Nice pun! Was it un-intended?

Green Light was his decent single that fell short of the Top 40 before he hit the top with the song (We Don't Talk Anymore) that entered the charts this very week in 1979, so for us TOTP lovers a one year wait.


Love Of The Common People is forever Paul Young 1983 to most of us I guess, not Nicky Thomas circa 1970. Had no idea it was also a previous Four Tops 1967 recording too, as Tony says.

EDIT; Tony rectifies his mistake, not the Four Tops, but the Four Preps!

One RTC etched on our memories courtesy of the COI, one 90s summertime..

sadly i cant see there being a TOTP 79 run on BBC Four next year especially if the rumours of a ITV hatchet job documentary later this year are true

Is this a comment on the No1 single this week in 1970 by Mungo Jerry, In The Summertime and it's "have a drink have a drive" lyric? RTC - Road Traffic Crash? but what is COI?


Hatchet job documentary, here we go again....DLT is it? Surely not another new name in the frame! Funny how all the ITV personlities of the era back in time were bastions of utter probity, yet at the BBC they were running around like sex maniacs and more.

Hour 2's chart - http://www.officialcharts.com/archiv.../1/1984-07-28/
And had to be Brannigan to kick it off

COI - Central Office of Information. The folks behind all the public info films we remember.

Cheers Alcockel for clearing that one up!


Ah, if only some of those BBC people back in the day could have asserted some "Self Control" the great Laura Branigan track now playing from the late singer.

Kane Gang, The Closest Thing To Heaven, now this is likely the first time I've heard this one since the summer it was a hit.

I've heard rumours that mark william thomas who made the jimmy savile "Exposure" for ITV is doing a follow up show - this time About Top of the pops itself

Classic bit of funk now - Shakatak..

love this galaxy track,havent heard it for yonks

Pointer Sisters - opening track from Break Out - one of the first 2 CDs bought by chez Cockell... came in with Dad's first CD player connected to our Armstrong 626

Isn't that a bit pathetic?

There is something known as "over egging your pudding".

Probably a better chat for the TOTP 1978 thread which I'll take a catch up on later.

Summer 1984, one of my fondest for hit record memories. Not disappointing so far, none sounding 29 years old to me.

Alison Moyet. Wasn't this off Alf? Gotta stream it sometime.

I can remember a review of Love Resurrection on Ollie & Stuart Henry's Saturday night show on Radio Luxembourg just before it came out, and the consensus was that it would easily make No2 in the charts for a few weeks, but unfortunately get stuck behind the immovable Frankie beast. It made No10.

I think it is the first track on the debut solo album by Alison Moyet, "Alf", which came out later in the year.

I hated this Bluebells track back in 1984, and I hate it now! I was even more livid when it came back 9 years after this year, to top the charts in 1993. Ughhh. Their previous in 1984, I'm Falling, was much better.

Nik Kershaw on having the snood inflicted on him..

STYLIST - ROck god! Rock god!
Nik - ******...

some great tunes in this 84 chart,think i'm gonna have to dig now that's what i call music 3 off the shelf later

There's a "Frankie" sandwich, with a "Hippy" filling coming up at the top three!

Now that "filling" is one song that I bet nobody has heard since the time it was a hit.

Not good - Tony left off the "Hello shoes, I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to stand on you again"

Neil must have been doing MUCH more potent drugs than the original - flying an anchovy instead of an albatross..

God was that dated! Yes, you are right, he did miss that start off didn't he. First listen since 1984 that must have been for me. Happy to leave it another 29 years I think. I was one of those boys at school who never watched The Young Ones, but recall others talking about it.

"The Air Attack Warning Sounds Like - This Is The Sound", at least he kept that vocal intro in. I still get excited hearing Two Tribes! Who now recalls the Soviet leader of the time in the video, fighting President Reagan?

Holly Johnson - Frankie Goes To Hollywood did have two songs in the charts at the same time in 1984. Heart when they do 1984 Time Tunnel tend to miss out playing the songs.

Seriously? 1984 WAS Frankie all summer, and much of the rest of the year too!. Top two singles in July 1984.

That's what happens when you listen to generic radio that is H***t. Can't even bear to namecheck them.

Loved the 1984 chart. Nothing against Frankie, but I wold have sooner just heard just Two Tribes and another track in the top 10 - preferably White Lines.

Blazing hot afternoon, belting round the lanes of south Shropshire in my MG Midget with TB playing Mungo Jerry - have too say, it was pretty bloody perfect!