Old TOTP (BBC4)

It's the only one of the Dead or Alive hits I don't have on a playlist, but it wasn't that bad after seeing the performance.
 
Ag said:
Add me to the WHY WAS FRANKIE such a big hit?

I guess it wasn't the first or last time and a breezy rubbish pop song has been a bigger summer hit than it should have been.
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Oh it definitely makes sense as a summer hit. They were coming off the re-releases/mixes of their classic material the previous year so I guess that helped too. I don't mind it, but I don't think they can have been terribly keen as when I saw them (minus Kathy naturally) at an eighties show some years back they didn't do Frankie but I think they did a Chic single or two.

I had that TOTP book they were hawking at the end, presumably as some car boot or bric a brac purchase a few years later.
 
Moving on to the edition of Top Of The Pops broadcast on 18 July 1985 we find it's once again yet another top quality piece of hosting by Mike Smith...

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18/07/85 (Peter Powell & Mike Smith)
Simply Red – “Money’s Too Tight (To Mention)” (13)
Steve Arrington – “Dancin’ In The Key Of Life” (23) (video)
The Cool Notes – “In Your Car” (15)
Russ Abbot – “All Night Holiday” (25)
The Cult – “She Sells Sanctuary” (19)
Jaki Graham – “Round & Around” (12)
Tina Turner – “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” (37) (breaker)
Billy Idol – “White Wedding” (34) (breaker)
Feargal Sharkey – “Loving You” (31) (breaker)
Trans X – “Living On Video” (18) (breaker)
Marti Webb - "Ben" (10) (video clip)
Fine Young Cannibals - "Johnny Come Home" (9) (video clip)
Opus – “Live Is Life" (8) (video clip)
Bruce Springsteen - "I'm On Fire" (7) (video clip)
Denise LaSalle – “My Toot Toot” (6) (TOTP clip)
Madonna - "Crazy For You" (5) (video clip)
Kool & The Gang - "Cherish" (4) (Montreux clip)
Eurythmics – “There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)” (3) (video clip)
Harold Faltermeyer - "Axel F" (2) (video clip)
Sister Sledge – “Frankie” (1) (video)
Five Star – “Let Me Be The One” (40) (audience dancing/credits)
 
octophone said:
"She Sells Sanctuary" is a fucking beauty.
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Yup, it's an absolute classic. A week after the TOTP edition was broadcast I bought a new hi-fi (remember them!) and bought the 12" of 'Into The Groove' by Madonna and the 7" of 'She Sells Sanctuary' by The Cult. The first record I played was 'Into The Groove', the bass was brilliant. But when I played 'She Sells Sanctuary' I turned up the volume and I'm sure the people living in the next street could hear it when the drums, bass and lead guitar kicked in!
 
‘Money For Nothing’ is vile and I wish ‘Brothers In Arms’ didn’t exist because then I could say I hate all of their muck. Loved the lines about the LITTLE FAGGOT (which I think were changed for radio :)) :zombie:
 
"In the Groove" FUCK OFF you pair of TWATS. Janice and John 4eva.

Why the pissflaps did they show I Got You Babe TWICE?

Madonna really is HUGE right now.
 
At least Peter Powell is easier on the eye, although Dixie Peach remains unpolished as fuck.
 
Imagine calling yourself DIXIE PEACH (who I’d totally erased from memory until this very moment) :D

WHY OH WHY OH WHY
 
The edition broadcast on 1 August 1985 has been skipped due to Mike Smith co-hosting...

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01/08/85 (Mike Read & Mike Smith)
Five Star – “Let Me Be The One” (18)
Tina Turner – “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” (3) (video)
Gary Moore – “Empty Rooms” (29)
Prince – “Raspberry Beret” (33) (breaker)
Nik Kershaw – “Don Quixote” (23) (breaker)
Bruce Springsteen – “Glory Days” (21) (breaker)
The Cure – “In Between Days” (20)
Jaki Graham - "Round & Around" (10) (video clip)
Trans X - "Living On Video" (9) (video clip)
DIre Straits - "Money For Nothing" (8) (video clip)
Kool & The Gang - "Cherish" (7) (Montreux clip)
Opus - "Live Is Life" (6) (video clip)
Harold Faltermeyer - "Axel F" (5) (video clip)
Sister Sledge - "Frankie" (4) (video clip)
Tina Turner – “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” (3) (video clip)
Eurythmics - "There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)" (2) (video clip)
Madonna – “Into The Groove” (1) (video)
Billy Idol - "White Wedding" (11) (audience dancing/credits)

The sound quality on this one is very poor.
 
Robbie said:
The start of TOTP with Dixie Peach and Gary Davies was edited out due to Gary's comment about Dixie's tan...
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He made a comment himself along a similar line that they did broadcast.
 
Just reading up - some episodes, ending in 1985 weren't shown due to sound problems in the recordings.
 
In fact Living On Video is way more of an 80s banger on record, than in that performance:

 
lolly said:
He made a comment himself along a similar line that they did broadcast.
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I've just rewatched it, yup he did! Perhaps it was more along the lines of what Zu-Klara posted... I know it wasn't very PC what he said though but can't remember exactly what it was...
 
It's horrible how mainstream that kind of stuff still was in the mid 80's. The charts weren't short of black artists either, how must some of the American artists have felt if they'd heard that shit?
 
Ag said:
I knew Living On Video, through some remix, but never realised it was a hit. 1985 is throwing up some long forgotten oddities and WAY TOO MUCH Phil Collins.
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I preferred the original 1983 version than this remix.

Also finally charting in the lower reaches of the charts around this time in 1985 was the fantastic Fantastique with 'Mama Told Me', a record that was originally released three years earlier.

 
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Mind you, Smilie Culture had the indignity of being introduced by Lenny Henry so YMMV....
 
Zu-Klara said:
‘Money For Nothing’ is vile and I wish ‘Brothers In Arms’ didn’t exist because then I could say I hate all of their muck. Loved the lines about the LITTLE FAGGOT (which I think were changed for radio :)) :zombie:
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They weren't edited out until much later on, I think...but I also agree about the song "BIA" because it is absolutely beautiful.
 
Robbie said:
Also finally charting in the lower reaches of the charts around this time in 1985 was the fantastic Fantastique with 'Mama Told Me', a record that was originally released three years earlier.

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OH MY GOD I LOVE THAT ONE :disco:
 
Time for a catch up...Janice and John - a tonic on a shit drizzly Saturday...which one's Russ indeed.
 
Good grief, The Conway Brothers are delightfully unchoreographed. It's like a 80's BGT audition.
 
The indie kid in me loves seeing Curve's Dean Garcia playing bass for the Eurythmics.
 
There’s one thing missing from this hot Trans-X chat and that’s the divine @Shirley

FFS darling, abandon that MoopyLite loony bin - a CERTAIN SOMEONE clearly didn’t get the memo about posts ideally being interesting or amusing - and come on home :disco:
 
Opus look like a cloning experiment that went dreadfully wrong.
 
Christ, I'd driven "My Toot Toot" from my mind. Those keyboard, that drum machine, those lyrics, that wig...
 
My brain is also steadfastly refusing to give up any previously held information about Arrow.
 
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