Would have been better if the rhythm guitarist had a) not worn just his pajamas, and b) not been taking the piss out of Marc behind his back.
― triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Thursday, 20 October 2011 18:37 (thirteen years ago)
I think Wogan played 'Mississippi' a lot. Certainly remember hearing it a lot when my mother had the radio on in the mornings.
― triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Thursday, 20 October 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago)
#oldfart
― triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Thursday, 20 October 2011 18:39 (thirteen years ago)
This Manhattans song has the consistency of microwave porridge.
― triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Thursday, 20 October 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago)
Paul Nicholas, the Mika of '76.
― triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Thursday, 20 October 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago)
manhattans, if nothing else, were mixing 4 different camera angles.
mississippi very familiar, yes. musically lacking though.
not sure i'd heard that trex song before.
and the bloke in the yellow suit was dancing to beats that only he could hear.
― koogs, Thursday, 20 October 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago)
Bolan looking like Siouxie!
― zappi, Thursday, 20 October 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago)
Oh look it's Frankie Cockhoser lookalike David Essex.
― cheque out my debit to building society (snoball), Thursday, 27 October 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago)
i'm going to buy a satin jacket and write HOWZAT on the back in marker pen.
― koogs, Thursday, 27 October 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.handbag.com/cm/handbaguk/images/Iu/or_jim-top-of-the-pops.jpg.jpg
goodness gracious guys n gals
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/29/world/europe/uk-dj-jimmy-savile-dead/
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 29 October 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago)
Ed Stewart, king of tossbags
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago)
Steve Harley somehow managing a bowlcut and a proto-mullet at the same time.
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago)
The obligatory DJ/teenage girls crepe-o moment.
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago)
Rod Stewart is clearly hungover in this video, and the very last thing he wants to do is walk around a blustery Portsmouth.
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago)
Climax Blues apparently playing live?
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago)
can on this one? 76? just saw their name pop up at the beginning.
― owenf, Thursday, 3 November 2011 23:00 (thirteen years ago)
ah think they were just on the charts bit at the beginning. damn.
― owenf, Thursday, 3 November 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)
I'm going to enter the contest and to name this as yet un-named dancing group. I think I'll call them... let's see... 'Pan's People' Nobody steal that, OK?
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 17 November 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago)
Oh and they're dancing to the Jaws theme. 'Pan's People in rubber' turning out to be not quite what the dads wanted.
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 17 November 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago)
My boy thought that routine was an exercise in Derren Brown-like thought control.
LEGS.... LEGS.... you will fetch your pencil and your postcard.... and you will write.... LEGS...,
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 17 November 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago)
oh that's right, they're going to be called Legs & Co, not Pan's People, duh me
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (snoball), Thursday, 17 November 2011 23:35 (thirteen years ago)
sharks were hilarious though
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 19 November 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago)
'77 gets off to a ropey start tonight with Pussycat, Barry Biggs, Liverpool Express, David Parton, Gallagher & Lyle and Status Quo.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:11 (thirteen years ago)
there's been one already this year, a couple of weeks ago - the chart hadn't changed from the christmas episode but they had choosen different acts.
― koogs, Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:15 (thirteen years ago)
Just realised that someone I used to work with looked like Leo Sayer without the hair.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:46 (thirteen years ago)
search for 'pops' doesn't find this thread because of the quotes 8(
surprised to see that the extra track on the longer saturday repeat was Gary Glitter.
― koogs, Sunday, 29 January 2012 21:10 (thirteen years ago)
They've 'apologised' for cutting him and JKing out.
― Mark G, Sunday, 29 January 2012 22:18 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBsLy5ayHU4
― Mark G, Monday, 6 February 2012 15:32 (thirteen years ago)
would watch
― koogs, Monday, 6 February 2012 15:39 (thirteen years ago)
xp lol
Rose Royce represented in this week's chart countdown by a picture of a Ford Granada in a car wash.
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:33 (thirteen years ago)
uh oh, Glitter Alert
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:34 (thirteen years ago)
Picture of innocence, obv.
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:40 (thirteen years ago)
Thin Lizzy were good though.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:41 (thirteen years ago)
Boz Scaggs would have been better if he'd had more musicians on stage with him...
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:44 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gary-glitter-to-receive-royalties-for-broadcast-188903
iow: "We heard he's on this programme, we all had a guess as to which song, we could have looked it up buy we cbb"
― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 09:51 (thirteen years ago)
Hang on, in that Youtube spoof, is 'Raoul Gummidge' gr8080?
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Friday, 10 February 2012 17:50 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLKp5oj2NAo
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Friday, 10 February 2012 17:57 (thirteen years ago)
What is it with BBC4 and detective shows with larger than life main characters?
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:01 (thirteen years ago)
that Mr Big record was a new lowgot the 1977 TOTP annual in a charity shop the other day for £2!
― zappi, Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:13 (thirteen years ago)
Contains spoilers
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:33 (thirteen years ago)
Edmonds interviewing a very awkward sounding Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice - a precision nuclear strike could have solved so many of the world's woes in 1977.
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Thursday, 1 March 2012 19:49 (thirteen years ago)
Brotherhood of Man not trying to look like ABBA at all. Or sound like them for this particular single.
― a dramatic lemon curd experience (snoball), Thursday, 15 March 2012 19:38 (thirteen years ago)
Kid Jensen looking like a bizarre genetic cross between Noel Edmonds and Keith Chegwin.
― a dramatic lemon curd experience (snoball), Thursday, 15 March 2012 19:56 (thirteen years ago)
Graham Parker was displaying a distinct narrowness of trouser this week, in marked contrast to the massed loons of Brotherhood of Man and Smokie.
― bham, Monday, 19 March 2012 11:02 (thirteen years ago)
The times were changing a bit.
― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2012 12:47 (thirteen years ago)
t rex. something i'd not heard before.
― koogs, Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:53 (thirteen years ago)
this week's episode appears to have been recorded on one of those cheap vhs tapes you get from supermarkets.
― koogs, Saturday, 14 April 2012 15:12 (thirteen years ago)
Sort-of..
It was up until 2 weeks ago, assumed lost.
Then it was found and supplied out of "Diddy" David Hamilton's personal collection
― Mark G, Saturday, 14 April 2012 19:05 (thirteen years ago)
I imagine that he has a lot of other videos recorded on cheap supermarket VHS tapes in his 'personal collection'.
― Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Saturday, 14 April 2012 19:06 (thirteen years ago)
that 'tracksuit top over turtleneck sweater' look was just bleargh
― Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Saturday, 14 April 2012 19:07 (thirteen years ago)