While I always appreciate posters who take the time and effort to write up a decent post, such as Clare often does, and David has today, which was interesting and readable, all I will say is that you have rather pre-empted the coming weekends POTP already! Might have been more timely to wait until the show and the years had aired. We haven't even had Clare's resume of this weekends 1981 chart yet. Agree with you about The Hustle from '75 and definitely Sister Sledge from '84. Shame Tony missed out The Shuffle yesterday in the '77 chart from Van McCoy. Both tracks are the 70's personified to me. 
I don't mind the fact that we are getting a 3 hour long POTP this coming weekend with 3 separate years and 3 separate decades, but as long as it does not become the norm and is a one off or sporadic alternative. I think 2 hours and 2 charts each week is ample for most chart and singles addicts, whereas 3 hours permanently would leave me feeling somewhat bloated. I always preferred it when the old Radio 1 Top 40 shows on Sunday evening's were just the 2 hours from 5pm to 7pm and skipping some of the older long running fallers in the lower end of the chart, rather than what it became by the late 80's, a 3 hour show playing everything regardless. 2 hours of Tony, or Tommy in the early 80's was far superior to 3 hours of Bruno later in the decade, even if he had the chart brand new by that time rather than Tuesday's repeat.
.....and I will shout this again for Tony's benefit and the producer especially, or whoever it is decides these things. TOO MANY INSIDIOUS TRAILERS ALL OVER PICK OF THE POPS! It almost ends up feeling like commercial radio the show stops and starts so frequently. BBC Radio 4's Feedback programme often mentions listeners irritations with overly frequent and intrusive trails on BBC radio. The BBC know they annoy the listener but just never seem to take heed and learn. POTP is particularly badly afflicted in a way it never used to be.

I don't mind the fact that we are getting a 3 hour long POTP this coming weekend with 3 separate years and 3 separate decades, but as long as it does not become the norm and is a one off or sporadic alternative. I think 2 hours and 2 charts each week is ample for most chart and singles addicts, whereas 3 hours permanently would leave me feeling somewhat bloated. I always preferred it when the old Radio 1 Top 40 shows on Sunday evening's were just the 2 hours from 5pm to 7pm and skipping some of the older long running fallers in the lower end of the chart, rather than what it became by the late 80's, a 3 hour show playing everything regardless. 2 hours of Tony, or Tommy in the early 80's was far superior to 3 hours of Bruno later in the decade, even if he had the chart brand new by that time rather than Tuesday's repeat.
.....and I will shout this again for Tony's benefit and the producer especially, or whoever it is decides these things. TOO MANY INSIDIOUS TRAILERS ALL OVER PICK OF THE POPS! It almost ends up feeling like commercial radio the show stops and starts so frequently. BBC Radio 4's Feedback programme often mentions listeners irritations with overly frequent and intrusive trails on BBC radio. The BBC know they annoy the listener but just never seem to take heed and learn. POTP is particularly badly afflicted in a way it never used to be.




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