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Pick Of The Pops - Radio 2
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alcockell
26-11-2016
Ahhh - the days before Yewtree hit...
Rich Tea.
26-11-2016
Originally Posted by alcockell:
“Hour 1 - http://www.officialcharts.com/charts...19761121/7501/
TOTP -
25-11-76: Presenter: Jimmy Savile O.B.E.

(33) THE KURSAAL FLYERS – Little Does She Know
(5) DR. HOOK – If Not You (video)
(24) BILLY OCEAN – Stop Me (If You’ve Heard It All Before)
(36) BE BOP DELUXE – Maid In Heaven (danced to by Legs & Co)
(NEW) CLIFF RICHARD – Hey Mr. Dream Maker
(10) ABBA – Money Money Money (video)
(22) ELTON JOHN – Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
(1) CHICAGO – If You Leave Me Now (video) (and credits)”

Hard to believe that we actually saw this edition of TOTP on BBC4 back in 2011 now isn't it. Remember it well, as Legs & Co had that month become the new dancers, and Savile had just croaked a handful of weeks before.
mal2pool
26-11-2016
Love 1976, never get bored of hearing abba, you can always hear new things in the music. i remember in woolworths a punk / skin/ bootboy came in and bought Love me by Yvonne elliman....he had a soft side !
Rich Tea.
26-11-2016
Gambo not a cat lover it seems.
Boz_Lowdownl
26-11-2016
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Tony Blackburn quote many times after having played infrequently heard old chart singles - "That's the great thing about Pick Of The Pops, we play those songs that you never hear much nowadays anywhere else".

So many times nowadays I listen and no longer think it holds up to this particular remit Tony often expressed.


It does seem the show is playing far too safe with its playlist even within the overfamiliar years. I'll agree with Clare that The Prodigy did stick out a bit last weekend from '92 however. I'd quite fancy hearing the chart from this period back in 1993 or 1995 for instance, when they were really quite decent, These years are unheard of on POTP despite now being 21 and 23 years ago. Both are actually better than the '92 played last weekend.

I'm so certain that The Sparrow by The Ramblers will not be played on POTP next weekend that if it does end up included then I will be convinced that someone is still gazing at this thread.”

Unfortunately Blackburn himself did not adhere to that particular remit, although it does seem to have got even worse under Gambaccini.
Boz_Lowdownl
26-11-2016
Originally Posted by FM Lover:
“Yes I know but it was Top 3 !!!! Why pick a chart that you can't even play the full Top 3?”

Why not?

Why should other songs from that particular era not be heard just because one is banned?
Boz_Lowdownl
26-11-2016
I still remember my shock at the 1976 chart 39 years and 51 weeks ago when the New Entry by Queen at Number 4 the previous week hadn't moved!
mal2pool
26-11-2016
Originally Posted by Boz_Lowdownl:
“I still remember my shock at the 1976 chart 39 years and 51 weeks ago when the New Entry by Queen at Number 4 the previous week hadn't moved! ”

maybe wasnt too many people taste. i loved it though, strong competition back then too.
alcockell
26-11-2016
Hour 2 - http://www.officialcharts.com/charts...19891119/7501/
TOTP -
23/11/89 (Jakki Brambles & Jenny Powell) (rpt UK Gold)
Big Fun – “Can’t Shake The Feeling” (27) WATCH
Bobby Brown – “Roni” (29) (video)
Fine Young Cannibals – “I’m Not The Man I Used To Be” (21) WATCH
Jeff Wayne – “Eve Of The War” (remix) (24) (video)
The Stone Roses – “Fools Gold” (13) WATCH
Happy Mondays (with Kirsty MacColl) – “Hallelujah” (30) WATCH
Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville – “Don’t Know Much” (3) (rpt from 09/11/89)
New Kids On The Block – “You Got It (The Right Stuff)” (1) (video)
Prince & Sheena Easton – “The Arms Of Orion” (31) (video/credits)
CELT1987
26-11-2016
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Gambo not a cat lover it seems.”

Pretty obvious he doesn't like pussy.
ClareB
26-11-2016
Originally Posted by alcockell:
“Hour 2 - http://www.officialcharts.com/charts...19891119/7501/
TOTP -
23/11/89 (Jakki Brambles & Jenny Powell) (rpt UK Gold)
Big Fun – “Can’t Shake The Feeling” (27) WATCH
Bobby Brown – “Roni” (29) (video)
Fine Young Cannibals – “I’m Not The Man I Used To Be” (21) WATCH
Jeff Wayne – “Eve Of The War” (remix) (24) (video)
The Stone Roses – “Fools Gold” (13) WATCH
Happy Mondays (with Kirsty MacColl) – “Hallelujah” (30) WATCH
Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville – “Don’t Know Much” (3) (rpt from 09/11/89)
New Kids On The Block – “You Got It (The Right Stuff)” (1) (video)
Prince & Sheena Easton – “The Arms Of Orion” (31) (video/credits)”

The famous Madchester edtion.
Rich Tea.
26-11-2016
Originally Posted by Boz_Lowdownl:
“I still remember my shock at the 1976 chart 39 years and 51 weeks ago when the New Entry by Queen at Number 4 the previous week hadn't moved! ”

Not that I remember that far back first hand but I can imagine it was a shock on the Tuesday chart reveal. That looked and sounded like a shoe-in at No1 the next week for Somebody To Love. I do have a similar vivid memory from early February 1984 when Queen's Radio Ga Ga had gone straight in at No4 and I was certain it was going to be the new No1 next week, and was shocked and really peeved to be told by a school friend after lunchtime that it had only risen to No2, and had to ask him twice to make sure he wasn't joking. So I held out hope for next week but it held No2 and that was the peak.
Robbie01
26-11-2016
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Hard to believe that we actually saw this edition of TOTP on BBC4 back in 2011 now isn't it. Remember it well, as Legs & Co had that month become the new dancers, and Savile had just croaked a handful of weeks before.”

This was the infamous TOTP episode where Savile appears to goose the backside of one of the girls standing / sitting around him just as he is about to introduce Chicago... she makes a startled sound and jumps up in the air!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEZH2rmk11c
FM Lover
26-11-2016
Originally Posted by Boz_Lowdownl:
“Why not?

Why should other songs from that particular era not be heard just because one is banned?”

Because on a retro chart show the very least I'd expect would be a full Top 3.
Boz_Lowdownl
26-11-2016
Originally Posted by FM Lover:
“Because on a retro chart show the very least I'd expect would be a full Top 3.”

Again, why, if it means missing out loads of other great songs. Sorry, but I find your thinking rather bizarre. It wouldn't bother me in the slightest if they did a later 1969 edition and missed out the Number 1. They could play the Number 2 and then do the chart run down straight into the news.
DUHO
27-11-2016
Originally Posted by CELT1987:
“Pretty obvious he doesn't like pussy.”

I heard Gambo was VERY friendly with the lead singer of kajagoogoo
Rich Tea.
27-11-2016
Today, 27th November 2016, is the 10th anniversary of the passing of Alan "Fluff" Freeman.

News of his passing and a look at his life - https://youtu.be/gK9yf5JZhKY

Interesting early 1964 POTP with Alan Freeman with a joint No1 from Beatles and Dave Clark Five, not something that shows up in the official record of the charts of the time - https://youtu.be/kelGKp_TSk8

Reheasing the Top 30 countdown in 1972 including a few expletives, quite amusing - https://youtu.be/gzvGRoA9kIM

Some POTP on Radio 2 from 1998 doing 1976 with Alan - https://youtu.be/-3Boi2kD5UU

Who remembers that he did current charts well into the late 80's on commercial radio standing in for David Jensen, something I'd entirely forgotten about until recently, like here in January 1986 - https://youtu.be/AOdyvHLuML8

Meanwhile I still have about 100 of his editions of POTP from his final 2 years to digitise. Slow going job that.
Rich Tea.
27-11-2016
Originally Posted by DUHO:
“I heard Gambo was VERY friendly with the lead singer of kajagoogoo”

Not "Too Shy" with each other eh?

A bit of "Ooh To Be Ah".
Grafenwalder
27-11-2016
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Today, 27th November 2016, is the 10th anniversary of the passing of Alan "Fluff" Freeman.

News of his passing and a look at his life - https://youtu.be/gK9yf5JZhKY

Who remembers that he did current charts well into the late 80's on commercial radio standing in for David Jensen, something I'd entirely forgotten about until recently, like here in January 1986 - https://youtu.be/AOdyvHLuML8”

I have fond memories of Freeman back at the beginning in the 60s' on Sunday afternoons. His voice and style instantly recognisable and imo, made POTP's his show and an extremely difficult act for any DJ to follow.

Quote:
“Meanwhile I still have about 100 of his editions of POTP from his final 2 years to digitise. Slow going job that.”

What did you record on? I recorded a few on cassette tapes though they are from later years. I knew someone who owned a number of Revox reel tape machines and he'd recorded loads of programmes, mainly offshore Pirate radio.

Digitising is an absolute pain. I tried the same with old 35mm photo slides but gave up after a few months. It's mind numblingly slow work and each evening i'd look at all the boxes of slides still to get through and think "oh f//k it!!"
up to the vocal
27-11-2016
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Not "Too Shy" with each other eh?

A bit of "Ooh To Be Ah". ”

Hang on.now.
Multimedia81
27-11-2016
Originally Posted by david1956:
“On 10th December, Saturday will be our day to hear the charts from that week in 1969 and 1981.”

As my likely 2 happiest Christmasses have been 1981 & 1995, I wonder whether we will ever have this pair of years in the same POTP? Probably not for some time, as it is rare not to have anything before the late 70s at least.
Rich Tea.
27-11-2016
Originally Posted by Grafenwalder:
“I have fond memories of Freeman back at the beginning in the 60s' on Sunday afternoons. His voice and style instantly recognisable and imo, made POTP's his show and an extremely difficult act for any DJ to follow.

What did you record on? I recorded a few on cassette tapes though they are from later years. I knew someone who owned a number of Revox reel tape machines and he'd recorded loads of programmes, mainly offshore Pirate radio.

Digitising is an absolute pain. I tried the same with old 35mm photo slides but gave up after a few months. It's mind numblingly slow work and each evening i'd look at all the boxes of slides still to get through and think "oh f//k it!!" ”

I recorded my shows on nothing more special than TDK C90 cassette tapes during the period when each year was 45 minutes long, so they fitted perfectly per side....most weeks. When the task of converting them is complete it would be worth placing the digital files online for others to enjoy. That's for me to work out too. You'd get the Glitter Band then and even Gary himself for that matter, not forgetting Rolf Harris and any other airbrushed personality such as Jonathan King, who I have edition's when he got played with Everyone's Gone To The Moon in 1965 and Una Paloma Blanca in 1975. Infact I know I have one with One Hundred Ton And A Feather on it from 1976 which was Jonathan King which I suppose would not get played now either.
ClareB
02-12-2016
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Charles & Eddie weren't actually one hit wonders even though it seems that way. They actually had another 3 top forty hit singles down the lower end over the next couple of years.

One of the best singles and the only one I bought from that 1992 chart was Hello (Turn Your Radio On) by Shakespears Sister which definitely should have been played under the remit of great hit songs that rarely get heard anymore. We are not hearing enough lesser known but good hit songs.”

I've no recollection of their other lower chart hits so thanks for pointing that out. I fell into the lazy trap of going by what's in books and on TV progs on One Hit Wonders, even though I know they always include Chesney Hawkes!

I caught half of the 1989 POTP chart but have only just got round to catching up with the rest of the show. I thought Tony had done this exact chart before, but it was the week after, Anyway here's the songs that I hadn't already comment on from that.

25 November 1989

Top 20 tracks played -
19 ROOM IN YOUR HEART - LIVING IN A BOX - Nice, soulful, ballad and I really like the intro to it.
18 OUIJA BOARD, OUIJA BOARD - MORRISSEY - Didn't remember this one at all, unlike Morrissey's other hits from this period. In that respect I was glad it was played but I wasn't that bothered about it.
13 FOOL'S GOLD/WHAT THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR - THE STONE ROSES - I 'm not going to lie and say I was into this at the time but I can appreciate now what a big deal it was this making the charts and the Madchester TOTP edition I mentioned in any earlier post.
12 PACIFIC STATE - 808 STATE - Absolute classic dance track that I don't see could offend any radio 2 listeners so why was it skipped?
07 HOMELY GIRL - UB40 - A sweet song and a decent cover, imo. As I wasn't familiar with the original at the time I used to think Ali was singing "hold me girl"

Not played
16 STREET TUFF - REBEL MC AND DOUBLE TROUBLE - I know serious rap fans will hate this but, as I'm not one, I think its quite fun and I always enjoy hearing it. Such a shame it wasn't played.
10 GRAND PIANO - MIXMASTER - I couldn't remember this one so had to youtube it. Unlike Pacific State I though this was really tacky, though I'm sure it will have gone down well in clubs. I can't believe people weren't sick of hearing "it's such a good vibration" at this point

06 INFINITE DREAMS (LIVE) - IRON MAIDEN - Another one from this chart I youtubed because I couldn't remember it. Never going to be my sort of thing, but not as bad as expecting.

I'm expecting much better things from the 1979 chart this week.
david1956
02-12-2016
On 17th December, Saturday will be our day to hear the charts from that week in 1973 and 1982.
Rich Tea.
03-12-2016
((()))

What an interesting turn of events this is David. Consecutive weeks with 1969 and 1973 with the No1 position coming and going for Rolf Harris and Gary Glitter. This means that we will be getting two consecutive weeks on POTP where the top three will not fully be played because next weekend with the '69 chart on the 10th December they should be playing the w/e 13th December 1969 in which Rolf Harris went up to the No3 position on his way to next weeks No1 for Christmas. Then on the 17th December POTP with 1973 being played we will have Gary Glitter at No2 having dropped off the No1 position that week on the chart of w/e 15th December 1973, the one that the Slade festive classic shot straight in at the top spot to displace him.

Meanwhile back to this weekend......

Today is our day on Pick Of The Pops with Paul Gambaccini to hear the hits on this date in 1962 and 1979.
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