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Post by eric lawton on Mar 28, 2008 17:31:36 GMT
Ive got an edition from 1959 that was hosted by David Jacobs.
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Post by eric lawton on Mar 28, 2008 18:03:47 GMT
Got tons of shows throughout the 60s, David Jacobs, Don Moss and of course, The Great Fluff. Up to and including the final POTP on September 24 1972. The week after of course brought the new format show with Tom Browne. As for the TOP 20 / 40 shows, Ive kept hold of literally 100s and 100s of them. All on cds now. Still got some POTP to transfer from Reel to Reels to cds. Ill get round to finishing them eventually.
Great shows to listen to, even now after all these years.
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Post by Stephen Doran on Mar 29, 2008 7:54:56 GMT
Any from 1965/1969?
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Post by eric lawton on Mar 29, 2008 9:16:09 GMT
Yeah, quite a few. Ive just found the end of year show for 1968 on a reel to reel tape at my Dads. Thought I had it somewhere ! Got the end of year shows now for 67, 68, 69, 70 and 71. Also
got 7/2/65 25/3/65 25/4/65 12/8/65 31/10/65 30/10/66 11/12/65 25/3/67 6/10/68 18/5/69 21/5/69 14/9/69 14/12/69
Loads pre 65 and loads from 1970 - 72. Still got to get round to transferring some more reel to reel stuff as well.
Its flipping time consuming though, got a B&O Reel to Reel deck, weighs a ton !
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Post by Rich Cornock on Mar 29, 2008 10:32:26 GMT
are these rare? do the bbc have these in their archive? sorry my knowledge of radio is a bit limitied
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Post by Andy Howells on Mar 29, 2008 11:40:07 GMT
I'd say they were rare, its pretty cool Nuts has got quite a backlog of these - I'd certainly love to hear them - especially 1968 as that was when I was born!
Just out of interest Nuts have you got any editions from late 1970 early 71 thinking of when Clive Dunn was Number One with Grandad?
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Post by Stephen Doran on Mar 29, 2008 11:53:44 GMT
John Walton had 11/12/65 but turned out to be 1964 .
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Post by eric lawton on Mar 29, 2008 12:14:37 GMT
Latest one from 1970 I have is the 17 October. Top 5 are
FREDA PAYNE - BAND OF GOLD
DEEP PURPLE - BLACK NIGHT
DESMOND DEKKER - YOU CAN GET IT
TREMELOES - ME AND MY LIFE
BLACK SABBATH - PARANOID
I do have the POTP - TOP 3s of 1970 and 1971 though, which were the Annual end of year shows. GRANDAD features there. They were fantastic shows, one of the highlights of my childhood years. I mean, I have all these hits on cds, but theres just something magic about hearing these original shows with Fluffs great banter.
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Post by Andy Howells on Mar 30, 2008 19:22:35 GMT
Yes, I agree, I have most of the original recordings on vinyl but theres a lot to be said about how good the presentation of these shows was by the likes of Fluff Freeman, indeed it knocks the spots off the the current stuff that goes out on BBC and ILR on Sunday evenings.
Was interested in the Clive Dunn links as I'm a big Dad's Army fan - excellent... not arf!
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Post by Stephen Doran on Apr 2, 2008 15:42:57 GMT
1959 Jacobs one i spose! what is the earliest surviving potp that we know of? |
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Post by William Martin on Apr 6, 2008 13:57:51 GMT
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Post by robincarmody on Apr 19, 2008 21:00:04 GMT
Yes, the David Jacobs show from 9/5/1959 (Buddy Holly "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" at number one) was for some reason archived by the BBC, and I'd be surprised if an earlier offair recording (POTP had started in 1955 but not initially as a chart show) ever turned up.
Not surprisingly, the BBC didn't archive many POTPs in that era - the only editions to have been listed on Infax when it was available were that 1959 show, the 1960 end-of-year show (both with Jacobs), two from October 1963 (with Don Moss), two from May 1964 (with Fluff) and the final show from Sept 1972 (with Fluff of course). I have all these bar the Dec 1960 one. I have sent the BBC quite a few shows they didn't have in their own archives, but I still probably have more chart shows from the period 1959-1994 in this room than the BBC has (it's only been in recent years, with the generational shift at the top, that the BBC has really started archiving these things).
The phraseology used on Infax was also wonderfully wrong for the sort of shows they were: the rundowns were "read" by Bruno Brookes, as if he was Brian Perkins or Peter Donaldson.
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Post by Stephen Doran on Apr 20, 2008 8:26:55 GMT
Hi robin,Have you got Alans 1st show from January 1962?
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Post by robincarmody on Apr 20, 2008 14:44:39 GMT
No. I've never come across anyone who has this show (to be precise, it was the first Sunday afternoon chart show - his first show was in September 1961) although the number one was "Stranger on the Shore", which topped every chart except the Record Retailer one used by Guinness. I do however have the last show of David Jacobs' first tenure (16th Sept 1961) where he introduces Fluff.
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Post by Stephen Doran on Apr 20, 2008 16:12:39 GMT
Im pretty sure we had bits of this 1st show back in 1962 Dont Bring Lulu/Multipacation were on a reel to reel tape. ;D
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