Lulu – The Man Who Sold The World - TOTPs 1974

[Tim Brown]

I have never seen this Lulu performance since the actual air date!

Do these exist at the BBC or with a private collector?

Was it a repeat performance on 7.2.74

Thanks

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10-1-74: Presenter: Johnnie Walker (Wiped)

(6) COZY POWELL – Dance With The Devil (crowd dancing) (and charts)
(NEW) THE SWEET – Teenage Rampage *
(9) GOLDEN EARRING – Radar Love ®
(NEW) LULU – The Man Who Sold The World *
(19) DRUPI – Vado Via ®
(49) RONNIE LANE ACCOMPANIED BY THE BAND SLIM CHANCE – How Come?
(NEW) CILLA BLACK – Baby We Can’t Go Wrong *
(2) THE NEW SEEKERS feat. LYN PAUL – You Won’t Find Another Fool Like Me ®
(1) SLADE – Merry Xmas Everybody ® *
(5) ALVIN STARDUST – My Coo-Ca-Choo (and credits)

* although this show is wiped, these performances still exist

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7-2-74: Presenter: Tony Blackburn (Wiped) (Exists as audio)

(2) THE SWEET – Teenage Rampage (and charts)
(14) SUZI QUATRO – Devil Gate Drive *
(47) BAY CITY ROLLERS – Remember (Sha-La-La)
(9) DIANA ROSS – All Of My Life (danced to by Pan’s People) *
(44) GILBERT O’SULLIVAN – Happiness Is Me And You
(5) LULU – The Man Who Sold The World *
(18) T-REX – Teenage Dream *
(28) PRELUDE – After The Goldrush *
(25) STEALERS WHEEL – Star *
(1) MUD – Tiger Feet
(15) ALICE COOPER – Teenage Lament ’74 (crowd dancing) (and credits)

* although this show is wiped, these performances still exist

Popscene TOTPs 1974

[Liam Joseph]

Didn't realise the TOTP of Stealers Wheel doing Star (a great track!) existed - so both their biggest UK hits (Stuck in the Middle obviously the other one) are extant. Neither the Lulu nor the Stealers are in the BBC archive though according to the Nostalgic Music TV site: homepage.ntlworld.com/e.watkins/musictv/totp74.htm

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

May 18, 2015 13:00:43 GMT Liam Joseph said:

Didn't realise the TOTP of Stealers Wheel doing Star (a great track!) existed - so both their biggest UK hits (Stuck in the Middle obviously the other one) are extant. Neither the Lulu nor the Stealers are in the BBC archive though according to the Nostalgic Music TV site: homepage.ntlworld.com/e.watkins/musictv/totp74.htm

Two versions of Star (one is extant in black and white and colour, one full band, and the other just the main two) exist as part of the PVL. Stuck in the Middle, obviously you know about the history of that.

[Liam Joseph]

Thanks for that info Ray. That's pretty good going, two surviving TOTP performances for a record that only got to number 25 plus the Beat Club one that's on You Tube. Stuck in the Middle was found in a dusty cupboard at the Beeb wasn't it?

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

May 19, 2015 8:46:00 GMT Liam Joseph said:

Thanks for that info Ray. That's pretty good going, two surviving TOTP performances for a record that only got to number 25 plus the Beat Club one that's on You Tube. Stuck in the Middle was found in a dusty cupboard at the Beeb wasn't it?

""The clip wasn't technically missing but not properly catalogued at the BBC. The complete performance was found to exist on a tape sourced from "Pop Quiz", which in turn sourced it from a 1" tape which was logged under the pilot episode of "The Rock 'n' Roll Years". It's existence was confirmed by the BBC to Ray Langstone by e-mail after the screening of a short sequence on the BBC news following Gerry Rafferty's death.""

[Tim Brown]

.....and getting back to the Lulu questions........

[Scott Douglas]

Like Stealers Wheel there are 2 different wiped performances of Lulu "The Man Who Sold The World" Tim. Both in the PVL
The one on 10/01/74 is in black and white, the one on 07/02/74 is in colour.

[Paul Watkins]

Lulu - The man who sold the world - 07/02/74

[Tim Brown]

Yes, I also found that clip on YouTube. I wondered if there was a possibility of someone putting up the full TOTPs performance?

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

The clips are part of the PVL collection; some have been sold to many people including the artists themselves in some cases, or their fan clubs/management.

not sure who uploaded the clip.

[Tim Brown]

Ok thanks for the info.

Speaking as a layman, what is this elusive 'PVL Collection'?

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

May 23, 2015 4:20:57 GMT Tim Brown said:

Ok thanks for the info.

Speaking as a layman, what is this elusive 'PVL Collection'?

The Private Video Library.

A collection of domestically recorded video tapes which containing many recordings of TV shows, most notably Top of the Pops.
These were recorded by the late Ken Holmes, and have since been digitized.
Copies have, over a number of years been sold to private collectors and artists' representatives and companies.