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Post by johnstewart on Nov 21, 2015 2:23:53 GMT
Following the sad demise of Lou Reed I set about seeing what archive stuff I could find on the net. There seems to be little from the 70s; some Velvets footage 60s. I then tried to recall what I recall seeing in the 70s; possibly something on OGWT from the 'Sally can't dance' period 75-76 ?
'Walk on the wild side' was top 20 I recalled; but not what appeared on TOTP exactly. There are vague memories of some kind of TOTP film tacked together of girls in sunglasses, something possibly to illustrate the 'coloured girls' (quote); in the lyric. There doesn't seem to be a promo for the song. Just wondered if anyone has memory or record of what appeared; audience dancing; the possible film I mention; Pans People ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 12:23:31 GMT
I seem to recall the song playing over a collection of B&W stills.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Nov 21, 2015 15:23:54 GMT
This is the entry from the only edition WOTWS is meant to have been on:-
""25-5-73: Presenter: Tony Blackburn (Wiped)
(5) SUZI QUATRO – Can The Can (and charts)
(23) 10cc – Rubber Bullets
(7) DEODATO – Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) (video)
(NEW) JUNIOR CAMPBELL – Sweet Illusion *
(18) STEVIE WONDER – You Are The Sunshine Of My Life (crowd dancing)
(6) MEDICINE HEAD – One And One Is One
(NEW) NEIL SEDAKA – Standing On The Inside
(17) LOU REED – Walk On The Wild Side (crowd dancing)
(2) THE SWEET – Hell Raiser ®
(1) WIZZARD – See My Baby Jive
(25) THE DETROIT EMERALDS – You Want It You Got It (crowd dancing) (and credits)""
It's wiped. Nothing solved....
I'm NOT doubting your memories here at all. There are mistakes on the database, and also there is incomplete information for the edition of 19/04/1973, which POTENTIALLY could have had Lou Reed's song on it. Possibly.
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Post by richardwoods on Nov 21, 2015 17:48:02 GMT
I seem to recall the song playing over a collection of B&W stills. That rings a bell for me too! |
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Post by johnstewart on Nov 24, 2015 20:59:52 GMT
Thanks, good replies. I wonder if the stills illustrated the song; i.e. images of the black girls; or were just various photos of Lou Reed?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 22:28:12 GMT
Now my memory is very sketchy, but I think Lou Reed himself featured in some if not all the pics. I have a mental image of one of him, bleached hair, sitting on a stool. dark background.
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Post by johnstewart on Nov 27, 2015 10:37:39 GMT
The bleached hair was more the Berlin image if I'm right. Maybe I'm thinking of something else like a still of Angie Bowie as I recall she may had a black afro type hairdo sometime in the 70s. Just thought there was something illustrating the 'toot da toot' bit. But with the amount of pop images my young mind was taking in at the time would be easy for me to remember wrongly. At college later on I went to Andy Warhols signing of his book 'exposures' and recall a lot of images from studio 54 too. A common image would be a girl with those Bette Davis type shades and the afro perm hairdo common to young people in the 70s. My Mums friend had one done about 1975 - 76.
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Post by johnstewart on Dec 16, 2015 19:24:30 GMT
Friend dug out the paperwork for this now. The only appearance of the song was indeed logged as being the audience dancing to the song; but it is possible slides were faded over and intermixed as they did that with Mary Hopkin 'Temma Harbour'.
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