blackcat

Very MOR this week, was TOTP 1976, again, roxy music and that magical appearance by Jerry Hall was the highlight of the show for me. I liked Art Garfunkel's rendition of the Stevie Wonder/Yvonne Wright composition I Believe. Art has a great singing voice. Played out with the Beach Boys Good Vibrations, a great song, of course, but it says something when a programme has to highlight a song from nearly 10 years before the programme was made to add a bit of class to its closing sequences. As I keep saying, you can see why punk came along when it did..................... :angry: :angry:

I think that I have done enough posts to start posting visual clips on here. So here is that menacing Cape Fear score I was talking about: Works a treat, I think, sums up the theme of the film perfectly.

Don't like Lola by The Kinks at all, even though I love all their other stuff.

Started off quite well this week, I thought, with Mark Bolan proving to be a good contrast to the later sickening smiling faces of the Brotherhood Of Man!!! :angry: Gallagher and Lyle and Peter Frampton proved good tunesmiths, I even liked Liverpool Expresse's offering. There's always good music about, in any era. Depending on your taste, of course. On the negative side...................I take it The Wurzels did eventually slip from number one........................the sooner the better!!!!

RIP.

No one excited by this topic, it would seem! I will just sit down and watch a good film, I think! Hope it has good music to go with it. :dance:

Roxy Music, with Let's Stick together, was the pick of last Thursday's show, I reckon. Not that they were in the studio to do it, though! Of other records, well, I have never heard of the Surprise Girls, so their version of one of Macca's best tunes, Got To Get You Into My Life, was...........well, a surprise! Never heard of them before, never heard of them since! I like the Real thing, got memories from hearing their tunes always. As for number one, well, I suppose that there have been worse number ones than the Wurzels!!! :o

No Charge is not a patch on the real great moral record for kiddies, number one at Christmas in 1969 - "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris! ;) Some good top of the pops stuff on tonight - Saturday - very late tonight, begins after midnight, I think, on BBC Four. For nostalgia junkies only, of course.

Not talking about your big production musicals, but about music in films that highlight the tone and theme of the film perfectly. Too new to post youtube clips on here yet, but I am thinking of the film scores to Psycho, and to Cape Fear, if anyone wants to check those out on youtube. (Both written by the same composer, by the way!). Both scores sum up the menacing themes of the films perfectly. Same thing applies to scores from the James Bond films, and certain sci-fi films, such as the Star Trek and Star Wars films, for example. Basically any film score that fits in well with the movie is what I am interested in. Maybe its not an exaggeration to say that really well written music for films and tv programmes can turn a badly made tv drama into an interesting one. For example I recently watched "To Serve And Protect" on the True Movies channel. I found the plot for this two part tv movie somewhat predictable, but the score was brilliant!! Makes me want to watch the programme again just for the score. Another example is certain Spaghetti westerns. Sometimes music just lifts a film out of the doldrums, if the score is put together well enough.

Never heard of them! But rest in peace, of course. 43 is a ridiculously young age these days to die from a heart attack.

It was on Monday this week, boy, cheesy or what! Again, you can see why punk came along looking at some of the records on last night's show. 2 highlights, though - Thin Lizzy's The Boys Are Back In Town came through like a breath of fresh air in between all the dross, and the Rolling Stones Fool To Cry - one of their slower ones - oused class, as you would expect from the renowned sixties veterans. So why am I watching it? Because of the occasional sparkling gems intweeen the dross, like Thin Lizzy and the Stones. And it is proof positive that dross can float to the top. I mean, JJ Barrie at number one, and the Wurzels at number two.............who could ask for more?! :o :o

Always thought that the work SAW did with Donna Summer was good work. And their most sucessful work as well, internationally speaking.

RIP Martin.

Very sad. Loved "Never Let Her Slip Away", a great song. :(

A Day In The Life, great song, great production - even a contemporary video on youtube!!

Will be keeping an eye on top of the pops '76 throughout the year. In theory, the music should get better and better as 1976 gets older and 1977 then takes its place, as punk and new wave music then came into their own. Not too sure how much totps reflected those changes, though.................

Not too familiar with her albums, all I know is that the Man With The Child In His Eyes is a brilliant song.

Fernando is a great song, but they cut it short! Was it standard practise in those days to only play half the number 1 song? They played the whole of the Wurzels, of course. Must not cut that one short, of course. Heaven forbid.

I reckon Bowie's TVC15 was the pick of last night's show, the song that is, not too sure about the staged dancing to it by "Ruby Flipper", or whatever they are called!!!!! :lol:

Thanks for your posts so far, people, I just think that Silver Star is a fantastic record. Due for a cover version by a modern act, I think!

I don't know if anyone in the UK watches the top of the pops reruns from 1976 on BBC Four on Thursdays, but in between the naff records, there are some real crackers. Check out Silver Star, by the Four Seasons on YOUTUBE - what a record! Brilliant! (I can't print YOUTUBE links as yet, only just joined the forum). Anybody else seen any other cracking records on that programme? Some great stuff on there, in between all the cheese!!!! :rolleyes: