 3 mentioned bands and the fact they had been having hits since the start of he decade but we're having their biggest hit this late in the decade all of a sudden for me anyway. Poor no1 but always good to see Billy Bragg do well.

Edited September 13, 20195 yr by Steve201

Top of the Pops 26/5/1988 Presented by Steve Wright & Mark Goodier

 

Debbie Gibson Out of the Blue no19

LA Mix Check This Out (Video) No13

Ofra Haza Im Nin 'Alu No15

 

Breakers **Climie Fisher This Is Me (Video) No22

Breakers **Aswad Give A Little Love (Video) NE No25

Breakers **The Style Council Life At A Top People's Health Farm (Video) NE No28

 

Hot House Flowers Don't Go No11

Mica Paris My One Temptations No17

Scritti Politti Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy) No16

***No1 Billy Bragg & Cara Tivey She's Leaving Home/Wet Wet Wet With A Little Help From My Friends No1***

Heart What About Love (Video) No14

 

The Scritti Politti song is great,their best single I think. I also like the Ofra Haza song.

Last week BBC4 showed the episodes for 9th and 16th June. This week they are showing 30th June and 7th July. What happened to the one for 23rd June? It was presented by Nicky Campbell and Mark Goodier. There's no one dodgy on the list of performers so why isn't it being shown?

I wonder why that is? Must tweet them?!!

 

Is tonights Janice Longs final episode? She hasn't Presented in ages, maybe since 1987!?

Just checked there on the twitter feed myself and a few others on here follow and they said it was skipped because the quality of the archive footage wasn't good enough quality to broadcast live(audio issues).

 

There's some clips online by all accounts.

Edited September 27, 20195 yr by Steve201

OK,I'll look for the performances on youtube. UB40 & Chrissie Hynde and Eurythmics were both in the studio that week.

 

Janice Long will be back on 4th August but I can't see her listed beyond that.

Sad to see Janice going and by the end of this year Peter Powell and Simon Bates as well - all long running legends on the show making way for the 90s crew.

 

Didn't think we would have the Eurythmics back on totp as they were past their peak by 1988!

Top of the Pops 2/6/1988 Presented by Peter Powell & Nicky Campbell

 

Aswad Give A Little Love (Video) No15

Desireless Voyage Voyage (Video) No14

Tiffany I Saw Him Standing There (Video) No23

 

Breakers **Timelords Doctorin The Tardis (Video) No22

Breakers **Voice of the Beehive Don't Call and Baby (Video) No27 NE

Breakers **Five Star Another Weekend (Video) No25 NE

 

Aztec Camera Somewhere in my Heart No5

Rod Stewart Lost in You (Video) No21

 

***No1 Wet Wet Wet With A Little Help From My Friends/Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey She's Leaving Home ***No1

Belinda Carlisle Circles in the Sand (Video) No4

 

I was wondering why the studio wasn't used for that episode.

 

I've had another look at the video for Voyage Voyage. There is no one obvious I can spot. Two of them look like Mark Benton and Nadia Sawalha.

I was wondering why the studio wasn't used for that episode.

 

I've had another look at the video for Voyage Voyage. There is no one obvious I can spot. Two of them look like Mark Benton and Nadia Sawalha.

 

It was the guy who would star in NCIS a few decades later!

 

David Caruso!

Edited September 29, 20195 yr by Steve201

Top of the Pops 9/6/1988 Presented by Peter Powell & Simon Mayo

 

The Timelords Doctorin The Tardis No4

Five Star Another Weekend (Video) No18

Voice Of The Beehive Don't Call Me Baby No23

Mica Paris My One Temptation No7

 

**Breakers Fields of the Nephilim Moonchild (Video) No28

**Breakers Sabrina Boys(Summertime) (Video) No24 NE

**Breakers James Brown I'm Real (Video) No31

 

Maxi Priest Wild World No15

Morrissey Everyday Is Like Sunday No12

***No1 Wet Wet Wet With A Little Help From My Friends/Billy Bragg & Cara Tivey She's Leaving Home ***No1 4th Week

Erasure Chains of Love (Video) No19

 

Top of the Pops 16/6/1988 Presented by Mike Read & Gary Davies

 

Sabrina Boys No4

Erasure Chains of Love No11

The Sisters of Mercy Lucretia My Reflection No20 NE

 

**Breakers Fat Boys/Chubbie Checker The Twist (Video) No19 NE

**Breakers Eurythmics You Have a Place to Chill In My Heart (Video) No25

**Breakers A-Ha The Blood That Moves The Body (Video) No26 NE

**Breakers Sade Paradise (Video) No29

 

Matt Bianco Don't Blame it on that Girl No21

Bros I Owe You Nothing No2 NE

***No1 The Timelords Doctorin The Tardis No1***

The Pasadenas Tribute (Right On) (Video) No16