The Rolling "Top of the Pops" BBC4 Revival thread.

diamond among sequinned turds

Eddie and the Hot Rods are on this week.

Ah, punk looms

yes, filled with pink mohair...

Actually, I was doing a compilaDVD of "the road to punk/new wave", so far consisting of:

1. "The kid's a punk" Slik
2. "I want more" Can
3. "Get out of Denver" Eddie and the Hot Rods (to be)..

But then, after that, how long until the next one / how high to set the bar?

As low as Tonight's "The Drummer Man" I guess...

then:

I would certainly ARGUE about Can being one of the most influential groups to feature on TOTP : very much a 'niche' "Johnny Foreigner has a go at prog rock" band. I well recall some of my "up themselves" friends at the time going mad about them. Totally inconsequential.

lol other boards...

Who said that, David Cameron?

xp to MG: Kursaal Flyers, maybe? At a pinch?

Were they ever on TOTP? Ditto Doctors of Madness?

mmmm....

nrrgggg....

mmm...

No.

Yeah, they were on with "Little does she know that I know that she knows that I know she's two timing me"

I do remember them popping up on "Supersonic" with "I don't want to ride no freeway" though.

I'd put them next to Sailor, to be honest.

One of them joined the Hot Rods in 77. Tenuous, I know...

Jonathan Richman?

Don't remember him on until "New England", apart from the flip/legs&co dancing to "Egyptian Reggae"

"Roadrunner" was a notable hit, was that ever represented on TOTP? Anyway punk was already up and running by the time the Modern Lovers started having hit singles.

Yeah, but The Clash never got acknowledged until "Bankrobber" I think. The pistols got "Pretty Vacant" and the Saints got on the same week..

That's well into 1977 though.

What's left for 1976?

(Rhetorical question, if you're a nospoilers dude..)

i have great video of pans people dancing to RoadRunner taped from TOTP2 a few years ago. it'll be on youtubes. is them in a beachbuggy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x7D2VUP62I

i say great but...

(that's legs and co, obv)

I think these are your next ones, all from the first half of 1977:

March 10 - Graham Parker & The Rumour - Hold Back The Night (arguably?)
April 21 - Eddie & The Hot Rods - I Might Be Lying
May 19 - The Jam - In The City
May 26 - The Stranglers - Go Buddy Go

The Tubes maybe? Did they ever get on TOTP though?

Ah right, 'Roadrunner' was on in July 1977 apparently, the week after 'Pretty Vacant'.

GParker gets in, yes.

What it is, is that the 1976 compil is onto a 5inch DVD disc.

Might break out a larger size for 1977....

I think the tubes are a no, until "Prime Time".

This is all from memory, btw.

See, it was tempting to grab Thin Lizzy and the HM kids, but.

Almost mentioned Lizzy. HM Kids turned out to be awful and dated.

Didn't realise, until seeing Manfred Mann's Earthband, that Go Kart Mozart was from a line in "Blinded By the Light"

How about Legs & Co dancing to Be-Bop Deluxe's "Maid In Heaven" on Nov 25 1976?

Oh, by the way: we've only got five more weeks of Ruby Flipper, before Legs & Co take over...

I'll miss them when they're gone

apparently, L&C did "Pretty Vacant" too, no doubt I'll see it and go "oh yeah, I remember now"...

Yeah, but The Clash never got acknowledged until "Bankrobber" I think.

They were invited a few times but always refused to go on it.

There was a big plaver when the reformed Sex Pistols were on, but oddly enough, somewhat unheralded, the same show had Joe Strummer on for the first time, miming his chorus to "England's Irie" ...

Anyways, tonight's episode is dated 9th September 1976.

They just updated next week's schedule, and TOTP is the 23rd September.

Wonder what we've missed?

A strike?

No, there was an episode.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0730378/
I think the video of ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' gets another play as well.

Well, looking at the 'lostshows' website, the show from the 16th is missing, but no list of participants.

As far as my 1977 compilation is concerned, they'd better get on and find the show from 8th Sept 1977, as that has the Boomtown rats And the Motors. "Dancing the night away" most likely. (I'm sure I've seen that clip recently)..

I guess that site answers the question as to why the BBC started off from 1976 - practically everything before then is missing.

I've found that Ruby Flipper danced to "the light of experience" on that missing show. Still, next show up, they do "Disco Duck"...

For those who can't wait until next week...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRPpXCTqJB4

Features some poor clucker in a chicken costume.

Amazingly, I found the missing show content on the Pans People fansite:

16-9-76: Presenter: Noel Edmonds (Wiped)

(28) TOMMY HUNT – Loving On The Losing Side
(13) TINA CHARLES – Dance Little Lady Dance
(48) J.A.L.N. BAND – Disco Music (I Like It)
(3) THE REAL THING – Can’t Get By Without You
(20) JESSE GREEN – Nice And Slow ® *
(12) PUSSYCAT – Mississippi (video)
(22) STARLAND VOCAL BAND – Afternoon Delight (video)
(4) GHEORGE ZAMFIR – Light Of Experience ‘Doina De Jale’ (danced to by Ruby Flipper)
(1) ABBA – Dancing Queen (video) (and credits)

Tommy Who? Jesse What?

I guess that site answers the question as to why the BBC started off from 1976 - practically everything before then is missing

That would explain why every nostalgic TOTP documentary features exactly the same 10-15 songs from the sixties.

Tommy Hunt's is a pretty good Northern Soul type dance track, and Jesse Green has been on before.

Noel Edmonds (Wiped)

I always thought that Edmonds looked a bit tipsy, but to present the show completely drunk?

The JALN Band song is a busy sounding disco/funk track with JB styled horns.

It's a Tony Blackburn kinda show

... Abba are the closest thing to a rock band on it

It's a pretty fine looking show, actually.

The one after it, however..

Yes, a lack of rock bands was a definite plus in 1976