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Post by vastar iner on Mar 23, 2012 18:20:47 GMT 1
Looking at that line-up, it would have been out of date a decade and a half before...
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Post by Chris on Mar 23, 2012 19:23:06 GMT 1
Didn't know the Barcley James Harvest song at all.
Moody Blue is one of my three fave Elvis tracks. Far better than Way Doen imo.
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Post by raliverpool on Mar 23, 2012 19:57:29 GMT 1
Last night's edition, from 17th March 1977 was for me the most memorable ever as at the time I recorded it and played it back (on audio tape) again and again. It was good to finally identify "Rock N Roll Star" by Barclay James Harvest. I never knew what that was at the time. It peaked at #49. Tony Blackburn does say "Barclay James Harvest" on the intro to it but I didn't remember and that song had remained a bit of a mystery to me until this week. We had a sequence before that with Abba to Cliff Richard to Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard doing "My Kinda Life", a somewhat under-rated song of his in my opinion. This was his good era, only one year after Devil Woman, and it's a pretty good track. Elvis Presley's "Moody Blue" just 5 months before his death. Had he died a bit sooner this and not "Way Down" would have been the #1 but it still reached #6 purely on merit whereas "Way Down" was stuck at #42 at the time of his death and probably wouldn't have been a major hit. Towards the end of the show Billy Ocean was on wearing a purple suit singing "Red Light Spells Danger". There were talent shows back then too, and Berni Flint who had recently won a lot of consecutive episodes of Opportunity Knocks was on doing his self-penned song "I Don't Want To Put A Hold On You". Showaddywaddy had also won a talent show, "New Faces" a few years earlier and were on doing their cover version of "When". Yes a cover (The Kalin Twins were one-hit wonders with the original), but they played the instruments on it and did have a lot of charisma. Other songs featured were Suzi Quatro opening the show yet again with "Tear Me Apart", Maxine Nightingale doing her second hit "Love Hit Me" and of course the number one "Chanson D'Amour" performed by Manhattan Transfer. "Sunny" by Boney M was the closing sequence song, actually the highest peaking version of that song in the UK which was a hit for Bobby Hebb in the 1960s as well as having been recorded by many other artists. Chanson D'Amour was a cover too, of course, Art & Dotty Todd recording the original in the 1950s. I watched that show and thought it was a very enjoyable episode, although he was miming Sir Clifford Of Richard still had a bit of charisma back then. As for Barclay James Harvest, I will always remember them for having arguably the most honest title for a song composition in the history of rock'n'roll: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH2vHYjtNjA
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Post by vastar iner on May 12, 2012 22:36:05 GMT 1
Jesus H Jones Almighty, Leo Sayer was Noel Edmonds' record of the week? This is the hip hop and happening Radio 1? Leo Sayer? LEO SAYER? No wonder I've always detested that bearded berk.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 12, 2012 22:49:30 GMT 1
Some of Leo Sayer's music was quite good, and "How Much Love?" was ok.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 12, 2012 22:55:33 GMT 1
Actually I see this was a January/February show you are referring to so the Leo Sayer song would be "When I Need You". His first UK #1 (not quite his only one) but not his best song.
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Post by vastar iner on May 12, 2012 23:03:26 GMT 1
Yeah, Sayer's early stuff was excellent but WINY was whiny.
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Post by Johnny on Jun 10, 2012 20:07:47 GMT 1
, to me 1978 - 1983 were some of the best years musically in the last 40 years. I totally agree
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2012 20:28:38 GMT 1
I see Glitter was on it again tonight with A Little Boogie Woogie (In The Back Of My Mind), a hit for Shakin' Stevens in 1987. Prefer Shaky's version myself.
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Post by raliverpool on Jul 18, 2012 20:54:45 GMT 1
I watched it, another near hideous selections of songs, but this was just about worse than Brotherhood Of Man's (Abba Fernando rip-off) Angelo:
Little wonder New Wave and Punk had to happen, the most offensive thing about this track is that Disco motif running as its musical bed.
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Post by thehitparade on Jul 18, 2012 23:23:33 GMT 1
Little wonder New Wave and Punk had to happen, the most offensive thing about this track is that Disco motif running as its musical bed. It was June 1977, though. Punk had already happened. And it didn't stop this, or 'Dance Me Up'.
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Post by raliverpool on Jul 19, 2012 18:50:44 GMT 1
Little wonder New Wave and Punk had to happen, the most offensive thing about this track is that Disco motif running as its musical bed. It was June 1977, though. Punk had already happened. And it didn't stop this, or 'Dance Me Up'. It was only with the success of The Sex Pistols second single God Save The Queen (released May 27, 1977) that really kicked things off amongst the youth culture, until then it was an underground cult. As their debut "Anarchy In The UK" only reached UK#38. As of June 1977, The Clash had released just two singles, the highest of which "White Riot" had made UK#38. The Damned had released 2 singles the highest of which "New Rose" made UK#81. The Jam's debut single "In The City" had made UK#40. The Stranglers were the act to most benefit in the immediate aftermath of the Sex Pistols explosion with their "Rattus Norvegicus" album being able to climb to a Jul77 chart peak of UK#4; and their 2nd single "Peaches" became their first Top 40 hit peaking at UK#8 the same month. The Ramones UK breakthrough single "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker"(UK#22) was two months away. Whilst chart debuts for the majority of significant punk/new wave acts remained in the future: (Buzzcocks' "What Do I Get" (Feb78 UK#37); Elvis Costello "Watching The Detectives" (Oct77 UK#15); Squeeze "Take Me I'm Yours" (Feb78 UK#19); XTC "White Music" album (Feb78 UK#38); Siouxsie & the Banshees "Hong Kong Gardens" (Aug78 UK#7); Boomtown Rats "Lookin' After No.1 (Sep77 UK#11); Generation X "Your Generation" (Sep77 UK#36); Ian Dury & The Blockheads "New Boots & Panties" album (Sep77 UK#5); Blondie "Denis" (Feb78 UK#2); etc. As for the former Paul Gadd, "A Little Boogie Woogie ...." was the last of his 15 consecutive UK Top 40 hit singles in the space of 5 years. In contrast his next 8 singles failed to reach the Top 40; and since then he has only had 3 more Top 40 hits 1981's "And Then She Kissed Me" (UK#39) which probably only made the Top 40 as it was produced by former Human League founder members Martyn Ware & Ian Craig Marsh (British Electric Foundation), whom with Glenn Gregory became Heaven 17; and "Dance Me Up" (1984 UK#25) & "Another Rock N' Roll Christmas" (1984 UK#7) in the slipstream of Slade's & Alvin Stardust's chart revivals.
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Post by Johnny on Jul 19, 2012 21:43:10 GMT 1
Raliverpool - I saw an interview on with the Brotherhood of Man that long ago, mut be one of those 'nostalgia' programmes. They said people thought they were the singers of "Fernando"...yeah right!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2012 13:15:34 GMT 1
And Shaky's Version of that Glitter song is now playing on Pick Of The Pops from 1987. Much better!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2012 13:43:08 GMT 1
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 21, 2012 23:23:02 GMT 1
We normally discuss these episodes in the "Popscene" group or on Neil Barker's own profile page.
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Post by suedehead on Aug 5, 2012 20:06:47 GMT 1
Time this thread was revived particularly as we are starting to see a bit of punk on the show. It's also a chance to remind people that it is on Wednesdays while the Proms are on.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 5, 2012 20:14:31 GMT 1
there is another thread on it that I started a while back when this one was lost in the background
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Post by o on Aug 9, 2012 21:52:36 GMT 1
Great to see the Saints on it this week, as well as the Sex Pistols, the only Saints performance I guess, and apart from Dave Edmunds, the rest was the usual dross!!
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Post by suedehead on Aug 9, 2012 22:09:47 GMT 1
I loved the way they went from Cilla Black to the Sex Pistols without any comment!
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