Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2006 13:33:00 GMT
Compiling a list of all known TOTP audios (of otherwise missing editions) was suggested as a worthwhile idea, so i'm starting things off. I've gathered the following posts / information from various threads started since 2003 (the point at which the site started to retain it's data) and i've credited the original poster; the info is spread across many many threads and so it would be good to have it all concisely in one place. I may have missed some though.
I also recall that prior to this, pop writer / researcher Keith Badman posted details here of some audios which he had / located identified, some of which I believe the BBC took copies of. Unfortunately this info "fell off the end" eventually and doesn't seem to have been retained. If anyone kept those details perhaps you can re-post them here? Let's see if we can also keep this thread on topic and only post hard info on the subject to hand (WHAT a hope, I know!)
Anyway, if you have recordings yourself, maybe you'd like to post details here (clips or whole shows) to add to what I hope will build to a comprehensive listing. Over to you...
Andy Henderson
Just to confirm and out of interest - to anyone who needs or wants the info: Here is a list of Mike Hogg's TOTP recordings from the 60s. These are all CD like quality having been recorded directly (linked) into a reel to reel.
16/02/64 Top of the Pops
12/11/64 Top of the Pops
25/11/65 Top of the Pops
02/12/65 Top of the Pops (Beatles only)
??/??/?? Top of the Pops (featuring Sandie Shaw/Cliff
Richard) - ? *
Mark Kerridge
David Bowie - Jean Genie TOTP audio recording:
Just found this on the Web:- a recording of David's performance from the 4/1/73 edition;
The audio is not particularly good quality but perfectly listenable:
There was some speculation that the performance was from the 28/12/72 edition (see attached):
Neil Barker
Hi. Just got hold of these TOTP audios :
22/2/73 (Noel Edmonds) :
Focus - "Sylvia" (charts)
White Plains - "Step Into A Dream"
Faces - "Cindy Incidentally" (live vocals)
Neil Sedaka - "That's When The Music Takes Me"
Jackson 5 - "Doctor My Eyes" (Pan's People)
Miki Anthony - "If It Wasn't For The Reason That I Love You"
Jr Walker & The All Stars - "Take Me Girl I'm Ready" (promo)
Slade - "Cum On Feel The Noize"
Olivia Newton-John - "Take Me Home Country Roads"
Sweet - "Blockbuster" (rpt)
Detroit Emeralds - "Feel The Need In Me" (playout - cuts off after a couple of seconds)
3/1/74 (DLT, with Johnnie Walker) (19 mins only) :
Cozy Powell - "Dance With The Devil"
Robert Knight - "Love On A Mountain Top" (Pan's People)
Leo Sayer - "The Show Must Go On"
Mud - "Tiger Feet"
Andy Williams - "Solitaire" (rpt)
Slade - "Merry Xmas Everybody"
(missing from above show : New Seekers, Faces, Roy Wood, Roxy Music)
Also, a tiny clip from the end of 1/3/73 with Tony Blackburn saying something like "that was Slade at No.1 and we'll play out with the Strawbs at No.2".
Keith Brockway
I only have the 20/2/72 POTP`s with DJ links for the top 5 only, courtesy of my bro-in-law. That`s the only POTP`s i found on all 4 of his 4-track reel to reel tapes.
Jonathan Wood
Is this for sure, the 25th February 1971 episode? This is interesting as you all probably know that the archive master of that edition has mute links. If the recording is of sufficient quality (direct feed or microphone?) this could possibly be used to patch-up the episode. Please contact me via email at the BBC. Usual organisation format. i.e. forename.surname at etc.
Keith Brockway
Hi Jonathan, when i first got this edition 3 months ago it seemed like the full edition minus the first part as it kicks in at the beginning of Ray Stevens "Can We Get To That?" and seemed to be the full edition with all Jimmy Saville`s links intact, but on further investigation, like checking the Database, Atomic Rooster`s "Tomorrow Night" is missing from the recording and as the rest of the edition seems to flow to order, i would guess that my Brother-in-Law missed out the first few minutes, ie: the chart rundown and the first song at the time. As with the 4/3/71 edition having "Up Pompeii" by Frankie Howard missing would seem to indicate a degree of editing at the time, that 35 years on, my brother-in-Law just can`t remember. I still have the r2r tapes and are hoping in the near future to transfer to cassette so Neil & Pete from my regular site can have copies as well as keeping one for myself. Sorry for implying it was 100% intact when in theory it is only 95% intact.
Jonathan Wood
Even though the database lists Atomic Rooster for that edition their performance is not on the master recording for that show anyway - don't know why. All bar the first couple of links is better than nothing, but it's up to you. We can of course handle 1/4" reel to reel tape.
Pete
I have:
08/07/64
06/10/66
27/10/66
then excerpts from: 08/06/67 to 09/11/67
22/02/73
01/03/73 excerpts
03/01/74
07/02/74 excerpts
29/08/74 excerpts
15/05/75
05/06/75
07/08/75 excerpts
21/08/75
10/02/77
06/04/78
13/04/78
brasseye
Not sure how interesting this is as I've just stumbled across this board by chance but I have a reel-to-reel tape recorder which I have just re-aquired from my Dad which has a collection of about 60 or 70 reels. I know there are plenty of recordings I made myself as a child, mostly 1978/79 which contain recordings of Top of the pops episodes, usually the full episodes which If I remember rightly were recorded on a microphone set up near the TV speaker...seem to remember they turned out all right though!
Slightly more interesting is the fact that my Dad was also an avid recorder of Material direct from the telly going right back to, I would guess late 60's/early 70's and I know he taped plenty of music stuff
Are these of any interest? I haven't managed to get the tape recorder working yet and I'm listing these from memory. Don't want to get hopes up too much but I am also convinced there are some very old TOTP episodes in there too. I haven't even checked out some of the other stuff he has kicking about but I know for definite there is a Phillips 2000 Video recorder with at least 2 tapes and a Betamax video (or possibly 2) with many dozens of tapes, (though he used Beta until the mid 80's swearing the quality was better)
Let me know someone if this is worth pursuing...my guess is that is is, even just to satisfy my own curiosity.
Antony.
Sounds like an interesting find, even if only to relive your teenage years.
Any markings on the tapes?
Neil Barker
Yes, this sounds very interesting indeed!
Please keep us posted, Brasseye.
gary jordan brum
Most of what could be on your dads vt, is no doubt, missing from the beeb archive. It would be brilliant, to see these tapes, if not just for the historical content.
brasseye
Got the thing working and just finished going through the first reel. I've been on the TOTP website and tried to date the stuff as best I can. stuff with an * before it appears to my ears to be live or in some way different from the recordings I know although I could be wrong on this.
1? 2 Band of gold freda paine 3. Lola. Kinks 4.I hear you knocking, Dave edmunds. *5. Spirit in the sky, Norman greenbaum*6. Allright now-Free 7. All kinds of everything, Dana. 8. In the summertime, Mungo jerry. 9. When I'm dead and gone, Mcguinness Flint. finishes with some plummy voiced chappie informing us that 'Dana is now appearing at the Gaumont, Doncaster' *10 Everly brothers. ? 11.Dawn, Candida. *12 Neil Diamond, Cracklin rosie. *13.Neil Diamond Sweet caroline. (21 jan 1971?) 14. Grandad, Clive Dunn. *15. No matter what. Badfinger. *16. Pushbike song, The mixtures. 17. You don't have to say you live me, Elvis. 18.Snowbird. ?(male vocalist) 19.Blowin in the wind ? (male vocalist) 20. ? 21. Close to you (?) 22. My Way. Frank Sinatra (seems like diff version from record to me)23. ? 24. Rupert, Jackie Trent. 25. ? 26. My Sweet Lord. George Harrison. 27. I who have nothing (?) 28. Amazing grace. julie Covington. *29. Burnin bridges. Marvin, welch and farrar. *30 Faithful Marvin Welch and Farrar. *My Home towm. Marvin Welch and Farrar. (note, these are in a different order to the listing on TOTP") (18th Feb 1971)32. I will drink the wine, Frank Sinatra. 33. Hollies. Too young to be married. 34. Hollies, Survival of the fittest. 35. We've only just begun ? 36. Make it with you. ? 37. He ain't heavy, he's my brother. ? Other side. 1. remember me, Diana ross.
2. ? (Ban the bomb or something!?) 3. some folky type thing. 4? 5-11. Tom Jones concert which includesWhen I fall in Love, Wives and lovers and Kisses sweeter than wine. 12-17 folky stuff, all live but don't know artist. 17-21 Tony Blackburn radio show from 1970? 22. Some theme tune from Gerry anderson thing. 23. some western theme? 24. Snowbird. Anne Murray *25 Mister mister. mcguinness Flint. *26. Dream, Darling dream. Mcguinness flint. 27 When I'm dead and gone, Mcguinness flint. 28. Grandad, Clive dunn.(not listed on TOTP website) The show (I think dated 7th Jan 1971) finishes with Tony Blackburn presenting Mcguinness flint with a gold disc for 250000 sales of When I'm dead and gone and then some more pretty nasty folk stuff.
This is one of the smaller reels, It might take me some time but is it worth my while printing out tracklistings like this? If Its boring, please tell me and I'll stop.
brasseye
The first part of the third reel appears to be two complete episodes of TOTP, those being the episodes from 17th and 24th of August 1973 hosted by Kenny everett and noel edmonds although the running order is completely the opposite to that listed on the totp website. After that is some folk stuff and what appears to be Joan Biaz in concert, then about 15 minutes of Woody Allen in concert which is different from the record and pretty funny (esp the moose sketch). After that, more Totp stuff but without all the between song banter but this is a huge disk and I am only about half way through the first side. Quality on this one is pretty good as it is recorded at a higher speed but my Dad informs me that the tape player is pretty bog standard so on better equipment it may well be a pretty decent and well preserved recording.
The second reel was full of folk music and a concert by some 'comedian' called Blaster Bates!
All this material is audio only I'm afraid. I'll hopefully be starting on the video material fairly soon but as most of it is much later (late 70's onwards) I don't really expect to find too many gems.
Dale Rumbold
Dug out my old reel-to-reel this week : found I had a tape with several 'live' performances from the 3rd January 1974 edition of TOTP, hosted by Dave Lee Travis. This is apparently missing from the archive. Unfortunately, my r2r recorder at that time was a cheapo Audition (Woolworths) one, with variable speed approximating to 1 7/8, so the quality is pretty poor.
An interesting performance of "The show must go on" by Leo Sayer is the highlight, clearly live, and complete with incorrect words on the last chorus. Have copied it to my PC for posterity anyway.
Other tracks are :
Mud - Tiger Feet (the 1st time they performed it on TOTP) ;
Cozy Powell - Dance with the devil ;
Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody ;
part of Roy Wood - Forever ;
Roxy Music - Street Life (to fade out)
As I recall, it was unexpected for the Roxy Music track to be featured at all, since it had gone DOWN that week from #9 to #10, thus defying the usual TOTP policy.
Pete Seaton
i have four tapes from 1967, one show complete
what I have now done is borrowed the TOTP on screen logo and transferred them to DVD, so they slot nicely with the other stuff i have:
Reel 1
TOTP 14/09/67
Traffic - Hole in my shoe
Supremes - Reflections
Seekers - When will the good apples fall
Frankie Vaughan - There must be a way
TOTP 26/10/67
Foundations - Baby now that ive found you
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Zabadak
Sandie Shaw - You’ve not changed
Who - I can see for miles
Bee Gees - Massachussets
TOTP 09/11/67
Dave Clark Five - Everybody knows
Gene Pitney - Something’s gotten hold of my heart
Long John Baldry - Let the heartaches begin
TOTP 24/08/67
Scott MacKenzie - San Francisco (Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair)
TOTP 31/08/67
Keith West - Theme from a teenage opera (also rpt from 24/08/67)
7 day week
Too much love
TOTP 07/09/67
Move - Flowers in the rain
Tom Jones - I’ll never fall in love (clip)
Flowerpot Men - Let’s go to San Francisco
Cliff Richard - Day I met Marie
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
Englebert Humperdinck - The last waltz
Reel 2
TOTP 29/06/67
Englebert Humperdinck - There goes my everything
Petula Clark - Don’t sleep in the subway
Paul & Barry Ryan - Claire
Cliff Richard - I’ll come running
Vikki Carr - It must be him
Monkees - Alternate title
TOTP 06/07/67
Sandie Shaw - Tonight in Tokyo
TOTP 20/07/67
Scott MacKenzie - SanFrancisco (Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair)
Lulu - Let’s pretend
Four Tops - Seven rooms of gloom
Tom Jones - I’ll never fall in love
Beatles - All you need is love
TOTP 17/08/67
Alan Price Set - House that Jack Built
Stevie Wonder - I was made to lover her
Tremeloes - Even the bad times are good
Mama’s & The Papa’s - Creeque alley
Amen Corner - Gin House
Anita Harris - Just loving you
Eric Burdon & The Animals - Good times
Englebert Humperdinck - Last waltz
Scott MacKenzie - SanFrancisco (Be sure to wear some flowersin your hair)
TOTP 24/08/67
Rolling Stones - We love you
Keith West - Excerpt from a teenage opera
Small Faces - Itchycoo park
Reel 3
TOTP 08/06/67
?? - But it’s hard to get up
Young idea - With a little help from my friends
?? - One man in my life
TOTP 15/06/67
Hollies - Carrie Anne
?? - Everywhere
Procul Harum - A whiter shade of pale
Pink Floyd - See Emily play
Young Rascals - Groovin’
Turtles - She’d rather be with me
Mama will you come out tonight
Walker Brothers - I need her
Just like a woman
Reel 4
TOTP 06/04/67
Truth - Walk away renee
Four Tops - Bernadette
Lulu - The boat that I row
Manfred Mann - Ha ha said the clown
I miss you
Privaliaged
TOTP 27/04/67
Mama’s & The Papa’s - dedicated to the one I love
Cat Stevens - I’m gonna get me a gun
Jeff Beck - Hi ho silver lining
Tom Jones - Funny familiar forgotten feelings
You’ve got what it takes
Sheryl’s going home
Diana
ihave 2 from 1966,1 full show and the other edited.
David Woodley
My dad is clearing out his attic (he and mum want to move house) and he found his old reel to reel tape recorder. With it, he found a load of old tapes and he decided to give them a quick listen. He found on one reel a 1964 edition of Top of the Pops and on another a recording of the Rolling Stones at the London Palladium. Are these of any worth? He was about to throw them out but happened to mention them to me and as an occasional visitor to this site thought they might be of value.
The Top of the Pops tape has mostly music with only a few bits of Jimmy Saville's introductions (my dad, then only 14, would stop the tape when he appeared and restarted it when a song began). He hasn't got a clue what year the Palladium recording is from. Also, he said the tapes were not of very good quality as he just used to hold a microphone to the tv, but I pointed out to him that playing them on his ancient crappy reel to reel recorder didn't help and they would perhaps sound better on a professional machine.
matthew north
I found this reel of not very well recorded top of the pops here is the info:
Top of the Pops 5th June 1975 Presenter Ed Stewart:
The Tape starts at almost the beginning of Disco Queen
Hot Chocolate Disco Queen Performance
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Mr Raffles Performance
Barry White / Pan's People For You I'll Do Anything You Want Me To Disc
Desmond Dekker Israelites Repeat Performance
Roy Wood Oh What A Shame Performance
Gilbert O'Sullivan I Don't Love You But I Think I Like You 5th June
Judy Collins Send In The Clowns Repeat Performance
Nazareth My White Bicycle Performance
Windsor Davies & Don Estelle Whispering Grass Performance
The tape cuts at the end of Whispering grass
And as it happens the other side of this tape has the following
Top Of the Pops 15th May 1975
Noel Edmonds
No Intro or outro music
Susan Cadogan Hurts So Good
Windsor Davies & Don Estelle Whispering Grass
Tammy Jones Let Me Try Again
Ian Hunter Once Bitten Twice Shy
Gladys Knight The Way We Were
Showaddywaddy Three Steps To Heaven
Tammy Wynette Stand By Your Man
I also recall that prior to this, pop writer / researcher Keith Badman posted details here of some audios which he had / located identified, some of which I believe the BBC took copies of. Unfortunately this info "fell off the end" eventually and doesn't seem to have been retained. If anyone kept those details perhaps you can re-post them here? Let's see if we can also keep this thread on topic and only post hard info on the subject to hand (WHAT a hope, I know!)
Anyway, if you have recordings yourself, maybe you'd like to post details here (clips or whole shows) to add to what I hope will build to a comprehensive listing. Over to you...
Andy Henderson
Just to confirm and out of interest - to anyone who needs or wants the info: Here is a list of Mike Hogg's TOTP recordings from the 60s. These are all CD like quality having been recorded directly (linked) into a reel to reel.
16/02/64 Top of the Pops
12/11/64 Top of the Pops
25/11/65 Top of the Pops
02/12/65 Top of the Pops (Beatles only)
??/??/?? Top of the Pops (featuring Sandie Shaw/Cliff
Richard) - ? *
Mark Kerridge
David Bowie - Jean Genie TOTP audio recording:
Just found this on the Web:- a recording of David's performance from the 4/1/73 edition;
The audio is not particularly good quality but perfectly listenable:
There was some speculation that the performance was from the 28/12/72 edition (see attached):
Neil Barker
Hi. Just got hold of these TOTP audios :
22/2/73 (Noel Edmonds) :
Focus - "Sylvia" (charts)
White Plains - "Step Into A Dream"
Faces - "Cindy Incidentally" (live vocals)
Neil Sedaka - "That's When The Music Takes Me"
Jackson 5 - "Doctor My Eyes" (Pan's People)
Miki Anthony - "If It Wasn't For The Reason That I Love You"
Jr Walker & The All Stars - "Take Me Girl I'm Ready" (promo)
Slade - "Cum On Feel The Noize"
Olivia Newton-John - "Take Me Home Country Roads"
Sweet - "Blockbuster" (rpt)
Detroit Emeralds - "Feel The Need In Me" (playout - cuts off after a couple of seconds)
3/1/74 (DLT, with Johnnie Walker) (19 mins only) :
Cozy Powell - "Dance With The Devil"
Robert Knight - "Love On A Mountain Top" (Pan's People)
Leo Sayer - "The Show Must Go On"
Mud - "Tiger Feet"
Andy Williams - "Solitaire" (rpt)
Slade - "Merry Xmas Everybody"
(missing from above show : New Seekers, Faces, Roy Wood, Roxy Music)
Also, a tiny clip from the end of 1/3/73 with Tony Blackburn saying something like "that was Slade at No.1 and we'll play out with the Strawbs at No.2".
Keith Brockway
I only have the 20/2/72 POTP`s with DJ links for the top 5 only, courtesy of my bro-in-law. That`s the only POTP`s i found on all 4 of his 4-track reel to reel tapes.
Jonathan Wood
Is this for sure, the 25th February 1971 episode? This is interesting as you all probably know that the archive master of that edition has mute links. If the recording is of sufficient quality (direct feed or microphone?) this could possibly be used to patch-up the episode. Please contact me via email at the BBC. Usual organisation format. i.e. forename.surname at etc.
Keith Brockway
Hi Jonathan, when i first got this edition 3 months ago it seemed like the full edition minus the first part as it kicks in at the beginning of Ray Stevens "Can We Get To That?" and seemed to be the full edition with all Jimmy Saville`s links intact, but on further investigation, like checking the Database, Atomic Rooster`s "Tomorrow Night" is missing from the recording and as the rest of the edition seems to flow to order, i would guess that my Brother-in-Law missed out the first few minutes, ie: the chart rundown and the first song at the time. As with the 4/3/71 edition having "Up Pompeii" by Frankie Howard missing would seem to indicate a degree of editing at the time, that 35 years on, my brother-in-Law just can`t remember. I still have the r2r tapes and are hoping in the near future to transfer to cassette so Neil & Pete from my regular site can have copies as well as keeping one for myself. Sorry for implying it was 100% intact when in theory it is only 95% intact.
Jonathan Wood
Even though the database lists Atomic Rooster for that edition their performance is not on the master recording for that show anyway - don't know why. All bar the first couple of links is better than nothing, but it's up to you. We can of course handle 1/4" reel to reel tape.
Pete
I have:
08/07/64
06/10/66
27/10/66
then excerpts from: 08/06/67 to 09/11/67
22/02/73
01/03/73 excerpts
03/01/74
07/02/74 excerpts
29/08/74 excerpts
15/05/75
05/06/75
07/08/75 excerpts
21/08/75
10/02/77
06/04/78
13/04/78
brasseye
Not sure how interesting this is as I've just stumbled across this board by chance but I have a reel-to-reel tape recorder which I have just re-aquired from my Dad which has a collection of about 60 or 70 reels. I know there are plenty of recordings I made myself as a child, mostly 1978/79 which contain recordings of Top of the pops episodes, usually the full episodes which If I remember rightly were recorded on a microphone set up near the TV speaker...seem to remember they turned out all right though!
Slightly more interesting is the fact that my Dad was also an avid recorder of Material direct from the telly going right back to, I would guess late 60's/early 70's and I know he taped plenty of music stuff
Are these of any interest? I haven't managed to get the tape recorder working yet and I'm listing these from memory. Don't want to get hopes up too much but I am also convinced there are some very old TOTP episodes in there too. I haven't even checked out some of the other stuff he has kicking about but I know for definite there is a Phillips 2000 Video recorder with at least 2 tapes and a Betamax video (or possibly 2) with many dozens of tapes, (though he used Beta until the mid 80's swearing the quality was better)
Let me know someone if this is worth pursuing...my guess is that is is, even just to satisfy my own curiosity.
Antony.
Sounds like an interesting find, even if only to relive your teenage years.
Any markings on the tapes?
Neil Barker
Yes, this sounds very interesting indeed!
Please keep us posted, Brasseye.
gary jordan brum
Most of what could be on your dads vt, is no doubt, missing from the beeb archive. It would be brilliant, to see these tapes, if not just for the historical content.
brasseye
Got the thing working and just finished going through the first reel. I've been on the TOTP website and tried to date the stuff as best I can. stuff with an * before it appears to my ears to be live or in some way different from the recordings I know although I could be wrong on this.
1? 2 Band of gold freda paine 3. Lola. Kinks 4.I hear you knocking, Dave edmunds. *5. Spirit in the sky, Norman greenbaum*6. Allright now-Free 7. All kinds of everything, Dana. 8. In the summertime, Mungo jerry. 9. When I'm dead and gone, Mcguinness Flint. finishes with some plummy voiced chappie informing us that 'Dana is now appearing at the Gaumont, Doncaster' *10 Everly brothers. ? 11.Dawn, Candida. *12 Neil Diamond, Cracklin rosie. *13.Neil Diamond Sweet caroline. (21 jan 1971?) 14. Grandad, Clive Dunn. *15. No matter what. Badfinger. *16. Pushbike song, The mixtures. 17. You don't have to say you live me, Elvis. 18.Snowbird. ?(male vocalist) 19.Blowin in the wind ? (male vocalist) 20. ? 21. Close to you (?) 22. My Way. Frank Sinatra (seems like diff version from record to me)23. ? 24. Rupert, Jackie Trent. 25. ? 26. My Sweet Lord. George Harrison. 27. I who have nothing (?) 28. Amazing grace. julie Covington. *29. Burnin bridges. Marvin, welch and farrar. *30 Faithful Marvin Welch and Farrar. *My Home towm. Marvin Welch and Farrar. (note, these are in a different order to the listing on TOTP") (18th Feb 1971)32. I will drink the wine, Frank Sinatra. 33. Hollies. Too young to be married. 34. Hollies, Survival of the fittest. 35. We've only just begun ? 36. Make it with you. ? 37. He ain't heavy, he's my brother. ? Other side. 1. remember me, Diana ross.
2. ? (Ban the bomb or something!?) 3. some folky type thing. 4? 5-11. Tom Jones concert which includesWhen I fall in Love, Wives and lovers and Kisses sweeter than wine. 12-17 folky stuff, all live but don't know artist. 17-21 Tony Blackburn radio show from 1970? 22. Some theme tune from Gerry anderson thing. 23. some western theme? 24. Snowbird. Anne Murray *25 Mister mister. mcguinness Flint. *26. Dream, Darling dream. Mcguinness flint. 27 When I'm dead and gone, Mcguinness flint. 28. Grandad, Clive dunn.(not listed on TOTP website) The show (I think dated 7th Jan 1971) finishes with Tony Blackburn presenting Mcguinness flint with a gold disc for 250000 sales of When I'm dead and gone and then some more pretty nasty folk stuff.
This is one of the smaller reels, It might take me some time but is it worth my while printing out tracklistings like this? If Its boring, please tell me and I'll stop.
brasseye
The first part of the third reel appears to be two complete episodes of TOTP, those being the episodes from 17th and 24th of August 1973 hosted by Kenny everett and noel edmonds although the running order is completely the opposite to that listed on the totp website. After that is some folk stuff and what appears to be Joan Biaz in concert, then about 15 minutes of Woody Allen in concert which is different from the record and pretty funny (esp the moose sketch). After that, more Totp stuff but without all the between song banter but this is a huge disk and I am only about half way through the first side. Quality on this one is pretty good as it is recorded at a higher speed but my Dad informs me that the tape player is pretty bog standard so on better equipment it may well be a pretty decent and well preserved recording.
The second reel was full of folk music and a concert by some 'comedian' called Blaster Bates!
All this material is audio only I'm afraid. I'll hopefully be starting on the video material fairly soon but as most of it is much later (late 70's onwards) I don't really expect to find too many gems.
Dale Rumbold
Dug out my old reel-to-reel this week : found I had a tape with several 'live' performances from the 3rd January 1974 edition of TOTP, hosted by Dave Lee Travis. This is apparently missing from the archive. Unfortunately, my r2r recorder at that time was a cheapo Audition (Woolworths) one, with variable speed approximating to 1 7/8, so the quality is pretty poor.
An interesting performance of "The show must go on" by Leo Sayer is the highlight, clearly live, and complete with incorrect words on the last chorus. Have copied it to my PC for posterity anyway.
Other tracks are :
Mud - Tiger Feet (the 1st time they performed it on TOTP) ;
Cozy Powell - Dance with the devil ;
Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody ;
part of Roy Wood - Forever ;
Roxy Music - Street Life (to fade out)
As I recall, it was unexpected for the Roxy Music track to be featured at all, since it had gone DOWN that week from #9 to #10, thus defying the usual TOTP policy.
Pete Seaton
i have four tapes from 1967, one show complete
what I have now done is borrowed the TOTP on screen logo and transferred them to DVD, so they slot nicely with the other stuff i have:
Reel 1
TOTP 14/09/67
Traffic - Hole in my shoe
Supremes - Reflections
Seekers - When will the good apples fall
Frankie Vaughan - There must be a way
TOTP 26/10/67
Foundations - Baby now that ive found you
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Zabadak
Sandie Shaw - You’ve not changed
Who - I can see for miles
Bee Gees - Massachussets
TOTP 09/11/67
Dave Clark Five - Everybody knows
Gene Pitney - Something’s gotten hold of my heart
Long John Baldry - Let the heartaches begin
TOTP 24/08/67
Scott MacKenzie - San Francisco (Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair)
TOTP 31/08/67
Keith West - Theme from a teenage opera (also rpt from 24/08/67)
7 day week
Too much love
TOTP 07/09/67
Move - Flowers in the rain
Tom Jones - I’ll never fall in love (clip)
Flowerpot Men - Let’s go to San Francisco
Cliff Richard - Day I met Marie
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
Englebert Humperdinck - The last waltz
Reel 2
TOTP 29/06/67
Englebert Humperdinck - There goes my everything
Petula Clark - Don’t sleep in the subway
Paul & Barry Ryan - Claire
Cliff Richard - I’ll come running
Vikki Carr - It must be him
Monkees - Alternate title
TOTP 06/07/67
Sandie Shaw - Tonight in Tokyo
TOTP 20/07/67
Scott MacKenzie - SanFrancisco (Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair)
Lulu - Let’s pretend
Four Tops - Seven rooms of gloom
Tom Jones - I’ll never fall in love
Beatles - All you need is love
TOTP 17/08/67
Alan Price Set - House that Jack Built
Stevie Wonder - I was made to lover her
Tremeloes - Even the bad times are good
Mama’s & The Papa’s - Creeque alley
Amen Corner - Gin House
Anita Harris - Just loving you
Eric Burdon & The Animals - Good times
Englebert Humperdinck - Last waltz
Scott MacKenzie - SanFrancisco (Be sure to wear some flowersin your hair)
TOTP 24/08/67
Rolling Stones - We love you
Keith West - Excerpt from a teenage opera
Small Faces - Itchycoo park
Reel 3
TOTP 08/06/67
?? - But it’s hard to get up
Young idea - With a little help from my friends
?? - One man in my life
TOTP 15/06/67
Hollies - Carrie Anne
?? - Everywhere
Procul Harum - A whiter shade of pale
Pink Floyd - See Emily play
Young Rascals - Groovin’
Turtles - She’d rather be with me
Mama will you come out tonight
Walker Brothers - I need her
Just like a woman
Reel 4
TOTP 06/04/67
Truth - Walk away renee
Four Tops - Bernadette
Lulu - The boat that I row
Manfred Mann - Ha ha said the clown
I miss you
Privaliaged
TOTP 27/04/67
Mama’s & The Papa’s - dedicated to the one I love
Cat Stevens - I’m gonna get me a gun
Jeff Beck - Hi ho silver lining
Tom Jones - Funny familiar forgotten feelings
You’ve got what it takes
Sheryl’s going home
Diana
ihave 2 from 1966,1 full show and the other edited.
David Woodley
My dad is clearing out his attic (he and mum want to move house) and he found his old reel to reel tape recorder. With it, he found a load of old tapes and he decided to give them a quick listen. He found on one reel a 1964 edition of Top of the Pops and on another a recording of the Rolling Stones at the London Palladium. Are these of any worth? He was about to throw them out but happened to mention them to me and as an occasional visitor to this site thought they might be of value.
The Top of the Pops tape has mostly music with only a few bits of Jimmy Saville's introductions (my dad, then only 14, would stop the tape when he appeared and restarted it when a song began). He hasn't got a clue what year the Palladium recording is from. Also, he said the tapes were not of very good quality as he just used to hold a microphone to the tv, but I pointed out to him that playing them on his ancient crappy reel to reel recorder didn't help and they would perhaps sound better on a professional machine.
matthew north
I found this reel of not very well recorded top of the pops here is the info:
Top of the Pops 5th June 1975 Presenter Ed Stewart:
The Tape starts at almost the beginning of Disco Queen
Hot Chocolate Disco Queen Performance
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Mr Raffles Performance
Barry White / Pan's People For You I'll Do Anything You Want Me To Disc
Desmond Dekker Israelites Repeat Performance
Roy Wood Oh What A Shame Performance
Gilbert O'Sullivan I Don't Love You But I Think I Like You 5th June
Judy Collins Send In The Clowns Repeat Performance
Nazareth My White Bicycle Performance
Windsor Davies & Don Estelle Whispering Grass Performance
The tape cuts at the end of Whispering grass
And as it happens the other side of this tape has the following
Top Of the Pops 15th May 1975
Noel Edmonds
No Intro or outro music
Susan Cadogan Hurts So Good
Windsor Davies & Don Estelle Whispering Grass
Tammy Jones Let Me Try Again
Ian Hunter Once Bitten Twice Shy
Gladys Knight The Way We Were
Showaddywaddy Three Steps To Heaven
Tammy Wynette Stand By Your Man
