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It was a good idea of yours to start a Pick Of The Pops thread Rich Tea. After all these years the board has been running, back to 2000 or so, and after a few DS threads over the years about certain aspects of POTP, in hindsight I'm surprised that no-one had previously thought to start a dedicated POTP thread.
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The first chart I listened to in full was in June 1974, but possibly the 30th. It was discovering Alan Price's Jarrow Song that persuaded me to start listening out for music more.
My favourite year on the whole has been 1981 although I admit to liking fewer songs than usual around June. I noticed that last year when he featured 1981 on June 23rd. That said, Stand & Deliver is one of my all-time favourite records. The summer heatwave of 1976 was mentioned recently. I didn't know exactly when it ended, but I read recently that what finally brought the rain back was .... the August Bank Holiday! |
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The first chart I listened to in full was in June 1974, but possibly the 30th. It was discovering Alan Price's Jarrow Song that persuaded me to start listening out for music more.
My favourite year on the whole has been 1981 although I admit to liking fewer songs than usual around June. I noticed that last year when he featured 1981 on June 23rd. That said, Stand & Deliver is one of my all-time favourite records. The summer heatwave of 1976 was mentioned recently. I didn't know exactly when it ended, but I read recently that what finally brought the rain back was .... the August Bank Holiday! 1981 is a year which has a curious set of No2 hit records I have always thought. A couple of Starsound medleys, one which we heard yesterday. A couple of instrumentals, Ennio Morricone's Chi Mai, and The Royal Philharmonic's Hooked On Classics, covering both bases as an instrumental and a medley.Oh, not forgetting a 3rd in the Birdie Song. A couple of different Happy Birthday's made No2 in short succession from Stevie Wonder and then Altered Images. Also Laurie Anderson's curious O Superman which defies description. I have a very clear memory of first ever hearing Being With You with Smokey Robinson on Top Of The Pops with his video playing pool around the table and being in such hysterics at his girly voice and racing to the kitchen to try and grab my parents in to see him before it ended. I'd no idea who he was at that time. I love that record now. |
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Regards 1981, and in June there is a particularly dire record that makes No2, quite out of sorts for everything else around at the time, called More Than In Love by Kate Robbins. It's atrocious, but I believe it may have a connection to Crossroads on TV which would explain it!
I don't know if you know but Kate Robbins is the second cousin of Paul McCartney. Her backing group on her single, Beyond, had taken part in the UK's "Song For Europe" a few months earlier but had lost out to Bucks Fizz. |
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The summer heatwave of 1976 was mentioned recently. I didn't know exactly when it ended, but I read recently that what finally brought the rain back was .... the August Bank Holiday!
This all happened in 1976 just after Dennis Howell had been appointed as Minister For Drought! The rain that followed a few days later earned him the nickname "Minister For Rain". In fact he was made Minister For Floods on the day after the Bank Holiday! To add to his weather titles, in early 1979 he was made Minister For Snow when the whole of the UK was snow bound in a particularly harsh winter which ultimately lasted for about 3 months. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3519662.stm |
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A government minister that actually delivered Robbie! Howell's of laughter.
![]() My main memory of summer 1976 is a scorching hot day (what else) when I was wearing nothing more than a very skimpy pair of swim trunks and the whole of me fell into a thick, thorny rose bush in the garden and I cut myself to shreds. Bruno Brookes on Radio 1 in 1985, the novelty show playing all CD's. Tony Blackburn on Radio 2 in 2013, the novelty show playing all vinyl. Now That's What I Call...Amusing!
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Regards 1981, and in June there is a particularly dire record that makes No2, quite out of sorts for everything else around at the time, called More Than In Love by Kate Robbins. It's atrocious, but I believe it may have a connection to Crossroads on TV which would explain it!
1981 is a year which has a curious set of No2 hit records I have always thought. A couple of Starsound medleys, one which we heard yesterday. A couple of instrumentals, Ennio Morricone's Chi Mai, and The Royal Philharmonic's Hooked On Classics, covering both bases as an instrumental and a medley.Oh, not forgetting a 3rd in the Birdie Song. A couple of different Happy Birthday's made No2 in short succession from Stevie Wonder and then Altered Images. Also Laurie Anderson's curious O Superman which defies description. I have a very clear memory of first ever hearing Being With You with Smokey Robinson on Top Of The Pops with his video playing pool around the table and being in such hysterics at his girly voice and racing to the kitchen to try and grab my parents in to see him before it ended. I'd no idea who he was at that time. I love that record now. One other thing to note about Kate Robbins that hasn't been mentioned is that she is mother to the rather gorgeous Emily Atack who played the part of Charlotte "Big Jugs" Hinchcliffe in The Inbetweeners ![]() Some great records around in 1981 with the real birth of the New Romantic era with bands like Duran Duran (who could forget Tony's "Durran Durran" moment?), Depeche Mode & Spandau Ballet all breaking through. And as for Laurie Anderson, I only found out at the weekend that she's married to/partner of Lou Reed. You learn something new every day! |
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A mix of vinyl and audio tape, with the later the addition of 8 track tape cartridges, so maybe he is using just vinyl this time.
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I wonder if Tony will say he's enjoying playing the vinyl records on Saturday. A couple of years ago he said he didn't miss vinyl when talking about the record player on this programme.
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Love the "telling off" he just gave. Tony says "We do actually know what we are doing".
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Bruno Brookes on Radio 1 in 1985, the novelty show playing all CD's.
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I don't know if you know but Kate Robbins is the second cousin of Paul McCartney. Her backing group on her single, Beyond, had taken part in the UK's "Song For Europe" a few months earlier but had lost out to Bucks Fizz.
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Nonsense. The only time they did a Noughties chart was last year when they did 2001 which hardly featured any Dance or Rap. The 90's as well was a decade where Radio 2 friendly artists like Simply Red, The Beautiful South , The Lightning Seeds and Sheryl Crow regularly had hits. This is all about what Tony Blackburn wants. Even with the years he does he misses out big climbers he hates and and plays songs going down the chart that he likes. Also Radio 1 very rarely plays old music and are certainly not going to all the time they want to lower the average age of it's audience.
You say it should be remembered what station the show is on. Well the target age of the station is over 35';s. A 35 year old would have been 15 in 1993 and 20 in 1998. So the show isn't reflecting that. Also if Dance music is so unsuitable for Radio 2 why does Dave Pearce have a Saturday night Dance show on the station? |
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I would still suggest that the majority of listeners wouldn't want to hear charts from the nineties and 00's, there are plenty of other outlets to hear music from those decades. Radio 2 has programmes called "Sounds of the sixties" and "Sounds of the seventies" but not "Sounds of the nineties", which suggests that their core listeners are 40+, I don't think many thirtysomethings listen to Radio 2.
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I suggest you are wrong. I am 40 and was in my Teens and Twenties during the 90's and Early Noughties. When 2001 was done last year about 80% of the songs featured were played on Radio 2 when they were new so why wouldn't listeners want to hear them 11 years later? There are no other outlets to hear charts from the 90's and 00's but there are other stations like Smooth which play charts from the 60's, 70's and 80's.
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I said the majority, so far nobody on this thread have agreed with you that charts from the nineties and 00's should be played, most suggest that chart music had started to decline by the late eighties, which I agree with. There are far more stations playing music from the nineties and 00's than the decades prior to that.
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I said the majority, so far nobody on this thread have agreed with you that charts from the nineties and 00's should be played, most suggest that chart music had started to decline by the late eighties, which I agree with. There are far more stations playing music from the nineties and 00's than the decades prior to that.
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Maybe not on Radio 2, but it does again raise the question that with an ageing population is there a need for a Radio 1.5 or Radio 2 Extra? 6Music meets neither remit.
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It be interesting to see how the vinyl will sound?
Bruno Brookes did a compact disc show which can be heard on the Radio Rewind Website. ( Many contributions to the website was by myself and many others ) |
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I said the majority, so far nobody on this thread have agreed with you that charts from the nineties and 00's should be played, most suggest that chart music had started to decline by the late eighties, which I agree with. There are far more stations playing music from the nineties and 00's than the decades prior to that.
You obviously haven't read this thread in full then? Also people in this thread don't represent the whole of Radio 2's audience. As for those stations playing 90's and 00's music. Apart from some niche stations most of those stations aim at a female audience that ignore a huge selection of popular music from these decades. Also many of these stations also play music from the 70's and 80's.
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I'm confused as to why you're not expecting Radio 1 to play 90s or 00s music?
I'm no expert on modern stuff, but the oldest record played on today's Breakfast Show appears to be from 2003, where are the 90's tracks? |
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It be interesting to see how the vinyl will sound?
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It be interesting to see how the vinyl will sound?
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To Keicar, yes I feel pretty confident that Bruno Brookes did his first CD only novelty radio show in 1985, and think it may have been around the late August 1985 Bank Holiday. But it was definitely in 1985 in the latter part of that year. I think he did more than just one.
I don't think that Radio 2 has a studio webcam like Radio 5Live, as I checked once and there was nothing available, so we can't check up to see if he really is putting the needle on the record as he sits there this coming Saturday. I bet we get a few "deliberate" scratches into the mix! In the end I just wonder what it is meant to prove? If it sounds much the same, so what. If it comes over all scratchy and records jumping that might sound contrived. Regards Radio 2 and its age demographic, well the first ever radio of my own that I owned, I spent a lot of time listening to Jimmy Young aged 11 for some odd reason I do not quite grasp thinking back, even though it was only for a few weeks before I went to Radio 1, where I first remember listening to Tony Blackburn at that same age in the summer holidays of 1980 on an afternoon show he must have had at that time? But I really recall him best as one of my proper early radio memories, listening to Junior Choice at weekends from early 1981, with Cheggers and Maggie Philbin, not forgetting Arnold, as well as doing the Sunday Top 40 at the time also. In a documentary I heard just last year, must have been a BBC4 one, he said he really disliked doing that children's show, which I felt was a shame and took it almost personal! Regards Tony and his aside to a texter last Saturday, it came hot on the heels of him making a slip of the tongue which he did not rectify, saying he was about to play June 1991! |
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I don't think it matters what he plays its just to add a variation for the listener. He will deliver as usual with all his fun and enthusiasm giving us only 100 per cent. Many other presenters should be as slick as he is.
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[quote=Rich Tea.;66230373]To Keicar, yes I feel pretty confident that Bruno Brookes did his first CD only novelty radio show in 1985, and think it may have been around the late August 1985 Bank Holiday. But it was definitely in 1985 in the latter part of that year. I think he did more than just one.
I have a recording of a Bruno CD show from March 1986. |
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You obviously haven't read this thread in full then? Also people in this thread don't represent the whole of Radio 2's audience. As for those stations playing 90's and 00's music. Apart from some niche stations most of those stations aim at a female audience that ignore a huge selection of popular music from these decades. Also many of these stations also play music from the 70's and 80's.