Top of the Pops BBC4 sandbox edition

ffs the singer from Kursaal Flyers has some terrible teeth

and that looks like Willie Rushton on bass

... So, it seems they wiped the episode where the person who came up with the name "Legs and Co" got their 2 mins of fame. So, they (she? I think I recall..) got no more.

Also, it means no "Teenage Depression". So, the 1976 "punk highlights" DVD stops there. I captured Slik's "The kid's a punk", Can's "I want More" and Ed&HotRods' "Get out of Denver" (the main reason for the undertaking), along with Bolan's "Laser Love". In retrospect, I wish I'd saved the Ruby Flipper/David Bowie dance, but ach.

Anyway, I checked the 'surviving ep details' on PopScene website, so nothing is happening until May, when Ed&Rods do "I might be lying" and The Jam and Strangers are on.

Gutted to find that Television's "Prove It" has been wiped, because I'm sure I must have missed that at the time as I have no memory of it, and I'm sure I would have if I'd seen it.

Gutted to find that Television's "Prove It" has been wiped

No way were Television ever on TOTP

That's what I thought!

http://z6.invisionfree.com/popscene/index.php?showtopic=8416

check it out!

Unfortunately I can't open that where I am just now

AUGUST 1977:

4-8-77: Presenter: Jimmy Savile O.B.E. (Wiped)

(20) THE JAM – All Around The World
(13) THE RAH BAND – The Crunch
(2) BROTHERHOOD OF MAN – Angelo
(41) BILLY PAUL – Your Song
(26) CANDI STATON – Nights On Broadway (danced to by Legs & Co)
(NEW) THE DOOLEYS – Think I’m Gonna Fall In Love With You
(25) TELEVISION – Prove It
(15) THE STRANGLERS – Straighten Out (video)
(30) DENIECE WILLIAMS – That’s What Friends Are For (video)
(7) SMOKIE – It’s Your Life
(14) THE FLOATERS – Float On (video)
(1) DONNA SUMMER – I Feel Love (danced to by Legs & Co) (and credits)

I'm afraid I can't believe that actually happened until I see it with my own eyes. Prove it!

but.. That's just the Fact(s).

someone's post from Punknet:

If anyone remembers the Television performance but doesn't have a copy of it then I'd be interested to hear your memories of it. The track is 5 minutes long and so would no doubt have been edited to around 3 mins. I have also heard rumours that it was performed live in the studio as opposed to the usual miming to a backing track.

Noo! Say it wasn't so!

Maybe it was playing in the background to a chart rundown or something, I don't know, there's no way Tom Verlaine ever appeared on Top of the Pops

Or maybe they were scheduled to appear and there was a strike or they just said, "What, you kiddin' me, I'm WALKIN' here, I'm WALKIN'!"

This "might" be the audio for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OULLiXkwVck

Right, I have sent a message to a past ILXor who would know about this...

Failing that, does anyone have Tom Verlaine's phone number?

Any resolution vis a vis Television?

Anyone else notice that the top Jimmy Savile was wearing was half a Celtic top and half a Rangers top?

No news from the wise...

"Is there anyone here with any Christmas in them? Is there anyone who'd like a bit more Christmas in them?"

23/12/1976 episode on tonight, including Thin Lizzy and more bloody Paul Nicholas.

(tonight at 8PM on BBC4 that is)

Yes Noel, I'm sure that a singer with the same name as notorious serial killer is going to have a great 1977.

funnily enough, that was his only chart hit.

He had a 'good' January 1977 anyway.

I enjoyed the Charlie Chaplins dancing to Stevie Wonder, and the Mike Oldfield "video" was pretty lol too.

I'm a week behind. Tommy Hunt - "One Fine Morning" - what the HELL was THAT? Revenge de-virginisation, nice...

Went back to Worcester for the weekend and inspired by the proper ILX thread I brought my grandpa's Fox LPs back with me. I have no idea what they sound like.

Goldfrapp

Altered Images' hitherto hidden country-rock tendencies.

Liverpool Bloody Express. "Every house must have a roof/Every mouth must have a tooth."

My prize went to "I used to be a dreamer"

HIDE THE SONG YR RIPPING OFF A BIT BETTER, PAL!

Liverpool Bloody Express. "Every house must have a roof/Every mouth must have a tooth."

What, in Liverpool, in the 70s? Unless it's a protest song.

Here's spoddy teenage Midge Ure and his mates (possibly sponsored by Gibson), followed by two twunts with beards (DLT and Edmonds), and then it looks like they've found that Elton/Kiki clip again.

And in this episode, DLT and Noel will not be allowed to interact with a studio audience in any way, being as this is a clips show and they're CSO'd in. Meanwhile, JJ Barrie looks like a cross between John Belushi and Louis Walsh.

As said before by other person, there's JJ Barrie, and there's Cliff doing a song written by JJ's wife.

annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd Round 2 with Tony Blackburn and Sir Jimmy on blue screen duty

Billy Ocean, great performer, terrible terrible outfits.
Sailor: what if Roxy Music were German, and a bit naff?

ffs that Wings track was interminable, like being stuck in a traffic jam.
Meanwhile, The Real Thing's lead singer appears to have got dressed in the dark.

Pete Cetera looks like a massive wanker in this video.

The satin jacket, the beyond Noel Edmonds hairsprayed hair.