Post by Serendipity on Aug 3, 2003 18:03:51 GMT
Noel is about to stand in for Johnnie Walker on weekdays from 5 to 7 pm as of tomorrow (Monday 4 August) on BBC Radio 2.
As for Top of the Pops, I was reading the Daily Mail on Friday in which Noel accounted that when he first appeared on Top of the Pops, he wore a lime green kaftan! and had very long hair. I don't know if Noel's first appearance was on 28 December 1972, as I've never seen any DJ links from that edition to establish what Noel was wearing on that edition, just several performances but I'd love to see that very first edition Noel presented if it's still in the archives. Most likely, it's one he hosted himself but that's only a guess.
By the way, does anyone know if a DJ link survives to Virginia Plain by Roxy Music from August 1972? I'm only aware of links (some muted) existing for all the complete editions plus the incomplete Ed Stewart show from 22 June. This must be an isolated performance, as 22 June, 16 November and 28 December 1972 are the only surviving editions at the BBC from that year.
I never saw Noel Edmonds when he presented Top of the Pops, as he didn't host it in the 1980s when I first saw it, apart from his guest appearance on the 1000th edition on 5 May 1983 but he features in the opening of a Tony Blackburn edition from 1976, when he says "Top of the Pops", with a pause between each word of the title and I've also seen him do a DJ link to a 1975 Bing Crosby song after it had finished, and back to the 1000th, a black and white DJ intro to a new entry at number 27 by Olivia Newton-John - Take Me Home Country Roads. This must be one of the recovered editions, for as far as I know, all 1970s editions of Top of the Pops were originally broadcast in colour. I think it was you, Laurence who said that 16 November 1972, surviving today in black and white was originally colour.
Whatever exists is better than nothing but let's hope more editions, whether in black and white or original colour (from 27 November 1969 onwards) and performances will turn up in time. Having seen from Matthew North's web site that at least 5:15 by The Who exists, together with an afterlink of Jimmy Savile wearing a 500th edition t-shirt as a bootleg ropey quality recording, this proves that several private recordings are out there, whatever their condition. Let's hope the BBC can find the original master recording of the 500th, as besides reducing the gaps, it had some cool songs, from what I've read in recent months.
As for Top of the Pops, I was reading the Daily Mail on Friday in which Noel accounted that when he first appeared on Top of the Pops, he wore a lime green kaftan! and had very long hair. I don't know if Noel's first appearance was on 28 December 1972, as I've never seen any DJ links from that edition to establish what Noel was wearing on that edition, just several performances but I'd love to see that very first edition Noel presented if it's still in the archives. Most likely, it's one he hosted himself but that's only a guess.
By the way, does anyone know if a DJ link survives to Virginia Plain by Roxy Music from August 1972? I'm only aware of links (some muted) existing for all the complete editions plus the incomplete Ed Stewart show from 22 June. This must be an isolated performance, as 22 June, 16 November and 28 December 1972 are the only surviving editions at the BBC from that year.
I never saw Noel Edmonds when he presented Top of the Pops, as he didn't host it in the 1980s when I first saw it, apart from his guest appearance on the 1000th edition on 5 May 1983 but he features in the opening of a Tony Blackburn edition from 1976, when he says "Top of the Pops", with a pause between each word of the title and I've also seen him do a DJ link to a 1975 Bing Crosby song after it had finished, and back to the 1000th, a black and white DJ intro to a new entry at number 27 by Olivia Newton-John - Take Me Home Country Roads. This must be one of the recovered editions, for as far as I know, all 1970s editions of Top of the Pops were originally broadcast in colour. I think it was you, Laurence who said that 16 November 1972, surviving today in black and white was originally colour.
Whatever exists is better than nothing but let's hope more editions, whether in black and white or original colour (from 27 November 1969 onwards) and performances will turn up in time. Having seen from Matthew North's web site that at least 5:15 by The Who exists, together with an afterlink of Jimmy Savile wearing a 500th edition t-shirt as a bootleg ropey quality recording, this proves that several private recordings are out there, whatever their condition. Let's hope the BBC can find the original master recording of the 500th, as besides reducing the gaps, it had some cool songs, from what I've read in recent months.
