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Post by Brian Denton on Feb 10, 2012 19:40:18 GMT
Away from the glitter, how come Silver Convention were on in successive weeks despite the song getting nowhere in the charts? The girl on the right has to be one of the most ungainly dancers I've ever seen ! I hardly watched TOTP in 1977, and I can see why.......
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Post by Andreas Grimmig on Feb 10, 2012 22:28:27 GMT
Not quite successive, there was a fortnight between those two performances. Besides, they got to No. 25 in the charts which isn't exactly nowhere, and they were a new entry in the Top 30 that week and thus qualified for an appearance.
The girl on the right was Penny McLean (which of course is not her real name!) who got her three minutes of fame in continental Europe with her solo hit "Lady Bump".
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Post by Paul Watkins on Feb 16, 2012 20:38:00 GMT
I see that BBC4 are missing out the apparently 'Wiped' edition from 10/02/1977.
There has been speculation for a few years that this exists in the BBC archive in Broadcast Quality.
Does anyone know either way for sure?
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Post by Robbie Denning on Feb 16, 2012 21:37:21 GMT
Wasn't one of the missing 77 episodes returned recently by David Hamilton,as well as the 76 ones he returned? I thought it was this one,perhaps it was 3/3 or 31/3.
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Post by ajsmitch1 on Feb 16, 2012 21:42:16 GMT
I believe Julie Covington did turn up at TOTP's after the song
finished playing (on it's one week at No 1). Host DLT made up
some excuse that their studio wasn't big for a large scale
orchestra to accompany Ms Covington which she seemed
to agree with. This episode, as you will all be aware, is the
1st of 1977's four missing shows, so I can only give this info
as a memory from back then.
Alex.
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Post by Simon Taylor on Feb 16, 2012 21:58:52 GMT
I believe Julie Covington did turn up at TOTP's after the song finished playing (on it's one week at No 1). Host DLT made up some excuse that their studio wasn't big for a large scale orchestra to accompany Ms Covington which she seemed to agree with. This episode, as you will all be aware, is the 1st of 1977's four missing shows, so I can only give this info as a memory from back then. Alex. This link was posted over on the 'Yes It's Number One' website. The audio from this missing episode thats on youtube. Here's part 3 of 3 which features Ms Covington being interviewed by DLT. Starts at 5:50. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmCkQQ4e6m8 |
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Post by markg on Feb 17, 2012 10:29:30 GMT
Wasn't one of the missing 77 episodes returned recently by David Hamilton,as well as the 76 ones he returned? I thought it was this one,perhaps it was 3/3 or 31/3. Please, The Gods, let it be Diddy that introduced "Television" doing "Prove it"!!! |
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Feb 17, 2012 12:13:36 GMT
Wasn't one of the missing 77 episodes returned recently by David Hamilton,as well as the 76 ones he returned? I thought it was this one,perhaps it was 3/3 or 31/3. Please, The Gods, let it be Diddy that introduced "Television" doing "Prove it"!!! Jimmy Savile.... |
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Post by Chris Barratt on Feb 17, 2012 22:50:18 GMT
I see that BBC4 are currently showing wiped, recovered & restored Sonny Rollins from 74 - if they can do this I'm sure they can do the same for recovered TOTP.
It is being presented as an 'Arena' special, "introduced" by Jamie Cullum as a lost & found treasure, a similar technique could be used to present domestically recovered TOTP (in my opinion)
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Post by Rob Mould on Feb 25, 2012 10:54:05 GMT
i recorded this thursdays show to keep in my collection but the picture kept breaking up on both early and later shows damn! Anyone else have the same problem?
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Post by Andreas Grimmig on Feb 25, 2012 11:27:54 GMT
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Post by nicadare on Feb 25, 2012 12:06:59 GMT
Obviously no such problems using Freeview and even though I'm only 7 miles from the Sandy Heath transmitter the digital picture will never be as good as the analogue.  |
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Post by Oliver Roemer on Feb 25, 2012 13:26:36 GMT
Hi Andreas, I just checked my recording from Thursday night and it had the same problems. I will also re-record and hope it will be undisturbed!  |
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Post by Rob Mould on Feb 25, 2012 16:13:38 GMT
Thanks for lettting me know that guys.Lets hope tonights repeat will be fine.
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Post by Oliver Roemer on Feb 26, 2012 0:52:41 GMT
Tonight's re-broadcast of the show (17/02/1977) was faultless and O.K. !  |
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